Wiesen (surname)

	Wiesen (surname) Wiesen is a German language habitational surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name. . Notable people with the name include: * Jonas Wiesen (1996), German coxswain * Jonathan Wiesen, American history professor {{surname German-language surnames German toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	German Language German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Habitational Surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name."Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.Iris Shagir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagir, Ellenblum & Riley-Smith, eds.), Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 49-59. Toponymic surnames originated as non-hereditary personal by-name s, and only subsequently came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jonas Wiesen Jonas Wiesen (born 18 July 1996) is a German coxswain. He has won medals at several World Rowing Championships The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation). It is a week-long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the .... References 1996 births Living people German coxswains (rowing) German male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Germany Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics {{Germany-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jonathan Wiesen Jonathan Wiesen is an American history professor. He is a professor of modern European history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and teaches courses on modern German history and the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a .... Wiesen's book '' West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955'' (2001) won the Hagley Prize in Business History in 2002. He is also coeditor of ''Selling Modernity: Advertising in 20th Century Germany'' (2007) and author of ''Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich'' (2011). External links Faculty Page at UAWhat do decaffeinated coffee and Hitler have to do with each otheNuremberg's EchoeGerman Industry and the Third ReichNazis, Jews, and African Americans at Charlottesvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	German-language Surnames German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]