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Richter (surname)
Richter is a surname of German origin ( is German for "judge"). Geographical distribution As of 2014, 71.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Richter'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:350), 13.0% of the United States (1:8,649), 2.2% of Brazil (1:28,857), 2.2% of South Africa (1:7,686), 1.8% of Austria (1:1,460), 1.3% of the Czech Republic (1:2,621) and 1.1% of Australia (1:6,626). In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:350) in the following states: # Saxony (1:80) # Brandenburg (1:121) # Saxony-Anhalt (1:132) # Thuringia (1:250) # Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:279) People * Adolf Richter (1839–1914), of Pforzheim. German Pacifist, President of the German Peace Society from its founding until his death, President of Eighth International Peace Congress in Hamburg * Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German painter and etcher * Aemilius Ludwig Richter (1808–1864), German jurist * Albert Richter (1912–1940), German track-cyclist an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Surname
Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the " Western order" of "given name, surname", unless it occurs in an alphabetized list of surnames, e.g. " Bach, Johann Sebastian". In this, the German conventions parallel the naming conventions in most of Western and Central Europe, including English, Dutch, Italian, and French. There are some vestiges of a patronymic system as they survive in parts of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, but these do not form part of the official name. Women traditionally adopted their husband's name upon marriage and would occasionally retain their maiden name by hyphenation, in a so-called '' Doppelname'', e.g. "Else Lasker-Schüler". Recent legislation motivated by gender equality now allows a married couple to choose the surname they want to use, including an option ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Richter
Albert Richter (14 October 1912 – 2 January 1940) was a German cyclist who won the world sprint championship. He was taken from a train by the Gestapo and never seen alive again. Background Albert Richter, known to friends as Teddy, grew up in Sömmeringstraße 72, Ehrenfeld, Cologne. He was one of three brothers born in Cologne to a talented musician. Charles learned the saxophone, Josef the clarinet and Albert the violin. Albert worked with his father and Charles in a family business making plaster figurines, although some sources say he was a plasterer, but he was frequently out of work in the Depression. He used his spare time to train on the velodrome in Cologne,Cycling Weekly, UK 11 January 1992, p26 in secret because his father disapproved. He rode his first races, on the road and on the track, at 16. His father found out when Albert broke his collar bone. His rides, however, attracted the attention of Ernst Berliner, a former cycling champion who ran a furniture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Richter (actor)
Daniel Richter (born 1939 in Darien, Connecticut) is an American mime and actor who played the leader of a tribe of ape-men in '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. At the time of his casting in ''2001'', Richter was unknown, working mainly as a mime, leading a troupe in London. Kubrick made him largely responsible for choreographing the " Dawn of Man" sequence, believing Richter could take the film away from Hollywood clichés of men in monkey suits. Richter and his troupe spent hours watching apes in the London zoo, particularly the especially popular Guy the Gorilla, followed by hours of rehearsal mimicking their movements. After ''2001'', Richter appeared in the film '' The Revolutionary''. In 2002, Richter published a book about his experiences entitled ''Moonwatcher's Memoir: A Diary of 2001: A Space Odyssey''. Richter went on to work and live with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, appearing in their 1972 ''Imagine'' video at Tittenhurst Park. His memoir of this time, "The Dream Is Over", wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Richter
Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel '' The Town'' (1950), the last story of his trilogy ''The Awakening Land'' about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His novel ''The Waters of Kronos'' won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction. Two collections of short stories were published posthumously during the 20th century, and several of his novels have been reissued during the 21st century by academic presses. Early life Conrad Michael Richter was born in 1890 in Tremont, Pennsylvania, near Pottsville, to John Absalom Richter, a Lutheran minister, and Charlotte Esther (née Henry) Richter. His grandfather, uncle and great-uncle were also Lutheran ministers, and descended from German colonial immigrants. As a child, Richter lived with his family in several small central Pennsylvania mining towns, where he en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claus Richter
Claus Richter (born 4 November 1948 in Straubing) is a German journalist. Life Richter works in Germany as a journalist. From 1984 to 1987 he was correspondent and studio manager for the ARD in New York City, likewise from 1987 to 1991 in East Berlin. Since 2001 Richter has been a television presenter for magazine show ''Frontal 21'' on ZDF. Awards * 1990: Bayerischer Fernsehpreis * 2005: Deutscher Fernsehpreis for "Fall Deutschland" * 2005: Deutscher Wirtschaftsfilmpreis * 2006: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award for ''Frontal 21'' * 2007: Goldene Kamera for ''Frontal21'' Filmography *1993 – ''Götter, Gurus und Ganoven – aus der Goldstadt Bombay'' *1994 – ''Wir müssen den Krieg vergessen'' *1994 – ''Krieg im Paradies'' *1995 – ''Im Zeichen des Totenkopfs – Piraten in Fernost'' *1995 – ''Lockende Südsee – Im Banne des großen Feuers / Von Göttern und Götzen in Polynesien'' *1997 – ''Tatort Hongkong-Schmuggelboom vor dem Machtwechsel'' *1998 – ''Män ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Pomerania
