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Erdmann
Erdmann is a first name and surname, and may refer to: Surname *Carl Erdmann (1898—1945), German historian *Eduard Erdmann (1896—1958), Baltic German pianist and composer *Hans Otto Erdmann (1896–1944), member of the German resistance *Hugo Erdmann (1862—1910), German chemist *Johann Eduard Erdmann (1805—1892), German philosopher *Karin Erdmann (born 1948), German mathematician *Karl Gottfried Erdmann (1774—1835), German physician and botanist *Mojca Erdmann (born 1975), German opera soprano *Nikolai Erdman (1900—1970), Russian dramatist *Otto Linné Erdmann (1804–1869), German chemist *Rhoda Erdmann (1870–1935), German cell biologist *Susi Erdmann (born 1968), German luger and bobsledder *Ralph Erdmann, American pathologist *Wilfried Erdmann (1940–2023), German sailor * Wolfgang Erdmann (1898–1946), German general of paratroopers First name *Erdmann Copernicus (died 1573), German scholar, not related to the astronomer *Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince of Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mojca Erdmann
Mojca Erdmann (born 29 December 1975) is a German soprano who is particularly associated with the List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart operas. She created the role of Ariadne in Rihm's ''Dionysos (opera), Dionysos'' at the Salzburg Festival. Career Born in Hamburg, Erdmann sang in the children's chorus of the Hamburg State Opera together with her brother. As a teenager she began studying singing seriously with soprano Evelyn Herlitzius before entering the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln where she was a pupil of Hans Sotin and studied with soprano Ingrid Figur. In 2002 she won first prize and the Special Prize for Contemporary Music at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin (Federal Singing Competition), and in August 2005 she was awarded the Luitpold Prize at the festival and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Music Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. She appeared as Sempronia in the premiere of the critical edition of Jacques Offenbach's ''Apothicaire et perr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Erdmann
Carl Erdmann (17 November 1898 – 5 March 1945) was a German historian who specialized in medieval political and intellectual history. He is noted in particular for his study of the origins of the idea of crusading in medieval Latin Christendom, as well as his work on letter collections and correspondence among secular and ecclesiastical elites in the eleventh century. He is often mentioned alongside Percy Ernst Schramm and Ernst H. Kantorowicz as one of the most influential and important German scholars of medieval political culture in the twentieth century. His promising and remarkably prolific career was cut short by his death in the German army at the end of World War II. Education and scholarship Erdmann's curriculum vitae was not typical for a German academic of his generation. Born in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) and raised in Blankenburg am Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, he initially studied to be a Lutheran minister in Berlin, but abandoned this vocation in 1919 to study histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susi Erdmann
Susi-Lisa Erdmann (later Plankensteiner, born 29 January 1968) is an East German-German luger and bobsledder who competed from 1977 to 1998 in luge, then since 1999 in bobsleigh. She was born in Blankenburg, Bezirk Magdeburg. Competing in five Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles luge event with a silver in 1994 and a bronze in 1992, and a bronze at the inaugural two-women bobsleigh event in 2002. She is one of only two people to ever win a medal in both bobsleigh and luge at the Winter Olympics; Italy's Gerda Weissensteiner is the other. Luge career Beside the Olympics in luge, Erdmann won ten medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including seven golds (Women's singles: 1989, 1991, 1997; Mixed team: 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995) and three silvers (Women's singles: 1995, 1996; Mixed team: 1989). She also won seven medals at the FIL European Luge Championships, including six golds (Women's singles: 1990, 1992; Mixed team: 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998) and one bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erdman
Erdman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew L. Erdman (born 1965), American author, journalist, and scholar * Charles Erdman Petersdorff (1800–1886), legal writer * Charles R. Erdman Sr. (1866–1960), American Presbyterian minister and theologist * Charles R. Erdman Jr. (1897–1984), American politician * Constantine Jacob Erdman (1846–1911), American politician from Pennsylvania * David V. Erdman (1911–2001), American literary critic, editor, and academic *Derek Erdman (born 1973), American artist from Washington * Jacob Erdman (1801–1867), American politician from Pennsylvania *Jean Erdman (1916–2020), dancer, choreographer, and theater director * Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau (1701–1767), German-born soldier remembered mostly as a French general and commander in America * Marshall Erdman (1922–1995), Lithuanian-American builder * Molly Erdman (born 1974), American actress and comedian * Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970), Soviet dramatist and scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erdmann II, Count Of Promnitz
Erdmann II, Count von Promnitz (born 22 August 1683 in Sorau, Electorate of Saxony (now Żary, Poland); died: 7 September 1745 at the forest castle near Żary) was Lord of Żary () and Trzebiel () in Lower Lusatia, and Pszczyna () in Upper Silesia. He served Augustus II the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, and later his son and successor Augustus III as Privy Councillor and as cabinet minister. In 1703, Erdmann II inherited his father's vast estates. He administered this estate himself. Erdmann von Promnitz brought Wolfgang Caspar Printz and Georg Philipp Telemann as Kapellmeister to his court in Sorau. Family In 1705, he married Anna Maria (17 June 1683 – 16 March 1731), the daughter of the Duke Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. They had the following children: * Christine Johanna Emilie (15 September 1708 – 20 February 1732), married in 1726 Prince Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (9 June 1697 – 6 August 1755) * Anna Friederike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince Of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Erdmann August, Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (8 October 1615 – 6 February 1651), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Hereditary prince (German: ''Erbprinz'') of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was the seventh of the nine children of Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by his wife, Marie of Prussia. In fact, he was the third-born son but the only one to survive into adulthood; his two older brothers Georg Frederick (b. and d. 1608) and Christian Ernst (b. 1613 – d. 1614) died long before his own birth. In Ansbach Ansbach ( , ; ) is a city in the Germany, German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Mittelfranken, Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränk ... on 8 December 1641, Erdmann August married the Margravine Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who was also his first cousin (daughter of Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erdmann Copernicus
