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Elster
Elster may refer to: Places * Black Elster (''Schwarze Elster''), a river in Germany * White Elster (''Weiße Elster''), a river in Germany and the Czech Republic ** Elster Viaduct, a railway bridge over the White Elster ** Elster Viaduct (Pirk), a road bridge over the White Elster * Bad Elster, a spa town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany ** Bad Elster Spa Museum * Elster (Elbe), a village and former municipality in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany * Elster Mountains, in Saxony and the Czech Republic * Kleine Elster, a river of Brandenburg, Germany * Amt Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz), an ''Amt'' (collective municipality) in the district of Elbe-Elster, Germany People Surname * Charles Harrington Elster (born 1957), American writer, broadcaster, and logophile * Charlotte Elster, German-American physicist * Else Elster (1910–1998), German film actress * Erwin Elster (1887–1977), Polish painter and pedagogue * Gottlieb Elster (1867–1917), G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Elster
Jennifer Elster is an American experimental artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer, musician, and performer. She is the founder of ''The Development'', a film and art studio based in New York City. She is best known for her performance artwork, her solo multidisciplinary exhibitions, ''The Retrospective of an Extroverted Recluse'', and ''The Wake The F*ck Up Show'', as well as her artistic collaborations transforming the late David Bowie into different characters and having written lyrics Yoko Ono performed for the online cinematic excursion Elster helmed entitled ''ITW Pathway'' featuring Will Oldham and the late Glenn O'Brien. Elster conceived and directed her upcoming fourteen year film project ''...In the Woods (and Elsewhere)'', which features subjects such as Terrence Howard, Debra Winger, Questlove, Rosie Perez, and Dave Matthews, among others. Elster's performance and video art have been exhibited at the New Museum and Central Booking gallery, in group shows with artists, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elster Valley Railway
Elster may refer to: Places * Black Elster (''Schwarze Elster''), a river in Germany * White Elster (''Weiße Elster''), a river in Germany and the Czech Republic ** Elster Viaduct, a railway bridge over the White Elster ** Elster Viaduct (Pirk), a road bridge over the White Elster * Bad Elster, a spa town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany ** Bad Elster Spa Museum * Elster (Elbe), a village and former municipality in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany * Elster Mountains, in Saxony and the Czech Republic * Kleine Elster, a river of Brandenburg, Germany * Amt Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz), an ''Amt'' (collective municipality) in the district of Elbe-Elster, Germany People Surname * Charles Harrington Elster (born 1957), American writer, broadcaster, and logophile * Charlotte Elster, German-American physicist * Else Elster (1910–1998), German film actress * Erwin Elster (1887–1977), Polish painter and pedagogue * Gottlieb Elster (1867–1917), Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Elster
Kevin Daniel Elster (born August 3, 1964) is an American former professional baseball shortstop. Known primarily for his fielding, Elster broke a 42-year-old Major League Baseball record by playing 88 consecutive games at shortstop without committing an error. Early years Elster was drafted by the New York Mets in the second round of the January draft out of Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California. He batted .269 with fourteen home runs and 135 runs batted in over three seasons in the Mets' farm system when he received a somewhat surprising September call up to the majors in with the Mets on the verge of capturing the National League East. He made his major league debut as a late inning defensive replacement on September 2 against the San Francisco Giants, and got his first major league hit in his first major league at bat the following day. Over the remainder of the season, Elster batted .167 with three runs scored. He had one extra base hit, a double off the Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Elster
Bad Elster () is a spa town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany. It lies on the border of Bavaria and the Czech Republic in the Elster gebirge hills. It is situated on the river White Elster, and is protected from extremes of temperature by the surrounding wooded hills. It is southeast of Plauen, and northwest of Cheb. It is part of the ''Freunde im Herzen Europas'' microregion. History Elster before 1800 Two kilometres north west of the town centre lies the remains of a twelfth-century walled village, known today as the "Alte Schloss" or "Old Castle". This was first documented in 1324. In 1412 a manor was sold to the von Zedtwitz family, who held it until 1800. In 1533 the Protestant Reformation, Reformation reached Adorf and its daughter church in Elster, and the first Protestant pastor was installed in 1540. The healing properties of the waters from the spring now known as the Moritzquelle were recognised well before Georg Leisner, physician to the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Elster
Jon Elster (; born 22 February 1940) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France. He received his PhD in social science from the École Normale Superieure in 1972. He has previously taught at the University of Paris, the University of Oslo, and the University of Chicago, where he became professor of political science in 1984. Since 1995, he has held the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University, as well as being professor of social science at the Collège de France since 2005. Elster has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory. He is also a notable proponent of analytical Marxism, and a critic of neoclassical economics and public choice theory, largely on behavioral and psychological grounds. In 2016, he was awarded the 22nd Johan Skytte Prize in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Elster
The White Elster (, ) is a river in central Europe. It is a right tributary of the Saale. The source of the White Elster is in the westernmost part of the Czech Republic, in the territory of Hazlov. After a few kilometres, it flows into eastern Germany where it cuts through the Vogtland in (according to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'') a "deep and picturesque valley". In Germany it flows through the states of Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. The White Elster flows through the cities of Plauen, Greiz, Gera, Zeitz, Pegau and Leipzig, and into the river Saale in Halle. Name Although "Elster" is German for " magpie", the origin of the name has nothing to do with the bird. The name comes from the Indo-European root el-/ol- meaning "flow" and the Germanic ending "-str". Alster has the same etymology. Jürgen Udolph: ''Namenkundliche Studien zum Germanenproblem'', S. 245, Sieboldshausen 1993, oder '' '', im Eurasischen Magazin, 26. März 2004 The White Elster never meets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Elster
