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Johanna Beyer Project
Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form ''Iōanna'' lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ could only occur initially. For more information on the name's origin, see the article on Joanna. Women named Johanna *Johanna Allik (born 1994), Estonian figure skater *Johanna van Ammers-Küller (1884–1966), Dutch writer * Johanna "Hannah" Arendt (1906–1975), German-born American political theorist * Johanna "Jo" Bauer-Stumpff (1873–1964), Dutch painter * Johanna Sophia of Bavaria (c.1373–1410), Duchess consort of Austria *Johanna Beisteiner (born 1976), Austrian classical guitarist * Johanna Berglind (1816–1903), Swedish sign language educator * Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir, Icelandic farmer *Johanna Bond, American law professor and academic administrator * Johanna "Annie" Bos (1886–1975), Dutch theater and silent film ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna
Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from . Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice, Jean, and Jeanne. The earliest recorded occurrence of the name Joanna, in Luke 8:3, refers to the disciple " Joanna the wife of Chuza," who was an associate of Mary Magdalene. Her name as given is Greek in form, although it ultimately originated from the Hebrew masculine name יְהוֹחָנָן ''Yəhôḥānān'' or יוֹחָנָן ''Yôḥānān'' meaning 'God is gracious'. In Greek this name became Ιωαννης ''Iōannēs'', from which ''Iōanna'' was derived by giving it a feminine ending. The name Joanna, like Yehohanan, was associated with Hasmonean families. Saint Joanna was culturally Hellenized, thus bearing the Grecian adaptation of a Jewish name, as was commonly done in her milieu. At the beginning of the Christian era, the names Iōanna and Iōannēs were already common in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Corleva
Johanna Corleva (1698–1752) was a Dutch translator and grammarian active in the 1740s. She is presumed to be the first female lexicographer from the Netherlands because of her Dutch–French dictionary ''De Schat der Nederduitsche Wortel-woorden''. Early life Born in 1698 to Anna Catrijna Tessemaker, an orphan from Cologne, and Lourens Corleva, an embroiderer from Delft, she was baptised in Amsterdam's Zuiderkerk on 8 October 1698. Her brother Joannes was born in 1700. Grammatical and philosophical works During the 1730s she translated grammatical and philosophical works and composed books of her own in these fields. During this time she became practiced in several languages, including French, Latin, and Greek. It seems her goal was to improve contemporary language usage by making it easier to learn "our fair and glorious mother tongue". In 1740 she published a Dutch translation of the philosophical work '' Grammaire générale et raisonnée'' by Antoine Arnauld Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Kirchner
Johanna "Hanna" Kirchner (née Johanna Stunz; 24 April 1889 – 9 June 1944) was a German German resistance to Nazism, opponent of the Nazism, Nazi régime. Life Johanna Stunz came from a social-democratic family from Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau. Her grandfather was one of Frankfurt's first social-democratic aldermen and her father, who was a master carpenter by trade, was also a committed social-democrat. At 14, she joined the Socialist Worker Youth, and at 18 became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (''Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands'' – SPD). She worked avidly in the women's movement. In Frankfurt, she became friends with Eleonore Wolf, whose life was taking a similar path. During the First World War, Kirchner, now a mother of two daughters, busied herself in communal welfare, dedicating herself to needy women's and children's welfare. After that, she worked in the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, Workers' Welfare organization (''Arbeiterwohlfahrt''; AWO), which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna July
Johanna "Chona" July (c. 18601942) was a skilled horsebreaker and member of the Black Seminole community. Biography Johanna was born near Nacimiento, Mexico in approximately 1860. Her ancestors had been forced to migrate from Florida to Nacimiento, by way of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, following the Indian Removal Act. She was born to Jennie Bruner (also spelled Bruno). Some narrative refer to her father with the last name Philips, likely Black Seminole U.S. Army scout Ned Philips. Others claim her father was Elijah July. In 1870, Ned Philips joined the Black Seminole scouts in exchange for land and American citizenship. Johanna, her parents, and her brother Joseph moved to Fort Duncan Fort Duncan was a United States Army base, set up to protect the first U.S. settlement on the Rio Grande near the current town of Eagle Pass, Texas. History A line of seven army posts was established in 1848–49 after the Mexican War to protec ..., where her father broke horses for the army, far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Joseph
Johanna Joseph (born January 21, 1992, in Enghien-les-Bains) is a French basketball player who plays for club Flammes Carolo Basket Ardennes of the Ligue Féminine de Basketball The Ligue Féminine de Basketball (LFB; ''Women's Basketball League'') is the top women's France, French professional basketball league. The LFB authorities announced that the championship is renamed La Boulangère Wonderligue (LBWL) as for the se ... the top league of basketball of women in France.http://www.basketlfb.com/clubs/joueuse.asp?ID=1044001006119&CLU_N_ID=27 sports reference retrieved March 3, 2013 References French women's basketball players 1992 births Living people 21st-century French sportswomen Sportspeople from Enghien-les-Bains {{France-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Jachmann-Wagner
