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Hoffmeister
Hoffmeister is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adolf Hoffmeister (1902–1973), Czechoslovak artist *Bert Hoffmeister (1907–1999), Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist *Cuno Hoffmeister (1892–1968), German astronomer and geophysicist * Edmund Hoffmeister (1893–1951), German army officer, ''Generalleutnant'' *Florian Hoffmeister (born 1970), German cinematographer and director * Frank Hoffmeister (born 1965), German swimmer * Frank Hoffmeister (lawyer), German lawyer * Franz Hoffmeister (1898–1943), German Roman Catholic priest *Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812), German composer and music publisher * Freya Hoffmeister (born 1964), German expeditioner and sea-kayaker * Gunhild Hoffmeister (born 1944), East German-German runner *Hans Hoffmeister (1901–1980), German discus thrower * Hans Hoffmeister (water polo) (1936–2016), German water polo player * Jesse Hoffmeister (1872–1933), American baseball player * Peter Brown Hof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Hoffmeister
Adolf Hoffmeister (15 August 1902 – 24 July 1973) was a Czechoslovak writer, publicist, playwright, painter, draughtsman, scenographer, cartoonist, translator, diplomat, lawyer, university professor and traveller. During the war, he served as editor of the radio station Voice of America, and after the war the Czechoslovak ambassador to France. In 1951 he became a professor at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague. He was a founding member of Devětsil (1920), chairman of the Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists (1964–1967, 1968–1969), and a member of International Association of Art Critics. Hoffmeister represented Czechoslovakia at UNESCO, the PEN International, PEN Club and other international organizations. Hoffmeister's career was ended by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and the subsequent occupation. Life Youth, studies He was born into the family of the Prague lawyer JUDr. Adolf Hoffmei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (12 May 1754 – 9 February 1812) was a German and Austrian composer and music publisher. Early years Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Further Austria, on 12 May 1754. At the age of fourteen, he went to Vienna to study law. Following his studies, however, he decided on a career in music and by the 1780s he had become one of the city’s most popular composers, with an extensive and varied catalogue of works to his credit. Hoffmeister’s reputation today rests mainly on his activities as a music publisher. By 1785 he had established one of Vienna’s first music publishing businesses, second only to Artaria & Co, which had ventured into the field five years earlier. Hoffmeister published his own works as well as those of many important composers of the time, including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf and Johann Baptist Wanhal. These famous composers were also amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1726 Hoffmeister
1726 Hoffmeister, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid and namesake of the Hoffmeister family from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 23 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 July 1933, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany, and named after astronomer Cuno Hoffmeister. Orbit and classification ''Hoffmeister'' is the namesake and lowest-numbered member of the very compact Hoffmeister family (), which, based upon its low albedo, was most likely formed from the breakup of a 50–100 kilometer-sized, carbon-rich parent body within the past several hundred million years. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.7–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,700 days; semi-major axis of 2.79 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.04 and an inclination of 3 ° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as at the Yerkes Observatory in 1924, ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Pedro/Peter Brown Hoffmeister is an American author, poet, and rock climber. His books include ''Too Shattered For Mending'', ''This Is The Part Where You Laugh'', ''The End of Boys'', ''Let Them Be Eaten By Bears – A Fearless Guide To Taking Our Kids into The Great Outdoors'', ''Graphic the Valley'', ''Confessions of the Last Man On Earth Without A Cell Phone,'' and ''American Afterlife''. He has also written for ''Climbing Magazine'', '' Rock and Ice'', ''Vice'', Climbing.com, ''Gripped Magazine'', ''Ampheta'Zine'', and the ''Huffington Post''. He was a 2006 recipient of the Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for Fiction. He has worked as a rock climbing and whitewater rafting guide, and currently teaches literature, outdoor pursuits, and survival in Eugene, Oregon. Works *''The End of Boys'', a memoir (Soft Skull Press, 2011) *''Let Them Be Eaten By Bears – A Fearless Guide To Taking Our Kids into The Great Outdoors'' (Penguin, 2013) *''Graphic the Valley'' (Simon & Schuste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuno Hoffmeister
Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory. Born in Sonneberg in 1892 to Carl and Marie Hoffmeister, Cuno Hoffmeister obtained his first telescope in 1905 and became an avid Amateur astronomy, amateur astronomer. After his father lost most of his money in 1914, Hoffmeister had to leave school in 1916 to start an apprenticeship in his father's company. During this time he continued to study spherical mathematics and trigonometry. In April 1915 he had the opportunity to substitute as the assistant of Ernst Hartwig at ''Remeis Observatory'' in Bamberg while the current holder of the position was drafted, mainly working on observations of meteors and variable stars. He held this position until the end of the war and then moved back to Sonneberg, where he made his Abitur in 1920. After studying at the University of Jena, while at the same time c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freya Hoffmeister
