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Bloch
Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include: A * Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925), Austrian entrepreneur * Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter * Alexandre Bloch (1857–1919), French painter *Alfred Bloch (1877-?), French footballer * Aliza Bloch (born 1957), first female mayor of Bet Shemesh, Israel *André Bloch (composer) (1873–1960), French composer and music educator *André Bloch (mathematician) (1893–1948), French mathematician * Andreas Bloch (1860–1917), Norwegian painter, illustrator and costume designer *Andy Bloch (born 1969), American poker player * Anna Bloch (1868–1953), Danish actress *Armand Bloch (1866–1932), French sculptor * Arthur Bloch (born 1948), American writer, author of ''Murphy's Law'' *Augustyn Bloch (1929–2006), Polish composer and organist * Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1891–1941), Lithuanian rabbi B *Bernard Bloch (linguist) (1907–1965), American linguist *Bernard Bloch (actor) (born 1949), Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Bloch
Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists. Biography Bloch was born on August 2, 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1901–03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the '' St. Louis Star'' newspaper. Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for William Marion Reedy's literary and political weekly '' The Mirror''. From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany, where he was associated with Der Blaue Reiter. After the end of World War I, Bloch returned to the United States, teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, and then accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas until his retirement in 1947. Albert Bloch died March 23, 1961, in Lawr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Bloch (linguist)
Bernard Bloch (18 June 1907, New York City, New York – 26 November 1965, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American linguist. He taught at Brown University and was Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. His father, Albert Bloch, was the only American member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernist painters. His brother was the film writer Walter Bloch, who also wrote under the name, Walter Black. Career Source: Bloch first studied linguistics at Northwestern University. In the early 1930s, he was recommended by his teacher, Werner F. Leopold, as a fieldworker for the Linguistic Atlas project led by Hans Kurath. While undertaking fieldwork on New England dialects, he also taught part-time at Mount Holyoke College. There he met his future wife, Julia McDonnell Bloch. Bloch enrolled for doctoral studies at Brown University, where he studied under Hans Kurath. In 1935 he received his PhD for a thesis entitled, "The treatment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen
Hayyim Yitzhak HaCohen Bloch (; 1864–1948) was a prominent Lithuanian born rabbi. In 1922 he left Latvia for the United States, where he became the Rabbi and Av Beit Din (head judge of religious court) of Jersey City, New Jersey. He remained there until his death in 1948. Youth Bloch was born in Plungė, Lithuania, on October 21, 1864, to an illustrious rabbinic family with family roots traced back to the Shach, Shakh and Isaiah Horowitz. Until the age of 15, Bloch was taught Torah by his father, Rabbi Hanoch Zundel Bloch Hacohen, the local shochet of the town. After his 15th birthday, Bloch left Plunge to study Torah by Simcha Zissel Ziv, Rav Simha Zissel in Yeshivat Grobin. Unique in its time, the Yeshivah at Grobiņa, Grobin had a dual curriculum of Jewish and Secular studies. Under the guidance of Rav Simcha Zissel, the young teenager grew very diligent in his Torah study and rose to an advanced level in Talmud. Rav Simcha Zissel heavily emphasized the study of Mussar, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Bloch (actor)
Bernard Bloch (born 11 December 1949) is a French actor and theatre director. Filmography * 1972: ''Albert Einstein'' (TV): ''Un membre de l'académie d'Olympia'' * 1974: '' The Story of Paul'': ''L'harmonica'' * 1980: '' Fernand'': ''Fernand'' * 1980: '' Le Cheval dans le béton'' (TV): ''Maury'' * 1981: '' Allons z'enfants'': ''Adjudant Viellard'' * 1982: '' Les Prédateurs'' (TV): ''Anatole'' * 1982: '' Enigma'' * 1984: '' La Digue'' (TV): ''Le technicien'' * 1985: '' Châteauvallon'' (série TV) * 1986: ': ''Kovacs'' * 1986: ''Fatherland A homeland is a place where a national or ethnic identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethnic nation ...'': ''Journalist'' * 1987: '' La fée carabine'' (TV): ''Cercaire'' * 1989: '' Radio Corbeau'': ''Louis Gerfaut'' * 1989: '' Un français libre'' (''The Free Frenchman''): ''Col. Vivet'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Bloch
Eduard Bloch (30 January 1872 – 1 June 1945) was an Austrian physician practicing in Linz. Born to a Jewish family of Czechoslovakian origin, Bloch was the family doctor of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ... and Family of Hitler, his family until 1907. Bloch oversaw the treatment of Hitler's mother, Klara Hitler, Klara, when she was dying of breast cancer, charging the family very little, or none, for her treatment. A gesture Adolf greatly appreciated. Following the German Anschluss, annexation of Austria in 1938, Hitler described him as a ''Edeljude'' – a noble Jew, and bestowed him Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei protection in the midst of Kristallnacht and the escalation of anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany. Hitler allowed Bloch to emigrate to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
