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Massis (surname)
Massis is a French surname that may refer to * Alfredo De Massis, Italian management and organization scientist * Annick Massis (born 1958), French soprano singer *Henri Massis (1886–1970), French essayist, literary critic and literary historian *John Massis John Massis (4 June 1940 – 12 July 1988) was a Flanders, Flemish Strongman (strength athlete), strongman and teeth-acrobat. His real name was Wilfried Morbée. Massis specialized in bending iron with his teeth. He also performed stunts whe ... (1940–1988), Flemish strongman {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo De Massis
Alfredo De Massis is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He chairs the Scientific Committee oFAmily Business Risorse per l'Italiaand is a member of the Scientific Board of the Italian Family Officer Association (AIFO). According to ''Family Capital'', De Massis is among the top 25 star professors of family business in the world. In 2022, he was nominated in the Family Capital's 100 Family Business Influencers list. De Massis also serves as strategy consultant, executive advisor and coach to family enterprises in a variety of industries. According to his CV, this includes Accenture Strategy, SCS Consulting, and Borsa Italiana (London Stock Exchange Group). In 2017, he shared his experience about succession and family business management with the UK Parliament. In 2016, several newspapers and TV programmes reported in 2016 that De Massis was the youngest full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annick Massis
Annick Massis (born Jacqueline Dubreuil; ; born 31 January 1958) is a French operatic soprano. She sang a wide variety of roles, but is best known for her interpretation of works in the 19th-century Italian and French repertoire. Biography Jacqueline Dubreuil was born in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, to singer parents: mother specialising in operetta, father being a baritone in the Choir of Radio France. After obtaining double degree in history and English, she worked as a school teacher till 28, during which she took masterclasses and met her teacher Isabel Garcisanz. Two years later, Gabriel Dussurget, founder of the Aix-en-Provence Festival, introduced her to conductor Bernard Thomas, who engaged her in ''Great Mass in C minor'' and the entire oratorio repertoire after a simple audition. Her stage career began at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse in 1991, and in the same season she performed in Mozart's ''La finta giardiniera'' as the title role at the Opéra de Nante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Massis
Henri Massis (21 March 1886 – 16 April 1970) was a conservative French essayist, literary critic and literary historian. Biography Massis was born on 21 March 1886 in Paris, France. He attended Lycée Condorcet and University of Paris. He began his publishing career in his early twenties with his works ''Comment Émile Zola Composait ses Romans'', ''Le Puits de Pyrrhon'', and ''La Pensée de Maurice Barrès''. He collaborated with his friend Alfred de Tarde, they published essays commenting on the French university system and the generation of 1912. Massis converted to Catholicism in 1913 and, following World War I, called for a revival of the French spirit and Catholicism. Starting in 1920, he served as editor for the newly formed ''Revue Universelle'' and worked to spread Christian political philosophy. He published two volumes of ''Jugements'' that critically analysed the moral teachings of numerous writers such as Ernest Renan and André Gide. Massis' political writings ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Massis
John Massis (4 June 1940 – 12 July 1988) was a Flanders, Flemish Strongman (strength athlete), strongman and teeth-acrobat. His real name was Wilfried Morbée. Massis specialized in bending iron with his teeth. He also performed stunts where he lifted cars, pulled trains and stopped motorbikes and even helicopters and hot air balloons with his teeth. This resulted in several entries in the Guinness World Records book. He even stopped 4 small sport planes of lifting off in 4 different directions. In 1980 he started pirate radio "Radio Superstar" and also recorded the song ''John Massis de krachtpatser''. In 1987 he recorded ''Zet er je tanden in'', with Willy Sommers. In 1983 he also funded a political party called ''Positief Radicalen'' in Dutch or ''Positive Radicals''. He had a few roles too in the Flemish films ''The Leeuw Van Vlaanderen'' (1984) and ''Merlina'' In 2004 Johan Heldenbergh performed a play based on Massis' life: ''Massis, the musical''. In 2005 he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
