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Erna (given Name)
Erna is a feminine given name. Bearers of the name include: * Erna von Abendroth (1887–1959), pioneering German nurse and trainer/teacher * Erna Auerbach (1897–1975), German-born British artist and art historian * Erna Barschak (1888–1958), German teacher and psychologist * Erna Baumbauer (1919–2010), German casting agent * Erna Beilhardt, Nazi concentration camp guard and nurse * Erna Berger (1900–1990), German soprano * Erna Björk Sigurðardóttir (born 1982), Icelandic footballer * Erna Bogen-Bogáti (1906–2002), Hungarian fencer * Erna Braun, Canadian politician * Erna Brinkman (born 1972), Dutch volleyball player * Erna Brodber (born 1940), Jamaican writer, sociologist and activist * Erna Bürger (1909–1958), German gymnast * Erna Fentsch (1909–1997), German actress and screenwriter * Erna Fergusson (1888–1964), American writer and historian * Erna Flegel (1911–2006), German nurse * Erna Friðriksdóttir (born 1987), Icelandic alpine skier * Erna Frins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Von Abendroth
Erna von Abendroth (4 February 1887 – 26 February 1959) was a pioneering German nurse and trainer/teacher. After the First World War she became the first German nurse to receive a PhD degree in return for a dissertation with a nursing theme. After the Second World War, starting in May 1946 she took charge of the reconstruction of the "Werner" Red Cross Nursing Academy at Göttingen. Life Erna von Abendroth was born in Ostritz, a small town located to the south of Görlitz and directly on the frontier with Bohemia. Alexander Bernhard Ernst von Abendroth (1853-), her father, was a cavalry officer. She attended school locally and then spent five years studying at a teacher training college in Dresden. She concluded her studies, passing the necessary exams, in 1906. she then worked as a home tutor. In 1910 she completed a nursing training with the Red Cross Albertines at the Carola Hospital in Dresden. During the First World War, which broke out in July 1914, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Furman
Erna Furman (born Erna Mary Popper June 14, 1926 – August 9, 2002) was an Austrian-born American child psychoanalyst, psychologist, and teacher. Biography Furman was born Erna Mary Popper in Vienna to a Jewish family. She was educated at the Academy of Commerce in Prague. As a little girl she had been to Montessori nursery school in Vienna. In 1938, when she was twelve years old, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Her family, having Czech citizenship, fled to Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis. This move provided only temporary safety. In spring 1939 her father left for Belgium and England. They were to meet again only at the end of the summer of 1946. In October 1942, Furman and her mother were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, near Prague. Her aunts and grandmother would later be sent to the same concentration camp. While there, she was twice put on the list for transportation to Auschwitz. Both times she managed to have her name to be removed from that list. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Paris
Erna Paris (6 May 1938 – 3 February 2022) was a Canadian non-fiction author. Biography Paris was born in Toronto to an essentially secular Jewish family. She was the niece of classical pianist Beth Lipkin. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in Honours Philosophy and English, Paris moved to France for several years, where she continued her studies at the Sorbonne. She began her writing career in the 1970s as a magazine journalist and radio broadcaster/documentarist. She was the author of seven books and the winner of twelve national and international prizes for her books, journalism, and radio documentaries. She was also a frequent contributor to the opinion page of the Globe and Mail. Paris lived in Toronto with her husband, Thomas M. Robinson, professor emeritus of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Classics at the University of Toronto. She had a daughter, Michelle, and a son, Roland. Paris died on 3 February 2022, at the age of 83. Awards an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Osland
Erna Osland (born 24 February 1951) is a Norwegian teacher and author of children's literature. She made her literary debut in 1987 with the youth's book ''Natteramnen''. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 1999 for ''Salamandarryttaren''. References Norwegian children's writers Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature winners 1951 births Living people Norwegian women children's writers {{Norway-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Morena
Erna Morena (born Ernestine Maria Fuchs, 24 April 1885 – 20 July 1962) was a German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951. Biography Ernestine Maria Fuchs was born into the middle-class family of Eugenie Fuchs (née. Seyler, 1862–1951) and Friedrich Fuchs (1859–1895) on 24 April 1885. She had a younger brother, Friedrich Fuchs (1890–1948), who became a Brentano researcher. Fuchs went to Munich at age 17 to attend the school of applied arts. She later spent half a year in Paris before moving to Berlin in 1909, where she worked as a nurse. She took lessons at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin, and was hired by Max Reinhardt in 1910 as an actress. The following year she worked there in small roles, and began using the stage name Erna Morena. She made her film debut in 1913 in ''The Sphinx'' by Eugen Illés for the newly founded film production company Literaria Film by Alfred Duskes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Mohr
Erna W. Mohr (July 11, 1894September 10, 1968) was a German zoologist who made contributions to ichthyology and mammalogy. Mohr was long associated with the Zoological Museum Hamburg, where she was successively head of the Fish Biology Department, Department of Higher Vertebrates, and Curator of the Vertebrate Department. She was a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and held an honorary doctorate from the University of Munich. Mohr was born in Hamburg, the daughter of a school teacher, and aside from some time in Schleswig-Holstein lived for most of her life in Hamburg. Between 1914 and 1934 she taught high school while volunteering at the Zoological Museum Hamburg and also published scholarly and popular scientific articles. At the Zoological Museum she began working with Ernst Ehrenbaum on age determination in fishes, where she is credited to have been the first to use ctenoid scales to estimate age. She later worked with Georg Duncker on fish taxonomy, including work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Low
