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Weigel
Weigel is a German surname. Notable people with this name include: *Beverly Weigel (born 1940), New Zealand Olympic athlete *Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, German scientist *Christoph Weigel the Elder (1654–1725), German engraver, art dealer and publisher *David Weigel, American journalist and political commentator *Detlef Weigel (born 1961), German American scientist * (1927–1995), née Hofer, Austrian actress, married to Hans Weigel from 1951–1964 *Erhard Weigel, German scientist *George Weigel, American writer and religious commentator *Hans Weigel, Austrian writer *Helene Weigel Helene Weigel (; 12 May 19006 May 1971) was a German actress and artistic director. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht and was married to him from 1930 until his death in 1956. Together they had two children. Personal life Weigel was bo ..., Austrian actress *Herman Weigel, German film producer and screenwriter *Jannine Weigel (born 2000), Thai singer-songwriter and actress *Jaroslav Weig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Weigel
David Weigel (born September 26, 1981) is an American journalist. He works for ''Semafor''. Weigel previously covered politics for ''The Washington Post,'' ''Slate,'' and ''Bloomberg Politics'' and is a contributing editor for ''Reason'' magazine. Early years and background Weigel was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. After moving to England in 1998, he graduated from the American Community School in Cobham, Surrey, in "the high Tory London suburbs" of the London commuter belt, in 2000. He moved to Evanston, Illinois in 2000 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 2004 from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, with a double major in journalism and political science and a minor in history. While at college, Weigel wrote for ''The Daily Northwestern'' and was editor-in-chief of the campus's conservative newspaper ''Northwestern Chronicle''. In the summer of 2001, he also had a "fun" internship at the libertarian Center for Individual Rights. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Weigel
George Weigel (born 1951) is a Catholic neoconservative American author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of a best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II, ''Witness to Hope'', and '' Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace''. Career and personal life Weigel was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended St. Mary's Seminary and University. In 1975 he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of St. Michael's College with a thesis entitled ''Karl Rahner's Theology of the Incarnation in Light of his Philosophy of Transcendental Anthropology''. He has received 18 honorary doctorate degrees, as well as the papal cross ''Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice'' and the '' Gloria Artis'' Gold Medal from the Polish Minist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grote & Weigel
Grote & Weigel, Inc. is a meat company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States. They are one of the oldest meat companies in the United States, having been founded in 1890 in nearby Rockville. They later moved to Hartford, and in 1966 moved to Bloomfield. On January 27, 2012, it was announced that Grote & Weigel was closing its doors and going out of business. They had supplied a famous 2-foot hot dog to Doogie's of Newington, CT. On February 22, 2012, Rachael's Food Corp responded to an auctioneer's ad and negotiated a deal to purchase the company. Most of Grote & Weigel's long-time customers, including Big Y Supermarkets, and Sam's Club continue to use the supplier. Products and distribution Best known for various types of Hot Dogs, the company also produces other types of sausage such as Bratwurst, Cajun Andouille, Italian Sausage, and Kielbasa as well as luncheon meats including Bologna, Ham, Liverwurst, and cooked Salami Salami ( ) is a cured sausage consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhard Weigel
Erhard Weigel (16 December 1625 – 20 March 1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. Biography Weigel earned his M.A. (1650) and his habilitation (1652) from the University of Leipzig. From 1653 until his death he was professor of mathematics at Jena University. He was the teacher of Leibniz in summer 1663,Richard T. W. Arthur, 2014. ''Leibniz''. John Wiley & Sons. p. 16. and other notable students. He also worked to make science more widely accessible to the public, and what would today be considered a populariser of science. He concurred with Jakob Ellrod's "Mittel-Calendar", and with the advocacy of Leibniz and others, that the date of Easter should be based on the astronomical measurement of the spring equinox and the next full moon. He followed Jakob Ellrod to the Imperial Diet in Regensburg to advocate the use of the Mittel-Calendar or New Gregorian calendar. Timeline * 1625 born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, son of clothier Michael Weigel and Anna Weig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jannine Weigel
Jannine Parawie Weigel ( th, ญานนีน ภารวี ไวเกล; born 30 July 2000), also known by the Thai nickname Ploychompoo ( th, พลอยชมพู, links=no), is a Thai singer, songwriter, actress, model, influencer, gamer, ambassador and Youtuber. She is of Eurasian origin. Early life and education Weigel was born on 30 July 2000 in Steinfurt, Germany, to a Thai mother and a German father. Her first name, Jannine ( th, ญานนีน, links=no, ), was from Hebrew, meaning " Yahweh is gracious". Her middle name, Parawie ( th, ภารวี, links=no, , ), means "sunbeam" in Thai. Her Thai nickname, Ploychompoo ( th, พลอยชมพู, links=no, , ), means "pink sapphire". Weigel has three elder brothers, born 1986, 1988 and 1990, respectively. She lived in Steinfurt until her tenth year of age and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2010. Weigel attended St Martin kindergarten and Regenborgen Primary School in Steinfurt, Germany until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teri Weigel
