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Birger Möller
Birger is a Scandinavian name from Old Norse, ''bjarga'', meaning "to help, to save, to protect". It is widely used in Norway as Birger but also as Børge. The Swedish variant of ''Birger'' would soon evolve into ''Börje'', however, the prior form would remain common, and was not confused with its successor. The Icelandic form is ''Birgir''. Birger is primarily a masculine given name, but can also be found as a surname. Birger Given name Middle Ages * Birger, King of Sweden (1280–1321) * Birger Brosa (died 1202), Swedish jarl * Birger Gregersson (1383), Archbishop of Uppsala * Birger Jarl (1210–1266), Swedish statesman * Birger Persson (died 1327), Swedish magnate, knight, privy councillor and Uppland's first lawspeaker Modern world * Birger Asplund (1929–2023), Swedish hammer thrower * Birger Carlstedt (1907–1975), Finnish artist * Birger Cederin (1895–1942), Swedish fencer * Birger Dahlerus (1891–1957), Swedish businessman and amateur diplomat * Birger Ekeberg (188 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male
Male (Planet symbols, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or Egg cell, ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and Asexual reproduction, asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineage (evolution), lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamy, isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Cederin
Birger Cederin (20 April 1895 – 22 March 1942) was a Swedish fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to .... References External links * * 1895 births 1942 deaths Swedish male épée fencers Olympic fencers for Sweden Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Sportspeople from Jönköping Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malene Birger
Malene Birger is a Danish fashion designer. She co-founded Day Birger et Mikkelsen in 1997 and By Malene Birger in 2003. Career Birger graduated from the Danish Design School in 1989. She began her career in the fashion industry in 1989 as designer at Jackpot by Carli Gry. She was also the head designer of women's wear at Marc O'Polo in Stockholm. In 1997, Birger co-founded the company Day Birger et Mikkelsen. She was the creative director of the company until leaving it in 2002. In 2003, she founded By Malene Birger in collaboration with IC Group. In 2010, Birger sold her share of the company to IC Group. She left the position as creative director in January 2014 and now runs the interior design company Birger1962. In 2015 she founded the eponymous design consultancy MALENE BIRGER’S WORLD. And she has recently launched a small jewellery collection GOLD&ME. In later years she has also become a successful artist creating art prints which are recognized by black and white a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Birger
Hugo Birger (until 1878 Hugo Birger Peterson) (12 January 1854 – 17 June 1887) was a Swedish painter. Biography Youth Born in Stockholm, his father was printmaker Sven August Peterson who, among other things, printed securities. By accompanying his father around Stockholm's pubs, Birger became familiar with many artistic personalities already at the age of 10. This and the association with his father at his lithographic workshop gave Birger both a literary and artistic interest. As a 13-year-old, Birger began his education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts' preparatory school, which was the preparatory education for the academy. Birger spent three years drawing on "Principen". In 1870, he was then accepted as a student at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, where he stayed for 6.5 years. Birger was weak early on from rheumatism, so he needed more time for his studies. Among his peers at the academy were Carl Larsson, Per Ekström and Ernst Josephson . It was h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Birger
Charles "Charlie" Birger (born Shachna Itzak Birger, February 5, 1881 – April 19, 1928) was an American bootlegger during the Prohibition period in southern Illinois. Early life Charles Birger was born to a Jewish family in the Russian Empire, and emigrated to the United States as a child with his parents. Birger and his family settled in St. Louis, where, aged eight, Charlie got a job as a news boy at the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' newspaper. Later, Birger moved to the O'Fallon, Missouri, area, where he started work in a pool room. On July 5, 1901, Birger enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to Company G of the newly formed 13th Cavalry Regiment, then stationed in South Dakota. Birger was described as a good soldier and was honorably discharged on July 4, 1904, at Fort Meade, South Dakota. When he left the army, he became a cowboy. However, he eventually returned to Illinois, where he met his first wife, Edna, to whom a daughter was born. Birger went on to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Sjöberg
Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was a Swedish poet, novelist and songwriter, whose best-known works include the faux-naïf song collection ''Fridas bok'' (Frida's book) and the novel ''Kvartetten som sprängdes'' (The quartet that split up), a somewhat Dickensian relation about stock-exchange gambling in the twenties, and the frantic efforts to recover. Originally a journalist, Sjöberg wrote songs in his spare time. His debuted as a serious writer with the 1922 publication of ''Fridas bok'' (Frida's book), which was both a critical and popular success. Following a series of concert tours, he withdrew from public life and focused on his writing. After his death in 1929, a new series of songs and a selection of poems were published. Selected works Prose and poetry by Birger Sjöberg: * ''Fridas bok'' (Frida's book) 1922 * ''Kvartetten som sprängdes'' (The quartet that split up) 1924 * ''Kriser och kransar'' (Crises and laurel wreaths) 1926 * ''Fridas andra Bok'' (Frida's second bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Sandzén
