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Clausen
Clausen is a Danish patronymic surname, literally meaning ''child of Claus'', Claus being a German form of the Greek Νικόλαος, Nikolaos, (cf. Nicholas), used in Denmark at least since the 16th century. The spelling variant Klausen has identical pronunciation (as does the often interchangeable Claussen). The two variants are number 34 and 85 on the top 100 of surnames in Denmark. Occurrences of Clausen/Klausen as a surname outside Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein are due to immigration. Immigrants to English-speaking countries sometimes changed the spelling to Clauson. People * Alden W. Clausen (1923–2013), American businessman and former President of the World Bank * Alf Clausen (1941–2025), American film and television musical composer * Andrea Clausen (born 1959), German stage actress (Burgtheater, Vienna) * Arne Clausen (born 1932), Argentine Methodist Pastor * Casey Clausen (born 1981), American football player * Christopher John Clausen (born 1942), American writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Clausen
Casey James Clausen (born January 9, 1981) is an American football coach and former player. He was previously the head football coach of Bishop Alemany High School and Calabasas High School. Clausen played college football at the University of Tennessee and professionally in NFL Europe (NFLE). He attended Bishop Alemany. Clausen is the older brother of former quarterbacks Jimmy Clausen and Rick Clausen. College career Clausen attended and played college football at the University of Tennessee under head coach Phillip Fulmer from 2000 to 2003 with the nickname "Iceman." Clausen took over the starting position from A. J. Suggs on October 21, 2000, in the Third Saturday in October, annual rivalry game against Alabama Crimson Tide football, Alabama. He helped lead Tennessee to the SEC East Division title in 2001. He started 44 of 47 games at the quarterback position in his career and had a 14–1 record on the road with a 34–10 record overall. College statistics Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Holst Clausen
Donald Holst Clausen (April 27, 1923 – February 7, 2015) was an American businessman, World War II veteran, and politician who served ten terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1983. Biography Born in Ferndale, California, Clausen graduated from elementary and high schools of Ferndale, where he was an honors student and lettered five sports: tennis, track, basketball, football and baseball as well as being the drum major of the school band.Retired congressman from Ferndale to celebrate 90th birthday April 27, ''The Ferndale Enterprise'', April 18, 2013 He attended San José State University, California Polytechnic State University (in San Luis Obispo, California), Weber State University (in Ogden, Utah), and Saint Mary's College of California. He took part in the U.S. Navy V5 Aviation Cadet Program. He served as a carrier pilot in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of the Second World War from 1944 to 1945, flying F4U Corsair aircraft. Post-war, Clausen helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Language
Danish (, ; , ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern Germany, German region of Southern Schleswig, where it has minority language status. Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Age, Viking Era. Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the ''East Norse'' dialect group, while the Middle Norwegian language (before the influence of Danish) and Bokmål, Norwegian Bokmål are classified as ''West Norse'' along with Faroese language, Faroese and Icelandic language, Icelandic. A more recent c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Clausen
Connie Clausen (born Constance Clausen on June 11, 1923, in Menasha, Wisconsin, and died September 7, 1997, in New York City) was an American actress, author, and literary agent. Career Connie Clausen's career began in 1942 at the age of 19 when she was approached by John Ringling North on Main Street in Sarasota, Florida (then the winter quarters for Ringling Brothers Circus), who told her that her long hair would make her a perfect Alice in the following season's "fairy tale"-themed grand finale. She joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and performed as an acrobat in an elephant act. Her experiences in the circus later provided material for her memoir ''I Love You Honey, but the Season's Over'' (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961), in which she discussed, among other issues, the "significant gap" between what women did within the circus ring and their treatment outside of it. After leaving the circus, she worked as a magazine and television writer and started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Clausen
Jens Christen (Christian) Clausen (March 11, 1891 – November 22, 1969) was a Danish- American botanist, geneticist, and ecologist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of ecological and evolutionary genetics of plants. Biography Clausen was born in Nr. Eskilstrup, Soderup parish on the island of Zealand, Denmark. He was the son of Christen Augustinus Clausen (1858-1938) and Christine (Christensen) Clausen (1856-1933). His parents were farmers and at age 14 he took responsibility for the family farm and was largely educated at home with the assistance of a local school teacher. He studied Mendel's genetics and Darwinian evolutionary theory. In 1913 he entered the University of Copenhagen, where he studied botany, genetics and ecology. Christen Raunkiær suggested he undertake graduate studies and Clausen chose to study the genetics and ecology of the plant family Violaceae. He studied hybridization patterns across a range of environments and described introgression of g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Clausen
