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Maurer
Maurer is a German surname, translating in English to "bricklayer" or "wall builder." Notable people with the surname include: * Adrian Maurer (1901–1943), American football player * Alfred Maurer (politician) (1888–1954), Estonian politician * Alfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932), American artist * Andreas Maurer (tennis) (born 1958), German professional tennis player * Andreas Maurer (Austrian politician) (1919–2010), Austrian politician * Andreas Maurer (German politician) (born 1970), German local politician * Andy Maurer (1948–2016), American football player * Angela Maurer (born 1975), German long-distance swimmer *Bill Maurer (born 1968), American academic scholar of legal and economic anthropology * Brandon Maurer (born 1990), American professional baseball pitcher * Chris Maurer (born 1984), former bassist of ska band Suburban Legends * Claude Maurer (born 1975), Swiss sailor * Daphne Maurer, Canadian professor of experimental psychology (visual perception) * Dave Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Maurer (German Politician)
Andreas Maurer (; born 5 January 1970) is a German mail carrier and local politics, local politician (formerly Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU; formerly The Left (Germany), The Left) convicted of electoral fraud. Biography Andreas Maurer's mother Martha (née Boschmann, 1936–2020) was a miner born in a Germans in Ukraine, German colony in Ukraine, while his father Alexander (1928–1979) was a Volga German geologist. During the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin abolished the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Maurer's family was deported to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. There, Maurer was born in 1970 in Shakhtinsk in the Karaganda Region. He was nine years old when his father passed away. In the Soviet Union, Maurer followed in his mother's footsteps and started a mining apprenticeship. In 1988, Maurer's family was permitted to leave the Soviet Union. Being ethnic Germans, Maurer, his mother and his siblings immigrated to West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Maurer
Brandon Eugene Maurer (born July 3, 1990) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royals. From Costa Mesa, California, Maurer pitched in Little League Baseball and high school at Orange Lutheran High School. The Mariners selected Maurer in the 23rd round of the 2008 MLB Draft. After being overshadowed by other prospects, Maurer had a strong spring training showing with the Mariners in 2013, and made the team's Opening Day roster in the starting rotation. The Mariners traded Maurer to the Padres after the 2014 season, and he became a relief pitcher. The Padres traded Maurer to the Royals in 2017. Maurer signed a minor league free agent deal with the Pirates during prior to the 2019 season. Amateur career Maurer competed in Little League Baseball in Costa Mesa, California as a pitcher. On July 30, 2002, at the age of 12, Maurer pitched a perfect game in the Little L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hudson Maurer
James Hudson Maurer (April 15, 1864 – March 16, 1944) was a prominent American socialist politician and trade unionist who twice ran for the office of vice president of the United States on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America. He served three non-consecutive terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives between 1911 and 1919, and as President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor from 1912 to 1928. Biography Early years James H. Maurer was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on April 15, 1864, and was one of three brothers."Maurer Outstanding Leader of Progressive Labor: Socialist Vice Presidential Nominnee Bitter Opponent of State Constabulary 'Cossacks' — A Worker Since Childhood," ''The New Leader and American Appeal,'' vol. 1, no. 21 (April 21, 1928), pg. 3. His father, James D. Maurer, was a shoemaker who later served as a Police officer in Reading. Maurer first went to work at the age of 6 as a newsboy, becoming an assistant to a plumber at the age of 10, later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Warren Maurer
David Warren "Doc" Maurer (April 12, 1906 – June 11, 1981) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Louisville from 1937 to 1972. He was an acknowledged expert in American slang, especially the lingo of grifters, pickpockets, forgers, safecrackers and other underworld characters. In his academic career, he authored over 200 journal articles, professional papers, and books in the field of linguistics. Maurer's best-known book was ''The Big Con'' (1940), one of his few works written for general readers. It details early 20th century American practitioners of confidence games, both "big cons" (also known as " long cons") and "short cons". In this 1999 tribute to Maurer's book, Sante explained the difference between "short con" and "big con": "Essentially, a short con involves taking the pigeon for all the money he has on his person, while the big con sends him home to get more." It was based on knowledge Maurer obtained from interviewing hundreds of grifters and con art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingo Maurer
Ingo Maurer (12 May 1932 – 21 October 2019) was a German industrial designer who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations. He was nicknamed "poet of light". Life Maurer was born in Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany, and was the son of a fisherman and grew up there with four siblings. After an apprenticeship as typesetter, he studied graphic design in Munich. In 1960 Maurer left Germany for the U.S., where he worked in New York and San Francisco as a freelance graphic designer, including for IBM. In 1963, he moved back to Germany, founding Design M, a company developing and manufacturing lamps after his own designs. The company was later renamed to "Ingo Maurer GmbH". One of his first designs, the Bulb Lamp, Bulb (1969), was included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. In 1984 he presented the low-voltage wire system YaYaHo, consisting of two horizontally fixed metal ropes and a series of adjustable lighting elements with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Henry Maurer
Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four. Early life and education Maurer was born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer with a pronounced disdain for modern art. At age sixteen, Maurer had to quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and painter William Merritt Chase, Maurer left for Paris, where he stayed the next four years, joining a circle of American and French artists. Career Finding the instruction at the Academie Julian too limited, he spent most of his time copying in the Louvre. His self-portrait from that time expresses the 'yout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dóra Maurer
Dóra Maurer (born 1937) is a Hungarian visual artist whose work has spanned a 50-year career. She works in almost every medium, from film and photography, to painting, performance, and sculpture. Principally achieving recognition in the 1970s with avant-garde work, Maurer has developed her art career from works with contemporary and modern influences that have been shown worldwide. Her art is based on mathematical and complex system processes. Most of Maurer's work follows the theme of showing options to the viewer and what the viewer can do with those options. Many of her works break down simple actions so the viewer can really view the piece ''as movement, not a photograph of movement''. Dóra Maurer has in addition been a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Budapest and a curator. Life Maurer trained as a graphic artist in the 1950s. In the 1970s she started to work in photography and moving images, often collaborating with musicians. She also taught creative performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
Ion Gheorghe Maurer (; 23 September 1902 – 8 February 2000) was a Romanian communist politician and lawyer, and the 49th Prime Minister of Romania. He is the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of Romania (having served for 12 years and 343 days). Maurer is considered one of the most effective political leaders of communist Romania; a pragmatist, during his tenure, a more nationalist form of Romanian communism was consolidated, the standard of living increased significantly, political repression was relaxed, and externally, Romania distanced itself from the USSR in favor of rapprochement with China and other third world states, but also with states of the Western world. Early life, family, and education Listed in his birth certificate as Jean Georges Maurer, he was born in Bucharest to an Alsatian father of German descent and a French mother with petit-bourgeois background. He completed studies in law at the University of Bucharest in 1923, after which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Maurer (linguist)
Friedrich Maurer (5 January 1898 – 7 November 1984) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. Biography Maurer started to study classical philology and comparative linguistics at the University of Frankfurt in 1916. The same year, he was drafted, and in 1917, he was gravely injured while he was fighting at the Western Front of World War I, causing him to spend the following period recovering in a military hospital at Heidelberg. After the end of the war, Maurer commenced full-time studies of Germanistics at Heidelberg University (1918) and Giessen (1919), where he also took courses in classical philology and Indo-European studies. Both at Heidelberg and at Giessen, Maurer was a member of the local chapters of the Wingolf. In 1922, Maurer obtained a doctorate under the supervision of Otto Behaghel, who was to have a lasting influence on Maurer's work. Maurer then obtained a habilitation in German philology in 1925, becoming professor extraordinari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Maurer
Suburban Legends are an American ska punk band that formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1998 and later based themselves in nearby Santa Ana. After building a fanbase in the Orange County ska scene through their numerous regular performances at the Disneyland Resort, a series of lineup changes in 2005 introduced elements of funk and disco into the group's style. Since 2009, the band has gradually returned to its ska roots, and has also recorded cover versions of songs from Disney films and television series. History Formation and first EP (1998-2002) Influenced by artists such as Reel Big Fish, Michael Jackson and Oingo Boingo, the band was formed in 1998 as The No Tones, consisting of vocalist Tim Maurer, guitarist Brent Feige, bassist Justin Meacham, drummer Fred Johnson, trumpet players Vince Walker and Aaron Bertram, and trombonists Ryan Dallas Cook and Brian Robertson. A few months after forming, Feige was replaced by Josh Lander and Johnson by Jimmy Sulliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Maurer
Daphne Maurer is a Canadian developmental psychologist and professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University. She is known for her work on the development of visual perception in humans, starting in infancy. Early life and education Maurer received a B.A. with honours at Swarthmore College, an M.A. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in child development at the University of Minnesota. Research and career Maurer's Visual Development Lab at McMaster University focuses on understanding the development of visual perception and, to a lesser extent, on understanding synaesthesia. She has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals, including Nature, Science and Nature Neuroscience. "Her work has reshaped our understanding of the infant's sensory world and its development," according to the citation for the Hebb award. Maurer's research has mostly been basic science but it has had practical import: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Maurer
William M. Maurer (born March 31, 1968) is an American academic scholar of legal anthropology, legal and economic anthropology, economic anthropology. He currently serves as the dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He has conducted research on money, finance, economy, and law, including the Offshore financial centre, off-shore financial services industry in the Caribbean, alternative currency, alternative currencies, Islamic finance, mobile money, and traditional and emerging payment technologies, as well as cryptocurrency, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and related blockchain technologies. He has been called the “doyen” of the subfield of the anthropology of finance. Maurer is also the founding director of the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion, a research institute at UC Irvine funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a fellow of the Filene Resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
