Karl Koch (director) - Karl Koch (director) Karl Koch was a German film director and writer, assistant to Luchino Visconti. Filmography: La Marseillaise (1938) La Règle du jeu (1939) La Tosca (1941) Signora dell'ovest (1942) aka Girl of the Golden West Night of the Silvery Moon (1954).
Karl Krumbacher - Karl Krumbacher Karl Krumbacher (1856-1909), German Byzantine scholar, was born at Kurnach in Bavaria on September 23 1856. He was educated at the universities of Munich and Leipzig, and held the professorship of the middle age and modern Greek language and literature in the former from 1897 to his death. His greatest work is his Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur von Justinian bis zum Ende des Ostroemischen Reiches (from Justinian to the fall of the Eastern Empire, 1453), a second edition of which was published in 1897, with the collaboration of A. Ehrhard (section on theology) and H Gelzer (general sketch of Byzantine history, AD 395-1453). The value of the work is greatly enhanced by the elaborate bibliographies contained in the body of the work and in.
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (August 25, 1741 - April 23, 1792), German theologian and adventurer, was born at Bischofswerda, where his father, afterwards professor, canon and general superintendent at Leipzig, was pastor. At the age of sixteen young Bahrdt, a precocious lad whose training had been grossly neglected, began to study theology under the orthodox mystic Christian August Crusius (1715-1775), who in 1757 had become first professor in the theological faculty. The boy varied the monotony of his studies by pranks which revealed his unbalanced character, including an attempt to raise spirits with the aid of Dr Faust's Höllenzwang. His orthodoxy was, however, unimpeachable, his talent conspicuous, and in 1761 he was appointed lecturer on biblical exegesis, and preacher (Katechet) at the church of.
Karl Menger - Karl Menger Karl Menger (January 13 1902 - October 5 1985) was a mathematician of great scope and depth. He did work on Algebras, Curve and Dimension Theory, and Geometries. His most famous popular contribution was the Menger Sponge (mistakenly known as Sierpinski's Sponge), a three dimensional version of Sierpinski's Carpet. It is also related to the Cantor Set and the Sierpinski Square. See Also http://www.iit.edu/~am/Menger/menger.html You may be looking for the article on his father, the economist Carl Menger..
Karl of Austria - Karl of Austria Karl of Austria (also known in English as Charles) Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Maria von Habsburg (August 17, 1887 - April 1, 1922) was the last Emperor of Austria and the last King of Hungary (as Charles IV of Hungary) and of the Habsburg Dynasty. He reigned from 1916 until his abdication on November 11, 1918. He sought to reclaim the throne of Hungary in the early 1920s. Karl has generally been seen by historians as an honourable figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood.
Karl Schenk - Karl Schenk Karl Schenk (December 1, 1823 - July 18, 1895) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 12, 1863 and died in office on July 18, 1895. He was affiliated with the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the following departments: Department of Home Affairs (1864) Political Department (1865) Department of Home Affairs (1866 - 1870) Political Department (1871) Department of Home Affairs (1872) Department of Finance (1872) Department of Home Affairs (1873) Political Department (1874) Department of Railway and Trade (1875 - 1877) Political Department (1878) Department of Home Affairs (1879 - 1884) Political Department (1885) Department of Home Affairs (1886 - 1895) He was president of Switzerland six times in.
Karl Kobelt - Karl Kobelt Karl Kobelt (August 1, 1891 - January 6, 1968) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 10, 1940 and handed over office on December 31, 1954. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the Department of Defence; Military Department. He was president of Switzerland twice in 1946 and 1952. Predecessor: Johannes Baumann Successor: Giuseppe Lepori.
Karl Schwarzschild - Karl Schwarzschild Karl Schwarzschild (October 9, 1873 - May 11, 1916) was a noted German physicist and astronomer. He was born in Frankfurt am Main. Something of a child prodigy he had a paper on orbits published when he was only sixteen. He studied at Strasbourg and Munich, obtaining his doctorate in 1896 for a work on Jules Henri Poincaré's theories. From 1897 on he worked as assistant at the Kufner Sternwarte in Vienna, where he developed a formula to calculate the properties of photographic material involving an exponent now know as the Schwarzschild-exponent (p in formula below). From 1901 until 1909 he was a professor at the prestigious institute at Göttingen, where he had the opportunity to work with some significant figures including David Hilbert.
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach - Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800-1827) was a German geometer. After receiving his doctorate at age 22, he became a professor of mathematics at the Gymnasium at Erlangen. In 1822 he wrote a small book on mathematics noted mainly for a theorem at the bottom of one of the pages on the nine point circle. Shortly before his death he introduced homogeneous coordinates, independent of Möbius..
Karl Haushofer - Karl Haushofer General Karl Haushofer (1869 - 1946) popularised geopolitics, notably in the Nazi regime. Some researchers think that by the contact of his student Rudolf Heß, Haushofer had considerable influence on the development of Hitler's ideas of expansion. Haushofer denied strong influence on the Nazi regime and committed suicide in 1946. His son, Albrecht, was killed by the Nazis because of opposition to the government. See also: Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Karl Pearson - Karl Pearson Karl Pearson (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) was a major player in the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. He founded the Department of Applied Statistics at University College London in 1911; it was the first university statistics department in the world. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Awards from Professional Bodies 3 Contributions to Statistics 4 Publications 5 Other Useful Sites 6 Further Reading Biography Karl Pearson was born in London on the 27th March 1857. He was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge to study mathematics. He then spent part of 1879 and 1880 studying medieval and 16th-century German literature at the universities of.
