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Posner (surname)
Posner is a surname of German origin, meaning "a person from the city of Posen", now Poznań in Poland. It is a fairly common surname among Ashkenazi Jews. Variants of the name are Posener and Pozner. Notable people with the surname include: *Aaron Posner, American playwright and stage director * Barry Posner (other), multiple people * Carl Posner (1854–1928), German urologist * David M. Posner (1947–2018), American rabbi *David Posner, fictional character in the Alan Bennett play ''The History Boys'' *Ed Posner (1933–1993), American information theorist and neural network researcher * Elieser Posner (born 1937), American grain scientist *Eric Posner (born 1965), American jurist and academic *Ernst Posner (1892–1980), Prussian state archivist *Gary H. Posner (born 1943), American chemist *Geoff Posner (born 1949), British producer of television and radio comedy *Gerald Posner (born 1954), American journalist * Herbert A. Posner (born 1925), American politician * Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (''Jarmark Świętojański''), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect. Among its most important heritage sites are the Renaissance Old Town, Town Hall and Gothic Cathedral. Poznań is the fifth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. As of 2021, the city's population is 529,410, while the Poznań metropolitan area (''Metropolia Poznań'') comprising Poznań County and several other communities is inhabited by over 1.1 million people. It is one of four historical capitals of medieval Poland and the ancient capital of the Greater Poland region, currently the administrative capital of the province called Greater Poland Voivodeship. Poznań is a center of trade, sports, education, technology and touri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Posner
Lindsay Steven Posner (born 6 June 1959)"Lindsay Posner Authorised Biography" ''Debrett's People of Today'', publication_date. Retrieved 6 October 2012. is a British theatre director, known for his work in London's West End and at the , the and the National Theatre, particularly plays by |
Walter Posner
Walter Posner (born 22 February 1953) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent seven seasons in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen. Honours Borussia Mönchengladbach * UEFA Cup: 1974–75 * Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...: 1974–75 References External links * 1953 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football defenders Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Borussia Mönchengladbach players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players West German men's footballers {{germany-footy-defender-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Pozner (other) (1905–1992), French writer and translator, cousin of Vladimir Pozner Sr.
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Vladimir Pozner may refer to *Vladimir Pozner Jr. (born 1934), French-born Russian-American journalist and broadcaster * Vladimir Pozner Sr. (1908–1975), Soviet spy *Vladimir Pozner (writer) Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (russian: Влади́мир Соломо́нович По́знер; 5 January 1905 in Paris – 19 February 1992 in Paris) was a French writer and translator of Russian-Jewish descent. His family fled the pogroms t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Posner
Victor Posner (September 18, 1918 – February 11, 2002) was an American businessman. He was one of the highest-paid business executives of his generation. He was a pioneer of the leveraged buyout and became notorious for asset stripping. Career Of Russian-Jewish descent, he was born in Baltimore, Maryland, one of nine children of grocers Morris and Mary Posner. Though he left school at age 13, he claimed to have earned his first million dollars by the age of 21 by investing in real estate, although financial records do not confirm this. Taking advantage of the post-World War II demand for housing in America, in 1948, he developed land and built houses in the Baltimore area, and by 1952, was building more than 1,100 dwellings per year. In 1954, he moved to Miami Beach, Florida, where he continued to invest in real estate and publicly traded companies. He became the head of numerous companies over his career, including Security Management Corporation (owner of rental pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trisha Posner
Trisha Posner is a British non-fiction writer. She is the author of ''This is Not Your Mother's Menopause: One Woman's Natural Journey Through Change (2000)'', ''No Hormones, No Fear (2003)'' and ''The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story (2017)''. She also wrote under her full name, Patricia Posner. She lives in Miami. Early life Posner was born in London. She left school at age 16. She has spoken on how dyslexia affected her schooling. After leaving the UK, she travelled to Ibiza and Majorca, doing odd jobs and modelling. She moved to New York in 1978. She met and married Gerald Posner, who was then a lawyer. They went into journalism and writing together. Writing career Posner has worked on thirteen books of nonfiction with her husband, Gerald Posner. According to the ''St. Petersburg Times,'' she "works with him on his books and joins him in his interviews, but refuses co-author credit." She has also written articles and profiles for national magazines, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Posner
