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Fredrik Ebeling
Fredrik or Frederik is a masculine Germanic given name derived from the German name '' Friedrich'' or Friederich, from the Old High German ''fridu'' meaning "peace" and ''rîhhi'' meaning "ruler" or "power". It is the common form of Frederick in Norway, Finland and Sweden. The name means "peaceful ruler" The most common variant spelling of this name is Frederik which is used in Denmark, although the English spelling Frederick is more common than either. Fredrik replaced the Anglo-Saxon name Freodheric, and has been a rare first name in England since this time. In Sweden, Fredrik first fell into usage in the 14th century, and became increasingly common after the 18th century. It is the 19th most popular male name in Sweden and the 41st most popular in Norway. |
Frederick (given Name)
Frederick is a masculine given name meaning "peaceful ruler". It is the English form of the German name Friedrich (given name), Friedrich. Its meaning is derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic word elements ''frid'', or peace, and ''ric'', meaning "ruler" or "power". Frederick ranked among the top 100 names in the United States between 1880 and 1957 and has declined thereafter. It was ranked as the 536th most popular name for boys in 2009 in that country. It ranked as the 99th most popular name for boys in England and Wales in 2007. Freddy, a short form, ranked as the 60th most popular name for boys in England and Wales in 2008. Frederica (given name), Frederica is a feminine variant of the name Frederick. Variants *Afrikaans language, Afrikaans: Frederik *Breton language, Breton: Frederig *Catalan language, Catalan: Frederic *Croatian language, Croatian: Fridrik *Czech language, Czech: Bedřich, Bedříšek, Béda *Danish language, Danish: Frederik, Frede *Dutch language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Ljungberg
Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg ( ; born 16 April 1977) is a Swedish former professional association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. He is also a former Manager (association football), manager, and was most recently an assistant coach, and interim head coach of Arsenal F.C., Arsenal. He began his career at Halmstads BK, Halmstad and went on to spend most of his career at Arsenal, where he won honours including two Premier League titles and three FA Cups, scoring in two finals including the 2002 FA Cup Final, victory in 2002. After leaving Arsenal in 2007, he had short spells at a number of clubs in England, Scotland, the United States, Japan and India. An international for a full decade, Ljungberg earned 75 Cap (sport), caps and represented Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team at UEFA Euro 2000, UEFA Euro 2004, 2004 and UEFA Euro 2008, 2008, as well as at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006 FIFA World Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Frederick Of Sweden
Adolf (or Adolph) Frederick (; ; 14 May 171012 February 1771) was List of Swedish monarchs, King of Sweden from 1751 until his death in 1771. He was the son of Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, and Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach. He was an uncle of Catherine the Great and husband to Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. After 220 years the House of Oldenburg returned to the Swedish throne with Adolf Frederick through its House of Holstein-Gottorp (Swedish line), Holstein-Gottorp branch. He was a weak monarch, installed as first in line to the throne following the parliamentary government's Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743), failure to reconquer the Baltic provinces in 1741–1743. Aside from a few attempts, supported by pro-absolute monarchy, absolutist factions among the nobility, to reclaim the absolute monarchy held by previous monarchs, he remained a mere constitutional figurehead until his death. His reign saw an extended period of internal peace. However, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick I Of Sweden
Frederick I (; 28 April 1676 – 5 April 1751) was List of Swedish monarchs, King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Kassel from 1730. He ascended the throne following the death of his brother-in-law absolute monarchy, absolutist Charles XII in the Great Northern War, and the abdication of his wife, Charles's sister and successor Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, Ulrika Eleonora, after she had to relinquish most powers to the Riksdag of the Estates and thus chose to abdicate. His powerless reign and lack of legitimate heirs of his own saw his family's elimination from the line of succession after the parliamentary government dominated by pro-Revanchism, revanchist Hat Party politicians ventured into Hats' Russian War, a war with Russia, which ended in defeat and the Russian tsarina Elizabeth of Russia, Elizabeth getting Adolf Frederick of Sweden, Adolf Frederick o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik DeBoer
Fredrik deBoer is a Marxist American author and cultural critic. Education DeBoer earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Central Connecticut State University, Master of Arts degree in writing and rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island, and Doctor of Philosophy degree in English at Purdue University. His dissertation was titled ''The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing''. Views and career DeBoer identifies himself as a "Marxist of an old-school variety". DeBoer has written for magazines, newspapers and websites. Topics include American education policy, cancel culture, and police reform. He was the communications editor for '' Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy'' until 2017. DeBoer's book, ''The Cult of Smart'', was published in 2020 by All Points Books. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, writing for ''The New Yorker'', says the book "argues that the education-reform movement has been trammelled by its willful ignoranc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most important leader of the movement for African-American Civil rights movement (1865–1896), civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York (state), New York and gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to claims by supporters of slavery that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northern United States, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been enslaved. It was in response to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Thordendal