Johanna Jachmann-Wagner or Johanna Wagner (13 October 1828 – 16 October 1894) was a mezzo-soprano singer, tragédienne in theatrical drama, and teacher of singing and theatrical performance who won great distinction in Europe during the third quarter of the 19th century. She was a niece of the composer Richard Wagner and was the original performer, and in some respects the inspiration, of the character of Elisabeth in '' Tannhäuser''. She was also the original intended performer of Brünnhilde in ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'', but in the event assumed other roles. Early career Johanna Wagner was born in Seelze, Hanover. She was the natural daughter of a soldier named Bock von Wülfingen, and was adopted by Albert Wagner (1799–1874) (eldest brother of Richard) and his wife Elise (1800–1864). They had two other daughters. From Seelze the family moved to Würzburg in 1830, where both parents worked in the Royal Bavarian Theatre, father being an actor, singer and stage-manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Helena Herolt
Johanna Helena Herolt (1 May 1668 – after 1723) was an 18th-century botanical artist from Germany. She was well-known for her paintings similar to her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian, with her draftsmanship. Biography Herolt was the eldest daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them along with her sister Dorothea Maria Graff.Johanna Helena Herolt in the Though she was born in Frankfurt, in 1670 the family moved to Nuremberg, where she was raised. In 1681 her mother returned to Frankfurt without her father, in order to live with her mother after her stepfather Jacob Marrel [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Hedén
Johanna Maria Hedén, née Bowall (21 July 1837 – December 1912) was a Swedish midwife, Feldsher (or barber surgeon), apothecary, and barber A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse .... She is the first known licensed female feldsher in Sweden and as such the first known formally educated and trained female surgeon in Sweden. Life Johanna Hedén was born in a poor family. Her mother died in childbirth because of an incompetent midwife. Her father denied her education because of her gender and provided her a position as a domestic in Stockholm. Her employer, however, persuaded her brother to allow her to study. Hedén took her license as a midwife in 1858, after which she also trained as an apothecary. At that time, feldsher- and barber was the title for a surgeon who perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger
Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (4 October 1862 – 2 September 1925) was a Dutch editor who translated the hundreds of letters of her first husband, art dealer Theo van Gogh (art dealer), Theo van Gogh, and his brother, Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh-Bonger played a key role in the growth of Vincent van Gogh's posthumous fame. Johanna and Theo van Gogh's son Vincent Willem van Gogh (art collector), Vincent Willem (1890–1978), who was named after his uncle, founded the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Family and early years Johanna (Jo) Gezina Bonger was born on 4 October 1862 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The daughter of Hendrik Christiaan Bonger (1828–1904), an insurance broker, and Hermine Louise Weissman (1831–1905), she was the fifth of seven children. She was especially close to her older brother Andries Bonger (1861–1936). Andries moved to Paris in 1879, and the two regularly exchanged letters. Her youngest brother, Willem Bonger, Willem Adriaan Bonger (1876–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Griggs
Johanna Leigh Griggs (born 17 October 1973) is an Australian television presenter and former competitive swimmer. She won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. Griggs has been at the Seven Network since 1993 where she joined Seven Sport, first as a host at the Australian Open. She hosts the network's Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and the Australian Open, as well as being a presenter of their Melbourne Cup coverage. She has been the host of '' Better Homes and Gardens'' since 2005 and '' House Rules'' from 2013 until 2019. Commonwealth Games – swimming career Griggs represented Australia at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990—winning a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke event. Her career was cut short after a battle with chronic fatigue syndrome that began when she was 17. She had previously attempted a comeback in 1992; however, the exertion of that comeback attempt had hospitalised her with pleurisy, and it ultimately caused her to withdraw fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Greie
Johanna Greie (1864–1911), also known as Johanna Greie-Cramer, was a German-American writer, socialist, and reformer. Biography Born in Dresden on January 6, 1864 to middle-class parents, her formal education ended after primary school. She met and married Emile Greie, a lathe-turner devoted to the free-thought and Social Democratic movements. A friend of her husband's, the writer , discovered her literary ability and urged her to write for his paper, the ''Neue Magdeburger Tageblatt'', where she worked for some years. Forced to leave Germany as a result of the political convictions of her husband, whose views she shared, the couple moved to America in 1887. She "flowered virtually overnight into a leading Socialist writer and lecturer", becoming an editorialist in ', the party's weekly national newspaper; her major essay on the subject, "Is It Necessary For Women to Organize Themselves?," was published in early 1888 there and soon reprinted as the first major political treat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Fateman
Johanna Rachel Fateman (born May 16, 1974) is an American writer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. She is a member of the electropunk band Le Tigre and founded the band MEN (band), MEN with Le Tigre bandmate JD Samson. Early life and education Fateman grew up in Berkeley, California, where her father, computer scientist Richard Fateman is a professor at UC Berkeley. On the official Le Tigre website, Fateman refers to filmmaker Miranda July as being her "best friend from The College Preparatory School#Notable alumni, high school"; July is also from Berkeley. At the age of seventeen, Fateman moved to Portland, Oregon, to attend Reed College, which she later left for art school in New York City. Writing Fateman began her writing career producing zines including ''My Need To Speak on the Subject of Jackson Pollock''; ''ArtaudMania!!! The Diary of a Fan''; ''The Opposite, Part I''; and ''SNARLA'', which she co-wrote with Miranda July. It was through her zines that Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
