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Morpurgo
Morpurgo ( he, מורפורגו) is an Italian surname of Jewish origin. Originally ''Marpurg'', from the Austrian city Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor in Slovenia). Key ancestor was Moises Jacob, father of Petachia, in Bad Radkersburg, Austria. Petachia (1355–1460) had three sons who died in Maribor. Their subsequent multinational progeny took the surnames Maribor, Marburg, Marpurg, Morpurgo, Marlborough, Murphy. ''Morpurgo'' may refer to: * Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937–2014), Italian linguist at Oxford University. * Clare Morpurgo, wife of Michael Morpurgo. * Elio Morpurgo (1858–1944), Italian politician. * Israel Isserlein (1380–1460) son of Petachia, had two sons, Aaron (1420–1490) and Keshel. * Lisa Morpurgo (Dordoni) (1923–1998), Italian writer and astrologer. * Michael Morpurgo (born 1943), English writer, especially of children's novels. * Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo (1790–1871), Jewish-Italian poet. * Samson (ben Joshua Moses) Morpurgo (1681–1740), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo (''né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ''War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or World War I. Morpurgo became the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and he is also the current President of BookTrust, the UK's largest children's reading charity. Early life Morpurgo was born in 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, as Michael Andrew Bridge, the second child of actor Tony Van Bridge and actress Kippe Cammaerts (born Catherine Noel Kippe Cammaerts, daughter of writer and poet Émile Cammaerts). Both RADA graduates, his parents had met when they were acting in the same repertory company in 1938. His father came from a working-class family, while Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Morpurgo
Vid Morpurgo (1838–1911) was a Dalmatian industrialist, publisher, politician and member of a notable Split family Morpurgo. Early years and family Morpurgo was born on 7 May 1838 in Split, Croatia to a well-known Jewish family of David-Elija and Anetta (née Gentili) Morpurgo. His great-great-grandfather David-Vita moved to Split in 1774 from Maribor ( Ger.: Marburg), Slovenia. He chose his surname ''Morpurgo'' from the Italian version of the German ''Marburger'' (i.e. someone from Marburg). From 1846 to 1849 Morpurgo attended and finished elementary school in Split. Later he attended the Royal grammar school in Split from which he graduated in 1856. Political and business career After completing his education, Morpurgo was employed at the library which was co-owned by his father and his business partner Petar Savo. There Morpurgo developed bookseller activity enabling him partnership with numerous foreign publishing houses. In 1855 he traveled to Trieste, Italy to sign c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Morpurgo Davies
Anna Elbina Morpurgo Davies, (21 June 1937 – 27 September 2014) was an Italian philologist who specialised in comparative Indo-European linguistics. She spent her career at Oxford University, where she was the Professor of Comparative Philology and Fellow of Somerville College. Personal life and education Anna Elbina Morpurgo was born in Milan, the fourth child of a Jewish family. Her grandfather Guido Castelnuovo was a mathematician; her father, Augusto Morpurgo,Andreas Willi"Anna Morpurgo Davies obituary" ''The Guardian'', 9 October 2014. was dismissed in 1938 under the Fascist racial laws and died the following year after trying to find a way to take his family to Argentina. She and her mother Maria moved to Rome, where they survived with false papers and in hiding. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uberto De Morpurgo
Uberto De Morpurgo (12 January 1896 – 26 February 1961) was a male tennis player from Italy. Uberto De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, but became an Italian citizen when the city changed hands after World War I. His world rankings were ninth in 1928, tenth in 1929, and eighth in 1930."Big Bill Tilden is Second Only to Henri Cochet" ''The Montreal Gazette'', 27 November 1930. ranked him 10th in the world in 1924, and 6th in 1929. Tennis career De Morpurgo was junior champion in |
Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo
Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo (; 8 April 1790 – 1871) was a Jewish-Italian poet. She is said to be the first Jewish woman to write poetry in Hebrew under her own name in two thousand years. Life Morpurgo was born in Trieste, Italy into the prosperous Luzzatto family that produced many Jewish scholars and intellectuals, including her cousin Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), whose support and encouragement were important to the recognition she received in her lifetime. In 1819, she married Jacob Morpurgo, also a member of a prominent Jewish Italian family. Morpurgo Morpurgo ( he, מורפורגו) is an Italian surname of Jewish origin. Originally ''Marpurg'', from the Austrian city Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor in Slovenia). Key ancestor was Moises Jacob, father of Petachia, in Bad Radkersburg, Austria. ... is Italianised " Marburger", from where the family originated. She moved to Gorizia and had four children, three boys and a girl. Her parents provided a rich educati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Morpurgo
