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Munk (other)
Munk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Munk (born 1965), alias of Estonian actor and singer Ivo Uukkivi * Alena Munkova (1926-2008), Czech writer who worked in Staflik a Spagetka * Anders Munk (1922–1989), Danish mycologist * Andrzej Munk (1920–1961), Polish film director * Eduard Munk (1803–1871), German philologist * Elie Munk (1900–1981), German-born French rabbi and rabbinic scholar * Hermann Munk (1839–1912), German physiologist * Jens Munk (1579–1628), Danish-Norwegian explorer of the Arctic * Jiri Munk (born TBA), Czech writer and Alena's brother * József Munk (b. 1890), Hungarian Olympic medalist swimmer * Kaj Munk (1898–1944), Danish playwright * Kirsten Munk (1598–1658), morganatic wife of Christian IV of Denmark-Norway * Ludvig Munk (1537–1602), Governor-general of Norway from 1577 to 1583 * Marc-David Munk (born 1973), Physician and executive * Marie Munk (1885-1978), German-American lawyer, first female judge in Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Uukkivi
Ivo Uukkivi (born 11 October 1965) is an Estonian stage, film, radio, and television actor, television producer and, under the nickname Munk, founder of and singer with the punk band Velikije Luki. Early life and education Ivo Uukkivi was born in Tallinn. He was one of two siblings. He is a 1980 graduate of Tallinn 2nd Secondary School (now, Tallinn Secondary School of Science). Afterward, he attended Tallinn Polytechnic School, graduating in 1984. He is a 1992 graduate of the Tallinn Conservatory's (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) Performing Arts Department. Uukkivi's diploma production roles include Snug in William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and Man in Purple in Mati Unt's ''Emperor Nero's Private Life''. Among his graduating classmates were Merle Palmiste, Kristel Leesmend, Andres Raag, Kaili Närep, Jaanus Rohumaa, Üllar Saaremäe, Dan Põldroos, Sten Zupping, Tiina Mälberg and Garmen Tabor. Career Stage In 1991, Uukkivi made his stage d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludvig Munk
Ludvig Ludvigsen Munk was born in 1537 in Vejle, and died 8 April 1602 at ''Nørlund Slot'' (Nørlund castle) in Funen. He was a Danish official and Count. He was the son of Ludvik Munk (1500-1537), and is also referred to as ''Ludvig Ludvigsen Munk von Schleswig-Holstein'' and ''Ludvig Munk til Nørlund''. He was a Junker at the royal court in 1561. Subsequently he served in the Navy and participated in the Northern Seven Years' War (1563–70) both at sea and on land. Along with his stepfather Christoffer Sydney, he was taken prisoner in the Battle of Axtorna (in Halland) on 20 November 1565, but soon regained his liberty. He moved to Trondheim, Norway in 1571, and served there as the Lord of Trøndelag, Jemtland and Herjedalen until 1577. Then he relocated to Akershus Fortress in Oslo and served as Governor-general of Norway from 1577 to 1583. After 1583 he became the District Governor and feudal overlord of: Hedmark (1587), then Lister (158889) and Trøndelag (158996). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Munk
William MunkFRCP (1824 September 1816 – 20 December 1898) was an English physician, now remembered for his work as a medical historian and "Munk's Roll", a biographical reference work on the Royal College of Physicians. Life The eldest son of William Munk, an ironmonger, and his wife Jane Kenward, he was born on 24 September 1816 at Battle, Sussex, and after education at University College, London, graduated M.D. at the University of Leiden in 1837. He began practice in London in September 1837, and in 1844 he became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and in 1854 a fellow. In 1857 he was elected thHarveian librarianof the college, and held office till his death. He became a Roman Catholic in 1842, and from 1857 to 1865 was the medical adviser of Cardinal Wiseman. He was for many years an active member of the committee of the London Library. He was elected physician to the Smallpox Hospital in February 1853, and held office there for forty years. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Heinrich Munk
Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. His work won awards including the National Medal of Science, the Kyoto Prize, and induction to the French Legion of Honour. Munk worked on a wide range of topics, including surface waves, geophysical implications of variations in the Earth's rotation, tides, internal waves, deep-ocean drilling into the sea floor, acoustical measurements of ocean properties, sea level rise, and climate change. Beginning in 1975, Munk and Carl Wunsch developed ocean acoustic tomography, to exploit the ease with which sound travels in the ocean and use acoustical signals for measurement of broad-scale temperature and current. In a 1991 experiment, Munk and his collaborators investigated the ability of underwater sound to propagate from the Southern Indian Ocean across all ocean basins. The aim wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomon Munk
Salomon Munk (14 May 1803 – 5 February 1867) was a German-born Jewish-French Orientalist. Biography Munk was born in Gross Glogau in the Kingdom of Prussia. He received his first instruction in Hebrew from his father, an official of the Jewish community; and on the latter's death he joined the Talmud class of R. Jacob Joseph Oettinger. At the age of fourteen he was able to officiate as " ba'al ḳoreh" (reader of the Torah) in the synagogue of the Malbish 'Arummim society at Gross Glogau. In 1820 he went to Berlin, where he came into friendly relations with Leopold Zunz and with the philologist A. W. Zumpt, studying Latin and Greek with E. Gans. Two years later he entered the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium, supporting himself at the same time by tutoring. In 1824 he entered the University of Berlin, attending the lectures of Böckh, Hegel, and especially of Bopp. As no Jews were at that time eligible for government positions in Prussia, Munk left the university without takin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Munk
Peter Munk (November 8, 1927 – March 28, 2018) was a Hungarian-Canadian businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of a number of high-profile business ventures, including the hi-fi electronics company Clairtone, real estate company Trizec Properties, and Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining corporation. Munk is known for his philanthropy, as a donor to Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at the Toronto General Hospital. He is also well known for supporting the Munk Debates. Early years and family Munk was born in Budapest, into a prosperous Hungarian-Jewish family, the son of Katharina Adler Munk and Lajos "Louis" Munk (1898–1977). His grandfather, Gábor "Gabriel" Munk, had descended from a family of rabbis, was a brother of the noted linguist and ethnologist Bernát Munkácsi (né Munk), and uncle of the Hungarian jurist and writer Erno Munkacsi. Gábor be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Munk