Fredrik Carl Thordendal (born 11 February 1970) is a Swedish musician best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the extreme metal band Meshuggah, of which he is a founding member. Along with Meshuggah's rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, Thordendal was rated No. 35 by ''Guitar World'' in their list of the top 100 greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time. Career Meshuggah Thordendal began his career when he formed 'Metallien,' a heavily Metallica-influenced band, in his hometown of Umeå in 1985. The band later changed their name to Meshuggah and released their first LP, '' Psykisk Testbild'', in 1989. Starting as a thrash metal band, Meshuggah's music gradually evolved into a more progressive sound. This sound has become influential to other bands, such as Periphery, whose core member, Misha Mansoor, was instrumental in coining the term "Djent" to refer to the commonly utilized technique of playing heavily muted, extended power chords found in Meshuggah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Svanbäck
Fredrik Svanbäck (born 5 December 1979) is a Finnish former football player and manager. He signed for Helsingborgs IF in 2004 having spent all his career up to that at FF Jaro in his home town. He is a left midfielder, but has also tried the full-back position. He has been capped twice for Finland. Personal life His son Adrian Svanbäck is a professional footballer for Helsingborgs IF Helsingborgs Idrottsförening, commonly referred to as Helsingborgs IF, Helsingborg or (especially locally) HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish second tier, Superettan, following releg .... References External links * 1979 births Living people Finnish men's footballers Finnish expatriate men's footballers Finland men's international footballers FF Jaro players Helsingborgs IF players Landskrona BoIS players Veikkausliiga players Allsvenskan players Superettan players Swedish-speaking Finns Men's association footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Stang
Frederik Stang (4 March 1808 – 8 June 1884) was a Norwegian lawyer, public servant, and politician who served as Norway's first List of Norwegian Prime Ministers, prime minister in Christiana. Stang was born on the Nordre Rostad farm at Stokke in Vestfold, Norway. He was the son of Lauritz Leganger Stang (1775–1836) and Johanne Margrethe Conradi (1780–1820). His father was a procurator and later a magistrate. At age 13, he entered the Bergen Cathedral School. Stang, known as Friederich until the 1830s, entered the study of law at the age of 16 and passed the bar exam in 1828. Law career In 1830, he accepted a position as lecturer of law at the University of Oslo. During this time, he published a seminal text on Norwegian constitutional law. He went over to private practice in 1834, where he distinguished himself as a trial attorney, especially in supreme court cases. In 1846, Stang became minister of the newly formed :no:Indredepartementet (Norge), Department of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Skavlan
Fredrik Skavlan (born 2 September 1966) is a Norwegian TV host, journalist, and cartoonist. He hosted the talk show '' Først & sist'' from 1998 to 2007, for which he won the 1999 Norwegian Television Award for best host as well as the talk show '' Skavlan'' from 2009 to 2021, for which he won the Swedish Television Award for Best Television Host. Skavlan originally worked as a journalist and cartoonist for several Norwegian newspapers, including ''Morgenbladet'' and ''Dagbladet''. Early life Skavlan was born on 2 September 1966 in Oslo, Norway. Career From 1998 to 2007, Skavlan hosted the talk show '' Først & sist'' (''First & Last''), which attracted more than one million viewers every Friday evening. He won the 1999 Norwegian Television Award for best host. After taking a break from the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, he was persuaded to host his own show for Sweden's SVT in the spring of 2009, '' Skavlan''. Skavlan won the Swedish Television Award for Best Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Reinfeldt
John Fredrik Reinfeldt (pronounced ; born 4 August 1965) is a Swedish economist, lecturer, former Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009. He was the chairman of the Swedish Football Association between 2023 and 2025. A native of Stockholm County, Reinfeldt joined the Moderate Youth League in 1983. By 1992 he rose to the rank of chairman, a position he held until 1995. He served as Parliament of Sweden, Member of Parliament from 1991 to 2014, representing his home constituency. Reinfeldt was elected party leader on 25 October 2003, succeeding Bo Lundgren. Under his leadership, the Moderate Party has transformed its policies and oriented itself closer to the political centre, branding itself "The New Moderates" (). In 2010, under Reinfeldt's leadership, the Moderate Party got its highest share of the vote since the introduction of univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American list of science fiction authors, science-fiction writer, editor, and science fiction fandom, fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel ''All the Lives He Led''. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited ''Galaxy Science Fiction, Galaxy'' and its sister magazine ''If (magazine), If''; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel ''Gateway (novel), Gateway'' won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas ''The Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
