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Haag
Haag is a common Germanic place-name and personal name, which originally meant "hedge" or "fence", hence "enclosed area", such as a fenced hamlet, park or wood. Also Hagen, Hägen. Haag may refer to: Places *The Hague, in the Netherlands () *Several places in Germany: ** Haag, Upper Franconia in the district of Bayreuth, Bavaria (Postcode 95473) ** Haag an der Amper in the district of Freising, Bavaria (Postcode 85410) **Haag in Oberbayern in the district of Mühldorf, Bavaria (Postcode 83527) ** Haag (Oberpfalz), near Hemau, Bavaria (Postcode 93155) **Haag (Hunsrück), part of the community of Morbach, Rhineland-Palatinate (Postcode 54497) **Haag (Dachau), a village belonging to Altomünster in the district of Dachau, Bavaria (Postcode 85250) ** Schloss Haag, a castle near Geldern, NRW (Postcode 47608) ** Haag (Sinntal), a hill in Hesse *Several places in Austria: ** Haag am Hausruck, a market town in the district of Grieskirchen, Upper Austria (Postcode 4680) ** Haag, Austria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Haag
Rudolf Haag (17 August 1922 – 5 January 2016) was a German theoretical physicist, who mainly dealt with fundamental questions of quantum field theory. He was one of the founders of the modern formulation of quantum field theory and he identified the formal structure in terms of the principle of locality and local observables. He also made important advances in the foundations of quantum statistical mechanics. Biography Rudolf Haag was born on 17 August 1922, in Tübingen, a university town in the middle of Baden-Württemberg. His family belonged to the cultured middle class. Haag's mother was the writer and politician Anna Haag. His father, Albert Haag, was a teacher of mathematics at a Gymnasium (school), Gymnasium. After finishing high-school in 1939, he visited his sister in London shortly before the beginning of World War II. He was interned as an enemy alien and spent the war in a camp of German civilians in Manitoba. There he used his spare-time after the daily compulsor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagen (other)
Hagen is a city in the Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hagen may also refer to: People * Hagen (surname) * Hagen (given name) Places Germany * Hagen im Bremischen, a municipality in the district of Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony * Hagen, Osnabrück (''Hagen am Teutoburger Wald''), a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony * Hagen, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in the district of Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein * Hagen (Bergen), a village administered by the Lower Saxon town of Bergen * Hägen, a village and a former municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein Papua New Guinea * Mount Hagen, a major city in Papua New Guinea, simply referred to as ''Hagen'' in Tok Pisin * Hagen Mountains (New Guinea) * Mount Hagen (volcano), a volcanic mountain in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea Canada * Hagen, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet * Hagen Peak, British Columbia, Canada Elsewhere * Hagen, Moselle, France, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Haag
Alfred Haag (15 December 1904, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg – 8 August 1982) was a member of the Youth movement of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD) in the small Württemberg town of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 1920s, he married another communist; Lina Haag in 1927. He was a volunteer editor for the Sueddeutsche Zeitung workers in Stuttgart, later he was elected a member of the regional parliament for the KPD until Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Both Alfred and Lina were soon arrested, and both spent many years in prisons and concentration camps. Alfred was first in the Upper Kuhberg concentration camp near Ulm until it was dissolved in 1935, then at the Dachau concentration camp until 1939, when he was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Lina was released in 1939, and having been reunited with their daughter, she moved to Berlin and obtained work. She visited the HQ of the SS almost daily to petition for her husband's release until 1940, when she final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Haag
H. Martin "Marty" Haag, Jr. (1934–2004) was the news director at the perennially dominant ABC station, WFAA-TV, in Dallas, Texas from 1973 to 1989. During those 16 years, WFAA won five DuPont-Columbia Awards, more than any other local television news station during that time, and a George Foster Peabody Award in 1988. Education Haag earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri after attending Texas Christian University for one year. His college roommate at TCU was Jim Lehrer. He earned a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University. Career Haag began his journalism career in print as an education reporter and editor for ''The Dallas Morning News'' during the late 1950s. He then moved to radio as news director at WBAP in Dallas before finding his true niche in television. Haag served first as national assignment editor and overnight manager at NBC News, then worked as an assistant news director at CBS News in New York City before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Haag
