Born: November 26, 1964. Elm. Swiss alpine skier. A female skier who was active from the late 1980s to the 1990s, she won three gold medals in the slalom and giant slalom at the Olympic Games. As a member of the Swiss national team, she won the overall championship in three World Cups (1989, 1994, 1995) and maintained a top six finish for ten consecutive years. She has a record of six slalom titles and five giant slalom titles. In 1989, she won all slalom races during the season, achieving the most wins in history with 14 (13 World Cup wins and one Alpine Combined win). She won the slalom and giant slalom at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. She also won the gold medal in the slalom, the silver in the Alpine Combined, and the bronze medal in the giant slalom at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics. She retired in 1995. She won 55 World Cup races, second only to Austrian downhill skier Annemarie Moser-Pröll. Schneider Schneider, Erich Born: December 14, 1900, Siegen, Westphalia German economist. Studied under J. Schumpeter at the University of Bonn. After graduating, he became a professor at Aalhus University in Denmark in 1936, a professor at the University of Kiel in 1946, and served as president of the university from 1959 to 1960. Since 1961, he has been director of the Institute of World Economy at the same university. He placed emphasis on the analysis of the behavior of individual economic agents that make up the economy, and made outstanding achievements in research on the development of oligopoly theory and marginal productivity theory. His major works include his early work Reine Theorie monopolistischer Wirtschaftsformen (1932), as well as Einführung in die Wirtschaftstheorie (Introduction to Economic Theory) (4 volumes, 47-62), a major work on social accounting, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and the history of economics. Schneider Schneider, Hannes Born: 1890. Stuben am Arlesberg, Austria [Died] April 26, 1955. North Conway, New Hampshire, USA. An Austrian ski instructor and the founder of Arleberg skiing. In 1907, he opened a ski school in St. Anton on the Arleberg Pass in western Austria and taught there. He created his own Arleberg skiing style, which is characterized by a shift from a snaking skiing style in which the skis are opened in an inverted V shape (Plückbogen) to a sharp turn while braking with the feet (Stemkristiania), and became a huge hit. Before World War II, he fled to the United States due to the Nazis' expulsion of the Jews. He founded a ski school in North Conway and worked hard to develop American skiing. He produced the film The Wonders of Skiing (1920), which, together with his book of the same name (1924), is known as the "Bible of Arleberg." Schneider Schneider, Alan Born: December 12, 1917, Kharkov, Russia [Died] May 3, 1984, London, England. Russian-born American director. Real name Abram Leopoldovich Schneider. He directed on Broadway and at the Arena Stage in Washington DC, among other venues, and was active in a wide range of regional theatre companies. His representative works include E. Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), Zoo Story (65), and Delicate Balance (66). He is also known as the pioneer who introduced S. Beckett to America, directing plays such as Waiting for Godot (56) and The End of the Game (58). Schneider Schneider, Konrad Victor Born: 1614. Bitterfeld Died in 1680. German anatomist from Wittenberg. Professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg from 1639, a position he held for the rest of his life. He studied mucous membranes, especially the nasal mucosa, and described Schneider's membrane (nasal mucosa). He also proved that nasal mucus is secreted from the nasal mucosa, refuting Galen's theory that it flows down from the pituitary gland. His main work was De Catarrhis (1660). Schneider Schneider, Reinhold Born: May 13, 1903 in Baden-Baden Died: April 6, 1958, Freiburg. German Catholic author and poet. He was imprisoned for his anti-Nazi stance based on Christian humanism. He wrote the historical novel Las Casas vor Karl V (1938), the critique Macht und Gnade (40), the poetry collection Sonettes (39), and many other historical works. Schneider Schneider, Rolf Born April 17, 1932 in Chemnitz. German author. In 1966, he was awarded the East German Lessing Prize. His novels include Gitter und Brücke (1965) (Bars and Bridges) and November.Roman (79) (November/Novel). His plays include Prozess in Nürnberg (68) (Jupiter Symphony) and Jupiter-Sinfonie (73). Schneider Schneider, Arthur Born: November 15, 1876 in Neustadt [Dead]? German philosopher. In 1908 he became an associate professor at the University of Munich, and in 1911 he became a professor at the universities of Freiburg, Strassburg, Frankfurt am Main, and Cologne. He is the author of many books on medieval philosophy, including Albertus Magnus (1927). Schneider Schneider, Hermann Born: April 29, 1874, Pforzheim [Dead]? German philosopher. Professor at the University of Leipzig from 1923 to 1939. His major works include Religion und Philosophie (1912) and Philosophie der Geschichte (2 volumes, 23). Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |