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Groth
Groth is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Annette Groth (born 1954), German politician *Annette Groth (journalist) (born 1952), Norwegian correspondent * Camilla Groth (born 1973), Norwegian poet * Edward J. Groth (born 1946), American astrophysicist * Ernest Groth (1922–2004), baseball player *Gary Groth (born 1954), American comic book editor, publisher, and critic * Harald Groth (1943–2925), German politician *Henrik Groth (1903–1983), Norwegian publisher and essayist *Jacob Groth (born 1951), Danish film composer *Jarmila Groth (born 1987), Slovak-Australian tennis player * Jeff Groth (American football) (born 1957), American football player * Jeff Groth (film editor), film and television editor *Johnny Groth (1926–2021), baseball player *Jonathan Groth (born 1992), Danish table tennis player *Klaus Groth (1819–1899), German poet * Martin Groth (born 1969), German football player * Paul Heinrich von Groth (1843–1927), German mineralogist *R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Groth
Samuel Groth (born 19 October 1987) is an Australian politician and a former professional tennis player. Sitting as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Groth represents the Liberal Party in the seat of Nepean. He is currently the deputy leader of the Victorian Liberal Party. His highest ATP singles ranking was World No. 53, which he reached in August 2015. His career high in doubles was World No. 24, reached in February 2015. Groth's best singles result was a semi-final appearance at the 2014 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships. He hit the fastest serve on record at 263 km/h (163.4 mph) in 2012 at the ATP Challenger in Busan. Prior to his political career, he worked for the Nine Network's tennis broadcasts and as a host on ''Postcards''. Tennis career Juniors Groth and Andrew Kennaugh of Great Britain lost in the finals of the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship to Jesse Levine and Michael Shabaz 6–4, 6–1. 2007–2013: Fastest serve on r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Groth (American Football)
Jeffrey Eugene Groth (born July 2, 1957) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Miami Dolphins, Houston Oilers, and the New Orleans Saints. Groth was also a 4th round selection of the Texas Rangers as an outfielder in the 1980 MLB Draft. Groth attended Bowling Green University. In 1978, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and was named a league all-star and team MVP. College career Jeff Groth played his college football at Bowling Green. His freshman year, Groth was a duel threat player, getting experience at both running back and wide receiver. Bowling Green head Coach Don Nehlen was attempting to take advantage of Groth's speed and his athletic talents. The following season, he became the number receiver, and a favorite target of quarterback Mark Miller. 1976 saw Groth catch 33 passes for 598 yards and four touchdowns. Groth even threw a pass on a gimmick play, but it f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth (24 April 1819 – 1 June 1899) was a Low German poet. Biography Groth was born in Heide, in Ditmarschen, the western part of the Duchy of Holstein. He was the oldest son of Hartwig Groth, a miller, and his wife Anna Christina. He spent an idyllic childhood in Heide, which served as inspiration for many of his later poetic works. After attending the local school, he studied at the teacher training college in Tondern from 1838 to 1841. Groth subsequently became a teacher at the girls’ school in his native village and devoted his spare time to the study of philosophy, mathematics, and the natural sciences. He took an interest in local traditions and played a part in several unique to Dithmarschen. Groth did not enjoy teaching and frequently came into conflict with both the school’s board of governors and his students’ parents. In 1847, he suffered a nervous breakdown. A friend and follow teacher, Leonhard Selle, invited Groth to spend time with him on the isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Groth
Ernest William Groth (May 3, 1922 – December 27, 2004) was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played for three seasons. He played for the Cleveland Indians during the 1947 and 1948 seasons and the Chicago White Sox during the 1949 season. In four career games, Groth pitched 7⅓ innings and had a 4.91 earned run average (ERA). Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Groth began his professional career in the Wisconsin State League in 1942. After his rookie season, he spent the next three years serving in the military during World War II. After he returned, he spent more time in the minor leagues, then spent parts of the 1947 and 1948 seasons with the Cleveland Indians. After the end of the 1948 season, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox, and played with them in 1949. He spent the next seven seasons pitching in the minor leagues, retiring at the end of the 1956 season. After his retirement, he ran Groth's Nursery and worked for Standard Steel, and died in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Groth
Gary Groth (born September 18, 1954) is an American comic book editor, publisher and critic. He is editor-in-chief of ''The Comics Journal'', a co-founder of Fantagraphics Books, and founder of the Harvey Awards. Early life Groth is the son of a U.S. Navy contractor and was raised in Springfield, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. area.Matos, Michelangelo"Saved by the Beagle," ''Seattle Arts'' (September 15, 2004)./ref> He read his first comic book in a pediatrician's office. Career Fanzines and pop culture conventions Inspired by film critics like Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael, and gonzo journalists like Hunter S. Thompson, the teenage Groth published ''Fantastic Fanzine'', a comics fanzine (whose name referenced the Marvel Comics title ''Fantastic Four''). In 1970, 1971, and 1973 he organized Metro Con, a comics convention held in the Washington, D.C. area. Later, after turning down an editorial assistant position at Marvel Comics in 1973, Groth worked briefly as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarmila Groth
