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Plett (surname)
Plett is a surname of German origin that is common among Russian Mennonites and their descendants.Delbert F. Plett: ''Johann Plett: A Mennonite Family Saga'', Steinbach, Man., 2003. Notable people with the surname include: * Barbara Plett Usher, journalist *Casey Plett, Canadian writer *Danny Plett, musician *Delbert Plett, Canadian lawyer and historian * Don Plett, Canadian senator *Peter Plett, German scientist *Willi Plett Willi Plett (born June 7, 1955) is a Paraguayan-born Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played 834 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames, Minnesota North Stars and Boston Bruins. He ..., Paraguayan-Canadian hockey player References {{Surname ... [...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] |
Russian Mennonite
The Russian Mennonites (german: Russlandmennoniten it. "Russia Mennonites", i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire occasionally Ukrainian Mennonites) are a group of Mennonites who are descendants of Dutch Anabaptists who settled for about 250 years in the Vistula delta in Poland and established colonies in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine and Russia's Volga region, Orenburg Governorate, and Western Siberia) beginning in 1789. Since the late 19th century, many of them have come to countries throughout the Western Hemisphere. The rest were forcibly relocated, so that very few of their descendants now live at the location of the original colonies. Russian Mennonites are traditionally multilingual with Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German) as their first language and lingua franca. In 2014 there are several hundred thousand Russian Mennonites: about 200,000 in Germany, 100,000 in Mexico, 70,000 in Bolivia, 40,000 in Paraguay, 10,000 in Belize, tens of thousands in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Plett Usher
Barbara Plett Usher is a Canadian-born UK journalist with experience in the Middle East and the UN. She has worked for the BBC in Jerusalem, Islamabad and the United Nations.Iran says sanctions 'discredited' 19 May 2010. From 2021 she has been the BBC's correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., USA. Since 2024 she has been the BBC's Africa Editor, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Education Plett Usher graduated from[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Plett
Casey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novel '' Little Fish'' and Giller Prize-nominated short story collection ''A Dream of a Woman''. Personal life Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Mennonite family in Morden, Manitoba. She attended high school in Eugene, Oregon and later moved to Portland for college and New York for graduate school. She currently lives in Windsor, Ontario, Windsor, Ontario. Career Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for ''McSweeney's Internet Tendency''."Winnipeg author mines her experiences and those of other trans women in fearless collection of short stories". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', June 19, 2014. She is a book reviewer for the ''Winnipeg Free Press'' and has published work in ''Rookie (magazine), Rookie'', ''Plenitude (magazine), Plenitude'', ''The Walrus'', and ''Two Serious Ladies''. In addition to her work as an author she is the co-editor with Cat Fitzpatrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Plett
Danny Plett (1963) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and music producer of Contemporary Christian music, who has worked in Germany and Canada. Life and career Danny Plett was born in Steinbach, Manitoba with three siblings in a musical family. He began writing his own songs at the age of twelve and, after years of performing, released his debut ''You're The One'' at the age of 21. Tours through Canada followed, including US and Europe with B. J. Thomas and ''Silverwin''. From 1992 to 2013 Danny Plett lived in Germany and worked in the Janz Team as a musician. In addition to his own solo productions, he led the youth program One Accord for many years and published concept albums for children in the series ''Bible Verses Singing Learning''. With Brian Delamont and Heinrich Reisich he founded the band ''Danny Plett & Liberation'' (abbreviated to DP&L or DPL). In 2006 he performed at the ProChrist in Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delbert Plett
Delbert Plett (March 6, 1948 – November 4, 2004) was a Russian Mennonite lawyer, land developer and historian from Steinbach, Manitoba, most known for his writing on Russian Mennonite history, in particular the Kleine Gemeinde Kleine Gemeinde is a Mennonite denomination founded in 1812 by Klaas Reimer in the Russian Empire. The current group primarily consists of Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites in Belize, Mexico and Bolivia, as well as a small presence in Canada .... Plett wrote fourteen books, including some historical fiction, and founded Preservings Magazine. When he died in 2004, funds from his estate were used to establish the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation. Works * Plett, Delbert: ''Plett Picture Book'', Steinbach, MB: D. F. Plett Farms Ltd., 1981. * Plett, Delbert: ''History and Events'', Steinbach, MB: D. F. Plett Farms Ltd., 1982. * Plett, Delbert: ''The Golden Years: The Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Russia (1812-1849)'', Steinbach, MB: D. F. P. Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Plett
Donald Neil Plett (born May 14, 1950) is a Canadian senator who has served as the leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate since November 5, 2019. He is the founding president of the National Council of the Conservative Party of Canada and the longest serving individual to have held this position. Early life From 1987 to 2007 Plett, was owner and manager of Landmark Mechanical, a heating and ventilation company in Landmark, Manitoba, that was started by his father Archie Plett in 1957. He stepped down as manager in 2007 and his sons continue in the family business. According to the Senate website Plett, His father Archie, a lifelong Conservative, introduced Plett to the world of politics when he was just fifteen. He mentored and encouraged him and in 1965 Plett worked as a youth volunteer on the Honourable Jake Epp's federal campaign. In 2000 Plett successfully managed the Vic Toews Canadian Alliance campaign where Toews defeated incumbent Liberal MP David Iftody b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Plett
Peter Plett (29 December 1766 – 29 March 1823) was a German teacher and pioneer of smallpox vaccine from Schleswig-Holstein. His work with smallpox vaccine, undertaken in the early 1790s before similar studies by Edward Jenner, was not acknowledged until many years later. Life Plett was born on 29 December 1766 in Klein Rheide. In 1790, Plett was employed as a home tutor in Schönweide where he learnt from milkmaids about cowpox preventing humans from being infected with smallpox. In 1791, he moved to the Meierhof at Hasselburg in Gut Wittenberg/East-Holstein where he vaccinated its owner Martini's three children with cowpox lymph which protected them against smallpox. Only five years later, Edward Jenner discovered this very method which made him world-famous. In 1790 and again in 1791/92, Plett reported his success to the medical faculty of the University of Kiel, but they favoured the older method of variolation so they did not act on the reports. In 1802 after Jenner's me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
