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Oldenburg (surname)
Oldenburg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022), Swedish-American sculptor * Henry Oldenburg (c. 1619–1677), German diplomat and the first Secretary of the Royal Society * Jen Flynn Oldenburg (born 1978), American volleyball player and coach * Ray Oldenburg (born 1932), American sociologist * Sergei Oldenburg (1863-1934), Russian ethnographer and politician * Wilbrand van Oldenburg Wilbrand of Oldenburg (before 1180 - Zwolle, 26 July 1233) was a bishop of Paderborn and of Utrecht. Family Wilbrand was the son of Henry II, Count of Oldenburg-Wildeshausen, and Beatrix of Hallermund, daughter of Wilbrand I, Count of Loccum-Hal ... (before 1180–1233), a bishop of Paderborn and of Utrecht See also * Oldenberg {{surname, Oldenburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009; they had been married for 32 years. Oldenburg lived and worked in New York City. Early life and education Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, the son of Gösta Oldenburg and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed consul general of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago. He studied literature and art history at Yale University [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Oldenburg
Henry Oldenburg (also Henry Oldenbourg) FRS (c. 1618 as Heinrich Oldenburg – 5 September 1677), was a German theologian, diplomat, and natural philosopher, known as one of the creators of modern scientific peer review. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of 17th-century Europe, with a network of correspondents to rival those of Fabri de Peiresc, Marin Mersenne, and Ismaël Boulliau. At the foundation of the Royal Society in London, he took on the task of foreign correspondence, as the first Secretary. Early life Born in Bremen, Germany, he was trained in theology and received his degree from the local ''Gymnasyum illustre'' on 2 November 1639. He had an initial very firm grasp of the German, Latin, and Greek languages. His movements during the 1640s are unclear, but he is thought to have worked as a tutor in England for much of the decade. In 1648 he left England and spent some time in Leiden and Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, where he became conversant in the Dutch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen Flynn Oldenburg
Jen Flynn Oldenburg (born July 26, 1978) is an American former volleyball player and current head coach of the Ohio State women's volleyball team. Career Before getting into coaching, Flynn Oldenburg was a four-year starter on the Ohio State University women's volleyball team. Additionally, she was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team. She played at the 2002 FIVB World championship, where team USA won a silver medal. Coaching University of Illinois: 2003-2012 She coached as an assistant for the University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ... from 2003 to 2012 Club After Illinois, she spent six years as the club/associate director of the Pittsburgh Elite Volleyball Association. She was responsible for the day-to-day operation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Oldenburg
Ray Oldenburg (April 7, 1932 – November 21, 2022) was an American urban sociologist who is known for writing about the importance of informal public gathering places for a functioning civil society, democracy, and civic engagement. He coined the term "third place" and is the author of the books '' Celebrating The Third Place'' and '' The Great Good Place'', which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice for 1989. He was born on April 7, 1932 and died on November 21, 2022, aged 90. Academic career Oldenburg was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. He received his B.S., Mankato State University, 1954; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1965; and Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1968. Philosophy Oldenburg suggests that beer gardens A beer garden (German: ''Biergarten'') is an outdoor area in which beer and food are served, typically at shared tables shaded by trees. Beer gardens originated in Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Oldenburg
Sergey Fyodorovich Oldenburg (russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ольденбу́рг; 26 September 1863, in Nerchinsky District, Byankino, Transbaikal Oblast – 28 February 1934, in Leningrad) was a Russian orientalism, orientalist who specialized in Buddhism, Buddhist studies. He was a disciple of Ivan Minayev, the founder of Russian Indology. Sergey Feodorovitch Oldenburg was born in Russia on 26 September 1863, in Nerchinsky District, Byankino, Transbaikal Oblast. His father was :de:Oldenburg_(mecklenburgisches_Adelsgeschlecht), of the Livonian nobility; his grandfather was a full general in the Imperial Russian Army. During the 1880s while at St. Petersburg University Oldenburg participated in the Scientific-Literary Association of Students, a brotherhood which shared liberal and radical ideals. Here he met Aleksandr Ulyanov as they were both in the inner circle of this organisation. Ulyanov dropped out of the inner circle when he started to plan an assassination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilbrand Van Oldenburg
Wilbrand of Oldenburg (before 1180 - Zwolle, 26 July 1233) was a bishop of Paderborn and of Utrecht. Family Wilbrand was the son of Henry II, Count of Oldenburg-Wildeshausen, and Beatrix of Hallermund, daughter of Wilbrand I, Count of Loccum-Hallermund. His uncle Gerhard of Oldenburg was bishop of Osnabrück from 1192 to 1216 and archbishop of Bremen from 1216 to 1219. Wilbrand was also related to the count of Holland and Guelders. Wilbrand's older brothers Burchard of Wildenbrug and Henry III, Count of Oldenburg were killed in a crusade against the Stedingers. His other brother Engelmar was provost at Munster. Life From 1211 to 1212 Wilbrand was Canon of Hildesheim, where he was ordered by Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor to prepare the Fifth Crusade to the Holy Land. He reported about this in his ''Itinerary of the Holy Land'' ( la, Itinerarium Terrae Sanctae), an important historical source on the crusades and crusader castles. He was supported in this task by the grandmaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
