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Wertheimer
Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname: People with this surname include: *Akiba Israel Wertheimer (1778-1835), first Chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein * Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, French Jewish billionaire owners of Chanel **Wertheimer et Frère, partnership of the two brothers * Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer (1862-1937), known as Constantin Brunner, German-Jewish philosopher * Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894-1957), Austrian and German diplomat, journalist, jurist and political scientist * Esther Wertheimer (born 1926), Polish architect * (born 1947), French singer * Fred Wertheimer (born 1939), American political activist * Gustav Wertheimer (1847-1904), Austrian artist * Haim Ernst Wertheimer (1893-1978), German-born Israeli biochemist * Hedy Wertheimer (1907–1976), Austrian-American Olympic swimmer * Jack Wertheimer, professor of American Jewish history * Jacques Wertheimer (1911-1996), father of Pierre * John Wertheimer (1799–1883), English printer * Lind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was an Austro-Hungarian psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book, ''Productive Thinking'', and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer became interested in psychology and studied under Carl Stumpf at the University of Berlin.Hothersall, D. (2003) Wertheimer then went on to obtain his PhD in 1904 under Oswald Külpe, at the University of Würzburg and then began his intellectual career teaching at the Institute for Social Research at Frankfurt University. For a short time, he left Frankfurt to work at the Berlin Psychological Institute, but returned in 1929 as a full professor. Wertheimer eventually joined the faculty of The New School in New York, a position he held until his death. Early life Max Wertheimer was born on April 15, 1880, in Prague, then part of the Bohemian Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stef Wertheimer
Stef Wertheimer ( he, זאב סטף ורטהיימר, born 16 July 1926) is an Israeli billionaire industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician. He was a Member of the Knesset, and is known for founding industrial parks in Israel and neighboring countries. The Wertheimers are Israel's richest family as of 2013. Biography Stef (Ze'ev) Wertheimer was born in Kippenheim, Germany to a Jewish family. His family fled to Mandatory Palestine in 1937 to escape Nazism. He studied in the Tel-Nordau School in Tel Aviv but dropped out of school at age 16 and started working in a camera repair store. At the same time, he began studying optics with Professor Emanuel Goldberg, a researcher and inventor who contributed significantly to different aspects of imaging technology in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1943, during World War II, Wertheimer joined the British Royal Air Force. Wertheimer served as an optical equipment technician. He was sent to Bahrain where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Wertheimer
Samson Wertheimer (17 January 1658 – 6 August 1724) was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and ''Shtadlan'' to Austrian Emperor Leopold I. Family Wertheimer was born in Worms, the son of Joseph Josel Wertheimer (1626 – 2 May 1713), and received his education at the '' yeshivas'' of Worms and Frankfurt am Main. Supplied the Imperial Army He arrived in Vienna on 2 December 1684 and associated himself with the banker Samuel Oppenheimer, sharing the latter's privilege of residence. During the absence of Oppenheimer, Wertheimer represented him in transactions with the Austrian government. Wertheimer soon gained the confidence of Emperor Leopold I, who presented a portrait of himself to Wertheimer and his son Wolf, and on 15 December 1701 followed this gift with another of 1,000 ducats for the financier's success in obtaining for the daughter of the King of Poland a dowry of 1,000,000 florins from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Wertheimer
Fredric Michael "Fred" Wertheimer (born January 9, 1939) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and activist notable for his work on campaign finance reform and other government integrity, transparency, and accountability issues. Early career He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. From 1967 to 1970 Wertheimer was Legislative Counsel to Representative Silvio Conte (R-MA) and Minority Counsel to the House Small Business Committee. In May 1971, he started working for Common Cause, a nonpartisan citizens' lobby where he was assigned to the issues of campaign finance reform and ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1976, Wertheimer was legal counsel for Common Cause during the ''Buckley v. Valeo'' case. He worked there until 1995, serving as Legislative Director, Vice President for Program Operations and as President from 1981 to 1995. In 1982, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board. Through Common Cause, Wertheimer sought le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Wertheimer
Pierre Wertheimer (8 January 1888 – 24 April 1965) was a French businessman, who co-founded Chanel with Coco Chanel. Family business Wertheimer was born to a Jewish family,World's Richest Jews ''Jerusalem Post'' the son of Ernest who had emigrated from to Paris in 1870. In Paris the elder Wertheimer purchased an interest in the theatrical make-up company Bourjois. Bourjois, an innovator in these products for the stage, developed the first dry rouge, an improvement over the grease laden face paint customarily used. By 1920, Bourjois had become the largest and most successful cosmetic and fragrance company in France. Not re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Wertheimer
Linda Wertheimer (; born March 19, 1943) is an American radio journalist for NPR. She's considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers" along with Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg and the late Cokie Roberts. Background and education Wertheimer was born Linda Cozby on March 19, 1943 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the daughter of June and Miller Cozby, a grocery store operator and owner. She graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1965. Career After graduation, Wertheimer worked for the BBC and WCBS. She was reportedly told by an executive at NBC that she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter. Wertheimer began her career with NPR as the first director of news magazine ''All Things Considered'', hosted by Robert Conley, from its debut on 3 May 1971. She was appointed political correspondent by 1974, and in 1976 became the first woman to anchor NPR's coverage of a presidential nomination convention and of an election night. She continued in her role as a poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiba Israel Wertheimer
