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Victor (name)
Victor is both a given name and a surname. It is Latin in origin meaning ''winner'' or ''conqueror'', and the word “victor” still means this in Modern English. Although not directly associated with a Biblical name, Victor is one of the earliest Christian names, borne (as Vittorio) by several saints and popes, symbolizing Jesus' victory over both sin and death. People with the given name and mononym Aristocracy *Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587–1637) *Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666–1732) *Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (1726–1796) *Victor de Broglie (1756–1794), French soldier and politician, son of the 2nd duc de Broglie *Victor de Broglie (1785–1870), 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat *Victor de Broglie (1846–1906), 5th duc de Broglie, French politician and diplomat *Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759–1824), Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia *Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820–1878), King of Sardinia *Victor Emmanuel III of Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)
Victor IV (born Octavian or Octavianus: ''Ottaviano dei Crescenzi Ottaviani di Monticelli'') (1095 – 20 April 1164) was elected as a Ghibelline antipope in 1159, following the death of Pope Adrian IV and the election of Alexander III. His election was supported by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. He took the name Victor IV, not acknowledging Antipope Victor IV of 1138, whose holding of the papal office was deemed illegitimate. Early life and career Octaviano Monticelli belonged to the powerful Theophylacti house, whose members often became popes in the 10th through 12th centuries. He was appointed as rector of Benevento in May 1137, and cardinal priest of San Nicola in Carcere in 1138. In 1151 Octaviano became cardinal priest of Santa Cecilia. He was described by John of Salisbury as eloquent and refined, but petty and parsimonious. When he was sent with Cardinal Jordan of Santa Susanna as a papal legate to summon Conrad III of Germany to Italy to be crowned Holy Roman Empero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Ginzburg
Victor Ginzburg (born 1957) is a Russian American mathematician who works in representation theory and in noncommutative geometry. He is known for his contributions to geometric representation theory, especially, for his works on representations of quantum groups and Hecke algebras, and on the geometric Langlands program (Satake equivalence of categories). He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. Career Ginzburg received his Ph.D. at Moscow State University in 1985, under the direction of Alexandre Kirillov and Israel Gelfand. Ginzburg wrote a textbook ''Representation theory and complex geometry'' with Neil Chriss on geometric representation theory. A paper by Alexander Beilinson, Ginzburg, and Wolfgang Soergel introduced the concept of Koszul duality (cf. Koszul algebra) and the technique of "mixed categories" to representation theory. Furthermore, Ginzburg and Mikhail Kapranov developed Koszul duality theory for operads. In noncommutative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Gautier
Victor Gautier (1824–1890) was a Swiss physician. He served as President of the Medical Society of Geneva. Early life and education Horace Charles Victor Gautier was born at Geneva in 1824. He began his medical studies at Zurich in 1841. Two years later, he went to Paris, where, after working under Louis and other distinguished teachers of the day, he took his Doctor's degree in 1850, the subject of his inaugural thesis being ''Erectile Tumours of the Skin''. Career He soon afterwards returned to Geneva, where he practised every branch of medicine with equal success. He was at once one of the most trusted consultants in obscure medical cases, a surgeon of repute, and a recognised authority on obstetrics and gynaecology. His personal predilections were, however, for the last named department of practice. He was for many years medical director of the Plainpalais Infirmary for Women and Children, and lectured for some time on diseases of women in the University of Geneva. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl (; 26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and The Holocaust, Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential therapy, existential and humanistic psychology theories. Logotherapy was promoted as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy, after those established by Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical ''Man's Search for Meaning'', a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps. Early life Frankl was born the middle of three children to Gabriel Frankl, a civil servant in the Ministry of Social Service, and Elsa (née Lion), a Jewish family, in Vienna, in what was then the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His interest in psychology and the role of meaning developed when he began t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Dzau
Victor Joseph Dzau (; born 23 October 1945) is a Chinese-American physician and academic. He serves as the President of the United States National Academy of Medicine (formerly the ''Institute of Medicine'') of the United States National Academy of Sciences and Vice Chair of its National Research Council. He is Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University and former president and chief executive officer of Duke University Medical Center. Scientific career Dzau received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and an M.D. (in 1972) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital (1996–2004), as well as Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and later Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University (1990–1996). He then beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Bright
Victor Bright from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ... (IEEE) in 2015 for ''contributions to micro- and nano-electromechanical systems''. References Fellows of the IEEE Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) University of Colorado Boulder faculty American electrical engineers {{US-electrical-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Babeş
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French short film * ''Victor'' (2008 film), a TV film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis * ''Victor'' (2009 film), a French comedy * ''Victor'', a 2017 film about Victor Torres by Brandon Dickerson * ''Viktor'' (2014 film), a Franco/Russian film * ''Viktor'' (2024 film), a documentary of a deaf person's perspective during Russian invasion of Ukraine Music * ''Victor'' (Alex Lifeson album), a 1996 album by Alex Lifeson * ''Victor'' (Vic Mensa album), 2023 album by Vic Mensa * "Victor", a song from the 1979 album ''Eat to the Beat'' by Blondie Businesses * Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company, forerunner of RCA Records * Victor Company of Japan, usually known as JVC, a Japanese electronics corporatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor (bishop Of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux)
Victor was a bishop of the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux in the 6th century. Salonius and Sagittarius Salonius of Embrun and Sagittarius of Gap were two contemporary Frankish bishops. According to Gregory of Tours, these two bishops used violence to steal property from others. When Bishop Victor was celebrating his birthday, these two bishops sent armed men to attack and steal his property. The men came, wounded Victor's servants, cut his robes and carried off the dishes and other objects used by the bishop at dinner. A synod was held in Lyons by king Guntram which condemned these two bishops. However, these both appealed to Pope John III Pope John III (; died 13 July 574), born Catelinus, was the bishop of Rome from 17 July 561 to his death on 13 July 574. Family Catelinus was born in Rome to a distinguished family. His father, Anastasius, was a ''vir illustris'', a high-ranki ... in Rome, who restored them to their dioceses. Mann, H. (1910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor III (bishop Of Chur)
Victor III (died 7 January before 836) was the Bishop of Chur from after 800 until his death. He was the last member of the Victorid family to hold the bishopric of Chur and the secular power in Rhaetia concurrently. He succeeded the bishop Remedius. During his episcopate the ecclesiastic and secular authority in Rhaetia were separated. The diocese lost control over the property of the county and Victor complained several times about the conduct of the count Roderich, probably an Aleman. These complaints had only limited success. In 831 restitution was made to the diocese and Victor obtained immunity for the properties then held by the Church in Rhaetia, Alemannia, and Alsace. In 836 Victor's successor, his vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English p ... Verendarius, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor II (bishop Of Chur)
Victor II was an 8th-century bishop of Chur of the Victorid family which had controlled the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia since the early seventh century. He is mentioned in an inscription on the tomb of his predecessor Paschal in the monastery of Cazis. According to the ''Liber de feodis'' of 1388, he was a son of the tribune Tribune () was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome. The two most important were the Tribune of the Plebs, tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs ac ... Vigilius and a woman named Episcopina. The date of his death was 21 November, but the date is unrecorded, probably in the first half of the eighth century. Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Victor 02 8th-century Frankish bishops Bishops of Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor I (bishop Of Chur)
Victor I was a 7th-century bishop of Chur, the first of the Victorid family which was to control the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia until the early ninth century. On 10 October 614, he signed the canons of the Fifth Council of Paris on church discipline. His participation in a Frankish church council signifies the breaking away of the diocese of Chur from the Archdiocese of Milan The Archdiocese of Milan (; ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy which covers the areas of Milan, Monza, Lecco and Varese. It has long maintained its own Latin liturgical rite usage, the Ambr ... to which it was nominally attached. Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Victor 01 7th-century Frankish bishops Bishops of Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
