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Kowarski
The surname Kovarski, Kovarsky, Kowarski, Kowarsky (Russian-language feminine: Kovarskaya, Polish-language feminine: Kowarska) is typically associated with people of Jewish origin. It is a toponymic surname associated with one of the places named Kowary.Евгений Водолазкин, "Дом и остров, или Инструмент языка", p. 185/ref> It may be either transliterated from Russian language (spelled with 'v') or from Polish (spelled with 'w'). The surname may refer to: *Felicjan Kowarski (1890–1948), Polish painter and sculptor *Lew Kowarski (1907–1979), French physicist * Alexander Kovarski *Simon Kovarski, birth name of Simon Kovar * Ori Kowarsky *Ryan and Dan Kowarsky *Kovarska, marriage name of Corinne Chochem (1905-1990), Jewish American choreographer and painter See also *Kirk Karwoski Kirk Karwoski is an American world champion powerlifter. Kirk is a 7 time USPF National Powerlifting Champion, a 6 time IPF W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Kowarski
Lew Kowarski (10 February 1907, Saint Petersburg – 30 July 1979, Geneva) was a naturalized French physicist. He was a lesser-known but important contributor to nuclear science. Early life Lew Kowarski was born in Saint Petersburg to Nicholas Kowarski, a businessman and the Ukrainian singer Olga Vlassenko. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, when Lew was 12 years old, his family fled west under adventurous circumstances and settled in Vilnius (then in Poland). During his youth, Lew was a talented musician and considered a music career; however, his fingers grew too large for the keyboard. Education He received a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Lyon and an Sc.B. and Ph.D. from the University of Paris where he carried out research on neutron counting. Research during World War II He joined Frédéric Joliot-Curie's group in 1934, where Hans von Halban came in 1937. They established in 1939 the possibility of nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicjan Kowarski
Felicjan Szczesny Kowarski (8 November 1890 – 22 September 1948) was a Polish painter and sculptor, known mostly from his monumental wall paintings and plafonds (e.g. plafond in the ''Hall under the Birds'' at castle of Wawel). His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics ( German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad ( German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi- .... See also * Jan Betley References External linksFelicjan Kowarski's gallery at malarze.com 1890 births 1948 deaths 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish sculptors Polish male sculptors 20th-century sculptors Olympic competitors in art competitions Polish male painters {{Poland-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Beider
Alexander Beider (russian: Александр Борисович Бейдер, ; yi, אלכסנדר ביידער, ) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish. Biography Alexander Beider was born in Moscow in 1963. In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 1989 he received a PhD in applied mathematics from the same institution. Since 1990, he lives with his family in Paris, France. His works deal with etymology and geographic distribution of Jewish surnames, traditional Yiddish given names, methodological principles of studying names, and the history of Yiddish. His papers have been published by scholarly journals in US, France, Israel, Poland, and Russia. In 1999, he received his PhD in Jewish studies, from the Sorbonne, with thesis about Ashkenazic Jewry names. He is also the co-author with Stephen P. Morse of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm. Beider "prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymic Surname
A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name."Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.Iris Shagir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagir, Ellenblum & Riley-Smith, eds.), Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 49-59. Toponymic surnames originated as non-hereditary personal by-names, and only subsequently came to be family names. The origins o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kowary
Kowary (german: Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge) is a town in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, with a population of around 11,000. It lies approximately south-east of Jelenia Góra, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The town is famed for its sanatoriums and a miniature park displaying architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian region. History The official site of the town dates the history of Kowary dates to 1148 when semi-legendary miner Laurentius Angelus mined iron ore in the location on the behalf of Polish duke Bolesław IV the Curly, ten years later on the orders of the Polish ruler a mining settlement was founded in the area, the official page of the town also states that the Kowary miners took part in Battle of Legnica in 1241. Other possible date of the start of the town is 1355 and connects it to ''Ostsiedlung''. Publications published in German Empire disputed the origin of Kowary and called it 'Schmedewerk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kovarski
