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Paul Weidhaas
Paul Weidhaas (1894–1962) was a German Master bowmaker or ''bogenmacher''. Biography Paul Weidhaas learned bow making from his father Ewald Weidhaas, in Markneukirchen. He then worked for E. Liebich in Breslau from 1911 to 1913 and then for Winterling in Hamburg 1913-1915. He took his master's examination (in bow making) in Hamburg in 1918. He returned to Markneukirchen and took over managing his father's shop. Between 1920-1930, to deepen his knowledge in bow making and networking he travelled to Holland where he worked for Max Möller, Vedral and J. Stüber and then Paris, where he worked for the highly esteemed master bow maker Victor Fetique alongside Victor's son Marcel Fetique and nephew André Richaume André Georges Richaume (8 February 1905 in Mirecourt – 31 March 1966 in Paris) was a prominent French bowmaker, from a family of bowmakers. His grandfather was Charles Claude Fétique (1853–1911), who was a violin maker, and who had .... This had a profoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewald Weidhaas
Ewald is a given name and surname used primarily in Germany and Scandinavia. It derives from the Germanic roots '':wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/*aiwaz, ewa'' meaning "law" and '':wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/*walþuz, wald'' meaning "power, brightness". People and concepts with the name include: Surnames *Douglas Ewald (1937-2021), American politician and consultant *Carl Anton Ewald (1845–1915), pioneering German gastroenterologist *Georg Ewald (1926–1973), German politician *Johann Ewald (1744–1813), Danish general and veteran of the American Revolutionary War *Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Danish dramatist and poet *Heinrich Ewald (1803–1875), German orientalist and theologian *Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985), German physicist, pioneer of X-ray diffraction and crystallography *Paul W. Ewald (born 1953), evolutionary biologist specializing in the evolution of infectious disease *Reinhold Ewald (born 1956), German astronaut *Victor Ewald (1860–1935), Russian c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |