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Kind (surname)
Kind is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolfo Kind (1848–1907), Swiss chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing * Johann Friedrich Kind (1768–1843), German dramatist * Paolo Kind, Italian ski jumper, son of Adolfo Kind * Richard Kind Richard Bruce Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor and comedian. His television roles include '' Carol & Company'' (1990–1991), Dr. Mark Devanow in '' Mad About You'' (1992–1999, 2019), Paul Lassiter in '' Spin City'' (1996–20 ... (born 1956), American actor * Ron Kind (born 1963), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin {{surname, Kind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Kind
Adolf respectively Adolfo Kind (16 September 1848 in Chur – 5 September 1907) was a Swiss chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italy, Italian skiing. Life Kind was born in 1848 to a German-speaking Walser people, Walser family, which had been living in Chur for more than four centuries. When his father was appointed pastor of the Protestantism#Evangelicalism, Evangelic Church the family went to Milan but they removed to Switzerland at the beginning of the Second Italian War of Independence, Sardinian War in 1859 where they lived in Graubünden. Afterwards Kind studied chemical engineering in Munich und Zürich and went back to Italy in 1879 where he worked in the direction of a candle and soap company. He started a family and went to Turin in 1890 where he worked in a candle wick company. Skiing Kind's family and friends became interested in skiing, while living in Turin, from his connections to the Swiss canton of Glarus. Kind started the import to the city since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Kind
Johann Friedrich Kind (4 March 1768, in Leipzig – 24 June 1843 in Dresden) was a German dramatist, most famous for writing the libretto for Carl Maria von Weber's opera ''Der Freischütz'' (1821). Biography He studied law, and began his law practice in Dresden in 1793. In 1814, he abandoned his law practice to devote himself exclusively to literary work. He was a very industrious writer in many fields of literature, in all of which he was popular in his day with a large class of readers. With Winkler, he edited the ''Abendzeitung'' from 1817 to 1826. Though he published five volumes of sentimental and popular poetry, his poetry is the weakest of his literary efforts; the 1894 edition of the reputed Brockhaus encyclopedia critiqued it as being "smooth in form but without the least bit of originality."Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. 14th ed., Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna 1894; Vol. 10, p. 339. His popular tales have somewhat more merit than his poems; but it is in the line of oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Kind
Paolo Kind (1880-1952) was an early Italian ski jumper and sports official. Paolo Kind was a son of Adolfo Kind. He started skiing in the 1890s. When his father died in an mountaineering accident in 1907, he followed him as the second president of the Ski Club Torino. On November 7, 1908, Kind founded the Unione Ski Club Italiani (USCI), of which he was the first president, and which later passed into the FISI. Together with the Norwegian ski jumper Harald Smith, he designed the first ski jumping hill of Italy in Bardonecchia Bardonecchia (; ; , ) is an Italian town and ''comune'' located in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley. It grew out of a small village with the works for the Fréjus Rail Tunnel, the first c ... in 1908, which was finished in 1909, the year when Kind won the first Italian championship of ski jumping on this hill. References 19th-century births 20th-century deaths Italian male cross-country s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kind
Richard Bruce Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor and comedian. His television roles include '' Carol & Company'' (1990–1991), Dr. Mark Devanow in '' Mad About You'' (1992–1999, 2019), Paul Lassiter in '' Spin City'' (1996–2002), Andy in ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' (2002–2021), Captain Stan Yenko in '' East New York'' (2022–2023), and Vince Fish in '' Only Murders in the Building'' (2024). He appeared in the films '' Johns'' (1996), '' Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'' (2002), '' I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With'' (2006), '' Big Stan'' (2007), '' A Serious Man'' (2009), '' The Angriest Man in Brooklyn'' (2014), ''All We Had'' (2016), '' Rifkin's Festival'' (2020), '' Tick, Tick... Boom!'' (2021), and '' The Out-Laws'' (2023). Kind is currently the announcer and sidekick on the Netflix live talk show '' Everybody's Live with John Mulaney''. Kind's voice performances in various Pixar films include Molt in ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), Van in the first two films of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
