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Elfriede Née
Elfriede, also known as Elfreda, Elfrida, Alfrida, Aelfrida, Elfrieda, Elftrude, Elftraut among other variants, is a female given name, derived from ''Ælfþryð'' (Aelfthryth) meaning "elf-strength". The name fell out of fashion in the Middle Ages and was revived in the 19th century in both England and Germany. Although some of its modern forms like Alfieda can be mistaken for feminine versions of Alfred (name), Alfred, that derives from ''Ælfræd'' ('elf-counsel' or 'wise-elf'). The Southern German diminutive Friedel or Friedl is nowadays more common than the full name. Medieval * Saint Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd, abbess of Whitby Abbey (654–714) * Saint Ælfthryth of Crowland (died c. 795) * Ælfthryth of Mercia, Ælfthryth, wife of King Coenwulf of Mercia (floruit, fl. 810s) * Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders, daughter of King Alfred the Great (d. 929) * Elftrude, daughter of Adele of Vermandois and Arnulf I, Count of Fland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Name
Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements ( stems), by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred's name was derived from ', meaning "noble", and ', meaning "counsel". The individual elements in dithematic names do not necessarily have any semantic relationship to each other and the combination does not usually carry a compound meaning. Dithematic names are found in a variety of Indo-European languages and are thought to derive from formulaic epithets of heroic praise. There are also names dating from an early time which seem to be monothematic, consisting only of a single element. These are sometimes explained as hypocorisms, short forms of originally dithematic names, but in many cases the etymology of the supposed original name cannot be recovered. The oldest known Germanic names date to the Roman Empire period, such as those of '' Arminius'' and his wife '' Thusnelda'' in the 1st century CE, and in gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfrida De Renne Barrow
Elfrida De Renne Barrow (January 7, 1884 – October 1, 1970) was an author and poet who was honored as a Georgia Woman of Achievement. She joined the Georgia Historical Society in 1920 as a curator and one of the first women allowed into the organization. In her years as curator, some of her articles were published in the Society's journal, and she also began to have her poetry published. Early life De Renne was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1884 to Wymberley Jones De Renne and Laura Norris Camblos. Poetry In 1920, she co-founded The Poetry Society of Georgia with four other women, calling themselves the "Prosodists." The women brought poet and editor Harriet Monroe to Savannah, Georgia, to review their poetry, leading to Monroe's journal ''Poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (; ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist. His landmark novel '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. Early life Remarque was born on 22 June 1898, as Erich Paul Remark, to Peter Franz Remark and Anna Maria (), a working-class Roman Catholic family in Osnabrück. He was never close with his father, a bookbinder, but he was close with his mother and he began using the middle name Maria after World War I in her honor. Rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Saarik
Erika Elfriede Elena Saarik (since 1941 Elfriede Tubin; 22 May 1916 – 22 October 1983) was an Estonian dancer and stage actress. Career Elfriede Saarik was born in the Karkaraly District of Karaganda in Kazakhstan to Estonian parents. From 1935, she studied at Tiina Kapper Dance Studio and also studied piano and attended the drama study group at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu. From 1935 until 1944, she was a dancer at the Vanemuine. In 1944, she fled the Soviet re-occupation of Estonia and fled to Sweden with her husband, composer and conductor Eduard Tubin and sons Rein and Eino, where she worked as a shop assistant and draughtsman. She wrote the libretto for the ballet " Kratt". Personal life Saarik was married to composer Eduard Tubin. Their son is journalist Eino Tubin. Following her death, she was buried next to her husband in the Skogskyrkogården cemetery in Stockholm. On 4 June 2018, the remains of Saarik and Tubin were sent in urns to be interred at Tallinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Rinkel
Elfriede Lina Rinkel (née Huth, 14 July 1922 – July 2018) was a German Nazi guard at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from June 1944 until April 1945, known for using an SS-trained guard dog to abuse prisoners. After the war she fled to the United States and married a German Jewish man who she claimed never knew about her role in the Holocaust. In 2004 she was discovered and in 2006 she was deported to Germany on suspicion of Nazi-sponsored persecution, but all criminal proceedings were dropped. She was never tried and died in a nursing home. Atrocities at Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück was the Nazi's largest concentration camp for women. There, 132,000 women and children (and 20,000 men) were imprisoned. In 1945, while Rinkel worked there, thousands of prisoners were killed on the orders of the SS in the gas chambers. Post-war marriage and trials She left Germany for the United States and was admitted as an immigrant on or around 21 September 1959 in San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfrida Rathbone
