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Sixtus (company)
Sixtus was a Roman name, a corruption of the Greek name "", meaning "polished", and originally Latinized "Xystus". In its Spanish form (Sixto) it is still used as a personal name. Popes *Pope Sixtus I (115/116–125) *Pope Sixtus II (257–258) *Pope Sixtus III (432–440) *Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484) *Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590) Others *Sixtus of Reims (d. c. 300), bishop of Reims *Sixtus of Esztergom (d. 1285/86), Hungarian clergyman *Sixtus of Siena (1520–1569), Jewish Roman Catholic theologian *Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886–1934) *Albert Sixtus (1892–1960), German children's writer *Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914–1996), American statesmen, 58th United States Secretary of State 1980–81 *Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (born 1940) *Sixtus Lanner (1934–2022), Austrian politician *Sixtus Leung Chung-hang (born 1986), Hong Kong activist and politician See also *Saint Sixtus (other) *Sixtus Affair {{Disambiguation, human name Papal names Mascul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixto
Sixto is a Spanish name. It may refer to: People with the given name * Sixto Brillantes (1939–2020), Filipino election lawyer * Sixto Casanovas (1802–1852), Argentine cavalry officer, politician * Sixto Durán Ballén (1921–2016), Ecuadorian architect, president * Sixto Escobar (1913–1979), Puerto Rican professional boxer * Sixto González (born 1965), Puerto Rican astronomer, director of the Arecibo Observatory * Sixto Lezcano (born 1953), Puerto Rican born baseball outfielder * Sixto López (1863–1947), Philippine activist, diplomat * Sixto Palavecino (born 1915), Argentine poet, folk musician * Sixto Peralta (born 1979), Argentine football midfielder * Sixto Rodriguez (born 1942), American singer-songwriter * Sixto Sánchez (born 1998), Dominican born baseball player * Sixto Soria (born 1954), Cuban boxer * Sixto Valencia Burgos (1934–2015), Mexican cartoon artist * Sixto Vizuete (born 1961), Ecuadorian football coach People with the surname * Maurice Sixto Maur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Sixtus
Albert Sixtus (12 May 1892 – 24 February 1960) was a German children's writer. During a career spanning almost thirty years, Sixtus wrote over 100 books, including fairytales, picture books, young adult fiction and a book of poems.Albert Sixtus Archive (in German). Retrieved 19 October 2021. He is best known for his 1924 book '''' (''A Day At Bunny School''), which was adapted into a computer-animated feature-length film in 2017.Milligan, Mercedes (26 January 2017 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixtus Affair
The Sixtus Affair (, hu, Sixtus-ügy) was a failed attempt by Emperor Charles I of Austria to conclude a separate peace with the allies in World War I. The affair was named after his brother-in-law and intermediary, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma. Affair In 1917 the war was dragging on towards its fourth year, and Charles decided to secretly enter into peace negotiations with France. He used his brother-in-law, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, an officer in the Belgian army, as intermediary as well as enlisting the help of his loyal childhood friend and aide-de-camp Tamás Erdődy. Charles initiated contact with the Prince via contacts in neutral Switzerland, and Empress Zita wrote a letter inviting him to Vienna. Zita's mother Maria Antonia delivered the letter personally. Another intermediary was Jozef Retinger, a London-based Polish literary scholar and budding politician who was a friend of Sixtus, Xavier and Zita of Bourbon-Parma and who had received backing from the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Sixtus (other)
Saint Sixtus (or San Sisto in Italian) may refer to the following: People *Pope Sixtus I (d. 128) *Pope Sixtus II (d. 258), martyr *Pope Sixtus III (d. 440) *Sixtus of Reims (d.c. 300), first bishop of Reims Places Italy *San Sisto, Piacenza, church in Piacenza *San Sisto, Pisa, church in Pisa *San Sisto Vecchio, church in Rome *San Sisto, Viterbo, church in Lazio *San Sisto (Genoa), church in Genoa *San Sisto al Pino, village in the province of Pisa Belgium * St. Sixtus' Abbey, Westvleteren, West Flanders Australia *San Sisto College, Brisbane See also *Sixtus (other) Sixtus was a Roman name, a corruption of the Greek name "", meaning "polished", and originally Latinized "Xystus". In its Spanish form (Sixto) it is still used as a personal name. Popes *Pope Sixtus I (115/116–125) *Pope Sixtus II (257–258) ... * Saint-Sixte (other) {{disambig, tndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixtus Leung Chung-hang
Sixtus "Baggio" Leung Chung-hang (; born 7 August 1986) is a Hong Kong activist and politician. He is the convenor of Youngspiration, a localist political group in Hong Kong that leans towards Hong Kong independence, and is also leader and spokesperson of the pro-independence Hong Kong National Front. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as a member for New Territories East in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election. Triggered by his actions to make an independence political statement during the oath-taking ceremony, he faced a legal challenge from the government and was later stripped of his office by the court on 15 November 2016. Background Leung graduated from the City University of Hong Kong and was the president of the City University of Hong Kong Students' Union in 2007. It was reported that he supported the government's appointment of Way Kuo to be the president of the City University of Hong Kong and developed a close relationship with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixtus Lanner
Sixtus Lanner (12 May 1934 – 13 July 2022) was an Austrian farmer, engineer, and politician who served in the National Council of Austria as a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Lanner served in parliament for a total of 25 years from 1971 until 1996. Lanner was also the secretary-general of the ÖVP from 1976 to 1981. Described as a ''Bauernbua'' (peasant-boy) from the Tyrolean Unterland, Lanner was a staunch advocate for rural affairs, and has been described as the "father of rural life" in Austria. Lanner was regarded as an influential member of the ÖVP. Early life and education Lanner was born on 12 May 1934 in village of Oberau in Wildschönau, Tyrol. His father was an alpine farmer, while his mother was the local postmaster. Lanner and his three siblings grew up on their parents' farm, with Lanner working as a farmhand. When Lanner decided to attend higher education at the age of 20, he was an alpine farmer with just an elementary education. Beginning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Sixtus Henry Of Bourbon-Parma
Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma ( es, link=no, Don Sixto Enrique de Borbón-Parma y Borbón-Busset; it, Sisto Enrico di Borbone Parma; born 22 July 1940), known as Enrique V by supporters, is considered Regent of Spain by some Carlists who accord him the titles Duke of Aranjuez, Infante of Spain, and Standard-bearer of Tradition. Early life Sixtus was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques during the World War II Vichy regime of France, the second son of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma (then Prince Regent, later Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain, later titular Duke of Parma) and his wife Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset. He belongs to a cadet branch of the former royal dynasty of France (and current dynasty of Spain), the House of Bourbon, which ruled the independent Duchy of Parma in Italy until 1859, and reigns ( patrilineally) today in Luxembourg. In exile, his family lived in France. He is a brother of Princess Cécile, Princess María Teresa, Princess Marie Françoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Sixtus Muskie
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 presidential election. Born in Rumford, Maine, he worked as a lawyer for two years before serving in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Upon his return, Muskie served in the Maine State Legislature from 1946 to 1951, and unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Waterville. Muskie was elected the 64th Governor of Maine in 1954 under a reform platform as the first Maine Democratic Party governor in almost 100 years. Muskie pressed for economic expansionism and instated environmental provisions. Muskie's actions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Sixtus Of Bourbon-Parma
Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (; 1 August 1886 – 14 March 1934) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, a Belgian officer in World War I, and the central figure in the Sixtus Affair, an attempt to negotiate a treaty to end Austria-Hungary's participation in the Great War separate from its Central Powers allies. He also wrote a number of books. Early life Sixtus was the eldest son of the last Duke of Parma, Robert I (1848–1907) and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862–1959), daughter of King Miguel of Portugal. His father had had twelve children from a previous marriage and Sixtus was the fourteenth of Duke Robert's twenty four children. Among the twenty four, he was the sixth son, hence he was named, Sixtus. Sixtus' father had been deposed from the Duchy of Parma during the wars of Italian unification, but having inherited the large fortune of his childless uncle, Henri, Count of Chambord, Duke Robert was very wealthy. He raised his large family, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Sixtus I
Pope Sixtus I (42 – 124/126/128), also spelled Xystus, a Roman of Greek descent, was the bishop of Rome from c. 115 to his death. He succeeded Alexander I and was in turn succeeded by Telesphorus. His feast is celebrated on 6 April. Name The oldest documents use the spelling Xystus (from the Greek ξυστός, ''xystos'', "shaved") in reference to the first three popes of that name. Pope Sixtus I was also the sixth Pope after Peter, leading to questions as to whether the name "Sixtus" is derived from ''sextus'', Latin for "sixth". PBS video, "Saints and Sinners". The "Xystus" mentioned in the Catholic Canon of the Mass is Xystus II, not Xystus I. Biography The Holy See's ''Annuario Pontificio'' (2012) identifies him as a Roman by birth, who served from 117 or 119 to 126 or 128. His father's name was Pastor. According to the ''Liberian Catalogue'' of popes, he served the Church during the reign of Hadrian "from the consulate of Niger and Apronianus until that of Verus II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixtus Of Siena
Sixtus of Siena (or Sixtus Senensis) (1520–1569) was a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism, and became a Roman Catholic theologian. Biography He began his career as a Franciscan preacher, speaking throughout Italy. Though he was convicted to die in Rome for the crime of heresy or recidivism, he was saved by a Dominican inquisitor, the future Pope Pius V, who repealed the condemnation when Sixtus recanted and pledged to transfer to the Dominican Order instead. He is considered one of the two most outstanding Dominican scholars of his generation. He had as a master Lancelotto Politi, some of whose writings he later publicly criticised. Sixtus apparently destroyed all his remaining manuscripts and writings before his death. Sixtus coined the term ''deuterocanonical'' to describe certain books of the Catholic Old Testament that had not been accepted as canonical by Jews and Protestants but which appeared in the Septuagint, and the definer for the Roman Catholics of the terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixtus Of Esztergom
Sixtus ( hu, Sükösd or ''Sike''; died 1285 or 1286) was a Hungarian clergyman in the 13th century, who served as a skilled diplomat of King Béla IV of Hungary for decades. Early life Sixtus was presumably born around 1220The assumption of Sixtus' biographer Péter Kis; in 1215 new rules were issued in the University of Paris, governing who could become a ''magister''. To teach the arts, a candidate had to be at least twenty-one, to have studied these arts at least six years, and to take an engagement as professor for at least two years. into a lower noble family, which possessed lands and fields in Hetény (today Chotín in Slovakia). His permanent honorary title of "''magister''" demonstrates his university degree (possibly he studied in Sorbonne or other Paris-type cathedral schools, gaining rhetorical and legal erudition). In contemporary records, he is first referred to as a cleric by Pope Innocent IV on 20 February 1245, when he authorized papal legate Giacomo da Pecorara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