Swedish Pomerania ( sv, Svenska Pommern; german: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the southern Baltic coast, including Pomerania and parts of Livonia and Prussia (''dominium maris baltici''). Sweden, which had been present in Pomerania with a garrison at Stralsund since 1628, gained effective control of the Duchy of Pomerania with the Treaty of Stettin in 1630. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and the Treaty of Stettin in 1653, Sweden received Western Pomerania (German ''Vorpommern''), with the islands of Rügen, Usedom, and Wolin, and a strip of Farther Pomerania (''Hinterpommern''). The peace treaties were negotiated while the Swedish queen Christina was a minor, and the Swedish Empire was governed by members of the high aristocracy. As a consequence, Pomerania was not anne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szczecin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport and Poland's seventh-largest city. As of December 2021, the population was 395,513. Szczecin is located on the river Oder, south of the Szczecin Lagoon and the Bay of Pomerania. The city is situated along the southwestern shore of Dąbie Lake, on both sides of the Oder and on several large islands between the western and eastern branches of the river. Szczecin is adjacent to the town of Police and is the urban centre of the Szczecin agglomeration, an extended metropolitan area that includes communities in the German states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Szczecin is the administrative and industrial centre of West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the site of the University of Szczecin, Pomeranian Medical Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Richter
Christoph Richter (1596 – 24 February 1669) was mayor of Stettin, Swedish Pomerania (now Szczecin, Poland) from 1659 to 1669, and a Landrat. History Christoph Richter was born in 1596. He studied philosophy at the University of Greifswald.Lange Edmund: ''Die Greifswalder Sammlung Vitae Pomeranorum''. In: ''Baltische Studien''. Ergänzungsband. Greifswald: Abel, 1898, p. 274. In 1659, he became the mayor of Stettin, Swedish Pomerania (now Szczecin, Poland). He died in office A death in office is the death of a person who was incumbent of an office-position until the time of death. Such deaths have been usually due to natural causes, but they are also caused by accidents, suicides, disease and assassinations. The dea ..., on 24 February 1669, and was buried on 15 March 1669.Tadeusz Białecki (editor): ''Encyklopedia Szczecina'', vol. 1 (A-O), Wyd. US-Instytut Historii, Szczecin 1999, pp. 139–141, Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Richter, Christoph 1596 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richter Magnitude Scale
The Richter scale —also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale—is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". This was later revised and renamed the local magnitude scale, denoted as ML or . Because of various shortcomings of the original scale, most seismological authorities now use other similar scales such as the moment magnitude scale () to report earthquake magnitudes, but much of the news media still erroneously refers to these as "Richter" magnitudes. All magnitude scales retain the logarithmic character of the original and are scaled to have roughly comparable numeric values (typically in the middle of the scale). Due to the variance in earthquakes, it is essential to understand the Richter scale uses logarithms simply to make the measurements manageable (i.e., a magnitude 3 quake factors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Francis Richter
Charles Francis Richter (; April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at the California Institute of Technology. The quote " logarithmic plots are a device of the devil" is attributed to Richter. Childhood and education Richter was born in Overpeck, Ohio. Richter had German heritage: his great-grandfather was a Forty-Eighter, coming from Baden-Baden (today in Baden-Württemberg, Germany) in 1848 in the wake of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. Richter's parents Frederick William and Lillian Anna (Kinsinger) Richter, were divorced when he was very young. He grew up with his materna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burton Richter
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999. Life and work A native of New York City, Richter was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and was raised in the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway. His parents were Fanny (Pollack) and Abraham Richter, a textile worker. He graduated from Far Rockaway High School, a school that also produced fellow laureates Baruch Samuel Blumberg and Richard Feynman. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, then continued on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1952 and his PhD in 1956. He then joined the fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Richter
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded for a wide range of reasons and across all ranks, from a senior commander for skilled leadership of his troops in battle to a low-ranking soldier for a single act of extreme gallantry. A total of 7,321 awards were made between its first presentation on 30 September 1939 and its last bestowal on 17 June 1945. This number is based on the analysis and acceptance of the Order commission of the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR). Presentations were made to members of the three military branches of the Wehrmacht—the German Army (1935–1945), Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German national militia). There were also 43 List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
