Tag: 1900-1949

Sjoerd Tamminga

Sjoerd Tamminga

Sjoerd Tamminga, born in 1947 in Goes, Netherlands, received his first carillon lessons at the age of eleven from his piano teacher, the then city carillonneur of Goes, Wilhelm Harthoorn. While studying dentistry in Amsterdam, he received further carillon lessons from the carillonneur of the Oudekerk in Amsterdam, Cees Roelofs, who had studied with Jef Denyn at the Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, and graduated there in 1933. Tamminga followed his example and earned his own carillon diploma Read more [...]
Oswald Oelz

Oswald Oelz

Oswald "Bulle" Oelz (born February 6, 1943 in Rankweil, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian-Swiss physician and mountaineer. From 1991 to 2006, he was chief physician at the Triemli City Hospital in Zurich. In addition to his medical work, the internist and high-altitude physician practiced extreme mountaineering, participated in numerous expeditions in the Himalayas, and gave slide presentations about his climbing tours. He breeds sheep. As an expedition doctor, Oswald Oelz accompanied numerous Read more [...]
Jacques Rogge

Jacques Rogge

Jacques, Count Rogge KCMG (May 2, 1942 in Ghent; August 29, 2021 in Deinze) was a Belgian sports official. From 2001 to 2013, he was President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrEi4pCN5FE After completing his schooling at Sint-Barbaracollege, a Jesuit college in Ghent, Jacques Rogge studied at Ghent University, where he earned a doctorate in orthopedic surgery. He competed in sailing at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Read more [...]
Stanisław Herman LemSta

Stanisław Herman LemSta

Stanisław Herman Lem (also known as Stanislaw Lem, pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf lɛm]; September 12, 1921 in Lwów, Poland – March 27, 2006 in Kraków) was a Polish writer, best known as a science fiction author, philosopher, and essayist. Lem's works have been translated into 57 languages ​​and sold more than 45 million copies. He is one of the most widely read science fiction authors, although he did not like to call himself that because of the complexity of his work. Due to the numerous Read more [...]
Mihail Mihailide

Mihail Mihailide

Mihail Mihailide (born May 6, 1938 in Vienna, Austria) is a Romanian physician, journalist, and writer. He is the general director and founder of the weekly newspaper Viața Medicală and the publishing house Viața Medicală Românească. He has been awarded the Order of Medical Merit and the Order of Cultural Merit. Mihail Mihailide graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine in Bucharest (1960). Two decades ago, this physician completed his training and specialized in gynecology Read more [...]
Anton Neumayr

Anton Neumayr

Hofrat University Professor Dr. Anton Neumayr Junior (* December 6, 1920 in Hallein; † March 18, 2017 in Vienna) was a specialist in internal medicine, chamber musician, and researcher. As a historian, he studied the medical histories of famous musicians. He also hosted the television program "Diagnosis" from 1987 to 1994 and published numerous specialist publications. Born in 1920 as the son of Mayor Anton Neumayer, he was distinguished from his early youth by his high intelligence Read more [...]
Joachim Fischer

Joachim Fischer

https://www.triathlondeutschland.de/aktuelles/03-2025/dr-joachim-fischer-zwei-verbaende-gingen-nicht Joachim Fischer was president of the DTU German Triathlon Union, is involved in his local Heinatverein and in the Sterkel Society. Dr. Fischer at the IronMan in Frankfurt! photo: Prof. Neumann from Leipzig Triathlon start in Regensburg august 12, 2001 In Bangkog Dr. Fischer played in a Mendelssohn Piano Quartet with his colleagues during a nice festivity! https://hug-heigenbruecken.de/#ueber-uns https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/34874127/medical-triathlon-world-international-medical-triathlon-association https://www.triathlondeutschland.de/aktuelles/03-2025/dr-joachim-fischer-zwei-verbaende-gingen-nicht https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/triathlon-fuer-aerzte-dreifach-in-form-b0b578b7-b920-4d5c-b654-34c5475d1699 https://www.sterkel-gesellschaft.org/de/index.php Read more [...]
Nadeem Elyas

Nadeem Elyas

Nadeem Elyas (Arabic: Nadīm Ilyās; born September 1, 1945 in Mecca) is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and physician. He served as chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany from 1994 to 2006. Elyas is a Sunni Muslim of Hanafi persuasion. Elyas left Saudi Arabia in 1964, studied medicine and Islamic studies in Germany, and practiced as a gynecologist. He lives in Eschweiler (North Rhine-Westphalia), is married, and has four children, including the comedian Ususmango, who became Read more [...]
Klauss Thomas

Klauss Thomas

Klaus Thomas (* 31 January 1915 in Berlin; † 10 July 1992 in Malsburg-Marzell) was a German Protestant pastor, physician, and psychotherapist. Klaus Thomas studied Protestant theology, philosophy, modern languages, psychology, psychotherapy, and medicine. During his studies, he was a member of the Arndt Berlin fraternity (in the Sonderhäuser Verband).[1] In 1940, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin.[2] In Read more [...]
Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens [salβaˈðoɾ ɣiˈjeɾmo aˈjende ˈɣosens] (June 26, 1908 in Valparaíso – September 11, 1973 in Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean physician and politician. He served as President of Chile from 1970 to 1973. His presidency was an attempt to establish a socialist society in Chile through democratic means. Allende was overthrown in a military coup in 1973, during which he committed suicide. Allende became politically active in the late 1920s as a medical Read more [...]