The Black Elster or Schwarze Elster ( German, ; ; ) is a long river in eastern Germany, in the states of Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt. It is a right tributary of the Elbe. Its source is in the Upper Lusatia region, near Elstra. The Black Elster flows through the cities Kamenz/Kamjenc, Hoyerswerda/Wojerecy, Senftenberg/Zły Komorow, Lauchhammer, Elsterwerda, Bad Liebenwerda, Herzberg and Jessen. It flows into the river Elbe at Elster (Elbe), upstream from Wittenberg. Geography The river rises in the Lusatian Highlands (Upper Lusatia) about south of the village Kindisch in the borough of Elstra on the eastern flank of the high ''Kuppe'', a subpeak of the Hochstein. From here the ''Black Elster'' flows initially in a northerly direction through Elstra, Kamenz, Milstrich and Wittichenau; from Hoyerswerda it flows in westwards to Elsterheide. Further downstream, after , it crosses the Saxon-Brandenburg border and flows through Senftenberg, Ruhland and Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torolf Elster
Torolf Elster (27 May 1911 – 4 November 2006) was a Norwegian newspaper and radio journalist, magazine editor, novelist, crime fiction writer and writer of short stories. He was Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) from 1972 to 1981. Background Elster was born in Kristiania. His parents were author and literary critic Kristian Elster, Jr. (1881–1947) and Ragnhild Poulsen (1885–1958). He was married to poet and psychoanalyst Magli Elster (née Raknes, daughter of psychologist Ola Raknes and poet and playwright Aslaug Vaa). He was the father of philosopher Jon Elster. Journalist and literary career Elster made his literary debut in 1936 with the novel ''Muren''. He was a sales manager at the publishing company Tiden Norsk Forlag in the late 1930s. He was a member of the communist movement Mot Dag before the German occupation of Norway 1940–1945, during which he had to flee the country. The novel ''Historien om Gottlob'' was issued i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elbe-Elster
Elbe-Elster is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the southern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Teltow-Fläming, Dahme-Spreewald, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Meißen, Nordsachsen and Wittenberg. The district has a partnership with the Märkischer Kreis. History The district was established in 1993 by merging the former districts (Kreise) of Finsterwalde, Bad Liebenwerda and Herzberg. Geography The district is named after two rivers - the Elbe river forms the western border with Saxony, the Black Elster (''Schwarze Elster'') is a tributary of the Elbe and runs through the district. The district is part of the Lusatia region. The fens along the Black Elster are a habitat of several rare animals, like common kingfishers, beavers and Eurasian otters. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Landkreis Elbe-Elster.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Branden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elster Glaciation
The Elster glaciation (, ''Elster-Glazial'' or ''Elster-Zeit'') or, less commonly, the Elsterian glaciation, in the older and popular scientific literature also called the Elster Ice Age (''Elster-Eiszeit''), is the oldest known ice age that resulted in the large-scale glaciation of North Germany and other parts of Europe. It took place approximately 500,000–400,000 years ago. It succeeded a long period of rather warmer average temperatures, the Cromerian Complex. The Elster was followed by the Holstein interglacial, which was followed Saale glaciation. The glacial period is named after the White Elster, a right tributary of the Saale. Controversial correlations Traditionally, Elster was correlated with the Mindel glaciation of the Alps and the Anglian glaciation of Great Britain and Ireland. Analysis in the 1950s of oxygen isotopes in deep sea core samples introduced a global glacial history, with warm and cold phases identified by marine isotope stages (MIS). This iden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elster (Elbe)
Elster is a village and a former municipality in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany located in Wittenberg district. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Zahna-Elster. From 2005 until 2011 it belonged to the administrative municipality (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Elbaue-Fläming, before 2005 it belonged to the administrative community of Elster-Seyda-Klöden. Geography and transport The community lies about 15 km east of Wittenberg and 10 km west of Jessen. Through the community runs the Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 187 and the railway line between Wittenberg and Cottbus. It lies at the mouth of the Black Elster, where it empties into the Elbe. The International Bicycle Trail R2 runs through Elster along the Elbe. A reaction ferry is still used here for crossing the river. Scenically charming are the ''Elbauen'', which at high water work as natural polders. During the so-called Flood of the Century in 2006, these natural polders were not high enough t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristian Elster (born 1881)
Kristian Elster (17 March 1881 – 6 November 1947) was a Norwegian novelist, literary historian, theatre critic, and biographer. Biography Kristian Elster was born in Trondheim, Norway on 17 March 1881 as the son of the author Kristian Elster (1841–1881) and Sanna Fasting (1845–1926). In 1888, he moved with his mother to Kristiania. He married Ragnhild Poulsen in 1920, and was the father of Torolf Elster. He was educated as a lawyer, and in 1908 he became a secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. Elster published 40 novels, plays, and narratives. He made his literary début in 1907 with the story collectio''Fortællinger'' His literary breakthrough was the trilogy of novel''I lære''(1911)''Landeveien''(1912) an''Mester''(1913). He wrote the two-volume literary histor''Illustrert norsk litteraturhistorie'' published in 1923–24. In 1941, he was awarded the literature prize Gyldendal's Endowment The Gyldendal Prize, formerly Gyldendal's Endowment, is a Norwegia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
