Schantz may refer to
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Von Schantz family
von Schantz is a noble family in the Swedish House of Nobility, Swedish and Finnish House of Nobility, Finnish Houses of Nobility. They are listed as Family Number 1255 by the Swedish House of Nobility, and as Number 95 by the Finnish House of Nob ...
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Johan Eberhard von Schantz
Johan Eberhard von Schantz (russian: Иван Иванович фон Шанц; 29 October 1802 – 3 January 1880) was a Finnish-born admiral in the Russian Imperial Navy, ship designer and explorer.
Life
Schantz was born in the Western Finn ...
(1802–1880), Finnish admiral in the
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a ...
von Schantz, Johan Eberhard
*** Schantz Islands
Wotho Atoll ( Marshallese: , ) is a coral atoll of 13 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only , but it encloses a lagoon of . The name "Wotho" means eit ...
, a coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups.
Co ...
on the Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands ( mh, Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ( mh, Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ),'' () is an independent island country and microstate near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the Internati ...
, also known as ''Wotho''. Discovered by Johan Eberhard von Schantz on his circumnavigation of the globe on the Imperial Russian ship ''America''.
* Barbara Schantz
Barbara Schantz was a police officer in Springfield, Ohio when she appeared nude in the May 1982 issue of ''Playboy''. Her pictorial was photographed by staff photographer Pompeo Posar. She was born in Enon, Ohio. Her story was made into the 1983 ...
, a police officer and Playboy model
* (1928–1998), Swedish artist
* Peter Schantz
Peter Gösta Schantz, born on 28 April 1954 in Stockholm, Sweden, graduated as doctor in medical sciences at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1986, became professor in human movement sciences at Mid-Sweden University in Östersund, J ...
, a Swedish researcher
* (born 1950), German philosopher
See also
* The Schantz Organ Co(mpany).
* ''Schanz Schanz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Martin Schanz (1842–1914), German classicist
* Georg von Schanz (1853–1931), German legal scholar
* Charley Schanz (1919–1992), American baseball player
*Waldemar Schanz
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References
German-language surnames
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