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Knuth Family
Knuth is a surname of Nordic origin. Bearers of the name include: * Carl Conrad Gustav Knuth, Baron Knuth (1761–1815), Danish landowner and second Director of the Royal Danish Mail * Daniel Knuth, American politician, environmentalist and educator * Donald Knuth (born 1938), American computer scientist * Eigil Knuth (1903–1996), Danish explorer and archaeologist * Estefania Knuth (born 1973), Spanish golfer * Frederik Marcus Knuth (taxonomist) (1904–1970), Danish taxonomist * Frederik Marcus Knuth (1813-1856), Danish aristocrat, civil servant and politician, first Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark * Gustav Knuth (1901–1987), German film actor * Jason Knuth, the subject of the dedication of Silver Session for Jason Knuth, a 1998 EP by Sonic Youth * Jeff Knuth (born 1962), Australian politician * Kate Knuth (born 1981), American politician * Marcus Knuth (born 1976), Danish politician * Paul Knuth (1854–1900), German taxonomist, botanist and pteridologist * Reinhard Gus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Conrad Gustav Knuth
Carl Conrad Gustav, Baron Knuth (20 November 1761 – 20 December 1815) was a Denmark, Danish landowner and 2nd Director of the Royal Danish Mail. He owned the estates Fredsholm, Gottesgabe and Rudbjerggaard on the island of Lolland. Early life and career Knuth was born on 20 November 1761 in Copenhagen, the son of Supreme Court justice and chamberlain Conrad Ditlev, Baron Knuth of Conradsborg and Conradine Augusta née Countess Reventlow. He was in 1783 appointed '' kammerjunker'', graduated in law from the University of Copenhagen in 1785 and was then for a while an ''auskultant'' (trainee) in the Treasury (''rentekammeret''). In 1801, Knuth was appointed as 3rd Director of Generalpostamtet, In 1802, he was appointed as chamberlain (''kammerherre'') and 2nd Director. In 1703, he participated in the negotiations for the dissolution of the Danish post office in Hamburg. He resigned in 1809. Property Knuth owned the estates Fredsholm, Gottesgabe, Rudbjerggaard Stensø and Kalleh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Knuth
Jeffrey Alan Knuth (born 9 March 1962) is an Australian politician. Biography Born in Ayr, Queensland, Ayr, Queensland, he was a painter and decorator before entering politics. In 1998, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as a member of Pauline Hanson's One Nation (Australia), One Nation, representing the seat of Electoral district of Burdekin, Burdekin. He was party whip and spokesperson for Public Works and Housing until 23 February 1999, when he resigned from the party to sit as an independent (politician), independent. On 5 August, he formed the Country Party Queensland (initially known as New Country Party QLD) as a splinter group from One Nation, but on 18 February 2000 joined the larger City Country Alliance, led by Bill Feldman. He was defeated by Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), Labor's Steve Rodgers in 2001, and contested the seat in the 2004 Queensland state election, 2004 state election as an independent with the support of federal ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shay Knuth
Shay Knuth (born May 29, 1945, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for September 1969. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. At the time of the photo shoot, she was studying sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and working as a Bunny at the Playboy Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Knuth later appeared on the covers of the January 1970 and December 1970 issues of ''Playboy'' as well as a "Playmates Forever" pictorial in the April 1984 issue. She also worked as a Bunny at the San Francisco and London Playboy Clubs and as the "Official Party Coordinator" for Studio 54. Knuth lived in Chicago and was appearing at "glamour conventions". See also * List of people in Playboy 1960–1969 The following women have appeared in the American or international edition of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month. Those who were also named Playmate of the Year are highlighted in green. A common misconception is that Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Knuth
Shane Andrew Knuth (born 7 September 1966) is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2004, representing three successive seats: Charters Towers (2004–2009), Dalrymple (2009–2017) and Hill (2017–present). He has variously represented the National Party (2004–08), the Liberal National Party (2008–11) and Katter's Australian Party (2011–present). Biography Knuth was born in the Far North Queensland town of Tully. His brother Jeff Knuth is a former One Nation parliamentarian. Shane Knuth entered the state parliament as the member for Charters Towers at the 2004 state election by defeating incumbent MP Christine Scott of the Labor Party on One Nation preferences. At the 2006 state election, Knuth was re-elected with a large swing, reverting Charters Towers to its traditional status as a comfortably safe National seat. Charters Towers was abolished in a redistribution ahead of the 2009 state election, and Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth
Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth (1874–1957) was a German taxonomist, botanist and pteridologist responsible for "''Initia florae venezuelensis''" in 1928, and numerous contributions to Adolf Engler's "''Das Pflanzenreich''" on Geraniaceae, Oxalidaceae, Lecythidaceae, and other families. He worked for more than 50 years at the Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. As part of his training in plant systematics he visited the herbaria at Kew, Brussels, Geneva, Paris and Utrecht. He was not only a botanist, but was well-versed in zoology, chemistry and geography. While his main interests in botany were systematics and phytogeography, he also ventured into other disciplines and in his final 30 years was working on problems in bacteriology and the growth of Ascomycetes, the source of antibiotics and yeast. His own extensive herbarium collection of some 26 000 specimens was lost when the Dahlem Botanical Museum was destroyed by bombing and fire on the nights of 1 and 2 March 1943. The catastro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Knuth
