Georg
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Georg is a male given name in mostly Northern European countries and may refer to:
In creative culture
- Georg, Baron von OrtzenGeorg, Baron von OrtzenKarl Friedrich Theodor Ludwig Georg, Baron von Örtzen , German poet and prose-writer, was born at Brunn in Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
, poet and author - Georg BöhmGeorg BöhmGeorg Böhm was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Bach.-Life:Böhm was born in 1661 in Hohenkirchen, near Ohrdruf...
, German organist - Georg BüchnerGeorg BüchnerKarl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...
, German playwright - Georg Brandl EgloffGeorg Brandl EgloffGeorg Brandl Egloff is a composer and performer of music for film, television, radio and commercials.-Biography:...
, American composer - Georg FabriciusGeorg FabriciusGeorg Fabricius , born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist.- Life :...
, Protestant German poet - Georg GersterGeorg GersterGeorge Gerster is a Swiss journalist and a pioneer aerial photographer.Born in Winterthur, in 1950 Gerster earned a doctorate at the University of Zurich in Germanistik. Through 1956 he worked as an editor for the inhabitants of Zurich's "World Week"...
, photographer - Georg Philipp HarsdorfferGeorg Philipp HarsdorfferGeorg Philipp Harsdörffer , German poet and translator, was born in Nuremberg.He studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg, and subsequently traveled through the Netherlands, England, France and Italy...
, German poet - Georg Listing, Bassist for the German Rock Band "Tokio Hotel"
- Georg Matthias MonnGeorg Matthias MonnGeorg Matthias Monn was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music....
, Austrian composer - Georg MuffatGeorg Muffat-Life:He was born in Megève, Savoy, , and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 1669, then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna...
, French composer - Georg OtsGeorg OtsGeorg Ots, People's Artist of the USSR was an Estonian opera singer...
, Estonian opera singer - Georg SoltiGeorg SoltiSir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
, Hungarian conductor - Georg StiernhielmGeorg StiernhielmGeorg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet. Stiernhielm was born in a middle-class family in the village Svartskär in Vika parish in Dalarna...
, Swedish poet - Georg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
, German composer - Georg Ludwig von Trapp, headed the Austrian singing von Trapp family
- Georg TintnerGeorg TintnerGeorg Tintner CM was an Austrian-born conductor whose career was principally in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada....
, Austrian conductor - Georg TraklGeorg TraklGeorg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.- Life and work :Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg, Austria...
, Austrian poet - Georg Joseph VoglerGeorg Joseph VoglerGeorg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abbé Vogler , was a German composer, organist, teacher and theorist.Vogler was born at Pleichach in Würzburg...
, German composer - Georg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph Wagenseil was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, and became a favorite pupil of the Vienna court'sKapellmeister, Johann Joseph Fux. Wagenseil himself composed for the...
, Austrian composer
In science
- Georg von BékésyGeorg von BékésyGeorg von Békésy was a Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest, Hungary.In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ.-Research:Békésy developed a method for dissecting the inner ear of human...
, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate - Georg BrandtGeorg Brandt-External links:** by Uno Boklund in: Charles C. Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography , vol. 2, pages 421-422....
, Swedish chemist and mineralogist - Georg CantorGeorg CantorGeorg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets,...
, German mathematician - Georg GroddeckGeorg GroddeckGeorg Groddeck was a physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine.-Method:...
, physician whom Freud credits for the Id - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...
, German philosopher - Georg HartungGeorg HartungGeorg Hartung was a pioneering German geologist. He is best known for several books and articles about the islands of Macaronesia, especially the Azores and the Canary Islands....
(c. 1822 - c. 1891), a pioneering German geologist - Georg MajorGeorg MajorGeorge Major was a Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation. He was born in Nuremberg and died at Wittenberg.-Life:...
, German Lutheran theologian - Georg MohrGeorg MohrJørgen Mohr was a Danish mathematician. He travelled in the Netherlands, France, and England.Mohr was born in Copenhagen...
, Danish mathematician - Georg OhmGeorg OhmGeorg Simon Ohm was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm began his research with the recently-invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm determined that there is a direct proportionality between the potential...
, German physicist - Georg Hermann QuinckeGeorg Hermann QuinckeGeorg Quincke|thumbGeorg Hermann Quincke was a German physicist.Born at Frankfurt , Quincke was the son of prominent physician Geheimer Medicinal-Rath Hermann Quincke and the older brother of physician Heinrich Quincke.Quincke received his Ph. D. in 1858 at Berlin, having previously studied also...
, German physicist - Georg Joachim RheticusGeorg Joachim RheticusGeorg Joachim von Lauchen, also known as Rheticus , was a mathematician, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil...
, cartographer and scientific instrument maker - Georg Wilhelm RichmannGeorg Wilhelm RichmannGeorg Wilhelm Richmann was a German physicist who lived in Russia....
, Russian physicist - Georg Ernst StahlGeorg Ernst StahlGeorg Ernst Stahl was a German chemist and physician.He was born at Ansbach. Having graduated in medicine at the University of Jena in 1683, he became court physician to Duke Johann Ernst of Sachsen Weimar in 1687...
, German physician and chemist - Georg Steller, German naturalist
- Georg SverdrupGeorg SverdrupGeorg Sverdrup , born Jørgen Sverdrup, was a Norwegian philologist, who is well known for being a member of Norwegian Constituent Assembly in Eidsvoll in 1814 and later the parliament. He was also responsible for building the first Norwegian university library...
, Norwegian philologist - Georg WittigGeorg WittigGeorg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C...
, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
In politics
- Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
- Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany
- Georg MichaelisGeorg MichaelisGeorg Michaelis became the first Chancellor of Germany with a non-noble background.-Biography :Michaelis, born in Haynau in the Prussian Province of Silesia, grew up in Frankfurt...
, Chancellor of Germany - Georg Paul Christian, Prinz von Hannover
- Georg Ritter von SchönererGeorg Ritter von SchönererGeorg Ritter von Schönerer was an Austrian politician active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and a major exponent of German nationalism in Austria....
, Austrian politician - Georg, Crown Prince of SaxonyGeorg, Crown Prince of SaxonyGeorg, Crown Prince of Saxony, , the last Crown Prince of Saxony, was the heir to the King of Saxony, Frederick Augustus III, at the time of the monarchy's abolition on 13 November 1918.-Life:The prince was born on 15 January 1893 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany...
- Georg, Duke of HohenbergGeorg, Duke of HohenbergGeorg, Duke of Hohenberg , is a grandson of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Hungary, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg....
- Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzGeorg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzGeorge, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg ruled the state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1816 until his death.-Early life:...
- Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
- Georg, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Other
- Georg WerthnerGeorg WerthnerDr. Georg Werthner is a decathlete from Austria, who was the first athlete to finish four Olympic decathlons. In 1988 after him Daley Thompson crossed the finish-line to become the second athlete to do this....
, Austrian decathlete - Georg Carl von DöbelnGeorg Carl von DöbelnGeorg Carl von Döbeln was a Swedish friherre , Lieutenant General and war hero.-Early life:Georg Carl was born at the Stora Torpa manor in Segerstads parish in Västergötland to Johan Jakob von Döbeln and Anna Maria Lindgren...
, Swedish soldier, a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker - Georg SimmelGeorg SimmelGeorg Simmel was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?',...
, German thinker