Famous People with Name Alwin

Alwin De Prins            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Alwin De Prins: is a former competitive swimmer who represented Luxembourg. Born in Dendermonde, Belgium, he first represented Luxembourg in 1995 at the European Swimming Championships in Vienna.

Alwin Kloekhorst            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Alwin Kloekhorst: is a Dutch linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist.He received his Ph.D. in 2007 at the University of Leiden with the thesis on Hittite. In over 1200 pages his dissertation describes the history of Hittite in the light of its Indo-European origin. It consists of two parts. Part One, Towards a Hittite Historical Grammar, contains a description of the Hittite phoneme inventory and a discussion of the sound laws and morphological changes that have taken place between the Proto-Indo-European and the Hittite language stage.

Alwin Schockemöhle            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Alwin Schockemöhle: is a former German show-jumper.

Alwin Hammers            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Alwin Hammers: is a German theologian. Hammers was born at Bitburg. During his childhood he lived in Mürlenbach, Eifel. He studied philosophy and theology in Trier. He wanted to become a roman-catholic priest. During his university studies he met his wife. He married and the family has two children. Hammers stopped to become a priest and studied psychology. He worked in Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier as teacher for Roman Catholic priests in divinity school. As professor Hammers worked in sector pastoral psychology.

Alwin Josef Wagner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Alwin Josef Wagner: is a West German discus thrower, who was affiliated with Union Sportclub Mainz. He finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics. In Germany he is also well known for winning five national championships in a row in the years 1981-1985.[1] He represented the sports team USC Mainz. His personal best throw was 67.80 metres, achieved in July 1987 in Melsungen. This result ranks him sixth among German discus throwers, behind Jürgen Schult, Lars Riedel, Wolfgang Schmidt, Armin Lemme and Hein-Direck Neu.[2]