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Sova (surname)
Sova (Czech/Slovak feminine: Sovová) is a surname. The word literally means " owl" in several Slavic languages. Notable people with this surname include: * Aleš Sova (born 1991), Czech ice hockey player * Antonín Sova (1864–1928), Czech poet * Charles E. Sova (1928–2019), American politician * Dan Șova (born 1973), Romanian politician * Evgeny Sova (born 1980), Israeli journalist * Joe Sova (born 1988), American ice hockey player * Lyubov Sova (born 1979), Russian philologist * Peter Sova (1944–2020), Czech-American cinematographer * Romen Sova (1938–2001), Ukrainian toxicologist * (born 1956), Estonian architect * Vasilii Șova (born 1959), Moldovan politician and diplomat See also * * Sowa (surname) Sowa () is a surname with multiple origins, including Polish, Ghanaian, and Japanese. Etymology Europe Among individuals of European origin, the surname ''Sowa'' is derived from the Polish noun "sowa" (owl). In some cases, it may be an alter ... {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sowa (surname)
Sowa () is a surname with multiple origins, including Polish, Ghanaian, and Japanese. Etymology Europe Among individuals of European origin, the surname ''Sowa'' is derived from the Polish noun "sowa" ( owl). In some cases, it may be an alternative spelling of the surname Sova, which is a Ukrainian, Czech, Belarusian, Slovak and Russian cognate. Both are derived from Proto-Slavic *sova. Polish name expert Kazimierz Rymut mentions the name in his book ''Nazwiska Polaków'' (''The Surnames of Poles''). Rymut says the name appears in records as early as 1404 and comes from the noun ''sowa'', which means " owl". Fred Hoffman, author of ''Polish Surnames'', explains that a common practice in the early days of surname adoption was its bestowal upon people as a nickname because of their connection to the meaning behind the name,Hoffman, William F. "Fred", ''Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings'' which was, in this case, an owl. Other countries The surname is also found in Ghan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleš Sova
Aleš Sova (born September 24, 1991) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who plays for Orli Znojmo of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. Playing career Sova played with HC Kometa Brno in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga playoffs whilst also enduring a loan a stint in the 1. národní hokejová liga with HC Rebel Havlíčkův Brod Sova later moved to play with Czech outfit, Orli Znojmo, who competed in the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL). Following parts of two seasons in Denmark with Herning Blue Fox Herning Blue Fox is a Danish professional ice hockey team based in Herning, Denmark, playing in the Metal Ligaen, the top tier of Danish ice hockey. The club was founded in 1947 and play their home games in the KVIK Hockey Arena which has a capac ... of the Metal Ligaen, Sova as a free agent opted to pursue a career in North America. He signed a one-year ECHL contract with the Quad City Mallards on September 11, 2017. After an unsuccessful tenur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonín Sova
Antonín Sova (26 February 1864 – 16 August 1928) was a Czech poet and the director of Prague Municipal Library. Life He was born in Pacov, a small town in South Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, but from the age of two he grew up in nearby Lukavec.Josef Zika: Cesta básníkova, životopisná poznámka in Pozdrav bouřlivé noci, Prague 1964, pp. 87–104 His father Jan was a teacher and choirmaster who occasionally composed.Čeští spisovatelé 19. a počátku 20. století, Prague 1982, pp. 241–245 His mother died when he was 15 and his father married again (Sova never had a positive relationship with his stepmother Sabina). In Lukavec Antonín became acquainted with the sisters of Jaroslav Vrchlický. He studied at the grammar school in Pelhřimov, Tábor, and from 1881 to 1885 in Písek. He met the Písek-based poet Adolf Heyduk who helped him publish his first poems in literary magazines (he used the pen-names Ilja Georgov and for Lumír Valburga Turková) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles E
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in '' Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Șova
Dan-Coman Șova (born 9 April 1973 in Bucharest) is a Romanian lawyer and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has sat in the Romanian Senate from 2008 to 2015, representing Olt County. Dan Șova served as Minister for Infrastructure Projects of National Interest and Foreign Investment (21 December 2012 to 5 March 2014) and Minister of Transportation (5 March to 24 June 2014). Previously, he served as Minister Delegate for Liaison with Parliament He graduated from the Faculty of Law (1995) and the Faculty of History (2001) of the University of Bucharest. On 17 September 2015, Șova was sent to court together with the former Prime Minister Victor Ponta, for acts of corruption related to the energy complexes at Rovinari and Turceni, causing damages of over 3 million lei to the Romanian state; he was cleared of those charges in May 2018. On 26 January 2016, Șova was sued by the National Anticorruption Directorate for influence peddling in a case related to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeny Sova
Evgeny Sova (, born 29 August 1980) is an Israeli journalist, television presenter and politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu. Biography Born in Pervomaisk in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, Sova immigrated to Israel in 1997 as part of the Jewish Agency's Selah Programme and studied for a BA in political science at Bar-Ilan University. In 2005 he joined the Russian-language Vesti newspaper as a reporter and researcher. He later joined Israel Plus as a political commentator, before moving to RTVI in 2014, presenting the Week in Israel programme. He also worked as the BBC Russian-language correspondent in Israel. In addition to his broadcasting work, Sova lectures in journalism at Ariel University. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Sova
Joe Sova (born May 8, 1988) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently playing with the Quad City Storm of the SPHL. On March 19, 2011, Sova was signed as a free agent by the New Jersey Devils to an entry-level contract. On January 20, 2012, the New Jersey Devils traded Sova to the Carolina Hurricanes, along with New Jersey's 4th round choice in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft (Jaccob Slavin), in exchange for Alexei Ponikarovsky Alexei Ponikarovsky ( ua, Олексій Володимирович Понікаровський; born 9 April 1980) is a Ukrainian-Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto .... On August 28, 2013, Sova signed as a free agent to return to the Kalamazoo Wings of the ECHL. After two seasons with the Wings Sova extended his stay in re-signing for a potential third campaign in Kalamazoo. However, prior to the 2015–16 season, Sova was traded by the Wings to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Sova
Ljubov Zinovjevna Sova (Russian: Любовь Зиновьевна Сова) (Aksenova since 1979) is a Russian philologist notable for contributions in the field of linguistics and orientalistics. Her main fields of professional interest include linguistics, African philology, semiotics, typology, Slavic languages and journalism. Education Sova was born in 1937 in Kharkov in what was then Soviet Ukraine. She recvied her BA in English language from the Kharkov State Courses for Foreign Languages (1958). She received her MA in philology ( Russian language and literature) from the Karazin Kharkiv National University (1960). MA in mathematics from the Saint Petersburg State University (1969). PhD in philological science (structural linguistics and African languages) from the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR (1965); where her thesis was entitled ''Verb Classes in the Zulu Language''. She received her '' D. Habilitatus'' and D.Phil. from the Higher Attestation Commission of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sova
Milan Peter Sova (September 25, 1944 – August 27, 2020) was a Czech-born American cinematographer. Sova was born in Prague, Czechoslavakia. After training to be a machinist in Prague, Sova would emigrate to New York City, where he worked fixing cameras at ABC. Sova's first work as cinematographer was on the 1977 film '' Short Eyes''. Through his career he would collaborate frequently with Barry Levinson and Paul McGuigan, and would work with Mike Newell on the gangster film ''Donnie Brasco''. He became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 1999. He was married to his wife Elizabeth from 1988 until her death in 2018. They had one son together. Sova died in South Kortright, New York on August 27, 2020, at the age of 75. Filmography Film Television TV movies TV series References External linksPeter Sovaat the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romen Sova
Romen Efimovich Sova (russian: Ромен Ефимович Сова) (5 November 1938 - 22 December 2001), was a Soviet and Ukrainian toxicologist. Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Ecological Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences. Scientific activities From 1965 — Associate Research Fellow of the Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ... Institute of Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, where he received a PhD degree in medical sciences. Since 1971, research activities related to Romain Efimovicha connected with VNIIGINTOKS (now the Institute of ecological hygiene and toxicology behalf L. I. Medved). Over 26 years of work at the institute, he has gone from a research assistant to the deputy director for scientific work. The main focus of his activi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasilii Șova
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy ( Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to: * Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 * Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462 *Vasili III of Russia Tsar from 1505–1533 *Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610 *Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny *Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter * Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis * Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general *Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander *Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal * Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General * Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son *Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author * Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist * Vasily Ignatenko (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |