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Langer Rück
Langer is a surname originally of German origin. For the etymology, meaning, and pronunciation of the name, and for the Hiberno-English slang word, see Wiktionary. People with the family name Langer include: Academics and scientists * Alois Langer, biomedical engineer * Arthur M. Langer, professor of professional practice * Bernard Langer (surgeon), surgeon * Ellen Langer, professor of psychology * James S. Langer, professor of physics * Jerzy Langer, professor of physics * Karl Langer, (1819–1887), professor of anatomy ** Langer's lines, named for him * Lawrence L. Langer, Holocaust scholar * Lawrence M. Langer, professor of physics * Robert S. Langer, chemical engineer * Rudolf Ernest Langer, mathematician ** the Langer correction, named for him * Ruth Langer, professor of theology * Salomon Z. Langer, pharmacologist * Susanne Langer, professor of philosophy * Walter C. Langer, psychoanalyst * William L. Langer, historian Artists and entertainers * A. J. La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanne Langer
Susanne Katherina Langer (; Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the earliest American women to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be professionally recognized as an American philosopher. Langer is best remembered for her 1942 book '' Philosophy in a New Key'', which was followed by a sequel, ''Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art'', in 1953. In 1960, Langer was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Life Born Susanne Katherina Knauth, Langer was raised in Manhattan's West Side in New York City. She was the daughter of Antonio Knauth, an attorney, and Else Uhlich, both immigrants from Germany. Though she was American born, Langer's primary language was German, as it was strictly spoken in her household throughout her youth, and her German accent remained for her entire life. She was exposed thoro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Langer
Ivan Langer (born 1 January 1967 in Olomouc) is a former Czech politician. He has been a member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 1991. From 1996 to 2010 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (in 1996-2006 a vice-chairman), serving as Minister of Informatics and Minister of the Interior. Early life and education Langer graduated from the Medical Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc and the Law Faculty at Charles University in Prague. Political career In 1989 he was a student at Palacky University, and a member of the State Student Strike Committee. He joined ODS in 1991. From 1996 to 2010 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic The Chamber of Deputies, officially the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (, PS PČR), is the lower house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The chamber has 200 seats and deputies are elected for four-year terms u ..., and from 1998 to 2006 he was a vice-chairman of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Langer
Alexander Langer (22 February 1946 – 3 July 1995) was an Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, translator, and teacher. After taking part in the Protests of 1968 and garnering regional attention during the 1970s as a peace and environmental activist, in 1978 he became the first New Left candidate to be elected in South Tyrol. During the 1980s, Langer became a national figure as a member of the Federation of the Greens, and was elected to the European Parliament from 1989 until his death in 1995. Biography Born on 22 February 1946 in Sterzing, Alto Adige / South Tyrol, a province of Italy inhabited by a German-speaking population, he became involved early on in local political issues, which at the time centred on the interethnic relations in the region, which after two world wars and decades of tensions and terrorism were very tense. In the early 1970s, he was active in Lotta Continua, a left-wing political organization in Italy. Later, he joined the Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langer Vote
A Langer vote was a style of voting in the Australian electoral system designed to avoid the requirement to express preferences for all candidates without the vote being rejected as informal. The title is a tribute to Albert Langer,. an Australian political activist, who advocated for the use of this style as a ''de facto'' method of optional preferential voting for making a valid vote for the voter's preferred candidates while the deliberate "error" avoided the vote being counted for one of the major political parties. (1996) 24 Federal Law Review 201. Voters were advised to mark 1, 2, . .n, for favoured candidates, but to mark a repetition of the next digit against each of the remaining candidates. For example, a vote would be marked 1, 2, 3, 3, 3. The votes for the first and second candidates would be counted but the remaining candidates would then not receive preferences. From 1983 this was a valid vote, however since 1998 the Electoral Act requires that there be no repeated n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Langer
Albert Langer (also known as Arthur Dent) is an Australian political activist, best known for his 1996 conviction and jailing on contempt charges after breaching an injunction forbidding his advocacy of marking electoral ballot papers in a way discouraged by the Australian Electoral Commission. As a result of his imprisonment, Amnesty International declared him the first Australian prisoner of conscience for over 20 years. Life and early activism Langer was educated at Monash University, where he studied mathematics and became a prominent student activist during the Vietnam War years. He was a leader of the Maoist Monash Labor Club at the university, and supported the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist). He was also associated with a movement which argued that software should be free of copyright laws. Langer is an active opponent of Zionism and was a member of Jews Against Zionism and Anti-Semitism (JAZA). He was the leader of the Maoist Red Eureka Movement. Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Langer
