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Gruber (other)
Gruber is a German surname from Austria and Bavaria, referring to a person from a geological depression, mine, or pit. It may refer to: Places * Gruber, Manitoba, former settlement in the Canadian province of Manitoba, Canada * Gruber Mountains, Antarctica * Camp Gruber, Oklahoma Army National Guard facility, named for Edmund L. Gruber People Surname * Andreas Gruber (director) (born 1954), Austrian film director and screenwriter * Andreas Gruber (footballer) (born 1996), Austrian footballer * Barbara Gruber (born 1977), German ski mountaineer * Christoph Gruber (born 1976), Austrian alpine skier * David Gruber, American marine biologist * Edmund L. Gruber (1879–1941) US Army general, composer of military music, and brother of William R. Gruber * Ferry Gruber (1926–2004), Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta * Florian Gruber (born 1983), German racing driver * Frank Gruber (1904–1969), writer of Westerns and detective fiction * Franz Gruber (actor) (born 1930), actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gruber, Manitoba
Gruber was an unincorporated place in what is now the Rural Municipality of Mossey River, Manitoba. Hersh Girtle was the postmaster at one time. The location was described as north of Dauphin, Manitoba, Dauphin and 2 miles (3 km) north of Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Winnipegosis, but another source gives the location as 1.5 miles (2.5 km) south of Winnipegosis. Gruber was established by and named after its founder, Rabbi Eliezer Lazar Gruber. It was formally recognised by the Department of the Interior, Government of Canada, on October 19, 1904, in accordance with the hamlet provisions of the Dominion Lands Act. The Department of Interior extended settlement solely to the 19 persons that had made homestead and declared that settlement would not be extended beyond that. Gruber is listed as a station served by Canadian Northern Railway in a 1907 edition of ''The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition''. References Unincorporated communities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Gruber (conductor)
Hans Gruber (11 July 1925 – 6 August 2001) was a Canadian conductor of Austrian birth. Born in Vienna, Gruber became a naturalised Canadian citizen in 1944. He entered The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1939 where he was a conducting student of Allard de Ridder. He also studied conducting in the summers at the Tanglewood Music Center from 1943-1947 with such teachers as Fritz Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre Monteux. In 1948 he succeeded Melvin Knudsen as the conductor of the Victoria Symphony, a post he held until 1963. He also served on the music faculty of the University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ... for several years where he notably conducted the school's symphony orchestra. References 1925 births 2001 deaths Canadian male cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Gruber
Karl Gruber (3 May 1909 in Innsbruck – 1 February 1995 in Innsbruck) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. During World War II, he was working for a German firm in Berlin. After the war, in 1945 he became Landeshauptmann of Tyrol for a short time. He then became Foreign Minister of Austria until 1953. Karl Gruber served as Austrian ambassador to the United States from 1954 to 1957 and from 1969 to 1972, as ambassador to Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ... from 1961 to 1966, as ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1966, and as ambassador to Switzerland from 1972 to 1974. Gruber was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash in 1954. See also * Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliette Gruber
Juliette Gruber (born 1965) is a British actress born in the United States who moved to Britain at the age of one. Gruber is the niece of Hollywood actor Walter Matthau (1920–2000), who was married to her mother's sister. Gruber is the daughter of Walter Gruber, Newsweek Magazine journalist, and Elinor Pruder, the renowned interior designer. Gruber's sister, Caroline, is ballet mistress at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Gruber studied at Trinity College and, after graduating, got a job at the Royal National Theatre. TV roles followed, with appearances in the British drama ''Soldier, Soldier'' in 1991, police drama '' Between the Lines'' (1992–1994) and, in 1995, a role in ''Kavanagh QC''. Gruber played Thomasina Coverly in one performance during the premiere run of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993 at the Lyttelton Theatre, stepping in for Emma Fielding. From 1995, Gruber played schoolteacher Jo Weston in the ITV series '' Heartbeat'', where she became a series regular. Gruber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan García Gruber
Juan Manuel García Grüber (September 7, 1904 – September 21, 1997) was a Venezuelan economist, financier, writer, diplomat, and philosopher. He served as Venezuela's ambassador to seven different countries. Early life and family He was born in Guasipati, Bolívar State (Venezuela), Bolívar state, Venezuela. He was the eldest son of Doña Mercedes Grüber, of German descent, and Dr. Juan Manuel García Parra, a leading figure in abdominal surgery, creator of the first formula known to favor high levels of fertility in women and founder of the Garcia Parra Hospital in his native Guasipati. Career After completing his studies in economics and finance, he held the position of Chief of the Justice Section at the Department of Internal Affairs. 1953, he became the Venezuelan General Consul to Peru and was subsequently appointed as the Venezuelan Ambassador to Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Peru and Costa Rica. He was standing right next to Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza García w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Gruber
Jordan Gruber (; born September 12, 1983) is an American former professional soccer player. Biography He is the son of Avi, originally from Israel, and the owner of Avi's Auto Care, and Abby Gruber, and was born in Beverly Hills, Michigan. He attended Birmingham Groves High School, for whom he played soccer. He set the Michigan State High School goal-scoring record with 69 goals as a senior, in addition to 21 assists. He was named ''Oakland Press'' Player of the Year, and was named all-district, all-region, all-state, all-metro, and all-county. He also lettered in tennis as a senior. He played college soccer at forward for the Michigan State University for the Michigan State Spartans. In September 2004 he was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week in men's soccer. In June 2005, he signed a six-month contract with OFK Beograd straight out of university. He made ''aliyah'' in 2007 via the Law of Return, and played for Israel's Maccabi HaShikma Ramat Hen and Hapoel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Gruber (filmmaker)