Paul Erich Otto Wilhelm Knuth (20 November 1854 in Greifswald – 30 October 1900 in Kiel) was a 19th-century German botanist and pollination ecologist. He studied chemistry and natural history at the University of Greifswald and obtained his doctorate degree in 1876. He then took up a career as "high school" (Realschule) teacher, first in Iserlohn in Westphalia and from 1881 in Kiel. Parallel with his teaching duties, he found time to study the flora of Schleswig-Holstein and the North Frisian Islands and meticulous studies of plant-pollinator interactions, which he published in his monumental work ''Handbuch der Blütenbiologie''Handbook of Flower Biology from 1898 and continued after his death by Otto Appel and Ernst Loew). From 1891 he suffered from illness. He was granted leave of absence to visit the botanic garden at Buitenzorg in Java, where he stayed for five months and did pollination studies. He returned to Kiel via Japan, California and New York New York most c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Knuth
Johan Henrik Marcus Knuth (born 2 April 1976 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party. He was elected into parliament in the 2015 Danish general election. Political career Knuth was elected into parliament for the Venstre party in the 2015 election, where he received 7,351 votes. He was reelected in 2019, where he received 9,523 votes. On 29 November 2019 Knuth decided to leave Venstre and join the Conservative People's Party Bibliography *''Marcus Knuth - ny mand på Borgen'' (Gyldendal Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S, usually referred to simply as Gyldendal (), is a Danish publishing house. Founded in 1770 by Søren Gyldendal, it is the oldest and largest publishing house in Denmark, offering a wide selection of ..., 2019, co-author) *''Soldat og diplomat - mine 3 år i Afghanistan'' (Gyldendal, 2014) References External links Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Knuth
Kate Knuth (born May 15, 1981) is an American politician who served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for District 50B from 2007 to 2013. She was a Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis in the city's 2021 election. Early life and education Katherine "Kate" Knuth was born on May 15, 1981, to parents Daniel Knuth and Joann Knuth. As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Knuth studied biology and philosophy. She worked at the Field Museum of Natural History and served as National President of the coed Venturing program of the Boy Scouts of America. After graduating with her B.A, Knuth spent a year in Norway as a Fulbright student, studying how the country's strong environmental ethic affected the development of oil into one of its major industries. She then moved to England to continue her education, completing a M.Sc at the University of Oxford in biodiversity conservation. She spent three weeks in Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Session For Jason Knuth
''Silver Session for Jason Knuth'' is an EP by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in 1998, credited to record label Sonic Knuth. Content The EP's eight tracks consist entirely of guitar feedback with occasional drum machine. It was dedicated to Sonic Youth fan Jason Knuth, who committed suicide, with proceeds from the record's sales donated to the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline. The liner notes, written by Thurston Moore, contained an explanation of the record: ''Silver Sessions'' astaken from an evening when SY had to do vocal overdubs for '' A Thousand Leaves'' – the band upstairs was hammering out some funky metal overdrive and we couldn't "sing" properly (?!). We decided to fight fire with molten lava and turned every amp we owned on to 10+ and leaned as many guitars and basses we could plug in against them and they roared/howled like airplanes burning over the pacific 'sic'' We could only enter the playing room with hands pressed h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Knuth
Daniel J. Knuth (July 3, 1945 – October 5, 2020) was an American politician, educator, and environmental consultant. Early life and education Knuth was born in Mabel, Minnesota and graduated from Mabel High School. He received his bachelor's degree in physical geography from Minnesota State University, Mankato and his master's and doctorate degrees in physical geography from Indiana University. Career He worked as a hydrologist, as an environmental consultant and taught at Macalester College. Knuth served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1985 to 1988 and was a Democrat. Knuth lived in New Brighton, Minnesota with his wife and family. His daughter Kate Knuth and his brother-in-law Gordon Backlund also served in the Minnesota Legislature The Minnesota Legislature is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota consisting of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senators are elected from 67 single-member districts. In or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Knuth
Gustav Knuth (7 July 1901 – 1 February 1987) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1935 and 1982 and starred in the TV series ''Alle meine Tiere''. He was married to the actress Elisabeth Lennartz. Selected filmography * ''The Valley of Love (1935 film), The Valley of Love'' (1935) – Hans Stork * ''Heimweh (1937 film), Heimweh'' (1937) – Christof Peleikis, Fischer und Steuermann * ''Shadows Over St. Pauli'' (1938) – Oschi Rasmus * ''The Curtain Falls'' (1939) – Dr. Cornelsen * ''Mann für Mann'' (1939) – Walter Zügel * ''The Desert Song'' (1939) – Nic Brenten, Ingenieur * ''Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940) – Henry Brinkmann * ''The Girl from Fano'' (1941) – Fischer Frerk * ''Friedemann Bach (film), Friedemann Bach'' (1941) – Johann Christoph Altnikol * ''Pedro Will Hang'' (1941) – Pedro, Hirte * ''The Big Game (1942 film), The Big Game'' (1942) – Trainer Karl Wildbrandt * ''Gefährtin meines Sommers'' (1943) – Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Marcus Knuth (1813-1856)
Frederik Marcus Knuth, 5th Count of Knuthenborg (11 January 1813 – 8 January 1856) was a Danish aristocrat, landowner, civil servant and politician. A member of the Knuth family, he was educated at home and later at the University of Copenhagen. From 1847 to 1848 he served as amtmand in Sorø Amt. After the introduction of the constitutional monarchy in 1848, Knuth served as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark from March to November 1848. From November 1848, he was member of The Danish Constituent Assembly () as one of the members appointed by the king. With the title of enfeoffed count (), he was the fifth holder of the County of Knuthenborg on the island of Lolland Lolland (; formerly spelled ''Laaland'', literally "low land") is the List of islands of Denmark#List of 100 largest Danish islands, fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of . Located in the Kattegat, Belts and Sund area, it is part of Re ... from 1818 to 1856.Danmarks Adels Aarbog 1919 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
