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Merz (surname)
Merz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Merz (b. 1983), US football player * Albert Merz (?-1941), One of 3 German brothers (w August and Rudolf) who were imprisoned in Nazi Germany for refusing to bear arms. He was executed. * Alessia Merz (b. 1974), Italian television personality * Anna Merz (1931–2013), English conservationist * Annette Merz ( fl. 1990s), German Protestant theologian, biblical scholar * Alfred Merz (1880–1925), Austrian-German oceanologist * Bruno Merz (b. 1976), New Zealand-born musician, composer, working in Netherlands * Charles Hesterman Merz (1874–1940), Pioneer of the National Grid UK * Charlie Merz (1888–1952) US racecar driver * Curt Merz (b. 1938), US football player * Friedrich Merz (b. 1955), German politician (CDU) * Georg Merz (1793-1867), German optical instruments manufacturer * Hans-Rudolf Merz (b. 1942), President of Switzerland (2009) * HG Merz (b. 1947), German architect, museum designer * Ivan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Merz
Joachim Merz (born October 26, 1948, in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) is a German economist. His research involves welfare economics, income and income distribution, wealth, time utilization (time-budgeting research), time and income need, taxes, the job market, consumption and socioeconomics, with emphasis on freelancing, self-employment and salaried employment Life Merz studied Business Administration and Business Education at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, where he received his doctorate in 1979. His dissertation topic was "The expenditure of private households - A microeconometric model for the Federal Republic of Germany". In 1989 he qualified as a professor at the same university in Economics and Econometrics with the topic "Market and non-market activities of private households - Theoretical approach, representative microdata, microeconometric analysis and microsimulation economic- and socio-political provisions for the Federal Republic of Germany". Since 1991 he serves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Merz
Robert Merz (25 November 1887 – 30 August 1914) was an Austrian amateur football (soccer) player. He died during World War I, aged 26. Club career Born in Zizkow, Merz began playing youth football with a predecessor to Wiener Sport-Club (Wiener SV). He joined Wiener SV's senior side at age 16, before becoming a professional with DFC Prag when he moved back to his hometown in 1907. International career He was a member of the Austrian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics and played two matches in the main tournament as well as two matches in the consolation tournament. He scored two goals against Germany in the first round of the main tournament. For the Austria national football team he played 13 games and scored 5 goals. Military service Merz was a reserve lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. See also * List of Olympians killed in World War I A total of 144 Olympians are known to have been killed during World War I. See also * List of int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Merz
Otto Merz was a German race car driver, racing driver, chauffeur and mechanic. He was a driver in the motorcade during the 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassination of Archuduke Franz Ferdinand and later won the second running of the German Grand Prix in 1927. He died in a crash during practice for the 1933 AVUS#Race track, Avusrennen in a modified Mercedes-Benz SSK, Mercedes SSK on 18 May 1933. Early life Otto Merz was born on 12 June 1889 in Esslingen am Neckar to Karl Gottlob Merz, a locksmith, and Christine Margarete Merz ''née'' Blessing. In 1906, Merz was hired by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, Daimler as a mechanic. He also served as a chauffeur and mechanic for several wealthy motor car enthusiasts, such as Theodore Dreher, the Austrian motor sport sponsor and son of Anton Dreher, and the Saxon industrialist Willy Pöge. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand On 28 June 1914, as the chauffeur for Count Alexander von Boos-Waldeck during Archduke F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Merz
Mischa Merz (born 1964) is an Australian boxer, painter and journalist and the owner of Mischa's Boxing Central in Footscray where she has been head coach since 2013. She became part of a pioneering cohort of female boxers when she started competing in 1998 long before women were included in the Olympics. Over the years she has been determined to help grow the female branch of the sport and has prepared and coached women and girls to enter competition as well as men. Career Merz won an Australian Amateur Boxing League national title in 2000 and silver in her first year of competing 1998 and in 2001 in Mackay Queensland. She resumed boxing in the Masters Division in the United States in 2009 where she won the National Women's Golden Gloves. She also won her fights at the Georgia Games and the Ringside World Championships, taking home the belt in the Masters Division at that tournament. Her last fight was in New York's famous Gleason's Gym in 2011 where she lost a close decision a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Merz
Matthias Merz (born 1 February 1984) is a Swiss orienteering competitor, winner of the 2007 World Orienteering Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, Long distance, and also earned a silver medal on the Sprint distance in the same championship. He has a bronze medal from the 2005 Relay Championships in Aichi, Japan, as member of the Swiss winning team.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on December 31, 2007) When Merz won the bronze medal in the middle distance at the World Championships in in 2009, he joined countryman |
