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Ottilie
Ottilie is a given name for women. The name is a French derivative of the medieval German masculine name Otto, and has the meaning "prosperous in battle", "riches", "prosperous" or "wealth". Popularity The name has increased in popularity in England and Wales in recent years. It has ranked among the top 500 names for girls in those countries since 2015 and was the 118th most popular name for girls there in 2021. It is a name that has been particularly well-used for girls from upper class British families. The traditional German pronunciation is o-TEE-lee-ə. The usual British pronunciation is OT-i-lee. Its popularity in the United States peaked in 1880 when it reached almost 600th position. It is now an unfamiliar name to many Americans, but is also increasing in usage in the United States, where the name was given to 25 newborn girls in 2021. Ottilie is a variant of Odile. Ottilia, Ottiliana, and Ottoline are variants of Ottilie. People *Ottilie Abrahams, Namibian activist *Ott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ottilie is a given name for women. The name is a French derivative of the medieval German masculine name Otto, and has the meaning "prosperous in battle", "riches", "prosperous" or "wealth". Popularity The name has increased in popularity in England and Wales in recent years. It has ranked among the top 500 names for girls in those countries since 2015 and was the 118th most popular name for girls there in 2021. It is a name that has been particularly well-used for girls from upper class British families. The traditional German pronunciation is o-TEE-lee-ə. The usual British pronunciation is OT-i-lee. Its popularity in the United States peaked in 1880 when it reached almost 600th position. It is now an unfamiliar name to many Americans, but is also increasing in usage in the United States, where the name was given to 25 newborn girls in 2021. Ottilie is a variant of Odile. Ottilia, Ottiliana, and Ottoline are variants of Ottilie. People *Ottilie Abrahams, Namibian activist *Ott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Hoffmann
Ottilie Franziska Hoffmann (14 July 183520 December 1925) was a German educationalist and social reformer who came to prominence as a pioneering temperance activist. Early life and education Ottilie Hoffmann was born in the central quarter of Bremen. Ludwig Otto Hoffmann, her father, was a successful grain merchant. She received a "sound" schooling. From her childhood diary entries it is apparent that she was keen that her life should make a difference in society. She was never attracted by the idea of marriage and family life. She studied to become a teacher, embarking on her teaching career in 1851. Career As a young woman she was in particular influenced by the radical feminist writer . Hoffmann's own pupils during these early years included another daughter of Bremen who would emerge as a prominent feminist social reformer, Hedwig Heyl. Hoffmann taught at a private school between 1852 and 1857: there is mention of her having taught on a British or English island around th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Of Katzenelnbogen
Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen (c. 1451 – 15 August 1517, Baden-Baden), was by marriage Margravine of Baden-Baden. Life She was the only child of Philipp II ''the Younger'' of Katzenelnbogen (1427 – 27 February 1453) and Ottilie of Nassau-Siegen (April 1437 – July 1493), the only daughter of Henry II of Nassau-Siegen and his first wife Genoveva of Virneburg. Her baptism took place one month after her father's death, on 22 March in Starkenburg Castle, near Darmstadt. Philipp II the Younger was in turn the eldest of the two sons of Count Philipp I of Katzenelnbogen ''the Elder'' (1402 – 1479) and his first wife, Anna of Württemberg (1408 – 1471). Shortly after Ottilie's uncle and last male member of the family, Eberhard of Katzenelnbogen was murdered (1456), her grandfather Philipp I made an agreement with Frederick I, Elector Palatine, under which Ottilie was betrothed with the Elector's nephew Philip; however, when she reached a marriageable age in 1467, eleven ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Assing
Ottilie Davida Assing (11 February 1819 – 21 August 1884) was a 19th-century German-American feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist. Early life and education Born in Hamburg, she was the eldest daughter of poet Rosa Maria Varnhagen, raised as a Lutheran, and David Assur, a Jewish physician, who converted to Christianity upon marriage and changed his name to Assing. He became prominent in his field. Her mother was friendly with other literary women, including Clara Mundt and Fanny Lewald, and prominent in liberal circles that supported (but failed to achieve) social revolution in 1848. Her aunt Rahel Varnhagen was a noted salon host. After the deaths of their parents and the Great Fire of Hamburg in 1842, Assing and her sister Ludmilla went to live with their uncle Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, a prominent literary figure and revolutionary activist. His wife, the noted Jewish writer and saloniste Rahel Varnhagen, was long dead. Ottilie and Ludmilla soon came to blows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Von Hansemann
Ottilie von Hansemann (11 April 1840 in Koblenz – 12 December 1919 in Berlin) was a German women's rights activist, significant patroness of the women's movement in Prussia, and a champion for the right of women to attend German universities, to participate in university classes alongside their male cohorts, and to live in student residence halls built specifically for female students. In 1860, Ottilie (born von Kusserow) married Adolph von Hansemann (27 July 1826 – 9 December 1903). Ottilie's husband was a notable Prussian industrialist and manager of the Disconto-Gesellschaft, a large financial holding founded in 1851 and headquartered in Berlin, which in 1929 merged with Deutsche Bank. Ottilie and her husband had two children, Ferdinand and Davide Eveline von Hansemann. At the turn of the twentieth century, German women's struggle for higher education focused on their being integrated into existing universities. In Germany, the women's movement focused on a range of social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odile Of Alsace
Odile of Alsace, also known as Odilia and Ottilia, born c. 662 - c. 720 at Mont Sainte-Odile), is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is a patroness saint of good eyesight and of the region of Alsace. Biography Odile was the daughter of Etichon (also known as Athich, Adalrich or Aldaric), Duke of Alsace and founder of the Etichonid noble family. According to the 9th century "Life of Odilia", she was born blind. Her father did not want her because she was a girl and handicapped, so her mother Bethswinda had her brought to Palma (perhaps present day Baume-les-Dames in Burgundy), where she was raised by peasants there. A tenth-century legend relates that when she was twelve, Odile was taken into a nearby monastery. Whilst there, the itinerant bishop Erhard of Regensburg was led, by an angel it was said, to Palma where he baptised her Odile (Sol Dei), whereupon she miraculously recovered her sight. Her younger brother Hughes had her b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Abrahams
Ottilie Grete Abrahams (2 September 19372 July 2018) was a Namibian educator, activist, and politician. Personal Abrahams was born on 2 September 1937 in the Old Location township outside of Windhoek. Abrahams was the daughter of Otto Schimming and Charlotte Schimming. Her father was the first Black teacher in Namibia. Her sister Nora Schimming-Chase became the first Namibian ambassador to Germany after the independence of Namibia. Before obtaining a degree in Cape Town, she attended Trafalgar High School in District Six in Cape Town. She and her husband Kenneth Abrahams raised four children, one daughter is the scientist and activist Yvette Abrahams, her son Kenneth Abrahams overtook the management of the Jacob Marengo School after her death. At the time of her death, she lived in the affluent suburb of Klein Windhoek. The Namibian newspaper memorialized her as the "Mother of Education." Activism Abrahams became politically active while studying in high school and univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilla Durieux
Tilla Durieux (born Ottilie Godeffroy; 18 August 1880 – 21 February 1971) was an Austrian theatre and film actress of the first decades of the 20th century. Early Years Born Ottilie Helene Angela Godeffroy on 18 August 1880, she was the daughter of the Austrian chemist Richard Max Victor Godeffroy (1847–1895) and his wife, the Hungarian pianist Adelheid Ottilie Augustine Godeffroy (née Hrdlicka, died 1920), who was born in Romania. After graduating from elementary school, she switched to the public school in Vienna's 9th district. She was baptized in the evangelical parish Augsburg Confession in Vienna. Career She trained as an actress in Vienna, her native town, and made her debut at the Moravian Theatre in Olmütz (Olomouc) in 1902. Since her mother refused her career choice, she later adopted the stage name Durieux, derived from du Rieux, the maiden name of her paternal grandmother. The next season she got an engagement in Breslau (Wrocław since 1945). From 1903 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain (; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states. Biography Walter Brattain was born in Amoy (now Xiamen), Fujian, Qing China, to American parents Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser Brattain. Ross R. Brattain was a teacher at the Ting-Wen Institute, a private school for Chinese boys; Ottilie Houser Brattain was a gifted mathematician. Both were graduates of Whitman College. Ottilie and baby Walter returned to the United States in 1903, and Ross followed shortly afterward. The family lived for several years in Spokane, Washington, then settled on a cattle ranch near Tonasket, Washington in 1911. Brattain attended high school in Washington, spending one year at Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilly Fleischer
Ottilie "Tilly" Fleischer (2 October 1911 – 14 July 2005) was a German athlete who competed in a variety of track and field athletic events. She competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in three different events, taking the bronze medal in the javelin. Four years later in her home country at the 1936 Games she won the gold medal in the javelin in front of the Berlin crowds. The reaction of Olympic officials to the congratulations given to her by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was put forward as the reason why Hitler never congratulated American athlete Jesse Owens after his first gold medal victory. Rumours appeared in 1966 as to who was the father of one of her daughters, after her daughter Giselle claimed in a book to be the daughter of Adolf Hitler. Early life Ottilie Fleischer was born on 2 October 1911; her father was a butcher. Even at an early age she was interested in sports, initially gymnastics, but when she was a teenager she became involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Kruger
Otto Kruger (September 6, 1885 – September 6, 1974) was an American actor, originally a Broadway matinee idol, who established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as Hitchcock's ''Saboteur''. He also appeared in CBS's ''Perry Mason'' and other TV series. He was the grandnephew of South African president Paul Kruger. Early life and education Born in Toledo, Ohio, Kruger was of German descent. He was the son of Bernard Alben Kruger and Elizabeth Winers Kruger and the grandnephew of South African pioneer and president Paul Kruger. Otto was musically trained, but switched careers and became an actor after studying engineering at the University of Michigan. Career Making his Broadway debut in 1915, Kruger quickly became a matinee idol. Though he started to get noticed in the early 1920s, it was the 1930s when his career was at its height. His sound film debut came in '' Turn Back the Clock'' (1933) and he made an appearance in the film '' Chained'' (1934). Though he pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Von Bistram
Ottilie Bistram (1859–1931) was a Baltic German writer and teacher. She was also a pioneer in the struggle for female access to education. References BBLD - Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital 1859 births 1931 deaths Latvian educators 19th-century Latvian people Baltic-German people {{Latvia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
