Famous People with Name Wichman

Sharon Wichman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sharon Wichman: is an American swimmer and olympic champion. Wichman graduated in 1970 from R. Nelson Snider High School in Fort Wayne.

Joost Wichman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joost Wichman: is a Dutch professional mountainbiker, who's main discipline is four-cross (4X). Joost was 4 when he got his first BMX-bike. After a successful career, resulting in 4 National Pro Titles, 2 victories in the European Championship Rounds and a longtime memb

Søren Wichmann            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Søren Wichmann: a Danish linguist specializing in Mesoamerican languages and epigraphy. He has written extensively about Mayan, Oto-Manguean and Mixe-Zoquean languages. He has done fieldwork on Mixe, Texistepec Popoluca and Tlapanec. Regarding Mixe-Zoquean, he has done comparative work resulting in the currently most accepted classification of the Mixe-Zoquean language family as well as a reconstruction of its vocabulary and grammar (Wichmann 1995). He also specializes in the study of Maya hieroglyphs — particularly the linguistic aspects of the deciphering of the Mayan script. His PhD thesis treated the Azoyú variety of Tlapanec.

Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann: was a German astronomer. He was an ardent observer of minor planets. A student of Friedrich Bessel, he observed with the famous Königsberg heliometer. In 1853 he published a determination of the parallax of Groombridge 1830[1].

Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen: was a 17th-century German philologist. He received his Master's degree (the highest degree available at that time) from the University of Leipzig in 1685. His dissertation, titled Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae (Moral Disputation on Divorce according to the Law of Nature), was written under the direction of his father in law[1] and advisor Otto Mencke. He was from 1692 until the time of his death a professor of Near Eastern languages and university librarian at the University of Wittenberg, and gave courses there in Philosophy and Hebrew.