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Hollander
Hollander is a surname. "Hollander" is a Dutch term for people from the Netherlands, or specifically Holland proper. Variants of Germanic origin include Hollaender and Holländer. People with the surname include: * Anne Hollander (1930–2014), American fashion historian, writer, critic and reviewer * Anthony Hollander (born c. 1960), British academic * Audrey Hollander (born 1979), American pornographic actress * Christian Hollander (c. 1510-15 – 1589), Dutch composer * Bernard Hollander (1864–1934), London psychiatrist * David Hollander (born 1968), American television writer, producer and director * Edith Frank (1900–1945), née Holländer, mother of diarist Anne Frank * Edmund Hollander (born 1954), American landscape architect and educator * Friedrich Hollaender (1896–1976), German composer * Gustav Hollaender (1855–1915), German composer * Han Hollander (1886–1943), Dutch journalist * Jacob Hollander (1871–1940), American economist and histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorin Hollander
Lorin Hollander (born July 19, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist. He has performed with virtually all of the major symphony orchestras in the United States and many around the world. A ''New York Times'' critic called him in 1964 "the leading pianist of his generation." Early life Lorin Hollander was born in New York City into a Jewish family. His father, Max Hollander, was associate concertmaster of the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Lorin Hollander was a child prodigy and gave his first public performance at age five playing excerpts of Bach's ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', and at age eleven, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the National Orchestral Association. He studied with Eduard Steuermann from age eight and took courses at what is now the Juilliard Pre-College at age eleven. His subsequent mentors were Max Rudolf and Leon Fleisher and he spent two summers at Marlboro working with Rudolf Serkin. He also worked periodically with Olga Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hollander
Robert B. Hollander Jr. (July 31, 1933 – April 20, 2021) was an American academic and translator, most widely known for his work on Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He was described by a department chair at Princeton University as "a pioneer in the creation of digital resources for the study of literature" for his work on the electronic Princeton and Dartmouth Dante projects. In 2008, he and his wife, Jean Hollander, co-received a Gold Florin award from the City of Florence for their English translation of Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. Early life and education Hollander was born in Manhattan in 1933. His father was a financier and his mother was a nurse. He graduated from Collegiate School in 1951. Hollander received a B.A. in French and English from Princeton University in 1955 and a Ph.D from Columbia University's department of English and Comparative Literature in 1962. His dissertation for the latter was on Edwin Muir. Career Hollander began teaching at Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xaviera Hollander
Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a Dutch former call girl, madam and author. She is best known for her best-selling memoir '' The Happy Hooker: My Own Story''. Early life Hollander was born Xaviera de Vries in Surabaya, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, which later became part of present-day Indonesia, to a Dutch Jewish physician father and a mother of French and German descent. She spent the first years of her life in a Japanese-run internment camp. After the end of Japanese occupation the family returned to the Netherlands. In her early twenties she left Amsterdam for Johannesburg, where her stepsister lived. There she met and became engaged to American economist John Weber. When the engagement was broken off, she left South Africa for New York City. Career In 1968, she resigned from her job as a secretary in the Dutch consulate in New York City to become a call girl, making up to a night (equivalent to $ in ). A year later, she opened her own brothel, the Vert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hollander
John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Life John Hollander was born in Manhattan to Muriel (Kornfeld) and Franklin Hollander, Jewish immigrant parents. He was the elder brother of Michael Hollander (1934–2015), a distinguished professor of architecture at Pratt Institute. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and then Columbia College of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling and overlapped with Allen Ginsberg (Hollander's poetic mentor),Yezzi, David, ''The New Criterion'', vol. 32, October 2013. Jason Epstein, Richard Howard, Robert Gottlieb, Roone Arledge, Max Frankel, Louis Simpson and Steven Marcus. At Columbia, he joined the Boar's Head Society. After graduating, he supported himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hollander