Sven Birger Sandzén (February 5, 1871 – June 22, 1954), known more commonly as Birger Sandzén, was a Swedes, Swedish painter best known for his landscapes. He produced most of his work while working as an art professor at Bethany College (Kansas), Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas. Background Sandzén was born in Blidsberg, Ulricehamn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. His parents were Johan Petter Sandzén and Clara Carolina Elisabeth Sylvén. His father was a parish priest and his mother an accomplished watercolorist. A protégé of Anders Zorn, Sandzén showed an interest in art from an early age, and at the age of 10 joined Skara Katedralskolan, Skara, Cathedral School (''Katedralskolan''), to study art under the tutelage of Olof Erlandsson (1845-1916), a graduate of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. After graduating in 1890, Sandzén studied for a short time at the University of Lund before moving to Stockholm. It was his intention to enroll at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Malmsten
Birger Malmsten (23 December 1920 – 15 February 1991) was a Swedish actor. He had many roles in Ingmar Bergman's films. Selected filmography * '' South of the Highway'' (1936) – Student (uncredited) * ' (1940) – Staff Member (uncredited) * '' General von Döbeln'' (1942) – Lieutenant at Svea Livgarde (uncredited) * '' Ombyte av tåg'' (1943) – Young Man at the Café (uncredited) * ''Life and Death'' (1943) – Telephone Operator (uncredited) * '' Count Only the Happy Moments'' (1944) – Helge Wikström * '' Torment'' (1944) – Kreutz – Student (uncredited) * '' We Need Each Other'' (1944) – Guest at Café * '' The Serious Game'' (1945) – Kaj Lidner (uncredited) * '' It Rains on Our Love'' (1946) – David * '' When the Meadows Blossom'' (1946) – Gunnar Hellman * '' A Ship to India'' (1947) – Johannes Blom * '' Crime in the Sun'' (1947) – Harry * '' Music in Darkness'' (1948) – Bengt Vyldeke * ''Banketten'' (1948) – Rex * '' Eva'' (1948) – Bo * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Ljungström
Birger Ljungström (4 June 1872 – 17 November 1948) was a Swedish engineer, technical designer, industrialist, and inventor. Biography Birger Ljungström was born in Uddevalla, Sweden to cartographer Jonas Patrik Ljungström and Amalia (née Falck). His second great uncle was Johan Börjesson, and his third great uncle Bishop Johan Wingård. Among his siblings were Georg Ljungström, Oscar Ljungström, Fredrik Ljungström, among his brothers-in-law George Spaak and his nephew Olof Ljungström. He attended classes at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Ljungström registered his first patent in 1892. He moved to England where they stayed until 1903, in order to study the field of mechanics. During the years 1906-1907, Ljungström was employed by AB Separator. Together with his brother Fredrik Ljungström, he patented the Ljungström turbine around 1908. The same year, they founded the development company AB Ljungströms Ångturbin and in 1913 the separate co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Ljungberg
Birger Ljungberg (7 June 1884 – 20 April 1967) was a Norwegian military officer and politician from the Conservative Party who served as Minister of Defence from 1939–1942. Ljungberg was criticized for his actions at the beginning of the Norwegian campaign, the German invasion of Norway, when he did not ensure the rest of the cabinet knew that an ordered partial mobilization Mobilization (alternatively spelled as mobilisation) is the act of assembling and readying military troops and supplies for war. The word ''mobilization'' was first used in a military context in the 1850s to describe the preparation of the ... would go out in secret, without a public declaration, and slowly by post. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ljungberg, Birger 1884 births 1967 deaths Norwegian Army World War II generals Ministers of defence of Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Hedqvist
Lieutenant General Karl Birger Hedqvist (13 May 1894 – 24 February 1964) was a Swedish Army officer who served as Deputy Chief of Ordnance from 1939 to 1949 and as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1949 to 1959. Hedqvist graduated from the Military Academy Karlberg in 1913 and began his military career in the Norrland Artillery Regiment. He completed advanced artillery training and served as a teacher at the Artillery and Engineering College. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he held several positions in the Artillery Staff and the Swedish Army Materiel Administration, focusing on artillery strategy and industry coordination. During World War II, as Deputy Chief of Ordnance, he played a key role in equipping Sweden’s army and leading complex negotiations with the War Material Administration. In 1949, he was promoted to major general and became Master-General of the Ordnance, overseeing major organizational reforms and modernization efforts. From 1954 to 1959, he served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Gröning
Birger Gröning (born 1975 in Schwerin) is a German politician from Thuringia. Previously representing the Alternative for Germany and Citizens for Thuringia, he has been an independent politician since 2022. Life Gröning completed an apprenticeship as a hotel specialist with the additional qualification of a training qualification in 1995. From 1995 to 2005 he was in the German Army as a sergeant in the air force security force and staff service. He then became a physiotherapist and worked in a rehabilitation clinic. On 27 October 2019 he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament for the AfD as a direct candidate in the Gotha I constituency. On 23 March 2022, he announced his resignation from the AfD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament and the party. On 20 June 2022 Gröning founded the ''Citizens for Thuringia'' parliamentary group together with former Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free Democrat MP and the two former AfD MPs Lars Schütze and . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
