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Lorch may refer to: People * Edgar Lorch (1907–1990), Swiss American mathematician * Grace Lorch (c. 1903–1974), American teacher and civil rights activist *Karl Lorch (born 1950), American football player * Lee Lorch (1915–2014), American mathematician and civil rights activist * Maristella Lorch, critic of Italian literature * Rudi Lorch (born 1966), German footballer * Thembinkosi Lorch (born 1993), South African footballer *Theodore Lorch (1873–1947), American film actor *Wilhelm Lorch (1867–1954), German botanist Places *Lorch, Hesse, a town in Hesse, Germany *Lorch (Württemberg), a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany *Lorch, Austria Lorch is a district of the city of Enns in the district of Linz-Land in Upper Austria.Otto Winkler, St.Laurenz-Basilika zu Enns-Lorch. Kirchenführer, Hrsg.: Pfarramt St. Laurenz, Enns. Kunstverlag Hofstetter, Ried im Innkreis, 1990. It is at 48° ..., part of Enns in Upper Austria Other uses * "Lorch" (song), by Kabza de Small and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Lorch
Edgar Raymond Lorch (July 22, 1907 – March 5, 1990) was a Swiss American mathematician. Described by ''The New York Times'' as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory", he was a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He contributed to the fields general topology, especially metrizable and Baire spaces, group theory of permutation groups and functional analysis, especially spectral theory, convexity in Hilbert spaces and normed rings. Biography Born in Switzerland, Lorch emigrated with his family to the United States in 1917 and became a citizen in 1932. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1935 and retired in 1976, although he continued to write and lecture as professor emeritus. For his reminiscences of Szeged, Edgar R. Lorch posthumously received in 1994 the Lester R. Ford Award, with Reuben Hersh Reuben Hersh (December 9, 1927 – January 3, 2020) was an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Lorch
Grace Lonergan Lorch (c. 1903-1974) was a teacher and civil rights activist best known for her work as a white escort for the Little Rock Nine. Lorch was a teacher in Boston and served as President of the Boston Teachers Union and as a member of the Boston Central Labour Council. She was the first teacher to challenge a Boston school regulation that female teachers resign after marriage, although unsuccessfully. Grace Lonergan married her husband Lee Lorch in 1943 as he was about to leave for military service in World War II. Despite having been a teacher for two decades she was dismissed due to an 1880s era rule of the Boston School Committee that banned teachers from marrying. Lorch appealed but the committee upheld the rule in 1944 and the publicity around Lorch's case led to a campaign to end the prohibition which was successful nine years later when, in 1953, the legislature voted to end the ban on married female teachers. The Lorches were activists in the civil rights stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Lorch
Karl P. Lorch, Jr. (June 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was an American football player. He played professionally as a defensive end with the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. He also played in the World Football League (WFL) for The Hawaiians and in the United States Football League (USFL) for the Chicago Blitz, the Arizona Wranglers and the Arizona Outlaws The Arizona Outlaws were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid-1980s. They were owned by Fresno banker and real estate magnate William Tatham Sr., who had briefly owned the Portland Thu .... Lorch wore #71 for the Washington Redskins. References 1950 births 2013 deaths American football defensive ends Arizona Western Matadors football players Arizona Wranglers players Chicago Blitz players The Hawaiians players Arizona Outlaws players USC Trojans football players Washington Redskins players Players o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Lorch
Lee Alexander Lorch (September 20, 1915 – February 28, 2014) was an American mathematician, early civil rights activist, and communist. His leadership in the campaign to desegregate Stuyvesant Town, a large housing development on the East Side of Manhattan, helped eventually to make housing discrimination illegal in the United States but also resulted in Lorch losing his own job twice. He and his family then moved to the Southern United States where he and his wife, Grace Lorch, became involved in the civil rights movement there while also teaching at several Black colleges. He encouraged black students to pursue studies in mathematics and mentored several of the first black men and women to earn PhDs in mathematics in the United States. After moving to Canada as a result of McCarthyism, he ended his career as professor emeritus of mathematics at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Background He was born in New York City to Adolph Lorch and Florence Mayer Lorch. He graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maristella Lorch
Maristella de Panizza Lorch is one of the leading post-war critics of Italian literature working in America. She is affiliated with Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt .... She is also author of the novel ''Mamma in Her Village''. She is the founder and Director Emerita of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, a multi-disciplinary research and international scholarly exchange institute. References External linksShort biography on Maristella Lorch Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Columbia University people {{academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Lorch
Rudi Lorch (born 20 January 1966) is a retired German football player. He spent three seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart. Honours * Bundesliga champion: 1983–84 * DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considere ... finalist: 1985–86 References External links * 1966 births Living people German men's footballers Bundesliga players VfB Stuttgart players VfB Stuttgart II players Men's association football midfielders West German men's footballers People from Heidenheim (district) Footballers from Stuttgart (region) {{germany-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thembinkosi Lorch
