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Géza Kuun
Géza () is a Hungarian given name and may refer to any of the following: As regnal or forename * Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians * Géza I of Hungary, King of Hungary * Géza II of Hungary, King of Hungary * Géza, son of Géza II of Hungary * Géza Csáth (1887–1919), Hungarian writer, and psychiatrist * Geza de Kaplany (born 1926), Hungarian-American physician and murderer * Géza Maróczy (1870–1951), Hungarian chess grandmaster * Geza Šifliš (1907–1948), Yugoslav football goalkeeper * Géza Steinhardt (1873–1944), Hungarian actor * Géza Vermes (1924–2013), American scholar of religion * Géza von Habsburg (born 1940), Austrian art historian and curator * Geza von Hoffmann (1885–1921), Austrian-Hungarian writer and eugenicist * Géza Wertheim (1910–1979), Luxembourgish athlete * Geza X (born 1952), American music producer As middle name * Benjamin Géza Affleck Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Steinhardt
Géza Steinhardt ( né Géza Szekeres; 1873–1944) was a Hungarian stage and film actor, theater director, film producer, screenplay writer, and author. He was a Jewish and known for his comic roles. Steinhardt was murdered in the Holocaust during World War II. Biography Géza Steinhardt was born with the name Géza Szekeres on 1873 in Levice, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia). Some records have his name at birth as Géza Goldstein. He began his career in 1890 at the ''Folies Caprices'', where he partnered with actor Sándor Rott and he remained for 18 years. In 1908, he opened the Trocadero amusement park () on Rákóczi Avenue, which he operated until 1917. He enlisted as a soldier in 1917, during World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to .... Between Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Géza Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. List of awards and nominations received by Ben Affleck, His accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series ''The Voyage of the Mimi'' (1984–1988). He later appeared in the independent comedy ''Dazed and Confused (film), Dazed and Confused'' (1993) and several Kevin Smith comedies, including ''Chasing Amy'' (1997). Affleck gained wider recognition when he and Matt Damon won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing ''Good Will Hunting'' (1997), which they also starred in. He established himself as a leading man in studio films, including the disaster film ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'' (1998), the action crime thriller ''Reindeer Games'' (2000), the war drama ''Pearl Harbor (film), Pearl Harbor'' (2001), and the thriller ''The Sum of All Fears (film), The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geza X
Geza Gedeon (born September 28, 1952), professionally known as Geza X, is an American producer. He was a personality in the Los Angeles punk scene in the late 1970s. He is now a producer. Early life and career Gedeon was born in Indiana and moved to California when he was a teen. Geza produced records for a number of early California punk bands including the Dead Kennedys, Germs, Redd Kross, Black Flag, The Avengers and The Weirdos. His productions of " Holiday in Cambodia" for Dead Kennedys and " Lexicon Devil" for Germs separated California's punk sound from others at the time with its eccentricity, humor and spunk, making Los Angeles and San Francisco very different from the scenes in New York or London. Record executive Howie Klein, then writing for ''BAM'', a San Francisco music magazine, was quoted as saying "...Geza X is ''The Only'' person to capture the West Coast's compelling power and urgency." From 1979 to 1981, Geza contributed to the San Francisco punk zine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Wertheim
Géza Wertheim (3 July 1910 – 10 August 1979) was a Luxembourgish tennis player and bobsledder. He made thirty appearances for Luxembourg in the Davis Cup between 1947 and 1957, losing all thirty. He later became President of the Luxembourg Tennis Federation. He also competed for Luxembourg in the two-man bobsleigh at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; ) is an Northern Limestone Alps, Alpine mountain resort, ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen (district), district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ..., where the team of Wertheim and Raoul Weckbecker, finished last of twenty-two. References 1936 bobsleigh two-man results1936 Olympic Winter Games official report.- p. 419. * External links * 1910 births 1979 deaths Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics Luxembourgian male bobsledders Luxembourgian male tennis players Olympic bobs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geza Von Hoffmann
Geza von Hoffmann (1885 – 1921)Turda, Marius, and Paul Weindling. "Blood and Homeland": Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940. Budapest: Central European UP, 2007. pp. 1 Print. was a prominent Austrian-Hungarian eugenicist and writer. He lived for a time in California as the Austrian Vice-Consulate where he observed and wrote on eugenics practices in the United States. His best known book, ''Die Rassenhygiene in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika'' (''Racial Hygiene in the United States of America'') described his observations in America. His reports on American eugenicist activity influenced German and especially Berlin eugenicists up to the first World War. He served as a key connection between American and German eugenics activities. Views on eugenics He shared his views with Germans and Hungarians “that eugenic policies should improve the racial qualities of the nation”.Turda, Marius, and Paul Weindling. "Blood and Homela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Von Habsburg
