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Vid (given Name)
Vid is a common Christian given name in Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia. It is the Slavic form of the Latin ''Vitus'', the name of the Christian Saint Vitus. Notable people with the name include: * Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer * Vid Juricskay, Australian canoer * Vid Kavtičnik, Slovenian handball player * Vid Khissel (Veit Khisl), Slovenian politician * Vid Milenkovic (born 1995), Swiss basketball player * Vid Morpurgo Vid Morpurgo (1838–1911) was a Dalmatian industrialist, publisher, politician and member of a notable Split family Morpurgo. Early years and family Morpurgo was born on 7 May 1838 in Split, Croatia to a well-known Jewish family of David-El ..., Croatian industrialist, publisher, and politician * Vid Pečjak, Slovenian psychologist * Vid Vuletić Vukasović, Serbian ethnographer * Petar Vid Gvozdanović (Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich), Austrian general {{given name, Vid Slavic masculine given names Slovene masculine given names Croatian masculine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitus (other)
Vitus is a Latin given name meaning lively and may refer to: *Saint Vitus (c. 290 – c. 303), a Christian martyr *Vitus of Hungary (died 1297), beatified friar *Vitus (bicycles), a French bicycle manufacturer *Vitus (film), ''Vitus'' (film), a 2006 Swiss film * Domenico Vitus (born c. 1536), Italian engraver * Maksim Vitus (born 1989), Belarusian footballer * Vitus Amerbach (1503–1557), German theologian, scholar and humanist * Vitus Ashaba (1943–1985), Ugandan middle-distance runner * Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish-born navigator in the service of Russia * Vitus Bering (1617–1675), Danish poet and historian * Vitus Eicher (born 1990), German football player * Vitus Georg Tönnemann (1659–1740), German cleric * Vitus Graber (1844–1892), Austrian entomologist * Vitus Huonder (born 1942), Swiss prelate * Vitus Husek (born 1973), German canoeist * Vitus Miletus (1549–1615), German theologian * Vitus Nagorny (born 1978), Kyrgyzstan-born German footballer * Vitus Pichler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Vitus
Vitus (), whose name is sometimes rendered Guy or Guido, was a Christian martyr from Sicily. His surviving hagiography is pure legend. The dates of his actual life are unknown.Basil Watkins, ''The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary'', 8th rev. ed. (Bloomsbury, 2016), p. 758.Donald Attwater, ''The Avenel Dictionary of Saints'' (Avenel Books, 1981), p. 338. He has for long been tied to the Sicilian martyrs Modestus and Crescentia but in the earliest sources it is clear that these were originally different traditions that later became combined.David Hugh Farmer, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Saints'', 5th rev. ed. (Oxford University Press, 2011), s.v. "Vitus (Guy), Modestus, and Crescentia". The figures of Modestus and Crescentia are probably fictitious. According to his legend, he died during the Diocletianic Persecution in AD 303. In the Middle Ages, he was counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. In Germany, his feast was celebrated with dancing before his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Belec
Vid Belec (; born 6 June 1990) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Cypriot First Division club APOEL and the Slovenia national team. Club career Internazionale Signed by Internazionale along with Rene Krhin at the age of 16, Belec spent three-and-a-half seasons with Inter Primavera team. In the first season he was a backup for Paolo Tornaghi and won the Primavera Scudetto that season. He also played for Campionato Nazionale Allievi under-17 youth team in the 2006–07 season. In the 2007–08 season, at first he had to compete with Enrico Alfonso for the starting place in Primavera team until Alfonso left the club in January 2008. He then became the fourth keeper of Inter's first team and the first choice in Primavera, which won the 2008 Torneo di Viareggio and finished as the league runners-up. Under José Mourinho, Belec was promoted to the senior team and made his first team debut on 17 July 2009, in a pre-season friendly. He also played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Juricskay
Vid Juricskay (born 12 August 1934) is an Australian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 1000 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 .... ReferencesSports-reference.com profile 1934 births Australian male canoeists Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Australia 20th-century Australian people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Kavtičnik
Vid Kavtičnik (born 24 May 1984) is a retired Slovenian handball player. With Slovenia, he competed at the 2004 and 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ... Summer Olympics. References External linksVid Kavtičnikat Ligue Nationale de Handball {{DEFAULTSORT:Kavticnik, Vid 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Slovenj Gradec Slovenian male handball players Olympic handball players for Slovenia Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Expatriate handball players Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in France Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Montpellier Handball players THW Kiel players Handball-Bundesliga players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Khissel
Veit Khisl (Slovenized as ''Vid Khissel'') was a politician in Slovenia during the first half of the 16th century, when it was under the Holy Roman Empire. He became mayor of Ljubljana in 1533. He was succeeded by Hans Weilhammer Hans Weilhammer (first name also spelled Hanns, last name also spelled Weilheimer; Slovenized as ''Janez'' or ''Janž Weilhammer'') was a sixteenth-century politician in Slovenia when the country was under the Holy Roman Empire. Weilhammer may hav ... in 1536. References Year of birth missing Year of death missing 16th-century Slovenian people Mayors of places in the Holy Roman Empire Mayors of Ljubljana {{Slovenia-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Milenkovic
