Albrecht Pfister (mathematician)
Albrecht Pfister( born July 30, 1934) is a German mathematician specializing in algebra and in particular quadratic forms.
Pfister received his doctoral degree in 1961 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
The title of his doctoral thesis was" Über das Koeffizientenproblem der beschränkten Funktionen von zwei Veränderlichen
On the coefficient problem of the bounded functions of two variables").
His thesis advisors were Martin Kneser and Karl Stein.
In 1966 he received his habilitation at the Georg August University of Göttingen.
From 1970 until his retirement he was professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
In the theory of quadratic forms over fields, the Pfister forms that he introduced in 1965 bear his name.
In 1970, he was an invited speaker on the topic" Sums of squares in real function fields" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.
Kurt Lipstein
Kurt Lipstein QC( 19 March 1909 – 2 December 2006) was a German- born legal scholar.
Of Jewish descent, Lipstein emigrated after the Machtergreifung.
Lipstein was a renowned specialist in Roman law and conflict of laws within private international law and public international law and pioneer in comparative law.
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Lipstein earned his Abitur from Goethe- Gymnasium in 1927.
He enrolled at the University of Grenoble, and later finished his studies at the University of Berlin.
Among his academic advisors were Martin Wolff, Ernst Rabel, and Ernst von Caemmerer.
In 1934 he emigrated to the United Kingdom, and earned his doctorate at Clare College, Cambridge in 1936.
His parents perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
After World War II, in which he spent some time in an internment camp as an enemy alien, he became a fellow at Clare College, and served as Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge 1973 – 1976.
He married, in 1944, Gwyneth Herford; she was later a city councillor in Cambridge.
Martin Tišťan
Martin Tišťan( born 12 November 1992) is a male Slovak racewalker.
He competed in the 50 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.
Fritz Steinbach
Fritz Steinbach (17 June 1855 - 13 Aug 1916) was a German conductor and composer who was particularly associated with the works of Johannes Brahms.
Born in Grünsfeld, he was the brother of conductor Emil Steinbach.
He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and in Vienna.
Among his teachers were Martin Gustav Nottebohm and Anton Door.
In 1886, he succeeded Richard Strauss as the conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra.
He remained there until 1902, during which time he often collaborated with Brahms and gave frequent guest performances at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
From 1898-1901 he was President of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein.
He was the music director of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne from 1902-1914.
He served as the director of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in 1904, 1907, 1910, and 1913.
He taught conducting at the Cologne Conservatory where his pupils included Adolf Busch (in composition), Fritz Busch (in conducting), Allard de Ridder, Karl Elmendorff, Hans Knappertsbusch, Franz Mittler, Karl Aagard Østvig, Albert van Raalte and Erwin Schulhoff.
His pupil Walter Blume continued his researches into Brahms.
He died in Munich.
He was the great uncle of Peter Maag.
Søren Onsager
Søren Onsager( 6 October 1878 – 28 November 1946) was a Norwegian painter.
Onsager was born at Holmestrand in Vestfold, Norway.
His parents were Martin Onsager( 1849- 1926) and Laura Dorothea Christensen( 1858- 1934).
His father operated pharmacies in which he first apprenticed.
However an Italian trip during 1897- 1898 was the turning point in his life.
Upon his return to Norway, he trained with Harriet Backer.
After a year, she sent him to Kristian Zahrtmann in Copenhagen, where he was for two years.
During the period from 1902 to 1910, he went to Paris to study with Christian Krogh at Colarossi Academy.
In 1908, he first exhibited at the Salon des Beaux- Arts in Paris.
Onsager was appointed professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts during the Nazi occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945.
After the war, Onsager was indicted for treason, but he died in prison after a long illness before his case came up.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Elias Lyman Magoon
Elias Lyman Magoon
( October 20, 1810 – November 25, 1886) was an American clergyman and religious writer.
Magoon was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire on October 20, 1810.
His father was Elder Josiah Magoon of New Hampton, and two of his brothers were Martin L., who died at Medford, Mass., in 1831, and Capt. John C. Magoon of Medford.
He prepared for college at New Hampton, and graduated about 1834.
He was an active member of the Literary Adelphi.
He held pastorates in prominent churches in Richmond, Cincinnati, New York, Albany, and Philadelphia.
He was a pastor continuously for about forty- six years, and continued in the work until a few months before his death.
He was an author of a number of books, including:" Orators of the American RevolutionLiving Orators of AmericaProverbs for the PeopleRepublican Christianity", and" Westward Empire".
He also frequently wrote in Baptist journals under the name" ELM".
He trained numerous preachers, including Theodore Doughty Miller.
Magoon died November 25, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of seventy- six.
Liselotte Richter
Liselotte Richter( 7 June 1906, in Berlin – 16 January 1968, in Berlin) was a German philosopher and theologian.
She was the first female professor for philosophy in Germany.
Liselotte Richter studied philosophy, theology and German studies in Berlin, Marburg and Freiburg from 1926 to 1932.
Among her professors were Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Erich Frank.
She did her doctorate with Erich Frank in 1932.
Her special interest lay in the writings of Sören Kierkegaard.
Jakob Kjersem
Jakob Kjersem( 2 August 1925 – 11 June 2009) was a Norwegian long- distance runner.
At the 1948 Summer Olympics he finished twelfth in the 10,000 metres final, and at the 1952 Summer Olympics he placed 24th in the marathon.
He never won the 10,000 m Norwegian title, placing second in 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1956.
His rivals were Martin Stokken and Øistein Saksvik.
He also won medals in the 5000 metres and the marathon.
He excelled in several now- defunct events, having seven national titles in the 25 kilometres road race, the 8 kilometres cross-country race as well as the forest race, won between 1949 and 1960.
He was a journalist and farmer by occupation, and published books on local sport history.
He died in June 2009.
Lorella Cravotta
Lorella Cravotta( born 9 April 1958) is a French comedian and actress.
She is best known for her role in the cult TV series" Les Deschiens"( 1993 – 2002), in which she appears alongside Yolande Moreau.

Question: Were Martin Tišťan and Lorella Cravotta of the same nationality?
Answer: no