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Herter
Herter is a German occupational surname for a herdsman. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Herter (1871–1950), American painter * Christian Herter (1895–1966), American politician, son of Albert * Christian Archibald Herter (physician) (1865–1910), American physician * David Herter, American author * Ernst Herter (1846–1917), German sculptor * George Leonard Herter (1911–1994), American manager of Herter's Inc. sporting goods business and author * Gérard Herter (1920–2007), German actor * Hans Herter (1899–1984), German philologist * Theophilus Herter (1913–1987), American Anglican bishop * Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter (1884−1958), German botanist See also * Herter Brothers: Gustav (1830–1898) and Christian Herter (1839–1883), American furniture makers {{surname, Herter Occupational surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Herter
Albert Herter (March 2, 1871 – February 15, 1950) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, and interior designer. He was born in New York City, studied at the Art Students League of New York, Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, then in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon. He came from an artistic family; his father, Christian Herter (1839–1883), had co-founded Herter Brothers, a prominent New York interior design and furnishings firm. Herter Brothers closed in 1906, and Albert founded Herter Looms in 1909, a tapestry and textile design-and-manufacturing firm that was, in a sense, successor to his father's firm. Personal In Paris, he met a fellow American art student, Adele McGinnis. They were married in 1893 and had three children: Everit Albert (1894–1918), Christian Archibald (1895–1966), and Lydia Adele (1898–1951). The couple honeymooned in Japan, then returned to Paris for the first years of their marriage. In 1898 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939. His moderate tone of negotiations was confronted by the intensity of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a series of unpleasant episodes that turned the Cold War even colder in 1960–61. Early life Herter was born in Paris, France, to American artist and expatriate parents, Albert Herter and Adele McGinnis, and attended the there (1901–1904) before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning School (1904–1911). He graduated from Harvard College in 1915 and did graduate work in architecture and interior design at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation before joining the diplomatic corps. Herter married the wealthy hei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herter Brothers
The firm of Herter Brothers, (working 1864–1906), was founded by German immigrants Gustave (1830–1898) and Christian Herter (1839–1883) in New York City. It began as a furniture and upholstery shop/warehouse, but after the Civil War became one of the first American firms to provide complete interior decoration services. With their own design office and cabinet-making and upholstery workshops, Herter Brothers could provide every aspect of interior furnishing—including decorative paneling, mantels, wall and ceiling decoration, patterned floors, carpets and draperies. History Beginnings Gustave was born illegitimate in 1830, to Johanna Christiana Maria Barbara Hagenlocher and an unnamed father, in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany. Five years later, Johanna Hagenlocher married Christian Herter (1807–1874), a skilled cabinetmaker. Gustave took his stepfather's surname, and later added the "e" to the end of his given name. His half-brother, Christian Augustus Ludwig He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Archibald Herter (physician)
Christian Archibald Herter (September 3, 1865 – December 5, 1910) was an American physician and pathologist noted for his work on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He was co-founder of the ''Journal of Biological Chemistry''. Life Christian Archibald Herter was born in Glenville, Connecticut. His father, also Christian Herter, was a notable and wealthy artist and interior designer, head of the Herter Brothers. He was privately educated and began his medical degree at the early age of 15. By the age of 18, he had received an MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He studied pathology under William H. Welch at Johns Hopkins University and traveled to Zurich to study under Auguste-Henri Forel. Herter initially practiced mainly neurological medicine in New York City. His experience was captured in ''The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System'', a manual he wrote for "students and practitioners" in 1892. Herter's interest in laboratory m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Herter
Ernst Gustav Herter (14 May 1846, Berlin – 19 December 1917, Berlin) was a German sculptor. He specialized in creating statues of mythological figures. Life and work Herter studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and later also as apprentice of , Gustav Blaeser and Albert Wolff. In 1869 he created his own studio. In 1875, he made a study trip to Italy. Professor Herter was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. On 8 July 1899, Herter was present in New York when his Heinrich Heine memorial sculpture, known as the Lorelei Fountain, was unveiled in The Bronx, New York City. The Lorelei Fountain was originally intended for Heine's city of birth, Düsseldorf, to mark the centenary of his birth. This project was squelched due to the antisemitic and nationalistic sentiment that pervaded the German Reich at that time. Among his most famous works is ''Sterbender Achill'' (''Dying Achilles''), created in Berlin in 1884. The statue was acquired by the Empress of Austria and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophilus Herter