Vid Milenkovic (born July 21, 1995), is a Swiss professional basketball player for Lions de Genève of the Swiss Basketball League, the first-tier level of professional basketball league in Switzerland. Standing at , he plays at the guard position. College career After graduating from the German School of Belgrade (DSB) in 2014, Vid decided to major in exercise science with minors in coaching and sport management while starting his college basketball career in the NCAA Division III, where he played six seasons at the ''University of Wisconsin-Superior'', in which he averaged 10.39 points and 6.39 rebounds per game. College statistics Professional career After going undrafted in the 2020 NBA draft, Milenkovic joined the roster of the Starwings Basket Regio Basel is a Swiss professional basketball club based in Basel. The club competes in the Swiss Basketball League (SBL), the highest tier of basketball in Switzerland. On 2021, he signed with Lions de Genève, a profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Morpurgo
Vid Morpurgo (1838–1911) was a Dalmatian industrialist, publisher, politician and member of a notable Split family Morpurgo. Early years and family Morpurgo was born on 7 May 1838 in Split, Croatia to a well-known Jewish family of David-Elija and Anetta (née Gentili) Morpurgo. His great-great-grandfather David-Vita moved to Split in 1774 from Maribor ( Ger.: Marburg), Slovenia. He chose his surname ''Morpurgo'' from the Italian version of the German ''Marburger'' (i.e. someone from Marburg). From 1846 to 1849 Morpurgo attended and finished elementary school in Split. Later he attended the Royal grammar school in Split from which he graduated in 1856. Political and business career After completing his education, Morpurgo was employed at the library which was co-owned by his father and his business partner Petar Savo. There Morpurgo developed bookseller activity enabling him partnership with numerous foreign publishing houses. In 1855 he traveled to Trieste, Italy to sign c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Pečjak
Vid Pečjak (7 January 1929 – 27 February 2016) was a Slovene author and psychologist. Pečjak was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has written 90 books, two thirds from the field of psychology. Most of his literary works are science fiction stories, novels, novelettes and also travel diaries and comic strip. Some of his works were written under his pseudonym ''Div Kajčep'' (palindrome of his name). Pečjak is perhaps best known for his SF novel for children and youth ''Drejček in trije marsovčki'' (''Drejček and Three Little Martians'') (1961), which concerns a little boy named Drejček (Andy) who meets three little Martian Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pred ...s. References 1929 births 2016 deaths Writers from Ljubljana Slovenian science fiction writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Vuletić Vukasović
Vid Vuletić Vukasović ( sr-Cyrl, Вид Вулетић Вукасовић; 16 December 1853 - 10 July 1933) was a writer and early ethnographer from Dubrovnik. He was part of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik. Biography Born in 1853 in Brsečine near Dubrovnik, Vukasović came from a renowned family from Gradac, a small village near Neum in Herzegovina, where his relatives, at the time of the Herzegovina Uprising, fought against the Ottoman Empire. He was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. Vukasović was a teacher by training, and worked as a teacher in Korčula, then as a professor in the Dubrovnik women's teacher school, and retired as a consultant in the latter institution. He worked as a historian and collector of folklore and ethnography. Vukasović was an associate of most relevant Dubrovnik newspapers and magazines of his time, amongst them ''Slovinci'', ''Javor'', ''Dawn'', ''Dubrovnik'', ''Ivy'' and Kašiković's ''Bosnian villas'' and Miković's ''Serbian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Vid Gvozdanović
Peter Vitus Freiherr von Quosdanovich ( Croatian: Petar Vid Gvozdanović; 12 June 1738 – 13 August 1802) was a nobleman and general of the Habsburg monarchy of Croatian descent. He achieved the rank of Feldmarschall-Lieutenant and was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. He played a major role in several battles against the French Army of Italy led by Napoleon during the French Revolutionary Wars. Early years Petar Vid Gvozdanović was born in Žumberak, Croatia, Habsburg monarchy, and joined the ''Varaždin'' Grenz Hussar Regiment # 41 in 1752. He fought in the Seven Years' War. He distinguished himself in the War of the Bavarian Succession of 1778–9. He was promoted to colonel of the Slavonian Hussar regiment and decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. He fought during the Austro–Turkish War (1787–1791), becoming a General-Major and taking over the command of Alt Gradisca. He was a relative of Karl Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavic Masculine Given Names
Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to: Peoples * Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia ** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples ** South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples ** West Slavic peoples, western group of Slavic peoples ** Slavic Americans, Americans of Slavic descent * Anti-Slavic sentiment, negative attitude towards Slavic peoples * Pan-Slavic movement, movement in favor of Slavic cooperation and unity * Slavic studies, a multidisciplinary field of studies focused on history and culture of Slavic peoples Languages, alphabets, and names * Slavic languages, a group of closely related Indo-European languages ** Proto-Slavic language, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages ** Old Church Slavonic, 9th century Slavic literary language, used for the purpose of evangelizing the Slavic peoples ** Church Slavonic, a written and spoken variant of Old Church Slavonic, standardized and widely adopted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
