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Lichtenstein (surname)
Lichtenstein is a surname shared by: Princely house *List of Princes of Liechtenstein *List of Princesses of Liechtenstein In arts and media * Alfred Lichtenstein (writer), German writer *Bill Lichtenstein, journalist and producer *David Lichine, born David Liechtenstein, Russian-American ballet dancer and choreographer * Harvey Lichtenstein, American arts administrator * Roy Lichtenstein, painter In religion *Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox rabbi * Ignatz Lichtenstein, Hungarian rabbi (also Isaac L.) *Morris Lichtenstein, rabbi, founder of the Jewish Science In science and mathematics *Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein (1753–1816), German zoologist *Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780–1857), also known as Martin Lichtenstein, German botanist and zoologist *Leon Lichtenstein, Polish-German mathematician In other fields *Alfred Lichtenstein (philatelist), American philatelist *David Lichtenstein, American businessperson * Nelson Lichtenstein, labor historian *Warren Lichtenstein Warr ...
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List Of Monarchs Of Liechtenstein
There have been 16 monarchs of the Principality of Liechtenstein since 1608. The current Prince of Liechtenstein is Hans-Adam II, since 13 November 1989. The current Hereditary Prince and Regent of Liechtenstein is Alois, since 15 August 2004.Country profile: Liechtenstein – Leaders
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Monarchs of Liechtenstein


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The names in bold signify official reigning monarchs of Liechtenstein.


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Hinrich Lichtenstein
Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein (10 January 1780 – 2 September 1857) was a German physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist. Biography Born in Hamburg, Lichtenstein was the son of Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein. He studied medicine at Jena and Helmstedt. Between 1802 and 1806 he travelled in southern Africa, becoming the personal physician of the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1811 he published ''Reisen im südlichen Afrika : in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805, und 1806''; as a result, he was appointed professor of zoology at the University of Berlin in 1811, and appointed director of the Berlin Zoological Museum in 1813. In 1829, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He died after he had a stroke at sea travelling aboard a steamer from Korsør to Kiel. Legacy Lichtenstein was responsible for the creation of Berlin's Zoological Gardens in 1841, when he persuaded King Frederick William IV of Prussia to donate the grounds of ...
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German-language Surnames
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ...
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Lichtenstein (other)
Liechtenstein is a country in Europe. Lichtenstein or Liechtenstein may also refer to: * House of Liechtenstein, the ruling family of Liechtenstein Places * Lichtenstein, Saxony, a town in Saxony, Germany. * Lichtenstein, Baden-Württemberg, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. * Lichtenstein Castle (Greifenstein), castle in Hesse, Germany. * Lichtenstein Castle (Lower Franconia), castle in Bavaria, Germany. * Lichtenstein Castle (Württemberg), in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. * Liechtenstein Castle, in Lower Austria (after which the family and the country are named). * Lichtenstein (Osterode am Harz), a hill in Lower Saxony. Other uses * ''Lichtenstein'' (novel), an 1826 novel by Wilhelm Hauff * Lichtenstein (surname), shared by several notable people * Liechtenstein Museum The Liechtenstein Museum is a private art museum in Vienna, Austria. It contains much of the art collection of its owners, the House of Liechtenstein, Princely Family of Liechtenstein, rulers ...
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Warren Lichtenstein
Warren G. Lichtenstein (born 1965) is an American businessman and philanthropist. Lichtenstein is founder and executive chairman of Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (NYSE:SPLP), a global diversified holding company. He founded the company in 1990 at the age of 24 after beginning his career as an analyst at Para Partners, L.P. and then serving as an acquisition analyst at Ballantrae Partners, L.P. For the past 25 years, Steel Partners has grown from a private investment fund with two employees and assets of $600,000 into Steel Partners Holdings L.P., a company through its consolidated holdings employs 13,500 people in 155 plants and facilities in 20 countries with a combined revenue of more than $3.6 billion. He is chairman of Steel Partners LLC based in New York City. Lichtenstein is a former chairman of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer. His tenure as Aerojet Chairman ended on June 30, 2022 by overwhelming share holder sentiment, ...
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Nelson Lichtenstein
Nelson Lichtenstein (born November 15, 1944) is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is labor historian who has written also about 20th-century American political economy, including the automotive industry and Wal-Mart. Life and education Lichtenstein received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1966 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at UCSB. Awards Lichtenstein was named a junior fellow by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1982 and senior NEH fellow in 1993. He received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to undertake research at Wayne State University in 1990. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997-98. He was elected to membership in the Society of American Historians in 2007 and became MacArthur Foundation Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara i ...