Thembinkosi Lorch (born 22 July 1993) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder for Orlando Pirates and the South African national team. He was named the South African Player of the Season and Players' Player of the Season in 2019.' Career Thembinkosi Lorch nicknamed "Nyoso" started his career at Maluti FET College FC and after a game against Jomo Cosmos, got a call from Screamer Tshabalala who told him that Pirates was interested in him. His first PSL game was against Free State Stars, playing for Chippa United on loan from Orlando Pirates. DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small's 2019 song, titled ''Lorch'', was inspired by and named after him. Personal life In the early morning of 7 September 2020, Lorch was arrested for allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend, Nokuphiwa Mathithibala. This came after she had opened up a case of assault against him at Midrand Police station indicating that Lorch had strangled her after she had asked about hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Lorch
Theodore "Ted" Lorch (September 29, 1873 – November 12, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1908 and 1947. Biography Born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1873, Lorch appeared in several Three Stooges comedies. He was the suspicious Major "Bloodhound" Filbert in ''Uncivil Warriors'', the snooty psychologist Professor Sedlitz in ''Half-Wits Holiday'', and General Muster in ''Goofs and Saddles''. He also performed tiny bit roles, such as the butler in ''If a Body Meets a Body'' and ''Micro-Phonies''. Lorch died on November 12, 1947. His final Stooge film, ''The Hot Scots'', was released posthumously in 1948. He was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. Selected filmography * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1920) - Chingachgook * ''Gasoline Gus'' (1921) - Dry Check Charlie * ''Shell Shocked Sammy'' (1923) * ''Westbound'' (1924) * ''The Sea Hawk'' (1924) - Turkish Merchant (uncredited) * ''Dangerous Pleasure'' (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Lorch
Wilhelm Lorch (11 May 1867, in Marburg – 1954, in Berlin) was a German bryologist known for his research involving the anatomy of mosses. He studied botany in Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1894 with the thesis "''Beiträge zur Anatomie und Biologie der Laubmoose''". Up until 1932, he worked as a schoolteacher in Marburg and Berlin. Selected works * ''Excursions-Flora der in der Umgebung von Marburg wildwachsenden Pflanzen (Phanerogamen und Pteridophyten)'', 1891 – Botanical excursions in the environs of Marburg (phanerogams and pteridophytes). * ''Beiträge zur Anatomie und Biologie der Laubmoose'', 1894 – Contribution to the anatomy and biology of mosses, (dissertation). * ''Die Polytrichaceen : eine biologische Monographie'', 1908 – Monograph on Polytrichaceae. * ''Die Laubmoose'', 1913 – Mosses. * ''Die Torf- und Lebermoose: die Farnpflanzen (Pteridophyta)'', (second edition 1926); (with Guido Brause and Heinrich Andres) – Sphagnum and liverworts; Fern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorch, Hesse
Lorch am Rhein () is a small town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. It belongs to the Rhine Gorge World Heritage Site. Geography Location The town is characterized by winegrowing and tourism. Lorch lies in the southwestern part of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the foothills of the Rheingaugebirge (range), some 10 km north of the bend in the Rhine near Rüdesheim. The town owes its picturesque setting in the Middle Rhine Valley between Rüdesheim am Rhein and Sankt Goarshausen to its location at the mouth of the Wisper and to its steep vineyards. The town's municipal area stretches into the richly wooded Wisper valley along ''Landesstraße'' (State Road) 3033 between Lorch and the district seat of Bad Schwalbach. The town is a state-recognized recreational resort (''Erholungsort''). The Rheinsteig, the new hiking trail on the Rhine's right bank leading from Wiesbaden to Bonn, runs on the Rhine heights. In the Rhine near Lorch lies the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorch (Württemberg)
Lorch is a small town in the Ostalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, by the river Rems, 8 kilometers west of Schwäbisch Gmünd. It is a part of the Ostwürttemberg region. Geography Lorch lies in a valley of the river Rems, a tributary of the river Neckar, with Schwäbisch Gmünd to its east, Schorndorf to its west, the Swabian-Franconian Forest to its north and the Swabian Alps to its south. Lorch is part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park and is located at the Limes hiking route (HW 6) of the Swabian Alp Association. In addition to Schwäbisch Gmünd, the town also borders the municipality of Alfdorf to the north, the municipalities of Wäschenbeuren and Börtlingen to the south as well as the municipality of Plüderhausen to the west. Lorch, with the formerly independent municipality of Waldhausen, encompasses 35 hamlets, villages and farms in addition to Lorch itself. In accordance with the borders drawn at the 31st of December 1971, Lorch, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorch, Austria
Lorch is a district of the city of Enns in the district of Linz-Land in Upper Austria.Otto Winkler, St.Laurenz-Basilika zu Enns-Lorch. Kirchenführer, Hrsg.: Pfarramt St. Laurenz, Enns. Kunstverlag Hofstetter, Ried im Innkreis, 1990. It is at 48°13′0″N, 14°28′30″E. and developed out of the Roman town of Lauriacum. Today it is incorporated into Enns, Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous .... References {{authority control Cities and towns in Linz-Land District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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