Waitz
Waitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Hans Waitz, German Biblical scholar *Georg Waitz, German historian and politician *Grete Waitz, Norwegian long distance runner *Theodor Waitz, German psychologist and anthropologist See also * Weitz *Weiz Weiz () is a town in the eastern part of the Austrian state of Styria. Population International relations Twin towns – Sister cities Weiz is twinned with: * Ajka, Hungary * Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland * Offenburg Offenburg ("open borou ...

Grete Waitz
Grete Waitz (, 1 October 195319 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, the highest number of victories in a single big city marathon in history. She won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki. She was also a five-time winner of the World Cross Country Championships. Waitz four times set a world record in the marathon, twice at the 3000 metres, and she set world records at distances of 8 kilometers, 10 kilometers, 15 kilometers and 10 miles. She won 12 World Marathon Majors, the most for any runner, earning her a place in the ''Guinness World Records''. Her other marathon victories included winning the London Marathon in 1983 and 1986 and the Stockholm Mar ...
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Georg Waitz
Georg Waitz (9 October 1813 – 24 May 1886) was a German medieval historian and politician. Waitz is often spoken of as the leading disciple of Leopold von Ranke, though perhaps he had more affinity with Georg Heinrich Pertz or Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann. He concentrated on medieval German history. Biography He was born at Flensburg, in the duchy of Schleswig, and educated at the Flensburg gymnasium and the universities of Kiel and Berlin. The influence of Ranke early diverted him from his original purpose of studying law, and while still a student he began researches in German medieval history, his life's work. On graduating at Berlin in August 1836, Waitz went to Hanover to assist Pertz in publishing the ''Monumenta Germaniae historica''; and it led to the chair of history at Kiel in 1842. Waitz began to take an interest in politics, and in 1846 entered the provincial diet as representative of his university. His leanings were strongly German, so that he annoyed the Danish ...
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Theodor Waitz
Theodor Waitz (17 March 182121 May 1864) was a German psychologist and anthropologist. His research in psychology brought him into touch with anthropology, and he will be best remembered by his monumental work in six volumes, ''Die Anthropologie der Naturvölker'' ("The anthropology of peoples that live close to nature"). Biography Waitz was born at Gotha and educated at the universities of Leipzig and Jena. He made philosophy, philology and mathematics his chief studies, and in 1848 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg (full professor, 1862). He was a severe critic of the philosophy of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, and considered psychology to be the basis of all philosophy. He died in Marburg. Theorizing boredom Theodor Waitz contributed significantly as an affective psychologist, particularly in the field of conceptualizing boredom.According to Waitz, boredom was about flow of thoughts. As one thought begets another, expectations o ...
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Hans Waitz
Johannes Waitz, also Hans Waitz, was a German Biblical scholar specializing in the New Testament Apocrypha and source-critical studies. He was an Evangelical pastor in Darmstadt until 1927, and not to be confused with the Austrian Catholic bishop of the same name. He was the advocate of a Petrine source text for Acts 8:5-25. and attempted to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 as part of the lost Gospel of the Nazarenes The Gospel of the Nazarenes (also ''Nazareans'', ''Nazaraeans'', ''Nazoreans'', or ''Nazoraeans'') is the traditional but hypothetical name given by some scholars to distinguish some of the references to, or citations of, non-canonical Jewish-Chri .... Waitz was the first to recognize parallel accounts in the two major pseudo-Clementines and postulated a "basic document" dated to the third century.Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard ''Mercer dictionary of the Bible'' p161 1990 "Hans Waitz recognized the parallel accounts in the two major pseudo-Clementines and post ...
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Weitz
Weitz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Brian Weitz (born 1979), American musician * Bruce Weitz (born 1943), American actor * Chris Weitz (born 1969), Academy Award nominated producer, writer and director * David A. Weitz (born 1951), American physicist * Eduard Weitz (born 1946), Israeli Olympic weightlifter * Jeffrey Weitz, contemporary Canadian biochemist * John Weitz, (1923–2002), American fashion designer, historian and novelist * Julie Weitz (born 1979), American virtual artist * Kristine Weitz (born 1962), American singer and songwriter * Margaret Weitz (born 1929), American cultural scientist * Mark Weitz (born 1945), keyboard player * Morris Weitz (1916-1981), American aesthetician * Paul J. Weitz (1932–2017), American astronaut * Paul Weitz (filmmaker) (born 1965), American filmmaker * Perry Weitz, contemporary American lawyer * Yechiam Weitz (born 1951), Israeli historian * Yosef Weitz (1890–1972), director of the Land and Affor ...
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