Rohlfs
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Rohlfs is the surname of
- Anna Katharine Rohlfs (Green)Anna Katharine GreenAnna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories.-Life and work:...
(1846-1935), American author - Charles RohlfsCharles RohlfsCharles Rohlfs , was an American actor, stove designer and furniture maker. Rohlfs is a representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and is most famous for his skill as a furniture designer and maker.-Life and career:...
(1853-1936), American furniture artist - Christian RohlfsChristian RohlfsChristian Rohlfs was a German painter, one of the important representatives of German expressionism....
(1849-1938), German artist - Eva Ahnert-RohlfsEva Ahnert-RohlfsEva Ahnert-Rohlfs was a German astronomer. She made important observations of variable stars.Eva Rohlfs was born in Coburg . She studied in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 1933. After nine years of withdrawal into family life, she studied from 1942 until the end of the Second World War at...
(1912-1954), German astronomer - Ewald RohlfsEwald RohlfsEwald Rohlfs was a test pilot. In 1936 Rohlfs made the first flight of a helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61. One year later he took the helicopter to an altitude of 1,130 feet and then idled the engine. using its spinning rotors to descend safely to the ground....
(1911-?), German testpilot - Friedrich Gerhard RohlfsFriedrich Gerhard RohlfsFriedrich Gerhard Rohlfs was a German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer.He was born at Vegesack, now part of Bremen. There was much pressure on Rohlfs to be in the medicine field, and he eventually joined the French Foreign Legion in a medical capacity...
(1831-1896), German explorer (Africa) - Gerhard RohlfsGerhard RohlfsGerhard Rohlfs was a German linguist. He taught Romance languages and literature at the universities of Tübingen and Munich in Germany. He was described as an "archeologist of words"....
(1892-1986), German linguist, researcher of Italian and other Romance languages - Kristen RohlfsKristen RohlfsKristen Rohlfs is a docent for astrophysics. He taught astronomy at the University of Bochum, and is now retired.- Literature :* Tools of Radio Astronomy. 1986 ISBN 3-540-40387-6...
, German astro-physicist - Nicolaus RohlfsNicolaus RohlfsNicolaus Rohlfs was an 18th century German mathematics teacher in Buxtehude and Hamburg who wrote astronomical calendars, a book about gardening, and other treatises that were continued by Matthias Rohlfs.- Works :...
, (18th century) German astronomer - Roland RohlfsRoland RohlfsTest pilot Roland Rohlfs was a distinguished American aviator.-Background:He was the son of Anna Katharine Green , the famous American crime novelist, and her husband, actor and renowned furniture craftsman, Charles Rohlfs....
(1892-1974), American testpilot