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Lisl Günther
Lisl is a German feminine given name. It is a diminutive of the name Elisabeth. Notable people with the name include: * Elizabeth "Lisl" Close (née Scheu; 1912–2011), American architect * Lisl Frank (1911–1944), Czech Jewish singer, dancer and actress * Lisl Gaal (1924–2024), Austrian-born American mathematician *Lisl Goldarbeiter (1909–1997), Austrian model and actress *Elisabeth "Lisl" Kohn (1914–1999), wife of Norwegian psychiatrist Leo Eitinger * Lisl Steiner (1927–2023), Austrian-born American photographer, photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker * Lisl Wagner-Bacher (born 1953), Austrian cook ;Fictional characters *Lisl Baum, the Bond girl A Bond girl is a character who is a love interest, female companion or (occasionally) an adversary of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. Bond girls occasionally have names that are double entendres or sexual puns, such as Plenty O' ... in the 1960 story Risico *Countess Lisl von Schlaf in the 1981 film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth (given Name)
Elizabeth is a feminine given name, a variation of the Hebrew language, Hebrew name (), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance", as rendered in the Septuagint. Occurrence in the Bible "Elizabeth" appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of Aaron's wife ("Elisheba, Elisheva" in the Hebrew Bible), and in the New Testament as the name of the Elizabeth (biblical figure), wife of the priest Zechariah (New Testament figure), Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist. It has also been the name of several saints and queens. Statistics The name has many variants in use across the world and has been in consistent use worldwide. ''Elizabeth'' was the tenth most popular name given to baby girls in the United States in 2007 and has been among the 25 most popular names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It is the only name that remained in the top ten US girls' names list from 1925 to 1972. In the early 21st century, ''Elizabeth'' has been among the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Close
Elizabeth "Lisl" Close, (née Scheu; 4 June 1912, in Vienna – 29 November 2011, in Minneapolis) was an influential female architect practicing in Minnesota. During her long partnership with her husband, Winston "Win" Close (1906-1997), she designed many notable public buildings and private homes while managing the family firm for extended periods. Early life Born in 1912 in Vienna, Austria, to and Helene Scheu ''née'' Riesz, Elizabeth Scheu grew up in a house designed by Adolf Loos in 1913, an early practitioner of modern architecture. Artists were frequent guests in the home, including Ezra Pound and John Gunther. She became interested in architecture, in which she graduated at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna. Perhaps because she had a Jewish mother, she left Austria in August 1932—before the arrival of the Nazis—sailing aboard the SS ''American Merchant'' from London, and arrived in New York on 29 August 1932. She completed her education in Boston with an M.A. in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisl Frank
Lisl Frank (22 January 1911 – 4 October 1944) was a Czech Jewish singer, dancer and actress. She achieved success before World War II. Born Alice Frankl in Prague, she met her future husband, Otto Aufrichtig (stage name Otto Aurich) in 1933 when he took over as director of the Neues Stadttheater in Teplitz-Schonau eplicewhere she was appearing as a singer, dancer and actress. Their Teplice stage partnership proved to be a winning combination and after marrying in Czechoslovakia, she and Otto moved to his home city of Vienna. With the Nazis rise to power, they curtailed their own success in Vienna and made the decision to move to the Netherlands, where they became members of the Fritz Hirsch Operetta in Den Haag. They were an instant success, staying on with the company until 1938. When they left, it was to become members of a new opera company, the Plaza Theater in the Hollandsche Schouwburg, which had been founded in Amsterdam. They were the stars of the company but their s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisl Gaal
(Ilse) Lisl Novak Gaal (January 17, 1924 – 2024) was an Austrian-born American mathematician known for her contributions to set theory and Galois theory. She was the first woman to hold a tenure-track position in mathematics at Cornell University, and was an associate professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. Gaal died in 2024, at the age of 100. Contributions Gaal's dissertation work was in the foundations of mathematics. It proved that two different systems for set theory that had previously been proposed as foundational were equiconsistent: either both are valid or both lead to contradictions. These two systems were Zermelo set theory and Von Neumann set theory. They differed from each other in that von Neumann had added to Zermelo's theory a notion of classes, collections of mathematical objects that are defined by some property but do not necessarily form a set. (Often, intuitively, proper classes are "too big" to form sets; for instance, the collection of all sets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisl Goldarbeiter
Lisl Goldarbeiter (23 March 1909 – 14 December 1997) was an Austrians, Austrian model and actress, who in 1929, became the first and only Austrian to win the International Pageant of Pulchritude, Miss Universe title. She also participated in the Miss Europe 1929, Miss Europe competition in 1929. Life Goldarbeiter was born on 23 March 1909, in Vienna, Austria. She was born in a middle-class Austro-Hungarians, Austro-Hungarian Jews, Jewish family. She was the daughter of Izidor Goldarbeiter (b.1877), a fashion dealer from Szeged, Hungary, and, Aloisia née Schimek (1884–1967). On 11 June 1929, Goldarbeiter became the first-ever non-American to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant, which was held in Galveston, Texas. Lisl was voted Miss Universe 1929 in a unanimous decision by the jurors. Miss United States took the second place and the third, fourth and fifth places were also taken by Americans representing Ohio, Dallas and Massachusetts. Of the 34 contestants, 27 were fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Eitinger
Leo Eitinger (12 December 1912 – 15 October 1996) was a Norwegian psychiatrist, author and educator. He was a Holocaust survivor who studied the late-onset psychological trauma experienced by people who went through separation and psychological pain early in life only to show traumatic experience decades later. He devoted a long period studying posttraumatic stress disorder among Holocaust survivors, which had led Holocaust survivors including Paul Celan (1920–1970), Primo Levi (1919–1987) and many others to commit suicide several decades after the experience. Eitinger was a pioneer of research into psychological trauma among refugees, and also laid the foundation for Norwegian military psychiatry research with emphasis on psychological trauma among soldiers. Early life Leo Eitinger was born in Lomnice, Austria-Hungary (today South Moravian Region, Czech Republic). He grew up as the youngest of six siblings in a Jewish middle class home as the son of Salomon Eitinger ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisl Steiner
Lisl Steiner (November 19, 1927 – June 7, 2023) was an Austrian-born American photographer, photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker. She was known for her photographs of political and cultural figures of the 1950s and 60s, including Fidel Castro, Oscar Niemeyer, Louis Armstrong, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Early life and education Steiner was born in a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, in 1927. Shortly after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, she and her family emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied art at the University of Buenos Aires and the Fernando Fader School of Decorative Arts. Career In her 20s, Steiner began working in documentary film. She helped produce some 50 documentaries for the foreign ministry of Argentina. Steiner's photojournalism career began around age 30, when she published a photograph of Argentina's president, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu for ''Life magazine, Life'' magazine. She went on to work for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |