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Wiessner Route
Wiessner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Fritz Wiessner (1900–1988), German-American pioneer of free climbing *Pauline Wiessner Pauline Wiessner (Polly W. Wiessner) is an American anthropologist who focused on cultural Anthropology. She is currently a professor at University of Utah. Wiessner has held various professor positions at Universities in the United States, Denmark ... (born 1947), American anthropologist * Siegfried Wiessner (born 1953), American law professor See also * Wiesner {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Wiessner
Fritz Wiessner (February 26, 1900 – July 3, 1988) was a German American pioneer of free climbing. Born in Dresden, Germany, he immigrated to New York City in 1929 and became a U.S. citizen in 1935. In 1939, he made one of the earliest attempts to climb K2, one of the most difficult mountains in the world to climb. Early days Wiessner started climbing with his father in the Austrian Alps before World War I. At the age of 12, he climbed the Zugspitze, the highest peak in Germany. In the 1920s, he established hard climbing routes in Saxony and the Dolomites that have a present-day difficulty rating of up to 5.11. That was at a time when the hardest free climbing grade in the United States was 5.7. At the age of 25, he made the first ascent of the ''Fleischbank'' in Tyrol, which was proclaimed the hardest rock climb done at that time. Wiessner's physical qualities were atypical of mountaineering. He was tall, slope-shouldered and stocky. He had a wide and friendly gri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Wiessner
Pauline Wiessner (Polly W. Wiessner) is an American anthropologist who focused on cultural Anthropology. She is currently a professor at University of Utah. Wiessner has held various professor positions at Universities in the United States, Denmark, and France and various positions in Universities and communities across the world. During her research she work with Ju/’hoansi Bushmen of the Kalahari in South Africa to learn about the social networks and Enga of Papua New Guinea to learn about their customs of exchange, ritual and warfare. Education Polly Wiessner received her bachelor's degree in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence University in 1969. In 1977 she received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her doctoral committee included Henry Wright, Richard Alexander, Kent Flannery, Richard Ford, and Aram Yengoyan. Career and research Wiessner has conducted ethnographic research as a research associate at the Max Planck Institute in Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Wiessner
Siegfried Wiessner (born 26 February 1953 in Germany) is a Professor of Law and the Founder and Director of St. Thomas University's Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights in Miami, Florida. He holds a law degree (1977) as well as a Dr. iur. (1989) from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and an LL.M. from the Yale Law School (1982). In 1986, he was elected member of the International Institute of Space Law. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Martinus Nijhoff's Studies in Intercultural Human Rights. From 1997 to 2000, he was a lecturer at thUN/UNITAR International Law Fellowship Program In October 2009 and November 2010, he served as Visiting Professor of Law at thCity University of Hong Kong In fall 2009, he was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. From 2007 to 2010, he was a member of the Executive Council of The American Society of International Law The American Society of International Law (ASIL), founded in 1906, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
