|
Dominik
Dominic, Dominik or Dominick is a male given name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". The most prominent Roman Catholic with the name, Saint Dominic, founded the Order of Preachers, also known as Dominican friars. Saint Dominic himself was named after Saint Dominic of Silos. Variations include Dominicus (Latin rendition), Domenic, Domenico (Italian), Domanic, Dominiq, Domonic, Domènec (Catalan), Domingo (Spanish), Dominykas (Lithuanian), Domingos (Portuguese), Dominggus and Damhnaic (Irish). Feminine forms include Dominica, Dominika, Domenica, Dominga, Domingas, as well as the unisex Dominique, of French origin. Notable people named Dominic, Dominik or Dominick include: People Saints * Saint Dominic of Silos (1000–1073), Spanish monk * Saint Dominic de la Calzada (1019–1109), Spanish saint *Saint Dominic (1170–122 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominika
Dominika is the female version of Dominic. Notable people with the name include: * Dominika Červenková (born 1988), Czech rhythmic gymnast * Dominika Chorosińska (born 1978), Polish actress * Dominika Cibulková (born 1989), Slovak tennis player * Dominika Furmanová (born 1975), Czech journalist and writer * Dominika Hašková (born 1995), Czech singer, lead singer of group We Are Domi, daughter of Dominik Hašek * Dominika Kaňáková (born 1991), Czech tennis player * Dominika Kavaschová (born 1989), Slovak actress * Dominika Kopińska (born 1999), Polish footballer * Dominika Krois (born 1972), Polish civil servant and diplomat * Dominika Kulczyk (born 1977), Polish businesswoman * Dominika Mirgová (born 1991), Slovak singer and actress * Dominika Paleta (born 1972), Polish-born Mexican actress * Dominika Peczynski (born 1971), Swedish singer, model and television host * Dominika Piątkowska (born 1986), Polish skater * Dominika van Santen (born 1983), Venezuelan model ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic, (; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (), was a Castilians, Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his order are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary. Life Birth and early life Dominic was born in Caleruega, halfway between Osma and Aranda de Duero in Old Castile, Spain. He was named after Dominic of Silos, Saint Dominic of Silos. The Benedictine abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos lies a few miles north of Caleruega. In the earliest narrative source, by Jordan of Saxony, Dominic's parents are not named. The story is told that before his birth his barren mother made a pilgrimage to the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, Abbey at Silos, and dreamt that a dog leapt from her womb carrying a flaming torch in its mouth, and seemed to set the earth on fire. This story is likely to have emerged when his order became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique (name)
Dominique is a unisex French name of Latin origin that means "of the Lord". Related names include Domaneke, Domanique, Domenica, Domeniga, Domenique, Domenico, Domonique, Dominike, Domineke, Dominga, Domingo, Domingos, Dominguinhos, Domini, Dominic, Dominica, Dominika, Dominyka, Domino, Dominic, Domitia, and Domenika. Nicknames or shortened forms include Dom, Meeka, Mika, Nico, and Nikki. People First name *Dominique Baudis (1947–2014), French politician *Dominique Blanchar (1927–2018), French actress *Dominique Braye (born 1947), French politician * Dominique Clifford (born 2002), American basketball player *Dominique Crenn (born 1965), French chef *Dominique Dafney (born 1997), American football player *Dominique Dawes (born 1976), American gymnast * Dominique de Ménil (1908–1997), American art collector *Dominique de Villepin (born 1953), French politician and Prime Minister of France *Dominique Dorsey (born 1983), Canadian football player *Dominique Dunne (1959 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Dominik Bossi
Johann Dominik Bossi (1767–1853), also known as ''Domenico Bossi'', was a painter. Bossi, a student of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, was born in Trieste and worked primarily as a miniaturist in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Russia before he settled down in Munich, where he lived at ''Theresien Straße 19'' in Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ... around 1850. In Munich he was appointed a court painter. Bossi was the founder of a collection, which included a significant group of Tiepolo drawings amongst others. The collection passed to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (1825–1881), and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826–1881). The ''Bossi-Beyerlen collection'' was sold at auction in Stuttgart and dispersed in March 1882. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Of Prussia
