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Petri
Petri is an Italian and Germanic surname derived from the Latin name Petrus, and may refer to: Surname * Adam Petri (1454–1527), Swiss Renaissance printer who founded a Basel publishing house * Alexandra Petri (born 1988), humor columnist for ''The Washington Post'', daughter of Tom * August Petri (1878–?), German fencer * Bernhard Eduardovich Petri (1884–1937), Russian anthropologist and archaeologist * Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), German mathematician who introduced Petri nets * Carl Axel Petri (1929–2017), Swedish politician and judge * Catharose de Petri (1952–1990), Dutch mystic * Cunerus Petri (1531–1580), Dutch bishop * Daniele Petri (born 1980), Italian darts player * Edward P. Petri (1884–1949), American politician and businessman * Egon Petri (1881–1962), Dutch pianist and composer * Elio Petri (1929–1982), Italian director, screenwriter and film critic * Ellen Petri (born 1982), Belgian beauty queen * Franziska Petri (born 1973), Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Eduardovich Petri
Bernhard Eduardovich Petri (; 17 September 1884 – 25 November 1937) was a Russian anthropologist and archaeologist. Petri organized archeology and ethnographic expeditions to Lake Baikal, while employed by the Kunstkamera during the 1910s. Iron artifacts were discovered and used to propose the Kurumchi culture as the first Iron Age society of Baikalia. Petri became a professor at the Irkutsk State University and taught about the ancient history of the, Indigenous peoples of Siberia. He documented the cultures of several reindeer herding societies across the East Siberian taiga for Institute of the Peoples of the North throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937 Petri was executed by the NKVD during the Great Purge. Early life The Church of Sweden, Swedish Lutheran figure Olaus Petri was a paternal ancestor whose descendants later relocated to Livonia in contemporary Cēsis, Latvia. Russian Empire, Imperial Russian authorities had sentenced Bernhard's father, :ru:Петри, Эду ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Adam Petri
Carl Adam Petri (12 July 1926 in Leipzig – 2 July 2010 in Siegburg) was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Life and work Petri created his major scientific contribution, the concept of the Petri net, in 1939 at the age of 13, for the purpose of describing chemical processes. In 1941, his father told him about Konrad Zuse's work on computing machines and Carl Adam started building his own analog computer. After earning his Abitur at Thomasschule in 1944, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. He was taken into British captivity until 1949, when he departed England. Petri started studying mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Hannover (today, the Leibniz University Hannover) in 1950. He documented Petri nets in 1962 as part of his dissertation, (Communication with automata). From 1959 until 1962 he worked at the University of Bonn and received his PhD degree in 1962 from the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From 1963 to 1968 he established and directed the comput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elio Petri
Eraclio Petri (29 January 1929 – 10 November 1982), commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film and theatre director, screenwriter and film critic. The Museum of Modern Art described him as "one of the preeminent political and social satirists of 1960s and early 1970s Italian cinema". His film '' Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and his subsequent film '' The Working Class Goes to Heaven'' received the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Other noted films by Petri include '' The 10th Victim'' (1965), the prize-winning '' We Still Kill the Old Way'' (1967) and '' A Quiet Place in the Country'' (1968), and the controversially received '' Todo modo'' (1976). Biography Early years Petri was born in Rome on 29 January 1929. In 1944, he joined the youth organization of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). After graduating from Rome University as a literature major, he wrote articles on films for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Richard Petri
Julius Richard Petri (; 31 May 185220 December 1921) was a German microbiologist who is generally credited with inventing the device known as the Petri dish, which is named after him, while working as assistant to bacteriologist Robert Koch. Life and career Petri was born in the town of Barmen (now a district of the city of Wuppertal), Germany, on 31 May 1852. He came from a distinguished family of scholars, and was the eldest son of Philipp Ulrich Martin Petri (18171864), a professor in Berlin, and Louise Petri. Petri's grandfather, Viktor Friedrich Leberecht Petri (1782–1857), was also a scholar, being both a director and professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany. Petri initially studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians (18711875) and received his medical degree in 1876. He continued his studies at the Charité Hospital in Berlin where his thesis on the chemistry of protein urine tests earned him his doctorate. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Petri
Alexandra Attkisson Petri (, born March 15, 1988) is an American humorist, newspaper columnist, and 2025 recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In 2010, she became the youngest person to have a column in ''The Washington Post''. Petri runs the ComPost blog on the paper's website, on which she formerly worked with Dana Milbank. In 2017, a piece of satire she wrote about president Donald Trump was miscategorized as news and included in one of the White House's daily press briefings. She was recognized in the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 in 2018. Biography Early life and education Petri grew up in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., the only child of Wisconsin congressman Tom Petri and nonprofit executive Anne D. Neal, and attended the National Cathedral School. In high school she wrote plays for a competition at Arena Stage; three of hers were chosen for performance. She also performed standup comedy. She graduated ''summa cum laude'' and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennart Petri
Carl Johan ''Lennart'' Petri (10 May 1914 – 25 June 1996) was a Swedish diplomat. Petri began his diplomatic career in 1938 and served in various international postings, including Madrid, Washington, Buenos Aires, and Bogotá, with a focus on supporting Swedish exports. After returning to Stockholm, he worked on major credit agreements with the Soviet Union and later served in key roles in Paris and Moscow, where he challenged pro-Soviet leanings within the Swedish delegation. He was appointed ambassador to Rabat, Tunis, and Tripoli in the late 1950s and later served as ambassador to Beijing and Phnom Penh during the turbulent Vietnam War years. Petri criticized Sweden’s Vietnam policy as naïve and driven by poor judgment, attributing its failures to Foreign Minister Torsten Nilsson and his inner circle. Known for his independence and bluntness, Petri often clashed with political leadership over foreign policy direction. He concluded his diplomatic career with postings in V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst And Erna Petri
Horst Petri (March 18, 1913 – December 12, 1962) and Erna Petri (May 30, 1920 – July 2000) were married Nazi war criminals during World War II. Early lives After graduating from high school, Horst trained as a farmer and received a graduate degree in farming in 1935. During this time, he joined the Nazi Party and SS, the former in 1932 and the latter in 1934. Erna Kürbs was born into a farming family in the village of Herressen near Weimar. In 1936, the 16-year-old Erna met Horst, who spoke to her about the Greater German Reich. Although her father was opposed, the two quickly struck up a relationship. When Erna became pregnant a year later, the two wed in 1938. The child was a boy. Erna became pregnant once more in 1942 and had a daughter in January 1943. War crimes In 1939, Horst received SS Camps Division training at the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. During the war, he would eventually rise to the rank of Untersturmführer. In June 1942, the Petris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Petri
Adam Petri (1454 in Langendorf (now part of Elfershausen) in Franconia – 15 November 1527 in Basel) was a printer, publisher and bookseller. Early life Petri was born ca. 1454 in Langendorf near Hammelburg. Like his uncle Johannes Petri, he moved to Basel where he resided from around 1480 and worked as a printer. In 1507 he received Basel citizenship rights. Shortly before his uncle Johannes died, he took over the printshop in the Ackermannshof at the St.Johannsvorstadt. Professional career Petri was one of the first printers in Basel who worked with illustrators. His books were illustrated by the likes of Urs Graf, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Conrad Schnitt among others. He also employed a number of prominent collaborators as writers, editors and proofreaders including Konrad Pellikan, the young Sebastian Münster, Beatus Rhenanus, Ulrich Hugwald and his relative Johannes Petreius. Petri chiefly printed devotional literature and works of practical theology. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Axel Petri
Carl Axel ("Acke") Henrik Petri (12 August 1929 – 3 December 2017) was a Swedish politician and judge. Petri studied law and assumed the chief judgeship in the Administrative Court of Appeal in Jönköping in 1976, then stepped down to become chief justice on the Göta Court of Appeal in 1987, on which he served until 1996. Petri was a cabinet member under prime minister Thorbjörn Fälldin from 1979 to 1982, leading the Ministry of Energy until 1981, when he was named Minister for Justice. Early life Petri was born on 12 August 1929 at Djupadals House in Ronneby Municipality, Sweden, the son of consul Carl Petri and his wife Maud (née Wrede). Petri grew up in Växjö where he also passed ''studentexamen''. He received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1953.> Career Petri did his clerkship from 1953 to 1955 and worked as an extra legal clerk (''fiskal'') in the Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal in 1956. He then served in different parliamentary committees i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Richard Petri
Friedrich Richard Petri (1824–1857) was a Kingdom of Saxony-born Texas painter whose works recorded life in the original German immigrant settlements, and portrayed Native American tribes in family settings. Early life Friedrich Richard Petri was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony to master shoemaker Heinrich Petri and his wife Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. At age fourteen, Petri was enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he would remain for eleven years under the tutelage and guidance of Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner. Petri won six awards and a scholarship to a further education in Italy, upon completion of which he was to return to the Dresden institution as an instructor. Petri was unable to accept the offer due to physical frailty. Hermann Lungkwitz, who married Petri's sister Elisabeth, befriended Petri while at the Dresden academy. Petri and Lungwitz joined other students in the failed 1849 May Uprising in Dresden, an event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Petri
Henri Willem Petri (5 April 1856 – 7 April 1914) was a Dutch violinist, music pedagogue, composer and arranger who spent his entire career in Germany. Life Born in Zeist, Petri came from a musical family. His father was oboist in the city orchestra of Utrecht; his cousin (1865-1950) was an organist, pianist and music pedagogue, and another cousin, Martinus Petri (1853-1924) was also a violinist and conductor. He received his first violin lessons within the family, and after his father's death with the concertmaster Dahmen of the . From 1871 to 1874, he studied with Joseph Joachim at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and was singled out as one of his favorite pupils. Petri was one of the soloists at the celebrations for Joachim's 50th and 60th anniversaries as a performer in 1889 and 1899. In 1877, Petri performed Spohr's "Gesangscene" Violin Concerto in a minor at the Crystal Palace Concerts in London. Subsequently, he was a regular soloist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Petri
Egon Petri (23 March 188127 May 1962) was a Dutch-American pianist. Life and career Petri's family was Dutch. He was born a Dutch citizen in Hanover, Germany, and grew up in Dresden, where he attended the Kreuzschule. His father, a professional violinist, taught him to play the violin. While still a teenager, Petri played with the Dresden Court Orchestra and with his father's string quartet. He studied composition and theory with Hermann Kretzschmar and Felix Draeseke at the Dresden Conservatory. From an early age Petri had also taken piano lessons and eventually, with strong encouragement from Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Ferruccio Busoni, he concentrated on piano. He studied with Busoni, who greatly influenced him, and Petri considered himself more a disciple than a student of his. Following his example, Petri focused on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt, who, along with Busoni himself, were at the centre of his repertoire. During World War I, Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
