Karl Scheurer - Karl Scheurer Karl Scheurer (September 27, 1872 - November 14, 1929), Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 11, 1919 and died in office on November 14, 1929. 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 in 1923. Predecessor: Eduard Müller Successor: Rudolf Minger.
Eduard Müller - Department (1907) Department of Defence; Military Department (1908 - 1911) Department of Justice and Police (1912) Political Department (1913) Department of Justice and Police (1914 - 1919) He was president of Switzerland three times in 1899, 1907 and 1913. Predecessor: Karl Schenk Successor: Karl Scheurer.
Rudolf Minger - Party. During his office time he held the Department of Defence; Military Department. He was president of Switzerland in 1935. Predecessor: Karl Scheurer Successor: Eduard von Steiger.
List of members of the Swiss Federal Council - Munzinger Daniel Henri Druey Friedrich Frey-Herosé Wilhelm Matthias Naeff Stefano Franscini 1850s 31 December 1854 Jakob Stämpfli 11 July 1855 3 Constant Fornerod 14 July 1855 Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel 30 July 1857 Giovanni Battista Pioda 1860s 30 July 1861 Jakob Dubs 31 December 1863 Karl Schenk 12 July 1864 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel 2 31 December 1866 Emil Welti 31 October 1867 Victor Ruffy 1870s 1 February 1870 Paul Cérésole 28 May 1872 Johann Jakob Scherer 31 December 1872 Eugène Borel 31 December 1875 3 4 Joachim Heer Numa Droz Fridolin Anderwert Bernhard Hammer 31 December 1878 4 Simeon Bavier 1880s 3 March 1881 3 Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet 10 April 1883 Adolf Deucher 13 December 1888 Wilhelm Friedrich Hertenstein 1890s 31 December 1890 Emil Frey 31.
List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation - 1859 - Jakob Stämpfli (1820-1879) 1860 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé (1801-1873) 1861 - Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel (1813-1889) 1862 - Jakob Stämpfli (1820-1879) 1863 - Constant Fornerod (1819-1899) 1864 - Jakob Dubs (1822-1879) 1865 - Karl Schenk (1823-1895) 1866 - Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel (1813-1889) 1867 - Constant Fornerod (1819-1899) 1868 - Jakob Dubs (1822-1879) 1869 - Emil Welti (1825-1899) 1870 - Jakob Dubs (1822-1879) 1871 - Karl Schenk (1823-1895) 1872 - Emil Welti (1825-1899) 1873 - Paul Cérésole (1832-1905) 1874 - Karl Schenk (1823-1895) 1875-1899 1875 - Johann Jakob Scherer (1825-1878) 1876 - Emil Welti (1825-1899) 1877 - Joachim Heer (1825-1879) 1878 - Karl Schenk (1823-1895) 1879 - Bernhard Hammer (1822-1907) 1880 - Emil Welti (1825-1899) 1881 - Numa Droz (1844-1899) 1882 - Simeon Bavier (1825-1896) 1883 - Louis Ruchonnet (1791-1855).
List of people by name: Sc-Sd - Schaffner, Franklin, (1920-1989), film director Schaffner, Hans, (born 1908), Swiss Federal Councilor Schalk, Emil Schalken, Sjeng Schama, Simon, historian Schamoni, Ulrich, (born 1939), film director Schapp, Dick, (1934-2001), sports reporter Scharping, Rudolf, (1998-2002), German government minister Schary, Dore, (died 1980), film producer, writer Schäuble, Wolfgang, German politician Schauman, Eugen – Finnish assassin Scheckter, Jody, Formula 1 world champion Schedel, Hartmann Scheele, Karl Wilhelm, (1742-1786), chemist Scheel, Mildred, (1932-1985), physician, founder of Deutsche Krebsliga Scheel, Walter, (born 1919), FDP Scheemakers, Peter, (1691-1781), sculptor Scheffel, Joseph Victor von, (1826-1886), poet Scheidemann, Philipp, (1865-1939), politician Scheider, Roy, (born 1932), actor Scheknel, Chris, (born 1924), sports journalist Scheler, Max, (born 1874), philosopher Schell, Maximilian, (born 1930), actor Schellenberg, Walther, Gestapo officer and SS general Schelling, Fredrich, (1775-1854), German physicist Schelling, Friedrich, (1775-1852), philosopher Schelling, Friedrich.
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.
