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Kuper Range
Kuper may refer to: People * Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper (1809–1885), British naval officer * Adam Kuper, British anthropologist * André Kuper (born 1960), German politician * Hilda Kuper (1911–1992), Swazi anthropologist * Leo Kuper (1908–1994), South African sociologist * Peter Kuper (born 1958), U.S. comics artist * Simon Kuper Simon Kuper is a South African-British author. He writes about sports "from an anthropologic perspective." Kuper was born in Uganda of South African parents, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, where his father, Adam Kuper, was ..., British author and journalist * Simon Meyer Kuper (1906–1963), South African judge * Heinrich Küper (1888–1950), German adventurer Places * Kuper, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Kuper Island, between Vancouver Island and the coast of British Columbia {{disambig, surname, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Leopold Kuper
Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper (16 August 1809 – 28 October 1885) was a Royal Navy officer known for his commands in the far east. Naval career Kuper, whose ancestry was German, joined the navy in 1823 as a midshipman. On 20 February 1830 he became a lieutenant. On 17 October 1831 he was appointed a lieutenant in ''Savage'', commanded by Lord Edward Russell, on the Irish station. On 9 April 1832, he followed Russell to ''Nimrod'', off the coast of Spain. On 27 August 1833, John Macdougall succeeded Russell, still on the Spain–Portugal station. From 30 March 1836, he was a lieutenant in ''Minden'', commanded by Alexander Renton Sharpe, at Lisbon. Then on 10 July 1837 he moved to ''Alligator'', commanded by James John Gordon Bremer, at Australia, who was involved in founding the settlement at Port Essington. From 27 July 1839, he was a lieutenant and acting captain of '' Pelorous''. While he was captain ''Pelorus'' wrecked on 25 November by a cyclone at Port Essingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Kuper
Adam Jonathan Kuper (born 29 December 1941) is a South African anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. In his works, he often treats the notion of "culture" skeptically, focusing as much on how it is used as on what it means. Background Kuper was the son of Simon Meyer Kuper and Gertrude Hesselman. He was raised in Johannesburg and attended Parktown Boys' High School. He took his first degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His doctorate, from the University of Cambridge, was based on field research in the Kalahari desert in what is now Botswana. After graduation he returned to Africa, doing further fieldwork in Botswana and Uganda. The sociologist Leo Kuper and anthropologist Hilda Kuper were his uncle and aunt. He married Jessica Cohen (1944-2013) of Johannesburg in 1966 and taught from 1967 to 1970 at Makerere University in Kampala. From 1970 to 1976 he taught at University College London. From 1976 to 1985 he was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Kuper
André Kuper (born 14 December 1960) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union. Between 1997 and 2012 he was mayor of the city of Rietberg. Since then he has been a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state parliament (''Landtag'') of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which convenes in the state capital of Düsseldorf, in the eastern part of the district of Hafen. The parliament .... Kuper was elected president of the State Parliament on 1 June 2017. References Living people 1960 births 20th-century German politicians 21st-century German politicians Mayors of Rietberg Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia Members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuper, André ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Kuper
Hilda Beemer Kuper ('' née'' Beemer; 23 August 1911 – 23 April 1992) was a social anthropologist most notable for her extensive work on Swazi culture. Early life Born to Lithuanian Jewish and Austrian Jewish parents in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, Kuper moved to South Africa after the death of her father. She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and, afterwards, at the London School of Economics under Malinowski. Doctoral fieldwork and anthropological career In 1934, Kuper won a fellowship from the International African Institute to study in Swaziland. In July of that year, while at an education conference in Johannesburg, she met Sobhuza II, paramount chief and later king of Swaziland. With assistance from Sobhuza and Malinowski, Kuper moved to the royal village of Lobamba and was introduced to Sobhuza's mother, the queen mother Lomawa. Here Kuper learned siSwati and pursued her fieldwork. This phase of Kuper's researches into Swazi culture culminated in the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Kuper
