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Melita (given Name)
Melita is a feminine given name which may refer to: * Melita Aitken (1866–1945), Canadian painter and writer * Melita Gordon, gastroenterologist * Melita Maschmann (1918–2010), German memoirist * Melita Norwood (1912–2005), British civil servant and Soviet spy * Melita Ruhn Melita Ruhn (later Fleischer, born 19 April 1965) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She belongs to the German minority in Romania. She won three Olympic medals (team, vault, uneven bars) ... (born 1965), Romanian retired gymnast * Melita Švob (born 1931), Croatian Jewish biologist and historian * Melita Vovk (born 1928), Slovene painter and illustrator of children's books {{given name Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Aitken
Melita Aitken (March 31, 1866 – August 28, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer. She was born in Drumbo, Ontario and studied art with Mary Dignam in Toronto and with John Vanderpoel at the Art Institute of Chicago. At first, Aitken painted portraits in oil but switched to painting flowers in watercolour after finding out that lead in the oil paints was affecting her health. She married Captain Robert James Aitken; the couple had three children. He was killed in action during World War I. After spending some time overseas, she returned to Sault Ste. Marie, later moving to Victoria and then Vancouver. Her work was included in exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London, England, at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, at the Salon des artistes français in Paris, at spring shows of the Art Association of Montreal, at the Victoria Art Gallery The Victoria Art Gallery is a public art museum in Bath, Somerset, England. It was opened in 1900 to commemorate Queen Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Gordon
Melita Alison Gordon is a gastroenterologist who works on invasive gut pathogens and tropical gastrointestinal disease. She leads the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Salmonella and Enterics Group. Gordon was awarded the British Society of Gastroenterology Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal in 2011. Education and early career Gordon completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge. She completed her clinical qualifications at the University of Oxford and eventually specialised in internal medicine Queen's University Belfast. She has since worked in Zambia, Sheffield and Liverpool. In 1993 she was awarded the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Blacklock medal. In 1997 she was appointed a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow and Lecturer. She moved to Malawi in 1997, where she lived until 2005 and was part of the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust. Research In 2008 Gordon was made an NHS Higher Education Funding Council for England Clinical Fellow at the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Maschmann
Melita Maschmann (January 10, 1918 – February 4, 2010) was a German memoirist. She achieved renown with her 1963 book ''Fazit: Kein Rechtfertigungsversuch'' (lit: "Account Rendered: No Attempt at Justification") which recounted her years as a member of the Hitler Youth and a propagandist for the Nazi machine. The book was translated into English by Geoffrey Strachan as ''Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self'', and published as an eBook in 2013 bPlunkett Lake Press Maschmann never married and had no children. For the last ten years of her life, she suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Maschmann's life was portrayed in the documentary ''Teenage Adolescence () is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically corresponding to the age of majority). Adolescence is usually associated with the te ...'' (2013) where she was played by Ivy Blackshire. References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Norwood
Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis; 25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant, Communist Party of Great Britain member and KGB spy. Born to a British mother and Latvian father, Norwood is most famous for supplying the Soviet Union with state secrets concerning the development of atomic weapons from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, where she worked for 40 years. Despite the high strategic value of the information she passed to the Soviets, she refused to accept any financial rewards for her work. She rejected the Soviets' offer of a pension, and argued that her disclosures of classified work helped to avoid the possibility of a third world war involving the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. In ''The Mitrokhin Archive: The K.G.B. in Europe and the West'', co-authored by Christopher Andrew, she is described as "both the most important British female agent in KGB history and the longest serving of all Soviet spies in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Ruhn
Melita Ruhn (later Fleischer, born 19 April 1965) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She belongs to the German minority in Romania. She won three Olympic medals (team, vault, uneven bars) for Romania and scored a perfect ten for the vault optionals in the team competition of the 1980 Summer Olympics, 1980 Olympic Games. In 1979 she was a member of the first world gold medal-winning team of Romania. She is also an all around and floor world bronze medalist. Career Ruhn took up gymnastics aged seven at Sport School Club Sibiu coached by Ana Crihan and Adrian Goreac. Later she trained with the national team in Deva under coach Béla Károlyi. Her first major international competition was the 1979 European Championships in Copenhagen where she placed fifth in the all-around final event. Together with Nadia Comăneci, Rodica Dunca, Emilia Eberle, Dumitriţa Turner and Marilena Vlădărău, Ruhn was a member of the gold-winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Švob
Melita Švob (german: Schwob; born 17 July 1931 in Zagreb, former Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Croatia) is a Croatian Jewish biologist, scientist, and historian. Early life Švob was born in Zagreb to a middle class Jewish family. As a child she survived the horror of the Holocaust and the NDH regime under a false identity. After the war, she attended a Gymnasium in Zagreb. Having completed her secondary education, she studied biology at the University of Zagreb from where she graduated successfully. Later life and career In 1956 she moved from Zagreb to Ljubljana, where she worked at the oncological hospital. After four years she moved with her husband, Tvrtko Švob, to Sarajevo, where she worked at the Faculty of Medicine as an assistant in the field of histology and embryology. In 1964 she finished her doctoral thesis. From 1964 until 1979 Švob worked at the Institute for Skin and Venereal Diseases where she establish histopathological laboratory. Švob worked on many scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Vovk
Melita Vovk (14 June 1928 – 27 July 2020) was a Slovene painter and illustrator of children's books. Melita Vovk was born in Bled in 1928. She has illustrated numerous children's books and won the Levstik Award twice, in 1957 for her illustrations for ''Zgode in nezgode kraljevskega dvora'' (Tales and Mishaps of the Royal Court) by Milan Šega and in 1965 for her illustrations for three books, ''Basni'' (Fables) by Ivan Krylov, ''Puhek v Benetkah'' (Puhek in Venice) by Mira Mihelič and ''Pustov god'' (Pust's Birthday) by Vera Albreht. She received the lifetime achievement award for illustration at the 9th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration in 2010. Vovk's first husband was the literary critic and stage director Bojan Štih and she is sometimes referred to as Melita Vovk Štih. Their daughter Ejti Štih is also a painter who lives and works in Santa Cruz in Bolivia. Selected Illustrated Works * ''Ko zorijo jagode'' (When Strawberries Ripen), written by Branka Jurca, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |