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Ingeborg Johansen
Ingeborg Johansen (September 26, 1896 – January 23, 1986) was a Danish writer. She also used the pseudonyms Harriet Holm and Helene Paider. Early life and education Ingeborg Johansen was born in Riga, the second child of Jens Christian Johansen, a Danish engineer and consul general in the Baltics. She was the sister of the historian Paul Johansen. She attended primary school in Tallinn and completed secondary school in Denmark, and then she began university studies in literature and classical languages. Career Under the name Harriet Holm, Johansen first published some short stories in the newspaper in 1916. The following year, her debut novel, ''Den røde Villa'' (The Red Villa), was published. Johansen translated Russian literature into Danish, especially the works of Ivan Turgenev. Works *''Den røde Villa'' (The Red Villa), novel, 1917 *''Satan'', novel, 1919 *''Det forheksede Land'' (The Haunted Land), novel trilogy, 1944–1946: **''Familien paa Lipfer'' (The Lipfer Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riga
Riga ( ) is the capital, Primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city of Latvia. Home to 591,882 inhabitants (as of 2025), the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population. The population of Riga Planning Region, Riga metropolitan area, which stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 847,162 (as of 2025). The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava (river), Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers and lies above sea level on a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201, and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 Riga summit, 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship, and the 2006 IIHF Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9million. The country has a Temperate climate, temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian language, Latvian. Russians in Latvia, Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian language, Russian as their native tongue. After centuries of State of the Teutonic Order, Teutonic, Swedish Livonia, Swedish, Inflanty Voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Christian Johansen
Jens Christian Johansen (September 20, 1868 – January 29, 1929) was a Danish land improvement engineer and the Danish honorary consul general in Estonia from 1918 to 1929. Early life and education Johansen was born in Slagelse, Denmark, the son of Hans Charles Jacob Wulff Johansen (1832–1874) and Christine Marie Johansen (née Hauberg, 1846–1885). He studied to be a land improvement engineer in Copenhagen, and in 1892 he started working in the Vitebsk Governorate. There he distinguished himself as a successful land improvement engineer, and the Baltic German–led invited him to head its Tallinn department in 1901. Career In 1910, Johansen began working under the , continuing to organize land improvement work. In 1915, Johansen traveled to Denmark, but his family remained in Estonia. In 1916, when he wanted to visit his family, the Russian authorities did not allow him to do so, allegedly because he was in the service of the Baltic Germans. It was only at the end of 1918 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Johansen
Paul Wulff Johansen (December 23, 1901 – April 14, 1965) was an Estonian and German historian of Danish origin. Early life and education Paul Johansen was born in Tallinn to Jens Christian Johansen, a Danish land improvement engineer. He was the brother of the writer Ingeborg Johansen. He studied at Tallinn Cathedral School and graduated in 1919. In the summer of the same year, he joined the as a , but he did not serve on the fronts of the War of Independence. At the end of 1919, he began studying in Copenhagen and soon in Germany, initially as an agricultural engineer, but he soon abandoned this direction in favor of history. In 1924, Johansen became a doctor of history at the University of Leipzig, and in 1924 he presented his dissertation ''Siedlung und Agrarwesen der Esten im Mittelalter'' (Settlement and Agriculture of Estonians in the Middle Ages) and received the research degree of doctor of philosophy (dr. phil.). He returned to Estonia and started working at the Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Roll
A music roll () is a storage medium used to operate a mechanical musical instrument. They are used for the player piano, mechanical organ, electronic carillon and various types of orchestrion. The vast majority of music rolls are made of paper. Other materials that have been utilized include thin card (Imhof-system), thin sheet brass (Telektra-system), composite multi-layered electro-conductive aluminium and paper roll (Triste-system) and, in the modern era, thin plastic or PET film. The music data is stored by means of perforations. The mechanism of the instrument reads these as the roll unwinds, using a pneumatic, mechanical or electrical sensing device called a tracker bar, and the mechanism subsequently plays the instrument. After a roll is played, it is necessary for it to be rewound before it can be played again. This necessitates a break in a musical performance. To overcome this problem, some instruments were built with two player mechanisms (referred to as a duple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaveski
Joaveski is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ..., on the territory of Lahemaa National Park. It lies at the Loobu River. References Villages in Harju County {{Harju-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Arts Foundation
The Danish Arts Foundation ( Danish: Statens Kunstfond) is the principal Danish government funded arts foundation founded by a special Law on 27 May 1964. Statens Kunstfond alongside the :da:Statens Kunstråd (English sometimes State Arts Council now Danish Agency for Culture) allocates funds provided by the Ministry of Culture ( :da:Kulturministeriet). It is overseen and administered by the :da:Kulturstyrelsen (Danish Cultural Authority) which is an administrative unit of the Ministry of Culture. Danish literature Danish literature () stretches back to the Middle Ages. The earliest preserved texts from Denmark are runic inscriptions on memorial stones and other objects, some of which contain short poems in alliterative verse. In the late 12th century Saxo ... is supported both by the Statens Kunstfond and a larger amount directly by the Ministry of Culture. In 2014 the Danish Arts Council and the Danish Arts Foundation merged to form one new body, to be known as the Danish A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Births
Events January * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England). * January 17 – Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896), Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British British Army, redcoats enter the Ashanti people, Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Deaths
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. * January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. * January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a Ugandan Bush War, five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Riga
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, short stories, monographs, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports, educational material, and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' works are nowadays published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
