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Jahn Coleman
Jahn (Jähn) is a German surname. Notable people with this surname include the following: * Jahn Coleman (born 1993), English builder specialising in driveways * Constanze Jahn (born 1963), German chess player * David Jahn (born 1975), Czech burlesque impresario * Eduard Jahn (1871–1942), German mycologist and microbiologist * Erich Jahn (born 1907, date of death unknown), Hitler Youth leader * Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852), German educator, founding figure of German Turner athletic movement * Gunnar Jahn (1883–1971), Norwegian politician and resistance member * Gunter Jahn (1910–1992), German U-boat commander * Hans Max Jahn (1853–1906), German physical chemist * Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), German-American architect * Hermann Arthur Jahn (1907–1979), British scientist * Jan Jahn (1739–1802), Czech painter and art historian * Jeff Jahn (born 1970), American artist and critic * Johann Jahn (1750–1816), German Orientalist * Kurt Jahn (1892–1966), German general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Luise Jahn
Marie-Luise Jahn (28 May 1918 – 22 June 2010) was a German physician and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose during World War II. Biography Jahn was born in Sandlack, East Prussia (today Sędławki, Poland), where she grew up. From 1934 to 1937, she attended school in Berlin and began her studies in chemistry at the University of Munich in 1940. There Jahn became a close friend of Hans Conrad Leipelt and a member of the White Rose resistance group. After Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst had been imprisoned she continued to publish the Scholl leaflets and collected money to aid the widow of Kurt Huber. In October 1943, she was also arrested by the Gestapo for treason and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment by the Volksgerichtshof in 1944. She served 1.5 years of that sentence before the war ended. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Jahn
Wilhelm Hans "Willie" Jahn (27 February 1889 – 24 January 1973) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Biography Jahn was born in Magdeburg, Germany, to a family of publishers. He attended school in Berlin and joined the Wandervogel (German reform youth movement) while in high school ( Gymnasium) in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1912, he participated in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the 800m event. He was eliminated in the first round of the 800 meters competition, while his friend Hanns Braun moved up to take the bronze medal. Jahn became a leader in the '' Wandervogel'', part of the German Youth Movement. As such, he co-led the IWV (''Jungwandervogel'') for many years with Willie Jansen, participating at the famous 1913 Hohen Meissner meeting. As the '' Wandervogel'' movement was concerned with health and life reform for German youth, track and field became a central element of life in the organization, which led to Jahn's u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Jahn
Wilhelm Jahn (24 November 1835 in Dvorce – 21 April 1900 in Vienna) was an Austrian conductor. Life Jahn served as director of the Vienna Court Opera from 1880 to 1897 and principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882 to 1883. He gave the partial premiere of Bruckner's '' Symphony No. 6'', performing the middle two movements in 1883. in 1892 he conducted the world premiere of Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are ''Manon'' (1884 ...'s '' Werther'' in Vienna. References 1835 births 1900 deaths People from Bruntál District Moravian-German people Conductors (music) from Austria-Hungary Austrian male conductors (music) Austrian opera managers 19th-century Austrian conductors (music) 19th-century Austrian male musicians Conductor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jahn
Thomas Jahn (born 9 July 1965) is a German film and television director. Filmography Feature films * ''Knockin' on Heaven's Door "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film '' Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid''. Released as a single two months after the film's premiere, it became a worldwide hit, ...'' (1997) * (1998) * '' Auf Herz und Nieren'' (2001) * ''The Lost Samaritan'' (2008) * '' 80 Minutes'' (2008) * ''The Boxer'' (2009) TV film * ''Herzbeben - Die Nacht, die alles veränderte'' (1998) Television series episodes * '' Tatort'' * '' Der Dicke'' * '' Balko'' * ''Sperling'' * '' Der Kriminalist'' * '' Da kommt Kalle'' * '' SOKO Rhein-Main'' * ''Einsatz in Hamburg'' Awards ''Knockin' on Heaven's Door'' won the Gran Angular Award for Best Film at the 1997 Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival, and the Audience Award and Grand Prize at the 1998 Valenciennes International Festival of Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmund Jähn
Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (; 13 February 1937 – 21 September 2019) was a German Aircraft pilot, pilot, cosmonaut, and ''Generalmajor#Generalmajor in East Germany, Generalmajor'' (equivalent to a Brigadier General in Western armies) in the National People's Army of the East Germany, GDR. He was the first German to fly into space as part of the Soviet Union, Soviet Union's Interkosmos program in 1978. He was the very last living East German holder of the title Hero of the German Democratic Republic when he died in 2019. Early life Jähn was born on 13 February 1937, in the town of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, located within the Vogtland region of Saxony, Nazi Germany.. His father, Paul Jähn, was a sawmill worker, and his mother, Dora Jähn, was a housewife. Sigmund attended primary school from 1943 to 1951 and then trained in an apprenticeship program as a book printer from 1951 to 1954. Shortly after the apprenticeship, he worked as a :de:Pionierorganisation Ernst Thälmann, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan David Jahn
Ryan David Jahn (born 1979) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Biography Born in Arizona, Jahn spent much of his youth moving between his father's apartment in Austin, Texas, and his mother's various rentals in and around Los Angeles, California. At one point, while living near Los Angeles, he was one of six people sharing a one-bedroom apartment, and has said it was to avoid these cramped living quarters that he spent much of his time in public libraries. He finished high school at sixteen, and, after dropping out of college, joined the army, an experience he has described as "ludicrous". He now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Jessica, and two daughters, Francine and Matilda. Work Though his work has been described as crime fiction, including by Jahn himself ("It revolved around a crime, so that seemed to be what it was"), he has cited writers as diverse as Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemingway, and Stephen King as influences. His first novel, ''Acts of Violenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert G
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Jahn
Patrick Jahn (born 22 February 1983 in East Berlin, East Germany) is a retired German football player. He spent one season in the Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ... with FC Energie Cottbus. He retired in January 2009 for family reasons. References External links * * 1983 births Living people German men's footballers FC Energie Cottbus players FC Energie Cottbus II players FC Hansa Rostock players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Men's association football defenders Sportspeople from East Berlin Footballers from Berlin People from Treptow-Köpenick Greifswalder SV 04 players 21st-century German sportsmen {{germany-footy-defender-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Jahn
Otto Jahn (; 16 June 1813, in Kiel – 9 September 1869, in Göttingen), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music. Biography After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he traveled for three years in France and Italy. In Rome, he was greatly influenced by the work of August Emil Braun (1809–1856).Dictionary of Art Historians - Otto Jahn @ A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art In 1839 he became '''' at Kiel, and in 1842 professor-extraordinary of archaeology and |
Molly Jahn
Molly Jahn is an American plant geneticist and breeder and Professor of Agronomy at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She was Under Secretary of Research, Education and Economics in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2009 - 2010). Career Jahn (originally Kyle) graduated with BA in biology (with Distinction) from Swarthmore College in 1980. She subsequently completed a master's degree at MIT in 1983 and obtained her doctorate in plant breeding and plant pathology from Cornell University in 1988. She was appointed assistant, associate and finally full professor of plant breeding and plant biology at Cornell University from 1991-2006. She moved to University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and director of the Wisconsin Experiment Station from 2006 - 2011 and continues as professor of agronomy. She also holds appointments outside University of Wisconsin-Madison. During 2009-10, she was Deputy and Acting Under Secretary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jahn
Joseph Michael Jahn (born August 4, 1943) is an American journalist, author and memoirist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Sayville, New York. He moved to New York City in 1966 and was educated at Dowling College, Adelphi University, and Columbia University. He spent the first decade of his career covering cultural issues, mainly by becoming, in 1968, the first full-time rock journalist of ''The New York Times'' and the first full-time rock writer for any major daily newspaper.Gelb, Arthur. "City Room." New York: Putnam, 2003; p. 519 According to the Times metropolitan editor Arthur Gelb, he hired Jahn specifically to inaugurate the newspaper's coverage of rock music. One of his first assignments was to cover the Woodstock Festival. Jahn wrote more than 200 reviews of performances by rock bands and individual folk and blues artists for the ''New York Times'' between 1968 and 1971. He also wrote a column syndicated by North American Newspaper Alliance, 1967-1970, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