Dominic of Prussia (; ; 1382–1461) was a Carthusian monk and ascetical writer. He is credited with a popular early form of the Rosary which focused on meditation. Life Born in Danzig (contemporarily Gdańsk), Prussia. According to the account he wrote of himself, his first teacher was the parish priest, a pious Dominican; later he was a student at the University of Krakow where he was noted for his intelligence. Falling into bad habits he led a vagabond life until twenty-five years of age, when he reformed through the influence of Adolf of Essen, prior of the Carthusian monastery of St. Alban, near Trier. Dominic became a Carthusian, entering the order in 1409. His monastic life was one of severe penance and religious fervour and many visions are ascribed to him. Among the positions he filled were those of master of novices at Mainz and vicar of the monastery of St. Alban, where he died. As an author, Dominic composed seventeen treatises, which have been preserved. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Preachers
The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters ''OP'' after their names, standing for , meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries). More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it at the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The order is famed for its intellectual tradition and for having produced many leading theologia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Barton
Dominic Barton (born 1962), known as Bao Damin ( zh, 鲍达民) in China, is a Ugandan-born Canadian business executive, author, and diplomat. He is the current chairman of the private investment firm LeapFrog Investments and was the chancellor of the University of Waterloo from 2018 to 2024. He served as the List of ambassadors of Canada to China, Canadian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 2019 to 2021. Prior to this, Barton was the Global managing director, Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm, from 2009 to 2018 and has previously served as Chairman of Teck Resources and as Non-Executive Director at the Singtel Group in Singapore and Investor AB in Sweden. In April 2022 Barton was appointed as Chairman of the Management Board of LeapFrog Investments, a private investment firm that invests in high-growth, emerging markets, with a focus on social and environmental impact. Barton became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rio Tin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Di Mare
Dominic L. Di Mare (born 1932) is an American artist and craftsperson, known for his weaving, abstract mixed-media sculpture, watercolor paintings, cast paper art, and fiber art. His work touches on themes of personal spirituality. He is based in Tiburon, California. Biography Dominic Di Mare was born in 1932 in San Francisco, California. He grew up in Monterey, California where his Sicilian-born father owned a fishing boat. He was primarily a self taught artist, however he had taken classes at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and summer classes at California College of the Arts (formally known as California College of Arts and Crafts). He learned about weaving while at SFSU, and he taught himself how to weave by studying photos of Kay Sekimachi woven wall hanging in '' Craft Horizons'' magazine. He had his first art exhibition in the early 1960s in San Francisco. In the mid-1960s, he was a junior high school art teacher while creating his work. He taught in the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Toubeix
Dominique Maurice Toubeix (24 September 1924 – 16 July 2008), usually known as Dominic Toubeix or simply Dominic, was a French fashion designer who worked for some time in New York in the 1960s. Early life and career Toubeix was born in Paris, on 24 September 1924. He trained in the couture industry, first for Marcel Rochas, and then as an assistant to Antonio del Castillo whilst he was heading the house of Lanvin. Toubeix worked with Castillo for ten years. After Castillo was let go by Lanvin in 1962, Toubeix protested what he saw as his mentor's unfair treatment by throwing a rock through the window of the Lanvin establishment on the Rue d'Boissy Anglais, for which he spent a night in police custody. After this, Toubeix went to New York. New York career In 1963, Toubeix became a partner in the firm of Matty Talmack, which was founded in 1949. He was not just head designer, but vice-president and secretary as well, and Matty Talmack commented "He says in clothes exactly what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Ekandem
Dominic Ignatius Ekandem (1917 – 24 November 1995) was a Nigerian Catholic Cardinal who served as Archbishop of Abuja from 1989 until 1992. He was the first native West African West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ma ... Catholic Cardinal in history. He also founded the Missionary Society of St. Paul of Nigeria, Missionary Society of Saint Paul of Nigeria (M.S.P.). A native of Akwa Ibom State, Ekandem attended several Catholic Church, Catholic seminaries before he became a priest. He was ordained on 7 December 1947, and became the first priest from the old Calabar province. His first assignment as bishop was as auxiliary of Calabar from 1953 to 1963. He was Bishop of Ikot Ekpene from 1963 to 1981; during that tenure, in April 1976, he was named a cardinal. He then became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
