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Werner (name)
Werner is a name of German language, German origin. Werner, meaning “the defender” or “the defending warrior”, is common both as a given name and a surname. There are alternate spellings, such as the Scandinavian language, Scandinavian ''Verner (other), Verner''. The name was popular in the House of Habsburg, Habsburg family. *Werner I (Bishop of Strasbourg) (c. 980 – 1028) *Werner I, Count of Habsburg (c. 1025 – 1096) *Werner II, Count of Habsburg (d. 1167) People with the surname A–H *Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), German geologist *Alfred Werner (1866–1919), Swiss Nobel Prize–winning chemist *André Werner (born 1960), German composer *Annette Werner (born 1966), German mathematician *Anton von Werner (1843–1915), German painter *Björn Werner (born 1990), German player of American football *Brian Werner (born 1966), American Tiger Conservationist, founder of Tiger Missing Link Foundation *Buddy Werner, Buddy (Wallace Jerold) Werner (1936 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Anton Von Werner
Anton Alexander von Werner (9 May 18434 January 1915) was a German painter known for his history paintings of notable political and military events in the Kingdom of Prussia.Fulbrook, Mary and John Breuilly (1997) ''German History Since 1800'' "Oxford University Press US". 640 p. . One of the most famous painters of his time, he is regarded a main protagonist of the Wilhelmine Period. Biography Werner was born in Frankfurt (Oder) in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, the son of a carpenter. His family originally came from East Prussia and was ennobled (''von'') in 1701. He began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in 1857 and from 1860 onwards studied painting at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. One year later, he pursued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, where he studied with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Ludwig des Coudres, Adolf Schroedter, and Karl Friedrich Lessing. In Karlsruhe, Werner met with artists like Eduard Devrient, Johannes Brahm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Werner
Gerhard Werner (1921–2012) was a medical doctor and scholar active in research covering areas of pharmacology, psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, especially neurodynamics, artificial intelligence, and complexity theory. During his career, and continuing after his retirement in 1989, he published just over a hundred scientific papers and held administrative posts in government, academic and corporate institutions. Werner graduated from the University of Vienna Medical School in 1945, and continued studies in mathematics, theoretical physics, and later Psychoanalysis. He joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and served in Calcutta, India and Sao Paulo, Brazil. He worked at Cornell Medical College and Johns Hopkins University with Vernon Mountcastle. He was instrumental in introducing the neuropharmacological use of Succinylcholine. Werner became Chairman of the Pharmacology Department, and later Dean of the Medical School, at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1984, Werner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Werner
Karl Oskar Georg Werner (8 April 1904 – 26 August 2002) was a Swedish freestyle Freestyle may refer to: Brands * Reebok Freestyle, a women's athletic shoe * Ford Freestyle, an SUV automobile * Coca-Cola Freestyle, a vending machine * ICD Freestyle, a paintball marker * Abbott FreeStyle, a blood glucose monitor by Abbott La ... swimmer who won bronze medals in the 4 × 200 m relay at the 1924 Olympics and 1926 European Championships. References 1904 births 2002 deaths Olympic swimmers of Sweden Swimmers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Swedish male freestyle swimmers European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Stockholm {{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Werner
Fritz Werner (15 December 1898 – 22 December 1977) was a German choral conductor, church music director, conductor, organist and composer. He founded the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn in 1947 and conducted it until 1973. Career Born in Berlin, Werner studied at the Berliner Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik, the University in Berlin and at the Preußische Akademie der Künste. His teachers were Wolfgang Reimann, Arthur Egidi, Fritz Heitmann, Richard Münnich, Carl Stumpf and Georg Schumann (composition, organ), Kurt Schubert (piano), Max Seiffert and Johannes Wolf (history of music), Richard Hagel (conducting). In 1935 he became organist at the Bethlehem Church in Potsdam-Babelsberg and a school teacher. In 1936 he became organist and cantor at St. Nicholas' Church in Potsdam, promoted to Kirchenmusikdirektor (director of church music) in 1938. In 1939 he became music director at Radio Paris. After World War II he was organist and cantor at St. Kilian's Church in Heilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zacharias Werner
Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner (November 18, 1768 – January 17, 1823) was a German poet, dramatist, and preacher. As a dramatist, he is known mainly for inaugurating the era of the so-called "tragedies of fate". Biography Werner was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. At the University of Königsberg, he studied law and attended Kant's lectures. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Rousseau's German disciples were also influences that shaped his view of life. He lived an irregular life and entered a series of unsuccessful marriages. However his talent was soon recognized, and in 1793 he became chamber secretary in the Prussian service in Warsaw. In 1805 he obtained a government post in Berlin, but two years later he retired from the public service in order to travel. In the course of his travels, and by correspondence, Werner became acquainted with many eminent literary figures of the time, for example Goethe at Weimar and Madame de Staël at Coppet. At Rome, he joined the Roman Catho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Werner
