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Vilém Košař
Vilém or Vilem is Czech form of Germanic name William. It may refer to: *Vilém Blodek (1834–1874), Czech composer, flautist, and pianist * Vilém Dušan Lambl (1824–1895), Czech physician *Vilém Flusser (1920–1991), philosopher born in Czechoslovakia * Vilém Gajdušek (1895–1977), Czech optician and prominent telescope designer * Vilém Goppold, Jr. (born 1893, date of death unknown), a Bohemian Olympic fencer * Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf (1869–1943), Bohemian fencer and olympic medalist in sabre competition * Vilém Heš (1860–1908), Czech operatic bass *Vilém Heckel (1918–1970), Czech photographer *Vilém Klíma (1906–1985), Czech electrical engineer *Vilém Kurz (1872–1945), Czech pianist, piano teacher, professor *Vilém Loos (1895–1942), Czechoslovak ice hockey player *Vilém Lugr (1911–1981), Czech footballer and football manager *Vilém Mandlík, Olympic 200 metre semi-finalist for Czechoslovakia in 1956 *Vilém Mathesius (1882–1945), Czech lingu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William (name)
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Loos
Valentin Jaroslav "Vilda" Loos (13 April 1895 – 8 September 1942) was a Czechs, Czech ice hockey player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics. He was a member of the Czechoslovak ice hockey team that won the bronze medal in 1920. Four years later he also participated in the first Ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympic ice hockey tournament. References External links *Valentin LoosaSports-Reference 1895 births 1942 deaths Czech ice hockey right wingers HC Slavia Praha players Ice hockey people from Prague Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic ice hockey players for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in ice hockey People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czechoslovak ice hockey right wingers {{CzechRepublic-icehockey-player-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilem Sokol
Vilem Sokol (May 22, 1915 – August 19, 2011) was a Czech-American conductor and professor of music at the University of Washington from 1948 to 1985. He served as the conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras from 1960 to 1988, The youth symphony performed Symphony No. 10 (Mahler), Mahler's 10th Symphony, a rare event at the time. He made several LPs with the orchestra. Sokol served as principal violist of the Seattle Symphony from 1959 to 1963. He was the featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony for subscription concerts held March 7 and 8, 1960, performing ''Harold in Italy'' by Hector Berlioz. Sokol was raised in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. At the age of 16, he studied with Otakar Ševčík in Boston. He received a bachelor's degree in music from Oberlin College in 1938, where he studied violin with Raymond Cerf, and studied for one year on scholarship with Jaroslav Kocián at the State Conservatory of Music in Prague. He studied under a fellowship grant at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Prusinovský Z Víckova
Vilém Prusinovský z Víckova (in German: William Prusinowsky von Wiczkov) (1534 – June 16, 1572) was a bishop of Olomouc in 1565–1572. He started his office in the times of Catholic-Protestant controversy and followed the policy of the Council of Trent. He forced the Utraquists to accept his authority. He invited Jesuit The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...s to Olomouc and a year after his death, in 1573, his plan of promotion of the Olomouc school to Jesuit Academy was realized and the second oldest university in the Czech lands was established. It is possible he was poisoned by Jan Philopon Dambrovský. Jiří Fiala: ''Olomoucký pitaval'', DANAL 1994, , str. 101-108 References External links 1534 births 1572 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Olom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Petrželka
file:Vilém Petrželka (1889-1967).jpg, Petrželka in 1931 Vilém Petrželka (10 September 1889, Brno, Moravia – 10 January 1967, Brno) was a prominent Czech composer and Conducting, conductor. Petrželka was a pupil of Leoš Janáček, Vítězslav Novák and Karel Hoffmeister. From 1914 he taught composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and the School of the Philharmonic Society in Brno. Selected works ;Orchestra * ''Pochod bohémů'' (March of the Bohemians) (1919) * ''Věčný návrat'', Symphony in 3 Parts, Op.13 (1922–1923) * ''Dramatická ouvertura'' (Preludio drammatico), Op.26 (1932) * ''Partita'' for string orchestra, Op.31 (1934) * ''Moravský tanec'' (Moravian Dance) * ''Pastorální symfonietta'', Op.51 * Symphony, Op.56 (1955–1956) ;Concertante * Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op.40 ;Chamber music * String Quartet in B major, Op.2 * String Quartet in C minor, Op.6 * ''Zimní nálada'' (Winter Mood) for violin and piano (1907) * ''Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Mathesius
Vilém Mathesius (, 3 August 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics. Mathesius was the editor-in-chief of two linguistic journals, ''Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague'' (“Works of the Prague Linguistic Circle”) and ''Slovo a slovesnost'' ("Word and Verbal Art"), and the co-founder of a third, ''Nové Athenaeum.'' His extensive publications in these journals and elsewhere cover a range of topics, including the history of English literature, syntax, Czech stylistics, and cultural activism. In addition to his work in linguistics, in 1912 he founded the department of English philology at Charles University, which was the first such department in Czech lands. He remained head of the department until 1939, when the Nazis closed all Czech universities. The department now exists as a branch of the Faculty of Arts, but it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Mandlík
