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Preyer
Preyer is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Carl Adolph Preyer (1863–1947), German-American pianist, composer, and teacher * Gottfried von Preyer (1807–1901), Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher * Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803–1889), German still life painter * L. Richardson Preyer (1919–2001), jurist and a U.S. representative in Congress * William Thierry Preyer (1841–1897), English-born physiologist who worked in Germany See also * Prior (surname) Prior is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alex Prior (born 1992), Russian child prodigy composer * Anthony Prior (born 1970), American football player * Arthur Prior (1914–1969), philosopher and logician * David Prior (disam ... * Pryor * Pryer {{surname, Preyer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wilhelm Preyer
Johann Wilhelm Preyer (July 19, 1803 – February 20, 1889) was a German still life painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Early life and education Born in Rheydt, Germany, Johann Wilhelm Preyer grew up in the old town area of Eschweiler. His father was a merchant. He had a sister, Louise, and a brother Gustav Preyer, Gustav, who was also a painter. Both he and his brother were very small-statured, and in his youth Preyer occasionally took advantage of this by dressing as a child to play pranks. Beginning in 1882, Preyer studied art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Peter von Cornelius and became a master student of Wilhelm von Schadow. He continued his studies in the Netherlands, Munich, northern Italy, and Switzerland between 1835 and 1843. He returned to Düsseldorf in 1844. Art career Preyer painted mainly still lifes of flowers and fruit, and is today considered one of best artists in the genre in the 19th century, known for his minute and careful detail work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thierry Preyer
William Thierry Preyer (4 July 1841 – 15 July 1897) was an English-born physiologist who worked in Germany. Biography Preyer was born in Rusholme at Manchester. He studied physiology and chemistry at Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1862. In 1866 he earned his medical degree at the University of Bonn, and in 1869 succeeded Johann Nepomuk Czermak (1828-1873) as professor of physiology at the University of Jena. At Jena he was also director of the Physiology Institute. His students included Argentinian Roberto Wernicke. Preyer was a founder of scientific child psychology, and a pioneer in regards to research of human development based on empirical observation and experimentation. He was inspired by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Gustav Fechner’s work in psychophysics. He authored ''Die Seele des Kindes'' (The soul of the child) in 1882. This was a landmark book on developmental psychology written as a rigorous case study of his own daughter’s developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Adolph Preyer
Carl Adolph Preyer (né ''Karl''; 28 July 1863, Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg – 16 November 1947, Lawrence, Kansas) was a German-American pianist, composer, and music instructor. Preyer was the son of Jean Preyer and Marie Heinz. He became interested in learning the piano that encouraged himself to pursue further into studying music. Before he settled in the US in 1893, his music instructors were Karel Navrátil, Heinrich Urban, and Karl Heinrich Barth, Heinrich Barth. His piano compositions include sonatas, etudes, and sketches as well as songs for both voice and piano. Legacy The Crafton-Preyer Theatre in the University of Kansas was named after Carl Adolph Preyer when he joined the university as a professor of piano and composition in 1893, the same year he settled in the US, and later became the associate dean of the School of Fine Arts in 1915. Preyer was the piano instructor for the American pianist, Allen Rogers (8 July 1925 – 23 May 2003). References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