Erdmann Copernicus (born in the 1520s in Gransee, Margraviate of Brandenburg; † 25 August 1573 in Frankfurt (Oder)) was a German poet, composer, and jurist mainly active in the ''Margraviate'' or ''Electorate of Brandenburg'', a precursor to Prussia. Similar to the unrelated astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), his name is documented in several partially Latinized variants: Erdmann/Erdmannus/Ertmannus/Erdmanus Kopernikus/Copernicus. Life He on 4 May 1545 joined University of Wittenberg in Saxony as ''Ertmannus Copernicus Granselensis'', and graduated on 25 February 1546 as Magister of philosophy. For winter semester 1546-47 he returned to Brandenburg to continue his studies at the state university in Frankfurt (Oder), named ''Alma Mater Viadrina'' after the river Oder. Moved upstream in 1811 and merged with the university in Breslau where WW2 put an end to it in 1945, it was in 1991 re-established in Frankfurt/Oder as European University Viadrina. After being a scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Erdmann
__NOTOC__ Wolfgang Erdmann (13 November 1898 – 5 September 1946) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (16 September 1939) & 1st Class (14 June 1940)Thomas & Wegmann 1986, p. 53. * War Merit Cross with Swords 2nd Class (30 January 1943) * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 8 February 1945 as ''Generalleutnant () is the German-language variant of lieutenant general, used in some German speaking countries. Austria Generalleutnant is the second highest general officer rank in the Austrian Armed Forces (''Bundesheer''), roughly equivalent to the NATO ...'' and commander of 7. Fallschirmjäger-DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 147. References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Erdmann, Wolfgang 1898 births 1946 suicides 1946 deaths Military personnel from Königsberg Luftwaffe World War II generals German Army personnel of World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfried Erdmann
Wilfried Erdmann (15 April 1940 – 8 May 2023) was a German sailor and author. He was known for his single-handed, non-stop circumnavigations. Biography Erdmann was born on 15 April 1940 in Czarnków in German-occupied Poland during World War II, but grew up in Karstädt in East Germany. After finishing school he worked as a carpenter before relocating to West Germany at the age of 17. From 1958 to 1959, he traveled alone to India by bicycle via Southern France, North Africa, the Near East, and Afghanistan. It was in India that he first encountered the idea of sailing across the oceans. Because he couldn't afford a boat, he made his living for a couple of years as a seaman in the Merchant navy. Erdmann embarked on his first circumnavigation in 1967. He bought his first boat, a used 25 ft wooden sloop in Alicante, Spain – where he met Bernard Moitessier who introduced him to the art of astronavigation – and renamed it ''Kathena'', arriving back on the German island o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Erdmann
Ralph R. Erdmann (August 8, 1926 - July 23, 2010) was a contract medical examiner (forensic pathologist) who was convicted on several counts of evidence tampering and perjury for examinations he did beginning in the early 1980s throughout rural Texas. Early years in Texas In 1981, 25 years after receiving a medical degree in Mexico Erdmann moved to Childress, Childress County, Texas. He started doing autopsies for five small area hospitals on a private contract basis. In 1983 he expanded his practice to the entire Texas panhandle area to the Rio Grande. During the next ten years Erdmann performed over 3,000 autopsies in 41 different jurisdictions. During his busiest year in 1990 he did 480 autopsies. In 1991 he did 310 autopsies, most of which were in Lubbock County. He charged Lubbock an annual fee of $140,000, and the smaller counties paid him $650 for each autopsy he performed. Texas autopsy scandal In 1992, he was convicted of falsifying autopsy reports. The scandal began in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoda Erdmann
Rhoda Erdmann (5 December 1870 – 23 August 1935) was a German cell biology, cell biologist. Working in the early 1900s, Erdmann was a pioneer of cellular biology and one of few women in her field at the time. Erdmann's work centered around the reproduction of protozoa, with a particular interest in tissue culture and ''in vitro'' cellular reproduction. Her work as a Protozoology, protozoologist earned her a graduate student lecturing position at Yale University, though her time in America was cut short by anti-German sentiment surrounding World War I. After a forcible incarceration and then deportation in 1919, Erdmann took a research position at the Institute for Cancer Research at the Charité Hospital of the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin, Friedrich‐Wilhelms University of Berlin. There she instituted the first department for experimental cytology in Germany. She worked at the University for almost 10 years before receiving on official professorship in 1929. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Erdmann
Eduard Erdmann (5 March 1896 – 21 June 1958) was a Baltic German pianist and composer. Erdmann was born in Wenden (Cēsis) in the Governorate of Livonia. He was the great-nephew of the philosopher Johann Eduard Erdmann. His first musical studies were in Riga, where his teachers were Bror Möllersten and Jean du Chastain (piano) and Harald Creutzburg (harmony and counterpoint). From 1914 he studied piano in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge and composition with Heinz Tiessen. In the 1920s and early 1930s his name was frequently cited among Germany's leading composers. Moreover, Erdmann had an international reputation as an outstanding concert pianist whose repertoire encompassed Beethoven and the advocacy of contemporary music. In 1925, he gave the premiere of Artur Schnabel's Piano Sonata, at the Venice ISCM Festival. From 1925 he was professor of piano at the Cologne Academy of Music but was forced to resign from his post by the Nazis in 1935 and became an ' inner exile', com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