Lisa Morpurgo Dordoni (19 May 1923 in Soncino ( CR) – 9 May 1998 in Milan) was a writer and astrologer. Biography Lisa Morpurgo gained a degree in literature at the Università Statale di Milano presenting a thesis on Maurice Barrèsbr>(thesis) She started to be interested in astrology while working as a translator for book publishers. Morpurgowas first intrigued by astrology while translating the French book " Lo Zodiaco - Segreti e sortilegi " by François-Régis Bastide The translation of this book about zodiacal signs peculiarities awakened her curiosity for astrology, a matter up to that moment so distant from her cultural background. Thanks to her thorough study of this new form of knowledge she had been able to sketch the zodiacal map of some of her remarkable friends - mostly writers, such as Eugenio Montale, Dino Buzzati, Guido Piovene, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Morpurgo
Tina Morpurgo (March 6, 1907 – June 1, 1944) was a Croatian painter from Split. Morpurgo was born on March 6, 1907 in Split to the notable Jewish Morpurgo family which originated from Marburg, Germany. After high school she devoted herself to painting and in 1931 she held her first single exhibition which showed over fifty of her works in oil, tempera and drawing. In 1932, Morpurgo attended a private school in Trieste. Morpurgo planned to pursue her schooling and further artistic development in Munich, but due to the rise of Nazism and the economic crisis, she remained in her hometown, and, disillusioned, stopped painting. In 1943 she was deported to the Banjica concentration camp together with her parents. On June 1, 1944, Morpurgo was killed by Schutzstaffel The ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS; also stylized as ''ᛋᛋ'' with Armanen runes; ; "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Morpurgo
Samson Morpurgo ben Joshua Moses (1681 – 12 April 1740) was an Italian rabbi, physician, and liturgist. Morpurgo was born in Gradisca d'Isonzo, close to Gorizia. When a boy of seven he was taken by his father to Venice, where he received his elementary education. He then studied in the University of Padua, and graduated as doctor of medicine. In 1704 Morpurgo published in Venice his "'Eẓ ha-Da'at," a philosophical commentary on Jedaiah Bedersi's "Beḥinat ha-'Olam." At the end of this work was printed a satire upon the cabalists by Jacob Frances, on account of which Morpurgo was persecuted by the rabbis of Padua. At the same time he devoted himself to the study of the ''Talmud'' and rabbinics, and in 1709 he obtained a rabbi's diploma from Leon Briel, chief rabbi of Mantua (Preface to Morpurgo's "Shemesh Ẓedaḳah"). Soon afterward he was associated in the rabbinate of Ancona with Joseph Fiametta, whose son-in-law he subsequently became. After Fiametta's death (1721) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elio Morpurgo
Elio Morpurgo (10 October 1858 – 29 March 1944) was an Italian politician, member of the Italian Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies, and mayor of Udine. Biography Between 1889 and 1894 Morpurgo was mayor of Udine. The next year he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and held that office until 1919. During this period he was also undersecretary to the "ministry of post service and telegraph" and twice to the "Ministry of industry, commerce and work". In 1920 he became a member of the Italian Senate. In 1944 Morpurgo was arrested and imprisoned in the Risiera di San Sabba because he was a Jew, even though he had joined the National Fascist Party. In the same year he was forced to board a train In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often ... to the Auschwitz conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Morpurgo
Clare, Lady Morpurgo ('' née'' Lane) is a philanthropist. She is the wife of British author Sir Michael Morpurgo and the eldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books. Morpurgo founded the charity Farms for City Children Farms for City Children is a UK registered charity which aims to provide experience of farm and countryside life for over 3,200 inner-city children per year. Foundation In 1976 author Michael Morpurgo and his wife, Clare Morpurgo (the oldest ... in 1974. She and her husband are deeply involved with the charity. She is also a trustee of The Allen Lane Foundation, a grant-making charity. She and Michael Morpurgo co-authored ''Wherever My Wellies Take Me'' (2012).''Wherever My Wellies Take Me'' (London: 2012). Templar Publishing; References External linksFarms For City Children website Living people Members of the Order of the British Empire Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo
Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (Rome, 1890 - Rome, 1966) was an Italian architect Following is a list of Italian architects. Early architects *Marcus Agrippa *Vitruvius Medieval architects * Arnolfo di Cambio * Pietro Baseggio *Giotto di Bondone * Arnolfo di Cambio *Jacopo Celega * Andrea Orcagna *Andrea Pisano *Gio .... He was a prominent representative of Italian Rationalist architecture of the 1930s. References 1890 births 1966 deaths 20th-century Italian architects Architects from Rome {{Italy-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