Jarmila Wolfe (née Gajdošová, formerly Groth; born 26 April 1987) is a Slovak-Australian former tennis player. In her career, she won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 14 singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won her first WTA Tour title in 2006, emerging as the Nordic Light Open doubles champion, her first singles title came in 2010 at the Guangzhou International Open, and the following year she won the Hobart International. In May 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 25. In August 2012, she peaked at No. 31 in the doubles rankings. Her greatest achievement came at the 2013 Australian Open, where she won the mixed-doubles title with countryman Matthew Ebden. Personal life Wolfe's father Ján Gajdoš is an engineer, as was her mother who died in September 2012; her older brother Ján Gajdoš Jr. was a professional skier. She married Australian tennis player Sam Groth in February 2009 and compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Groth
Wilhelm Groth (9 January 1904 in Hamburg – 20 February 1977 in Bonn) was a German physical chemist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club; his main activity was the development of centrifuges for the enrichment of uranium. After the war, he was a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Hamburg. In 1950, he became director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bonn. He was a principal in the 1956 shipment of three centrifuges for uranium enrichment to Brazil. Education From 1922 to 1927, Groth studied at the ''Technische Hochschule München'' (today, the Technical University of Munich (''Technische Universität München''), the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (''Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München''), and the University of Tübingen (''Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen''). He received his doctorate in 1927 under Walther Gerlach at Tübingen. His thesis was on the dete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Groth
John Thomas Groth (July 23, 1926August 7, 2021) was an American professional baseball outfielder and scout who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played with the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, and Kansas City Athletics from 1946 to 1960. He threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Early life Groth was born in Chicago on July 23, 1926. His parents, William Groth and Marie (Baltazore), immigrated to the United States from Germany. His father worked as an electrotype salesman. Groth attended the Latin School of Chicago, graduating in 1944. He subsequently enlisted in the United States Navy in February of the following year. Playing career After being discharged from the Navy, Groth was signed as an amateur free agent by the Detroit Tigers on August 6, 1946. He was lauded by the Tigers as "the next DiMaggio" when he arrived on the major league scene in 1946 at age 20. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvester Groth
Sylvester Groth (born 31 March 1958) is a German theater, television, and film actor. He is best known to international audiences from his appearances in Hollywood movies including '' Inglourious Basterds'' and '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E''. Furthermore, he has appeared in the Netflix series '' Sense8'', '' Fargo'', and '' Dark''. Biography Groth is the youngest of five siblings from Jerichow ( Bezirk Magdeburg) in the former German Democratic Republic, where he also spent his childhood. His family is from Upper Silesia. Groth's father died while he was still young, and his mother married a second time. When he was 14 years old, the family moved to Leipzig. In 1986, he escaped from East Germany to West Germany. He studied acting and singing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. This was followed by engagements in Schwerin, Dresden, and Berlin, where he worked as a guest actor at the Deutsches Theater and from 1986 to 1989 at the Schaubühne. He also worked at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Groth
Annette Groth (born 16 May 1954 in Bielefeld) is a German politician from Baden-Wuerttemberg. Career From 1974 to 1979, she studied at the Free University of Berlin, in development sociology, economics and business administration and international politics. She passed her diploma in sociology. From 1981 to 1984, she worked as a research fellow at the European Research Institute of Ecumenical Research Exchange (ERE) in Rotterdam, on migrant workers in the EC. From 1984 to 1987, she worked in the office of the Protestant Student Community Stuttgart as ecumenical officer. From 1992 to 1997, she was Education Officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR in Geneva. From 1997 to 1999, she worked as director of the Ecumenical Coalition on Third World Tourism (ECTWT), and editor of the quarterly journal ''Contours in Barbados''. For many years she was active in the work of the EKD, before 2007 Research Assistant of The Left (Germany). She was a guest lectu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Heinrich Von Groth
Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth (23 June 1843 – 2 December 1927) was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures. Biography He was born at Magdeburg, and educated at Freiberg, Saxony, Freiberg, Dresden and Berlin, and received the doctorate degree in 1868. After lecturing at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Freiberg mining school and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Berlin, in 1872 he became professor of mineralogy at University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg. In 1883, he was appointed professor of mineralogy and curator of minerals in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He died in Munich. Work He carried out extensive research on crystals and minerals, and also on Rock (geology), rocks. von Groth published ''Tabellarische Übersicht der einfachen Mineralien'' (1874-1898) and ''Physikalische Krystallographie'' (1876-1895, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
