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Otto (surname)
Otto is a German language, German, Dutch language, Dutch, Hungarian language, Hungarian, Danish language, Danish, and Swedish language, Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolph Wilhelm Otto (1786–1845), German anatomist * Catherine Otto, author of echocardiography textbooks * Christoph Friedrich Otto (1783–1856), German botanist * Felix Otto (mathematician) (born 1966), German mathematician * Frei Otto (1925–2015), German architect * Frank Otto (academic) (born 1936), American educator and entrepreneur * Gertrud Otto (1895–1970) German art historian * Gustav Otto (1883–1926), German aircraft and aircraft-engine designer and manufacturer * Jan Otto (1841–1916), publisher of Otto's encyclopedia * John Otto (FBI acting director) (born 1938), American FBI acting director * John Otto (park ranger) (1870–1952), American environmental advocate * Justine Otto (born 1974), German artist * Lisa Otto (1919–2013), German opera singer * Mary Otto, Americ ... [...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] |
Justine Otto
Justine Otto (born 1974) is a German painter. Life Otto was born in Poland. In 1983, she moved to Germany. Between 1997 and 2000, she worked as a stage designer at the Municipal Theatre Frankfurt. In 1996, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, and was a master student in professional free painting, where she studied with Peter Angermann Peter Angermann (born 1945 in Rehau, Bavaria) is a German painter based in Nuremberg. Education and career Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the ... and Michael Krebber. In 2003, she graduated. Otto lives in Hamburg and Frankfurt. Works The central theme of her work are adolescent people and their feelings. Otto leaves its protagonists, mostly young girls, make puzzling actions. Otto takes a neutral observer position and confronts the viewer with the process of growing up. By soft merging into o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Otto
Louis Eugen Friedrich Otto (21 July 1850 — 15 May 1920), known as Ludwig Otto, was a German landscape and court painter, etcher, and lithographer. Born at Borna, near Leipzig, in the Kingdom of Saxony, in 1865 he was admitted as a student to the Academy Leipzig and from 1868 to 1870 continued his education at the Dresden Academy under Franz Theodor Grosse, before studying etching with Karl Köpping in Berlin. In 1871 the German Empire was created, giving Otto a new and wider-reaching citizenship. He spent some fifteen years in Italy, Greece, and England, documenting the finds of archaeological expeditions, and gaining international recognition as a scientific illustrator and landscape painter; he also worked as a court painter to the Saxon royal family.Ludwig Otto askart.com, accessed 27 April 2022 Ott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Otto (drummer)
John Everett Otto (born March 22, 1977) is an American musician best known as the drummer and founding member of American rap rock band Limp Bizkit. Modern Drummer reported that Otto's playing is "grounded in metal, jazz, and hip-hop nd that hisfireball rhythms are the grease that makes the Bizkit cook." Biography Limp Bizkit Otto studied jazz drumming at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and played in local avant-garde bands before joining Limp Bizkit, which was being formed by Fred Durst and Sam Rivers. What started as a small band from Jacksonville, Florida quickly became one of the most popular bands in the world, selling over 40 million records worldwide. In November 2004 rumors began to surface about Otto having left Limp Bizkit. These rumours derived from the fact that new pictures of him had not shown up on the band's official site for several months. Rumors also arose that Otto had become a Benedictine monk. This was addressed by Durst in a post on the band's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Otto
Barry Otto (born 1941) is an Australian actor, primarily of Australian cinema, cinema, and an amateur artist. Early life Barry Otto was born in Brisbane in 1941, the son of a butcher. He trained as an artist but switched to acting. Career Otto received an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in ''Strictly Ballroom'' and was nominated for ''Bliss (1985 film), Bliss'', ''Cosi (film), Cosi'' and ''The More Things Change... (film), The More Things Change...''. Otto portrayed Administrator Allsop in Australia (2008 film), ''Australia'' in 2008. He also had roles in ''The Dressmaker (2015 film), The Dressmaker'', ''Kiss or Kill (1997 film), Kiss or Kill'', ''Dead Letter Office (film), Dead Letter Office'', ''The Visitor (2002 film), The Visitor'', ''The Great Gatsby (2013 film), The Great Gatsby'', ''Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole'', ''Love's Brother'' (see Filmography). In 2015 Otto voiced the role of Mayor Wilberforce Cranklepot, a goanna, in ''Blinky Bill the Movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur H
Arthur Higelin (born 27 March 1966), better known under his stage name Arthur H (), is a French pianist, songwriter and singer. He is best known in France for his live performances—four of his albums were recorded live. Life and career He is the son of the French singer Jacques Higelin and Nicole Courtois, and half brother of singers Izïa Higelin and stage and film actor, theatre director and music video director Kên Higelin. After traveling in the West Indies, he studied music in Boston before returning to Paris and developing his eclectic but highly personal musical style, drawing on such influences as Thelonious Monk, Serge Gainsbourg, the Sex Pistols, jazz, blues, Middle Eastern music and the tango. He first performed in 1988 in clubs in Paris, as leader of a trio with bassist Brad Scott and drummer Paul Jothy. His first album, ''Arthur H'' (1990), combined rhythmic experimentation and ''bal-musette'' elements with a vocal style which has been compared to Tom Waits. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Friedrich Otto
Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto (22 June 1874, in Hechingen – 23 September 1958, in Tübingen) was a German classical philologist particularly known for his work on the meaning and legacy of Greek religion and mythology, especially as represented in his seminal 1929 work ''The Homeric Gods''. Life Walter F. Otto was born to pharmacist Hermann Ernst Otto in Hechingen (Baden-Württemberg), Germany in 1874. In 1882, after his family moved to Stuttgart, Otto began attending the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium. Instead of completing the Abitur, he took the so-called ''Konkurs'' exam, the successful completion of which secured him admission to the Tübinger Stift. As was expected of him by the Stift, Otto began studying Protestant theology, but switched to classical philology after two semesters, and continued his studies under professors Otto Crusius, Ludwig Schwabe and Wilhelm Schmid. Schmid convinced Otto to transfer from Tübingen to Bonn, where he completed his studies under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tod Otto
William Tod Otto (January 19, 1816 – November 7, 1905) was an American judge and the eighth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court, serving as reporter from 1875 to 1883. Biography Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of noted physician John Conrad Otto. He received his A.B. in 1833 and his A.M. in 1836, both from the University of Pennsylvania, and then read law with Joseph R. Ingersoll. He moved west and practiced law in Brownstown, Indiana and was a judge on the Indiana Second Circuit Court from 1844 to 1852. He taught law at a predecessor school of the now Indiana University Maurer School of Law from 1847 to 1852 and unsuccessfully ran for Attorney General of Indiana in 1858. A personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, Judge Otto headed the Indiana delegation to the 1860 Republican National Convention that nominated Lincoln for the presidency. Subsequently, he was among those instrumental in delivering Indiana, a key swing state, to Lincoln in the presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venantia Otto
Venantia Otto (born 1987) is a Namibian fashion model who won the 2006 Face of Africa competition. Career Venantia Otto was born on October 22, 1987 in Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia. In 2006 Otto was voted for and won the South African Sun City competition and later the Face of Africa competition, one of the most important beauty contests of the African continent. She was able to prevail against 6000 other candidates from twelve countries. Besides the Face of Africa title, she also won a cash prize of 10,000 US dollars. This opened up other opportunities for her in the modeling industry. She was offered a 150,000 US dollars three-year modeling contract with the agency Elite Model in New York in the United States of America. Besides modelling, Venantia Otto has also featured on screen sets. She took a lead role in the movie "Nama" by Christoph Ebner, which was presented publicly in Windhoek in April 2008. In May 2008, the film was shown at the International Film Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Lawrence Otto
Shawn Lawrence Otto (born April 21, 1961) is an American novelist, nonfiction author, filmmaker, political strategist, speaker, science advocate, and screenwriter and co-producer of the 2003 film '' House of Sand and Fog''. Biography Otto lives on a hobby farm near Marine on St. Croix with his wife, Rebecca Otto, a former Minnesota State Auditor and 2018 candidate for Governor. Their home, called "Breezy", is passive and active solar, geothermal, wind-powered, and super-insulated. Otto designed it, and the couple built it with their own hands. Otto's family forefather, C.D. Gilfillan, co-founded the Republican Party of Minnesota. Otto is a past (2009–2011) Board Chair of the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Works * Otto is the author of ''Sins of Our Fathers'' (), a critically acclaimed novel published in 2014 that received a starred review by ''Publishers Weekly'' and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. * Otto is the screenwriter and coproducer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaus Otto
Nicolaus August Otto (10 June 1832, Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau – 26 January 1891, Cologne) was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine. The Association of German Engineers (VDI) created DIN standard 1940 which says "Otto Engine: internal combustion engine in which the ignition of the compressed fuel-air mixture is initiated by a timed spark", which has been applied to all engines of this type since. Biography Nicolaus August Otto was born on 10 June 1832 in Holzhausen an der Haide, Germany. He was the youngest of six children. His father died in 1832. He began school in 1838. After six years of good performance he moved to the high school in Langenschwalbach until 1848. He did not complete his studies but was cited for good performance. His main interest in school had been in science and technology but he graduated after three years as a bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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