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Wladimir Ledóchowski
Wladimir is a masculine given name. It is an alternative spelling of the name Vladimir. Notable people with the name include: * Wladimir Aïtoff (1879–1963), French rugby player * Wladimir Balentien (born 1984), Dutch outfielder for the Seattle Mariners * Wladimir Belli (born 1970), Italian cyclist * Wladimir Brunet de Presle (1809–1875), French historian * Wladimir Burliuk (1886–1919), Ukrainian artist * Wladimir d'Ormesson (1888–1973), French essayist and writer * Wladimir Guedroitz (1873–1941), Russian chamberlain * Wladimir Herrera (born 1981), Chilean football defender * Wladimir Kaminer (born 1967), Russian writer * Wladimir Klitschko (born 1976), Ukrainian boxer * Wladimir Jan Kochanski (1935–2015), American pianist * Wladimir Köppen, creator of the Köppen climate classification * Wladimir von Pawlowski (1891–1961), Austrian lawyer * Wladimir Resnitschenko (born 1965), Russian fencer * Wladimir Ribeiro (born 1967), Brazilian swimmer * Wladimir Rodrigues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Ribeiro
Vladimir Michailowsky Leite Ribeiro (born 17 June 1967) is a former international butterfly and backstroke swimmer from Brazil. He participated for his native South American country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b .... There his best finish was the 32nd place in the men's 100-metre butterfly event. References External links * 1967 births Living people Brazilian male freestyle swimmers Brazilian male butterfly swimmers Brazilian male backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Brazil Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swimmers from São Paulo (state) 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen People from Pedregulho {{Brazil-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Zwalf
Wladimir Zwalf (1932-2002) was a Sanskritist and expert on Buddhist art and iconography in India and Tibet. An Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, he produced ''A Catalogue of Gandharan Sculpture in the British Museum'' (1996). Life and career Zwalf was born on 30 August 1932. He studied Sanskrit at Oxford ( Lincoln College, 1952–1955), under Professor Thomas Burrow. In 1957, he was appointed Assistant Keeper of Indian Printed Books and Manuscripts at the India Office Library. He kept this title when he transferred to the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ... in 1962, where he worked until he retired in 1993. He died on 15 September 2002. Publications *''The Shrines of Gandhara'' (British Museum, London, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Yordanoff
Wladimir Yordanoff (; 28 March 1954 – 6 October 2020) was a French actor of Bulgarian origin. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1979. Yordanoff died on 6 October 2020 in Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ..., at the age of 66. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yordanoff, Wladimir 1954 births 2020 deaths 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male film actors French male stage actors French male television actors French people of Bulgarian descent Monegasque emigrants to France Monegasque male film actors People from Chatou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Van Wilgenburg
Wladimir van Wilgenburg is a Dutch journalist and author writing predominantly about Kurdistan. He has written for Al-Monitor, Kurdistan 24, Al-Jazeera, and Foreign Policy, amongst others. He lives in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. Biography His interest for the Kurds began early in secondary school, as he wrote a thesis comparing Armenians and Kurds. Further on he wrote for the Kurdish focused blogs Azady.nl and Halwest.nl. In 2009, he began an internship at Rudaw in Iraqi Kurdistan. Van Wilgenburg received a Master of Arts in conflict studies from the University in Utrecht in 2011 and another one in Kurdish studies from Exeter University in 2013. He is also a researcher for the Jamestown Foundation and his articles are published by the Atlantic Council. He lives in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. Books * ''The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts'' (with Harriet Allsopp), I.B. Tauris, London 2019 * ''Accidental Allies: The U.S.-Syrian Democratic Forces Partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Wertelecki
Wladimir Wertelecki is a board certified pediatrician, clinical geneticist and cytogeneticist. In 1974, he established one of the first free-standing Departments of Medical Genetics at the new South Alabama University College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A. Following his retirement as chairman and emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, and Pathology, he continued his investigations into the prevention of developmental anomalies as a Project Scientist at the Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego. Since 1996, his research has focused mainly oalcoholand the impact of ionizing radiation on congenital anomalies. He is the author over 135 scientific reports. He established a regional network of clinics across southern Alabama and West Florida, and in 1978 he organized the Southern Genetic Group. This group expanded into the South-Eastern Regional Genetics Grouto enhance regional genetic services. Components of this network provided templates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Vogel
Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (17 February/29 February 1896 – 19 June 1984) was a Swiss (people), Swiss composer of Germans, German and Russians, Russian descent. Life Born in Moscow, Vogel first studied composition in Moscow with Alexander Scriabin, then between 1918 and 1924 with Heinz Tiessen and Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, where he subsequently taught (1929–33) at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. He was close to the expressionist circle around Herwarth Walden and was active (together with George Antheil, Hanns Eisler, Philipp Jarnach, Stefan Wolpe, and Kurt Weill) in the music section of the November Group of Max Butting and Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt. In 1933, branded a "degenerate artist" by the Nazi regime, he left Germany and went to Strasbourg, Brussels, Paris, and London. He first turned to twelve-tone technique with his Violin Concerto in 1937. From 1939 he lived in Switzerland, at first in Ascona and from 1964 in Zürich. Until he became a Swiss citizen in 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Troubetzkoy
Wladimir Troubetzkoy (10 October 1942 – 2 June 2009) was a French literary historian of Polish-Belarusian-Russian origin. Growing up as a member of the aristocratic Russian family Troubetzkoy in exile in France, but speaking the Russian language at home, he graduated with a degree in Literature from the École normale supérieure and is a docteur d'État. He was Professor of Comparative literature at the University of Versailles ( Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) and director of the Institute of Arts, Science, Culture and Multimedia (''Institut Universitaire Professionalisant Arts, Sciences Culture et Multimédia''). Select bibliography *''L'Aristocratie et le rôle de l'écrivain dans la littérature européenne de la première moitié du XIXe siècle'' (1989 iss.. *"De l'art d'accommoder les grands-mères: La Belle et le Chaperon." ''Littératures'' 24 (1991): 29-52 *''Le Double'', études recueillies par Jean Bessière; avec la collab. de Antonia Fonyi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Tchertkoff
Wladimir Tchertkoff (1935 – 9 April 2023) was an Italian journalist. He was born in Yugoslavia to Russian-born parents. He released with Emanuela Andreoli in 2003 the film ''The Sacrifice'', a documentary on the Chernobyl liquidators, liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This film received an award from the Île-de-France (region), Île-de-France council for the best scientific and environment documentary in November 2004. He has also received the award of the best documentary of the Festival of Scientific Movies of Oullins, France. Tchertkoff is the author of ''Le Crime de Tchernobyl, le Goulag nucléaire'' (''The Crime of Chernobyl, the Nuclear Goulag'') published by Actes Sud, Paris. He was also one of the founders of the organisation ''Children of Chernobyl Belarus''. Filmography *''The Atomic Trap'' (''Le Piège atomique'') (see online) 47 mn Documentary (1998). Bibliography * Wladimir Tchertkoff, ''Le Crime de Tchernobyl, le Goulag nucléaire'', Actes S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Talanczuk
Wladimir Talanczuk (also known by his anglicized name ''Vladimir Talanczuk'') is a Ukrainian- born aeronautical engineer known for his hang glider and ultralight aircraft designs.Jones, Terry: ''About The Designer - Vladimir Talanczuk - Trained in The European Tradition''. Birdman Enterprises, 1984.Taylor, John WR, ''Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1979-80'' page 599, Janes Publishing Limited.Taylor, John WR, ''Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1980-81'' page 597, Janes Publishing Limited.Taylor, John WR, ''Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1987-88'' page 544, Janes Publishing Limited. Career Talanczuk graduated from the Polish Institute for Aviation Specialists in 1970 as an aeronautical engineer and immediately embarked upon a career as a designer of hang gliders and light aircraft. He worked with Tadensca Dobczynski, the Polish amateur aircraft builder, assisting in the design and construction of more than thirty Dobczynski designs. Talanczuk qualified as a light aircraft p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir A
Wladimir is a masculine given name. It is an alternative spelling of the name Vladimir. Notable people with the name include: * Wladimir Aïtoff (1879–1963), French rugby player * Wladimir Balentien (born 1984), Dutch outfielder for the Seattle Mariners * Wladimir Belli (born 1970), Italian cyclist * Wladimir Brunet de Presle (1809–1875), French historian * Wladimir Burliuk (1886–1919), Ukrainian artist * Wladimir d'Ormesson (1888–1973), French essayist and writer * Wladimir Guedroitz (1873–1941), Russian chamberlain * Wladimir Herrera (born 1981), Chilean football defender * Wladimir Kaminer (born 1967), Russian writer * Wladimir Klitschko (born 1976), Ukrainian boxer * Wladimir Jan Kochanski (1935–2015), American pianist * Wladimir Köppen, creator of the Köppen climate classification * Wladimir von Pawlowski (1891–1961), Austrian lawyer * Wladimir Resnitschenko (born 1965), Russian fencer * Wladimir Ribeiro (born 1967), Brazilian swimmer * Wladimir Rodrigue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Skulener
Vladimir Elikovich Skulener (; born January 24, 1958, in Bălți) is a German (formerly Soviet) chess player who won the Moldovan Chess Championship in 1981. FIDE Master. Trained by Lazar Begelman (1937–2006) in Bălți (Moldova), Skulener participated in ten Moldovan Chess Championships and was awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR in chess in 1984. He also participated in two USSR Team Chess Championships (1981, 1985). He later emigrated to Israel (and played for Madatech Haifa Chess Club) and then to Germany, where he plays for Makkabi Aachen. He lives in Eschweiler. In 2016 he became silver medalist in the German Maccabiah Games in blitz and fast chess Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time than classical chess time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. A .... Literature Игорь Бердичевский. Шахм ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
