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Krauss
Krauss is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alison Krauss (born 1971), American bluegrass musician * Alexander Krauß (born 1975), German politician * Alexis Krauss (born 1985), musician of the noise pop duo Sleigh Bells * Amy Krauss (1876–1961), British artist * Anna Krauss (1884–1943) German clairvoyant * Beatrice Krauss (1903–1998), American botanist * Clemens Krauss (1893–1954), Austrian conductor * Clementine Krauss (1877-1938), Austrian ballerina, operetta singer, director, and actress * Charles A. W. Krauss (1851–1939), American politician * Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss (1812–1890), known as Ferdinand Krauss, German scientist, traveller and collector * Friedrich Salomon Krauss (1859–1938), Austrian ethnographer * Gabrielle Krauss (1842–1906), Austrian-born French operatic soprano * Georg Krauß, (1826–1906), German industrialist and the founder of the Krauss Locomotive Works ** Krauss-Maffei, German engineering comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, fiddler and music producer. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of eight and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join Union Station, releasing her first album with them as a group in 1989 and performing with them ever since. Krauss has released 14 albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and sparked a renewed interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack, and the ''Cold Mountain'' soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. Platinum-selling '' Raising Sand'' (2007) was the first of her two collaborations with English rock singer Robert Plant. As of 2019, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 42 nominati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Krauss (academic)
Werner Krauss (7 June 1900 – 28 August 1976) was a German university professor (Romance studies). During the 1940s he became a political activist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. In 1943 he was found guilty of preparing to commit high treason and condemned to death. Following the intervention of influential fellow-intellectuals the sentence was commuted to a five-year prison term in 1944. Life Provenance and early years Werner Krauss was the son of the archivist-scholar and his wife, born Ottilie Schüle. Werner's mother's sister was the mother of Eberhard Koebel. In June 1918 Werner Krauss successfully completed his schooling at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, after which he was conscripted into the wartime army. Discharged from the army in 1919 Krauss went on to study Literary sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at what later became the Humboldt University of Berlin, with a particular focus on Romance studies. Betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clementine Krauss
Clementine Krauss, later Clementine Chmel (25 April 1877 – 18 April 1938) was an Austrian ballerina, actress, opera singer and director. She was a dancer with the Vienna Imperial Opera Ballet until she gave birth to her son, Clemens Krauss, at the age of fifteen. Her career then shifted to the theatre, where she performed as a stage actress. After studying music, she became an opera singer and a director at the Vienna Volksoper. Family and early life Krauss was born in Vienna on 25 April 1877 to Maximilian Krauss and Elisabeth Weber. She was from an artistic family; her sister Helene Krauss was a dancer and mimic at the Vienna Imperial Opera and her aunt was the operatic soprano Gabrielle Krauss. At the age of six, Krauss was sent to study ballet at the Vienna Court Opera's dance school. Career In 1888, aged eleven, Krauss joined the Vienna Imperial Opera Ballet as an apprentice. From 1890 to 1892, she was a member of the corps de ballet, and eventually she was promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British catapult aircraft merchant ship (CAM ship): a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was measured at and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 nominal horsepower triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krausz
Krausz is a Hungarian names, Hungarian surname of German name, German and Jews, Jewish origin. Notable people with the name include: *Adrienne Krausz (born 1967), Hungarian pianist *Andor Kraszna-Krausz (1904–1989), Hungarian-British writer *Ernest Krausz (1931–2018), Israeli professor *Ferenc Krausz (born 1962), Hungarian-born Austrian physicist *Gergely Krausz (born 1993), Hungarian badminton player *Ilona Vincze-Krausz (1902–1998), Hungarian-Israeli teacher *Michael Krausz (born 1942), Swiss-born American philosopher *Nikolett Krausz (born 1981), Hungarian artistic gymnast *Peter Krausz (born 1946), Romanian-born Canadian artist *Robert Krausz (1936–2002), Israeli trader See also *Kraus *Krause *Krauss *Krauze {{surname, Krausz German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krauze
Krauze is the Polish form of the German surname Krause. Notable people with the surname include: * Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938), Polish composer * Andrzej Krauze (born 1947), Polish-born British cartoonist and illustrator * Enrique Krauze (born 1947), Mexican historian, essayist and publisher * Krzysztof Krauze (1953–2014), Polish film director, cinematographer and actor * León Krauze (born 1975), Mexican journalist See also * Kraus * Krause * Krauss * Krausz Krausz is a Hungarian names, Hungarian surname of German name, German and Jews, Jewish origin. Notable people with the name include: *Adrienne Krausz (born 1967), Hungarian pianist *Andor Kraszna-Krausz (1904–1989), Hungarian-British writer *Erne ... {{surname Polish-language surnames Surnames from nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krause
