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Waldmeier
Waldmeier is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Marie-Luce Waldmeier (born 1960), French alpine skier * Max Waldmeier (1912–2000), Swiss astronomer * Theophilus Waldmeier Theophilus Waldmeier (1832 in Basel – 1915) was a Swiss Quaker missionary. Married Susan Bell, eldest daughter of John Bell, at Magdala, Ethiopia on 4 December 185 He was held prisoner by Ethiopian Tewodros II of Ethiopia, King Theodore an ... (1832–1915), Swiss Quaker missionary {{surname German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Waldmeier
Max Waldmeier (18 April 1912 – 26 September 2000) was a Swiss astronomer, known for his research on sunspots. As director of the Zurich Observatory until 1980, Waldmeier insisted on counting sunspots by eye over automated methods, using a Fraunhofer refracting telescope installed by Zurich Observatory director Rudolf Wolf in 1849.Jonathon Keats (2015"The 315-Year-Old Science Experiment" ''Nautilus'', 26 March 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2016. Legacy Waldmeier was known for his "stubborn traditionalism" about how sunspots should be studied. He has been variously described as "one of the leading personalities in solar physics of the 20th century"Jan Olof Stenflo (2000"Obituary: Max Waldmeier 1912-2000"''SolarNews: The Electronic Newsletter of the Solar Physics Division, American Astronomical Society'', 2000(21): ed. Stephen R. Walton. 2 November 2000. Retrieved 11 June 2016. and "the most arrogant astronomer in Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophilus Waldmeier
Theophilus Waldmeier (1832 in Basel – 1915) was a Swiss Quaker missionary. Married Susan Bell, eldest daughter of John Bell, at Magdala, Ethiopia on 4 December 185 He was held prisoner by Ethiopian Tewodros II of Ethiopia, King Theodore and later released by General Napier's British troops at the siege of Magdala, Ethiopia in 1868. He went to Beirut with the British Syrian Mission (which was founded in 1860). He started the Friends' Syrian Mission in 1873, founded Brummana High School Brummana High School (BHS, ar, مدرسة برمانا العالية) is a private school in Lebanon. It is located in the village of Brummana, situated in Metn, Mount Lebanon, east of the capital city Beirut. This school was established in ... in 1873 and the Asfuriya Mental Hospital in 1894. In 1874, he traveled to Europe to seek financial backing from the Society of Friends. British and American Quakers provided support for the Brummana School. :fr:Theophil Waldmeier Notes 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Luce Waldmeier
Marie-Luce Waldmeier (born 1 July 1960 in Ambilly) is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics and 1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр .... External links sports-reference.com* 1960 births Living people French female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for France Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Haute-Savoie Skiers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 20th-century French women People from Ambilly {{france-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Surname
Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the " Western order" of "given name, surname", unless it occurs in an alphabetized list of surnames, e.g. " Bach, Johann Sebastian". In this, the German conventions parallel the naming conventions in most of Western and Central Europe, including English, Dutch, Italian, and French. There are some vestiges of a patronymic system as they survive in parts of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, but these do not form part of the official name. Women traditionally adopted their husband's name upon marriage and would occasionally retain their maiden name by hyphenation, in a so-called '' Doppelname'', e.g. "Else Lasker-Schüler". Recent legislation motivated by gender equality now allows a married couple to choose the surname they want to use, including an option ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
