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Ortrud
Ortrud is a feminine given name, with variant forms Ortraud and Ortrude. Ortrud may refer to: * Ortrud, a character in Richard Wagner's opera '' Lohengrin'' * (1938–1999), German film actress * Ortrud Mavrin, a character in Anthony Powell's second novel '' Venusberg'' (1932) * Ortrud Oellermann (active from 1981), South African mathematician * 551 Ortrud Ortrud (minor planet designation: 551 Ortrud) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is located in the Main Belt. In light of the practice of the discover c. 1904 to name his asteroids after female characters in opera, it is likely that Ortrud is ..., a main-belt asteroid See also * {{disambiguation, given name German feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lohengrin (opera)
''Lohengrin'', WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the ''Parzival'' of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and its sequel ''Lohengrin'', itself inspired by the epic of ''Garin le Loherain''. It is part of the Knight of the Swan legend. The opera has inspired other works of art. King Ludwig II of Bavaria named his castle Neuschwanstein Castle after the Swan Knight. It was King Ludwig's patronage that later gave Wagner the means and opportunity to complete, build a theatre for, and stage his epic cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''. He had discontinued composing it at the end of Act II of ''Siegfried'', the third of the ''Ring'' tetralogy, to create his radical chromatic masterpiece of the late 1850s, ''Tristan und Isolde'', and his lyrical comic opera of the mid-1860s, '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''. The most popular and recognizabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ortrud Oellermann
Ortrud R. Oellermann is a South African mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Winnipeg. Education and career Oellermann was born in Vryheid. She earned a bachelor's degree, ''cum laude'' honours, and a master's degree at the University of Natal in 1981, 1982, and 1983 respectively, as a student of Henda Swart. She completed her Ph.D. in 1986 at Western Michigan University. Her dissertation was ''Generalized Connectivity in Graphs'' and was supervised by Gary Chartrand. Oellermann taught at the University of Durban-Westville, Western Michigan University, University of Natal, and Brandon University, before moving to Winnipeg in 1996. At Winnipeg, she was co-chair of mathematics and statistics for 2011–2013. Contributions With Gary Chartrand, Oellermann is the author of the book ''Applied and Algorithmic Graph Theory'' (McGraw Hill, 1993). She is also the author of well-cited research publications on metric dimension ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
551 Ortrud
Ortrud (minor planet designation: 551 Ortrud) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is located in the Main Belt. In light of the practice of the discover c. 1904 to name his asteroids after female characters in opera, it is likely that Ortrud is named after a character in Richard Wagner's opera ''Lohengrin Lohengrin () is a character in Germany, German Arthurian literature. The son of Percival, Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story, which fi ...''. References External links * * 000551 Discoveries by Max Wolf Minor planets named for opera characters Minor planets named from literature Named minor planets Richard Wagner 000551 000551 19041116 {{Beltasteroid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venusberg (novel)
''Venusberg'' is the second novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. Published in 1932, it is set in an unidentified Baltic country which draws clearly on Powell's experiences in Finland and Estonia. Some see the novel as part of the Ruritanian tradition (cf. ''The Prisoner of Zenda''), perhaps a modernist pastiche of the form. The novel continues Powell's humorously critical examination of society, its various forms and fashions, this time against a background largely removed from London and English life. Romantic entanglements and the dissatisfactions of love remain a major concern and the novel maintains Powell's characteristic mingling of comedy and embarrassment. Of Powell's novels, ''Venusberg'' makes the greatest use of short chapters and quick changes of scene in the plot. As might be supposed from the title, the novel treats aspects of the Tannhäuser legend. The Baedeker quotation Powell uses as an epigraph is a key to understanding the role the ''Tannhäuser'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