Milan Langer (born in Prague, 1955) is a Czech pianist. He won Smetana Competition and the Chopin Competition in Mariánské Lázně, and was prized at the 1976 Paloma O'Shea Competition. Langer is best known for his work as a member of thCzech Trio(1994- ) and his recordings for Supraphon on the Czech pre-romantic repertory, such as Václav Tomášek's Eclogues and Antonín Rejcha's fugues. Langer is the head of the Prague Conservatory's piano department. References Prague Conservatory The Prague Conservatory () is a public music school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1808. Currently, the school offers four- or six-year courses, which can be compared to the level of a high school diploma in other countries. Graduates c ... * Living people 1955 births Prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition 21st-century Czech pianists Academic staff of the Prague Conservatory {{pianist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mads Langer
Mads Lillelund Langer ( né Langer Clausen; born 14 January 1984) is a Danish singer-songwriter, who became internationally known for his cover of " You're Not Alone" by the British band Olive. He is a multi platinum artist in his home country Denmark. The follow-up to Reckless Twin was a 2016 album featuring his hit single “3AM” which he co-produced with Jamie Hartman. Langer’s forthcoming full-length reclaims a certain unfettered spirit from his first attempts at songwriting. “I feel like I can learn a lot from my earliest material, because it was so pure,” says Langer, who began playing piano at age 3 and writing songs at 8. “With the new album, I made a point of getting back to what I first loved about music: those moments where a song comes together and you don’t really know how it happened, and it just gives you the chills.” Discography Studio albums Live albums and EPs * ''Fact-Fiction. Pop – or ???'' (EP, 2008), Copenhagen Records * ''Amstrdm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Langer
Jason Langer (born 1967) is an American photographer best known for this psychological and noirish visions of contemporary urban life. Early life and training Langer was born in Tucson, Arizona, USA and grew up in Ashland, Oregon. Langer studied photography at the University of Oregon from 1985 to 1989. After graduation, Langer moved to San Francisco and apprenticed with some of the Bay area's most famous photographers including Ruth Bernhard, Arthur Tress, anMichael Kenna who became his mentor and lifelong friend. During that time, Langer learned much from Michael Kenna and influences from Kenna remain present throughout Langer's two-decades of photographic work. Style Langer shoots using film, meaning that he does not know exactly what photographs he has until the film is developed. He photographs in black and white and prefers to photograph at night. He avoids photographing human faces, which increases the mystery of his works. Galleries Langer is represented by galleries i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilda Langer
Gilda Langer (born Hermengild Langer; 16 May 1896 – 31 January 1920) was a German stage and film actress whose career began in the mid-1910s and lasted until her death in 1920. She appeared both on stage and in silent films; however, all films featuring her as an actress are now considered lost. Early life Gilda Langer was born as Hermengild Langer into a Sudeten German family in Oderfurt, Austria-Hungary (now Přívoz, Czech Republic). Around 1915, she met in Vienna the Austrian dramaturge and screenwriter Carl Mayer, who took her to Berlin and helped her to gain an engagement as a stage actress at the Residenz Theatre. Her first role at the theatre was in a production of the Robert Grötzach–penned 1917 play ''Dyckerpotts Erben''. Film career In 1917, Mayer announced to the film trade press that Langer would begin appearing in leading lady roles in several films for the newly created Berlin-based Star-Film company. Her first film role was in the 1917 Alexander Antalffy� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Langer
Eli Langer (born 1967 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian visual artist. Langer rose to prominence in 1993, while 26 years old, in the Toronto art world with a solo exhibition at the Mercer Union Gallery in Toronto. The exhibition consisted of 8 paintings and 50 drawings addressing various issues of childhood sexuality. Toronto police raided the exhibition under Canada's new child pornography legislation and seized 5 paintings and 35 drawings. This event and ensuing media coverage created a national debate over the reach of law and freedom of expression. 1993 art show A press release prior to the show opening suggests the curators knew the material could be controversial: Langer's work focuses on the tender and often abject aspects of sexuality and intimacy. His images are largely informed by intuitive personal and social drives, exploring the phenomenon of intimacy where it exists without the compensation of social or cultural consent. In this series of paintings and drawings, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Langer
Elena Langer (born 1974 in Moscow) is a Russian-born British composer of opera and other contemporary classical music. Her work has been performed at the Royal Opera House, Zurich Opera, Carnegie Hall, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Wigmore Hall, Opera national du Rhin, Strasbourg, and Milton Court, Barbican Centre. She studied piano and composition at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow and composition at the Moscow Conservatoire; in 1999 she moved to London and studied composition at the Royal College of Music (1999–2000) with Julian Anderson and the Royal Academy of Music (2001–03) with Simon Bainbridge. Career In 2002 Langer became the first Jerwood Composer in Association at the Almeida Theatre in London, writing the short operas ''Ariadne'' (premiered at the Almeida Opera Festival in 2002) and ''The Girl of Sand'' (2003), both settings of librettos by p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
