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Loewy
Loewy (or Löwy) is a surname, and may refer to: People * Albert Löwy (1816–1908), British Hebrew scholar and religious leader * Alfred Loewy (1873–1935), German mathematician * Emanuel Löwy (1857–1938), Austrian archaeologist and theorist * Jacob Ezekiel Löwy (1814–1864), Silesian rabbi and author * Josef Löwy (1834–1902), Austrian photographer * Maurice Loewy (1833–1907), French astronomer * Michael Löwy (born 1938), sociologist * Raymond Loewy (1893–1986), French-born American industrial designer * Slavko Löwy (1904–1996), Croatian architect Other * Loewy (crater) See also * Loewi * Lowy * Löwe (other) Löwe or Loewe (German for "lion") may refer to: People * Loewe (surname) Business *Loewe (electronics), a German television sets and other electronics maker *LOEWE (fashion brand), a Spanish luxury clothing and accessories brand * Löwe Automo ... (from Yehuda-Leyb) {{DEFAULTSORT:Loewy Levite surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewy ( , ; November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by ''Time'' magazine and featured on its cover on October 31, 1949. He spent most of his professional career in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1938. Among his designs were the Shell, Exxon, TWA and the former BP logos, the Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, Coca-Cola vending machines and bottle redesign, the Lucky Strike package, Coldspot refrigerators, the Studebaker Avanti and Champion, and the Air Force One livery. He was engaged by equipment manufacturer International Harvester to overhaul its entire product line, and his team also assisted competitor Allis-Chalmers. He undertook numerous railroad designs, including the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1, S-1, and T1 locomotives, the color scheme and Eagle motif for the first streamliners of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Löwy
Albert Löwy (8 December 1816 – 21 May 1908) was a Moravian-born English Hebrew scholar and Reform rabbi. Biography He was born Abraham Löwy in Aussee, Moravia (now Úsov, Czech Republic), the eldest son of thirteen children of Leopold and Katty Löwy. He was named after his ancestor Rabbi Abraham Leipnik, who wrote in Hebrew an account of the destruction of the synagogue in Aussee in 1720. In 1822 his father left Aussee for Friedland, on the border of Silesia, where he owned a brewery. In 1829 Albert left home for schools in Leipzig, Jagendorf, and Olmütz, and eventually attended the University of Vienna, where he began a systematic study of Hebrew and Arabic. Among his friends and fellow students there were Moritz Steinschneider and Abraham Benisch, with whom in 1838 he founded 'Die Einheit,' a proto-Zionist secret society of some two hundred students of the University, most of them Jews, who were endeavouring to promote the welfare of the Jews, one of their aims be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Loewy
Alfred Loewy (20 June 1873 – 25 January 1935) was a German mathematician who worked on representation theory. Loewy rings, Loewy length, Loewy decomposition and Loewy series are named after him. His graduate students included Wolfgang Krull and Friedrich Karl Schmidt Friedrich Karl Schmidt (22 September 1901 – 25 January 1977) was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory. Schmidt studied from 1920 to 1925 in Freiburg and Marburg. In 1925 he completed his doctorate .... Books *''Versicherungsmathematik'', 1903 *''Lehrbuch der Algebra'', 1915 *''Grundlagen der Arithmetik'' 1915''Mathematik des Geld- und Zahlungsverkehrs'' 1920 Notes References * * * Volker R. Remmert: Zur Mathematikgeschichte in Freiburg. Alfred Loewy (1873-1935): Jähes Ende späten Glanzes, in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 129(1995), 81-102 20th-century German mathematicians 1873 births 1935 deaths People from Rawicz People from the Province of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Löwy
Em(m)anuel Löwy, or Emanuel Loewy (September 1, 1857 in Vienna – February 11, 1938 in Vienna) was a classical archaeologist and theorist who employed the methodology of universal psychological sources of form in his work. Löwy was influenced by the concept of "das Gedächtnisbild" by Ernst Brücke. Löwy was also a friend of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Among his academic specialties was the art of ancient Greek vase painting. Löwy served as a professor of archaeology at the University of Rome (1891–1915) where he taught, among others, Giulio Giglioli. Löwy was also professor of archaeology at the University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ... (1918–1938). References * Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. ''Research Guide to the History of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Ezekiel Löwy
Jacob Ezekiel Löwy (, ; August 24, 1814 – November 20, 1864) was a Silesian rabbi and author. Biography Löwy was born in Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia. At a young age he went to Lepinik to study under Baruch Fränkel-Teomim, afterwards attending various '' yeshivot'' in his native country. He then became a pupil of Wolf Löw in Nagytapolcsány, and, inclining to Ḥasidism, he went successively to Lemberg and Brody in order to continue his rabbinical education. Finally he went to Berlin, where he acquired some secular learning. Having obtained after great difficulties a license to marry, he settled as a business man in Bielitz, and in 1846 was appointed district rabbi of Wadowice, with a seat at Oświęcim (Auschwitz). In 1854 he was elected rabbi of Beuthen, which position he continued to hold until his death. Löwy was the author of ''Biḳḳoret ha-Talmud: Kritisch-Talmudisches Lexikon'', containing 150 articles for a proposed Talmudic encyclopedia. He also pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Löwy
