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Mayr
Mayr is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrea Mayr (born 1979), Austrian female long-distance runner * Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German American evolutionary biologist * Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965), Austrian gastroenterologist, invented the Mayr-Kur * Georg Mayr (1564–1623), Bavarian Jesuit priest and Hebrew grammarian * Gunter Mayr (born 1972), Austrian economist * Gustav Mayr (1830–1908), Austrian entomologist * Hans Mayr (canoeist) (born 1944), Austrian sprint canoer * Hans Mayr (trade unionist) (1921–2009), German trades unionist and politician * Hans Mayr, founder of the shoemaking company Ed Meier, Munich * Heinrich Mayr (1854–1911), German botanist * Heinz Mayr (born 1935), German racewalker * Karl Mayr (1883–1945), German politician and officer * Michael Mayr (1864–1922), Austrian historian, politician and Bundeskanzler (1920/21) * Otto Mayr (1930–2025), German mechanical engineer and technology historian * Rupert Ignaz Mayr (16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr ( ; ; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher of biology, and History of science, historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the Modern synthesis (20th century), modern evolutionary synthesis of Gregor Mendel, Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the Species, biological species concept. Although Charles Darwin and others posited that multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor, the mechanism by which this occurred was not understood, creating the ''species problem''. Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for species. In his book ''Systematics and the Origin of Species'' (1942) he wrote that a species is not just a group of Morphology (biology), morphologically sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Mayr
Johann(es) Simon Mayr (also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier), also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr (14 June 1763 – 2 December 1845), was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. In 1805 he founded the Bergamo Conservatory. He was an early inspiration to Rossini and taught and advocated for Donizetti. Life He was born in Mendorf near Altmannstein, Landkreis Eichstätt, Bavaria, and studied theology at the University of Ingolstadt, continuing his studies in Italy from 1787. He was closely associated with the Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt while a student in Ingolstadt, and the ideals of the French Enlightenment were a strong influence on his philosophy as a musician as corroborated by his famed ''Zibaldone'' or "Notebooks" compiled toward the end of his career. Shortly thereafter, he took music lessons with Carlo Lenzi, and later with Ferdinando Bertoni. He moved to Bergamo in 1802 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Mayr
Captain Karl Mayr (5 January 1883 – 9 February 1945) was a German General Staff officer and Adolf Hitler's immediate superior in an Army Intelligence Division in the ''Reichswehr'', 1919–1920. Mayr was particularly known as the man who introduced Hitler to politics. In 1919, Mayr directed Hitler to write the Gemlich letter, in which Hitler first expressed his anti-Semitic views in writing. Mayr later became Hitler's opponent, and wrote in his memoirs that General Erich Ludendorff had personally ordered him to have Hitler join the German Workers' Party (DAP) and build it up. As far as it is known, his last rank was major. In 1933, he fled to France after the Nazis came to national power. Mayr was tracked down by the Gestapo, arrested, imprisoned, and later murdered at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in 1945. A fact-based portrayal of Mayr is dramatized in the 2002 film ''Max'', a fictional account of Hitler's life in Munich just prior to joining the German Workers' Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Mayr
Heinrich Mayr (29 October 1854 – 24 January 1911) was a German forest scientist, dendrologist and university professor whose research and teaching shaped forest botany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His standard botanical author abbreviation is Mayr. Life and career Mayr was born in Landsberg am Lech, the son of the Bavarian senior forester Clemens Mayr. After the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich he spent two years at the Royal Forestry Academy in Aschaffenburg, followed by a one-year political-economy course at the University of Munich, where he joined the . From 1879 he served as a trainee forester in the Alpine foreland and, having passed the state examination in 1880, became assistant to the eminent mycologist Robert Hartig at the Bavarian Forestry Research Station. Under Hartig he earned a doctorate (1884) with a Latin thesis on the birch parasites '' Fomitopsis betulina'' and '' Phellinus laevigatus'', and the same year submitted his habilitation on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayr-Melnhof
Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG is a manufacturer in the paper and packaging industry, based in Vienna, Austria. The company is 65% family owned, with the rest free-float, and is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Börse). Mayr-Melnhof packaging is a multi-national company with plants in Austria, Chile, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Iran, Jordan, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. History Origins The Mayr-Melnhof family hailed from Spielberg, Styria and was first mentioned in a written document from 1423. Industry owner, Franz Mayr (1810–1889) was ennobled in 1859 with the title "Edler of Melnhof". Since then the family was styled Mayr von Melnhof. In 1872 Franz Mayr, Edler von Melnhof, received the hereditary title of Baron in Austria for him and his legitimate male-line descendants, by Franz Joseph I. The family owned town palaces in Graz and Vienna, as well as several other castles across Austria, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Mayr (trade Unionist)