Tracy Posner Ward (born January 16, 1962) is an American businesswomen, animal rights activist and former actress, with her husband, actor Burt Ward. She is a daughter of the late American businessman, corporate raider and philanthropist Victor Posner and his second wife Sari Posner. In 1983, she was appointed as a vice president, assistant treasurer and assistant secretary to several corporations to include Wilson Brothers, NVF company, Southeastern Public Service Authority and Birdsboro Corporation. In 1993, while still active in her father's many companies, Posner Ward was described as "one of the world's wealthiest women". Animal rights work In 1994, Tracy Posner Ward and her husband, actor Burt Ward, founded Gentle Giants Rescue and Adoptions, a giant-breed dog rescue organization. The Wards operate a communal home for dogs, where they nurse 45–50 dogs at a time back to health, then put them up for adoption at their home and facility in Norco, California. The city of Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Posner
Steven Neil Posner (pronounced POZ-ner; January 11, 1943 – November 29, 2010) was an American corporate raider who worked together on a number of major hostile takeovers with his father, Victor Posner, though the two would later have a falling out that resulted in a series of acrimonious lawsuits. A 1989 corporate takeover staged by the Posners led to fraud convictions for Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken levied by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission for their role in improperly assisting the Posners in the attempted deal. Biography Posner was born on January 11, 1943, in Baltimore and joined his father's business acquiring and managing corporations. In 1988, the SEC charged that the Posners had colluded with Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken to conceal their stock purchases during the 1984 Posner-led takeover of the Fischbach Corporation. While Boesky and Milken agreed to plead guilty to felony counts in relation to their activities in the Fischbach case, the Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Posner
Seymour Posner (May 21, 1925 – November 1, 1988) was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from 1965 to 1978. He died of a heart attack on November 1, 1988, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ... at age 63. References 1925 births 1988 deaths Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly Politicians from the Bronx 20th-century American politicians {{NewYork-NYAssembly-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Posner
Sarah Posner is an American journalist and author. She is the author of two books about the American Christian right and has written for ''The American Prospect'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Nation'', ''Salon'', ''AlterNet'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The Washington Spectator'', ''The Daily Beast'', and ''The Washington Post''. She was formerly a contributing writer for ''Religion Dispatches'', writing on the intersection of religion and politics. Her second book, ''Unholy'', was favorably reviewed by the ''National Catholic Reporter'' and by writers at Wesleyan University and Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r .... Books *''God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters'' (2008) OCLC 166872616 *''Unholy: Why White ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Posner
Ruth Posner (née Wajsberg; born 20 April 1933) is a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor, former dancer and choreographer and is today an actress and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Early life Born in Warsaw in Poland and an only child, her father was a non-observant Polish Jew who had been a local government official before World War II during which she and her parents were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942 her father arranged for Ruth and her aunt to go to work at a Jewish-owned leather factory outside the ghetto walls, and from here they both escaped. Posner survived the remainder of the war by pretending to be a young Polish Catholic girl called Irena Slabowska. She was aided in this deception by the fact that she and her parents had always spoken Polish language, Polish together rather than Yiddish. It is believed that her parents were murdered in Treblinka. As a nine-year old, she was faced with a life-or-death decision: She knew that if she tried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Posner
Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, Posner is a leading figure in the field of law and economics, and was identified by ''The Journal of Legal Studies'' as the most-cited legal scholar of the 20th century. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential legal scholars in the United States. Posner is known for his scholarly range and for writing on topics outside of his primary field, law. In his various writings and books, he has addressed animal rights, feminism, drug prohibition, same-sex marriage, Keynesian economics, and academic moral philosophy, among other subjects. Posner is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, economics, and several other topics, including ''Economic Analysis of Law'', ''The Economics of Justice'', ''The Problem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
