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Voigt
Voigt (mainly written Vogt, also Voight) is a German surname, and may refer to: *Alexander Voigt, German football player *Angela Voigt, East German long jumper *Christian August Voigt (1808–1890), Austrian anatomist *Cynthia Voigt, author of books for young adults * Deborah Voigt, American opera singer * Edward Voigt, born in Bremen, Germany, former U.S. Representative from Wisconsin *Edwin Edgar Voigt, bishop * Ellen Bryant Voigt, German American poet *Erika Voigt, actress *Frank Voigt, musician; flute player in the 1970s progressive rock band Think * Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892–1957), British journalist and author of German descent * Friedrich Siegmund (Sigismund) Voigt (Voight) ( 1781 - 1850), German botanist and zoologist *Georg Voigt, German historian * Harry Voigt, German Olympic athlete *Irma Voigt (1882–1953), Dean of Women at Ohio University *Jaap Voigt (born 1941), Dutch field hockey player *Jack Voigt, baseball player *Jan Voigt, actor *Jens Voigt, professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt (; born 17 September 1971) is a German former professional road bicycle racer and, upon retirement, became a cycling sports broadcast commentator. During his cycling career, Voigt raced for several teams, the last one being UCI ProTeam . Voigt wore the yellow jersey of the Tour de France twice, though he was never a contender for the overall title owing to the mountainous nature of the stages of the race being better suited to climbing specialists. His career achievements include winning the Critérium International a record-tying 5 times and a number of one-week stage races, as well as two Tour de France stage victories. In September 2014, he set a new hour record. Among cycling fans, Voigt was generally popular, both for his aggressive riding style and his affable, forthright and articulate manners in dealing with the public and media. He speaks fluent French and English, in addition to his native German. Early life Voigt was born in Grevesmühlen, now in the state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Voigt
Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung roles in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss. Biography and career Early life and education Debbie Joy Voigt was born into a religious Southern Baptist family in 1960 and raised in Wheeling, Illinois, just outside Chicago. At age five, she joined the choir at a Baptist church and began learning the piano. Her mother sang and played piano at church while her two younger brothers sang in rock music bands. Those early experiences in church inspired her interest in music. When she was 14, her family moved to Placentia in Orange County, California. It was traumatic for Voigt, then in her teens, to adjust to Southern California, "land of endless sunshine and impossibly perfect bodies." She attended El Dorado High School, where she was a member of El Dorado's Vocal Music and Theater programs, starring in musicals including ''Fiddler on the Roof'', ''The Music Man'' and ''Mame''. At that time, Voigt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woldemar Voigt
Woldemar Voigt (; 2 September 1850 – 13 December 1919) was a German physicist, who taught at the Georg August University of Göttingen. Voigt eventually went on to head the Mathematical Physics Department at Göttingen and was succeeded in 1914 by Peter Debye, who took charge of the theoretical department of the Physical Institute. In 1921, Debye was succeeded by Max Born. Biography Voigt was born in Leipzig, and died in Göttingen. He was a student of Franz Ernst Neumann. He worked on crystal physics, thermodynamics and electro-optics. His main work was the ''Lehrbuch der Kristallphysik'' (textbook on crystal physics), first published in 1910. He discovered the Voigt effect in 1898. The word tensor in its current meaning was introduced by him in 1898. Voigt profile and Voigt notation are named after him. He was also an amateur musician and became known as a Bach expert (see External links). In 1887 Voigt formulated a form of the Lorentz transformation between a rest frame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Voigt
Alexander Voigt (born 13 April 1978) is a German association football, football manager and former player. Playing career Born in Cologne, Voigt started his career with 1. FC Köln (1998–2005), where he also started to play when he was only nine years old. He also played in the Netherlands for Roda Kerkrade (2005–2006), before moving to FC Carl Zeiss Jena, where he played for only half a year. In 2007, he joined Borussia Mönchengladbach, in winter 2009 he was released by the same club and moved on 12 January 2009 to SpVgg Greuther Fürth. On 15 June 2009, it was announced he would be released by Greuther Fürth and one day later, on 16 June 2009, he signed a contract with FSV Frankfurt. On 15 July 2010, he announced his return to Carl Zeiss Jena but was sacked in March 2012 by the club. In July 2012 he signed for Viktoria Köln. Coaching career In January 2014 Voigt was hired as assistant coach of FC Viktoria Köln. In the beginning of December 2014, Voigt was appointed ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Voigt
Irma Elizabeth Voigt (September 1, 1882 – May 9, 1953) was an American educator. She was the first Dean of Women at Ohio University; she held that office from 1913 until her retirement in 1949. Early life Voigt was born in Quincy, Illinois, the daughter of Henry G. Voigt and Mary Tuffli Voigt. In 1913 she earned a PhD in German at the University of Illinois; her master's thesis and doctoral dissertation were both about German-American writer Therese Albertine Luise Robinson, also known as "Frau Talvj". Career Voigt taught school and was a high school principal in Illinois as a young woman. She was the first Dean of Women at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, holding that title from 1913 to 1949. She recalled that, upon arrival in 1913, the president of the university said to her, "I don't know what a dean of women's for, and I suspect you don't know what you're to do. Get busy and find out." As dean, Voigt held weekly fireside chat sessions in her home, and led Saturday hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Voigt
