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Torbjörn
Torbjörn, Thorbjörn, Torbjørn, or Thorbjørn (given name) are modern Swedish language, Swedish, Norwegian language, Norwegian and Danish language, Danish forms of the Old Norse and Icelandic language, Icelandic name ''Þorbjörn'', meaning thunder (from the name Thor) and bear. Other variants of the name include the Danish/German form Torben and the predominantly German form Thorben. English variants include Thurburn, Thorburn, Thorbern, Thorebern, Thorber, and Thurber (other), Thurber, which are, however, normally used as surnames. Tubby is common in the Norfolk area of England and the early whaling communities of North America. The Icelandic short form is "Tobbi"; the Swedish is "Tobbe." The supposed site of Þorbjörn's farm in ''Hrafnkels saga'' was known as "Tobbahól" by the locals. Notable people named Torbjörn * Torbjørn Agdestein (born 1991), Norwegian footballer * Torbjörn Arvidsson (born 1968), Swedish football player * Torbjörn Axelman (1932–2023), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Caspersson
Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson (15 October 1910 – 7 December 1997) was a Sweden, Swedish cell biology, cytologist and geneticist. He was born in Motala and attended the Stockholm University, where he studied medicine and biophysics. Contributions Caspersson made several key contributions to biology. * He provided William Astbury with well prepared samples of DNA for Astbury's pioneering structural measurements. * In 1936, in his doctoral thesis in chemistry, presented at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, he first studied genetic material inside a cell (biology), cell with an ultraviolet microscope to determine the nucleic acid content of cellular structures such as the cell nucleus, nucleus and nucleolus using the Feulgen reaction to stain the DNA. * He worked with Jack Schultz in Stockholm from 1937 to 1939 on protein synthesis in cells and published the work in 1939, where he independent of Jean Brachet, working out the same problem using a different technique, found that ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Axelman
Lars Gunnar Torbjörn Kullänger-Axelman (28 April 1932 – 25 February 2023) was a Swedish television producer, director and writer. Early life Axelman was born on 28 April 1932 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, the son of Valdemar Axelman, a bookseller, and his wife Märtha (née Engström). He passed ''studentexamen'' in Örebro in 1951 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 and a Master of Philosophy degree from Uppsala University in 1956. Career Axelman did TV studies in England in 1956 and the United States in 1961 and 1966. Axelman was a journalist at ''Nerikes Allehanda'' and ''Tidningen Upsala'' periodically from 1952 to 1966 and was a producer at Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio from 1956 to 1985. He produced cultural programs ''Prisma'' from 1958 to 1961 and several programs together with the artist Ardy Strüwer and Lasse Åberg. Axelman was also a painter and book illustrator and held solo exhibitions in Uppsala in 1953 and 1954, Visby in 1983, 1985, 1987–198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Arvidsson
Torbjörn Arvidsson (born 6 May 1968) is a former Swedish football player, who played as a defender for Halmstads BK. He is currently the assistant manager of Hajduk Split. Career Starting his career in Kalmar FF he early moved to Halmstads BK in 1989, where he played until 2005. During this time he became the player with most games in Allsvenskan for Halmstad so far, 306 games and 543 games in total, he won Allsvenskan twice and Svenska Cupen once and 1998-1999 he was the team captain and also playing several time in European cups. He made his debut for the club in 1989 in the serie debut against Örebro SK and his last match was in the cup against Ystads IF FF in 2005. Coaching career From 2010 until he left Halmstad BK at the end of 2015, beside his role as the assistant manager of the first team, Arvidsson was also responsible for the clubs U-21 squad. Arvidsson continued his coaching career at Varbergs BoIS. He signed as an assistant manager on 4 January 2016. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Björlund
John Torbjörn Björlund (born 1957) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Left Party, he represented Östergötland County between October 2006 and September 2014. He was also a substitute member of the Riksdag for Linda Westerlund Snecker twice: between April 2015 and June 2015; and between August 2015 and January 2016. Björlund is the son of train driver Åke Björlund and journalist Maj-Britt Björlund (née Wennberg). He was educated in Motala and studied leisure education at Linköping University. He was a gardener (1977), paper mill worker (1977-1985), substitute teacher A substitute teacher is a person who teaches a school class when the regular teacher is absent or unavailable; e.g., because of illness, personal leave, maternal leave and so on. "Substitute teacher" (usually abbreviated as sub) is the most c ... (1986), leisure teacher (1986-1987), treatment assistant (1988-1989), consultant (1989-20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Blomdahl
Torbjörn Blomdahl (born 26 October 1962 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish people, Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pocket billiards, pool) player from Helsingborg, Sweden who plays for FC Porto (billiards), FC Porto. He is a seven time World Champion in three-cushion billiards, having won the UMB World Three-cushion Championship, titles in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2015 and in 2019. Background Torbjörn Blomdahl was born in Gothenburg buat age 11he moved to Helsingborg. He is the son of three-cushion player Lennart Blomdahl, who was a driving force behind the local billiards club ''Borgen på Söder''. It was here Blomdahl learned to play three-cushion with his father as the teacher. His international breakthrough was at the European championships in Copenhagen in 1984. Starting in 1989 he was ranked the best three-cushion player in the world. Blomdahl has been a resident of Backnang, Germany since 1994. Cue sports career Blomdahl has won a total of 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Blomqvist
