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Margarethe Of Erbach
Margarethe is a feminine given name, related to Margaret. People bearing the name include: * Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870-1955), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary and Tuscany * Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885-1971), German operatic contralto * Margarethe Cammermeyer (born 1942), Washington National Guard colonel honorably discharged for disclosing she was a lesbian * Maria Margarethe Danzi (1768-1800), German composer and soprano * Margarethe Faas-Hardegger (1882–1963), Swiss women's rights activist and trade unionist * Margarethe von Oven (1904-1991), German accomplice in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler * Margarethe von der Saale (1522–1566), German morganatic spouse by bigamy to Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse * Margarethe Schreinemakers (born 1958), German television presenter, talk show host and journalist * Margarethe Lenore Selenka (1860-1922), German zoologist, anthropologist, feminist and pacifist * Margarethe Siems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy. Name variants Full name * (Irish) * (Irish) * (Dutch), (German), (Swedish) * (English) Diminutives * (English) * (English) First half * ( French) * (Welsh) Second half * (English), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine Of Austria
, image = Habsburg–Lotaringiai Margit Klementina Mária főhercegnő.jpg , caption = , reign = 15 July 1890 – 3 April 1919 , reign-type = Tenure , coronation = , succession = Princess consort of Thurn and Taxis , spouse = Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis , issue = Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and TaxisPrince Joseph AlbertKarl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis Prince Ludwig Philipp Prince Max Emanuel Elisabeth Helene, Margravine of Meissen Prince Raphael RainerPrince Philipp Ernst , house = Habsburg-Lorraine , father = Archduke Joseph Karl, Palatine of Hungary , mother = Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , birth_date = , birth_place = Alcsút, Austria-Hungary , death_date = , death_place = Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany , burial_place = Gruftkapelle, Saint Emmeram's Abbey, Regensburg , religion = Roman Catholic Archduchess Margarethe Klementine Maria of Austria (in Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Arndt-Ober
Margarethe Arndt-Ober (b. Berlin, April 15, 1885–d. Bad Sachsa, March 17, 1971) was a German opera singer who had an active international career during the first half of the twentieth century. A highly skilled contralto,''First Week's Opera Bills'', New York Times, November 8, 1913, pg. 13. Ober enjoyed a particularly long and fruitful association with the Berlin State Opera from 1907 to 1944. She also was notably a principal singer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1913 and 1917. Biography A native of Berlin, Margarethe Ober studied singing in Berlin with Benno Stolzenberg and Arthur Arndt, the latter of whom she eventually married in 1910. Ober made her professional opera debut as Azucena in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Il trovatore'' at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt in 1906. After a short stint at the opera in Stettin, she became a principal singer with the Berlin State Opera in 1907, remaining with that company for over 35 years. In 1908 she had her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Cammermeyer
Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer (born March 24, 1942) is a former Norwegian-American military officer. She served as a colonel in the Washington National Guard and became a gay rights activist. Early life and education Born in Oslo, Norway, she became a United States citizen in 1960. In 1961 she joined the Army Nurse Corps as a student. She received a B.S. in nursing in 1963 from the University of Maryland. At the University of Washington School of Nursing, she earned a master's degree in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1991. Career and activism She had a 15-year marriage to Harvey Hawken and they had four sons. She divorced in 1980. In 1988, when she was 46, she met the woman who later became her wife, Diane Divelbess. In 1989, responding to a question during a routine security clearance interview, she disclosed that she is a lesbian. The National Guard began military discharge proceedings against her. On June 11, 1992, she was honorably discharged. Cammermeyer filed a lawsuit agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Danzi
Maria Margarethe Danzi ( Marchand; 1768 – 11 June 1800) was a German composer and soprano. Maria Margarethe Marchand was born in Germany. Some sources give her birthplace as Munich and others Mannheim, and it was possible that the family was on tour in Frankfurt on the date of her birth. She was the daughter of the singer, actress and dancer Magdalena Brochard Marchand and Theobald Hilary Marchand, director of the National Theatre of Mannheim. Margarethe studied music and composition in Munich with Franziska Lebrun and in Salzburg with Leopold Mozart. She apprenticed in supporting roles and debuted in 1787 at the age of 12 at the Mannheim Court Theater, performing the title role in 'The Youth' by Johann Jakob Engel. In 1790, she married conductor and composer Franz Danzi, and performed with him as prima donna of the troupe Domenico Guardasonis on European concert tours. After 1796, Margaret also performed as prima donna at the Munich Court Theatre. She died in Munich of pulm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Faas-Hardegger
Margarethe Faas-Hardegger (20 February 1882 in Bern – 23 September 1963 in Minusio) was a Swiss women's rights activist, trade unionist and the leading figure of the Swiss women workers' movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Her leadership saw the Swiss women workers' movement gain a political and feminist profile. Faas-Hardegger made women's suffrage part of the Swiss trade unions' platform, as well as maternity insurance and the idea of paid housework. Biography Margarethe Hardegger trained as a telephone switchboard operator and obtained a late ''Matura'' diploma with the support of her later husband, the lawyer August Faas. She had two daughters, Olga and Lisa, with Faas, whom she married in 1903 and divorced in 1912. Since 1916 she cohabited with the German carpenter Hans Brunner. In 1903, Hardegger co-founded the Bernese Textile Workers' Association. In 1905, she became the first women workers' secretary of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB), abando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Von Oven