Karl Renner - Karl Renner Karl Renner (December 14, 1870 - December 31, 1950) was an Austrian politician. He was born in Unter-Tannowitz (Dolní Dunajovice) (Moravia) and died in Vienna. Renner was born as the 18th child of a poor farmer's family but because of his talents he was allowed to go to high school and study law at university. Renner has always been interested in politics and became librarian in parliament and member of the Austrian social democrats party (SPÖ) in 1896. He started to represent the party in the Imperial Diet in 1907. Afterwards, Renner was Chancellor of Austria and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1918 until 1920. The peace treaty in St. Germain was as well under the leadership of Karl Renner and from 1931 to.
Karl Wolfskehl - Karl Wolfskehl Karl Wolfskehl (September 17, 1869 - June 30 , 1948) was a Jewish-German author who wrote poetry, prose and drama in German. He was active in the circle around Stefan George and emigrated to Switzerland (1933), then to Italy (1934) and ultimately to New Zealand (1938)..
Karl May - Karl May Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 - March 30, 1912) was a German writer noted chiefly for his wild west books set in the American West. He visited North America in 1908, well after writing his books, never getting west of Buffalo, New York. His very influential fictional accounts of the Western milieu have no direct basis in experience, but in his ingenious use of creativity, imagination and source literature (travel books, anthropological guides etc.). He wrote under many different pen names, including Capitain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura, M. Gisela, Hobble-Frank, Karl Hohenthal, D. Jam, Prinz Muhamel Lautréamont, Ernst von Linden, P. van der Löwen, Emma Pollmer, Richard Plöhn, and Oberlehrer Franz Langer. May invented the characters of Winnetou, the wise Indian, and.
Karl Mannheim - Karl Mannheim Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893, Budapest - January 9, 1947, London) was a German-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century. 1914 he heard in Berlin Georg Simmel and worked from 1922 - 1925 in Heidelberg under the german sociologist Alfred Weber, brother of the very well known german sociologist Max Weber. One of his assistants was Norbert Elias (from spring 1930 until spring 1933). Important work: Ideology and Utopia. Mannheim is seen as a founder for the sociology of knowledge..
Karl Lagerfeld - Karl Lagerfeld Karl (Otto) Lagerfeld (born September 10, 1938 in Hamburg, Germany) is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late twentieth century. He made his name as an independent creator who collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, including Chloe, Fendi and Chanel..
Karl Schwarz - Karl Schwarz Karl Schwarz (November 19, 1812 - March 25, 1885), was a German Protestant theologian. He was born at Wiek on the Isle of Rügen. His father, Theodor Schwarz, pastor at Wiek, was well known as a preacher, and as the writer of a number of popular works (parables, romances, etc.) under the pseudonym "Theodor Melas". Karl Schwarz studied theology and philosophy at Halle, and afterwards at Bonn (1831) and Berlin (1832-1834). At Berlin he came under the influence of Schleiermacher and Georg Hegel, whose influences are seen in his work Das Wesen der Religion (1847). In 1837 he was imprisoned for six months on account of his advanced political opinions. After his release he helped (from 1838) with the Hallische Jahrbücher. From 1843 to.
Karl Hase - Karl Hase Karl August von Hase (August 25, 1800 - January 3, 1890), German Protestant theologian and Church historian, was born at Steinbach in Saxony. He studied at Leipzig and Erlangen, and in 1829 was called to Jena as professor of theology. He retired in 1883 and was made a baron. Hase’s aim was to reconcile modern culture with historical Christianity in a scientific way. But though a liberal theologian, he was no dry rationalist. Indeed, he vigorously attacked rationalism, as distinguished from the rational principle, charging it with being unscientific inasmuch as it ignored the historical significance of Christianity, shut its eyes to individuality and failed to give religious feeling its due. His views are presented scientifically in his Evangelisch-protestantische Dogmatik (1826; 6th ed., 1870),.
Karl Immanuel Nitzsch - Karl Immanuel Nitzsch Karl Immanuel Nitzsch (September 21, 1787 - August 21, 1868), was a Lutheran church leader. He was born at the small Saxon town of Borna near Leipzig. His father, Karl Ludwig Nitzsch, at that time pastor and superintendent in Borna, later (1790) became professor at Wittenberg and director (1817) of the seminary for preachers. Karl Immanuel was sent to study at Schulpforta in 1803, going on to the University of Wittenberg in 1806. In 1800 he graduated, and in 1810 he became a Privatdozent at the university. Having become a deacon at the Schlosskirche in 1811, he showed remarkable energy and zeal during the bombardment and siege of the city in 1813. In 1815 he was appointed a preceptor in the preachers' seminary.
Karl Guthe Jansky - Karl Guthe Jansky Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22 1905 - February 14 1950), was the American physicist and radio engineer who in 1932 discovered that the Milky Way galaxy emanates radio waves; he did not follow up his discovery, but it marked the birth of radio astronomy. Jansky was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and studied at the University of Wisconsin where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1927. In 1928 he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Bell Labs wanted to investigate using "short waves" (wavelengths of about 10-20 meters) for transatlantic radio telephone service. Jansky was assigned the job of investigating the sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions. He built an antenna designed to.
