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Tiiu Leek
Tiiu is an Estonian feminine given name and may refer to: * Tiiu Aro (born 1952), Estonian physician and politician * Tiiu Asper (born 1983), Estonian judoka * Tiiu Erelt (born 1942), Estonian linguist * Tiiu Kera (born 1945), retired United States Air Force major general *Tiiu Kuik (born 1987), Estonian fashion model * Tiiu Kull (born 1958), Estonian botanist * Tiiu Levald (born 1940), Estonian opera singer, pedagogue and music critic * Tiiu Märss (born 1943), Estonian geologist and paleontologist *Tiiu Parmas Tiiu Parmas (18 December 1943 – 23 August 2011) was an Estonian tennis player. She competed under her maiden name Tiiu Kivi, until her marriage to coach Jaak Parmas in 1969. Born in Tallinn, Parmas was the Soviet national champion in 1968 and m ... (1943–2011), Estonian tennis player * Tiiu Nurmberg (born 1982), Canadian-Estonian alpine skier References {{Given name Estonian feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Language
Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. Classification Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. The Finnic languages also include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is subclassified as a Southern Finnic language and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of an Indo-European origin. From the typological point of view, Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language. The loss of word-final sounds is extensive, and this has made its inflectional morphology markedly more fusional, especially with respect to no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Aro
Tiiu Aro (born June 18, 1952 in Kuressaare) is an Estonian physician and politician. She is a former Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia The Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia ( et, Eesti Sotsiaalministeerium) is a government ministry of Estonia responsible for social policies of the country. List of Ministers The position first appeared in the government of Mart Laar establ ..., having served in that position from 1996 to 1999. Her aunt, Marta Kivi (born 6 February 1912) is the oldest known living person in Estonia. From 1999 to 2009 she worked as Director General of the Estonian Health Inspection and on 1 January 2010 she became Director General of the Health Board. References Government ministers of Estonia People from Kuressaare 1952 births Living people {{Estonia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Asper
Tiiu Asper (born 19 September 1983) is an Estonian judoka. She was born in Tartu. In 2007 she graduated from University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...'s Faculty of Medicine. She began her judo career in 1991. Her coaches have been Jevgeni Kupri and Andres Põhjala. She is two-times Estonian champion. 1998–2003 she was a member of Estonian national judo team. In 1998 and 1999 she was named as Best Junior Judoka of Estonia. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Asper, Tiiu Living people 1983 births Estonian female judoka University of Tartu alumni Sportspeople from Tartu 21st-century Estonian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Erelt
Tiiu Erelt (until 1962 Tiiu Kask; born on 20 April 1942 in Tallinn) is an Estonian linguist. In 1965 she graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Finno-Ugric languages. Her main fields of research have been Estonian language related terminology, dictionaries, lexicology, language planning and the development of jargon in many disciplines. from 1965 until 2009, she worked at the Estonian Language Institute. From 1977 until 1984, she taught a course in terminology at Tartu State University and in 1984 and 1986 at the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in language planning. In 1993, she lectured at the University of Helsinki. She has worked to clarify the terminology of patenting, construction, pedagogy and linguistics, as well as professional titles. She participated in the compilation of Estonian orthography dictionaries, including the editor and co-compiler of the 1999 and 2006 dictionaries and one of the compilers of the 1976 and 2013 dictionaries. She has also edited, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Kera
Tiiu Kera (born July 21, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) major general. Career The general was born in a displaced persons camp in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, to Estonian World War II refugees. The family eventually settled in the Rochester, New York in 1949. She is a graduate of Valparaiso and Indiana universities. In 1973, Kera was commissioned as a distinguished graduate of Officer Training School. After assignments at several Air Force bases in the United States and South Korea, she served as a staff officer at Headquarters U.S. Air Force and Tactical Air Command. She then served as chief of the Military Personnel Branch at Langley Air Force Base, as director of personnel management at Headquarters Space Division, and as a strategic planner at the Joint Staff. After a fellowship year at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, she returned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force where she was responsible for security issues in the former Warsaw Pact and for dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Kuik
