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Brauer
Brauer or Bräuer is a surname of German origin, meaning "brewer". Notable people with the name include:- * Alfred Brauer (1894–1985), German-American mathematician, brother of Richard * Andreas Brauer (born 1973), German film producer * Arik Brauer (1929–2021), Austrian painter, poet, and actor, father of Timna Brauer * August Brauer (1863-1917), German zoologist * Cole Brauer (born 1994), American sailor * Erich Brauer (1895–1942), German illustrator, ethnographer, and ethnologist * Friedrich Moritz Brauer (1832–1904), Austrian entomologist and museum director * Georg Brauer (1908–2001), German chemist * Helga Brauer (1936-1991) was a of Schlager singer of the GDR. * Ingrid Arndt-Brauer (born 1961), German politician; member of the Bundestag * Jono Brauer (born 1981), Australian Olympic skier * Max Brauer (1887–1973), German politician; First Mayor of Hamburg * Michael Brauer (contemporary), American audio engineer * Rich Brauer (born 1954), American politician from Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. Education and career Alfred Brauer was Richard's brother and seven years older. They were born to a Jewish family. Both were interested in science and mathematics, but Alfred was injured in combat in World War I. As a boy, Richard dreamt of becoming an inventor, and in February 1919 enrolled in Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg. He soon transferred to University of Berlin. Except for the summer of 1920 when he studied at University of Freiburg, he studied in Berlin, being awarded his PhD on 16 March 1926. Issai Schur conducted a seminar and posed a problem in 1921 that Alfred and Richard worked on together, and published a result. The problem also was solved by Heinz Hopf at the same time. Richard wrote his thesis unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arik Brauer
Arik Brauer (; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher. Brauer, from a family of Jewish emigrants, grew up in Vienna under the Nazi regime. After World War II, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from age 16, and from 1947 also singing. He travelled extensively, and married in Israel in 1957, settling in Paris where he formed a singing duo with his wife. From 1963, they lived in Ein Hod, Israel, and in Vienna. Brauer was a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Called an ''Universalkünstler'' (all-round artist) in Austria, he appeared as a singer-songwriter at the beginning of Austropop in the 1970s, taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1985, and designed buildings in Austria and Israel in the 1990s. His art was exhibited at international galleries and museums, and especially at major museums in Vienna, a graphic retrospecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Brauer
Erich Brauer (28 June 1895, in Berlin – 9 May 1942, in Petah Tikvah) was a German Jewish illustrator, ethnographer, and ethnologist. As an artist he chose to be known as Erich Chiram Brauer. He often signed his art work "Chiram". Early life He was born in Berlin to Fanny (Krebs) and Adolf Brauer, when it was part of the German Empire under Prussian leadership. As a young man, his first interest was in graphics, and later he added studies in ethnology. Even after he had changed his vocation, he would still decorate his letters and writings with graphic artwork and would later make a livelihood from doing graphic artwork for the Jewish National Fund. In Germany, Brauer belonged to '' Jung Juda'' (Young Judea), a Jewish youth movement consisting of German Jewish youth primarily drawn from assimilated Jewish families who had taken an interest in Zionism. One of the fellow members of this group whom he had befriended was Gershom Scholem. During the years of the First World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Brauer
Max Julius Friedrich Brauer (3 September 1887 – 2 February 1973) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the first elected First Mayor of Hamburg after World War II. Life In 1923, Brauer was mayor of the independent city of Altona, Prussia, incorporated into Hamburg after 1937. Brauer fled the Nazi regime to the United States in 1933 with a passport of a friend. In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked. In July 1946 he came back to Hamburg working for the American Federation of Labor. In October 1946 after the election of the Hamburg Parliament, Brauer was elected as the First Mayor of Hamburg. After Brauer complained in a letter to the British forces about the supply shortfall in Hamburg, the British Governor Vaughan Berry stopped the heating in the officers' mess until there were a solution. On 16 October 1949, the took place where Brauer's party, the SPD, received 65 of the 120 seats. His new Hamburg government ("") started February 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timna Brauer
Timna Brauer (; born 1 May 1961) is an Austrian-Israeli singer-songwriter who represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986. Career She represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, singing " Die Zeit ist einsam" (). Brauer participated in the third season of the Austrian television dance competition '' Dancing Stars'' in 2007, coming in tenth place. Personal life Born in Vienna, Brauer is the daughter of Arik Brauer Arik Brauer (; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher. Brauer, from a family of Jewish emigrants, grew up in Vienna under the N ... and his Israeli-born wife Naomi Dahabani. She collaborates with the Israeli pianist Elias Meiri. They are the parents of daughter Jasmin and son Jonathan. Selected discography * 1987: Orient (Timna Brauer & Elias Meiri Ensemble) * 1992: Mozart "Anders" (Timna Brauer & Elias Meiri Ensembl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfried Brauer
Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014) was a German computer scientist and Emeritus, professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich. Life and work Brauer studied Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He received a PhD in Mathematics 1966 from the University of Bonn for a dissertation on the theory of profinite groups. Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute were two of the 19 founding members of the German Informatics Society. From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of the German Informatics Society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing. He received several awards and honours: * Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966) * IFIP Silver Core (1986) * honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996) * Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000) * IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002) * honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004) * One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Moritz Brauer
Friedrich Moritz Brauer (12 May 1832, Vienna – 29 December 1904) was an Austrian entomologist who was Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, at the time of his death. He wrote many papers on Diptera and Neuroptera. From an assistant in the Entomological Museum at the University of Vienna, Brauer became Custodian of the collections in 1873 and in the following year was appointed Professor of zoology in the university. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1900. Brauer's first work on the order Neuroptera, and his first entomological publication, in 1850, was a revision of the genus ''Chrysopa''. This was followed during the next few years by numerous papers on the biology of the order which established his reputation as one of the foremost European authorities on the Neuroptera. In 1858 he began studies of the life history of the Dipterous family Oestridae; the result was the publication in 1863 of “Monographie der Oestrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga Brauer
Helga Brauer (2 May 1936 – 15 June 1991) was a Schlager singer of the GDR. Life Brauer was born on 2 May 1936 in Leipzig. After training as a dental technician, Helga Brauer was helped by chance to begin her singing career in the summer of 1954: During a vacation in Sellin on the island of Rügen, she took part in a singing competition with the orchestra Helmut Opel. She won first prize - and Opel immediately offered the 18-year-old a contract as an accompanist for the orchestra. On 11 November 1954, Helga Brauer gave her first public performance in Leipzig's Messehalle 2, followed by further appearances and guest performances with the Helmut Opel Orchestra, including in Switzerland. In March 1956, she passed a "microphone audition" with GDR Radio and shortly afterwards appeared for the first time with the Leipzig Radio Dance Orchestra, then under the direction of Kurt Henkels. The first radio recordings followed in the same year, and the record company Amiga also offered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Brauer
Georg Karl Brauer (11 April 1908 in Bochum – 26 February 2001 in Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...) was a German chemist. Life Brauer was the son of the chemist Eberhard Brauer and Elisabeth Brauer, a daughter of Wilhelm Ostwald. From 1926 to 1932, Brauer studied in Leipzig and Freiburg. He received his doctorate under supervision of Eduard Zintl in Freiburg in 1933. In 1941, he received is habilitation at the TH Darmstadt. In 1946, he became an extraordinary professor in Freiburg. From 1959 to 1976, he was a full professor. Starting in 1976, he was a emeritus professor. Research Brauer's research included the chemistry and crystal chemistry of intermetallic compounds and alloys. He investigated binary systems of transition metals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Brauer
Cole Brauer (born May 24, 1994) is an American sailor. She was the first woman from the United States to race single-handed around the world nonstop. Early life Brauer grew up on Long Island, New York, and attended East Hampton High School, graduating in 2012. She attended the University of Hawaiʻi, where she studied nutritional science and competed for the college's sailing team, later becoming the team's captain. Although she initially planned to become a doctor, she decided to become a sailor after learning the sport in college. Sailing After graduating, Brauer moved to Boothbay, Maine, where she currently lives. There, she began teaching at Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, and working as a sailor to deliver boats on the Atlantic Coast. In 2018, Brauer earned her 100Ton Captain's License. In June 2023, Brauer and her co-skipper, Cat Chimney, won both legs of the 668-nautical mile Bermuda One-Two race from Rhode Island to Bermuda and back, the first women to do so since t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Brauer
Rich Brauer is a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 87th district since 2003. A native of Petersburg, IL, Brauer upset incumbent Gwen Klingler in the 2002 Republican primary, after re-districting resulted in rural areas outside of Springfield being in his district. The Democrats had not even run a candidate in the primary, for this office, expecting Klingler to win, but placed former Republican elected official Carl Oblinger, son of former state legislator Josephine Oblinger, on the ballot as their nominee for the general election. Brauer prevailed, with over 60% of the vote, and has not had a Democratic opponent since. During the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, Brauer ran to be a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention from Illinois's 18th congressional district for the presidential campaign of former Governor Mitt Romney. On February 18, 2015, just three months after winning re-election, Brauer submitted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiny Brauer
Tiny Brauer (born Harold J. Brauer; June 26, 1909 – March 19, 1990) was an American film actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Brauer appeared in over 20 films between 1946 in film, 1946 and 1966 in film, 1966. Career Brauer is best known for his role as the "heavy" in several Three Stooges short subjects, particularly in ''Three Loan Wolves'', ''Fright Night (1947 film), Fright Night'', and ''Sing a Song of Six Pants''. Though he made less than a dozen appearances with the slapstick comedy trio, he was one of only two supporting actors who appears on film with all four configurations of the Stooges (i.e. third Stooge played by Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Curly Joe DeRita). Emil Sitka was the other supporting actor to achieve this goal. Over the course of his 20-year career, Brauer was billed under several different names. In addition to his work with the Stooges, Brauer also worked with Jimmy Durante and Gus Schilling, Schilling and Dick Lane (TV announcer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
