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Silvia (other)
Silvia () is a female given name of Latin origin, with a male equivalent Silvio and English-language cognate Sylvia. The name originates from the Latin word for forest, ''Silva'', and its meaning is "spirit of the wood"; the mythological god of the forest was associated with the figure of Silvanus. Silvia is also a surname. In Roman mythology, Silvia is the goddess of the forest while Rhea Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus. Silvia is also the name of one of the female innamorati of the commedia dell'arte and is a character of the '' Aminta'' written by Torquato Tasso. People with the given name * Queen Silvia of Sweden (born 1943), spouse of King Carl XVI Gustaf *Saint Silvia, Italian saint of the 6th century * Silvia Abascal (born 1979), Spanish actress * Silvia Abril (born 1971), Spanish actress and comedian * Silvia Agüero (born 1985), Spanish Roma writer and activist *Silvia Airik-Priuhka, Estonian writer and poetry translator *Silvia Alonso (born 1989), Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Alonso
Silvia Alonso Cruz (born 28 December 1989, in Salamanca) is a Spanish actress. Her debut was as the protagonist of the Telecinco series '' Tierra de lobos'', playing Almudena Lobo. She has participated in different Spanish series such as '' Amar es para siempre'', '' Sin identidad'' and ''Tiempos de guerra''. Biography She was educated in the schools of interpretation Arte 4 and Metropolis, she has also taken courses of interpretation before the camera and oriental dance. In 2010 she gained fame thanks to her role as Almudena Lobo in the Telecinco series '' Tierra de lobos'', which premiered its first season on 29 September 2010. Due to its good audiences the series was renewed until the third season, with Alonso being protagonist of all of them. In 2013 she joined the shooting of the second season of the series ''Amar es para siempre'', broadcast on Antena 3 daily. Alonso played Alejandra Torrijos, a young researcher who is involved in a relationship with Luis Ardanza ( Jor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Calzón
Silvia Calzón Fernández (born 3 June 1975) is a Spanish epidemiologist and politician who is currently serving as Director of the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency since 2024. Previously, she served as Secretary of State for Health from 2020 to 2023. Biography Calzón was born in Utrera, Seville, Spain, on 3 June 1975. She was the second of three children. Her father worked as a builder, while her mother managed the family's affairs at home. Calzón studied at Álvarez Quintero and, later, Ruiz Gijón. She studied medicine at the University of Seville and completed her residency as a specialist in preventive medicine and public health. Calzón has also earned a number of other degrees. She earned a doctorate in economic and business sciences from the University of Granada, a masters in public health and health management from the Andalusian School of Public Health, a masters in the economics of health and medicine from Pompeu Fabra University, and, finally, a diploma of sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Breher
Silvia Breher ( Lucke; born 23 July 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She has been Member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Cloppenburg – Vechta since the 2017 federal election. At the CDU conference in November 2019 she was elected as one of the deputy leaders of her party; she succeeded Ursula von der Leyen who had been elected to the Presidency of the European Commission. Early life and career Breher was born in Löningen and grew up on a farm in Lindern. After gaining her Abitur at Copernicus Gymnasium in Löningen she studied law at the Osnabrück University. At the end of 2000 she began practicing as a self-employed lawyer. From 2011 till 2017 she was the Chief Executive of the "Kreislandsvolkverbandes Vechta", the local farmers' union. Political career Breher is a member of the Christian Democratic Union and of her local CDU organisation in Cloppenburg. Between 2014 and 2015 she was a member of the CDU Commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Braslavsky
Silvia Elsa Braslavsky (born April 5, 1942 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chemist. She is the daughter of educationist and biochemist Lázaro Braslavsky, and the sister of Cecilia Braslavsky, educationist and erstwhile director of the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO. She has two daughters, sociologist Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky and Carolina Klockow. Braslavsky has worked extensively in the domain of photobiology and she is a specialist in experimental photooptoacoustics. She was senior research scientist and Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry (now renamed ''Bioinorganic Chemistry'') until her retirement in 2007. Scientific career Braslavsky read chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires but left Argentina after the "night of the long batons". While being a research assistant in Santiago de Chile she defended her PhD at the University of Buenos Aires. Following temporary positions at Penn State University (1969-1972), the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Bovenschen
Silvia Bovenschen (5 March 1946 in Point bei Waakirchen, Upper Bavaria — 25 October 2017 in Berlin) was a German feminist literary critic, author and essayist. History Bovenschen was the daughter of a public limited company director. She grew up in Frankfurt am Main, where she later studied literature, sociology and philosophy. In the course of the protests of 1968, she co-founded the women's council of the Socialist German Student Union. In 1979, she earned a doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt with her work ''Die imaginierte Weiblichkeit'' ("The imagined femininity"). This essay is regarded as a standard work of feminism. In her mid-twenties, she found out she had multiple sclerosis. However, she taught at the Goethe University Frankfurt for twenty years before she had to stop because of her illness. In 2003, she moved to Berlin and started writing novels. Her best-seller ''Älter werden. Notizen.'' was released in 2006. In 2011, Bovenschen was elected a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Blair
Silvia Blair Trujillo is a Colombian scientist, known for her research on antimalarial compounds found in traditional plants from her country.Silvia Blair ''Cienciágora''. 1 November 2004. During her research career, Blair has received various awards and recognitions, such as the Héctor Abad Gómez Medal to merits in Public Health in 1992, an honorable mention in the area of Basic Experimental Sciences in 2000, a Francisco José de Caldas Medal for University Excellence in 2008, and was named emeritus Professor of the University of Antioquia in 2017. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Bellot
Silvia Bellot (born 1985/1986) is a Spanish motorsport official who serves as a steward at Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-sanctioned events, the assistant manager of the Carlin Motorsport IndyCar Series team and was the FIA Race Director for Formula 2 and Formula 3 in 2020. The daughter of a racing executive, she was the first person from Spain to be on a panel of stewards at a Formula One race in 2011 and was part of the first all-female panel of stewards at a round of the World Rally Championship five years later. Early life Bellot comes from Barcelona, Spain. Her father, Josep María Bellot, was involved in motor racing for more than 40 years and was the president of the Committee of Commissioners for Auto Rallies of the Real Federación Española de Automovilismo. She has two sisters. When she was about five to six years old, Bellot began watching Formula One racing and supported the three-time world champion Ayrton Senna. She was later taken to the local r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Barbescu
Silvia Barbescu (born 1961) is a Romanian multi-disciplinary artist who has been developing her career in Mexico since 2000, after being invited to the country by the Mexican government. Preferring to work with mixed media and mixed techniques, with images based on nature, her work has been recognized by various awards as well as membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in Mexico. Life Barbescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, growing up during the communist era. She attended the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy in Bucharest from 1980-1985, graduating with a degree in mural and art restoration. Although free to leave the country after the end of communism, she remained in Romania until 2000, when she went to Mexico as part of a grant. She became fascinated by the country and its culture, deciding to stay. She received a scholarship from the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores to study her master's degree in visual arts at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Baraldini
Silvia Baraldini (December 12, 1947) is an Italian activist. She was active in both the Black Power and Puerto Rican independence movements in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In 1982 she was sentenced to 43 years under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for conspiring to commit two armed robberies, driving a secondary getaway car during the prison break of murder convict and fellow political activist Assata Shakur (a.k.a. Joanne Chesimard) and for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a Grand Jury that was investigating the activities of the Puerto Rican independence movement. Although the government sustained that her sentence was appropriate given the serious nature of her crimes, her supporters argued that her harsh sentence was due to her unpopular political beliefs. Baraldini was imprisoned in numerous high-security facilities in the United States, including the notorious basement unit of a Federal Prison in Lexington, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Balletti
Zanetta Rosa Benozzi Balletti (27 June 1701, in Toulouse – 16 September 1758), known under her stage name Silvia Balletti, was an Italian actress. She was active at the ''Troupe de Regente'' of Luigi Riccoboni at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris 1716–1758. She was the star of the Italian theatre in Paris and regarded as a superior interpreter of the plays by Pierre de Marivaux. She mainly played the part of heroine in Commedia dell'arte, ''Silvia''. Casanova belonged to her admirers. Life Silvia Balletti was born to the Italian actors Giuseppe Tortoriti (Pascariello), Antonio Benozzi and Clara Mascara, who belonged to a Venetian theatre company active in Toulouse since the banishment of the Comédie Italienne from Paris in 1697. In 1716, she belonged to the first actors engaged when the Comedie Italienne was reestablished in Paris. Her career up to that point is not known, but it is presumed that she must have had experience, since she would not otherwise have been hired to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Bächli
Silvia Bächli (born 1956) is a Swiss visual artist, photographer, and educator. She works primarily in painting and drawing. She has taught art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe () since 1993. Biography Silvia Bächli was born on 16 March 1956 in Wettingen, Baden District, Aargau, Switzerland. She attended Haute École d'Arts Appliques de Bâle, and École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève. In 2009, her work was part of the Swiss pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Bächli has received many awards and honors including the Manor Cultural Prize in the Canton of Aargau in 1990, Montres Breguet Prize for contemporary art in 1991, the Meret-Oppenheim Prize in 2003, and the drawing prize from the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Fondation d’Art Contemporain in 2007. Her work can be found in museum collections, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. See also * List of Swiss painters A list of notable Swiss painters: A *Johann Ludwig Aberli * Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