Teri Weigel is an American pornographic actress, fashion and nude model and '' Playboy'' Playmate. Early life Weigel was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and grew up in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She began modeling while in her teens, appearing in the Saks Fifth Avenue catalog among other venues. Career Weigel appeared on the cover of the November 1985 issue of '' Playboy'', and was the Playboy Playmate for April 1986. She also appeared in a number of ''Playboy'' videos. She subsequently had several minor roles in mainstream film, including '' Predator 2'' and '' Marked for Death'', and made several appearances as "Jade" on '' Married... with Children''. She was the second Playmate to also appear in '' Penthouse'' magazine, after Ursula Buchfellner, November 1985. She worked for a time at the Bunny Ranch The Moonlite BunnyRanch is a legal, licensed brothel in Mound House, Nevada, United States, east of Carson City. First opened in 1955, it came to national attention unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Education Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefeld and Cologne. In 1986, he graduated with a Diploma in biology for this thesis on Drosophila neurogenesis with the late José Campos-Ortega. In 1988, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. During his PhD work with , he discovered the founding member of an important class of transcription factors, the Forkhead/FOX proteins. In 1988, he graduated with a PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of Tübingen. Career and research Weigel began to work with plants during his postdoctoral research with Elliot M. Meyerowitz at Caltech, where he cloned the floral regulator ''LEAFY'' from ''Arabidopsis thaliana''. From 1993 to 2002, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Salk Institute for Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Weigel
Helene Weigel (; 12 May 19006 May 1971) was a German actress and artistic director. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht and was married to him from 1930 until his death in 1956. Together they had two children. Personal life Weigel was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the daughter of Leopoldine (née Pollak) and Siegfried Weigel, an accountant-general in a textile factory. Her family was Jewish. She and husband Brecht had two children, Stefan Brecht and Barbara Brecht-Schall. Weigel was a Communist Party member from 1930. Career Weigel became the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble on 16 February 1949. She is best remembered for creating several Brecht roles, including: Pelagea Vlassova, '' The Mother'' of 1932; '' Antigone'' in Brecht's version of the Greek tragedy; the title role in his civil war play, '' Señora Carrar's Rifles''; and the iconic ''Mother Courage''. Between 1933 and 1947, as a refugee from Adolf Hitler's Germany, she was seldom able to pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Weigel
Beverly Dawn Edith Weigel (born 16 August 1940), with her first name commonly misspelled as Beverley and since her marriage known as Beverly Robertson, is a New Zealand athlete. Mainly active as a long jumper, but also as a sprinter, she represented her country at the 1956 Summer Olympics, the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and the 1960 Summer Olympics. Life Weigel was born in 1940 in Auckland, New Zealand. She received her education at Kelston High School (now Kelston Girls' College, but co-ed at the time). Described as a "phenomenal athlete", she won the New Zealand senior women's long jump title at age 15. This secured her a place on the New Zealand Olympic team for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and she is listed as New Zealand Olympian number 126. Of the nine track and field athletes who represented the country, she was the youngest at age 16. She competed in long jump and of 19 competitors, she came 7th. In 1957, she set a world junior re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Weigel
Jaroslav Weigel (2 January 1931 Rychnov nad Kněžnou – 5 September 2019 Prague) was a Czech actor, writer, playwright, comics writer and painter. From 1970, he was a member of the ''Jára Cimrman Theatre''. Biography Weigel studied at the Faculty of Education of the Charles University in Prague. After his graduation, he began working as an editor in various magazines, most notably in Mladý svět (from 1959 to 69). Fikejz (2008), p. 797 In 1972, he collaborated with the illustrator Kája Saudek on the comics series ''Lips Tullian''. He appeared in minor roles in the films of his colleagues from the theatre, Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák. He is known mainly for his roles in the Jára Cimrman Theatre. Fikejz (2008), p. 798 Filmography and theatre The list is based on the information of the Czech and Slovak Film Database. *'' České nebe: Cimrmanův dramatický kšaft'' (theatre, 2010) *''40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry'' (theatre, 2007) *'' Vratné l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weigel Motors
Weigel Motors Ltd was a British automobile manufacturer from 1907–1910 at Coswell Road in London. The company built the first British cars to participate in Grand Prix Racing when it entered 2 cars in the 1907 French Grand Prix at Dieppe, driven by Gregor Laxen and Pryce Harrison. These were powered by Straight Eight engines displacing 14,866cc, formed by coupling two 40 hp engines in tandem. Financial difficulties emerged in 1907, as the company was reformed, and moved to a new factory in Olaf Street, Latimer Road, Notting Hill. For the 1908 French Grand Prix The 1908 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Dieppe on 7 July 1908. Formula Changes The race was run under a new formula agreed in Ostend in 1907. There was no fuel consumption limit, but the cars had a minimum weight of 110 ... Weigel entered three four-cylinder cars, with engines displacing 12,781cc driven by Harrison, Laxen and Shannon. Again, none of the cars finished. The firm's assets were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Weigel
Major General William Weigel (August 25, 1863 – March 4, 1936) was a United States Army officer who, throughout his long military career, served in numerous conflicts and wars, most notably towards the end of World War I, commanding the 56th Brigade of the 28th Division before taking command of the 88th Division in the war's final weeks. Early life and military career William Weigel was born August 25, 1863 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he grew up and attended school. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, with the class of 1887, ranking 27th in his class. Among his fellow classmates included several general officers of the future, such as Charles Gerhardt, Ulysses G. McAlexander, Ernest Hinds, Nathaniel Fish McClure, Michael Joseph Lenihan, Charles S. Farnsworth, James Theodore Dean, Mark L. Hersey, Herman Hall, Frank Herman Albright, Marcus Daniel Cronin, George Owen Squier, Thomas Grafton Hanson, George Washington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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