Thomas Anthony Hollander (; born 25 August 1967) is a British actor. He trained with National Youth Theatre and won the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in ''The Way of the World''. He made his Broadway debut in the David Hare play ''The Judas Kiss (play), The Judas Kiss'' in 1998. His performance as Henry Carr in a revival of the Tom Stoppard play ''Travesties'' earned nominations for both the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Tony Award. Hollander gained attention portraying Mr William Collins, Mr. Collins in the 2005 Joe Wright film ''Pride & Prejudice (2005 film), Pride & Prejudice'', and as List of Pirates of the Caribbean characters, Lord Cutler Beckett in the Pirates of the Caribbean (film series), ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' franchise. Other film roles include ''Gosford Park'' (2001), ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (2007), ''Valkyrie (film), Valkyrie'' (2008), ''In the Loop'' (2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hollander
Samuel Hollander, (Hebrew: שמואל הולנדר; born April 6, 1937) is a British/Canadian/Israeli economist. Born in London, he received a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics in 1959. In 1961 he received an AM and a Ph.D. in 1963 from Princeton University. He started with the University of Toronto becoming an Assistant Professor (1963–1966), Associate Professor (1966–1970), Professor (1970–1984), University Professor (1984–1998), and upon his retirement in 1998, University Professor Emeritus. Since 2000 he has been a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He became a citizen of Canada in 1967 and of Israel in 2000. Samuel Hollander is one of the most influential and controversial living authors on History of Economic Thought, especially on classical economics. His monumental studies of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill have provoked some sharp reactions. Especially his "new view" of David Ricardo as a direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hollander
Sam Hollander is an American songwriter. He has collaborated with Panic! at the Disco, One Direction, Fitz and the Tantrums, Weezer, blink-182, Train, Ringo Starr, Carole King, Katy Perry, Boys Like Girls, Metro Station, Billy Idol, Def Leppard, Daughtry, Gym Class Heroes, Tom Morello, among others. Career As of 2025, Hollander has landed 23 U.S. Top 40 hits. His music has topped charts across the U.S. and worldwide, earning 14 Number 1s, 67 Top Five hits, and 111 Top 10 entries globally. In 2008, he was named ''Rolling Stone'' Hot List Producer of the Year, alongside Dave "Sluggo" Katz. In 2012, he was the music producer for the NBC TV show '' Smash'', for which he produced the Emmy-nominated song " I Heard Your Voice In A Dream. In 2019, he held the #1 position on the Billboard Rock Songwriters chart for nine weeks, a year-end record. In 2019, Hollander sold his songwriting catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Fund. He served as a Governor of the New York Chapter of '' The Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hollander
Paul Hollander (; 3 October 1932 – 9 April 2019) was a Hungarian-born political sociologist, communist-studies scholar, and non-fiction author. He is known for his criticisms of communism and left-wing politics in general. Background Born in 1932 in Budapest, he lived in Hungary with his Jewish family. When the Nazis persecuted Jews throughout the city, he had to hide from them when he was 12. His family was deported to work, after the communists came to power. He fled to the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was bloodily put down by Soviet forces. First he escaped Austria and then to England. Career Hollander earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, 1963 and a B.A. from the London School of Economics, 1959. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. The anti-communist scholar wrote many books and articles. He is best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Hollander
Nicole Hollander (born April 25, 1939) is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily strip, daily comic strip ''Sylvia (comic strip), Sylvia'' was syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hollander is the daughter of Shirley Mazur Garrison and Henry Garrison, a labor activist and member of the carpenters union. Growing up in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, she was educated in Chicago public schools. She earned a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960 and an M.F.A. from Boston University in 1966. Her marriage to Hungarian sociologist Paul Hollander ended in a 1962 divorce. During the 1970s, she was the graphic designer of a feminist publication, ''The Spokeswoman'', where she had the opportunity to transform the newsletter into a monthly magazine. While designing pages, she occasionally added her own political illustrations. "Around 1978," she created a comic strip, ''The Feminist Funn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