Torbjörn Blomqvist (February 14, 1941 – February 20, 2017) was a Finnish sprint canoer, who competed in the early 1960s. He was born in Helsinki. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 4 × 500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, .... ReferencesTorbjörn Blomqvist's profile at Sports Reference.com 1941 births 2017 deaths [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Ek
Torbjörn Ek (25 June 1949 – 18 August 2010) was a Swedish bandy and football player and manager. He was considered one of the country's top bandy players during the 1970s and early 1980s. Ek was capped 102 times for the Swedish national bandy team, scoring 89 goals, and was a member of silver-medal winning teams at the Bandy World Cup on 6 occasions. He was a member of the team which won the junior bandy world cup in 1967. In 1975 Ek's team Ljusdals BK won the Swedish bandy league. He managed the Swedish national bandy team for 1 match, in 1993. Ek also had an elite football career, playing in 62 Allsvenskan matches, for AIK (1971–1973) and GIF Sundsvall Gymnastik- och Idrottsföreningen Sundsvall, more commonly known as GIF Sundsvall (), Giffarna or simply Sundsvall, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Sundsvall. The club is affiliated with Medelpads Fotbollfà ... (1975), winning a silver medal as a member of the AIK team which finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorburn
Thorburn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Thorburn (1836–1894), Scottish-born Canadian politician; provincial legislator in the Northwest Territories 1888–1891 * Archibald Thorburn (1860–1935), Scottish bird illustrator * Chris Thorburn (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player * Cliff Thorburn (born 1948), Canadian snooker player * James Thorburn (physician) (1830–1905), Canadian physician and University of Toronto professor * Sir James Thorburn (governor) (1864–1929), British governor of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) * John A. Thorburn (1946–2010), American Special Forces soldier and minor actor * June Thorburn (1931–1967), English actress; killed in an air crash * Nicholas Thorburn (born 1981), Canadian musician and songwriter * Paul Thorburn (born 1962), Welsh rugby union football player * Peter Thorburn (1939–2021), New Zealand rugby union coach * R.A. Thorburn or R.A. the Rugged Man, American rapper * Ray Thorburn (1930â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurber (other)
Thurber can refer to: People *Alexandre Thurber (1871–1958), Quebec industrialist and politician *Charles Thurber, black man lynched in 1882 * Charles Thurber (inventor) (1803–1886), American inventor who contributed to the early typewriter * George Thurber (1821-1890), American naturalist and writer *James Thurber (1894–1961), American humorist and cartoonist, often known simply as Thurber * James A. Thurber (born 1943), political science professor * Jeannette Thurber (1850–1946), patron of classical music in the United States * Jefferson G. Thurber (1807–1857), American politician in Michigan *Marion Bartlett Thurber ((1885-1973), American political spouse *Rawson Marshall Thurber (born 1975), American filmmaker * Samuel H. Thurber (1827–1870), American politician in Wisconsin *Tom Thurber (1934–2010), Canadian politician *Frances Thurber Seal (ca. 1860 – 1930s), Christian Science teacher from the U.S.A. Other uses *Thurber, Texas, a ghost town *Thurber House, a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torben
Torben is a Danish variant of the given name Torbjörn. People named Torben include: *Torben Betts (born 1968), English playwright and screenwriter * Torben Boye (born 1966), Danish former footballer *Torben Frank (born 1968), Danish former football striker *Torben Grael (born 1960), Brazilian sailor and twice Olympic gold medalist * Torben Hoffmann (born 1974), German former football defender * Torben Joneleit (born 1987), Monegasque-born German footballer * Torben Larsen (born 1942), Danish scientist in the field of hydrology and water pollution *Torben Meyer (1884-1975), Danish character actor *Torben Nielsen (born 1945), Danish former football player and manager *Torben Oxe (died 1517), Danish nobleman controversially executed for murder *Torben Piechnik (born 1963), Danish former football defender *Torben Schousboe (1937–2017), Danish music researcher and writer *Torben Skovlyst, Danish orienteering competitor See also *Torbern Bergman (1735-1784), Swedish chemist and minera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjørn Bratt
Torbjørn Olavssøn Bratt (1548) was a Norwegian clergyman. He was the first bishop of Trondheim, after the introduction of the Protestant Reformation in Norway. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Trondhjem from 1546 until 1548. Bratt was born in the fishing village of Andenes on the island of Andøya in Nordland, Norway. He was born into one of the families that constituted the remains of old Norwegian aristocracy and was elder brother of Jens Olavssøn Bratt. He and his brother were both enrolled at the University of Cologne thanks to the sponsorship of Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Trondheim. Engelbrektsson was the last Roman Catholic to be the archbishop before he fled to exile in 1537. After the archbishop had to flee, both brothers adapted to the situation and cooperated with the new Lutheran authorities. In 1530, he returned to Copenhagen where he completed his master's degree. For a short time, he held a teaching position at the University of Copenhagen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |