Famous People with Name Wilhelm

Wilhelm Jerusalem            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Jerusalem: was an Austrian Jewish philosopher and pedagogue.He studied classical philosophy at the University of Prague and did a doctorate about the theme "The Inscription of Sestos and Polybios". Till 1887 he was a teacher at grammar schools in Prague and Nikolsburg. In 1888 he became a member of the staff of teachers at the grammar school "k.k. Staatsgymnasium im VIII.Bezirk" in Vienna. 1891 he an outside lecturer at the University of Vienna. One of his interest was education and he demanded a change of the educational system in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Another field of his interest was the education of minorities. He wrote a monography about the education of deafblind

Wilhelm Reich            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Reich: was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms.[1] He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. Synthesizing material from psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, economics, sociology, and ethics, his work influenced writers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, A. S. Neill, and William Burroughs.[2]

Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann: was a German mathematician best known for the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.Ackermann was awarded the Ph.D. by the University of Goettingen in 1925 for his thesis Begründung des "tertium non datur" mittels der Hilbe

Wilhelm Backhaus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Backhaus: was a German pianist and pedagogue.Backhaus studied at the conservatoire in Leipzig with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt am Main. He made his first concert tour at the age of sixteen. In 1905 he won the Anton Rubinstein Competition with Béla Bartók taking second place. He toured widely throughout his life - in 1921 he gave seventeen concerts in Buenos Aires in less than three weeks. Backhaus made his U.S. debut on January 5, 1912, as soloist in Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra.[1] In 1930 he moved to Lugano and became a citizen of Switzerland. He died in Villach in Austria where he was to play in a concert.

Wilhelm Gueinzius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Gueinzius: was a German naturalist, collector and apothecary. He arrived in the Cape Colony in 1838 and registered as an apothecary. From 1839 to 1840 he collected in the Cape Colony, in particular in the Stellenbosch district and lived in the house of the lay magis

Karl Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Wilhelm: was a German choral director. He is best known as the composer of the song "Die Wacht am Rhein." He was a student of Aloys Schmitt and A. André. From 1841 to 1864 he was the director of the Krefeld Liedertafel. In Krefeld in 1854 he set to words "Die Wacht am Rhein," the poem Max Schneckenburger wrote in 1840. In recognition of the success and the national importance of this song, he received numerous honors and on 24 June 1871 he received a personal acknowledgment from Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck.

Richard Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Richard Wilhelm: was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he was eliminated in the first round of the 3500 metre walk competition.

Friedrich Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich Wilhelm: was a German-born American businessman. Von Frantzius was born on in Sawdin, West Prussia to parents Arthur and Ida (Ehlert) von Frantzius.[1][2] Von Frantzius was educated at Marlenwerder and Graudenz in West Russia from 1872 to 1885. He worked for three

Manuel Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Manuel Wilhelm: is a German international rugby union player, playing for the RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. Manuel Wilhelm plays rugby since 1986, first for RG Heidelberg, later he spent one season with league rival SC Ne

Otto Friedrich Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Otto Friedrich Wilhelm: was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party.In 1951 he became member of the liberal FDP, and from 1972 to 1998 he represented this party in the Federal Diet, the Bundestag. He was also chairman of the FDP from 1988 until 1993.