Akiba Israel Wertheimer (1778–1835) was the first Chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein. Life Akiba (or Ekiva or Akiva) Wertheimer was born in Wrocław, Prussia in about 1778. His father was Torah scholar Avigdor Wertheimer (died 1826). Akiba went to the Talmudic academy of Akiba Eger in Mirosławiec, which was one of the most important in the region. He came with his parents to Altona, now a suburb of Hamburg but which was then an independent city under the administration of the Danish monarchy, where in 1805 he was a Melamed (teacher of Torah and Talmud school). In 1806 he was appointed Rabbi in Moisling and Lübeck. Due to the expulsion of the Jews in Lübeck and poverty in the Moisling Jewish community, in 1816 he moved to Altona where he remained until his death. In 1819 he opposed the Hamburg-based reformers of Judaism and banned the use of the Jewish prayer book in the German language. In 1823 he was appointed the first Chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Wertheimer
Gérard Paul Philippe Wertheimer (born 17 April 1951) is a French billionaire businessman based in New York City and Geneva, who owns Chanel in partnership with his brother, Alain. As of October 2022, Wertheimer's net worth was estimated at US$40 billion by ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', making him the 27th richest person in the world. Biography Wertheimer was born to a Jewish family, the son of Jacques Wertheimer and Eliane Fischer. His grandfather, Pierre, co-founded Chanel with Coco Chanel. The company is run by Alain Wertheimer who has presided over the acquisition of several non-Chanel brands, including Eres Lingerie, Tanner Krolle saddles and leather goods, and Holland & Holland, a British gunsmith. Based in France, the Wertheimer brothers own French vineyards including Château Rauzan-Ségla in Margaux and Château Canon in Saint-Emilion, both of which have won rave reviews from oenophiles. Both brothers are enthusiastic equestrians who also inherited and operate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Wertheimer
Esther Wertheimer (née Estera Sheps) (1926 – August 18, 2016) was a Canadian sculptor and educator. She is known for her semi-abstract figurative bronze sculptures and portrait busts in terra cotta. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Wertheimer lived semi-annually at the artist's colony and sculpture foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy. Career She was born in Łódź, Poland, and emigrated with her parents to Canada as a baby. She grew up in Montreal, and studied dance at age eight and later, ballet. She also began to paint as a child and in her youth took art lessons from Alexander Bercovitch (1940-1950), and also with Herman Heimlich and Fritz Brandtner. During the Depression she worked to help support her family, while young.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Later, encouraged by her former high school art teacher, Anne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Wertheimer
Martha Wertheimer (22 October 1890 – June 1942) was a German journalist, writer and rescuer who came from a Jewish family. Before World War II, she oversaw the operation of the Kindertransport from south and southwest Germany. She died in the Holocaust. Life and work Martha Wertheimer was born into a middle-class family in Frankfurt, Germany. With her sister Lydia, they were the daughters of Juda Julius Wertheimer and Johanna, née Tannenbaum. In 1911 Martha was enrolled at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences (in 1914 it became Frankfurt University). She completed her studies in history, philosophy and English philology. In 1919, she became only the fourth woman to receive a doctorate from the university with her dissertation, ''The theoretical content of the correspondence between Frederick the Great and Voltaire''. From 1919, she worked as an editor for the liberal newspaper, ''Offenbacher Zeitung''; she was politically committed to women's suffrage and occasional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wertheimer (psychologist)
Michael Matthew Wertheimer (March 20, 1927 – December 23, 2022) was a German-born American psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focused on cognition, psycholinguistics, and the history of psychology, among other areas. Early life and education Wertheimer was born on March 20, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. He emigrated to the United States with his family in September 1933 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in April 1939. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1947 with a BA in psychology with high honors. He received his MA from Johns Hopkins University in psychology in 1949 and his PhD in experimental psychology from Harvard University in 1952. Career Wertheimer first became a professor of psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1955, and he retained this title until his retirement in 1993. He was a member of the Condon Committee. He served as president of the Society for the Teaching of Psych ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Wertheimer
Gustav Wertheimer (1847–1902) was an Austrian painter, active mainly in Paris. He produced history paintings, portraits, and genre scenes. Life Gustav Wertheimer was born in Vienna on 28 January 1847. He trained under Carl Mayer and Joseph von Führich at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1863 to 1867, and under Wilhelm von Dietz at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He exhibited the large historical painting ''Nero während des Brandes in Rom'' ('Nero during the Fire in Rome') at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair.Schneider (2021)"Wertheimer, Gustav" ''AKL''. De Gruyter. Retrieved 27 April 2022. In 1882 he moved to Paris, where he enjoyed his greatest success. ''Le repas des lions chez Pezon'' ('Lions Eating at Pezon'), exhibited in the Salon of 1886, received particular attention.Oliver, ed. (2011)"Wertheimer, Gustav" ''Benezit''. Oxford UP. Retrieved 27 April 2022. According to the ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'', "His compositions take on a fantastic character, seeming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
