Famous People with Name Michaelis

August Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

August Michaelis: was a German chemist and discovered the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction.Michaelis studied at the University of Göttingen and University of Jena and became professor for chemistry at University of Karlsruhe in 1876, at the University of Aachen in 1880, and at the University of Rostock in 1890.

Liane Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Liane Michaelis: is a former East German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Adolf Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Adolf Michaelis: was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their modern footing. Just at the cusp of the introduction of photography as a tool of art history, Michaelis pioneered in supplementing his descriptions with sketches. Michaelis read classical philology and archaeology at the University of Leipzig, where he attended the classes of Johannes Overbeck (1826–1895), an expert on Pompeii whose emphasis on written sources for documenting Greek art was influential in formulating Michaelis' approach to antiquities and whose corpus of mythological representations in Greek art, Griechische Kunstmythologie, begun in 1871, helped spark Michaelis' own compilation of antiquities in English collections.

Dr. Herbert Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Dr. Herbert Michaelis: was a German lawyer and Communist and a member of the German Resistance during the Third Reich.He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1924. In 1933, the year the National Socialists seized power, someone anonymously denounced him to the Gestapo

Karin Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Karin Michaelis: was a Danish journalist and author. In 1910 she published Den farlige Alder (The Dangerous Age). It is the story of Elsie Lindtner, who, after divorcing her husband, attempts to rekindle a relationship with a younger man who had once worshipped her from afar. When this relationship fails as well, she resolves to spend her life traveling throughout the world with a female friend. The book created a great sensation, because it began to cut through tabooed themes like the sexual desires of a 40 year old woman. The novel was translated many times and filmed several times, including a 1927 version with Asta Nielsen. In 1914, Glaedens Skole (School of Joy) was published, about a reform school in Vienna led by her friend, the Austrian pedagogue Eugenie Schwarzwald. Michaelis also wrote a series of books about the growing up experiences of a girl Bibi. The Bibi books came in seven volumes from 1929 to 1939 and became a big international success. In these novels for adolescents, readers meet the stationmaster's daughter Bibi, who is motherless, but as a result free. She is an idealistic tomboy who rides free on the streetcars and fights ceaselessly for animal causes.