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Willi
Willi is a given name, nickname (often a short form or hypocorism of Wilhelm) and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-American musicologist * Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991), Austrian violinist and conductor * Willi Forst (1903–1980), born Wilhelm Anton Frohs, Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer * Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist * Willi Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire * Willi Smith (1948–1987), African-American fashion designer * Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), German paleontologist Nickname * Willi Graf (1918–1943), member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group under consideration for sainthood * Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940), German communist political activist and publisher * Willi Orbán (born 1992), German-Hungarian footballer * Willi Ostermann (1876–1936), German lyricist, composer and singer of carnival songs and songs about C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Smith
Willi Donnell Smith (February 29, 1948 – April 17, 1987) was an American fashion designer. At the time of his death, Smith was regarded as one of the most successful African-American designers in the fashion industry. His company, WilliWear Limited, launched in 1976 and by 1986 grossed over $25 million in sales. After Smith's death, his business partner, Laurie Mallet, continued the line with various designers creating collections. Without Smith, the company foundered and due to financial problems and poor sales, WilliWear Limited ceased production in 1990. WilliWear was the first clothing company to create womenswear and menswear under the same label. The accessibility and affordability of Smith's clothing helped to democratize fashion. Early years Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Willie Lee Smith, an iron worker, and June Eileen Smith, a homemaker, both of whom were extremely clothes-conscious. Smith's grandmother was the housekeeper for a family that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Graf
Wilhelm Graf (better known as Willi Graf) (2 January 1918 – 12 October 1943) was a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group in Nazi Germany. The Catholic Church in Germany included Graf in their list of martyrs of the 20th century. In 2017, his cause for beatification was opened. Early life Willi Graf was born in Kuchenheim near Euskirchen. In 1922, his family moved to Saarbrücken, where his father ran a wine wholesaler and managed the Johannishof, the second largest banquet hall in the city.Saarbrücker Zeitung (1. January 2018)So lebte Willi Graf im Saarland/ref> Graf attended school at the ''Ludwigs gymnasium''. It was not long before he joined, at the age of eleven, the ''Bund Neudeutschland'', a Catholic youth movement for young men in schools of higher learning, which was banned after Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1934, Graf joined the ''Grauer Orden'' ("Grey Order"), another Catholic movement which became known for its anti-Nazi rheto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Orbán
Vilmos Tamás Orbán (born 3 November 1992), known as Willi Orbán, is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for German Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. Born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, he plays internationally for the Hungary national team, for whom he qualifies through his father. Personal life Orbán was born and grew up in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany to a Hungarian father and a mother of Polish descent. However, his parents split up when he was two, leaving his mother to raise him and his sister, Sandra. Growing up, Orban said: "when I was a kid at home, I shot everything with my football. A few flower vases and bottles, nothing wild, but it was enough that Mama said: The boy has too much energy, we prefer to put it in a football club. Since she has done everything right." He revealed that his father was a karate master in his youth. Because of his Hungarian father, Orbán has a Hungarian passport. Orbán attended Heinrich Heine High School in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William (given Name)
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans (true flies). Hennig coined the key terms synapomorphy, symplesiomorphy, and paraphyly. He also asserted, in his "auxiliary principle", that "the presence of apomorphous characters in different species 'is always reason for suspecting kinship .e., that species belong to a monophyletic group and that their origin by convergence should not be presumed a priori' (Hennig, 1953). This was based on the conviction that 'phylogenetic systematics would lose all ground on which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Münzenberg
Wilhelm "Willi" Münzenberg (14 August 1889, Erfurt, Germany – June 1940, Saint-Marcellin, France) was a German Communist political activist and publisher. Münzenberg was the first head of the Young Communist International in 1919–20 and established the famine-relief and propaganda organization Workers International Relief in 1921. He was a leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Era, but later grew disenchanted with the USSR due to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. Condemned by Stalin to be purged and arrested for treason,Koch, Stephen, ''Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals'', New York: Enigma Books (2004), Revised Edition, pp. 14, 20, 77, 90–91, 333, 362 Münzenberg left the KPD and in Paris became a leader of the German émigré anti-fascism and anti-Stalinist community until forced to flee the Nazi advance into France in 1940. Arrested and imprisoned by the Daladier government i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Schmid