Margarethe von Oven (11 March 1904, Berlin – 5 February 1991, Göttingen) was a secretary in the Bendlerblock and an accomplice in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Early life Margarethe's parents were Prussian nobility. Her father was Lieutenant Colonel Ludolf von Oven of the 115th Guards Infantry Regiment of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Her father was killed on 22 August 1914 in the opening weeks of the First World War. Margarethe was raised with three siblings by her mother. Career In 1920, Margarethe began work as a secretary in order to support her family financially. In 1925, she took a position as a secretary in the Defense Ministry and in 1928 she was sent to the military attaché's office in Moscow for six months, under an assumed name. She was on a secret mission at the time when the ''Reichswehr'' and Red Army were still collaborating. From 1930 to 1935 she worked in Berlin at the ''Reichswehr'' Ministry. In 1938 she moved to Budapest and in 1940 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Von Der Saale
Margarethe von der Saale (1522 – 6 July 1566) was a German noblewoman, lady-in-waiting and morganatic spouse by bigamy to Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Marriage Born as daughter of Hans von der Saale and his wife, Anna von Miltitz. When she came to Hessian court to serve as lady in waiting, Margarethe met the married Landgrave Philip at the age of seventeen. Philip wished to marry von der Saale morganatically rather than keep her as a mistress, as adultery would blacken his religious reputation, but he did not wish to divorce his consort, Christine of Saxony, as he believed that a divorce was equally sinful. On 10 December 1539, he received support from Martin Luther, with the argument that of two evil things, bigamy was better than divorce. The bigamous wedding ceremony took place on 4 March 1540 in Rotenburg Castle in the presence of Martin Bucer and Philipp Melanchthon. Saale never attended court but resided in a house beside the square in Spangenberg. The bigamy betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Schreinemakers
Margarethe Schreinemakers (born 27 July 1958) is a German television presenter, talk show host and journalist. Life Schreinemakers was born in Krefeld and studied sociology at the University of Bonn. She works as television presenter and journalist in Germany. She presented on German broadcaster WDR ''Aktuelle Stunde'' and ''Extratour''. From 1988 to 1991 she was talk show host for ''NDR Talk Show''. From 1992 to 1997 she presented ''"Schreinemakers live"'' on German broadcasters Sat.1 and RTL. Several other talk shows followed during the next years. Schreinemakers has two children. From 1986 to 1988 she lived together with German television presenter Jürgen von der Lippe. In 2011, she lives together with Jean Marie Maus. In March 2009 Schreinemakers had a heart attack. Awards * Bambi for ''Schreinemakers live'' * Goldene Kamera The Goldene Kamera ("Golden Camera") is an annual German film and television award, awarded by the Funke Mediengruppe. The award show is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Lenore Selenka
Margarethe Lenore Selenka ( Heinemann; 7 October 1860, Hamburg – 16 December 1922, Munich) was a German zoologist, anthropologist, feminist and pacifist. She researched apes and led scientific expeditions to the Dutch East Indies. Early life Margarethe Lenore Heinemann was the daughter of a merchant. In 1886, she married the writer Ferdinand Neubürger, but the marriage ended in a divorce a few of years later. In 1893, she really, to Emil Selenka, a professor in zoology at the University of Erlangen, who was the widower of her sister. Under Selenka's influence, she began to study palaeontology, anthropology and zoology and became his assistant. In 1892 she participated in a scientific expedition to Ceylon, Japan, China and the Dutch East Indies led by her husband. When Emil Selenka became severely ill during their stay in the Dutch East Indies and had to return to Germany, she continued the work, spending some months exploring the jungles of Borneo to study apes. Back in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Siems
Margarethe Siems (20 December 1879 – 13 April 1952) was a German operatic dramatic coloratura soprano and voice teacher. A Kammersängerin of the Dresden State Opera, between 1909 and 1912 Siems created leading roles in three operas by Richard Strauss: Chrysothemis in '' Elektra'', the Marschallin in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', and Zerbinetta in ''Ariadne auf Naxos''. Biography Margarethe Siems was born in Breslau (now Wrocław). After early training in piano and violin, she studied singing at the Dresden Conservatory with the Hungarian soprano, Aglaja Orgeni, who had herself been a pupil of Pauline Viardot and Mathilde Marchesi. She made her opera début at the Neues deutsches Theatre, Prague in 1902 as Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's ''Les Huguenots'' and became a member of the Dresden State Opera in 1908. At Dresden she sang in the premieres for both ''Elektra'' as Chrysothemis (1909) and ''Der Rosenkavalier'' as the Marschallin (1911). Strauss considered her his ideal for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Stockhausen
Margarethe Stockhausen (29 March 1803 – 1877), born Margarethe Schmuck, was a soprano singer who had a distinguished career in Europe and Britain during the 1820s and 1830s. She was wife of the harpist Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, and mother of the eminent musicians Julius, Franz and Henri Stockhausen. Margarethe Schmuck was born in Guebwiller, Alsace, the daughter of a notary. She studied singing in Paris under Giuseppe Catrufo. Her niece Josephine Bildstein also had a singing career. While in Paris Margarethe met the young harpist Franz Stockhausen (b. 1789), who was then living by teaching and performing. Franz was a friend of Sébastien Érard and a correspondent of Beethoven's, in the circle of François-Antoine Habeneck, and shared lodgings with the violinist Christian Urhan. She married Franz in Paris in 1822 and they began a family, and they also began giving concerts together, often with Franz accompanying her on the harp. At first she became well known for he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