Hans Mayr (13 December 1921 – 3 August 2009) was a German trades unionist and politician ( SPD). Respected for his negotiating flair, he served between 1983 and 1986 as president of West Germany's IG Metall (union). Life Hans Meyer was born in Freudenegg, a village located in western Bavaria, a short distance to the southeast of Ulm. He grew up in a "classic" Social Democratic family in which both discipline and tolerance were valued and political discussion was part of family life. His father was a metal worker and works council member who studied after the First World War and in 1946, after the Second World War, became a judge. Meyer was not quite twelve in 1933 when the Nazis took power, and he was a witness to government reprisals against his father who was not sympathetic to the unfolding Nazi dictatorship. His experiences from that time also included the support his mother received from a local Jewish business which gave her a job after her husband's arrest, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Mayr
Otto Mayr (2 November 1930 – 10 February 2025) was a German mechanical engineer, historian of technology, curator, author and director of the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington D.C. and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He was particularly known for his work on "The origins of feedback control" and "Authority, liberty, & automatic machinery in early modern Europe." Background Mayr was born in Essen as son of Otto Mayr and Dorothea (Grunau) Mayr. He obtained his engineering diploma in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 1956.Horst Kliemann, John C. Dove. ''Who's who in Germany ''. Vol. 1, 1992. p. 1192. Mayr died on 10 February 2025, at the age of 94. Career After his graduation in 1956, he had started his career as research assistant at the MIT Heat Power Laboratory for a year. From 1957 to 1960 he worked at the Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm Sulzer Ltd. In 1960, Mayr returned to the US, where he worked an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Mayr
Gustav L. Mayr (12 October 1830 – 14 July 1908) was an Austrian Entomology, entomologist and professor in Budapest and Vienna. He specialised in Hymenoptera, being particularly known for his studies of ants.1908. Obituary. Prof. Gustav Mayr. Entomological News 19:396 Bibliography In 1868, he was the first to describe the Argentine ant. He is credited with naming the harvesting ant species, ''Aphaenogaster treatae'', for naturalist Mary Treat, Mary Davis Treat, in honor of her research on the species. edite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mayr
Michael Mayr (10 April 1864 – 21 May 1922) was an Austrian politician, who served as Chancellor of Austria in the First Austrian Republic from July 1920 to June 1921. He was a member of the Christian Social Party, and by profession a historian. Life Mayr was born in Adlwang in Upper Austria, the son of a farmer. He studied history and geography at the University of Vienna and earned a doctorate in 1890. From 1897 through 1920 he served as director of the Tyrol State Archives (''Tiroler Landesarchiv''). In 1900 he became a Professor of Modern History at the University of Innsbruck. Mayr's political career began under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when from 1907 to 1911 he was a member of the Imperial Council (''Reichsrat'') legislature and from 1908 to 1914 of the Tyrolean ''Landtag'' assembly. With the breakup of the Empire at the end of World War I, Mayr was in 1919/20 a delegate for the Christian Social Party to the National Assembly drafting the new Constitution of Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Mayr
Andrea Mayr (born 15 October 1979) is a female long-distance runner from Austria. She also competes in mountain running, cycling and ski mountaineering. She set her personal best (2:30:43) in the women's marathon on 19 April 2009, winning the Vienna City Marathon. She holds the Austrian records over the half marathon and marathon distances. She is the most accomplished mountain runner in history with 7 World Championship titles and has also won world championships in ski mountaineering Biography She represented Austria in the 3000 metres steeplechase at both the 2005 and 2007 World Championships in Athletics, although she did not make it past the heats. She won the event in the Second League section of the 2008 European Cup and managed a silver for Austria in the Second League of the 2010 European Team Championships. Mayr set a course record at the 2008 Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race in Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunter Mayr
Gunter Mayr (born 25 January 1972) is an Austrian economist who served as interim minister of finance from November 2024 to March 2025. Early life and career Mayr was born in Innsbruck in 1972, and graduated from the University of Innsbruck with a degree in legal science and business economics. He began working for the Ministry of Finance in 2003, and was appointed head of the tax policy and tax law department in 2012. In 2009, he became a professor of financial law at the University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest .... References 1972 births Living people People from Innsbruck University of Innsbruck alumni Ministers of finance of Austria Academic staff of the University of Vienna 21st-century Austrian economists {{Austria-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Mayr
Stephanie Mayr (born 21 January 1965) is a former German curler. She is a 1992 Winter Olympics The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Albertville '92 (Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Arbèrtvile '92''), were a winter multi-sport event held from 8 to 23 February 1992 in and aroun ... champion (demonstration) and . Teams References External links * Living people 1965 births German female curlers Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Germany European curling champions Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Potsdam 20th-century German sportswomen {{Germany-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
