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Angelika (given Name)
Angelika is a variant of Angelica, derived from Latin ''angelicus'' meaning "angelic", ultimately related to Greek ''ἄγγελος'' (''ángelos'') – "messenger". The poets Boiardo and Ariosto used this name in their 'Orlando' poems (1495 and 1532), where it belongs to Orlando's love interest. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century. Angelika is used in Polish, German, Slovak, Czech. and Hungarian. Notable people with the name include: *Angelika Amon, Ph.D. (1967–2020), Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, professor at MIT * Angelika Bachmann (born 1979), professional German tennis player *Angelika Bahmann (born 1952), East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s * Angelika Beer (born 1957), German politician * Angelika Brunkhorst (born 1955), German politician and member of the FDP * Angelika Buck (born 1950), German figure skater * Angelika Bunse-Gerstner, German mathematician * Angelika Campbell, Countess Cawdor (born 1944), Czech-Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelica (given Name)
Angelica is an English language surname and female given name and a variant of Angelika or vice versa. Meaning Angelica comes from the Latin ''angelicus'' ("angelic"), which in turn is descended from the Greek (''ángelos'') meaning "messenger of God" or "angel". Its male counterpart is Angelico. As a surname Angelica is also a surname with similar meaning and was historically found mostly in the UK, US, and Canada. It was reported that they had a relatively low life expectancy of under 50 years. Angelica Family History ''ancestry''.com Variations Angélica ( Portuguese), Angelika< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Kirchschlager
Angelika Kirchschlager (born 24 November 1965, Salzburg) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer. Career Kirchschlager began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied percussion and piano. In 1984, she went to the Vienna Music Academy, where she studied with Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry. Her first engagements were at the Wiener Kammeroper and the Graz Opera. Kirchschlager won 1st Prize together with Morenike Fadayomi in Wien's international Operncafé HArtauer-COmpetition and third prize in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition both in 1991. Her stage debut was in Graz in 1993 as Octavian (''Der Rosenkavalier''). In 1993, she became a member of the Vienna State Opera, and made her debut there as Cherubino (''The Marriage of Figaro''). Also in 1993, she was awarded the Mozartinterpretationspreis of the Mozart Society of Vienna. In 2002, Kirchschlager sang the role of Sophie in the world première of Nicholas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Speitel
Angelika Speitel (born 12 February 1952) is a former member of the West German terrorist Red Army Faction (RAF). Life Speitel worked as a clerk in the office of lawyer Klaus Croissant, alongside her husband Volker Speitel (who was also an RAF terrorist). During this time she helped form an information system of communication between many imprisoned terrorists across Germany. Volker went underground in 1974, and Angelika followed suit when she was suspected of involvement in the Jürgen Ponto murder in 1977. She became an active member of the second generation RAF, taking part in bank robberies and was suspected to have been directly involved with the Hanns-Martin Schleyer kidnap-murder. In a forest in Dortmund, on 24 September 1978, Speitel was involved in target practice with some other RAF members (Michael Knoll and Werner Lotze) when they were ambushed by police. A shoot-out followed where one policeman (Hans-Wilhelm Hans) was shot dead, and Speitel and Knoll were both sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Schafferer
Angelika Schafferer (born 1960) is an Austrian luger who competed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She won the bronze medal in the women's singles event at the 1978 FIL World Luge Championships in Imst, Austria. Schafferer also competed in three Winter Olympics in women's singles, earning her best finish of seventh at Lake Placid, New York, in 1980. She won the overall women's singles Luge World Cup The Luge World Cup season is a yearly competition first organized by the International Luge Federation since 1977–78. The World Cup is the highest level season-long competition in the sport. Men's singles ;Medals: ;World Cup Stages medals ( ... title three times (1978-9, 1979–80, 1980–1). References External linksHickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton. *[https://web.archive.org/web/2007092703 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Raubal
Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal (; 4 June 1908 – 18 September 1931) was an Austrian woman who was the half-niece of Adolf Hitler. Born in Linz, Austria-Hungary, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Leo Raubal Sr. and Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal. Raubal lived in close contact with her half-uncle Adolf from 1925 until her presumed suicide in 1931. Life Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal was born in Linz, Austria-Hungary on 4 June 1908, where she was raised with her brother Leo and sister Elfriede. Her father died at the age of 31 when Geli was two. She and Elfriede accompanied their mother when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925; Raubal was 17 at the time and spent the next six years in close contact with her half-uncle, who was 19 years her senior. Her mother was given a position as housekeeper at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden in 1928. Raubal moved into Hitler's Munich apartment in 1929 when she enrolled in medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University but she d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Overath
Angelika Overath (born 17 July 1957 in Karlsruhe) is a German author and journalist. Overath studied German literature, history, Italian Studies, and cultural studies at the University of Tübingen and wrote a PhD thesis, PhD-thesis in 1986 about the colour blue in modern literature. She regularly works as Writer in Residence for thGerman Sectionin thSchool of Modern Languages Newcastle University, and at Queen Mary, University of London, Queen Mary's College, London. She also teaches creative writing for the SwisHyperwerkand has founded thSchreibschule Sentwhich offers seminars in creative writing both in German and Rumantsch. Prizes *1996 Egon Erwin Kisch, Egon-Erwin-Kisch Prize for literary reportage *2002/2003 One-year scholarship of the :de:Deutscher Literaturfonds, Deutscher Literaturfonds, Darmstadt *2005 Thaddäus-Troll-Preis, Thaddäus-Troll Prize *2006 Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition *2007/2008 Writer in Residence at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Noack
Angelika Noack (born 20 October 1952) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was born in Angermünde Angermünde () is a town in the district of Uckermark in the state of Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. It is about northeast of Berlin, the capital of Germany. The population is about 14,000, but has been declining since its traditional i .... In 1976 she and her partner Sabine Dähne won the silver medal in the coxless pairs event. Four years later she was a crew member of the East German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed pairs competition. References External links * * * 1952 births Living people East German female rowers People from Angermünde Olympic rowers for East Germany Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in rowing Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Niebler
Angelika Niebler (née Rupertseder; born 18 February 1963) is a German lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. She is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party. Since 2015, she has been serving as her party's deputy chairwoman, under the leadership of successive chairmen Horst Seehofer and Markus Söder. Education * 1988: First state law examination * 1991: Second state law examination * 1992: Doctor of law, dissertation: ''Der Einsatz einer Expertensystemshell im Gesetzgebungsverfahren'' (English: "The use of expert systems in legislative procedure") Professional career Niebler practiced with Lovells from 1991 to 1997 and – as Salary Partner – with Beiten Burkhardt from 1997 to 2004. From 2004 to 2015, she worked at Bird & Bird’s Munich office. In September 2015, she joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Munich office as of counsel, where she supports the firm's Media, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Neuner
Angelika Neuner (born 23 December 1969) is an Austrian luger who competed from 1987 to 2002. Competing in four Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles event with a silver in 1992 Winter Olympics, 1992 and a bronze in 1998 Winter Olympics, 1998. Her younger sister, Doris Neuner, Doris, won the gold medal in the same event at Albertville in 1992. Neuner also won six medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including two gold (Mixed team: FIL World Luge Championships 1996, 1996, FIL World Luge Championships 1997, 1997), one silver (Mixed team: FIL World Luge Championships 1993, 1993), and three bronzes (Women's singles: 1997, Mixed team: FIL World Luge Championships 1995, 1995, FIL World Luge Championships 2000, 2000). She won five medals at the FIL European Luge Championships, earning them in FIL European Luge Championships 1992, 1992 (silver: Mixed team), FIL European Luge Championships 1996, 1996 (silver: Mixed team, bronze: Women's singles), FIL European Lug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Muharukua
Angelika Kazetjindire Muharukua (12 January 1958 Opuwo, Kunene Region – 1 October 2017) was a Namibian politician. An ethnic Herero from northwestern Namibia, Muharukua joined the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in 1979. She was a surprise choice by President Sam Nujoma for the 2nd National Assembly of Namibia in 1995 and remained in the National Assembly since. In May 2004, she was chosen to replace Marlene Mungunda as deputy minister of Women Affairs and Child Welfare, later renamed the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare. In September 2012 Angelika Muharukua contradicted international human rights laws such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples when she publicly announced that indigenous peoples such as the Himba and Zemba would not have the right to choose their own traditional leaders. On 27 March 2013, Angelika Muharukua publicly opposed protest by about a thousand indigenous Himba and Zemba who were manifes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Machinek
Angelika Machinek (17 November 1956 – 12 October 2006) was a German glider pilot. She was five times German gliding champion and broke nine FIA gliding world records, four in the D1M class, four in D15 and one in DO. She was also a dramaturge and published writer. Life Angelika Machinek was born on 17 November 1956 in the village of Eschershausen in the district of Holzminden. She studied sociology and German at University of Göttingen and received her doctorate in modern German literature from Goethe University Frankfurt in 1985. She subsequently worked as a dramaturge and author on topics including the Göttingen Seven.Probst, 2010, p.12 At the age of 14, she started gliding, gaining her pilot’s license in 1973, aerobatic license in 1979 and instructor’s license in 1980. She competed at national and international level, being named German Champion five times, in 1994 at Marpingen, 1998 at Jena, 2000 at Neresheim, 2004 at Klix and 2006 at Coburg. She won the Elly-B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Kratzer
Angelika Kratzer is a professor emerita of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Biography She was born in Germany, and received her PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1979, with a dissertation entitled ''Semantik der Rede''. She is an influential and widely cited semanticist whose expertise includes modals, conditionals, situation semantics, and a range of topics relating to the syntax–semantics interface. Among her most influential ideas are: a unified analysis of modality of different flavors (building on the work of Jaakko Hintikka); a modal analysis of conditionals; and the hypothesis ("the little v hypothesis") that the agent argument of a transitive verb is introduced syntactically whereas the theme argument is selected for lexically. She co-wrote with Irene Heim the semantics textbook ''Semantics in Generative Grammar'', and is co-editor, with Irene Heim, of the journal '' Natural Language Semantics.'' Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