Jonathan Gruber is an American director of documentary films, commercials, and videos. He is Jewish. Projects that Gruber directed and produced have screened at festivals and in theaters nationwide and around the world, and have aired on PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, Discovery Networks, and more. His film, ''Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story'', was an in depth look into the private life of the man who became the hero and pivotal strategist in the Israeli rescue of the Israeli hostages from Entebbe, Uganda following the hijacking of an Air France plane by Palestinian militants, which Idi Amin permitted to land in his country. After the Jewish and Israeli passengers were separated and threatened, the Israeli government quickly devised Operation Entebbe The Entebbe raid, also known as the Operation Entebbe and officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (also retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Gruber (economist)
Jonathan Holmes Gruber (born September 30, 1965) is an American professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a research associate. An associate editor of both the ''Journal of Public Economics'' and the '' Journal of Health Economics'', Gruber has been heavily involved in crafting public health policy. He has been described as a key architect of both the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform, sometimes referred to as "Romneycare", and the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as the "ACA" and "Obamacare". He became the focus of media and political controversy in late 2014 when videos surfaced in which he made controversial statements about the legislative process, marketing strategies, and public perception surrounding the passage of the ACA. Early life and education Gruber was born on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gruber
John Gruber (born 1973) is a technology blogger, UI designer, and co-creator of the Markdown markup language. Gruber authors the Apple enthusiast blog Daring Fireball and produces its accompanying podcast, ''The Talk Show''. History Gruber is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel University, and worked for Bare Bones Software (2000–02) and Joyent (2005–06). In 2004, Aaron Swartz and Gruber worked together to create the Markdown language, with the goal of enabling people "to write using an easy-to-read and easy-to-write plain text format, optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)".Markdown 1.0.1 readme source code Media Daring Fireball Since 2002, Gruber has written and produced Daring Fireball, a technology-focused weblog. He has described his Daring Fireball writing as a " Mac column in the form of a weblog". The site is written in the form of a tumblelog called ''The Linked List'', a lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gottfried Gruber
Johann Gottfried Gruber (29 November 1774 – 7 August 1851) was a German critic and literary historian. Biography Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale, in the Electorate of Saxony. He received his education at the town school of Naumburg and the University of Leipzig, after which he resided successively at Göttingen, Leipzig, Jena and Weimar, occupying himself partly in teaching and partly in various literary enterprises, and enjoying in Weimar the friendship of Herder, Wieland and Goethe. In 1811 he was appointed professor at the University of Wittenberg, and after the division of Saxony he was sent by the senate to Berlin to negotiate the union of the University of Wittenberg with that of Halle. After the union was effected he became in 1815 professor of philosophy at Halle. He was associated with Johann Samuel Ersch in the editorship of the great work ''Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste''; and after the death of Ersch he continued the first sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Gruber
Jeremy Gruber is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate and is the senior vice president at Open Primaries. He regularltestifiesbefore state legislatures on bills to open the primaries. He is the former President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics. He has testified before the United States Congress on genetic privacy and discrimination issues. He was a leader of the successful effort to enact the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act as well as a number of state laws that preceded it and led the successful campaign to roll back a controversial student genetic testing program at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011, Gruber led an effort to successfully enact CalGINA-a California law that extends genetic privacy and nondiscrimination protections into areas such as life, long term care, and disability insurance, mortgages, elections and other areas. Gruber is a founder of the Let Us Vote campaign to build a national community of indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Gruber
Howard Ernest Gruber (November 6, 1922 – January 25, 2005), was an American psychologist and pioneer of the psychological study of creativity. A native of Brooklyn, Gruber graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in psychology, earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and went on to a distinguished academic career. He worked with Jean Piaget in Geneva and later co-founded the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers with Dorothy Dinnerstein. At Columbia University Teachers College, he continued to pursue his interests in the history of science, and particularly the work of Charles Darwin. Gruber's work led to several important discoveries about the creative process and the developmental psychology of creativity. His work on Charles Darwin entitled ''Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity'', became the groundwork of his methodological approach for the case study of evolving systems. This book was awarded Science Book of the Year for 1974 by Phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |