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Nils Barck (1713-1782)
Nils is a Scandinavian given name, a chiefly Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Latvian variant of Niels, cognate to Nicholas. People and animals with the given name * Nils Bergström (born 1985), Swedish ice hockey player *Nils Björk (1898–1989), Swedish Army lieutenant general *Nils Dacke (died 1543), Swedish rebel *Nils-Joel Englund (1907–1995), Swedish cross-country skier *Nils Ericson (1802–1870), Swedish inventor and engineer *Nils Frahm (born 1982), German pianist and producer *Nils Frykdahl, American musician *Nils Gründer (born 1997), German politician *Nils Hald (1897–1963), Norwegian actor * Nils Haßfurther (born 1999), German basketball player *Nils-Göran Holmqvist (born 1943), Swedish politician *Nils Kreicbergs (born 1996), Latvian handball player *Nils Liedholm (1922–2007), Swedish footballer and coach *Nils Lofgren (born 1951), American musician *Nils Lorens Sjöberg (1754-1822), Swedish officer and poet *Nils Mittmann (born 1979), German basketball playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels
Niels is a male given name, equivalent to Nicholas, which is common in Denmark, Belgium, Norway (formerly) and the Netherlands. The Norwegian and Swedish variant is Nils. The name is a developed short form of Nicholas or Greek Nicolaos after Saint Nicholas. Its pet form is Nisse, and female variants are Nielsine, Nielsina, and Nielsa. Niels may refer to: People *Niels, King of Denmark (1065–1134) * Niels, Count of Halland (died 1218) * Niels Aagaard (1612–1657), Danish poet *Niels Aall (1769–1854), Norwegian businessman and politician *Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), Norwegian mathematician *Niels Arestrup (born 1949), French actor *Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919–2000), Danish composer and pianist *Niels Bohr (1885–1962), Danish physicist and Nobel Prize recipient * Niels Busk (born 1942), Danish politician *Niels Ebbesen (died 1340), Danish squire and national hero *Niels Feijen (born 1977), Dutch pool player * Niels Ferguson (born 1965), Dutch cryptographer *Niels Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Mittmann
Nils Mittmann (born 10 April 1979) is a German professional basketball player. Career Mittmann played 14 seasons in the German Basketball Bundesliga for the clubs New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig, TSK Würzburg, EnBW Ludwigsburg, and Walter Tigers Tübingen. He retired from full-time professional basketball in 2014, but continues to play for the Weißenhorn Youngstars in the third-tier ProB The ProB is the third-tier level league of professional club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 24 teams, separated into a Northern and a Southern Division. Officially, the ProB is part of the '' 2. Basketball Bundesliga'', which con .... References External linksBeko-bbl.de Profile at Basketball-Reference.com 1979 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wonderful Adventures Of Nils
''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' ( sv, Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, literally ''Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden'') is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. It was originally published in two books, 1906 and 1907, and was first published in English as ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' (1907) and ''The Further Adventures of Nils'' (1911). The two parts are later usually published together, in English as ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'', but that name may also refer to the first part alone. Like many leading Swedish intellectuals of her time, Selma Lagerlöf was an advocate of Swedish spelling reform. When first published, this book was also one of the first to adopt the new spelling mandated by a government resolution on April 7, 1906 (see Svenska Akademiens Ordlista). Origin The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils (Fire Emblem)
''Fire Emblem'', also officially known as ''Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade'', is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld video game console. It is the seventh installment in the ''Fire Emblem'' series, the second to be released for the platform after ''Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade'', and the first to be localized for international audiences. It was released in Japan and North America in 2003, and in Europe and Australia in 2004. The game is a prequel to ''The Binding Blade'', set on the fictional continent of Elibe. It tells the story of Lyn, Eliwood, and Hector, three young lords who band together on a journey to find Eliwood's missing father Elbert while thwarting a larger conspiracy threatening the stability of Elibe. The gameplay, which draws from earlier ''Fire Emblem'' entries, features tactical combat between armies on a grid-based map. Characters are assigned different character classes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |