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Aster (name)
Aster is unisex given name and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Aster Aweke (born 1959), Ethiopian singer * Aster Fissehatsion (born 1951), Eritrean politician and political prisoner * Aster Ganno ( 1872–1964), Ethiopian Bible translator * Aster Janssens (born 2001), Belgian footballer * Aster Yohannes, Eritrean political prisoner Surname * Ari Aster (born 1986), American filmmaker and screenwriter * Ernst Ludwig von Aster (1778–1855), German army officer * Jeannette Aster (born 1948), Austrian-Canadian opera director * Jon C. Aster, American pathologist * Misha Aster (born 1978), Canadian opera and classical music producer, director, writer and educator * Richard Aster Richard C. Aster is an American seismologist and is Professor of Geophysics and Department Head of Geosciences at Colorado State University. Aster's research includes seismic imaging, volcano seismology, microseismicity, seismic noise, seismic ins ..., American seismologist and professor Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aster Aweke
Aster Aweke ( am, አስቴር አወቀ; born 1959) is an Ethiopian singer who sings in Amharic. Aster's voice has attracted broader public popularity, especially tracing back in 1990s singles and her single "Abebayehosh" in Ethiopian New Year. She is best known for her 1999 album ''Hagere'' and her 2006 album ''Fikir''. She moved to the United States in 1981, and she returned to Ethiopia in 1997. Early life Born in Gondar in 1959. She moved to Addis Ababa as a child with her father, who was senior civil servant in the imperial government of Haile Selassie. Aster hails from the Amhara ethnic group. In a 1990 interview with Amy Duncan of The Christian Science Monitor, Aster told the opposition of her music ambition from her parents: "My family opposed me, but i just kept going and going....That's my life. I tried everything, but music makes me so happy." Career Aster enjoyed listening musicians like Tilahun Gessesse and Bizunesh Bekele, and Donna Summer and Aretha Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aster Fissehatsion
Aster Fissehatsion (also known as Astier Fesehazion) (born 1956) is an Eritrean politician and an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. She is the former wife of former Vice-President of Eritrea, Mahmoud Ahmed Sherifo. She was detained in September 2001 for being part of the G-15 (Eritrea), G-15. On 18 September 2001, she was detained indefinitely along with other politicians of G-15, a group which opposed the rule of Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki. Aster along with 15 other ministers were detained in unknown location ever since. The ministers were criticizing the border war of the then president, Isaias and signed an open letter. Political life She joined Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in 1974 and became a leading figure in the struggle for independence in Eritrea. Following independence, she held the following positions: member of the Central Council of People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ)(In 1994, the EPLF changed its name to PFDJ) member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aster Ganno
Aster Ganno (c.1872–1964) was an Ethiopian Bible translator who worked with the better known Onesimos Nesib as a translator of the Oromo Bible, published in 1899. Biography She was born free, but was later enslaved by the king of Limmu-Ennarea. She was emancipated in 1886 when Italian ships intercepted a boat which was taking her to be sold on the Arabian Peninsula, then took her to Eritrea where the Imkullu school of the Swedish Evangelical Mission took her in. Aster (by Ethiopian custom, she is referred to by her first name) was educated at their school. Onesimos quickly “discovered that Aster was endowed with considerable mental gifts and possessed a real feeling for the Oromo language” (Arén 1978:383). She was assigned to compile an Oromo dictionary, which was first used in polishing a translation of New Testament published in 1893. Aster also translated a book of Bible stories and wrote down 500 traditional Oromo riddles, fables, proverbs, and songs, many of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aster Janssens
Aster Janssens (born 12 March 2001) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Standard Liège and the Belgium national team. International career Janssens made her debut for the Belgium national team on 12 June 2021, against Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan .... References 2001 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Belgian women's footballers Belgium women's international footballers KRC Genk Ladies players Standard Liège (women) players Super League Vrouwenvoetbal players Belgium women's youth international footballers {{Belgium-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aster Yohannes
Aster Yohannes is a veteran of Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and an independence activist. Post-independence, she was working in the ministry of Fishery and Marine Resources in 1995. She also is the wife of detained Eritrean politician Petros Solomon. She was detained by security personnel at Asmara International Airport in the capital Asmara on 11 December 2003, when she returned after a three-year period study at the University of Phoenix to unite with her children. Her whereabouts has been unknown since then. Petros and Aster had four children. Early life Aster Yohannes was doing her Electrical Engineering in Addis Ababa University. During her second year of graduation, she joined the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in 1979. She underwent training for six months and was deputed in combatant. During 1982, she married Petros Solomon, a lead member of the front. The pair had four children Simon, the twins Zerai and Hanna, and Meaza. The pair fought the indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ari Aster
Ari Aster (born July 15, 1986) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for writing and directing the horror films ''Hereditary'' (2018) and '' Midsommar'' (2019). Early life Aster was born into a Jewish family in New York City on July 15, 1986, the son of a musician father and a poet mother. He has a younger brother. He recalled going to see his first movie, ''Dick Tracy'', when he was four years old. The film featured a scene where a character fired a tommy gun in front of a wall of fire. Aster reportedly jumped from his seat and "ran six New York City blocks" while his mother tried to catch him. In his early childhood, Aster's family briefly lived in England, where his father opened a jazz nightclub in Chester. Aster enjoyed living there, but the family returned to the U.S. and settled in New Mexico when he was 10 years old. As a child, Aster became obsessed with horror films, frequently renting them from local video stores: "I just exhausted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Ludwig Von Aster
Ernst Ludwig von Aster (October 5, 1778 - February 10, 1855) was a German officer and a highly decorated Prussian, Saxon and Russian general of the German Campaign of 1813 and the War of the Seventh Coalition. Aster took part in fortifying several fortresses, including in Cologne, Poznań and Königsberg. In his honor, in the Poznań Fortress and Koblenz Fortress Koblenz Fortress was part of a Prussian fortress system near the city of Koblenz in Germany which consisted of the city fortifications of Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein and exterior supporting constructions such as entrenchments and forts. Koblenz f ... forts were given the name of ''Aster''. References * 1778 births 1855 deaths Generals of Infantry (Prussia) Imperial Russian Army generals Saxon generals Military personnel from Dresden German commanders of the Napoleonic Wars German military engineers {{Russia-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannette Aster
Jeannette Aster (born 1948) is an Austrian-born opera director who has staged productions in Canada, where she was raised and educated, and internationally. Life and career Born in Linz, Austria, Jeannette Aster was brought up and educated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Trained initially as a classical dancer, she obtained her BMus in Voice Performance from McGill University before going on to study Opera Production at the London Opera Centre in London, England. After serving 5 years as a staff director in the Netherlands Opera, Hamburg State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Aster made her Canadian debut as stage director in 1977 at the National Arts Centre Festival in Ottawa with Mozart's ''Magic Flute'', returning the following season to direct ''Cosi fan tutte''. She began working with the Canadian Opera Company in 1972. In 1979 together with General Director Lotfi Mansouri, and his associate John Leberg, she helped found the COC Ensemble (Young Artist programme) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon C
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned". Behind the Name. Retrieved on 2013-09-06. The name is spelled in and on the . In the Nordic countries, it is derived from |
Misha Aster
Misha Aster is a Canadian producer, director, writer and educator specialising in opera and classical music. Biography Born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1978, Aster studied violin at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and history, politics, dramaturgy and musicology at McGill University, the London School of Economics, King's College London, the Moscow Art Theatre School, Berlin's Free University and at Harvard University, where he also held a teaching fellowship. He has taught opera and drama at the University of Victoria and Concordia University (Canada) and directed numerous theatre and opera productions on both sides of the Atlantic, including ''Carmen'' and ''Wozzeck'' in Canada, ''Cosi fan tutte'' (Czech Republic), ''Falstaff'' (Netherlands), ''Madama Butterfly'' (Austria) and Krenek's ''Dark Waters'' at the Konzerthaus in Berlin. From 2004–06 Aster served as Staff Director at thTiroler Landestheaterin Innsbruck, Austria. He has also worked aVancouver Opera [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Aster
Richard C. Aster is an American seismologist and is Professor of Geophysics and Department Head of Geosciences at Colorado State University. Aster's research includes seismic imaging, volcano seismology, microseismicity, seismic noise, seismic instrumentation, crustal and mantle seismology, fluvial seismology and cryoseismology. Dr. Aster served as president of the Seismological Society of America from 2009-2010. and as an elected board member of the society from 2008-2014. In 1999 Aster founded the New Mexico Tech IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, which supports diverse seismological studies around the world under the management of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology with primary funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy, and served as the first Principal Investigator of the facility. Aster Glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica is named for Dr. Aster, who received the NSF Antarctic Services Medal for fieldwork in Antarct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and religi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
