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Moriz
Moriz is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Moriz Haupt (1808–1874), German philologist * Moriz Heider (1816–1866), Austrian dentist * Moriz Henneberger (1878–1959), Swiss chess master * Moriz von Kuffner (1854–1939), Jewish-Austrian industrialist, art collector, mountaineer and philanthropist * Moriz Lieber (1790–1860), German Catholic politician and publisher * Moriz Ludassy (1825–1885), Hungarian journalist * Moriz von Lyncker (1853–1932), Prussian officer and Chief of the Military Cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II * Moriz Pollack von Borkenau (1827–1904), Jewish-Austrian financier * Moriz Probst (1867–1923), Austrian psychiatrist and neuroanatomist * Moriz Rosenthal (1862–1946), Jewish-American pianist of Austro-Hungarian origin * Moriz Scheyer (1886–1949), Austrian author * Moriz Seeler (1896–1942), German poet, writer, film producer and man of the theatre * Moriz Winternitz (1863–1937), Austrian Orientalist See also * Moritz (disambigua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Scheyer
Moriz Scheyer (27 December 1886 in Focșani, Romania – 29 March 1949 in Belvès, France) was an Austrian author. In his lifetime best known for his literary essays and reviews, he is the author of ''Asylum'', a vivid account of his experiences as a Jewish refugee in France during the Second World War, first discovered and published more than sixty-five years after his death. Biography Moriz Scheyer was born in Focșani in Romania on 27 December 1886, the son of Wilhelm Scheyer, a businessman, and Josefine (née Krasnopolsky). By the time of his secondary education the family had moved to Vienna, where they lived in the pleasant suburb of Hietzing. After high school (''Gymnasium''), where he excelled in humanities and languages, Scheyer studied at the University of Vienna, from which he graduated with a law degree in 1911. He began his career as a writer with short pieces for newspapers, joining the staff of the ''Neues Wiener Tagblatt'' (''NWT''; one of Vienna's two 'qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Von Kuffner
Moriz von Kuffner (30 January 1854 – 5 March 1939) was a Jewish-Austrian industrialist, art collector, mountaineer and philanthropist. From the 1880s to the early 1910s he made a fortune in the brewery business, and became a significant sponsor of Vienna's social and cultural life as well as a mentor of astronomy. Moriz von Kuffner was forced to sell his Austrian assets and to leave Vienna in 1938. Industrialist and philanthropist He was born in Ottakring, Lower Austria (then a suburb of Vienna, now a city district), the son of Ignaz Kuffner, member of a Jewish industrialist dynasty from Lundenburg, who (together with his cousin Jacob) had taken over the brewery in Ottakring in 1850. Ignaz Kuffner had been mayor of Ottakring from 1869 to 1876, and was elevated to minor Austrian nobility (''Edler von Kuffner'') in 1878. Moriz von Kuffner studied chemistry at the K.K. Polytechnisches Institut (the predecessor of the Technical University of Vienna). When his father died in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Rosenthal
Moriz Rosenthal (17 December 18623 September 1946) was a Polish pianist and composer. He was an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt and a friend and colleague of some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac Albéniz. Biography Rosenthal was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (later Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) into a Jewish family, where his father was professor at the chief academy. At eight years of age he commenced his piano studies under Galoth (1869–1872). In 1872, Rosenthal became a pupil of Karol Mikuli, Chopin's pupil and editor, who trained him along more academic lines at Lviv Conservatory. At the age of twelve he became a pupil of Rafael Joseffy in Vienna. His debut occurred in Vienna in 1876. He had immediate success and after a tour of Romania he was made Court Pianist of Romania when he was fourteen years of age. From 1878 to 1879 he studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Winternitz
Moriz Winternitz (Horn, Austria, Horn, December 23, 1863 – Prague, January 9, 1937) was a scholar from Austria who began his Indology contributions working with Max Müller at the Oxford University. An eminent Sanskrit scholar, he worked as a professor in Prague in the German part of Charles University in Prague#Split into Czech and German universities, Karl-Ferdinands-Universität after 1902, for nearly thirty years.Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler, , Volume XIIArticle on Winternitz, Moriz/ref> His ''Geschichte der indischen Literatur'' over 1908-1922 period was a major and comprehensive literary history of Sanskrit texts. The contributions on a wide range of Sanskrit texts by Winternitz have been an influential resource for modern era studies on Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Education An Austrian oriental studies, Orientalist, he received his earliest education in the gymnasium (school), gymnasium of his native town, and in 1880 entered the University of Vienna, receiving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Seeler
Moriz Seeler (1 March 1896 – ''after'' 15 August 1942) was a German poet, writer, film producer, and man of the theatre. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Early life Seeler was born in the small, provincial town of Greifenberg in Pomerania, Germany (now Gryfice in northwestern Poland), to a Jewish family. He moved to Berlin at the age of 15. His first verses are said to have been published as early as 1917–1918; the first collection of poems, ''Dem Hirtenknaben'', was issued in Berlin in 1919; another one, entitled ''Die Flut'', saw the light of day in Vienna in 1937.Moriz Seeler, ''Die Flut: Gedichte'' (Vienna, Buchhandlung Richard Lányi, 1937). Biography He is perhaps best known as the founding father of the Junge Bühne (‘Young Stage’), an avant‑garde matinee-theatre which came into being in Berlin in the spring of 1922. In 1927 he co‑authored the ''libretto'' to Friedrich Hollaender’s cabaret ''Bei uns um die Gedächtniskirche rum''. In June 1929 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Haupt