Leo Kuper (20 November 1908 – 23 May 1994) was a South African sociologist specialising in the study of genocide. Early life and legal career Kuper was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family. His siblings included his sister Mary (d. 1948), who in later life directed the Johannesburg Legal Aid Bureau. Kuper trained in law at the University of the Witwatersrand, receiving there his BA and LLB degrees. As a lawyer, he represented African clients in human-rights cases, and also represented one of the country's early non- segregated trade unions. He supported the establishment of South Africa's first legal aid charity. Wartime service Kuper served with the Eighth Army in Kenya, Egypt, and Italy, as an intelligence officer, from 1940 to 1946. After the war he organised the National War Memorial Health Foundation, which provided social and medical services for disadvantaged people from all backgrounds. Scholarly and political activities In 1947 Kuper went to the University of Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper (; born September 22, 1958) is an American alternative comics artist and illustrator, best known for his autobiographical, political, and social observations. Besides his contributions to the political anthology '' World War 3 Illustrated'', which he co-foundedNeil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 321 in 1979 with Seth Tobocman, Kuper is currently best known for taking over ''Spy vs. Spy'' for ''Mad'' magazine. Kuper has produced numerous graphic novels which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian and Greek, including award-winning adaptations of Franz Kafka's '' Give It Up!'' and ''the Metamorphosis''. Early life Peter Kuper was born in Summit, New Jersey, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio when he was six years old, where he graduated from Cleveland Heights High School in 1976. He lived in Israel with his parents in 1969–70. In 1970 Kuper and his childho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper is a South African-British author. He writes about sports "from an anthropologic perspective." Kuper was born in Uganda of South African parents, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, where his father, Adam Kuper, was a lecturer in anthropology at Leiden University. He is named for his grandfather—Adam Kuper's father—who was a South African Supreme Court judge assassinated in 1963. He has lived in Stanford, California, Berlin and London. He studied History and German at Oxford University, and attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar. He now lives in Paris with his family. He won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1994 with his book ''Football Against the Enemy'', which was later released in the United States as '' Soccer Against the Enemy''. He has also written for The Observer and The Guardian, and is currently a sports columnist for the Financial Times. In 2003 he published his book ''Ajax, The Dutch, the War: Football in Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Meyer Kuper
Simon Meyer Kuper (1906 – 20 March 1963) was a judge of the South African Supreme Court, and a noted leader in the South African Jewish community. His children include anthropologist Adam Kuper. Early life Kuper was born in Johannesburg in 1906. He attended Jeppe High School and subsequently gained his B.A. and LL.B. at the University of the Witwatersrand. Career Kuper was admitted to the Bar in 1927. He joined Group 621 of the Johannesburg Bar. After practising law for several years, he was appointed King's Counsel in 1946 and became a judge at the South African Supreme Court in 1955. The South African Supreme Court consists of several divisions. Kuper sat in the Transvaal Provincial Division, which covers Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. Civic activities In 1946, Kuper provided evidence before the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine, on behalf of South African Jews. At the February 1954 Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Küper
Heinrich Küper (1888 in Hamburg Germany – 1950 in Owaraha) was a German adventurer who lived in the Solomon Islands. Biography Küper lived in Gupuna village, Owaraha, Makira-Ulawa Province, between 1912 and 1950, the year of his death. He was a former officer of the Kaiserliche Marine who had deserted. During World War I Küper was arrested by the British authorities of the Solomon Islands protectorate and was brought to Tulagi. Very soon thereafter though, he was released after promising that he would not cooperate with the enemy. Küper was married to a respected and influential local woman, Kafagamurirongo, and was the only ''aefaka'' (white) who ever reached the ''arafa'' (high person) status within a Melanesian community. His first child was born in 1917. Heinrich and Kafagamurirongo had a total of four children, three boys and a girl. During his life in Owaraha he met ethnographer Hugo Bernatzik, who wrote a sympathetic report based on his own glimpses of Küper's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuper, Iran
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