Theophilus John Herter (June 5, 1913 – June 2, 1987) was an American Anglican bishop. He was bishop of the New York and Philadelphia Synod in the Reformed Episcopal Church (REC) and also served as presiding bishop of the church. Early life and education Herter was born to John and Agnes Herter on June 5, 1913, in Kessab in present-day Syria. John Herter was the director of a German-run orphanage in Kessab. He received his B.A. and his M.A. from Haverford College in 1945 and 1947, respectively; his M.A. thesis was on Anglican and Presbyterian clergymen of Philadelphia during the American Revolution. Herter also obtained an M.Div. from Reformed Episcopal Seminary in 1943 and a Th.M. and Th.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary, where his dissertation was entitled "The Abrahamic Covenant in the Gospels." The dissertation was published under the same title in 1972. Ordained ministry Herter was ordained by Bishop Howard David Higgins to the diaconate on February 16, 1943, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter
Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter (10 January 1884 in Berlin – 17 April 1958 in Hamburg) was a German-Uruguayan botanist and mycologist. In 1908, he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on the genus ''Lycopodium''. From 1923 to 1939, he lived and worked in Uruguay, gaining Uruguayan citizenship in 1925. In Montevideo, he was associated with its botanical garden and museum, and in the meantime taught classes at the university. In 1934, he became director of the ''Revista Sudamericana de Botánica''.Biography plants.jstor.org. Accessed 4 April 2024. During the , Herter was Director of the Nazi-publishing series ''Veröffentlichungen der Staatlichen Botanischen Anstalten des Generalgouvernements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Leonard Herter
George Leonard Herter (24 May 1911 – 5 July 1994) of Waseca, Minnesota was the founder of the Herter's outdoor goods business and an author. His best known books are the ''Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices'' series (published in three volumes), which have a cult following today.Collins, Paul. "The Oddball Know-It-All". ''The New York Times'', December 5, 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/Collins-t.html?_r=1 In 1937 Herter took his father's dry goods store and turned it into a mail order outdoor goods business, selling hunting and fishing items through a catalog. He later opened retail outlet stores, which pioneered the style of outdoor goods stores now operated by Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops. The company went bankrupt in 1981. After the end of WW2 he was in Belgium for the US army where he met his wife Berthe Gramme Charleroi they had a son Jacques who was born on October 22 1945 (source Guns & Ammo Feb 1960) He is best known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Herter
David Herter is an American author. His first novel was '' Ceres Storm'' (2000), chosen as one of the ten best books of 2000 by the Elliott Bay Book Company, followed by '' Evening's Empire'' in 2002.Sallis, James. "BOOKS." Fantasy & Science Fiction 101.2 (Aug. 2001): 43. '' Ceres Storm'' is a far-future space opera, telling of a boy's quest across a solar system ravaged by a nano-plague. '' Evening's Empire'', set on the Oregon coast, concerns a bereaved opera composer drawn to the small town of Evening, and to mysteries that accord strangely with his current project, an adaptation of Jules Verne's 1870 novel ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas''. Real-life composers figure heavily in Herter's First Republic trilogy (comprising ''On the Overgrown Path'' (2006), ''The Luminous Depths'' (2008) and ''One Who Disappeared''). Set in interbellum Czechoslovakia, the trilogy stars Leoš Janáček, Pavel Haas, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, as well as the writer Karel Čape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Herter
Gérard Herter, also known as Gerhard Haerter, Gerard Haerther, Gerald Herter, Gerard Herter, and Gerhard Herter (born 12 April 1920 in Stuttgart, died 6 February 2007 in Munich) was a German actor of the 1950s and 1960s who played many villains, especially Prussian types, in Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...s. He made his film debut in '' Caltiki - il mostro immortale'' in 1959. His last credited appearance was in '' Ludwig'' in 1972. Filmography External links * 1920 births 2007 deaths Male actors from Stuttgart German male film actors Male Spaghetti Western actors {{Germany-film-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Herter
Hans Herter (8 June 1899 – 7 November 1984) was a German Classical philologist who was for many years Director of the Rheinischen Museum für Philologie, Bonn. His main interests lay in the works of Thucydides and Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte .... Among his prominent students is Heinz-Günther Nesselrath. References Sources *Rainer Lengeler, Ernst Vogt and Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp, eds. ''In memoriam Hans Herter. Reden gehalten am 3. Mai 1985 bei der Gedenkfeier der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn'', Bonn 1986. * Carl Werner Müller. "Nachruf auf Hans Herter", in: ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie'' 128, (1985:3-4). * Ernst Vogt: ''Bibliographie Hans Herter. Zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 1964'', Bonn 1964. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herder
A herder is a pastoralism, pastoral worker responsible for the care and management of a herd or flock of domestic animals, usually on extensive management, open pasture. It is particularly associated with nomadic pastoralism, nomadic or transhumant management of stock, or with common land grazing. The work is often done either on foot or riding animal, mounted. Depending on the type of animal being herd, the English language can give different professional names, for example, cowboy for cows, shepherd for sheep, or goatherd for goat. Terminology Herders may be distinguished by sex (''e.g.'', herdsman, herdswoman or herdboy) or by the type of livestock, for example camelherd, cowman (profession), cowherd, duckherd, goatherd or shepherd. By country China Tibetan herding communities living in the Tibetan Plateau in the Sichuan Province of southwest China continued to graze herds on common lands even after the 1982 Household responsibility system. Several reasons have been given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