Alexander L’vovich Kovarski is a Russian physical chemist, professor, member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and member of American Chemical Society. His main research area is physical chemistry of polymers and composites, magnetic resonance of free radicals and nano-sized systems. Principal scientific achievements *A.L. Kovarski belonged to the group of researchers first used paramagnetic particles – stable nitroxide radicals as molecular sensors of structural and dynamic information of polymers (1966). This development formed the basis of a new effective method found wide application in material science and was named later “ method of paramagnetic (or spin) probes and labels”. *A.L. Kovarski conducted extensive research of the regularities of the dynamics of low-molecular weight additives in macromolecular substances that were presented in the fundamental monograph.Kovarskii,A.L., "Molecular-Dynamic Concept of the Reactivity of Polymers and Solids in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Kovar
Simon Kovar (May 15, 1890 – January 17, 1970) was a 20th-century bassoonist and one of the most renowned teachers of the instrument. Simon Kovar was born Simon Kovarski in Vilnius, Russian Empire, in 1890. He took up the bassoon at age 20 after originally studying the violin. Kovar came to the United States in June 1922, settling in New York City where he took the position of second bassoonist with the New York Philharmonic. He was highly regarded as a teacher and was head of the bassoon faculty at the Juilliard School of Music for 28 years. Kovar also taught at Teachers College at Columbia University, the Music Academy of the West, and the Curtis Institute of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. His students ranged from top orchestra bassoonists, including Sol Schoenbach and Bernard Garfield to jazz musicians, including saxophonists Stan Getz and Ray Pizzi. His ''24 Daily Studies for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ori Kowarsky
Ori Judd Kowarsky (born September 2, 1970) is a Vancouver, British Columbia lawyer and filmmaker. His 2002 film, ''Various Positions'', won the Prix de Montréal at the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Interna .... External links Film directors from Vancouver 1970 births Living people {{Canada-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan And Dan Kowarsky
RyanDan (born December 5, 1979) is a Canadian musical, songwriting and producing duo, consisting of identical twins Ryan and Dan Kowarsky, whose music is a mix of pop, opera, and classical. They were originally part of the boy band b4-4 that also included Ohad Einbinder. B4-4 was renamed Before Four for later European releases. The Kowarsky brothers worked later on as a vocal duo known as RyanDan. They have also produced for a number of mainly Canadian artists including Blake McGrath, Shawn Desman, Danny Fernandes, Tyler Medeiros, Mia Martina, Massari and others. They have also appeared as background vocals for Shania Twain in concert. Beginnings Identical twins Ryan and Dan Kowarsky were born December 5, 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The youngest of five children in a Jewish family, they grew up in the Thornhill neighbourhood north of Toronto. Their father, Paul, a South African who attended King David Linksfield (a Jewish day school in Johannesburg, South Africa), is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Chochem
Corinne Chochem (December 16, 1907 – September 18, 1990) was an American choreographer and dance teacher of Russian Jewish descent. In her late life she became a painter. She is recognized for her impact on Hebrew folk dance. She published two books on Jewish dances and recorded several albums of music for Israeli folk dances accompanied with dance notations. Pauline KonerCorinne Chochem 1905–1990/ref> Ruth P. Schoenberg and Ruth R. Goodman"Israeli Folk Dance Pioneers in North America"/ref> She is credited with the idea for '' A Survivor from Warsaw''. Corinne Chochem was born in Zwanitz (the Yiddish name for Zhvanets), Russian Empire to Esther (née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ... Gendelman) and Mendel Chochem. In 1920 the family emigrated to the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Karwoski
Kirk Karwoski is an American world champion powerlifter. Kirk is a 7 time USPF National Powerlifting Champion, a 6 time IPF World Powerlifting Champion and an IPF Junior World Powerlifting Champion. Kirk is widely considered one of the greatest squatters in the history of powerlifting, he currently holds the International Powerlifting Federation equipped world record in the squat of 455 kg.(1,003 lbs.) in the 125 kg. weight class which was set in 1995. Leading up to that competition he squatted that 1000 lbs. for 2 reps in training. Many people recognize Kirk's 800lbs x 5 raw squat to be the most impressive set in history, as he wasn't even at his max weight at the time. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Karwoski, Kirk American powerlifters American strength athletes Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymic Surnames
A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name."Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.Iris Shagir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagir, Ellenblum & Riley-Smith, eds.), Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 49-59. Toponymic surnames originated as non-hereditary personal by-names, and only subsequently came to be family names. The origins o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