Tiiu Kuik () (born 16 March 1987) is an Estonian fashion model. Early life Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Kuik was discovered at age 13 in an Estonian supermarket by model scout Paolo Moglia. She was then sent to Japan for modeling work, and after that, to Italy. Modeling Her modeling agencies include her mother agency, Marilyn New York, D Management Milan and the famous Marilyn Agency in Paris. She has walked the runways for more than 50 designers, including Gucci (for which she opened the fall 2003 and spring 2004 shows), Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Paul Smith, Narciso Rodriguez, Paco Rabanne, Salvatore Ferragamo, Dsquared2, Emilio Pucci, Fendi, Prada, Jil Sander, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Dolce & Gabbana, Chloé and many others. Kuik's face has graced the covers of several high-profile fashion magazines like ''Elle'', ''Marie Claire'', ''Velvet'' and multiple ''Vogue'' covers. She also has appeared in fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Kull
Tiiu Kull (born 26 August 1958) is an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...n botanist. She specialises in the study of population dynamics in plant species and has published an extensive number of papers on the subject. In 1997 she conducted a study, "Population studies of native orchids in Estonia". More recently Kull's research has seen her examine the irregularity of temporal patterns in perennial herbs as a phenomenon of intermodular interactions. References External linksHomepage [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Levald
Tiiu Levald (born 15 March 1940 in Tallinn) is an Estonian opera singer (soprano), pedagogue and music critic. In 1970 she graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. From 1964 until 1973, she sang with the Estonia Theatre's opera choir. She has also been a chamber singer. From 1973 until 2013, she was a pedagogue at Estonian Music and Theatre Academy The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (''Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia'') began as a mixed choir of the Estonia Society Musical Department (EMD) on the eve of World War I. The assembly of the Estonia Society created the Tallinn Higher Musi .... Students include: Sirje Puura, Annika Tõnuri, Vivian Kallaste, Moonika Sutt, Karmen Puis, Eha Pärg, Vilve Hepner, Merle Hillep. Opera roles * 2nd boy (Mozart's "Võluflööt", 1964) * Tuul (Raudmäe's "Kiri nõudmiseni", 1965) * Krahvinna Ceprano (Verdi's "Rigoletto", 1968) Discography 1986 ''Consortium'' Vinyl 7" Мелодия / С12 23409 006 References {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Märss
Tiiu Märss (until 1970 Tiiu Noppel; born 5 October 1943, in Elva) is an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...n geologist and paleontologist. She has described the following taxon: * Andreolepididae Märss, 2001 References 1943 births Living people Estonian paleontologists Estonian geologists University of Tartu alumni Academic staff of the University of Tartu Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology People from Elva, Estonia {{Geologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Parmas
Tiiu Parmas (18 December 1943 – 23 August 2011) was an Estonian tennis player. She competed under her maiden name Tiiu Kivi, until her marriage to coach Jaak Parmas in 1969. Born in Tallinn, Parmas was the Soviet national champion in 1968 and made the singles third round of the 1969 French Open. Parmas, who was named Estonian Female Athlete of the Year in 1970, won three medals for the Soviet Union at the 1970 Summer Universiade The 1970 Summer Universiade, also known as the VI Summer Universiade, took place in Turin, Italy. After the city of Lisbon, Portugal failed to host the 1969 Summer Universiade, the games were assigned to Turin to be held next year. Sports at ..., including gold medals for singles and mixed doubles. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parmas, Tiiu 1943 births 2011 deaths Soviet female tennis players Estonian female tennis players Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Tallinn Universiade gold medalists for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiiu Nurmberg
Tiiu Nurmberg (born 5 January 1982 in Pointe-Claire, Canada) is a former Canadian alpine skier of Estonian descent, who represented Estonia at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best place in the Olympics was 34th in giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ... in 2006 Winter Olympics. She ended her career on 14 April 2010. References 1982 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Estonia Estonian female alpine skiers Canadian female alpine skiers People from Pointe-Claire Canadian people of Estonian descent {{Estonia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
