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Kessler (name)
Kessler or Keßler is a surname of German origin. It is an occupational name that means ''coppersmith'', or more precisely, a kettle (German ) maker. In alpine countries the name derived from the definition "the one living in the basin of a valley". The surname is frequent in America among Jewish (Ashkenazi) communities. People named Kessler include: * Achim Kessler (born 1964), German politician * Adolf Wilhelm von Kessler, German banker * Alice Harriet Blosse Lynch, Alice Harriet von Kessler, Anglo-Irish socialite * Kessler Twins, Alice & Ellen Kessler, twins known for their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 * Amalia Kessler, American lawyer * Andrew Kessler (politician) (died 1896), American politician from Maryland * Anna Rose Kessler Moore, American singer * Andy Kessler (author), (born 1959), author, investor, financier * Andy Kessler (skateboarder), (died 2009), skateboarder * Barbara Kessler, American singer-songwriter * Bruce Kessler, television and film dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or ( recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited." Relationship Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy. Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Aaron Kessler
David Aaron Kessler (born May 13, 1951) is an American pediatrician, attorney, author, and administrator (both academic and governmental) serving as Chief Science Officer of the White House COVID-19 Response Team since 2021. Kessler was the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 8 November 1990 to 28 February 1997. He co-chaired the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021 and headed Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments, from January to February 2021. Background Born in Brooklyn and raised in Freeport, New York, Kessler graduated in 1969 from Woodmere Academy (since renamed Lawrence Woodmere Academy). After graduating from Amherst College in 1973, Kessler studied medicine at Harvard University. In 1975 he took a leave of absence from Harvard to study law and obtained a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Kessler (screenwriter)
Glenn Kessler (born April 6, 1970) is an American screenwriter, television producer, actor, and director. Early life and education Kessler grew up in the suburbs of Detroit suburb and graduated from the Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills in 1988. Later he attended Harvard University, graduating in 1992 and then New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1997. Career He is the co-creator and executive producer of the Golden Globe award-winning FX drama series ''Damages'' along with his younger brother, Todd A. Kessler, and Daniel Zelman. He also stars on the show as FBI agent Werner. The three creators were nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for their work on the ''Damages'' pilot episode "''Get Me A Lawyer''". In 2015, the Kessler brothers and Zelman created the Netflix original series, ''Bloodline''. The show was cancelled in 2016, and ended its run after its third season, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Kessler (journalist)
Glenn Kessler (born July 6, 1959) is an American editor and writer who has written "The Fact Checker" feature for ''The Washington Post'' since 2011. Career Kessler is a 1981 graduate of Brown University and received a Masters of International Affairs in 1983 from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Kessler is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kessler joined ''The Washington Post'' in 1998 as the national business editor and later served as economic policy reporter for two years and diplomatic correspondent for nine years. Kessler also was a reporter with ''Newsday'' for eleven years, covering the White House, politics, the United States Congress, airline safety and Wall Street. His examination of the government's failure to recognize that DC-9-10 jets were susceptible to stalling in icy conditions won the Premier Award from the Aviation/Space Writers Association. At ''Newsday'', Kessler shared in two Pulitzer Prizes given for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Kessler
Gladys Kessler (January 22, 1938 – March 16, 2023) was a United States district judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia. Education and career After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School, she was hired by the National Labor Relations Board. She worked as a legislative assistant to Senator Harrison A. Williams ( D– NJ), and subsequently for United States Congressman Jonathan B. Bingham ( D– NY). Kessler worked for the New York City Board of Education, and then opened a public interest law firm. Judicial career Superior Court of the District of Columbia service In June 1977, she was appointed as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and from 1981 to 1985 served as presiding judge of the family division. She was president of the National Association of Women Judges from 1983 to 1984, and served on the executive committee of the American Bar Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germán Kessler
Germán Kessler (born 1 July 1994) is a Uruguayan rugby union player who currently plays for Rouen in France's Nationale. International career In 2014, he was called by the Uruguayan U20 national team to compete at the 2014 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy, having outstanding performances and helping the team finish 4th. In 2015 he was named in Uruguay's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup The IRB 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship. The tournament was hosted by England from 18 September to 31 October. Of the 20 countries competing in the World Cup in 2011, there was .... References External links * 1994 births Living people Uruguayan expatriate rugby union players in the United States Rugby union hookers Rugby union players from Montevideo Uruguay international rugby union players Uruguayan people of German descent Utah Warriors players Uruguayan expatriate rugby union players in France Proven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kessler
