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Scheffers
Scheffers is a Dutch surname. Notable people with this surname include: *Georg Scheffers (1899–1945), German mathematician * Maikel Scheffers (born 1982), Dutch wheelchair tennis player *Victor Scheffers Victor Scheffers (born 22 May 1960) is a retired Dutch rower. Career Scheffers competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls and finished in eighth place. In 1978 he won a bronze medal at the junior world championships in the dou ... (born 1960), Dutch rower See also * Schaefer * Scheffer {{surname, Scheffer Dutch-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Scheffers
250px Georg Scheffers (21 November 1866 – 12 August 1945) was a German mathematician specializing in differential geometry. Life Scheffers was born on 21 November 1866 in the village of Altendorf near Holzminden (today incorporated into Holzminden). Scheffers began his university career at the University of Leipzig where he studied with Felix Klein and Sophus Lie. Scheffers was a coauthor with Lie for three of the earliest expressions of Lie theory: * ''Lectures on Differential equations with known Infinitesimal transformations'' (1893), * ''Lectures on Continuous groups'' (1893), and * ''Geometry of Contact Transformations'' (1896). All three are now available online through archive.org. In 1896 Scheffers became docent at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he was raised to professor in 1900. From 1907 to 1935, when he retired, Scheffers was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1901–1902 he published a famous two-volume textbook entitled ''Anw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maikel Scheffers
Maikel Scheffers (born 7 September 1982) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. He plays singles and doubles events. Scheffers was born with spina bifida. He lives in Dorst. He has won six Grand Slam titles—two in wheelchair singles and four in wheelchair doubles. Paralympic Games Scheffers participated in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. He won a bronze medal in the wheelchair men singles competition. In the wheelchair men's doubles tournament, he and partner Ronald Vink lost in the bronze medal game to Shingo Kunieda and Satoshi Saida is a Japanese pioneering wheelchair tennis player and 2004 Summer Paralympics gold medalist ( Men's doubles with Shingo Kunieda). Saida, a big baseball enthusiast in his childhood, lost his left leg because of illness. At first, he used to p .... Grand Slam performance timelines Wheelchair singles Source: Profile at www.australianopen.com and Profile at 2011.usopen.org Wheelchair doubles Source: Profile at www.australiano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Scheffers
Victor Scheffers (born 22 May 1960) is a retired Dutch rower. Career Scheffers competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls and finished in eighth place. In 1978 he won a bronze medal at the junior world championships in the double scull A double scull is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly ... event. References 1960 births Living people Dutch male rowers Olympic rowers for the Netherlands Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics People from Lansingerland Sportspeople from South Holland 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scheffer
Scheffer is a German occupational surname related to German Schäfer (meaning "shepherd") or Schaffer (meaning "overseer"). Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Scheffer (born 1975), American baseball pitcher *Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), Dutch-born French painter, son of Johann Baptist and Cornelia * Cornelia Scheffer (1769–1839), Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist * Cornélia Scheffer (1830-1899), French sculptor and designer *David Scheffer (born 1953), American diplomat, UN Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues *Emmanuel Scheffer (1924–2012), Israeli football player and coach *François Scheffer (1766–1844), Luxembourgian politician, Mayor of Luxembourg City * Frank Scheffer (born 1956), Dutch cinematographer *Guus Scheffer (1898–1952), Dutch weightlifter *Hendrik Scheffer (1798–1862), Dutch-born French painter, son of Johann Baptist and Cornelia *Henrik Teofilus Scheffer (1710–1759), Swedish chemist *Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (born 1948), Dutch polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schaefer
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German language, German word Wikt:Schäfer, ''schäfer'', meaning Wikt:shepherd, 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German ''Wikt:scāphare, scāphare''. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer" (a standardized spelling in many German-speaking countries after 1880), the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the Anglicisation, anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames. Schaefer ;Born in 1800–1899 *Arnold Schaefer (1819–1883), German historian *Germany Schaefer (1877–1919), American professional baseball player *Jacob Schaefer Sr (1850–1910), American professional billiards player *Jacob Schaefer Jr (1894–1975) American professional billiards player *Jacob Schaefer (composer) (1888–1936), American Jewish composer and conductor *Marie Charlotte Schaefer (1874-1927), American physician *Rudolph Jay Schaefer I (1863–1923), American businessma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