Moriz or Moritz Haupt (27 July 1808 – 5 February 1874), was a German philologist. Biography He was born at Zittau, Lusatia, Kingdom of Saxony, Saxony. His early education was mainly conducted by his father, Ernst Friedrich Haupt, burgomaster of Zittau, a man of learning who took pleasure in translating German hymns or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's poems into Latin, and whose memoranda were employed by Gustav Freytag in his ''Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit''. From the Zittau gymnasium (school), gymnasium, where he spent the five years 1821–1826, Haupt moved to the University of Leipzig intending to study theology; but his own inclinations and the influence of Professor Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, Gottfried Hermann soon turned him in the direction of classical philology. On the close of his university course (1830) he returned to his father's house, and the next seven years were devoted to study, not only of greek language, Greek, Latin and German, but of Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Von Lyncker
Moriz Freiherr von Lyncker (30 January 1853 – 20 January 1932) was a Prussian officer of the German Empire and Chief of the Military Cabinet of Emperor Wilhelm II. He was one of the general adjutants of the Kaiser during World War I with Oskar von Chelius, Hans von Plessen, and Hans von Gontard. Life Lyncker was born in Spandau, Prussia, into a military family, with his father, his father-in-law and two brothers being officers. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, and two of his sons died in the First World War. His association with the Prussian royal family began when he served as aide-de-camp to Crown Prince Frederick William as a captain. Subsequently Lyncker was appointed military mentor to the adolescent Crown Prince Wilhelm and Prince Eitel Friedrich for three years, until 1898. After resuming his regular career, he successively commanded a Guards regiment and brigade, before taking up leadership of the 19th Division at Hannover in 1905. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Heider
Moriz Heider (21 June 1816, Vienna – 29 July 1866, Vienna) was an Austrian dentist born in Vienna. He studied medicine in Vienna, where he was an assistant to Georg Carabelli (1787-1842). In 1858 he became an associate professor at the University of Vienna. Heider was a pioneer of modern dentistry, being remembered for introducing electrosurgery (''Galvanokaustik'') into dentistry. He is also credited for being the first dentist in a German-speaking country to use a procedure called ''Goldhämmerfüllungen'', a technique used for installing gold fillings. In 1861 he founded the ''Vereins österreichischer Zahnärzte'' (Austrian Association of Dentists), known today as the ''Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde'' or ÖGZMK (Austrian Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery). With histopathologist Carl Wedl (1815-1891), he was co-author of the highly regarded ''Atlas zur Pathologie der Zähne'', a work later translated into English and published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Ludassy
Moriz Ludassy, aka M. Gans von Lúdassy (1825 – August 29, 1885) was a Hungarian journalist. Ludassy was born at Komorn. As early as 1848 he was editor of the "'' Esti Lapok''" in Budapest and of the "'' Magyar Világ''", advocating in both periodicals the cause of the Conservatives. About 50 years later he went to Vienna, where, with Georg Apponyi and Paul Sennyei, he founded the ''" Debatte"'', which advocated the establishment of a dual government in Austro-Hungary and the political equality of the 2 countries. When Count Julius Andrássy was premier, Ludassy was chief of the Hungarian press bureau and was at the same time ministerial councilor in the department of the interior. He returned to Vienna, however, where he was commissioned by Minister Beust to edit the "'' Tagespresse''", the organ of the imperial court party during the war of 1870–71. In recognition of his services he was created a Hungarian noble. He died at Reichenau an der Rax. One of his sons, Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Pollack Von Borkenau
Moriz Pollack, ''Ritter von'' Borkenau (24 December 1827 in Vienna – 20 August 1904 in Vienna) was a Jewish Austrian financier. After leaving the gymnasium of Vienna, at the age of 22, he took charge of his father's wholesale leather business, and soon succeeded in extending his export trade to France and Germany. In 1857 he was elected to the municipal council of Vienna, and took an active part in the relief and construction works in the year of the great flood (1862). Soon afterward he took charge of the budget of the city of Vienna, acting as auditor until his resignation in 1885. In 1867 he was sent by the city of Vienna as one of the delegates on the occasion of the coronation of the King of Hungary at Budapest, and in 1873 he was made chairman of the executive committee of the Vienna Exposition. He entered the Niederösterreichische Escomptebank as examiner, and was director-general and vice-president from 1885 to 1898, also officiating as deputy of the Vienna chamber of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Probst
Moriz Probst (1 October 1867 in Deutschlandsberg - 21 March 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neuroanatomist. He is best known for first description of so-called Probst bundles, the anomalous brain structures found in dysgenesis of corpus callosum. He studied medicine in Graz, after graduation he worked as an assistant in Neuropsychiatric Clinic in Graz under Gabriel Anton Gabriel Anton (28 July 1858 – 3 January 1933) was an Austrian neurology, neurologist and psychiatry, psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal gang .... Later he was affiliated with Wiener Irrenanstalt. Since 1900 he practised as forensic psychiatrist in Vienna. He worked also in Landesirrenanstalt neuroanatomical laboratory. Selected works * ''Physiologische, anatomische und pathologisch-anatomische Untersuchungen des Sehhügels''. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 33: 721-817 (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriz Henneberger
Moriz Henneberger (16 October 1878, Bümpliz – 7 April 1959, Basel) was a Swiss chess master and chess composer A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems, or retrogr .... He was Swiss Champion in 1899, 1906 (jointly), 1909, 1911 (jointly), and 1914 (jointly). He played for Switzerland in the 2nd Chess Olympiad at The Hague 1928. References 1878 births 1959 deaths Swiss chess players Chess Olympiad competitors {{Switzerland-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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