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Krauss Locomotives
Krauss is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alison Krauss (born 1971), American bluegrass musician * Alexander Krauß (born 1975), German politician * Alexis Krauss (born 1985), musician of the noise pop duo Sleigh Bells * Amy Krauss (1876–1961), British artist * Anna Krauss (1884–1943) German clairvoyant * Beatrice Krauss (1903–1998), American botanist * Clemens Krauss (1893–1954), Austrian conductor * Clementine Krauss (1877-1938), Austrian ballerina, operetta singer, director, and actress * Charles A. W. Krauss (1851–1939), American politician * Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss (1812–1890), known as Ferdinand Krauss, German scientist, traveller and collector * Friedrich Salomon Krauss (1859–1938), Austrian ethnographer * Gabrielle Krauss (1842–1906), Austrian-born French operatic soprano * Georg Krauß, (1826–1906), German industrialist and the founder of the Krauss Locomotive Works ** Krauss-Maffei, German engineering company, na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, fiddler and music producer. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of eight and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join Union Station, releasing her first album with them as a group in 1989 and performing with them ever since. Krauss has released 14 albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and sparked a renewed interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack, and the ''Cold Mountain'' soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. Platinum-selling '' Raising Sand'' (2007) was the first of her two collaborations with English rock singer Robert Plant. As of 2019, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 42 nominati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence M
Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparatory & high schools * Lawrence Academy at Groton, a preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts, United States * Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, a high school in Pakistan * Lawrence School, Lovedale, a high school in India * The Lawrence School, Sanawar, a high school in India Research laboratories * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States * Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States People * Lawrence (given name), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (surname), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (band), an American soul-pop group * Lawrence (judge royal) (died after 1180), Hungarian nobleman, Judge royal 1164–1172 * Lawrence (musician), Lawrence Hayward (born 1961), British mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krausz
Krausz is a Hungarian names, Hungarian surname of German name, German and Jews, Jewish origin. Notable people with the name include: *Adrienne Krausz (born 1967), Hungarian pianist *Andor Kraszna-Krausz (1904–1989), Hungarian-British writer *Ernest Krausz (1931–2018), Israeli professor *Ferenc Krausz (born 1962), Hungarian-born Austrian physicist *Gergely Krausz (born 1993), Hungarian badminton player *Ilona Vincze-Krausz (1902–1998), Hungarian-Israeli teacher *Michael Krausz (born 1942), Swiss-born American philosopher *Nikolett Krausz (born 1981), Hungarian artistic gymnast *Peter Krausz (born 1946), Romanian-born Canadian artist *Robert Krausz (1936–2002), Israeli trader See also *Kraus *Krause *Krauss *Krauze {{surname, Krausz German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krauze
Krauze is the Polish form of the German surname Krause. Notable people with the surname include: * Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938), Polish composer * Andrzej Krauze (born 1947), Polish-born British cartoonist and illustrator * Enrique Krauze (born 1947), Mexican historian, essayist and publisher * Krzysztof Krauze (1953–2014), Polish film director, cinematographer and actor * León Krauze (born 1975), Mexican journalist See also * Kraus * Krause * Krauss * Krausz Krausz is a Hungarian names, Hungarian surname of German name, German and Jews, Jewish origin. Notable people with the name include: *Adrienne Krausz (born 1967), Hungarian pianist *Andor Kraszna-Krausz (1904–1989), Hungarian-British writer *Erne ... {{surname Polish-language surnames Surnames from nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krause
Krause (German for '' ruffle'') is a common German surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 64.9% of all known bearers of the surname ''Krause'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:531), 20.6% of the United States (1:7,541), 3.5% of Brazil (1:24,831), 2.4% of South Africa (1:9,550), 2.1% of Poland (1:7,891), 1.4% of Canada (1:11,446) and 1.2% of Australia (1:8,488). In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:531) in the following states: * 1. Brandenburg (1:204) * 2. Saxony-Anhalt (1:240) * 3. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:250) * 4. Berlin (1:279) * 5. Saxony (1:305) * 6. Schleswig-Holstein (1:345) * 7. Thuringia (1:388) * 8. Lower Saxony (1:448) * 9. Bremen (1:464) * 10. Hamburg (1:506) People * Alan Krause, a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne * Albert A. Krause (1841–1913), US Civil War Veteran, City Engineer of Buffalo NY, brother of Aurel Krause, great grandfather of Tory Bruno * Allison Krause (1951–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraus
Kraus is a German-language surname, meaning 'curly'. In addition to German-speaking countries, the surname is commonly found in the United States, Israel, and the Czech Republic (Czech feminine: Krausová). Notable people with the surname include: Arts *Adalbert Kraus (born 1937), German tenor * Adolph Robert Kraus (1850–1901), American sculptor *Alfredo Kraus (1927–1999), Spanish opera singer * Charles Kraus (clown) (born 1946), American clown, magician, writer and comedian * Chris Kraus (director) (born 1963), German film director and screen writer * Chris Kraus (writer) (born 1955), American writer and filmmaker * Dagmara Kraus (born 1981), German poet and translator * Daniel Kraus (author) (born 1975), American author *Detlef Kraus (1919–2008), German pianist * Ernst Kraus (1863–1941), German tenor * Felix von Kraus (1870–1937), Austrian singer * František R. Kraus (1903–1967), Czech writer * Franz Kraus (1905–1998), Israeli graphic designer * Georg Melchior Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Krauss (academic)
