Carl Theodor Dreyer and John Sturges have what career in common?
575bd701877fea7ac8db482361e0cf03
Carl Theodor Dreyer Carl Theodor Dreyer (] ; 3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. His best known films include "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928), "Vampyr" (1932), "Day of Wrath" (1943), "Ordet" (1955), and "Gertrud" (1964).
76115d8c6e7efc1eb9f865536cea67a0
John Sturges John Eliot Sturges ( ; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Great Escape" (1963), and "Ice Station Zebra" (1968). In 2013, "The Magnificent Seven" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". He was not related to director Preston Sturges.
f4626a9b629334c45a447889265bfbc6
Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins, II (born August 20, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois), is a physician, biographer and inventor, best known for his work on shock and violence prevention and for his 1975 biography of the jazz musician John Coltrane.
fbe4ef0d5b3763a8402cbdb82f2eccf8
Nicolaus von Weis Nicolaus von Weis (b. Rimling, Mosell, France, 8 March 1796 - d. Speyer, 13 December 1869) was from 1842 to 1869 Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer, in the Palatinate, (in that time a district of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
1dd18ff32cd7ba8664ebdc284d0ae49f
John Christopher Sturmius John Christopher Sturmius (1635–1703) was a 17th-century German mathemician.
0348cab43c3fe0de0479acba8647607c
John Wijngaards Johannes Nicolaas Maria Wijngaards (born 1935, in Surabaya, Indonesia) is a Catholic spiritual author and controversial, dissident theologian.
c931e41e78c2811f2446d16155c92e0f
Johann Sturm Johann Christoph Sturm (3 November 1635 – 26 December 1703) was a German philosopher. Sturm is the author of "Physica Electiva" (1697), a book which criticized Leibniz and prompted him to publish a rebuke. Sturm's critique was aimed at Leibniz's view that Nature and/or its constituent parts possess some creative force of their own. This criticism was partly theological, in that Sturm claimed Leibniz's view of Nature undermined the sovereignty of the Creator.
c9280258ee4c3212517364e98dc473d8
Carl Tanzler Carl Tanzler, or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 3, 1952), was a German-born bacteriologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 – October 25, 1931), that carried on well after the disease had caused her death. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb, and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos' relatives and authorities in 1940.
073232ad0eae003447a04ce6a1a50fd6
Hans Gerhard Stub Hans Gerhard Stub (23 February 1849 - 1 August 1931) was an American Lutheran theologian and church leader. He served as Bishop of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America.
46cca80e29c3918bb6a9b0d2c58ff720
Gerhard Ebeling Gerhard Ebeling (6 July 1912 – 30 September 2001) was a German Lutheran theologian and with Ernst Fuchs a leading proponent of hermeneutic theology in the 20th century. He was born in Berlin-Steglitz, where he attended the gymnasium and began his university study. Ebeling was later a student of Rudolf Bultmann and Wilhelm Maurer in Marburg and of Emil Brunner at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The years of his study in Berlin, Marburg and Zürich fell in the period of National Socialism in Germany, and his contact with Dietrich Bonhoeffer as well as his work in the Confessing Church had an enduring influence on his thought. He completed his Doctor of Theology degree in 1938 at the University of Zürich under the guidance of Fritz Blanke; his dissertation was entitled "Evangelical Interpretation of the Gospels: An Investigation of Luther's Hermeneutic". Already in this early work, Ebeling's interest in systematic as well as historical questions was very apparent. At the end of the Second World War, he completed in 1947 his habilitation at the University of Tübingen, Germany and assumed the chair for church history in Tübingen. In 1954 Ebeling changed his focus of study from church history to systematic theology and became Professor for Systematic Theologie in Tübingen. Two years later, he was called to the University of Zürich in systematic. With the exception of the period from 1965–1968, when he was once again in Tübingen, Ebeling remained in Zürich, where he was the founder and, until his retirement in 1979, the director of the Institute for Hermeneutics.
fa93013c754418bec777f2dfa1b353a0
Edvard Sverdrup Johan Edvard Sverdrup (22 June 1861 – 21 January 1923) was a Norwegian educator, author and church leader. Sverdrup was one of the key theologians in the Church of Norway in the first few decades of the 1900s.
