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Baier
Baier is a surname of German origin with the meaning "person from Bavaria". Notable people with the surname include: *Annette Baier, (1929–2012), New Zealand moral philosopher, wife of Kurt *Bret Baier, reporter *Christel Baier (born 1965), German computer scientist *Daniel Baier, German footballer *Ernst Baier, figure skater *Fred Baier, furniture designer *Johann Jacob Baier (1677–1735), German doctor and paleontologist *Johann Wilhelm Baier (1647–1697), Lutheran theologian *Kurt Baier, moral philosopher, husband of Annette *Leslie Joan Baier, American scientist *Paulo Baier, Brazilian footballer *Sherri Baier, Canadian figure skater See also * Bajer (other) * Bayer (surname) Bayer is a surname with various origins. It occurs most commonly in German-speaking countries, where it can be either habitational (''Bayer'' being the male German language demonym for Bavaria) or occupational (derived from the archaic German verb ... * Beyer, a surname {{surnam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Baier
Paulo César Baier (born 25 October 1974), known as Paulo Baier, is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the current manager of Botafogo-SP. Baier's 21-year career started in 1995 with São Luiz-RS, as a right back. Mainly associated to Criciúma, Goiás and Atlético Paranaense, he scored totals of 106 goals since the establishment of the round-robin format of the Série A, being the second-best in the tournament's history. Playing career Baier was born in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, and started his career at the age of 12, training with Gaúcho's youth setup. In 1991, after representing hometown amateur sides Esporte Clube Flamengo Vila Santo Antônio and Sociedade Recreativa Esportiva Chorão, he went on a trial at São Luiz. Baier subsequently joined the club's youth setup, but was converted into a right back during his formation. Promoted to the first team in 1995 and known as Paulo César, he was regularly us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bret Baier
William Bret Baier ( ; born August 4, 1970) is the host of '' Special Report with Bret Baier'' on the Fox News Channel and the chief political correspondent for Fox. He previously worked as the network's Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent. Early life Baier was born in Rumson, New Jersey, to a family of mixed German and Irish origins. Raised Catholic, he attended Marist School, a private Roman Catholic high school in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1988. Baier then attended the methodist DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1992 with a BA degree in political science and English. At DePauw, he became a member of the Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Career Baier began his television career with a local station WJWJ TV16 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before joining WRAL-TV, then CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. He sent an audition tape to Fox News in 1998, and was hired as the network's Atlanta burea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Baier
Kurt Baier (26 January 1917 – 7 November 2010) was an Austrian moral philosopher who taught for most of his career in Australia and the United States. Life and career Born in Vienna, Austria, Baier studied law at the University of Vienna. In 1938, after the Anschluss he had to abandon his studies, and went to the United Kingdom as a refugee, where he was interned as a "friendly enemy alien" and sent to Australia on the ''Dunera''. There he began studying philosophy. Baier received his B.A. from the University of Melbourne in 1944, and his M.A. in 1947. In 1952, he received his DPhil at Oxford University. Baier taught at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. He met and married Annette Baier in 1958. He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, and became Chair of the Department in 1967, and remained at Pitt until his retirement in 1996. He became president of the Eastern Division and chair of the National Board of Officers of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Baier
Daniel Baier (; born 18 May 1984) is a former German professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Born in Cologne, Baier first played for the youth team of TSV 1860 Munich. He generally plays an offensive midfield role. He played in his first league match against 1. FC Köln on 13 September 2003. He has played in the Under-20 German national team, his debut coming on 7 October 2005 against Wales. Dieter Eilts has said about Daniel Baier: "Daniel is an individual talent. He plays a deadly passing game. If he continues in this way, he has a big future." On 31 January 2010, he left VfL Wolfsburg and returned to FC Augsburg. On 20 September 2017, Baier was fined €20,000 and suspended for one Bundesliga game, as he made a masturbation gesture at RB Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhüttl during the 1–0 victory against Leipzig the day before. After 355 competitive appearances for FC Augsburg, Baier was released by the club on 23 July 2020. Baier announced his retir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Baier
Annette Claire Baier (née Stoop; 11 October 1929 – 2 November 2012) was a New Zealand philosopher and Hume scholar, focused in particular on Hume's moral psychology. She was well known also for her contributions to feminist philosophy Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in ... and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars. Biography Baier earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Otago in her native Dunedin, New Zealand. In 1952 she went to Somerville College, Oxford, where she earned her PhD and met fellow philosophers Philippa Foot and G.E.M. Anscombe. For most of her career she taught in the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh, having moved there from Carnegie Mellon Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Jacob Baier