Elfrida Rathbone (1871–1940) was an English educationist and a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool and the cousin of Eleanor Rathbone, who was an MP and campaigned for children's rights. Career She was born in Liverpool in July 1871 and was one of 11 children. Her brothers and sisters were also involved in charity during their lives. In 1916 she began to teach in a special school in the King's Cross area of London, for children who were not thought to be capable of learning. She worked with another cousin, Lillian Gregg, who had set up a special kindergarten for young children considered to be "uneducated" and "mentally defective". She wanted to demonstrate that these children could learn and progress if they received an appropriate teaching. In the 1900s, Lillian Gregg had been challenged to the damaging effect of judgmental attitudes implicit in "labelling" people. She adopted a young child with a learning difficulty whom she taught to read and write and fun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfrida Pigou
Elfrida Mary Pigou (February 28, 1911 – July 30, 1960) was a prominent Canadian mountaineer and pioneer with many first ascents to her credit. She was born in Vernon, British Columbia, the daughter of Meynell Henry Pigou and his wife Lilian Maud Mackenzie and spent her childhood in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1931. In 1949 she began a climbing career in the mountainous regions of BC and Washington state that made her perhaps the most distinguished female climber of her generation in Canada. Pigou became a member of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1948, and this served as her introduction to the world of mountains climbing. Over the next several years she made ascents of many of the tallest mountains in BC, including Mount Raleigh, Mount Gilbert, Homathko Peak and Mount Essex. She also did several rock climbing first ascents in The Bugaboos, some with Fred Beckey. She also volunteered f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Lender
Elfriede Amanda Lender (19 May 1882 Tallinn – 10 April 1974 Stockholm) was an Estonian teacher and pedagogue. Lender was the founder of the first Estonian-language girls' school in the Estonia. Since 1901 she worked as a teacher in Tallinn. In 1907 she established Elfriede Lender Private Gymnasium (:et:Elfriede Lenderi Eragümnaasium, :et), where Estonian girls may study. From 1920 until 1927, she studied at the University of Tartu. In 1937 she established a seminary for pre-school educators (). In 1944 she fled to Sweden. From 1945 until 1962, she worked in Stockholm. Her spouse was an engineer Voldemar Lender. Works * Minu lastele (Stockholm, 1967, Tallinn, 2000, 2010) References 1882 births 1974 deaths Estonian schoolteachers University of Tartu alumni Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to Sweden {{Estonia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language. Biography Elfriede Jelinek was born on 20 October 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria, the daughter of Olga Ilona (''née'' Buchner), a personnel director, and Friedrich Jelinek. She was raised in Vienna by her Romanian-German Catholic mother and a non-observant Czech Jewish father (whose surname ''Jelínek'' means "little deer" in Czech). Her mother's family came from Stájerlakanina, Krassó-Szörény County, Banat, Kingdom of Hungary (now Anina, Romania), and was of a bourgeois background, while her father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfi Graf
Elfi Graf (born ''Elfriede Sepp''; 20 November 1952 in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian Schlagersinger. Biography Graf was born in Dornbirn and grew up there with her two siblings. She studied classical music, but did not complete the course. In 1971, she won the talent competition '' Show Chance'' and then the schlager singer Gus Backus discovered her in '' Talentschuppen''. After working as a telephonist, Graf had her first hit in 1974 with ''Herzen haben keine Fenster'', which was rewritten in English as '' My Melody of Love'', which was a hit for Bobby Vinton, and as ''Don't stay away too long'', which was a hit for Peters and Lee. Its Russian version "''Люди, улыбнитесь миру''" (lyrics by Igor Reznik) has been sung by Edita Piekha since 1983.''Herzen haben keine Fenster'' was chosen by Jan Feddersen in 2008 as number three in a list of 'feelings charts'. Later in 1974, Graf won the '' Goldene Europa'' and the silver '' Bravo-Otto''. Graf had further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Gerstl
Elfriede Gerstl (16 June 1932 – 9 April 2009) was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist. Biography She survived the war years by hiding in various locations with her motherat one point she had to hide in a wardrobeand thereby avoided being sent off to a concentration camp. After the war she started studying medicine and psychology at Vienna University, but ended her studies after the birth of her daughter. During the 1950s she became more and more involved in writing, and published her first work in the journal ''Neue Wege'' (New Ways) in 1955. Her first published book was ''Gesellschaftsspiele mit mir'' (Party games with me), a collection of poems and short prose that came out in 1962. In 1963 Gerstl moved to West-Berlin, where she received a scholarship from the ''Literarisches Colloquium Berlin''. While living in Berlin, in 1968–69, she wrote the novel ''Spielräume'' (Room to Manoeuv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Geiringer
Elfriede Geiringer Frank (Fritzi; née Markovits; 13 February 1905 – 2 October 1998) was a Jewish survivor of World War II and the Holocaust. She was the second wife of Otto Frank, who was the father of Anne and Margot Frank. Biography Early life Elfriede Markovits was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. She married Erich Geiringer and the couple had two children: son Heinz, born in 1926; and daughter Eva, born in 1929. The family fled first to Belgium and then to the Netherlands in 1938, where they settled down as neighbours to the Frank family. Eva and Anne knew each other. Second World War When the Germans invaded the Netherlands and Heinz received a call-up to a work-camp, the family went into hiding. They successfully hid for two years and might have survived the war if they had not been betrayed in May 1944. They were then captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. They were liberated in January 1945 by the Soviets, but Erich and Heinz Geirin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
