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Ueli Jäggi
Ueli () is the Swiss hypocoristic form of the masculine given name Ulrich. People with the given name Ueli include: *Ueli Bodenmann (born 1965), Swiss rower *Ueli Gegenschatz (1971–2009), Swiss skydiver *Ueli Kestenholz (born 1975), Swiss snowboarder *Ueli Matti (born 1959), Swiss slalom canoeist *Ueli Maurer (born 1950), Swiss politician *Ueli Maurer (cryptographer) (born 1960), Swiss cryptographer *Ueli Steck (1976–2017), Swiss mountain climber *Ueli Steiger (born 1954), Swiss cinematographer *Ueli Sutter (born 1947), Swiss cyclist *Ueli Wiget (born 1957), Swiss musician Fictional character: *Ueli (also ''Uli''), eponymous protagonist in two novels by Jeremias Gotthelf Albert Bitzius (4 October 179722 October 1854) was a Swiss novelist; best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Biography Bitzius was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. The Bitzius family had once belonged to the Bernese patrici ... (1846, 1849) {{given name Swiss masculine given names [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich
Ulrich (), is a German given name, derived from Old High German ''Uodalrich'', ''Odalric''. It is composed of the elements '' uodal-'' meaning "(noble) heritage" and ''-rich'' meaning "rich, powerful". Attested from the 8th century as the name of Alamannic nobility, the name is popularly given from the high medieval period in reference to Saint Ulrich of Augsburg (canonized 993). There is also a surname Ulrich. It is most prevalent in Germany and has the highest density in SwitzerlandThis last name was found in the United States around the year 1840Most Americans with the last name were concentrated in Pennsylvania, which was home to many Pennsylvania Dutch, German immigrant communities. Nowadays in the United States, the name is distributed largely in the Pennsylvania-Ohio regio History Documents record the Old High German name ''Oadalrich'' or ''Uodalrich'' from the later 8th century in Alamannia. The related name ''Adalric'' (Anglo-Saxon cognate '' Æthelric'') is attested fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Bodenmann
Ueli Bodenmann (born 14 March 1965 in St. Gallen , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach , twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic) , website ...) is a Swiss rower. He is 191 cm tall and lives in Wilen, Switzerland. Bodenmann is a member of Rorschach SC. References * * 1965 births Living people Swiss male rowers Sportspeople from St. Gallen (city) Olympic rowers of Switzerland Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for Switzerland Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Switzerland-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Gegenschatz
Ueli Gegenschatz (January 3, 1971 – November 13, 2009, Zurich) was a Swiss BASE jumper, paraglider and skydiver who held several world records. Ueli Gegenschatz was known for his expert paragliding, skydiving and BASE jumping and Wingsuit flying. He completed his first parachute jump in the military preliminary course for long-distance scouts in 1989. Although Gegenschatz did not become a scout, he remained true to jumping: in 1990 he flew with a paraglider for the first time and from then on, as an amateur, he was part of the extended world elite. From the mid-1990s onwards, he devoted himself more to jumping again, and in 1997 he made his first object jump from a 1000-metre high rock face in Norway. A member of the Swiss national paragliding team for four years, Gegenschatz co-founded the Red Bull acro team in 1995. Among his BASE jumping achievements, many of which are available as YouTube videos, were jumps off Eiffel Tower, the Petronas Towers in KL as well as jumps o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Kestenholz
Ueli Kestenholz (born 10 May 1975) is a Swiss snowboarder Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ... and Speedriding pioneer. Kestenholz was Snowboard World Champion in 2000 and 2001. He won the first ever Olympic Medal in Snowboarding: Bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Giant Slalom). He's a two times Gold medalist/Winner at the Winter X-Games in Boardercross/BoarderX. After his third Olympic Games of Torino 2006, Ueli quit the Worldcup circuit to focus 100% on Freeriding. Besides Freeriding on a Snowboard, he became one of the pioneers of Speedriding/ Speedflying in Switzerland. Together with Mathias Roten they created Playgravity, an award winning multisport-movie, showing their amazing speedriding-descent of Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau in one day. In May 2009 he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Matti
Ueli Matti (born 10 February 1959) is a Swiss slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of fifth in the C2 event in Barcelona in 1992. He is the European Champion in C2 from 1996. His partner in the boat throughout the whole of his active career was his brother Peter Matti Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su .... World Cup individual podiums ReferencesSports-reference.com profile 1959 births Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists of Switzerland Swiss male canoeists {{Switzerland-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Maurer
Ulrich "Ueli" Maurer (; born 1 December 1950) is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2009. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), he was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2013 and 2019. Formerly head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (2009–2015), Maurer has headed the Federal Department of Finance since 2016. He has been the longest-serving current member of the Federal Council since Doris Leuthard's resignation in 2018. An accountant by occupation, Maurer chaired the Swiss People's Party from 1996 to 2008. Elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly to succeed Federal Councillor Samuel Schmid in 2008, he took office on 1 January 2009. Maurer served as Vice President of Switzerland for 2012 and 2018 and President of Switzerland for 2013 and 2019. He was reelected to the Federal Council in 2011, 2015 (when his party gained one seat) and 2019 (an election which saw all members of the Federal C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Maurer (cryptographer)
Ueli Maurer (born 26 May 1960) is a professor of cryptography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Education Maurer studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD in 1990, advised by James Massey. He joined Princeton University as a postdoc from 1990 to 1991. Career In a seminal work, he showed that the Diffie-Hellman problem is (under certain conditions) equivalent to solving the discrete log problem.Ueli Maurer: ''Towards the equivalence of breaking the Diffie-Hellman protocol and computing discrete logarithms.'' In: ''Advances in Cryptology - Crypto '94.'' Springer-Verlag, 1994, S. 271−281. From 2002 until 2008, Maurer also served on the board of Tamedia AG.Tamedia AG Medienmittei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Steck
Ueli Steck (; 4 October 1976 – 30 April 2017) was a Swiss rock climber and mountaineer. He was the first to climb Annapurna solo via its South Face (though this is disputed by some), and set speed records on the North Face trilogy in the Alps. He won two Piolet d'Or awards, in 2009 and 2014. Having previously summitted Mount Everest, Steck died on 30 April 2017 after falling during an acclimatizing climb for an attempt on the Hornbein route on the West Ridge of Everest without supplemental oxygen. Career At the age of 17, Steck achieved the 9th difficulty rating (UIAA) in climbing. As an 18-year-old he climbed the North Face of the Eiger and the Bonatti Pillar in the Mont Blanc massif. In June 2004, he and Stephan Siegrist climbed the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau within 25 hours. Another success was the so-called "Khumbu-Express Expedition" in 2005, for which the climbing magazine ''Climb'' named him one of the three best alpinists in Europe. The project consisted of the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Steiger
Ulrich ”Ueli” Steiger (born 5 August 1954 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a Swiss cinematographer. He studied English and art history at the University of Zurich and entered the London Film School. After freelancing as Camera assistant and Documentary Filmmaker in Switzerland, he directed his first feature film " Privileged" in 1981 with Director Michael Hoffman as Camera operator. With the camera in Hoffman's ''Promised Land''. Then, Steiger moved to Los Angeles and worked with director Roland Emmerich on films such as ''Godzilla'', ''The Day After Tomorrow'', and ''10,000 BC''. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 2000. Selected filmography * '' Frankenweenie'' (1984) * ''Promised Land'' (1987) * ''Some Girls'' (1988) * ''The Hot Spot'' (1990) * ''Soapdish'' (1991) * ''Singles'' (1992) * ''Chasers'' (1994) * '' The Jerky Boys: The Movie'' (1995) * '' Now and Then'' (1995) * ''House Arrest'' (1996) * ''Godzilla'' (1998) * '' Austin Powers: The Spy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Sutter
Ueli Sutter (born 16 March 1947) is a Swiss former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1972 : 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir ;1974 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;1975 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;1976 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;1977 : 4th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1978 : 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse : 10th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Mountains classification ;1979 : 1st Stages 4 (TTT) & 8 (TTT) Tour de France : 6th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1981 : 6th Overall Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France ... References External links * 1947 births Living people Swiss male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Switzerland Cyclists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Wiget
Ueli Wiget (born 1957 in Winterthur) is a Swiss pianist, harpsichordist and harpist. He was prized at the 1985 Sydney Competition. Since 1986 Wiget is a member of the Ensemble Modern Ensemble Modern is an international ensemble dedicated to performing and promoting the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries. Hi ..., a chair he combines with an international concert career. References Ensemble Modern() Ruhr Trienniale Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation BBC National Orchestra of Wales [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremias Gotthelf
Albert Bitzius (4 October 179722 October 1854) was a Swiss novelist; best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Biography Bitzius was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. The Bitzius family had once belonged to the Bernese patriciate, but was known for its craftsmen and pastors since the 17th century. In 1804, the family home was moved to Utzenstorf, a village in the Bernese Emmental. Here young Bitzius grew up, receiving his early education and consorting with the boys of the village, as well as helping his father to cultivate his glebe. In 1812 he went to complete his education at Bern. He was a founding member of the Student Society Zofingia, the second-oldest fraternity in Switzerland (founded in 1819). In 1820 he was received as a pastor. In 1821 he enrolled for a year at the University of Göttingen, but returned home in 1822 to act as his father's assistant. On his father's death (1824) he went in the same capacity to Herzogenbuchsee, and later to Bern (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
