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Pfeiffer (surname)
Pfeiffer ( , ) is a German-language occupational surname meaning "whistler" or "pipe-" or "fife-player" and etymologically akin to English ''Piper'' and ''Fifer''; other spellings include '' Pfeifer''. Notable people with the name include: Arts * Alberta Pfeiffer (1899–1994), Illinois architect * Carl Pfeiffer (architect) (1834–1888), German-born NYC architect * Darrin Pfeiffer (born 1969), American musician * Dedee Pfeiffer (born 1964), American actress * Emil Pfeiffer (1846–1921), German physician * Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), Welsh poet, philanthropist * Franz Pfeiffer (literary scholar) (1815–1868), German literary scholar * Georges Pfeiffer (1835–1908), French composer * Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian traveller and travel book author * Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1791), German violinist and composer * Michael Traugott Pfeiffer (1771–1849), Swiss music pedagogue * Michelle Pfeiffer (born 1958), American actress * Paul Pfeiffer (artist) (born 196 ... [...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] |
Pauline Pfeiffer
Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (July 22, 1895 – October 1, 1951) was an American journalist, and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.Harris, Peggy (Associated Press) (30 July 2000)Ernest Hemingway Museum Popular in Quiet Farm Town ''The Tuscaloosa News''. Retrieved November 4, 2010 Early life Pfeiffer was born in Parkersburg, Iowa to Paul, a real estate agent, and Mary Pfeiffer, on July 22, 1895, moving to St. Louis in 1901, where she went to school at Visitation Academy of St. Louis. Although her family later moved to Piggott, Arkansas, Pfeiffer stayed in Missouri to study at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, graduating in 1918. After working at newspapers in Cleveland and New York, Pfeiffer switched to magazines, working for '' Vanity Fair'' and ''Vogue''. A move to Paris for ''Vogue'' led to her meeting Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, in 1926.Kert, Bernice, ''The Hemingway Women: Those Who Loved Him – the Wives and Others'', W.W. Norton & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgii Yurii Pfeiffer
Georgy Pfeiffer also Yurii or Yury Pfeiffer (russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Пфе́йффер, german: Georg Ferdinand Pfeiffer, 23 December 1872, Sokirincy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – 10 October 1946 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) was a Russian Imperial and Soviet mathematician of German origin. Pfeiffer was known as a specialist in the field of integration of differential equations and systems of partial differential equations. He was also interested in algebraic geometry. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1908 at Rome, in 1928 at Bologna,Pfeiffer, G. "Sur le produits des groupes d'espèce speciale des formes de Pfaff." In ''Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna del 3 al 10 de settembre di 1928'', vol. 3, pp. 49–54. 1929. and in 1932 at Zurich. He was a chairman of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Kiev, Russian Empire. Pfeiffer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Adam Pfeiffer
George Adam Pfeiffer (16 July 1889, New York City – 28 December 1943) was an American mathematician. Pfeiffer received in 1910 his master's degree in engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and then his A.M. in 1911 and in 1914 his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University. He spent the academic year 1914–1915 as a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at Harvard University and then in 1915 became an instructor at Princeton University. During WW I, he was in the U.S. army and at Princeton University taught meteorology to army aviation students. After the war he taught, starting as an instructor in February 1919, at Columbia University. There he became in 1924 an assistant professor and in 1931 an associate professor, in which position he remained until his death from a heart attack following minor surgery in 1943. Pfeiffer is known for publishing the first example of a holomorphic function with a non-linearizable irrational indifferent fixed point. The question of the lineari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (19 February 1899 – 30 November 1961) was a German scientist, soil scientist, leading advocate of biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophist and student of Rudolf Steiner. Life Ehrenfried Pfeiffer began work with Rudolf Steiner in 1920 to develop and install special diffuse stage lighting for eurythmy performances on the stage of the first Goetheanum. After Steiner's death in 1925, Pfeiffer worked in the private research laboratory at the Goetheanum in Dornach, (Switzerland). He became manager and director of the experimental biodynamic Loverendale farm in Domburg in the Netherlands. This farm was set up to carry out some of the agricultural studies of the Goetheanum laboratory. The work of testing and developing Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course of 1924 was an international enterprise coordinated by Pfeiffer at the Natural Science Section of the Goetheanum. Pfeiffer’s most influential book 'Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening' was published in 1938 si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Jonas Pfeiffer
Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (7 February 1779 - 3 May 1836) was a German merchant, banker, and amateur malacologist. Early life and business ventures Pfeiffer, called Jonas as a child, was born in the Oberneustadt parsonage on Karlsplatz in Cassel, where his father, Johann Jakob Pfeiffer, was the preacher. Shortly after his birth, the family relocated to Marburg, where his father accepted a position as a professor in the Department of Theology at the university there. His mother died before he was 5 years old, but his father's second wife cared for all of their children, especially after Johann Jakob's early death in 1791. Pfeiffer attended the gymnasium of Marburg until the age of 14, at which point he relocated to Cassel to apprentice as a cloth merchant. At the completion of his apprenticeship, he spent time as a traveling salesman in Frankfurt am Main, but soon found himself back in Marburg, where, despite not attending the University, as had his father and brothers, he spent time le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Pfeiffer (pharmacologist)
Carl Curt Pfeiffer (March 19, 1908 – November 18, 1988) was a physician and biochemist who researched schizophrenia, allergies and other diseases. He was Chair of the Pharmacology Department at Emory University and considered himself a founder of what two-time Nobel prize winner, Pauling, PhD.">Linus_Pauling.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Linus Pauling">Pauling, PhD. named orthomolecular psychiatry and published in the Journal Science. 1968 Apr 19;160(3825):265-71.Pfeiffer CC. Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry. Healing Arts Press., 1988. Biography Pfeiffer was native of Peoria, Illinois and obtained his bachelor's degree and doctorate in pharmacology from University of Wisconsin and medical degree from University of Chicago. He has written several books on nutrition, trace metals, and biochemistry imbalances. In 1977, it was revealed that Pfeiffer was one of the researchers involved in behavior experiments for the Central Intell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Pfeiffer
Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer (Mutlangen, 25 April 1967) is a former German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 2002 until 2021. Early life and career Pfeiffer studied business economics at the University of Stuttgart. From 1992-1997, he worked for the electricity supply company Energie Versorgung Schwaben AG (EVS), where he was involved in controlling, mergers and acquisitions and public-private partnerships. He received his doctorate in 1997, and from 1997 until 2002 he was the head of economic and employment promotion activities for Stuttgart. Since 2006, he has been giving lectures on energy policy at the Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy at the University of Stuttgart. Political career Pfeiffer represented the Waiblingen constituency from the 2002 election. During the first coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005-2009, he served as the CDU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry H
Harry may refer to: TV shows * ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin * ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons * ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show hosted by Harry Connick Jr. People and fictional characters * Harry (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Harry (surname), a list of people with the surname * Dirty Harry (musician) (born 1982), British rock singer who has also used the stage name Harry * Harry Potter (character), the main protagonist in a Harry Potter fictional series by J. K. Rowling Other uses * Harry (derogatory term), derogatory term used in Norway * ''Harry'' (album), a 1969 album by Harry Nilsson *The tunnel used in the Stalag Luft III escape ("The Great Escape") of World War II * ''Harry'' (newspaper), an underground newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland See also *Harrying (laying waste), may refer to the following historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Georg Pfeiffer
Franz Georg Pfeiffer (11 January 1784 – 15 April 1856)Franz Georg'' in: Hessische Biografie was a and . Early life Franz Georg Pfeiffer was son of the reformed preacher, |
Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer
Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer (7 May 1777 – 4 October 1852) was German jurist and liberal politician. Pfeiffer was the son of the evangelical preacher, theologian, and Marburg University professor Johann Jakob Pfeiffer and his first wife Lucie Rebecke (née Rüppel). Among his siblings were Franz Georg Pfeiffer and Carl Jonas Pfeiffer. Early life and career Pfeiffer grew up in Kassel, where his father served as the parish priest in evangelical parish of Oberneustadt, and Burkhard was training to follow in his footsteps and become a preacher. After about a year at the University of Marburg, his father died, and he subsequently transferred to the faculty of Politics and Jurisprudence in 1792. It was here that Pfeiffer became acquainted with Friedrich Carl von Savigny, who would remain a friend for decades. Pfeiffer received his doctorate in law from the University in 1798, and was quickly made an archivist for the Hessian government, a position he held until 1803. From 1803 to 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alois Pfeiffer
Alois Pfeiffer (25 September 1924 – 1 August 1987) was a German trade unionist who served as a European Commissioner in the 1980s. Pfeiffer was born on 25 September 1924 in Bauerbach in Thuringia. He worked as a forester, and then became a director of the Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union, serving as the union's president from 1969 to 1975. He also served for a decade on the main board of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB). A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), in 1985, he was appointed as one of West Germany's two European Commissioners on the first Delors Commission, as Commissioner for Economic affairs and employment. He died in office on 1 August 1987, in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ..., and on 22 Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
