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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] |
Dorete Bloch
Dorete Bloch, married name Dorete Bloch Danielsen, (14 June 1943 in Rungsted – 28 February 2015 in Tórshavn) was a Danish zoologist, former director of (the Faroes Natural History Museum), editor of ''Fróðskaparrit'' and author of numerous books on the animals and plants of the Faroe Islands. Bloch was born in Rungsted but moved to the Faroe Islands in 1974, where she remained for the rest of her life. She published studies on pilot whales, gaining a D.Phil in their study in 1991, covering aspects such as their migration patterns, diving behaviour and their importance on Faroese society. Career Dorete Bloch was born in Rungsted and attended Viborg Katedralskole until 1962 and then Aarhus University. After graduating in 1970 with an MSc in zoology, she worked at the university's Wildlife Research Station at Kalø, where she conducted research into hares and mute swans. On 15 October 1974 she moved to the Faroe Islands, where she settled for the rest of her life. She was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Dora Bloch
Dora Bloch (; October 1902July 1976) was an Israeli hostage on Air France Flight 139 on 26 June 1976. Taking off from Tel Aviv, Israel, and destined for Paris, France, the plane soon landed in Athens, Greece, for a scheduled stopover and was subsequently hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two Germans from the Revolutionary Cells (German group), Revolutionary Cells, who rerouted to Benghazi, Libya, and then to Entebbe, Uganda, where they received support from Ugandan president Idi Amin. Bloch, who had become ill during the flight, was taken to a hospital in Kampala and was therefore not among the 102 hostages who were rescued when Israel executed Entebbe raid, Operation Thunderbolt aka 'Operation Yonatan' on 4 July 1976. She disappeared shortly after the hostages were rescued; her status as a British citizen and Amin's complicity in the hijacking resulted i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Bloch
Denise Madeleine Bloch (; 21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was a French citizen who worked as an agent with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those occupied by Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. Bloch and her family, Jews, evaded capture by the Germans in Paris after its occupation by Nazi Germany in summer 1940. In 1942 the family escaped to Lyon. Bloch became involved in the French Resistance and narrowly avoided arrest in Lyon. Fleeing to southwestern France, she worked for SOE agent George Reginald Starr as his courier. In May 1942, she made a dangerous crossing of the Pyrenees into Spain and hence to SOE headquarters in London to present Starr's request for more aid to his resista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Débora Bloch
Débora Bloch (born 29 May 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is known nationally for participating in telenovelas such as '' Caminho das Índias'', '' Cordel Encantado'', and '' Avenida Brasil''. Biography Bloch was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. She is daughter of actor Jonas Bloch, and is a descendant of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. Her contact with the performing arts began early, when, as a child, she and her sister accompanied their father to rehearsals and plays. At the age of seven, she saw her father fight fencing with Walmor Chagas in his backyard, during a Hamlet rehearsal. She grew up fascinated with the profession. At 17, after taking the course by Ivan Albuquerque, Rubens Corrêa and Amir Haddad at the Ipanema Theater; although she moved to two options in the entrance exam - History and Communication; she chose to pursue a career on stage. Personal life From 1987 to 1989 she maintained a conjugal union with the director and photographer Edgar Moura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bloch-Blumenfeld
David Bloch-Blumenfeld (; 1887 – 1947), sometimes simply David Bloch, was one of the leaders of the Labor Zionism movement in Mandate Palestine and mayor of Tel Aviv in 1925–27. Moshav Dovev in northern Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ... is named after him. References External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20110721142932/http://www.ahuzatbait.org.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=234&CategoryID=213&Page=1 1880 births 1947 deaths Jews from the Russian Empire Jewish mayors Jewish socialists Jews from Mandatory Palestine Poale Zion politicians Mayors of Tel Aviv-Yafo Officers of the Order of the White Lion Burials at Trumpeldor Cemetery {{TelAviv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Paul Dassault
Darius Paul Dassault ( Bloch; 13 January 1882 – 3 May 1969) was a French general who was in the French Résistance in World War II. He was born in Paris. His alias Dassault developed when he was in the French Résistance. The name alludes to the code name "Chardasso" and is derived from "char d'assaut", the French term for "assault tank". He was the elder brother of Marcel Bloch (later Marcel Dassault), the aviation engineer. Career * 20 March 1933 : Rank of brigade general (''général de brigade'') * 23 March 1936 : Rank of division general (''général de division'') * 19 December 1938 : Rank of corps general (''général de corps d’armée'') * 1940 : Commander of Anti-Aircraft Artillery * 1941–1944 : Resistant under the name ''Rapp'', then ''Chardasso'' * 1944 : First Free French Military Governor of Paris. * 31 December 1947 : Rank of army general (''général d'armée'') Honours * Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur (29 June 1946; Grand Officer: 17 May 1945 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude C
Claude may refer to: People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Callegari (1962–2021), English Arsenal supporter * Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer * Claude Kiambe (born 2003), Congolese-born Dutch singer * Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English * Claude Makélélé (born 1973), French football manager * Claude McKay (1890–1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet * Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter * Claude Rains (1889–1967), British-American actor * Claude Shannon (1916–2001), American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist * Madame Claude (1923–2015), French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet Places * Claude, Texas, a city * Claude, West Virginia, an unincorporated communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
