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Herter
Herter is a German occupational surname for a herdsman. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Herter (1871–1950), American painter; son of Christian, the furniture maker * Christian Herter (1895–1966), American politician; son of Albert, the painter * Christian Archibald Herter (physician) (1865–1910), American physician; son of Christian, the furniture maker * David Herter, American author * Ernst Herter (1846–1917), German sculptor * George Leonard Herter (1911–1994), American manager of Herter's Inc. sporting goods business and author * Gérard Herter (1920-2007), German actor * Hans Herter (1899–1984), German philologist * Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter (1884−1958), German botanist See also * Herter Brothers Herter is a German occupational surname for a herdsman. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Herter (1871–1950), American painter; son of Christian, the furniture maker * Christian Herter (1895–1966), American politician; son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Herter
Albert Herter (March 2, 1871 – February 15, 1950) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, and interior designer. He was born in New York City, studied at the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, then in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon. He came from an artistic family; his father, Christian Herter (1839–1883), had co-founded Herter Brothers, a prominent New York interior design and furnishings firm. Herter Brothers closed in 1906, and Albert founded Herter Looms in 1909, a tapestry and textile design-and-manufacturing firm that was, in a sense, successor to his father's firm. Personal In Paris, he met a fellow American art student, Adele McGinnis. They were married in 1893 and had three children: Everit Albert (1894–1918), Christian Archibald (1895–1966), and Lydia Adele (1898–1951). The couple honeymooned in Japan, then returned to Paris for the first years of their marriage. In 1898 they moved back to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. His moderate tone of negotiations was confronted by the intensity of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a series of unpleasant episodes that turned the Cold War even colder in 1960–61. Early life Herter was born in Paris, France, to American artist and expatriate parents, Albert Herter and Adele McGinnis, and attended the there (1901–1904) before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning School (1904–1911). He graduated from Harvard College in 1915 and did graduate work in architecture and interior design at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation before joining the diplomatic corps. Herter married the wealthy heiress Mary Caroline Pratt (1895–1980) in 1917. She was the daughter of Frederic B. Pratt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Archibald Herter (physician)
Christian Archibald Herter (September 3, 1865 – December 5, 1910) was an American physician and pathologist noted for his work on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He was co-founder of the '' Journal of Biological Chemistry''. Life Christian Archibald Herter was born in Glenville, Connecticut. His father, also Christian Herter, was a notable and wealthy artist and interior designer, head of the Herter Brothers. He was privately educated and began his medical degree at the early age of 15. By the age of 18, he had received an MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He studied pathology under William H. Welch at Johns Hopkins University and traveled to Zurich to study under Auguste-Henri Forel. Herter initially practiced mainly neurological medicine in New York City. His experience was captured in ''The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System'', a manual he wrote for "students and practitioners" in 1892. Herter's interest in laboratory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herter Brothers
Herter is a German occupational surname for a herdsman. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Herter (1871–1950), American painter; son of Christian, the furniture maker * Christian Herter (1895–1966), American politician; son of Albert, the painter * Christian Archibald Herter (physician) (1865–1910), American physician; son of Christian, the furniture maker * David Herter, American author * Ernst Herter (1846–1917), German sculptor * George Leonard Herter (1911–1994), American manager of Herter's Inc. sporting goods business and author * Gérard Herter (1920-2007), German actor * Hans Herter (1899–1984), German philologist * Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter Wilhelm (Guillermo) Gustav Franz Herter (10 January 1884 in Berlin – 17 April 1958 in Hamburg) was a German botanist and mycologist. In 1908 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on the genus ''Lycopodium''. From 1923 to 1939 h ... (1884−1958), German botanist See also * Herter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter
Wilhelm (Guillermo) Gustav Franz Herter (10 January 1884 in Berlin – 17 April 1958 in Hamburg) was a German botanist and mycologist. In 1908 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on the genus ''Lycopodium''. From 1923 to 1939 he lived and worked in Uruguay, gaining Uruguayan citizenship in 1925. In Montevideo, he was associated with its botanical garden and museum, and in the meantime taught classes at the university. In 1934 he became director of the ''Revista Sudamericana de Botánica''.JSTOR Global Plants biography During the Second World War, Herter was the director of the nazi-german publishing series 'Veröffentlichungen der Staatlichen Botanischen Anstalten des Generalgouvernements". Known for his work in the fields of systematic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Herter
