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Wolff
Wolff is a variant of the Wolf surname which is derived from the baptismal names Wolfgang or Wolfram. List of people surnamed Wolff A * Albert Wolff (other), several people * Alex Wolff, American actor * Alexander Wolff, American writer * Alexander Wolff (soldier), (1788–1863), British officer who served under the Duke of Wellington * Andreas Wolff (born 1991), German handball player * Auguste Wolff (1821–1887), French piano maker B * Betje Wolff (1738–1804), Dutch writer * Bernard Wolff (1811–1879), German media mogul * Bernard Wolff Beffie (1872–1943), Dutch chess master and dermatologist * Beverly Wolff (1928–2005), American mezzo-soprano * Bobby Wolff (born 1932), American bridge player C * Carl Gustaf Wolff, a prominent Finnish shipowner and businessman * Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1734–1794), founder of embryology * Christian Wolff (other), several people * Christoph Wolff (born 1940), German-born musicologist * Cynthia Griffin Wolff (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf (surname)
Wolf is a given name and a surname. It is common among Germanic-speaking peoples, alongside variants such as Wulf. Names which translate to English "wolf" are also common among other nations, including many Native American peoples within the current or former extent of the habitat of the grey wolf (essentially all of North America). Geographical distribution As of 2014, 53.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Wolf'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:413), 27.4% of the United States (1:3,608), 3.9% of Austria (1:596), 2.5% of Brazil (1:21,995), 1.4% of Switzerland (1:1,622), 1.2% of the Netherlands (1:3,735) and 1.0% of France (1:17,534). In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:413) in the following states:Wolf surname distribution at forebears.io # |
Christoph Wolff
Christoph Wolff (born 24 May 1940) is a German musicologist. He is best known for his works on the music, life, and period of Johann Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University, and was part of the faculty since 1976, and former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 2001 to 2014. Life and career He was born in Solingen, the son of theologian Hans Walter Wolff. He studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology, and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and the Music Academy of Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a PhD in 1966. Wolff taught music history at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976 as Professor of Music and retiring in 2014. He was also on the graduate faculty of the Juilliard School from 2010–2018. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Saxon Academy of Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Wolff
Frederick Ferdinand Wolff, CBE, TD (13 October 1910 – 26 January 1988) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Early life On 13 October 1910, Wolff was born in British Hong Kong, the eldest son of a family of four children. Wolff was a member of the Kowloon Cricket Club, where he won his first race in 1919. Wolff and his family returned to England. Wolff attended Shirley House Preparatory School and Beaumont College in Windsor, England.Freddie Wolff . Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-01-23. Career Frederick Wolff won the British in in 1933. At the 1936 |
Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Franklin Merrell-Wolff (born Franklin Fowler Wolff; 11 July 1887 – 4 October 1985) was an American mystic and esoteric philosopher. After formal education in philosophy and mathematics at Stanford and Harvard, Wolff devoted himself to the goal of transcending the normal limits of human consciousness. After exploring various mystical teachings and paths, he dedicated himself to the path of jnana yoga and the writings of Shankara, the expounder of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. Life Franklin Fowler Wolff was born in Pasadena, California in 1887.Versluis, Arthur (2014). American Gurus: From American Transcendentalism to New Age Religion, , p. 84 He was raised as a Methodist, but abandoned Christianity during his youth. Wolff studied mathematics and philosophy at Stanford and Harvard. At Stanford, he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1911. He briefly taught mathematics at Stanford in 1914, but left academia the following year. In 1920, Wolff married Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wolff (other)
Frank Wolff may refer to: *Frank Wolff (actor) (1928–1971), American actor * Frank Wolff (comics), fictional character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé See also * Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887–1985), American mystical philosopher *Francis Wolff, record producer *Frank Wolf (other) *Frank Wolfe (other) Frank Wolfe may refer to: *Frank Delos Wolfe (1863–1926), architect in California *Frank Wolfe (before 1868–after 1906), English footballer in 1886–87 Royal Arsenal F.C. season *Frank Wolfe (fictional character), see List of ''American Picke ... * Wolff {{hndis, Wolff, Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of French Philosophers
A list of notable French philosophers: {{Columns-list, colwidth=22em, *Pierre Abélard *Sylviane Agacinski *Pierre d'Ailly * Alain *Ferdinand Alquié *Louis Althusser * Bernard Andrieu *Anselm of Laon *Antoine Arnauld *Raymond Aron *Gwenaëlle Aubry * Nicolas d'Autrecourt *Kostas Axelos *Pierre Hyacinthe Azais *Gaston Bachelard * Suzanne Bachelard *Élisabeth Badinter *Alain Badiou *Bonaventure *Étienne Balibar *Renaud Barbaras *Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire *Roland Barthes *Victor Basch * Frédéric Bastiat *Georges Bataille *Charles Batteux * Jean C. Baudet *Jean Baudrillard *Louis Eugène Marie Bautain *Pierre Bayle *Jean Beaufret * Émile Beaussire *Simone de Beauvoir *Gustave Belot *Julien Benda *Alain de Benoist * Daniel Bensaïd *Nikolai Berdyaev *Gaston Berger *Henri Bergson *Gilles Bernheim *François Bernier *Henri Berr *Jean-Michel Berthelot *Abdennour Bidar *Jacques Bidet * Guillaume Bigot *Maine de Biran * Michel Bitbol * Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet *Robert Blan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Wolff (philosopher)