Lina Haag née ''Jäger'' (18 January 1907 – 18 June 2012) was a German anti-Fascist activist. Early life Haag was born in Hagkling, and was a member of the Youth movement of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the small Württembergish town of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 1920s. In 1927, she married fellow Communist Alfred Haag. Alfred was a member of the regional Parliament for the KPD until Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Prison time Both Lina and her husband were arrested and spent many years in prisons and concentration camps. Both Haags showed extraordinary strength of spirit during their incarcerations. Lina spent many years in Remand Prison, during which time she met other prominent prisoners such as Liselotte Herrmann. Lina was freed in 1938 after managing to turn her camp commandant at Lichtenburg against the Stuttgart Gestapo. Alfred's release Once released, she was reunited with her daughter, moved to Berlin, and secured a job. She visited the headqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Haag
Jules Haag (9 August 1882, Flirey – 16 February 1953, Besançon) was a French mathematician and horologist. Education and career Haag matriculated at l'École Normale Supérieure in 1903Haag, Jules - Observatoire de Haute-Provence and successfully qualified for the '''' of mathematics in 1906. He received in 1910 his doctorate in mathematics from the with dissertation ''Families de Lamé, composées de surfaces égales: généralisations, applications'' under the supervision of |
Ervin Haág
Ervin Haág (11 January 1933 – 23 October 2018) was a Hungarian chess International Master (IM, 1961). He was European Team Chess Championship silver (1970) and bronze (1961) medalist. Biography In the 1960s Ervin Haág was one of the top Hungarian chess players. He participated in the individual finals of the Hungarian Chess Championships many times and won three medals: silver (1966) and two bronze (1960, 1967). One of his greatest successes in International Chess tournaments was in 1961 in Debrecen, where he shared the 1st place (together with Isaac Boleslavsky) in the Lajos Asztalos Memorial. His career highest chess ranking was on 1 July 1971, with a score of 2,440 points, split 11th–13th at the time place among Hungarian chess players. Ervin Haág played for Hungary in the European Team Chess Championships: * In 1961, at the seventh board in the 2nd European Team Chess Championship in Oberhausen (+4, =2, -2) and won team and individual bronze medals. * In 1970, at se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Haag
Mighty Haag Circus was started by American entrepreneur Ernest Haag (17 June 1866 - 1 Feb. 1935) in Shreveport, Louisiana."Ernest Haag, Mighty Haag Shows" , Circuses and Sideshows website, with photos] His toured continuously for over 40 years, from 1891 to 1938. During these years, the circus used a variety of types of transport: boat, carts, trains, horse-pulled wagons, and trucks. It was one of the largest traveling circuses in the . Many Haag performers had successful careers elsewhere after working in the Haag Circus. |
Ernest Van Den Haag
Ernest van den Haag (September 15, 1914 – March 21, 2002) was a Dutch-born American sociologist, social critic, and author. He was John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University. He was best known for his contributions to ''National Review''. Life and career Ernest van den Haag was born in 1914 in the Hague to Moses "Max" Melamerson and Flora Haag Melamerson. He changed his surname in the early 1940s. While van den Haag was still young, his family moved to Italy. Van den Haag grew up in Italy, and following his education began a life in politics. In the late 1930s, he was a left-wing activist and communist. During this time, Italy was ruled by Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. In 1937, van den Haag was nearly murdered by a political assassin who shot him five times. After being shot, he spent nearly three years in prison. Nearly eighteen months of those three years were spent in solitary confinement. After release, fearing re-imprisonment, van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Haag
Emile Haag (born 24 July 1942) is a Luxembourgish historian, trade unionist and former principal of the Athénée de Luxembourg. From 1987 to 2016 he was the president of the General Confederation of Civil Servants, a Luxembourgish trade union. In 1997, he was made commander of the Ordre de la couronne de chêne (awarded 1997). Between 2005 and 2015 he was also President of the Chamber for Civil Servants and Government Employees. In 2015 he was made honorary president of that chamber. Biography Emile Haag was born in Hunsdorf. After his secondary education at the Lycée classique de Diekirch, he went on to study history in Aix-en-Provence and Paris. After completing his military service, he went on to pursue a Luxembourg doctorate (1968), through the system called "collation des grades", and became a teacher at the Athénée de Luxembourg. In 1981, he became deputy principal, and from 1993 until 2007 he was the principal of this school. From 1969 on Haag also taught at the Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Haag
Carl Haag (20 April 1820 – 24 January 1915) was a Bavarian-born painter who became a naturalized British subject and was court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Biography Haag was born in Erlangen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and was trained in the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and at Munich. He initially practised as an illustrator and as a painter in oils of portraits and architectural subjects; but in 1847 he settled in England, where he studied English watercolour techniques. After this he devoted himself to watercolours. In 1850, he was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours before becoming a full member in 1853. He also enjoyed the patronage of Queen Victoria. Between 1858 and 1860, he travelled to the Middle East, at first staying for more than a year in Cairo where he shared a studio with fellow artist Frederick Goodall. Later he journeyed to Jerusalem, Lebanon and Syria before returning to Cairo. During this period, he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