Erna Low (28 July 1909 – 12 February 2002) was an Austrian Jewish businesswoman who settled in England and is best known for her work in the ski travel industry. Low has been cited as a pioneer in the development of the package holiday and was the founder oErna LowTravel Services Ltd. She worked in the holiday industry for over sixty years. She retired in 1995. Early years Low was born in Vienna in 1909 as the only daughter of Eduard Carl Lӧwe and his wife Emma. She remained in the city throughout her childhood and education. She became the Austrian javelin champion before moving to England in 1931, with ten borrowed pounds in her pocket, to research a PhD thesis on Lord de Tabley, a Victorian poet and botanist. During her studies, Low traced the grandchildren of de Tabley and was invited to stay at the family home in Knutsford, Cheshire. While living in Bloomsbury, Low earned a basic living as a language tutor, but decided that she needed to earn more to financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (born Erna Katherina Wilhelmine Dircksen, 31 May 1883 – 8 May 1962) was a German photographer known for a series of volumes of portraits of rural individuals from throughout Germany. During the Third Reich, she also photographed for eugenicist publications and was commissioned to document the new ''Autobahn'' and the workers constructing it. Career Born in Wetterburg, now part of Bad Arolsen, Erna Dircksen studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Kassel from 1903 to 1905, and photography at the Lette-Verein from 1910 to 1911.Anne Maxwell, ''Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870–1940'', Brighton, Sussex / Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2008, p. 194Ute Eskildsen ''et al''., ed., ''Fotografieren hieß Teilnehmen: Fotografinnen der Weimarer Republik'', Catalogue of exhibitions at Museum Folkwang Essen, Fundació "La Caixa", Barcelona, Jewish Museum, New York, Düsseldorf: Richter, 1994, n.p. She may have opened a photographic studio in H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Lazarus
Erna Lazarus (June 16, 1903Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 – February 19, 2006) was a screen and television writer from the 1930s through the 1960s. Lazarus, born in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the founding members of the Screen Writers Guild. On her death, '' Variety'' credited her as "one of the first female screenwriters working steadily in the studio system." She also had an influential role in the formation of the Interguild Federal Credit Union. Lazarus died on February 19, 2006, in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 102. Selected filmography * ''Hollywood or Bust'' (the last film featuring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin) - sole story and screen play * ''Flareup'' (starring Raquel Welch) - associate producer * '' Meet Me After the Show'' (starring Betty Grable) - original story * '' Moonlight in Hawaii'' * ''Double Date'' * '' Atlantic Flight'' * '' Let's Go Steady'' * '' The Girl of the Limberlost'' (1945) * '' Slightly Scandalous'' (1946) Select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Kelm
Erna Kelm (July 21 1908 – June 11 1962) was a German woman who became the twenty-third known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Kelm tried to cross the border by swimming across the Havel river, but drowned during the attempt. Kelm was one of only eight women victims, and at the age of 53, was one of the oldest victims of the Berlin Wall. Biography Erna Kelm was born on July 21 1908 in Frankfurt an der Oder, German Empire. Kelm had at least two children and lived in Potsdam, but in 1947, shortly after the end of World War II, she illegally moved to Lübeck to work as a nurse. At the time Germany was occupied by the Allies, with Potsdam in the Soviet zone and Lübeck in the British Zone, Kelm moved without obtaining the necessary permit issued by the occupying powers. In 1948, a year later, she moved to West Berlin, taking a job as a nurse's aide in a children's home for refugees. Kelm frequently left West Berlin to visit her children in neighboring Potsdam, where she was " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Herchenröder
Erna Herchenröder-Lohmann (; 6 March 1903 – 3 September 1977) was a German trade unionist and politician who served in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1953 until 1958. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she represented portions of Bochum. Biography Erna Herchenröder-Lohmann was born on 6 March 1903 in the Harpen neighborhood of Bochum in Westphalia. She was educated at elementary and business school. From a young age, Herchenröder was active in trade unions as a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth () from 1918 until 1925. From 1919 until 1922, she was an accountant in the Union of Miners of Germany and was a member of the General Federation of Free Employees. When she worked as a clerical assistant for the Bochum city administration from 1923 until 1928, she was concurrently a member of the Reich Union of German Municipal Officials. She later became a housewife, and was the managing director of the Herchenröder Company from 1940 until 1942/3. A membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Hennicot-Schoepges
Erna Hennicot-Schoepges (born 24 July 1941 in Dudelange) is a Luxembourgish politician for the Christian Social People's Party. She was until 2009 a Member of the European Parliament, sitting as a CSV member of the European People's Party. Erna Hennicot-Schoepges has an extensive history in cultural affairs. She was educated in Musical studies, for which she was awarded the gold medal as a pianist, as well as philosophy and literature at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels in Brussels, Ecole Normale in Paris, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the Centre Universitaire in Luxembourg. Her political career reflects this deep interest in culture as well as her commitment to civil affairs. The Hennicot-Schoepges was elected Mayor of Walferdange and then moved on to become the first woman President of Luxembourg’s Parliament followed by her appointment as Luxembourg’s Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research and Public Works. Throughout this time, she was also highly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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