Nina Munk (born 1967) is a Canadian-American journalist and non-fiction author. She is a contributing editor at '' Vanity Fair'', and the author or co-author of four books, including ''The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty'' and ''Fools Rush In: Jerry Levin, Steve Case, and the Unmaking of Time Warner''. As well, she is the editor of the critical English translation of ''How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry'', an influential account of the Holocaust in Hungary written by Erno Munkacsi in 1947. According to Publishers Marketplace, Munk is working on a new book for Alfred A. Knopf titled ''In My Dreams, We Are Together'' about "her family in Hungary during the Holocaust". Background Munk was born in Canada to the entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Munk and University of Toronto professor Linda Munk. She spent her childhood in Switzerland's Berner Oberland before moving to Toronto for high school. She received a B.A. in comparative li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Munk
Max Michael Munk (October 22, 1890 – June 3, 1986) was a German aerospace engineer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the 1920s and made contributions to the design of airfoils. Education and early career Munk earned an engineering degree from the Hannover Polytechnic School in 1914 and doctorates in both physics and mathematics from the University of Göttingen in 1918 with a dissertation on parametric studies of airfoils under Ludwig Prandtl. Munk's dissertation contained the nucleus of what would become airfoil theory. After World War I, NACA (''National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics'' which become NASA in 1958) brought Munk to the United States. President Woodrow Wilson signed orders allowing Munk to come to the United States and work in government. These orders were required since Germany was a recent enemy and Munk had worked briefly for the German Navy. Career at NACA Munk began work at NACA in 1920 and proposed building the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Munk
Marie Munk (July 4, 1885, in Berlin – January 17, 1978, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) was a German-American lawyer. She was the first female judge in Germany. She made efforts to obtain reforms in the family law, concerning equal spousal responsibilities, trouble-free divorce procedures, equal division of property in case of divorce, equal citizenship rights for women. Early life and education Marie Munk was born in Berlin (then Prussia) on July 4, 1885. She graduated from Kaiserin Augusta Gymnasium and received her Doctor of Laws degree from Heidelberg University in 1911. Text was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)license. Life and Work Marie Munk came from a family of lawyers. After attending a high school for girls, she trained as a kindergarten teacher at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus, Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus, and had her first professional experience in Alice Salomon' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-David Munk
Marc-David Munk (born 1973) is an American and Canadian physician and healthcare executive who, according to the Advisory Board, a US healthcare consultancy, has "a reputation as an innovator." Munk is recognized as a thought leader in the area of value-based, consumer-facing healthcare and global health. Since 2018, Munk has served as President of the Middle East and Asia Regions for Steward Health Care, a rapidly growing $8B American Healthcare delivery company founded in 2010. Steward is the largest privately held American healthcare system and was, in 2021, the largest Medicare Accountable Care Organization in the United States. Based in Madrid since 2017, Steward International operates healthcare facilities in Europe, South America and the Middle East. Experience as an Expert in Alternative Care Delivery Models Munk previously served as the Chief Medical Officer for Clinics and Retail Pharmacy at CVS Health. His hire was, according to journalists at Bloomberg, “a sign th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Munk
Kirsten Munk (sometimes "Christina Munk"; 6 July 1598 19 April 1658) was a Danish noble, the second spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark, and mother to twelve of his children. Early life and morganatic marriage Kirsten Munk was the daughter of Ludvig Munk (1537–1602) and Ellen Marsvin (1572–1649), members of the wealthy but untitled Danish nobility. Her mother, widowed a second time in 1611, was the greatest landowner on Funen. Prior to yielding Kirsten to the evident desires of King Christian, her mother negotiated that, because Kirsten was a member of the nobility and not a commoner, she would become his wife rather than his mistress, and that she receive properties in her own name as tokens of the king's honourable intentions. On 31 December 1615, she was married morganatically to the widowed king, but not within a church. In 1627, she was given the title ''Countess of Schleswig-Holstein''. Kirsten bore the king twelve children, among them the Countess Leonora Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Munková
Alena is a feminine given name from the origins Russia and Czechia. People Alena is a variant of Helen. People with this name include: * Saint Alena (died 640), born in Dilbeek, Belgium, and martyred c. 640 * Alena Douhan, Belarusian diplomat * Alena Holubeva (born 1994), Belarusian basketball player * Alena Martinovská, Czech actress, appearing in the 1954 film ''Komedianti'' * Alena Matejka (Alena Matějková, born 1966), Czech sculptor and glass designer * Alena Mazouka (born 1967), Belarusian long-distance runner * Alena Mihulová (born 1965), Czech actress, married to director Karel Kachyňa * Alena Šeredová (born 1978), Czech model * Alena Vránová, Czech actress, appearing in the 1956 film ''Lost Children (1956 film)'' * Alena Vrzáňová (1931–2015), Czech athlete, figure skater It is also a Catalan last name. People with this name include: * Carles Aleñá (born 1998), Spanish footballer Fiction * Alena (Encantadia), a fictional character who possesses the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
