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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), French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher * Raymond Loewy (1893–1986), French-born American industrial designer * Robert Loewy (1926–2025), American aerospace engineer * Slavko Löwy (1904–1996), Croatian architect Other * Loewy (crater) See also * Loewi * Lowy * Löwe (other) Löwe or Loewe may refer to: Business * Loewe (electronics), a German television sets and other electronics maker * Loewe (fashion brand), a Spanish luxury clothing and accessories brand * Löwe Automobil, a German automotive parts manufacturer ... ... [...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 ... [...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 Wolfgang Krull (26 August 1899 – 12 April 1971) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra, introducing concepts that are now central to the subject. Krull was born and went to school in Baden-Baden. H ... and Friedrich Karl Schmidt. 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 ... [...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 (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ... (1918–1938). References * Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. ''Research Guide to the History o ... [...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 published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Löwy
Josef Löwy (16 August 1834, in Bratislava, 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, Innere Stadt, 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 Vienna World's Fair, 1873 World Fair in Vienna. This had the license for the production of phot ... [...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'' (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, José Carlos Mariátegui, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994. Academic career A descendant of 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 Antônio Cândido); he got his license in Social Sciences in 1960 and lectured in sociology for a year at the university of São José do Rio Preto (State of São Paulo). In 1 ... [...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 interior, 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 st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Loewy
Robert Gustav Loewy (February 12, 1926 – January 3, 2025) was an American aerospace engineer who has been influential in the development of rotary-wing vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Life and career Loewy was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 12, 1926. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the class of 1947 with a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering degree. He earned an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1948 to 1962, Dr. Loewy worked in industry for the Glenn L. Martin Company; Piasecki Helicopter Corporation; Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory; and Vertol Aircraft, which later became a division of the Boeing Company. Between September 1965 and 1966, he was chief scientist for the United States Air Force. As a faculty member at the University of Rochester, Loewy was professor of mechanical and aerospace sciences, director of the Space Science Center and finally dean of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavko Löwy
Slavko Löwy (August 7, 1904 – April 1, 1996) was a 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 at 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 year he per ... [...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. To the southeast is an even larger lava-flooded formation, Hippalus Hippalus (Ancient Greek: Ἵππαλος) was a Greek navigator and merchant who probably lived in the 1st century BCE. He is sometimes conjectured to have been the captain of the Greek explorer Eudoxus of Cyzicus' ship. Use of monsoon The writ .... 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 (born 1975), Canadian actress * Otto Loewi (1873–1961), German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist See also * Lowi (other) * Loewy * Löwe (other) Löwe or Loewe may refer to: Business * Loewe (electronics), a German television sets and other electronics maker * Loewe (fashion brand), a Spanish luxury clothing and accessories brand * Löwe Automobil, a German automotive parts manufacturer ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Loewi Levite surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