Werner Krauss (7 June 1900 – 28 August 1976) was a German university professor (Romance studies). During the 1940s he became a political activist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. In 1943 he was found guilty of preparing to commit high treason and condemned to death. Following the intervention of influential fellow-intellectuals the sentence was commuted to a five-year prison term in 1944. Life Provenance and early years Werner Krauss was the son of the archivist-scholar and his wife, born Ottilie Schüle. Werner's mother's sister was the mother of Eberhard Koebel. In June 1918 Werner Krauss successfully completed his schooling at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, after which he was conscripted into the wartime army. Discharged from the army in 1919 Krauss went on to study Literary sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at what later became the Humboldt University of Berlin, with a particular focus on Romance studies. Betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss (''Krauß'' in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film '' Jud Süß'' and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure. Early life Krauss was born at the parsonage of Gestungshausen bei Sonnefeld in Upper Franconia, where his grandfather was a Protestant pastor. He spent his childhood in Breslau and from 1901 attended the teacher's college at Kreuzburg. After it became known that he worked as an extra at the Breslau Lobe-Theater, he was suspended from classes and decided to join a travelling theatre company. Acting career In 1903 he debuted at the Guben municipal theatre. Although never trained as an actor, he continued to play in Magdeburg, in Bromberg at the Theater Aachen, in Nuremberg and in Munich. By the agency of Alexander Moissi, in 1913 he met the theatre director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas F Krauss
Thomas F Krauss is a physics researcher at the University of York, where he is the head of the photonics group and of the nanocentre cleanroom. Before he was head of the school of physics and astronomy at the University of St Andrews. He has several research interests, but is mostly known for his work in the field of photonic crystals, where he made the first demonstration of two-dimensional photonic band-gap effects at optical wavelengths. More recently, his research has been to use slow-light in photonic crystal waveguides in order to improve the performance of optoelectronic components. Krauss has been at the University of St Andrews since 2000, when he set up the Photonic Crystal Research Group (now called St Andrews Microphotonics). At St Andrews, Krauss holds the chair of Professor of Optoelectronics. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, both after being elected in 2002. Krauss has works in the field of integrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Krauss
Samuel Krauss ( Ukk, 18 February 1866 - Cambridge, 4 June 1948) was professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, Budapest, 1894–1906, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Vienna, 1906–1938. He moved to England as a refugee and spent his last years at Cambridge. He was a contributor to the ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' as ''S. Kr.'' "Professor Krauss's scholarship encompassed every area of ancient Judaism." In 1910, he became a pioneer in Talmudic archaeology with the publication of ''Talmudische Archäologie'', which was reprinted in Hebrew in 1924. In 1998, his 1922 study of the ancient synagogue A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ..., ''Synagogale Altertümer'', was still considered essential reading on the topic. In 1935 he published a comprehensive and detailed stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Krauss
Ruth Ida Krauss (July 25, 1901 – July 10, 1993) was an American writer of children's books, including '' The Carrot Seed'', and of theatrical poems for adult readers. Many of her books are still in print. Early life and education Ruth Krauss was born July 25, 1901, in Baltimore, Maryland to Julius Leopold and Blanche Krauss. As a child, Ruth had numerous health problems, including the rare autoimmune disorder pemphigus. She began writing and illustrating her own stories while still a child, hand sewing her pages into books. Ruth went to a local high school but left in 1917 after her sophomore year to focus on the study of art. She enrolled in the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (now known as the Maryland Institute College of Art). The school's focus on applied arts did not suit her and she left after about a year. Her next stop was a girls camp, Camp Walden in Maine, where she discovered her love for writing; the camp yearbook for 1919 contains her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalind E
Rosalind or Rosalinde may refer to: *Rosalind (given name) Astronomy *900 Rosalinde, asteroid *Rosalind (moon), moon of Uranus Literature * Rosalind (''As You Like It''), a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play ''As You Like It'' *Rosalind, the object of Colin Clout's love in Edmund Spenser's poem ''The Shepheardes Calender'' *"Rosalind", a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson *''Rosalind'', a play by J. M. Barrie Other *Rosalind (education platform), a platform and web project for learning bioinformatics through problem solving *Rosalind (harness horse) (foaled 1933), 1936 Hambletonian winner *Rosalind, Alberta, Canada *Rosalind Bank, a completely submerged bank in the western Caribbean Sea * (1916–1926), a British R-class destroyer See also *Rosalinda (other) Rosalinda may refer to: * Rosalinda (given name) * ''Rosalinda'' (album), a 2015 album by Marco Di Meco * ''Rosalinda'' (Mexican TV series), a Mexican telenovela starring Thalía ** ''Rosalinda'' (Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