Francis Wolff (April 5, 1907 – March 8, 1971) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. Wolff's skills, as an executive and a photographer, were important contributions to the success of the Blue Note record label. Career Jakob Franz "Franny" Wolff was born in Berlin, Germany, where he became a jazz enthusiast, despite the government ban placed on this type of music after 1933. After a career as a commercial photographer in Germany, Wolff emigrated to the United States. A Jew, he left Berlin for New York in the late 1930s. In 1939 in New York his childhood friend Alfred Lion had co-founded Blue Note Records (with sleeping partner Max Margulis, who soon dropped out of any involvement in the company), and Wolff joined Lion in running the company. During Lion's war service, Wolff worked for Milt Gabler at the Commodore Music Store, and together they maintained the company's catalogue until Lion was discharged. Until Lion retired in 1967, Wolff concen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Wolff
Francis Wolff (April 5, 1907 – March 8, 1971) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. Wolff's skills, as an executive and a photographer, were important contributions to the success of the Blue Note record label. Career Jakob Franz "Franny" Wolff was born in Berlin, Germany, where he became a jazz enthusiast, despite the government ban placed on this type of music after 1933. After a career as a commercial photographer in Germany, Wolff emigrated to the United States. A Jew, he left Berlin for New York in the late 1930s. In 1939 in New York his childhood friend Alfred Lion had co-founded Blue Note Records (with sleeping partner Max Margulis, who soon dropped out of any involvement in the company), and Wolff joined Lion in running the company. During Lion's war service, Wolff worked for Milt Gabler at the Commodore Music Store, and together they maintained the company's catalogue until Lion was discharged. Until Lion retired in 1967, Wolff concen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Victor Wolff
Ernst Victor Wolff (August 6, 1889 – August 21, 1960) was a German-born concert pianist and harpsichordist, who maintained a career not only as a soloist but also as a respected accompanist. Singers with whom he performed included Dorothy Maynor and Alexander Kipnis; he accompanied the latter in the Hugo Wolf Society recording project of the 1930s. As a harpsichordist, on February 20, 1938, he participated in the Carnegie Hall premiere of J.S. Bach's ''Coffee Cantata'' under the direction of Walter Damrosch; the other performers on that occasion included singers Charles Kullman, Helen Jepson, and Lawrence Tibbett; flutist Frances Blaisdell; violinists Jascha Heifetz and Sascha Jacobsen; violist Léon Barzin; cellist Gaspar Cassadó; and double bassist Anselme Fortier. From 1947 until his death, Wolff taught at Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Wolff
Enrique Ernesto "Quique" Wolff (born 21 February 1949) is an Argentine journalist and former football defender. He represented Argentina at the 1974 World Cup. Playing career Wolff, born in Victoria, Buenos Aires, began his career with Racing Club in 1967. He played for the club until he was transferred to River Plate in 1972. In 1974 Wolff was transferred to UD Las Palmas in Spain, and 3 years later he joined Spanish giants Real Madrid where he was part of the championship winning sides of 1977-1978 and 1978-1979. Wolff returned to Argentina in 1979 to play for Argentinos Juniors, but he only managed 8 appearances before retiring. Two years after his retirement Wolff turned out for Club Atlético Tigre in the Argentine 2nd division. Sports Caster In 1992, he started a football-related television show named ''Simplemente Fútbol'' (Just football) in Argentina, which first aired locally, then moved to the Telefe network, where it was transmitted from 1993 to 1996. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau
Elise Eugenie Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (died in 1926, aged 83) was a British suffragette. She was imprisoned three times, for smashing windows and went on hunger strike. She was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour'. She was also a musician and a founder of London's women's chess club and an active vegetarian. Research by the British Library suggests that she used different spellings of her name, including Elsie when arrested as a suffragette. Life and suffrage activism Elise Eugenie Mathilde Wolff was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1843. She was the granddaughter of Dr. E. Schwabe, private chaplain to the Duchess of Kent. She was a pianist, a music teacher and became a founder member of the London Ladies Chess Club, and became a leader in vegetarian groups. Research by the British Library suggests that she used different spellings of her name, including Elsie when arrested as a suffragette. Wolff Van Sandau joined the militant Women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Wolff Van Sandau
Elsie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Elsie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lily Elsie (1886–1952), English actress and singer born Elsie Hodder * Robert Elsie (1950–2017), Canadian expert in Albanian culture and affairs * Hahm Eun-jung (born 1988), South Korean singer and actress known professional as Elsie, a member of T-ara Places United States * Elsie, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Elsie, Michigan, a village * Elsie, Nebraska, village * Lake Elsie, in North Dakota Canada * Elsie Island, Nunavut * Elsie Lake, in British Columbia Music * ''Elsie'' (album), the 2011 début album by The Horrible Crowes * ''Elsie'' (musical) ** "Elsie", a song from ''Elsie'' (musical) Other uses * USS ''Elsie III'' (SP-708), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919, later USC&G ''Elsie III'', a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship from 1919 to 1944 * Elsie (robot), an autonomous robot built by Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