Johann Jacob Baier (14 June 1677– 14 July 1735) was a German physician and naturalist who wrote on the geology and fossils of the Nuremberg area in his book ''Oryctographia Norica''. He considered the Deluge of the Bible to be the only catastrophe to have occurred in earth history. Baier was born in Jena, the son of theologian Johann Wilhelm Baier and Anna Katharine Musaeus. He was educated at Jena then received a degree in medicine from Halle after which he became a professor at Altdorf, Switzerland from 1704. He became a personal physician to the Emperor in 1731. Baier was elected to the Leopoldina Academy The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ... over which he presided from 1731. Apart from his collections of fossils, he also collected portraits of learned people, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christel Baier
Christel Baier (born 26 September 1965) is a German theoretical computer science, theoretical computer scientist known for her work in model checking, temporal logic, and automata theory. She is a professor at TU Dresden, where she holds the chair for Algebraic and Logic Foundations of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science. Baier is the editor-in-chief of ''Acta Informatica''. Education and career Baier earned a diploma in mathematics at the University of Mannheim in 1990, and stayed at the same university for graduate study in computer science, completing her Ph.D. there in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Transitionssystem- und Baum-Semantiken für CCS'', was supervised by Mila Majster-Cederbaum. She earned a habilitation at Mannheim in 1999. She became an associate professor for computer science at the University of Bonn in 1999, and moved to TU Dresden as a professor in 2006. Book With Joost-Pieter Katoen, Baier is coauthor of the book ''Principles of Model Checking'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Baier
Ernst Baier (27 September 1905 in Zittau, Saxony, Germany – 8 July 2001 in Garmisch, Bavaria, Germany) was a German figure skater who competed in pair skating and single skating. He became Olympic pair champion in 1936 together with Maxi Herber. The duo also won several World and European championships. Ernst Baier skated for the club Berliner SC. He also enjoyed success as a single skater. He won silver at European, World and Olympic games in singles. Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier revolutionized pair skating by performing the first side by side jumps in competition. After the Second World War they skated in ice revues. Later the couple owned a business. Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier married after their skating career in 1940. They had 3 children. In 1964 they were divorced. On 15 May 1965 he married the Swedish figure skater Birgitta Wennström (born 10 November 1935 in Enskede, Stockholm, Sweden) known by the stage name "Topsy" from Holiday on Ice together with her pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Joan Baier
Leslie Joan Baier is an American scientist. She is a senior investigator in diabetes molecular genetics at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Education Baier completed a bachelor of arts from Lawrence University in 1982. She earned a Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 1990. Her doctoral advisor was Gary Nabel. Baier's dissertation was titled ''Isolation and characterization of a human dna binding protein which contains an antp homeobox sequence''. Career and research Baier is a senior investigator in the Diabetes Molecular Genetics Section of the Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The purpose of Baier's research is to identify the heritable basis for type 2 diabetes and obesity among Pima people The Pima (or Akimel O'odham, also spelled Akimel Oʼotham, "River People," formerly known as ''Pima'') are a group of Native Americans living in an are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Baier
Fred Baier is an avant garde United Kingdom, British furniture designer maker working since the 1970s when he graduated from the Royal College of Art and taught at what is now Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton). Some of his original work drew its influence from Industrial imagery concepts such as hydraulic pistons, bridges and electrical booster systems, using of brightly coloured stained woods. Since the Seventies he has used convergent technologies including computers, mathematics, and theories of Proportion (architecture), proportion in his furniture designs. In 2011 Fred Baier was commissioned to create furniture for the library at The House of Lords and was invited to show retrospective furniture designs at a one-man show at the Crafts Study Centre. Further reading Articles * Broun, Jeremy. (Apr-May 1990). "The golden age of contemporary craftsmanship. Part 1". ''Woodworking International'', no. 16, pp. 26–31. * Frost, Abigail. (1990) "Fred Baier. Tales f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wilhelm Baier
Johann Wilhelm Baier (11 November 1647 – 19 October 1695) was a German theologian in the Lutheran scholastic tradition. He was born at Nuremberg, and died at Weimar. He studied philology, especially Oriental, and philosophy at Altdorf from 1664 to 1669, in which year he went to Jena and became a disciple of the celebrated Johannes Musäus, the representative of the middle party in the Syncretistic Controversy, whose daughter he married in 1674. Taking his doctor’s degree the same year, in 1675 he became professor of church history at the university, and lectured with great success on several different branches of theology. In 1682 he was chosen to represent the Protestant side in the negotiations with the papal legate Nicolas Steno, bishop of Titiopolis, for reunion of the Churches. He was three times rector at Jena before he was called by the elector Frederick III, in 1694, as professor and provisional rector to the new university of Halle. Here his devotion to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherri Baier
Sherri Baier is a former Canadians, Canadian pair skater. With partner Robin Cowan, she won the World Junior Championships in 1976, its inaugural year, and then went on to win the Canadian national championships in 1978. Results pairs with Robin Cowan References * External links Pairs on Ice: Baier & Cowan Navigation Canadian female pair skaters Living people World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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