Géza Ladislaus Euseb Gerhard Rafael Albert Maria von Habsburg (born 14 November 1940) is a Fabergé expert who has published books and articles on the jewellers Peter Carl Fabergé and Victor Mayer. He is the curator of several major international Fabergé exhibitions. Géza von Habsburg coined the term Fauxbergé. As a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, he holds the abolished but courtesy titles of ''Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia'', with the style of '' Imperial and Royal Highness''. Almanach de Gotha (2018), 'Austria', Pages 42-86 Life Géza von Habsburg is the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria (1895–1957) and his wife Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976); thus, he is a grandson of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and great-great-great-grandson of Emperor Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. Géza attended universities in Fribourg and Bern, Switzerland; Munich, Germany; and Florence, Italy, before graduating as a Doctor of Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Vermes
Géza Vermes, (; 22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British academic, Biblical scholar, and Judaist of Jewish–Hungarian descent—one who also served as a Roman Catholic priest in his youth—and scholar specialized in the field of the history of religion, particularly ancient Judaism and early Christianity. He is best known for his complete translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls into English; his research focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Ancient Hebrew writings in Aramaic such as the Targumim, and on the life and religion of Jesus. Vermes was one of the most important voices in contemporary Jesus research,Gerd Theissen, Annette Merz (1998), ''The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide'', Fortress Press (translated from the German 1996 edition). Chapter 1: ''Quest of the historical Jesus'', pp. 1–16. and he has been described as the greatest Jesus scholar of his time. Vermes' written work on Jesus focuses principally on the Jewishness of the historical Jesu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geza Šifliš
Geza Šifliš (, ; 25 February 1907 – 18 November 1948) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper of Hungarian ethnicity. He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Nicknamed ''Gouliver'' for his height and strength, he played in top league clubs in Yugoslavia and Hungary.Geza Šifliš at Reprezentacija.rs Career Born in Ókeresztúr, (nowadays Srpski Krstur, Serbia), he first appeared playing for ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza, Grand Prince Of The Hungarians
Géza ( 940 – 997), also Gejza, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians from the early 970s. He was the son of Grand Prince Taksony of Hungary, Taksony and his OrientalKhazars, Khazar, Pechenegs, Pecheneg or Volga Bulgarianwife. He married Sarolt, a daughter of an Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Hungarian chieftain. After ascending the throne, Géza made peace with the Holy Roman Empire. Within Hungary, he consolidated his authority with extreme cruelty, according to the unanimous narration of nearly contemporaneous sources. He was the first Hungarian monarch to support Christian missionaries from Western Europe. Although he was baptised (his baptismal name was Stephen), his Christian faith remained shallow and he continued to perform acts of pagan worship. He was succeeded by his son Stephen I of Hungary, Stephen, who was crowned the first King of Hungary in 1000 or 1001. Early life Géza was the elder son of Taksony of Hungary, Taksony, Grand Prince of the Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Maróczy
Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster title from FIDE in 1950. Early career Géza Maróczy was born in Szeged, Hungary on 3 March 1870. He won the "minor" tournament at Hastings 1895 chess tournament, Hastings 1895, and over the next ten years he won several first prizes in international events. Between 1902 and 1908, he took part in thirteen tournaments and won five first prizes and five second prizes. Today the Maróczy Bind (see below) and the Maróczy Gambit bear his name. In 1906 he agreed to terms for a World Chess Championship, World Championship match with Emanuel Lasker, but the arrangements could not be finalised, and the match never took place. Retirement and return After 1908, Maróczy retired from international chess to devote more time to his profession as a clerk. He worked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geza De Kaplany
Geza de Kaplany (born 27 June 1926) is a Hungarian-born physician who emigrated to the United States in the late 1950s. In 1963, he was convicted of first-degree murder in California after mutilating his wife with a scalpel and corrosive strong acids, thus causing her death. Early life De Kaplany was born and raised in Hungary, in a wealthy family. He lost the sight in an eye during a beating by his father, who died in 1938. He studied medicine at the University of Szeged and graduated with honors in 1951. He went into practice in Budapest as a cardiologist, but clashed with officials in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, fleeing after it failed. He visited England and Denmark, writing a book called ''Doctor in Revolt'' about his alleged experiences as a freedom fighter in Hungary. He settled in Boston, intending to resume his practice, but discovered that his degree was not recognized. He retrained as an anesthesiologist, interning at :Milwaukee Hospital from August 1957 to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
