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Späth
Spaeth, Spæth, or Späth is a surname, and may refer to: Spaeth * Barbette Spaeth (born ?), American professor and Roman mythology expert *Diana Palmer (author) (born Susan Spaeth, 1946), American romance novelist * George Spaeth (born 1932), American ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma * Harriet Reynolds Krauth Spaeth (1845–1925), American organist, hymnwriter, translator * Johann Peter Spaeth ('17th century–1701), Austrian theologian; Judaism convert from Christianity * John Duncan Spaeth (1868−1954), American philologist and professor * Matt Spaeth (born 1983), American football player * Merrie Spaeth (born 1948), American actress and public relations/communications consultant * Nicholas Spaeth (1950–2014), American jurist and politician * Ove von Spaeth (born 1938), Danish writer, graphic designer, and independent scholar * Paul Spaeth (born ?), American musician and composer * Sigmund Spaeth 1885–1965), American musicologist, composer, and radio personality * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerold Späth
Gerold Späth (born 16 October 1939 in Rapperswil) is a Switzerland, Swiss author, poet and writer. Life and career Born 1939 in Rapperswil on the Obersee (Zürichsee), ''Obersee'' lakeshore in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the son of an organ builder made his studies in London and Fribourg, after a training as an export clerk. Later, he worked in his father's company ''Späth Orgelbau'' in Rapperswil. Thereafter, Gerold Späth undertook several trips and a longer stay in Ireland. Gerold Späth lives and writes mainly in Rapperswil. Gerold Späth's three central works are thematically connected: "Unschlecht" (1970), "Balzapf oder als ich auftauchte" (1977) and "Barbarswila" (1988), in which Rapperswil gave model to the fictitious localities ''Spiessbünzen'', ''Molchgüllen'' and ''Barbarswila'', the satirical depictions of a typical Swiss small-town. A new narrative form was introduced with ''Commedia'' (1980), in a certain way basing on ''Inferno (Dante), Dante's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Späth
David Späth (born 29 April 2002) is a German handball player for Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the Germany men's national handball team, German national team. Club career Having begun his handball career at the age of six, Späth played for a variety of teams based in his hometown of Kaiserslautern, before joining the under-19 team of Handball-Bundesliga, Bundesliga team Rhein-Neckar Löwen in 2018, where he finished second in the German ''A-Jugend'' (age group) championship in his debut season. As a result of injuries sustained by Andreas Palicka and Mikael Appelgren (handballer), Mikael Appelgren, the main team's goalkeepers, Späth made 26 appearances in the 2020–21 Handball-Bundesliga, 2020–21 Bundesliga season, earning praise for performing well despite his inexperience. He also made his international club debut in the 2020–21 EHF European League, EHF European League, a competition which the team ended in third place. The following year, Späth continued playing for both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Späth
Lothar Späth (16 November 1937 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician of the CDU. Life Späth was born in Sigmaringen. From 30 August 1978 to 13 January 1991 Späth was the 5th Minister President of Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg, serving as the 36th President of the Bundesrat in 1984/85. After leaving politics, Späth headed the Jenoptik company, one of the few former Eastern German state owned enterprises, which survived the transformation into a market economy in a united Germany. He stayed there until 2003. Then he became president of the Industrie- und Handelskammer East-Thuringia in Gera. In order to support medium-sized companies in opening up foreign markets, he set up the "Baden-Württemberg Export Foundation" in 1984, today Baden-Württemberg International. In 1989, he sponsored the publication of an art portfolio called Kinderstern, featuring original drawings by Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Sigmar Polke, Max Bill, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Jakob Späth
Franz Jakob Späth (or Spath; – 23 July 1786) was a German keyboard instrument builder. He was born and died in Regensburg, where he worked for most of his life. An organ builder by training, he is known, along with his son-in-law Christoph Friedrich Schmahl, as the most prominent builder of tangent pianos. Life Franz Jakob Späth was the son of the organ builder . He was likely trained in organ building by his father. He took charge of his father's workshop in 1747. In the same year, he married Johanna Rosina Schessinger. The couple had seven children, three of whom survived childhood. In 1751, he presented a tangent piano to the Elector of Bonn. Instead of striking the strings with a pivoted hammer, they are struck with non-pivoting, vertical hammers called tangents. Ernst Ludwig Gerber reported that the instrument had 30 tone variations, which increased to 50 in 1770. The piano builder Johann Andreas Stein apprenticed with Späth from 1749 to 1750. Stein's claviorgan of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Späth Nursery
The Späth (often spelt ''Spaeth'') family created one of the world's most notable plant nurseries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nursery had been founded in 1720 by Christoph Späth but removed to the erstwhile district of Baumschulenweg (lit. 'nursery way'; now part of the Treptow-Köpenick district) in south-east Berlin in 1863 when Franz Ludwig Späth (1839 - 1913) succeeded his father Ludwig as manager when aged only 25. By the end of the 19th century, the nursery was the largest in the world, occupying 120 hectares. In 1874 Franz built a mansion on the site, now part of Humboldt University and, five years later, established an arboretum. After his death in Britz in 1913, Franz Späth was succeeded by his son, Hellmut, who revived the nursery's flagging fortunes during the Depression by joining the Nazi Party and securing lucrative landscaping contracts for the new autobahns and other public works. However, his outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime saw him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellmut Ludwig Späth
