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Porges
Porges ( he, פורגס) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Gabriel Porges **Moses Porges, (since 1841) Moses Porges, (Edler) von Portheim (1781, Prague - 1870, Prague), Czech-Austrian industrialist, vice-burgomaster of Smichow *** Joseph Porges(, Edler) von Portheim (1817, Prague - 1904, Prague), a Jewish Czech-Austrian manufacturer and art patron, son of Moses *Simon Porges (1801–1869) ∞ Charlotte Porges (1801–1869) ** Heinrich Porges (1837, Prague - 1900, München), Jewish Czech-Austrian/German choirmaster, music-critic ∞ Wilhelmine Merores *** Else (Elsa) Bernstein(-Porges), née Porges) (1866, Vienna - 1949, Hamburg-Eimsbüttel) * Julius "Jules" Porgès (born ''Yehuda Porges''; 1839, Vienna - 1921), Austria-born Paris-based financier and Randlord * Nathan Porges (1848, Prostějov, Moravia - 1924), Czech-German rabbi *Moritz Porges (1857–1909), Jewish Czech chess player *Arthur Porges (1915, Chicago, Illinois - 2006), US pulp magazine author of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Porges
Stephen W. Porges (* 1945) is an American psychologist and neuroscientist. He is the Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Porges is also currently Director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University Bloomington, which studies trauma. He was previously a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he was director of the Brain-Body Center at the College of Medicine, and at the University of Maryland. He proposed the unproven polyvagal theory in 1994. He is today a neuroscientist with particular interests in cranial nerve responses as it relates to both animals and man in which there are specified responses that are physiological in the body. Research Focus Polyvagal theory is a collection of unproven evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological constructs pertaining to the role of the vagus nerve in emotion regulation, social connection and fear response. It focuses on the autonomic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Porges
Arthur Porges (; 20 August 1915 – 12 May 2006) was an American writer of numerous short stories, most notably during the 1950s and 1960s, though he continued to write and publish stories until his death. Life Arthur Porges was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 20 August 1915. After completing his B.A. and master's degrees in mathematics, he was drafted into the army for World War II and served as an instructor in California. After the war, he taught mathematics at college before retiring to write. Family background Porges's father, Israel Podgursky, was born in 1885 in the Russian Empire near the eastern border of Poland. He had American associations through his two brothers—Mortimer, a lawyer in Chicago, and Dave, who worked for the Chicago Board of Education—and two sisters, Lilian and Rose, neither of whom married. Mortimer had two daughters, Lois and June. On migrating to the U.S. he changed his name to James Porges, with the new surname adopted from that of a relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Peter Porges
Paul Peter Porges (February 7, 1927, Vienna – December 20, 2016, Kingston, Jamaica) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in many places, including ''The New Yorker'', ''Mad'' magazine, ''Playboy'', '' Harper's'', '' Look'' and the ''Saturday Evening Post''. Early life Paul Peter Porges was born in Vienna in 1927 and was raised in the district of Fünfhaus. His father had a grocery store in Moeringgasse.lettertothestars.at > Uploads > Porges Lucie und Paul Peter(PDF) (German) (pupils of the school HLWBLA Wieselburg, 2005) pp. 226–230 of A4-document, 3 double-pages with pictures. {{DEFAULTSORT:Porges, Paul Peter 1927 births 2016 deaths American cartoonists Mad (magazine) cartoonists 20th-century American Jews Artists from Vienna Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United States after the Anschluss 21st-century American Jews Jewish American artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Porges
Heinrich Porges (November 25, 1837 – November 17, 1900) was a Czech- Austrian choirmaster, music critic and writer of Jewish descent. Life Heinrich Porges was born in Prague, the son of Simon Porges (1801–1869) and his wife Charlotte. He originally studied Philosophy and Law in Prague, later turning to music. In 1863 he became an assistant of the critic Franz Brendel in editing the ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' in Leipzig. In 1867 he produced the arts pages of the ''Süddeutsche Presse'' in Muncih. He remained there as music critic of the ''Münchner Neueste Nachrichten'' from 1880. Porges became a devotee and intimate of Richard Wagner despite Wagner's antisemitism, and his extensive notes on Wagner's rehearsal and staging were published in the journal ''Bayreuther Blätter'' over the period 1880-1896. His study of ''Tristan und Isolde'' was published after his death in 1906 by Hans von Wolzogen. He received a life pension from King Ludwig II of Bavaria. in 1886 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Porges Von Portheim
Moses Porges, Edler von Portheim, or Moses Porges von Portheim (13/22 December 1781, Prague – 21 May 1870, Prague) was a Bohemian- Austrian industrialist (manufacturer) and vice-burgomaster of Prague- Smichow; knight of the Order of Franz Joseph. He was one of the earliest and most prominent of the large manufacturers of Austria, and was very closely associated with his younger brother, Leopold (Löw) Judah. Moses and Leopold, the sons of the highly respected but poor Gabriel Porges of the Spira family, experienced adventures in the camp of the sectarian Jacob Frank at Offenburg which have been described by Heinrich Graetz in his "'' Frank und die Frankisten''" ( Breslau, 1868) and his "''Gesch''." x., and in greater detail by Dr. S. Back in "'' Monatsschrift''" (1877, pp. 190 et seq.). Disillusioned, they returned to Prague, and began a small linen business, and in 1808 commenced, with a single cotton-printing press and in a dark shop on the Vltava, an industrial activi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nenad Porges
Nenad Porges (born 27 December 1946 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian politician, businessman, entrepreneur and former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship. Background and education Porges was born in Zagreb to a Jewish family who came to Zagreb from Vienna and Bratislava. His paternal grandparents were killed during the Holocaust by the SS Prinz Eugen Division, while his father's life was spared due to a fact that he was an ''essential worker'' for the Third Reich. Porges received his degrees from the University of Zagreb (a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in marketing) and was a lecturer in marketing and management in postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Zagreb. He was the president of the Jewish community of Zagreb until 1993, when he retired from the position. Porges remains a member, though inactive, of the Jewish community in Zagreb. Political and business career As a president of the Jewish community Zagre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Porges
Seth Porges is an American director, producer, journalist, and television commentator. He produced, wrote, and co-directed the feature documentary ''Class Action Park'', which premiered as the number one movie on HBO Max in August 2020. In 2014, he additionally wrote and produced a documentary short about Action Park that went viral and is credited with inspiring the park to change its name. He also appears on numerous television shows on the History, National Geographic, Discovery, and Travel channels; including more than 40 episodes of Mysteries at the Museum. Previously, he worked as a senior editor at '' Maxim'' magazine, as an editor at '' Popular Mechanics'' magazine, as the technology columnist at '' Bloomberg News'' and as a writer for '' TechCrunch''. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism''.'' Porges has appeared as a guest commentator on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, and CNBC; as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Porges
Nathan Porges (21 December 1848 – 27 August 1924) was a Bohemia and German rabbi. Biography Porges was born in Prostějov in Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was educated in his native town Prostějov, at the gymnasium of Olomouc, and at the University of Olomouc (Ph.D. 1869) and the Jewish Theological Seminary (rabbi 1869) of Breslau (Wrocław). He became successively rabbi at Nakel (Nakło nad Notecią) (1875), Mannheim (1879), Pilsen (1880), Karlovy Vary (1882), and Leipzig; he began officiating in the last city in 1888. Porges died in Würzburg. Literary works Porges wrote many articles, essays, and critiques for periodicals including: * ''Revue des Études Juives'' * ''Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums'' * ''Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie'' * ''Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen'' He was the author of: * ''Über die Verbalstammbildung in den Semitischen Sprachen'', Vienna, 1875 * ''Bibelkunde und Babelfunde' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Bernstein
Elsa Bernstein (née Porges; pseudonym, Ernst Rosmer; 27 October 1866 – 2 July 1949) was an Austrian-German writer, dramatist, and literary figure. Life Elsa Porges was born in Vienna, a daughter of Heinrich Porges (a close friend of Richard Wagner). At the age of ten, at her own insistence, she attended the first complete, four-opera performance of '' The Ring Cycle'' in Bayreuth in 1876, for which her father served as Wagner's special documentary-archivist. In opera tradition, Elsa is considered to have been the cycle's youngest audience member. With her marriage to journalist Max Bernstein, she became hostess to one of the most notable musical and literary salons of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At various times, attendees included Gerhart Hauptmann (whose son married Bernstein's daughter, Eva), Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Engelbert Humperdinck, Henrik Ibsen, Annette Kolb, Hermann Levi, Alma and Gustav Mahler, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moritz Porges
Moritz Porges (1857–1909) was a Jewish Czech chess player. In 1882, he tied for 4–7th in Vienna ( Vincenz Hruby won). In 1892, he shared 2nd with Gyula Makovetz, behind Siegbert Tarrasch, in Dresden (the 7th DSB Congress). He tied for 16–17th at Nuremberg 1896 (Emanuel Lasker won). In 1902, he took 3rd, behind Viktor Tietz and Dawid Janowski Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish-born French chess player. The Janowski variations of the Old Indian Defense and of the Queen's Gambit Declined are named after him. Biography ..., in Carlsbad (Triangular). External links *Biography 1857 births 1909 deaths [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Porges Von Portheim
Joseph Porges, Edler von Portheim (1817 in Prague – 3 September 1904 in Prague) was a Czech- Austrian manufacturer and art patron; son of Moses Porges von Portheim. On completing his studies at the gymnasium he entered his father's cotton mills; there he occupied various positions until 1873, when the business was converted into a stock company, of whose board of directors he was president for several years. His leisure time was devoted to literature and music, and he was well known as a violoncello virtuoso A virtuoso (from Italian ''virtuoso'' or , "virtuous", Late Latin ''virtuosus'', Latin ''virtus'', "virtue", "excellence" or "skill") is an individual who possesses outstanding talent and technical ability in a particular art or field such as .... Porges founded the '' Prague Kammermusikvereins'', and was also interested in the '' Deutsches Theater'' of that city. His philanthropy was extensive, the '' Josefstädter Kinderbewahranstalt'', founded by his father, being a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Porgès
Jules Porgès (25 May 1839 – 20 September 1921) was a Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa. He was born Yehuda Porges in Vienna and raised in Prague, where his father was a jeweller. He settled in Paris in the early 1860s and established himself as a diamond trader, through his company Jules Porgès & Cie. He recognized early the significance of the diamond finds in South Africa and, in 1873, sent two of his younger staff, Alfred Beit and Julius Wernher, to South Africa as his firm's representatives. He arrived in Kimberley himself in 1876 and continued their work in consolidating claims, financing deals and marketing stones, so that his firm Compagnie Française de Diamant du Cap de Bonne Espérance gained a significant portion of the Kimberley mine. He saw the benefit of Cecil Rhodes's attempt to consolidate the disparate mining holdings, and sold the Compagnie Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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