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Borchardt
Borchardt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Borchardt (1939-2007), American writer of historical fiction, fantasy and horror * Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (1817-1880), German mathematician * Curtis Borchardt (born 1980), American basketball player * Diane Borchardt, American teacher and criminal, focus of the 1995 film ''Seduced by Madness'' * Dietrich Borchardt (1916-1997), Australian librarian and bibliographer * Erich Borchardt (1913-1944), Oberfeldwebel in the Wehrmacht * Francis J. Borchardt, American politician * Georges Borchardt, American literary agent * Herbert Borchardt (1914-1944), Leutnant of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht * Hugo Borchardt (1844-1924), German firearms inventor and engineer * Jan-Christoph Borchardt (born 1989), German open source interaction designer * Jon Borchardt (born 1957), American football guard * Julian Borchardt (1868-1932), socialist activist * Karol Olgierd Borchardt (1905-1986), Polish writer and captain * Knut Bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borchardt C-93
The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. The design is based upon the Maxim gun's toggle lock model. Borchardt developed the high-velocity, bottlenecked 7.65×25mm Borchardt cartridge for the C93. His assistant at the time, Georg Luger, also claimed to have influenced its design. Machine tool manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Company of Berlin, Germany, produced the C93 in anticipation of military orders. With about 1,100 manufactured by Loewe and nearly 2,000 more produced by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken. The Borchardt C93 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic pistol. Design and history The pistol used a toggle lock system, which meant that when the gun fired, a two-piece arm rose and flexed as the gun recoiled, thus allowing the breech to unlock and release the empty cartridge case. DWM employed Georg Luger to promote the Borchardt pistol in military and commercial channels. The pistol was tested by the U.S. Navy as ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Borchardt
Georges Borchardt is a literary agent in America; he has represented such figures as General Charles de Gaulle to Jane Fonda. Early life Born in Berlin in 1928, Borchardt was in France with his family when war broke out in 1939; his father died when Borchardt was a child of eleven. He spent his teenage years hiding in plain sight, as an undocumented student in Aix-en-Provence, relying on strangers to protect him after his mother and most of his family perished in concentration camps. Borchardt emigrated to the US in 1947, settling in New York. Career Borchardt's first job in New York was as an assistant in a literary agency specializing in foreign writers. In 1959, it was Borchardt who secured an American publisher for Elie Wiesel's ''Night'', following rejection after rejection by publishers who labeled the memoir of Wiesel's internment in concentration camps too morbid for American readers. ''Night'' has sold more than six million copies in the United States alone. Borcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Borchardt
Mark Borchardt (born August 20, 1966) is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film ''American Movie'', which documented three years he spent writing, shooting and editing his horror short, ''Coven'' (1997). Early life Borchardt was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His mother, Monica, is Swedish. He started making films at the age of fourteen with a super-8 camera that was given to him by a neighbor. After serving three years in the military, he continued his cinematic endeavors at the local university. In the mid-nineties, he wrote and produced Halloween radio dramas which were broadcast annually and won a fellowship from the Milwaukee Art Futures Board. Career Filmmakers Chris Smith and Sarah Price began filming Borchardt while he was attempting to put together funding for his unfinished feature ''Northwestern''. After the project collapsed, Borchardt decided instead to finish ''Coven'', which he had started years earlier. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Borchardt
Roland Siegfried Borchardt (known as SS-Siggi; 14 November 1953 – 3 October 2021) was a German neo-Nazi of the Free fellowship and a former functionary of the Freedom German Workers' Party, which was banned in 1995. In the 2014 local elections, he won a seat on the city council of the city of Dortmund, as the party's leading candidate, but resigned after two months. Biography Borchardt was a trained industrial salesman and was initially an apolitical youth who spent his spare time as a spectator in football stadiums. Then there followed a period of unemployment and involvement in the hooligan scene, where he made contact with Michael Bold. In 1982, Borchardt founded the Dortmund Football Fan Club Borussenfront, which drifted gradually into the right-wing extremist scene. The preferred field of action of Borchardt's Borussia Dortmund front was north around the Borsigplatz, where there were riots regularly. Foreigners were chased down through the neighborhood. From this time hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karol Olgierd Borchardt
Karol Olgierd Borchardt ( 25 March 1905 – 20 May 1986 ) was a Polish writer and captain of the Polish Merchant Marine. Biography Born to Polish parents in Moscow, Karol Borchardt spent the vast majority of his life in Gdynia and died there in 1986. Borchardt gained a place in history of the Polish Merchant Marine, as an officer on Polish transatlantic liners and training sail ships. During World War II he served on two Polish liners converted into troop transports (the m/v PIłSUDSKI and the m/v CHROBRY), and survived the loss of both. After the war he trained two generations of Polish officers. While demanding, he had a reputation as a warm-hearted and understanding teacher, and an excellent lecturer. He also became famous as the writer and chronicler of i/a Polish passenger liners. Borchardt was a very tall and strong man, and continued to practice sports into his elder years. Works Borchardt's books are tributes to his captains – Mamert Stankiewicz and Eustazy Borkow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietrich Borchardt
Dietrich Hans Borchardt (14 April 1916 – 6 June 1997) was an Australian librarian and bibliographer. Career Born in Hanover, Germany, to Jewish parents, Borchardt escaped Nazism via Italy and emigrated to New Zealand. There he studied at Victoria University, Wellington, and graduated with a BA in 1944 and an MA in 1947. He gained a library diploma from the New Zealand Library School.Geza A. Kosa, ''Biographical Dictionary of Australian Librarians''. Melbourne: Burwood State College, 1979. 2nd ed. p. 18. He was Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Otago Library in 1949 to 1950. He was appointed as deputy librarian (1950–52) and then chief librarian (1953–1965) at the University of Tasmania. He also tutored in modern languages at that university. In 1965 Borchardt was appointed foundation librarian at La Trobe University where he worked until he retired in 1981. The library was named the Borchardt Library after him on his retirement. Writing Borchar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seduced By Madness
''Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story'' is a 1996 American television film directed by John Patterson and starring Ann-Margret, Peter Coyote, Leslie Hope, Christian Campbell, Hedy Burress, Tobey Maguire, and Freddy Rodríguez. Based roughly on real-life events, the film recounts the story of Wisconsin teacher Diane Borchardt, who hired teen students first to spy on her cheating husband and later to kill him. The film begins with the murder then traces in flashback the events leading up to it, followed by the subsequent police investigation leading to arrests and eventual murder convictions of both Borchardt and the teens. Plot Three teenage boys pull up to the house of Ruben Borchardt (Peter Coyote) early on Easter Sunday in 1994. They break in armed with a shotgun, intending to kill Ruben on the promise of payment. Gathering at the top of the basement steps where Ruben sleeps, the boys draw their shotgun and shoot him as he makes his way up the stairs. Having carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Borchardt
Knut Borchardt (2 June 1929 – 5 February 2023) was a German researcher, historian and former professor for history and economics at both the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Mannheim from 1962 to 1991. Moreover, he served as rector at the University of Mannheim between 1967 and 1969. Education Borchardt was born in Berlin, Germany. He studied from 1949 to 1954 economics, business administration, history and German studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where he obtained his ''Diplom'' (former German master's equivalent) in 1954. Afterwards, he obtained his doctorate in economics and his habilitation in 1961 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Academics Borchardt worked from 1961 to 1962 as assistant professor at the University of Tübingen. After a proposal in 1962, he became professor for economics and history at the University of Mannheim. In 1967, Gaugler became rector (president) of the university and remained in this p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878
The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 is a single-shot hammerless falling-block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. It closely resembles older Sharps Rifles but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle. This hammerless dropping-block breech-loader was based on a patent granted to Hugo Borchardt in 1877. It was the last of the Sharps single-shot rifles, and the Borchardt did not sell very well. According to company records 22,500 rifles were made in all models from 1877 until the Sharps Rifle Co. closed down in 1881. Although it was designed for the huge black powder "buffalo" cartridges of the day, it came too late, at the very end of the great bison slaughter. Several variants were produced: Carbine, Military, Short Range, Mid Range, Long Range, Hunter, Business, Sporting, and Express. The Military Sharps-Borchardt was made only in .45-70 with 32" rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan-Christoph Borchardt
Jan-Christoph Borchardt (born 3 May 1989 in Minden, Germany) is a German Open-source model, open source interaction designer. He is primarily known for his work on Open Source Design, Terms of Service; Didn't Read, ownCloud, and now Nextcloud. Open Source Design In his bachelor thesis "Usability in Free Software" he argues that "For a software to truly be free, people need to be able to easily use it without help". His thesis has the subtitle "Freedom 4: The freedom to use the program effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily", a reference to the four freedoms of free software. He is a cofounder of Open Source Design, "a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software". To that effect he has been responsible for the introduction of the “Open Source Design room” in 2015 at FOSDEM as well as FOSSASIA in 2016. In 2013 he was a lecturer for Design in Open Source Software at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Borchardt
Alice Borchardt ( Alice Allen O'Brien; October 6, 1939 – July 24, 2007) was an American writer of historical fiction, fantasy, horror. She shared a childhood of storytelling in New Orleans with her sister, the novelist Anne Rice, who was two years younger. A nurse by profession, as a writer she nurtured a profound interest in little-known periods of history. Biography Alice Allen O'Brien was born in New Orleans on October 6, 1939. She was one of four sisters. Their father Howard, a postal worker, helped her apply for her first library card at age 7."Obituaries; Alice Borchardt, 67; author wrote historical romance novels in second career after nursing". Mary Rourke. ''Los Angeles Times''. August 3, 2007. California; Metro; Metro Desk; Part B; Pg. 8. "It was the best gift I ever received," Borchardt said in a 1999 interview with the ''Austin American-Statesman''. Her mother, Katherine, was a feminist who taught Alice to pursue her career goals. The O'Brien family moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Borchardt
Curtis Alan Borchardt (born September 13, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player. He is a 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) tall center. Amateur career Borchardt played high school basketball in Sammamish, Washington (then Redmond), for Eastlake High School. He then attended Stanford University, where he was an honorable mention All-American as a junior in 2002. Pro career Borchardt was selected 18th overall in the first round by the Orlando Magic in the 2002 NBA Draft but was traded to the Utah Jazz. Injury-prone in college, this continued as he sat out his rookie season. He made his Jazz debut in the 2003–04 campaign. He was dealt to the Boston Celtics as part of the largest trade in NBA history – a 13-player, 5-team deal on August 2, 2005. He was not included on Boston's roster in 2005–06 but played with them in the preseason, scoring seven points in seven games. Borchardt's final NBA game was on April 12th, 2005 in a 85 - 94 loss to the Los Angeles Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
