Category: CollectorDocs

Simon Heiniger

Simon Heiniger

«Poor man’s E-Type» – very poor man! Simon Heiniger: Born in 1962 and raised in Emmental, he studied medicine in Bern. Thanks to a curriculum from the FIAM Bern, he trained as a general practitioner. Since 1994, he has been a family doctor in Olten. Married to a very understanding and patient wife, with three adult children. He writes like a writer: I would like to tell you something about my hobby. I restore. From a medical perspective, the problem of restoration is not yet fully understood. Read more [...]
Uwe Ochs

Uwe Ochs

1982 Passed the C-level examination in church music (choir conducting, organ, piano, vocals) 1984–2000 Organist and pianist of the Daimler-Benz Choir Stuttgart, the Esslingen Police Department Choir, and the Swabian Singers' Selected Choir. 1976–2000 Temporary organist and choir director (St. Ulrich, Maria Königin, Kreuz- und Thomaskirche Kirchheim-Teck) Singing, organ and piano playing, classical music, swimming, water polo, cycling, badminton, collecting model trains and old Read more [...]
Ian Brunt

Ian Brunt

The 49-bell Carillon of St Colman's Cathedral in Cobh is the largest such instrument in Ireland and Britain. Dr Ian Brunt was Director of The Lanchester Early Music Festival and City Carillonneur ofNewcastle Upon Tyne, regularly giving concerts and recitals on organ, carillon, harpsichordand fortepiano. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 1979-1981 as flautist, composer and general musician and has specialised in the baroque flutefor over thirty years. He performs Read more [...]
Gerhard Dammann

Gerhard Dammann

Gerhard Wolfgang Dammann (* 11 December 1963 in Oran, Algeria; † 20 June 2020 in Münsterlingen, Switzerland;[1] resident in Basel[2]) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist and psychoanalyst. Dammann studied medicine, psychology, and sociology in Tübingen, Frankfurt am Main, Basel, and Paris, graduating with the state examination in medicine (Germany, 1990), a diploma in psychology, and a diploma in sociology. From 1986, he was a member of the Catholic equestrian student Read more [...]
Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe

Axel Martin Fredrik "Puck" Munthe [ˌakːsəl ˈmɵnːtə] (October 31, 1857 in Oskarshamn – February 11, 1949 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and author. Beruf und Leben https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wGu6dfpLE Axel Munthe was born in 1857, the son of a pharmacist. He studied medicine in Uppsala, Montpellier, and Paris. In 1880 he began practicing medicine in Paris and Rome. Over the years he worked in Naples, London and Stockholm. During his student years in Paris Read more [...]
Werner Schunk

Werner Schunk

Prof. Dr. Werner Schunk has traveled to more than 100 countries in his lifetime. His curiosity about people in other cultures, their way of life, and their art has repeatedly led him to board trains, cars, buses, airplanes, rickety helicopters, and the suspiciously light boats of the locals. He wanted to see with his own eyes how the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea, the Amazon, or Madagascar live, and always stayed for a while. Rich in impressions, insights, and the gratitude of the people, Read more [...]
Helmut Hofmann

Helmut Hofmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSe6ICFe-Lo With the private Museum for Historic Maybach Vehicles, the Neumarkt-based collector couple Anna and Dr. Helmut Hofmann fulfilled a lifelong dream – and in 2009 opened a globally unique collection of these gleaming chrome luxury cars to the public. Around 20 historic Maybach vehicles – one-tenth of the world's remaining stock – are housed in this attractive museum building. The museum tells the exciting story of the "Maybach myth" and the Read more [...]
Hans Prinzhorn

Hans Prinzhorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Fxo1YNf7E&pp=ygUOaGFucyBwcmluemhvcm4%3D Hans Prinzhorn (6 June 1886 – 14 June 1933) was a German psychiatrist and art historian. Hans Prinzhorn als Abiturient (1904) Born in Hemer, Westphalia, he studied art history and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Munich, then receiving his doctorate under Theodor Lipps with the dissertation "Gottfried Semper's basic aesthetic views" in 1908. Read more [...]
Johannes Zeilinger

Johannes Zeilinger

Johannes Zeilinger (* 1948 in Wolfratshausen) is a German sports medicine specialist and author. From 2007 to 2019, he was chairman of the Karl May Society, one of Germany's largest literary societies. Zeilinger studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Berlin until 1975. Since 1983, he has practiced in a sports medicine group practice in Berlin. As an author, he publishes primarily on Karl May (1842–1912), still Germany's best-selling author. In 1999, he caused a stir with Read more [...]
Nilson Melle de Oliveira

Nilson Melle de Oliveira

Dr. Nilson de Mello e Oliveira M.D. ophtalmologist from Brasile: Collecting beer cans since 1975, when went for an exchange student program in the United States. First Brazilian to be associated with the Beer Can Collectors of America, As of today the collection is of over 4.500 different cans from more than 70 countries. Read more [...]