Franz Josef Maria Werner (15 August 1867 in Vienna – 28 February 1939 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms. His father introduced him at age six to reptiles and amphibians. A brilliant student, he corresponded often with George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937) and Oskar Boettger (1844–1910) who encouraged his studies with these animals. Werner obtained his doctorate in Vienna in 1890 and then after spending a year in Leipzig, began to teach at the Vienna Institute of Zoology. In 1919, he became tenured as a professor, maintaining this title until his retirement in 1933. Although working close to the Vienna Natural History Museum, he could not use their herpetological collections, after the death of its director, Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who did not like Werner, and had barred him from accessing the collec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Von Werner
Franz Xaver Karl Georg Arthur von Werner, better known by his pseudonym and Muslim name Murad Effendi, (Vienna, 30 May 1836 – The Hague, 12 September 1881) was an Austrian writer, nobleman and later diplomat for the Ottoman Empire. Biography He was the son of Franz von Werner, a Croatian landowner of Austro-German origin, and his wife, the former Eleonore Pfeiffer. After completing high school he joined an Austrian cavalry regiment. During the Russo-Turkish Crimean War he became an officer in the Turkish Army, converting to Islam. In 1856, after the third Peace of Paris, Werner entered politics. As a secretary with special powers he was dispatched on an extraordinary mission for the Affairs of Montenegro and Herzegovina and was later personal secretary of Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha. In 1859 he undertook a special mission to Bucharest, and in 1860 to Palermo. In 1864 he was the Turkish Consul for the Banat headquartered in Timișoara. During his stay in Timișoara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Werner
Éric Werner (born 1940) is a Swiss philosopher, journalist and essayist. Biography He studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is a retired professor of the University of Geneva.''Eric Werner: de l'extermination'', by P. Monthélie, Nouvelles de Synergies européennes, n°42, September–October 1999, page 3 Works * ''De la violence au totalitarisme, essai sur la pensée de Camus et de Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lite ...'', Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1972. * ''Mystique et politique : études de philosophie politique'', L'Âge d'Homme, Lausanne et Paris, 1979, . * Jan Marejko and Éric Werner, ''De la misère intellectuelle et morale en Suisse romande'' 'nouvelle édition, avec une postface d'Éric Werner'' L'Âge d'Homme, Lausanne et Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmy Werner
Emmy E. Werner (1929 – October 12, 2017) was an American developmental psychologist known for her research on risk and resilience in children. Early life She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a ''professor emerita'' in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. Career Werner was best known for her leadership of a 40-year longitudinal study of 698 infants born on the Hawaiian island of Kauai — the island's entire birth cohort for the year 1955. The study found that many children exposed to reproductive and environmental risk factors (for instance, premature birth coupled with an unstable household and a mentally ill mother) go on to experience more problems with delinquency, mental and physical health and family stability than children exposed to fewer such risk factors. Among Werner's most significant findings was that one third of all high-risk children displayed resilience and developed into caring, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Werner
Carla Werner is a singer and songwriter from New Zealand who began her music career at age 11. At age 12 she won the New Zealand Junior Entertainer of the Year for country music, and went on to win the junior category of New Zealand's first televised talent show 'Telequest' in 1986, hosted by Mark Leishman and judged by Ray Columbus. After migrating to Australia in 1989, and moving to Sydney in 1992, she joined The Cool Tin Box in 1994, a short-lived acoustic-rock quintet formed by Matt Rankin and ex Go-Between Lindy Morrison on drums featuring lead guitarist Tim Cooper. When they disbanded the following year, she and Cooper began performing together as an acoustic duo, before Werner went out on her own to perform original music. She often worked with Sydney-based musicians Dario Botolin (bass) and Lucius Borich (drums) and Chris Nelius (lead guitar). Werner signed her first major record deal in 2002 with Columbia Records, Sony Music (New York City) and was followed by the release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Werner
Carl Wilhelm Otto Werner (1 February 1879 – 5 June 1936) was a German physician, after whom Werner syndrome, a form of progeria, was named. As a medical student in 1903, Werner observed the syndrome in four siblings near the age of 30. He documented his observations in his inaugural dissertation in 1904. Werner was born in Flensburg, the son of a provincial councillor. He attended school in Kiel and qualified to practice medicine at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in 1904. He served as an army doctor with the Infantry Regiment at Holstein and, in 1906, in Kiel, he married the daughter of a physician. He then began a rural medical practice based in Eddelak, a small German town near the Danish border. There, he remained for the rest of his life, except for his service as a medical officer with the German Navy during World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligeren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