Marisa Merz
Marisa Merz (23 May 1926 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian artist and sculptor."Marisa Merz Biography" Gladstone Gallery. Retrieved 18 October 2018. In the 1960s, Merz was the only female protagonist associated with the radical Arte povera movement. In 2013 she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the . She lived and worked in , Italy. Early life Marisa Merz was born in Turin, Italy, in 192 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Merz
Mario Merz (1 January 1925 – 9 November 2003) was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Life Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the ''Giustizia e Libertà'' antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke–not removing his pencil point from the paper. He explored the relationship between nature and the subject, until he had his first exhibitions in the intellectually incendiary context of Turin in the 1950s, a cultural climate fed by such writers as Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, and Ezra Pound. He met Marisa Merz during his studies in Turin in the 1950s. They were associated with the development of Arte Povera, and they were both influenced by each other's works. He died in Milan in 2003. Work Merz discarded abstract expressionism's subjectivity in favor of opening art to exterior space: a seed or a leaf in the wind becomes a universe on his canvas. From the mid-1960s, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OScar
Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People * Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms. * Oscar (Irish mythology), legendary figure, son of Oisín and grandson of Finn mac Cumhall Places * Oscar, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Oscar, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Oscar, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Oscar, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community * Oscar, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Oscar, Texas, an unincorporated community * Oscar, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Lake Oscar (other) * Oscar Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, a civil township Animals * Oscar (bionic cat), a cat that had implants after losing both hind paws * Oscar (bull), #16, (d. 1983) a ProRodeo Hall of Fame bucking bull * Oscar (fish), ''Astronotus ocellatus'' * Oscar (therapy cat), cat purported to pred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis L , names sometimes translated to English as "Louis"
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Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (other) * Louie (other) * Luis (other) * Louise (other) * Louisville (other) * Louis Cruise Lines * Louis dressing, for salad * Louis Quinze, design style Associated names * * Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" * Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" * Ludovic, Ludwig, Ludwick, Ludwik Ludwik () is a Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ludwik Czyżewski, Polish WWII general * Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), Polish medical doctor and biologist * Ludwik Gintel (1899–1973), Polish-Israeli Olympic soccer player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Merz
Klaus Merz, (born 3 October 1945 in Aarau, canton Aargau) is a Swiss writer. Life As a teacher (secondary school), Merz has worked in adult education. He has won several prices, e.g. the famous Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature in 1997, the „Gottfried Keller-Preis“ in 2004 and the „Werkpreis der schweizerischen Schillerstiftung“ in 2005. He wrote a lot of narrations and stories, e.g. „Adams Kostüm“ or the short novel „Jakob schläft“. Merz has also made poems („Kurze Durchsage“) – his works are rather short. But the titles already show Merz’s special ability: He manages it, to place two or three banal words, one next to the other, and it starts “buzzing” amongst them. Today, Merz lives in Unterkulm as a narrator and lyric poet. Selected bibliography *''Mit gesammelter Blindheit''. Gedichte. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1967. *''Geschiebe – mein Land''. Gedichte. Sauerländer, Aarau 1969. *''Vier Vorwände ergeben kein Haus''. Gedichte. Artemis, Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Spruner Von Merz
Karl Spruner von Merz (15 November 1803, in Stuttgart – 24 August 1892), or Karl von Spruner as he preferred to be known, was a German cartographer and scholar. He spent most of his long life in military service. He joined the Bavarian army, aged 11, in 1814, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1825. He established a reputation as a scholar, but it was not until 1851 that this came to the notice of his military superiors, leading them to promote him to major in 1852 and to lieutenant colonel in 1855. He was promoted to general in 1883, and finally retired in 1886, after 72 years in the Bavarian army. He is best known for his historical atlases. The first of these was his ''Historischer Atlas von Bayern'' (historical atlas of Bavaria), published in 1838. His greatest work was his ''Historisch-Geographischer Hand-Atlas'', whose first edition appeared in parts from 1848 to 1853. Heinrich Theodor Menke made major contributions to its second and third editions. In 1842, he was made a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