Krause (German for '' ruffle'') is a common German surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 64.9% of all known bearers of the surname ''Krause'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:531), 20.6% of the United States (1:7,541), 3.5% of Brazil (1:24,831), 2.4% of South Africa (1:9,550), 2.1% of Poland (1:7,891), 1.4% of Canada (1:11,446) and 1.2% of Australia (1:8,488). In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:531) in the following states: * 1. Brandenburg (1:204) * 2. Saxony-Anhalt (1:240) * 3. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:250) * 4. Berlin (1:279) * 5. Saxony (1:305) * 6. Schleswig-Holstein (1:345) * 7. Thuringia (1:388) * 8. Lower Saxony (1:448) * 9. Bremen (1:464) * 10. Hamburg (1:506) People * Alan Krause, a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne * Albert A. Krause (1841–1913), US Civil War Veteran, City Engineer of Buffalo NY, brother of Aurel Krause, great grandfather of Tory Bruno * Allison Krause (1951–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraus
Kraus is a German-language surname, meaning 'curly'. In addition to German-speaking countries, the surname is commonly found in the United States, Israel, and the Czech Republic (Czech feminine: Krausová). Notable people with the surname include: Arts *Adalbert Kraus (born 1937), German tenor * Adolph Robert Kraus (1850–1901), American sculptor *Alfredo Kraus (1927–1999), Spanish opera singer * Charles Kraus (clown) (born 1946), American clown, magician, writer and comedian * Chris Kraus (director) (born 1963), German film director and screen writer * Chris Kraus (writer) (born 1955), American writer and filmmaker * Dagmara Kraus (born 1981), German poet and translator * Daniel Kraus (author) (born 1975), American author *Detlef Kraus (1919–2008), German pianist * Ernst Kraus (1863–1941), German tenor * Felix von Kraus (1870–1937), Austrian singer * František R. Kraus (1903–1967), Czech writer * Franz Kraus (1905–1998), Israeli graphic designer * Georg Melchior Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss (''Krauß'' in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film '' Jud Süß'' and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure. Early life Krauss was born at the parsonage of Gestungshausen bei Sonnefeld in Upper Franconia, where his grandfather was a Protestant pastor. He spent his childhood in Breslau and from 1901 attended the teacher's college at Kreuzburg. After it became known that he worked as an extra at the Breslau Lobe-Theater, he was suspended from classes and decided to join a travelling theatre company. Acting career In 1903 he debuted at the Guben municipal theatre. Although never trained as an actor, he continued to play in Magdeburg, in Bromberg at the Theater Aachen, in Nuremberg and in Munich. By the agency of Alexander Moissi, in 1913 he met the theatre director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas F Krauss
Thomas F Krauss is a physics researcher at the University of York, where he is the head of the photonics group and of the nanocentre cleanroom. Before he was head of the school of physics and astronomy at the University of St Andrews. He has several research interests, but is mostly known for his work in the field of photonic crystals, where he made the first demonstration of two-dimensional photonic band-gap effects at optical wavelengths. More recently, his research has been to use slow-light in photonic crystal waveguides in order to improve the performance of optoelectronic components. Krauss has been at the University of St Andrews since 2000, when he set up the Photonic Crystal Research Group (now called St Andrews Microphotonics). At St Andrews, Krauss holds the chair of Professor of Optoelectronics. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, both after being elected in 2002. Krauss has works in the field of integrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Krauss
Samuel Krauss ( Ukk, 18 February 1866 - Cambridge, 4 June 1948) was professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, Budapest, 1894–1906, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Vienna, 1906–1938. He moved to England as a refugee and spent his last years at Cambridge. He was a contributor to the ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' as ''S. Kr.'' "Professor Krauss's scholarship encompassed every area of ancient Judaism." In 1910, he became a pioneer in Talmudic archaeology with the publication of ''Talmudische Archäologie'', which was reprinted in Hebrew in 1924. In 1998, his 1922 study of the ancient synagogue A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ..., ''Synagogale Altertümer'', was still considered essential reading on the topic. In 1935 he published a comprehensive and detailed stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Krauss
Ruth Ida Krauss (July 25, 1901 – July 10, 1993) was an American writer of children's books, including '' The Carrot Seed'', and of theatrical poems for adult readers. Many of her books are still in print. Early life and education Ruth Krauss was born July 25, 1901, in Baltimore, Maryland to Julius Leopold and Blanche Krauss. As a child, Ruth had numerous health problems, including the rare autoimmune disorder pemphigus. She began writing and illustrating her own stories while still a child, hand sewing her pages into books. Ruth went to a local high school but left in 1917 after her sophomore year to focus on the study of art. She enrolled in the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (now known as the Maryland Institute College of Art). The school's focus on applied arts did not suit her and she left after about a year. Her next stop was a girls camp, Camp Walden in Maine, where she discovered her love for writing; the camp yearbook for 1919 contains her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