Vilém Mandlík (7 April 1936 – 6 October 2023) was a Czech runner. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he was a semifinalist in the 200 metres and ran for the 4 × 400m relay. He also ran in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. He was the father of tennis player Hana Mandlíková and the grandfather of Elizabeth Mandlik Elizabeth Hana Mandlik (born 19 May 2001) is an American tennis player. She is the daughter of Grand Slam champion Hana Mandlíková. Mandlik has career-high rankings by the WTA of 97 in singles and 187 in doubles. She has won eight singles tit .... Vilém Mandlík died on 6 October 2023, at the age of 87. References External links Page at sports-reference 1936 births 2023 deaths Olympic athletes for Czechoslovakia Athletes from Prague Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Czechoslovak male sprinters Czech male sprinters Czechoslovak Athletics Championships winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Lugr
Vilém Lugr (28 June 1911 – 17 August 1994) was a Czech football manager and player. Playing career As a player, Lugr made 99 appearances in the Czechoslovak First League, turning out for Prostějov and Slezská Ostrava between 1934 and 1941. Coaching career After World War II, Lugr was manager of Křídla vlasti Olomouc in the Czechoslovak First League, in 1954. He went on to manage Polish clubs Lech Poznań, Śląsk Wrocław, and Górnik Zabrze. After moving to Sweden he managed Jönköpings Södra IF in 1961 and 1962, leading the club to finishes of third and eighth in Division 2. Between 1963 and 1964, he was coach for IFK Norrköping who won the Allsvenskan in 1963. In autumn 1967, he joined Nyköpings BIS Nyköpings BIS is a Swedish football club located in Nyköping. The club started out as a merger in 1966 between Nyköpings SK and Nyköpings AIK. Since their foundation Nyköpings BIS has participated mainly in the middle divisions of the Swedis ... as head coach. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Kurz
Vilém Kurz (23 December 1872 – 25 May 1945) was a Czechs, Czech pianist and piano teacher. Career Kurz was born in Havlíčkův Brod, Německý Brod, Bohemia in 23 December 1873. He became a professor at the State Conservatory in Lviv and Vienna, and Prague Conservatory. His students included his daughter Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, Rudolf Firkušný, Eduard Steuermann, Artur Rodziński, Břetislav Bakala, Pavel Štěpán, Stanislav Heller, František Maxián, Gideon Klein, Rafael Schächter, Stefania Turkewich, Ilja Hurník, and Pavel Šivic. His teaching methods were largely based on those of Theodor Leschetizky and his pupils he met during the time he taught in Lviv. Later they were further developed by his daughter, Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová. He died in Prague in 25 May 1945. Antonín Dvořák's Piano Concerto in G minor Kurz is known for his reworking of the solo part of Antonín Dvořák's Piano Concerto (Dvořák), Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Blodek
Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (October 3, 1834, Prague – May 1, 1874, Prague), was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist. Biography Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague. After studying with Alexander Dreyschock (piano) and at the Prague Conservatory (1846–52) with Antonín Eiser (flute) and Johann Friedrich Kittl (composition), he became a music teacher in Lubycza, Galicia (1853–5). On returning to Prague, he worked as a concert pianist and music teacher and, briefly, as second conductor of the Prague Männergesangverein, for which he wrote a number of patriotic choruses. In 1860 he succeeded Anton Eiser as professor of flute at the conservatory, and, as a basis for teaching, he wrote his own flute tutor (1861). He was active as a writer of incidental music for the German and Czech theatres: from 1858 onwards he wrote music for 60 plays and collaborated with Bedřich Smetana on music for the tableaux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilém Klíma
Vilém Klíma (10 April 1906 – 6 October 1985), originally Wilhelm Kauders, was a Czech electrical engineer and Holocaust survivor who developed a closed-form expression for the distribution factor of a symmetrical three-phase stator winding. Vilém Klíma (Wilhelm Kauders) died on 6 October 1985 and in an obituary by FrohneH. Frohne and H. Seinsch: ''Systematik der Drehstromwicklungen'', ''ETZ Archiv'', 1985, vol. 8, pp. 71–73 it is mentioned that Klíma's equation for the distribution factorAlso known as the breadth factor. of fractional slot windings is not found in textbooks. Another remark in the obituary is that in some references it is stated that it is not possible to find a closed-form expression for the winding factor of fractional slot windings. An obituary in German was written by Frohne and one in Czech by Čeřovský.Z. Čeřovský: ''Osobnízprávy'', ''Elektrotechnickobzor'', 1986, vol. 75, p. 62 He was the father of Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klíma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