George Edward Kessler (July 16, 1862 – March 20, 1923) was an American pioneer city planner and landscape architect. Over the course of his forty-one year career, George E. Kessler completed over 200 projects and prepared plans for 26 communities, 26 park and boulevard systems, 49 parks, 46 estates and residences, and 26 schools. His projects are in 100 cities in 23 states, such as in Shanghai, New York, and Mexico City. Early life and education George E. Kessler was born in Frankenhausen, Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, to Edward Carl Kessler and Adolphe Clotilde Zeitsche Kessler on July 16, 1862. In 1865, the family, including George's sister, Fredericka Antionette Louisa, emigrated to the United States. After living briefly in New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin, the family ultimately settled in Dallas, Texas, where George's father and uncle invested in a cotton plantation. His father died in 1878. At the age of sixteen, George became a cashboy at Sanger Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geldolph Adriaan Kessler
Geldolph Adriaan "Dolf" Kessler (2 April 1884 – 21 August 1945) was a Dutch association football, footballer and industrialist. Kessler – along with brother Boelie Kessler, Boeli and cousins Tonny Kessler, Tonny and Dé Kessler, Dé – played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won three caps for the Netherlands national football team, Dutch national side between 1905 and 1906. Family background Kessler was born in a very wealthy family from The Hague, the oldest son of six children. His father Jean Baptiste August Kessler (1853–1900) was the first director of the Koninklijke Maatschappij tot exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-Indië (K.N.M.E.P.) (''Royal Dutch Society for the exploitation of Petroleumsources in the Dutch East-Indies''), which would eventually turn into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (''Royal Dutch Petroleum Company''), now named Royal Dutch Shell. Football career Dolf made his debut as a football p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich August Kessler
Friedrich August Kessler (30 December 1826 – April 1906) was a German landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Life Kessler received his first painting lessons from his father, Christian Friedrich Kessler (1799–1854). In 1841, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Art Academy. There, he studied under landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1843 to 1854. Kessler was a founding member of the artists' association "Malkasten" in Düsseldorf, where he resided as a freelance painter after his studies. For a time, he lived with Eugen Bracht, Fritz Ebel, and Carl Friedrich Harveng. He undertook study trips to various coastal, low mountain range, and Alpine landscapes, including the Teutoburg Forest, Hesse, Bavaria, Tyrol, Northern Italy, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium. In 1854, writer Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter classified him as a "historical-stylistic landscaper" following Nicolas Poussin's theory of modes. From 1860 to 1892, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Kessler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kessler (August 25, 1901 – January 21, 1998) was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School (1935–1938, 1947–1970), University of Chicago Law School, and University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He was a contract law scholar, but he also wrote about trade regulation law. He was regarded as a member of the American Legal Realism School. Biography Born in Hechingen, Province of Hohenzollern, in 1901, he received his law degree from the University of Berlin in 1928. He was a research member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Foreign and International Law in Berlin until 1934, when he fled Germany to avoid Nazi persecution, as his wife, Eva Jonas, was Jewish. Friedrich Kessler died on January 21, 1998, in Berkeley, California, aged 96. Scholarship Kessler's most celebrated article''Contracts of Adhesion—Some Thoughts About Freedom of Contract'' elaborates the concept of "contrat d'adhésion" which originated in French civil law at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick P
Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Given name Nobility = Anhalt-Harzgerode = * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) = Austria = * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans = Baden = * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden = Bohemia = * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia = Britain = * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain = Brandenburg/Prussia = * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Margra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Kessler
Emil Julius Carl Kessler (20 August 1813 – 16 March 1867) was a German businessman and founder of the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen ('Esslingen Engineering Works'). Biography Kessler was born in Baden-Baden, attended school there and later studied constructional and mechanical engineering in Karlsruhe. In 1837 he founded an engineering works with Theodor Martiensen in Karlsruhe, where tools, small machines and railway equipment were manufactured. In 1840/1841 the Royal Württemberg Railway Commission tendered for railway construction and the production of rolling stock to pave the way for the Royal Württemberg State Railways (''Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen''). Kessler's bid was successful and in 1841 he built his first steam locomotive, the '' Badenia'' for the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway (''Großherzoglich Badische Staatsbahn''). From 1842 Kessler was the sole owner of the new firm ''Kesslers Maschinenfabrik'' ('Kessler's Engineering Works'). In 1848 it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