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David Lichtenstein
David Lichtenstein is an American billionaire entrepreneur and real estate investor. He is the founder and CEO of The Lightstone Group, which he founded in 1988. During the early years of the Lightstone Group, Lichtenstein focused on investing in multifamily properties. He rapidly grew his portfolio in the 1990s, before diversifying his portfolio and moving into retail. Lichtenstein in 2003 acquired Prime Retail for $638 million, seen as one of the largest retail purchases in United States at the time. Since 2007, Lichtenstein has been responsible for some of the largest acquisitions and sales in the retail and hospitality sectors. In 2007, The Lightstone Group acquired Extended Stay Hotels for $8.1 billion and sold Prime Retail in 2010 for $2.1 billion, earning a large profit from the sale of the outlet mall group. Lichtenstein has more recently been involved in New York City real estate and is playing a large role in the redevelopment of Brooklyn and the Gowanus Canal area o ...
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Alfred Lichtenstein (philatelist)
Alfred F. Lichtenstein (August 6, 1876 – February 24, 1947) was one of the most famous American philatelists. Biography Alfred Lichtenstein's classic stamp collections were one of the most complete, with a passion for stamps issued before 1870. He collected stamps issued by Canadian provinces and the Confederation of Canada, Switzerland, Cape Colony, Ceylon, Gambia, Mauritius, Argentina and Uruguay. Considering the postal history of the United States, his collection was a reference for "Western Express". He was an active member of the Collectors Club of New York which was developed by Lichtenstein and his friend Theodore Steinway. He was also a member of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada. An international philatelic judge during three decades, he was the commissioner of international philatelic exhibitions of 1913, 1926 and 1936 (the last two in New York). When he died, he was preparing the Centenary International Stamp Exhibition (CIPEX) of 1947. Lichtenstein exhi ...
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Leon Lichtenstein
Leon Lichtenstein (16 May 1878 – 21 August 1933) was a Polish-German mathematician, who made contributions to the areas of differential equations, conformal mapping, and potential theory. He was also interested in theoretical physics, publishing research in hydrodynamics and astronomy. Life and work Leon Lichtenstein was born on 16 May 1878 to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. His cousin, Leo Wiener, was the father of MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener. He studied in Berlin, earning both a doctorate in mechanical and electrical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Berlin and a doctorate in mathematics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University with a thesis on differential equations written under the supervision of Hermann Schwarz and Friedrich Schottky. From 1902 he worked as an electrical engineer for Siemens & Halske; then, from 1910, he turned to the academic world by becoming privatdozent at the Berlin Technische Hochschule. Lichtenstei ...
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Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein
Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein (25 August 1753, Helmstedt – 17 February 1816, Helmstedt) was a German zoologist. He was the father of Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein (1780-1857). He studied theology, philosophy, natural history and Oriental studies in Helmstadt, Göttingen and Leipzig, and from 1782 onwards, was rector of the Johanneum in Hamburg. In 1794, he also took on the job of city librarian. Later, he relocated to the University of Helmstedt, where he served as a professor of theology (1798-1810) and Greek language (1804-1810). He was the author of ''Catalogus Rerum Naturalium Rarissimarum'' (1793) and ''Catalogus Musei zoologici ditissimi Hamburgi'' (1796), and contributed to Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg. He served as a chaplain in the Prussian army. His marriage in Berlin, 1770, with Euphrosyne Luise ...'s ''Na ...
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Princess Of Liechtenstein
Princess consort of Liechtenstein House of Liechtenstein Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Princess Of Liechtenstein Liechtenstein princesses History of Liechtenstein Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (german: link=no, Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking microstate located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. Liechtenstein is a semi-constitutional monarchy ...
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Morris Lichtenstein
Morris Lichtenstein (1889–1938) was the founder of the Jewish Science, Society of Jewish Science. Born in Lithuania, he later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he was ordained by the Reform Hebrew Union College in 1916, becoming the first Eastern European student to ever study at the institution. Lichtenstein served as a Rabbi in Amsterdam (city), New York, Amsterdam, Troy, New York, Troy, and New York City, where he received a Master's degree in Psychology from Columbia University in 1919. He briefly served a congregation in Athens, Georgia before moving back to New York to marry Tehilla Lichtenstein, Tehilla Hirshenson in 1920. Together they founded the Society of Jewish Science in 1921'Jewish Women's Archives: Pe ...
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