9303b59eb5c2dd84a674f7c153da9712
Georg Stetter Georg Carl Stetter (23 December 1895 – 14 July 1988) was an Austrian-German nuclear physicist. Stetter was Director of the Second Physics Institute of the University of Vienna. He was a principal member of the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. In the latter years of World War II, he was also the Director of the Institute for Neutron Research. After the war, he was dismissed from his university positions, and he then became involved in dust protection research. After his dismissal was overturned, he became Director of the First Physics Institute of the University of Vienna, and he began research on aerosols. In 1962, Stetter became a full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In that same year, the Academy established their Commission for Clean Air, and Stetter served as its chairman until 1985.
19de3ad250b88c76476f7471023ef524
Frederic Charles Dreyer Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, (8 January 1878 – 11 December 1956) was an officer of the Royal Navy. A gunnery expert, he developed a fire control system for British warships, and served as Jellicoe's flag captain at Jutland. He retired with the rank of Admiral in 1943, having served through two world wars and having already retired once.
f64f8cfd927c3e51d0f458359135715d
Von Ogden Vogt Von Ogden Vogt (February 25, 1879 – August 2, 1964) was a Unitarian minister. His theory of worship influenced the shape of mainline Protestant worship in the early 20th century, and he was an authority on the theory of worship and an influential voice in the gothic revival in church architecture in the mid-20th century, a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and Beloit College. From 1925 to 1944 he was minister of The First Unitarian Church of Chicago. He served on the 1937 hymnal commission that produced a common hymnal for Unitarians and Universalists prior to their merger into the Unitarian Universalist Association.
057e7af7b8bd5a3dd979b7d2f551b4d7
Carl de Nys Carl de Nys (26 March 1917 in Eupen, Belgium – 4 April 1996 in Valprivas at age 75) was a French religious and musicologist.
22d016c6921d6e390c6023b7a4eda443
John Louis Nuelsen John Louis Nuelsen (January 19, 1867 – 1946) was a German-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1908. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor, as a college and seminary professor and theologian, and as an author and editor.
6c50777eaf56d5b613dc67f85ff8ee7c
Mary Sturge Mary Darby Sturge (16 October 1865 – 14 March 1925) was a British doctor, known for her pioneering work with alcoholism and championing the importance of preventative medical care. She is credited as being the second woman doctor in Birmingham and was President of the Medical Women's Federation from 1920 to 1922.
f40e0c34a439b2aea8219a136e327b2c
Edward Lewis Sturtevant Edward Lewis Sturtevant (January 23, 1842 – July 30, 1898) was an American agronomist and botanist who wrote "Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World." An enormously prolific author, he was considered one of the giants of American agricultural science in his own time.
def7b8e2c7a28f6e10c404af38ac4aa5
Charles J. Stumar Charles J. Stumar or Charles J. Stumer (28 August 1890 – 29 June 1935) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer and brother of cinematographer John Stumar, who shot 110 English and German language films from 1917 until his death in a plane accident.
e91e670ef2a63400c25d62645134319e
John Lighton Synge John Lighton Synge ( ; 23 March 1897 – 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
b9e735e409cddc55a3515342723e6b1a
Jerald and Sandra Tanner Jerald Dee Tanner (June 1, 1938 — October 1, 2006) was an American writer and researcher who, with his wife Sandra McGee Tanner (born January 14, 1941), was noted for publishing archival and evidential materials about the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). They are both ex-Mormons. The Tanners founded the Utah Lighthouse Ministry, whose stated mission is "to document problems with the claims of Mormonism and compare LDS doctrines with Christianity". Sandra Tanner continues to operate it.
91a5ddaa10db45c2d1ab33eee1a9fe72
Konrad Stürtzel Konrad Stürtzel von Buchheim (Stürzel, Stirtzel, Sturtzl, Sterczel) (about 1435 – March 2, 1509) was a German jurist for canon laws (Dr. jur. can.), knight and chancellor of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.