Ian Clausen is an American philosopher and Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University. Previously he was Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at this university. Clausen is known for his works on Saint Augustine's thought. He is the editor-in-chief of ''Augustinian Studies ''Augustinian Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of Augustine of Hippo. Its primary focus is the study of Augustine himself, as viewed from various theological, philosophical, and historical perspectives. Articles co ...''. Currently he is a professor of the mandatory freshmen Augustine Culture Seminar (ACS) program at Villanova University. Books *''On Love, Confession, Surrender and the Moral Self'', Ian Clausen, eading Augustine Series Bloomsbury, New York and London, 2018 References 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Philosophy journal editors Alumni of the University of Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Judge Advocate General Of The United States Army
The Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Army (DJAG) 10 USC 5149 Office of the Judge Advocate General: Deputy Judge Advocate General; Assistant Judge Advocates General. is the second highest ranking JAG officer and lawyer in the United States Army. Similar to the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army (TJAG), the DJAG is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate. Upon appointment to the office of DJAG, the appointee, if they hold a lower rank, will be promoted to the rank of major general. 10 USC 5149(a)(1) Office of the Judge Advocate General: Deputy Judge Advocate General; Appointment. U.S. Army Deputy Judge Advocates General See ...
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Hugh J
Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of '' Hugo (name)">Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name">given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). The Germanic name is on record beginning in the 8th century, in variants ''Chugo, Hugo, Huc, Ucho, Ugu, Uogo, Ogo, Ougo,'' etc. The name's popularity in the Middle Ages ultimately derives from its use by Frankish nobility, beginning with Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris Hugh the Great (898–956). The Old French form was adopted into English from the Norman period (e.g. Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury d. 1098; Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, d. 1101). The spelling ''Hugh'' in English is from the Picard variant spelling '' Hughes'', where the orthography ''-gh-'' takes the role of ''-gu-'' in standard French, i.e. to express the phoneme /g/ as opposed to the affricate /ʒ/ taken by the grapheme ''g'' before fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Clausen
Hermann Clausen (24 July 1885 – 12 April 1962) was a German politician of the Federalist Union and former SSW member of the German Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa .... Life On 2 December 1946 Clausen became a member of the second appointed state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein and, after the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1947 to 1950, of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein. From 1949 to 1953 he was also a member of the German Bundestag. He was elected via the SSW-Landesliste Schleswig-Holstein. Literature References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clausen, Hermann 1885 births 1962 deaths Members of the Bundestag for Schleswig-Holstein Members of the Bundestag 1949–1953 Members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein South Schleswig V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herluf Stenholt Clausen
Claus Herluf Stenholt Clausen (October 21, 1921, Los Angeles – 2002) was a Danish ichthyologist, known for his work on the river fish of West Africa. Although often cited as H. S. Clausen, he published as H. Stenholt Clausen, with the compound surname Stenholt Clausen. He worked for many years at the University College of Ibadan in Nigeria. Taxon named in his honor *'' Phractura clauseni'', a species of catfish, is named in his honor, as is the ray-finned fish *'' Enteromius clauseni''. See alsOrder CYPRINIFORMES. Family His son, Ian Henning Stenholt Clausen, became an arachnologist Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, ticks, and mites. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Stenholt Clausen, Herluf 1921 births 2002 deaths Danish ichthyologists 20th-century Danish zoologists Danis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Christian Clausen
Henry Christian Clausen (30 June 1905 – 4 December 1992) was an American lawyer, and investigator. He authored the ''Clausen Report'', an 800-page report on the Army Board's Pearl Harbor Investigation. He traveled over 55,000 miles over seven months in 1945, and interviewed nearly a hundred personnel, Army, Navy, British and civilian, as a Special Investigator for the Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson carrying out an investigation ordered by Congress. Biography Clausen, a lawyer and a former Assistant United States Attorney from San Francisco, and a "civilian at heart" had joined up "for the duration" of the war, being discharged in August 1945. He was not a Reserve officer. He had been the Trial Judge Advocate for the Army at the (well publicized) court martial of Army inspectors for fraudulent inspections of aircraft engines at the Wright Aeronautical engine manufacturing facility in Lackland, Ohio. He was a Republican like Stimson, who Clausen regarded as "a man of truly h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