Freya Hoffmeister (born 10 May 1964) is a German business owner and athlete who holds several sea kayaking endurance records. In 2009 she completed a circumnavigation of Australia solo and unassisted, becoming the first woman and only the second person to do so. Freya holds the fastest record for completing this trip On 3 May 2015, she became the first person to solo circumnavigate the continent of South America. Personal Hoffmeister has been athletic from a young age, able to walk on her hands around her family home at the age of six. She competed as a gymnast, but grew too tall for the sport at age sixteen. She shifted to skeet shooting, and at twenty-three took up skydiving, completing 1,500 jumps, including the first-ever tandem jump onto the North Pole. She is also former Miss Germany beauty contestant, coming in sixth in the competition. Hoffmeister owns a chain of seven franchise ice cream cafes, a salad bistro and a Christmas shop. Iceland circumnavigation In 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Hoffmeister
Major General Bertram Meryl Hoffmeister, (15 May 1907 – 4 December 1999) was a Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist. He served with distinction during the last two years of the Second World War, becoming, in Jack Granatstein's words, "the best Canadian fighting general of the war", rising from captain and a company commander in 1939 to major general and commander of the 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division in 1944. Early life and career Born in Vancouver, British Columbia to parents Louis and Flora, Hoffmeister was a sales manager with the Canadian White Pine Co. Ltd. in Vancouver. He enlisted with the Non-Permanent Active Militia (NPAM, the Canadian Army Reserve Force) in 1927. He was promoted captain in 1934. After he was promoted to major, in 1939, he was made officer commanding a company of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, who went to England in 1939, the year the Second World War began, as part of Andrew McNaughton's 1st Canadian Division. Second Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hoffmeister (lawyer)
Frank Hoffmeister is a lawyer from Germany now working in the European External Action Service. He is the President of the Brussels branch Europa Union. Education Hoffmeister was born in Frankfurt in 1969. He studied law at university and was awarded a Law PhD from Heidelberg University in 1998. He was an assistant at Humboldt University's Walter Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law. Career His career in the European Commission began in 2001 initially working in DG Enlargement and then in legal services. He served in the Commission’s Legal Service and Cyprus Desk. Hoffmeister was a United Nations Special Advisor on Cyprus and an OSCE election observer in Macedonia. He was affiliated with the European University Institute. Hoffmeister served in the European Commission as the Deputy Head of Karel De Gucht's Cabinet from 2010 until 2014 and in 2017 was Head of the Unit for Investigations, spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Hoffmeister
Edmund Hoffmeister (4 March 1893 – 20 February 1951) was an officer in the German Army, mainly notable for his service in World War II. Hoffmeister's military service began in 1914 in the Imperial German army. During the 1930s, Hoffmeister was part of the 'Foreign Armies' () section of the German military and acted as liaison officer with the Soviet Union on the development of mechanised units. Colonel (''Oberst'') Hoffmeister, as commander of Infantry Regiment 21 of the German 17th Infantry Division, was scheduled to link up with a 131-man '' Brandenburger'' commando team during Operation Sea Lion (''Unternehmen Seelöwe'') and push up the coast to Dover. Hoffmeister's division was to be part of the German 16th Army's area of operations. Operation Sea Lion was to have been launched in 1940 after the Fall of France, but it was abandoned in September of that same year. Promoted to Lieutenant-General (''Generalleutnant''), Hoffmeister commanded the German 383rd Infantry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoffmeister (crater)
Hoffmeister is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, to the northwest of the huge walled plain Mendeleev. Some distance to the north of Hoffmeister lies the crater Siedentopf, and to the west-northwest is Gavrilov. This is a somewhat eroded crater with Hoffmeister N attached to the southern rim. A small crater with a high albedo Albedo ( ; ) is the fraction of sunlight that is Diffuse reflection, diffusely reflected by a body. It is measured on a scale from 0 (corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation) to 1 (corresponding to a body that reflects ... lies along the common rim between Hoffmeister and this satellite. A small crater also lies along the northwestern rim of Hoffmeister. The interior floor of Hoffmeister is relatively featureless. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Hoffmeister. See also * 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Hoffmeister
Heinrich Bernhard Karl Hoffmeister (17 March 1901 – 9 January 1980) was a German discus thrower who set a world record at 48.77 m in 1928. He showed much worse results at the 1928 Summer Olympics (best throw 39.17 m) and placed 25th. Career Hoffmeister won the national discus title in 1926, 1930 and 1931, and finished second in javelin in 1927. Next year he won the Irish discus and javelin titles. Hoffmeister was a graphic artist and drew portraits and cartoons of many German athletes at the 1928 Olympics. He later worked for German daily newspapers. Hoffmeister finished third behind Patrick Bermingham in the discus throw event at the British 1926 AAA Championships and finished third behind Koloman Marvalits in the discus event at the 1927 AAA Championships The 1927 AAA Championships was the 1927 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 1 to 4 July 1927 at Stamford Bridge (stadium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Hoffmeister
Florian Hoffmeister, (born 1970), is a German cinematographer and director, best known for his work on ''Tár'', which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. Projects he has worked on include ''Five Days'', ''House of Saddam'' and AMC's ''The Terror''. He has collaborated with director Terence Davies on two occasions, working on ''The Deep Blue Sea'' and ''A Quiet Passion''. His other credits include '' In Secret'', ''Mortdecai'' and ''Johnny English Strikes Again''. Career Hoffmeister graduated from high school in 1989 and got his first job as an intern electrician on a film production. He studied directing and cinematography at Berlin's German Film and Television Academy. His first film, ' won him a Silver Leopard for Best First Feature Film at the Locarno International Film Festival. A major breakthrough would come in 2011 when he served as the primary cinematographer on the British television mini-series ''Great Expectations'', winning him an Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