Willi is a given name, nickname (often a short form or hypocorism of Wilhelm) and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-American musicologist * Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991), Austrian violinist and conductor * Willi Forst (1903–1980), born Wilhelm Anton Frohs, Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer * Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist * Willi Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire * Willi Smith (1948–1987), African-American fashion designer * Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), German paleontologist Nickname * Willi Graf (1918–1943), member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group under consideration for sainthood * Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940), German communist political activist and publisher * Willi Orbán (born 1992), German-Hungarian footballer * Willi Ostermann (1876–1936), German lyricist, composer and singer of carnival songs and songs about Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Willi
Herbert Willi (born ) is an Austrian composer of classical music, whose orchestral works, concertos and chamber music have been performed internationally and also recorded. Willi composed an opera, ''Schlafes Bruder'', for the Opernhaus Zürich. Life Willi was born in Bludenz, Vorarlberg. He studied music pedagogy and theology at the University of Innsbruck, and simultaneously bassoon and piano at the Innsbruck conservatory. From 1983, he studied composition with Helmut Eder at the Salzburg Mozarteum, then with Boguslaw Schaeffer. He lives in Sankt Anton im Montafon. Work Willi's work comprises an opera, orchestral works, and chamber music, including compositions for one player. Willi received a commission from the Salzburg Festival and the Cleveland Orchestra in 1991 for ''Konzert für Orchester''. The premiere was conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. In 1994/95, the Opernhaus Zürich commissioned the opera ''Schlafes Bruder'' on the occasion of Austria's millennial, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Willi
Andreas Jonathan Willi (born 17 December 1972 in Altstätten) is a Swiss linguist, philologist, and classicist. He is currently the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He is one of the editors of . In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2019, Willi was awarded the Humboldt Prize. Academic career Willi studied Classics and Slavonic Languages and Literature at the University of Basel ( lic.phil. in 1997), and comparative philology at the Universities of Lausanne, Michigan, and Fribourg (lic.phil in 1998). He completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in 2001 with a thesis on ''The languages of Aristophanes: aspects of linguistic variation in Classical Attic Greek'' under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies. During his time at Oxford, he was a member of Corpus Christi College. Between 2001 and 2004, he was a lecturer for Latin and Greek philology Phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Ostermann
Wilhelm "Willi" Ostermann (1 October 1876 – 6 August 1936) was a lyricist, composer and singer of carnival songs and songs about Cologne, primarily in the German dialect of Kölsch. The tune ''Homesick for Cologne'' is counted amongst his most famous pieces. In the year 1949, a monument was erected to commemorate the life and works of Willi Ostermann in the Seven Mountains' Nightingale Valley of Königswinter. References * Thomas Liessem, ''Willi Ostermann. Leben und Wirken des rheinischen Volkslieddichters''. Josef Höfer Köln, 1936. 2., veränderte Auflage 1951. Neuausgabe (um Noten erweitert) als: ''Willi Ostermann – Ein Leben für den Frohgesang am Rhein''. Willi Ostermann Verlag Köln, 1958. . * Wilhelm Staffel, ''Willi Ostermann''. Greven Verlag Köln, 1976. . * Hans W. Krupp, ''Willi Ostermann. Mundartdichter und Liedersänger.'' Stadt Köln 986 Year 986 ( CMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as '' Wiener Filme''. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG. Biography His first major role was opposite Marlene Dietrich in the silent film ''Café Elektric'' in 1927. However, he was best known for his characters in light musicals, which rapidly made him a star. He developed the genre of the Viennese Film with writer Walter Reisch in the 1930s, beginning with the Franz Schubert melodrama ''Leise flehen meine Lieder'' (1933) which became an iconic role for the actor Hans Jaray and '' Maskerade'' (1934), which launched his fame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy (other)
Willy is a masculine given name or nickname. Willy or Willie may also refer to: Music * ''Willie – Before His Time'', a 1977 album by country singer Willie Nelson * "Willy", a song by Joni Mitchell from '' Ladies of the Canyon'' * "Willie", a 2006 song by Cat Power from '' The Greatest'' Other uses * slang for the penis * Willy (surname), a list of people with the surname Willy or Willie * ''Willy'' (TV series), an American situation comedy * Willy (textile machine) * SS ''Willy'', a Dutch cargo ship in service from 1938 to 1939 * Willie, Georgia, a community in the United States * Willie Lake, a lake in Minnesota * '' Willie: An Autobiography'', an autobiography by Willie Nelson with the assistance of Bud Shrake See also * "Willy-willy", Australian name for a dust devil wind phenomenon * Wili (other) * Willys, an American automobile brand name, noted for its design of the Jeep ** John Willys, (1873–1935), founder of Willys automobile company * Willies (disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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