Werner Voigt (born 26 June 1947) is a German football coach and former player. Voigt joined the youth department of BFC Dynamo in 1964. One if his coaches was former East German national Herbert Schoen. Voigt eventually made his first appearance with the first team of BFC Dynamo in the second round of the 1967-68 FDGB-Pokal against HFC Chemie on 26 December 1967. He then made 10 appearances for BFC Dynamo in the 1967-68 DDR-Liga Nord. Voigt made his debut for BFC Dynamo in the DDR-Oberliga against F.C. Hansa Rostock in the fourth matchday of the 1968-69 DDR-Oberliga on 7 September 1968. He would make a number of appearances for BFC Dynamo in the DDR-Oberliga in the following seasons. Voigt was then transferred to sports community FSG Dynamo Frankfurt in 1969. FSG Dynamo Frankfurt played in the third tier Bezirksliga at the time. Voigt returned to BFC Dynamo in 1970, where he joined the reserve team BFC Dynamo II in the second tier DDR-Liga. He would also make a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Augustus Voigt
Frederick Augustus Voigt (9 May 1892 – 8 January 1957) was a British journalist and author of German descent, most famous for his work with the ''Manchester Guardian'' and his opposition to dictatorship and totalitarianism on the European Continent. Life Voigt was born in Hampstead, London, on 9 May 1892, the fourth child of Ludwig Voigt (a wine merchant) and his wife Helene Hoffmann. Both his parents had been born in Germany, but became naturalised British subjects before his birth. He therefore grew up in a multi-lingual household, spent summer holidays in France and Germany and became fluent in both French and German. Voigt was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Birkbeck College, London, where he at first studied biology before abandoning the natural sciences for literature and modern languages. In 1915 he graduated with a first-class honours degree in old and modern Germanic languages from King's College London, and he worked briefly as a schoolmaster, teachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Voigt
Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German impostor who, in 1906, masqueraded as a Prussian military officer, rounded up a number of soldiers under his "command", and "confiscated" more than 4,000 marks from a municipal treasury. Although he served two years in prison, he became a folk hero as "the Captain of Köpenick" (german: der Hauptmann von Köpenick ) and was pardoned by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Early life Voigt was born in Tilsit, Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast). In 1863, aged 14, he was sentenced to 14 days in prison for theft, which led to his expulsion from school. He learned shoemaking from his father. Between 1864 and 1891, Voigt was sentenced to prison for a total of 25 years for thefts, forgery and burglary. The longest sentence was a 15-year conviction for an unsuccessful burglary of a court cashier's office. He was released on 12 February 1906. Voigt drifted from place to place until he went to live with his sister in Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt (born May 9, 1943) is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont. Biography Voigt was born May 9, 1943, in Danville, Virginia. She grew up in Chatham, Virginia, graduated from Converse College, and received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She has taught at M.I.T. and Goddard College where in 1976 she developed and directed the nation's first low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. Since 1981 she has taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She has published six collections of poetry and a collection of craft essays. Her poetry collection ''Shadow of Heaven'' (2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award and ''Kyrie'' (1995) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her collection ''Messenger'' (2008) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her poetry has been published in several national publications. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont for four years and in 2003 was elected a Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt (born February 25, 1942) is an American writer of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, ''Homecoming'', was nominated for several international prizes and adapted as a 1996 film. Her novel ''Dicey's Song'' won the 1983 Newbery Medal. Voigt received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1995 recognizing her contribution in writing for teens. Life Cynthia Voigt was born February 25, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and worked in advertising in New York City. In 1964, she married and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she started teaching. She taught second grade (and one high school English class) at the Key School in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1966 to 1971. She divorced in 1972, and taught high school English in Glen Burnie, Maryland. She began writing again and remarried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Voigt
Georg Voigt was a German historian who was born in 1827 in Königsberg in East Prussia. He died in Leipzig in 1891. Voigt was the son of the historian Johannes Voigt. Voigt belonged to the founders of modern research into the Italian Renaissance along with Jacob Burckhardt. In 1860, Voigt was called by Heinrich von Sybel to the University of Rostock as professor of history. In 1866, he became professor of history at the University of Leipzig, following the historian Wilhelm Wachsmuth. His research was into the topics of humanism in the 15th and 16th centuries and the history of the Schmalkaldic war. Unlike Burckhardt, Voigt described only the first century of a movement which came from Renaissance Florence and spread all through Europe. Burckhardt described all features of Italian society of the Renaissance. Their research methods were very different. Burckhardt was more a cultural historian with a historic-philosophical method. Voigt, in the methodical scholarship of Leopold v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Voigt
Stuart Alan "Stu" Voigt (born August 12, 1948) is a former American football player. He played tight end for 11 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). High School and College Career Born in the Westmorland district of Madison, Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, he graduated from Madison West High School in 1966, where he was an all-state running back and track and field standout. His state record in shot put of in 1966 stood for 39 years. Voight accepted a football scholarship to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where also played on the baseball and track and field team. Voight batted .350 in his two baseball seasons with the Badgers, while his track and field team won Big Ten Championships in all his seasons at the University. On the football team, he was a star halfback and tight end on some of the worst teams in Wisconsin Badgers football, Badger history, which won just three games in his three varsity years of 1967 Wisconsin Badgers f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