Ernst Gustav Herter (14 May 1846, Berlin – 19 December 1917, Berlin) was a German sculptor. He specialized in creating statues of mythological figures. Life and work Herter studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and later also as apprentice of , Gustav Blaeser and Albert Wolff. In 1869 he created his own studio. In 1875, he made a study trip to Italy. Professor Herter was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. On 8 July 1899, Herter was present in New York when his Heinrich Heine memorial sculpture, known as the Lorelei Fountain, was unveiled in The Bronx, New York City. The Lorelei Fountain was originally intended for Heine's city of birth, Düsseldorf, to mark the centenary of his birth. This project was squelched due to the antisemitic and nationalistic sentiment that pervaded the German Reich at that time. Among his most famous works is ''Sterbender Achill'' (''Dying Achilles''), created in Berlin in 1884. The statue was acquired by the Empress of Austria and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Herter
David Herter is an American author. His first novel was '' Ceres Storm'' (2000), which was chosen as one of the top 10 science fiction books of 2000 by Amazon.com, followed by '' Evening's Empire'' in 2002.Sallis, James. "BOOKS." Fantasy & Science Fiction 101.2 (Aug. 2001): 43. '' Ceres Storm'' is a far-future space opera, telling of a boy's quest across a solar system ravaged by a nano-plague. '' Evening's Empire'', set on the Oregon coast, concerns a bereaved opera composer drawn to the small town of Evening, and to mysteries that accord strangely with his current project, an adaptation of ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea''. Real-life composers figure heavily in Herter's First Republic trilogy (comprising '' On the Overgrown Path'' (2006), '' The Luminous Depths'' (2008) and ''One Who Disappeared''). Set in interbellum Czechoslovakia, the trilogy stars Leoš Janáček, Pavel Haas, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, as well as the writer Karel Čapek and his artist-brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Leonard Herter
George Leonard Herter (24 May 1911 – 5 July 1994) of Waseca, Minnesota was the founder of the Herter's outdoor goods business and an author. His best known books are the ''Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices'' series (published in three volumes), which have a cult following today.Collins, Paul. "The Oddball Know-It-All". ''The New York Times'', December 5, 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/Collins-t.html?_r=1 In 1937 Herter took his father's dry goods store and turned it into a mail order outdoor goods business, selling hunting and fishing items through a catalog. He later opened retail outlet stores, which pioneered the style of outdoor goods stores now operated by Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops. The company went bankrupt in 1981. He is best known for his books, which were self-published and sold through his stores. The ''New York Times'' describes the ''Bull Cook'' series as his "magnum opus A masterpiece, ''magnum opus'' () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Herter
Gérard Herter, also known as Gerhard Haerter, Gerard Haerther, Gerald Herter, Gerard Herter, and Gerhard Herter (born 12 April 1920 in Stuttgart, died 6 February 2007 in Munich) was a German actor of the 1950s and 1960s who played many villains, especially Prussian types, in Spaghetti Westerns. He made his film debut in '' Caltiki - il mostro immortale'' in 1959. His last credited appearance was in '' Ludwig'' in 1972. Filmography External links * 1920 births 2007 deaths Male actors from Stuttgart German male film actors Male Spaghetti Western actors {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Herter
Hans Herter (8 June 1899 – 7 November 1984) was a German Classical philologist who was for many years Director of the Rheinischen Museum für Philologie, Bonn. His main interests lay in the works of Thucydides and Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution .... Among his prominent students is Heinz-Günther Nesselrath. References Sources *Rainer Lengeler, Ernst Vogt and Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp, eds. ''In memoriam Hans Herter. Reden gehalten am 3. Mai 1985 bei der Gedenkfeier der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn'', Bonn 1986. * Carl Werner Müller. "Nachruf auf Hans Herter", in: ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie'' 128, (1985:3-4). * Ernst Vogt: ''Bibliographie Hans Herter. Zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 1964'', Bonn 1964. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herder
A herder is a pastoral worker responsible for the care and management of a herd or flock of domestic animals, usually on open pasture. It is particularly associated with nomadic or transhumant management of stock, or with common land grazing. The work is often done either on foot or mounted. Depending on the type of animal being herd, the english language can give different professional names, for example, cowboy for cows, shepherd for sheep, or goatherd for goat. Terminology Herders may be distinguished by sex (''e.g.'', herdsman, herdswoman or herdboy) or by the type of livestock, for example camelherd, cowherd, duckherd, goatherd or shepherd. By country China Tibetan herding communities living in the Tibetan Plateau in the Sichuan Province of southwest China continued to graze herds on common lands even after the 1982 Household responsibility system. Several reasons have been given for the endurance of the traditional pastoral lifestyle: *complex topography p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