Josef Löwy (16 August 1834, in Pressburg – 24 March 1902, in Vienna) was an Austrian painter, publisher, industrialist and Imperial and Royal court photographer. Life In 1848, Löwy moved to Vienna, where he learned lithography. He then studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He opened his first studio in Vienna in 1856. In 1859, he moved to a new studio. One of his premises was related in the Weihburggasse 31, 1 District. In 1861, he joined the ''Photographischen Gesellschaft'' in Vienna and in 1864, he participated in the first photographic exhibition in Vienna. Between 1866 and 1873, he had a summer studio in Baden bei Wien. Since 1872, he worked on the Collagraphy processes and he founded a studio for industrial shots in the Landstraße district. In 1873, Löwy joined the Viennese Photographers Association which was founded for the 1873 World Fair in Vienna. This had the license for the production of photographs in the exhibition grounds. In the same yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Loewy
Maurice (Moritz) Loewy (15 April 1833 – 15 October 1907) was a French astronomer. Loewy was born in Vienna.According to investigations by Anneliese Schnell (''Maurice Loewy and the equatorial Coudé in Vienna'', Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 330, Issue 6, p. 552-55, he was born in Vienna, because this city is, e.g., given in a French translation of his birth certificate. Vienna as his birthplace is also given in the obituaries, in most of the large encyclopedias, and in other sources. Some sources indicate, obviously wrongly, Bratislava, Pressburg or Marienbad as his place of birth. Loewy's Jewish parents moved to Vienna in 1841 to escape the antisemitism of their home town. Loewy became an assistant at the Vienna Observatory, working on celestial mechanics. However, the institutions of Austria-Hungary did not permit a Jew to advance to a senior position without renouncing his faith and embracing Catholicism. The director of the observatory Karl L. Littrow was a corresponde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy (born 6 May 1938) is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the ''École des hautes études en sciences sociales'' (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation theology, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994. Academic career A descendant of Jews, Jewish immigrants from Vienna, Löwy grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, becoming a committed socialist at 16 (1954), when he discovered the writings of Rosa Luxemburg. He studied at the University of São Paulo, where he studied under Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Florestan Fernandes and Antonio Candido, Antônio Cândido); he got his license in Social Sciences in 1960 and lectured in sociology for a year at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavko Löwy
Slavko Löwy (August 7, 1904 – April 1, 1996) was well-known Croatian architect. Background, family and education Löwy was born in Koprivnica to a respectable and wealthy Croatian Jewish family, who were engaged in trade. In Koprivnica he attended the gymnasium school, and after graduation in 1923, he was enrolled in the Vienna Technical College. After four semesters, in 1925 he continued his studies in Zagreb at the department of architecture in Royal Technical College. In 1927 he continued his education in Dresden, where he graduated in 1930. Career Löwy moved to Zagreb, in 1930, where he started working in the architectural studio of Ignjat Fischer. In 1931 in collaboration with Vlado Antolić, Löwy starts a tender for the ''city Savings Bank'' project in Sarajevo. That same year he moved into the architectural studio of Stanko Kliske. Löwy became a licensed architect in 1931, and that same year he established his own architectural studio, ''„Löwy“''. That same yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loewy (crater)
Loewy is a small lunar impact crater that lies along the eastern rim of Mare Humorum, in the southwest part of the Moon's near side. It was named after French astronomer Maurice Loewy. This is a lava-flooded formation that lies to the southwest of the larger, lava-flooded crater Agatharchides Agatharchides or Agatharchus ( grc-gre, Ἀγαθαρχίδης or , ''Agatharchos'') of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC). Life Agatharchides is believed to have been born at Cnidus, hence his appellation. A .... To the southeast is an even larger lava-flooded formation, Hippalus. The rim of Loewy is worn and eroded, with a break in the southwest where lava may have flooded into the interior from the surrounding lunar mare. The formation is not quite circular, being somewhat elongated towards the southeast. There is a small craterlet, Loewy A, along the northeastern rim. The interior floor is level and nearly featureless. Attached to the northern exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loewi
Loewi is a surname, and may refer to: * Fiona Loewi, Canadian actress * Otto Loewi, German pharmacologist See also * Loewy * Löwe (other) Löwe or Loewe (German for "lion") may refer to: People * Loewe (surname) Business *Loewe (electronics), a German television sets and other electronics maker *LOEWE (fashion brand), a Spanish luxury clothing and accessories brand * Löwe Automo ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Loewi Levite surnames Jewish surnames Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowy
Lowy (also spelled Löwy or Lőwy) is a surname of Ashkenazi Jewish origin. It may refer to: * Albert Löwy (1816–1908), British Hebrew scholar and religious leader * Benjamin Lowy (born 1979), American photographer * Dóra Lőwy (born 1977), Hungarian handball player * Douglas R. Lowy (born 1942), American doctor *Emanuel Löwy (1857–1938), Austrian archaeologist *Frank Lowy (born 1930), Australian businessman *Frederick Lowy (born 1933), Canadian educator *Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Austrian Olympic swimmer *Isaac Lowy (1793–1847), Hungarian businessman *Meshulim Feish Lowy (1921–2015), Hungarian rabbi *Michael Löwy (born 1938), Brazilian sociologist *Otto Lowy (1921–2002), Canadian actor and radio host *Slavko Löwy (1904–1996), Croatian architect *Steven Lowy (born 1962), Australian businessman * Yitzchak Lowy (1887–1942), Polish actor See also *Lowy Institute for International Policy *Loewy Loewy (or Löwy) is a surname, and may refer to: People * Albert Lö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