Hellmut Ludwig Späth (4 December 1885 – 15 February 1945) was a German botanist and plant nursery owner, murdered by the Nazi party. His nursery is now Späth-Arboretum. Biography He was born 4 December 1885, the son of Franz and Wilhelmine Späth, became the sixth and last manager of the Späth nursery on the death of his father in 1913. After studies at Cambridge, Hellmut returned to Berlin in 1910 and received his doctorate in 1912 from the Berlin Agricultural College. His dissertation was titled, ''The Locust Drive - a contribution to the knowledge of periodicity and annual ring formation in deciduous woody plants'', and was published by Paul Parey. Hellmut revived the nursery's fortunes during the Depression by joining the Nazi Party and obtaining lucrative landscaping contracts for the new autobahns and other public works. However, his outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime saw him incarcerated in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was executed by firi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Späth-Arboretum
The Späth-Arboretum (3.5 hectares) is an arboretum now maintained by the Humboldt University of Berlin. It is located at Späthstraße 80/81, Berlin, Germany, and open several days per week in the warmer months. About The arboretum was begun in 1879 by Franz Ludwig Späth, owner of the world's largest and oldest tree nursery ( Späth nursery, founded 1720), when he expanded the garden around his 1874 villa. Berlin city gardener Gustav Meyer designed the arboretum in the style of an English garden. On Franz's death in 1913, ownership passed to his son Hellmut, who added a rock garden to the centre in 1928. The first arboretum catalogue published in 1930 listed almost 4,500 taxa. Hellmut was executed in Sachsenhausen in 1945; ownership passed to a trust in 1947, and then to the people in 1949. When the university's Institute for Special Botany was created, it was given the villa and arboretum as its home in 1961. In 1966 the grounds were opened to the public four Sundays a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Ludwig Späth
Franz Ludwig Späth (25 February 1839 – 2 February 1913), was a German botanist and fifth manager of the Späth nursery from 1863, when his father Ludwig Späth (1793–1883) retired,Späth, L. (1930). ''Späth-Buch'' 1720 - 1930, Self-Verlag, Berlin. until his death, when the nursery passed to his own son Hellmut Ludwig Späth Hellmut Ludwig Späth (4 December 1885 – 15 February 1945) was a German botanist and plant nursery owner, murdered by the Nazi party. His nursery is now Späth-Arboretum. Biography He was born 4 December 1885, the son of Franz and Wilhelmin ... (1885–1945). With his father Ludwig, Franz was a co-founder of the German Pomologists Association in 1860, and was made an honorary member in 1903. References 19th-century German botanists Nurserymen 1839 births 1913 deaths {{Germany-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trudy Späth-Schweizer
Gertrud "Trudy" Späth-Schweizer (6 December 1908 – 19 October 1990) was the first woman to hold a political office in Switzerland. She was elected to the ''Bürgerrat'', the executive council of the Bürgergemeinde, of Riehen in 1958. Biography Gertrud Späth was born as a farmer's and innkeeper's daughter in Riehen. She attended the ''Frauenarbeitsschule'' ("Women's Work School") in Basel and was then employed for five years as head of the box office of the City Theater of Basel. After marrying Ernst Schweizer, a master carpenter, in 1932, she remained a housekeeper and assisted her husband in his workshop. In the summer of 1958, the Bürgergemeinde of Riehen was the first in Switzerland to introduce women's suffrage for local elections and referendums (at the national level, Swiss women would not gain the vote until 1971.) Späth-Schweizer, by then a mother of two and well-regarded in the local community, did not initially intend to enter politics. But when it appeared cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Späth
Ernst Späth (; 14 May 1886 in Moravský Beroun – 30 September 1946 in Zurich) was an Austrian chemist, specializing in natural products. Life Späth was the first to synthesise mescaline and was one of the first to synthesize cuscohygrine on a small scale with Hans Tuppy. He lost everything in World War II, and died with no money. His former student Percy Lavon Julian returned to Vienna, paid for his funeral, and commissioned a bust of Späth, which is still displayed in the foyer of the ''Faculty of Chemistry'' of 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 .... A second cast of the bust was erected in 1961 in the ''Arkadenhof'' of the University of Vienna. References Biography * Publications * Austrian chemists 1886 births 1946 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Späth
Georg Späth (born 24 February 1981) is a German former ski jumper who competed from 1998 to 2013. He won a silver medal on the normal hill team event at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and finished fifth on the individual normal hill at those same championships. Späth won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2006 FIS Ski Flying World Championships. His best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 12th on the individual normal hill in Pragelato in 2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t .... References *Official website 1981 births German male ski jumpers Living people Olympic ski jumpers for Germany Ski jumpers at the 2006 Winter Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Skiers from Oberstdorf 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Späth
Ludwig Späth (1793–1883) was a German botanist and nurseryman. He was father of Franz Ludwig Späth. The Common Lilac cultivar A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ... 'Andenken an Ludwig Späth' (French: 'Souvenir de Louis Spaeth') is named in his honour.Gardeners' chronicle, horticultural trade journal: Volume 155 1964 "The changing of the name from 'Andenken an Ludwig Spath' to 'Souvenir de Louis Spath' may also be attributed to the French, who translated the original full name into French: Ludwig to Louis, when it was first introduced into France." References 19th-century German botanists Nurserymen 1793 births 1883 deaths {{Germany-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
