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Lachs
Lachs (German for "salmon") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Lachs (1879-1979), Bavarian-Swedish visual artist * Charlotta Lachs (1867-1920), Bavarian-Swedish singer * Friedrichs Lachs (1832-1910), Bavarian-Swedish brewmaster * John Lachs (born 1934), American academic * Manfred Lachs (1914–1993), Polish diplomat and jurist * Minna Lachs (1907–1993), Austrian educator and memoirist * Stephen Lachs (born 1939), American judge See also * Lach (other) * Lox, a fillet of brined salmon Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family (biology), family Salmonidae, native .... {{surname, Lachs German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Lachs
Manfred Lachs (21 April 1914 – 14 January 1993) was a Polish diplomat and jurist who served as a Judge of the International Court of Justice and greatly influenced the development of international law after World War II. Life Lachs was born to a Jewish family. Lachs attended the Jagiellonian University in Kraków where he earned a doctorate in Laws (1937). Right after his studies, he started working for the Consular Academy of Vienna and afterwards in the London School of Economics. Lachs was drafted in the army and throughout his military service he was advisor to the Polish government. During the Second World War, Lachs escaped to London, and served as secretary to Ignacy Schwarzbart, who was one of the two Jewish representatives on the National Council of the Polish government-in-exile. Lachs' family, which remained in Poland, were murdered in the Holocaust. Lachs was devoted towards ensuring the prosecution of the perpetrators of the Holocaust and of crimes in Poland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Lachs
Stephen Michael Lachs (born September 1939) is an American lawyer and retired judge. Lachs served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 1979 to 1999. He was the first openly gay judge appointed in the United StatesNation's 1st Openly Gay Judge to Retire '''' (September 2, 1999). and is thought to be the first openly gay judge appointed anywhere in the world. Early life and education Lachs received a |
John Lachs
John Lachs (July 17, 1934 – November 14, 2023) was a Hungarian-born American philosopher. He was Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where he began teaching in 1967. Lachs received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1961. His primary focus was on American philosophy (most prominently George Santayana) and German Idealism. Biography John Lachs was born in Budapest, Hungary, on July 17, 1934. He emigrated to Canada as a child, and he received his B.A. and M.A. from McGill University in 1956 and 1957. At Yale University, he wrote a dissertation on the philosophy of George Santayana, graduating in 1961. He began his career at the College of William and Mary where in 1962 he was given the PBK award for distinguished teaching and scholarship. He was a member of the Vanderbilt University faculty from 1967 until his death and wrote a number of books and many articles over this period and before. In 1997 he served as president of the Metaphysical Society o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lachs
Charles Georg Lachs (1879-1972) was a Bavarian- Swedish visual artist. Specialising in oil and etching, his motifs ranged from landscapes and portraits to humble working class areas around ''fin de siècle'' Stockholm. Biography Charles Lachs was born in 1879 in Örebro to Friedrichs Lachs, and Fredrika (née Lorentzon). He was the brother of Charlotte Lachs, singer, and Alice Brauner. He married Ellen Lindelöw from Ångermanland. Lachs studied at Tekniska skolan (future Konstfack) 1894-1897, and at Konstnärsförbundets målarskola 1900. In addition, he was tutored at the etching school of Axel Tallberg, and made study travels around the United States, and the German Empire. He shared atelier with artists such as Ivar Arosenius, and John Bauer. Lachs is represented inter alia at the National Library of Sweden, and Stockholm City Museum. References * ''Södermalm med omnejd i bilder av Charles Lachs'' (Stockholmia förlag, 2009, ) by Alice Rasmussen *''Svenskt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotta Lachs
Charlotte Lachs (May 21, 1867 – January 13, 1920) was a Swedish-American soprano singer of Bavarian descent. With repertoire including composers such as Johannes Brahms, Hermann Berens, and Carl Czerny, she performed across Europe and America. Biography Charlotte Lachs was born May 21, 1867, in Lindesberg, Sweden, to Friedrichs Lachs, a Bavarian brewmaster who had immigrated to Sweden in 1860, and Fredrika (née Lorentzon). Her siblings included Alice Brauner, and Charles Lachs, a visual artist.Södermalm med omnejd i bilder av Charles Lachs (, Stockholmia förlag 2009), by Alice Rasmussen For her studies, Charlotte Lachs relocated to her family home region where she was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Music of Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria. Among her teachers were Bernhard Fexer, Hugo Beyer, and Professor Hans Hasselbeck, the latter who considered her "an artist of great technical ability". After a concert with the Swedish glee club in Tammany Hall, New York City, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |