"a boarding house on East 79th Street. He was joined by the rest of the family once Rabbi Weiss found permanent housing. As a child, Ehrich Weiss took several jobs, making his public début as a 9-year-old trapeze artist, calling himself ""Ehrich, the Prince of the Air"". He was also a champion cross country runner in his youth. When Weiss became a professional magician he began calling himself ""Harry Houdini"", after the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, after reading Robert-Houdin's autobiography in 1890. Weiss incorrectly believed that an ""i"" at the end of a name meant ""like"" in French. In"
"of his pupils in various collections. He is portrayed by Philip McGough,in the 2006 movie ""The Illusionist"", starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel and Paul Giamatti. Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser (June 19, 1806 – March 11, 1875) was an Austrian-Hungarian magician and illusionist. He used the moniker ""Dr. Hofzinser"" as a stage name after retiring in 1865. Ottokar Fischer spread the story that upon his death in 1875, Hofzinser's wife destroyed many of his manuscripts to honor her husband's instructions though there is some dispute about this. Many of his mechanical plans and card-handling methods may forever remain a"
"the SS ""Fresia"" with his mother (who was pregnant) and his four brothers. The family changed their name to the German spelling Weiss, and Erik became Ehrich. The family lived in Appleton, Wisconsin, where his father served as Rabbi of the Zion Reform Jewish Congregation. According to the 1880 census, the family lived on Appleton Street. On June 6, 1882, Rabbi Weiss became an American citizen. Losing his job at Zion in 1882, Rabbi Weiss and family moved to Milwaukee and fell into dire poverty. In 1887, Rabbi Weiss moved with Ehrich to New York City, where they lived in"
"set of instructions known as the ""Ten Commandments for Con Men"" has been attributed to Lustig: Victor Lustig Victor Lustig (; January 4, 1890 – March 11, 1947) was a highly skilled con artist from Austria-Hungary, who undertook a criminal career that involved conducting scams across Europe and the United States during the early 20th century. He is widely regarded as one of the most notorious con artists of his time, and is infamous for being ""the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice"", and for conducting the ""Rumanian Box"" scam. Victor Lustig was born in Hostinné, Austria-Hungary, originally under"
"not wish to pursue the project. Unlike the image of the classic magician, Houdini was short and stocky and typically appeared on stage in a long frock coat and tie. Most biographers give his height as , but descriptions vary. Houdini was also said to be slightly bow-legged, which aided in his ability to gain slack during his rope escapes. In the 1997 biography ""Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss"", author Kenneth Silverman summarizes how reporters described Houdini's appearance during his early career: Houdini made the only known recordings of his voice on Edison wax cylinders on October 29, 1914,"
"Victor Lustig Victor Lustig (; January 4, 1890 – March 11, 1947) was a highly skilled con artist from Austria-Hungary, who undertook a criminal career that involved conducting scams across Europe and the United States during the early 20th century. He is widely regarded as one of the most notorious con artists of his time, and is infamous for being ""the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice"", and for conducting the ""Rumanian Box"" scam. Victor Lustig was born in Hostinné, Austria-Hungary, originally under the name of Robert V. Miller. He was exceptionally gifted at learning throughout his youth, but"
"Emil Weiss Emil Weiss (Aug 14 1896 – Jan 6 1965) Illustrator, one of the last “press artists” (that old journalistic specialty superseded by photography, which is undoubtedly faster and perhaps more literally accurate, but seldom as penetrating.) He was born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic and trained as an architect in Vienna. In Prague of the 1920s, he ran a triple studio: 1. As cartoonist having fun in the newspapers. 2. As commercial artist doing advertising. His very Art-déco posters are on display at the Prague Museum of Applied Arts, where reproductions are"
"and published by Calder & Boyars Peter Weiss Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays ""Marat/Sade"" and ""The Investigation"" and his novel ""The Aesthetics of Resistance"". Peter Weiss earned his reputation in the post-war German literary world as the proponent of an avant-garde, meticulously descriptive writing, as an exponent of autobiographical prose, and also as a politically engaged dramatist. He gained international success with ""Marat/Sade"", the American production of which was awarded a Tony Award and"
"Alois Weiss Alois Weiss (or: Weiß) (16 October 1906 in Ruma/Austria-Hungary – 26 February 1969 in Straubing/Germany) was the executioner at the Gestapo Pankrác prison in Prague during the Second World War. The former storehouse helper from Munich and assistant to the Munich executioner Reichhart was the chief executioner of the Pankrác prison from February 1943. Until 1945, 1,079 persons were executed in the so-called ""Sekyrárna"" (axe room). His assistants were the Czechs Alfred Engel, Robert Týfa and Jan Křížek, who changed his name to Johann Kreuz. Later, the Gestapo changed the assistants; newly added were Antonín Nerad from Prague-Braník"
"Christian Weise Christian Weise (30 April 1642 – 21 October 1708), also known under the pseudonyms Siegmund Gleichviel, Orontes, Catharinus Civilis and Tarquinius Eatullus, was a German writer, dramatist, poet, pedagogue and librarian of the Baroque era. He produced a large number of dramatic works, noted for their social criticism and idiomatic style. In the 1670s he started a fashion for German ""political novels"". He has also been credited with the invention of the mathematical Euler diagram, though this is uncertain. Christian Weise was born in Zittau, the son of Elias Weise, a ""magister tertium"" or assistant teacher. Weise studied"
"logic. However, the mathematician John Venn argued that the circles were illustrations devised by Lange. Johann Sebastian Bach used an adaptation of the first verse of Weise's poem ""Der weinende Petrus"" for the text of the aria ""Ach, mein Sinn"" in the St John Passion. Weise presented the poem in ""Der grünen Jugend nothwendige Gedancken"" (1675), as a demonstration of writing strophic poetry for existing music, namely a lost work by Sebastian Knüpfer. Selected works include: Christian Weise Christian Weise (30 April 1642 – 21 October 1708), also known under the pseudonyms Siegmund Gleichviel, Orontes, Catharinus Civilis and Tarquinius Eatullus,"
"and traveled with productions throughout Europe. Deutsch died on 22 March 1969 in Berlin, and is buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Berlin highway. For the fourth anniversary of his death in 1973, Friedrich Schütter's former Junge Theater in the Uhlenhorst quarter of Hamburg was renamed after Deutsch (who had staged a performance of ""Nathan The Wise"" there shortly before his death). Ernst Deutsch Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890, Prague – 22 March 1969, Berlin), was an Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist"
"Peter Weiss Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays ""Marat/Sade"" and ""The Investigation"" and his novel ""The Aesthetics of Resistance"". Peter Weiss earned his reputation in the post-war German literary world as the proponent of an avant-garde, meticulously descriptive writing, as an exponent of autobiographical prose, and also as a politically engaged dramatist. He gained international success with ""Marat/Sade"", the American production of which was awarded a Tony Award and its subsequent film adaptation directed by"
"Ebbinghaus illusion The Ebbinghaus illusion or Titchener circles is an optical illusion of relative size perception. Named for its discoverer, the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909), the illusion was popularized in the English-speaking world by Edward B. Titchener in a 1901 textbook of experimental psychology, hence its alternative name. In the best-known version of the illusion, two circles of identical size are placed near to each other, and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles. As a result of the juxtaposition of circles, the central circle surrounded by large circles appears smaller than"
"Harald Weiss Harald Weiss (surname also spelled ""Weiß"") (born 26 May 1949 in Salzgitter) is a German composer, director, screenwriter, and free-lance artist. Weiss's compositions are influenced by minimalism, as well as jazz and rock musics. Numerous trips (in the context of theater workshops and tours) to Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America have also had a significant influence on his music. Weiss has received many awards for his musical compositions and films, including the Niedersachsen Kulturpreis (1982), the Kulturpreis of Bielefeld (1984), and a fellowship from the Villa Massimo in Rome (1985-1986). In 2009 Dorothee Mields and Andreas Karasiak"
"gave a lecture on ointments with hallucinogenic properties that were prepared and used by witches to leave their bodies and travel in the night. As a brief aside, he mentioned that he had once tried such an ointment himself and achieved results entirely compatible with the out-of-body experiences testified to by the witches. This sentence gave rise to an uproar, as papers made claims he himself practiced witchcraft and flew through the night. Will Erich Peuckert Will-Erich Peuckert (11 May 1895 – 25 October 1969) was a German folklorist. Peuckert was born in Töppendorf in Lower Silesia on May 1,"
"Ernst August Weiß Ernst August Weiß (or Weiss; 5 May 1900 in Strasbourg – 9 February 1942 in a Nazi field hospital near Lake Ilmen) was a German mathematician. Since 1906, he attended the Lyceum in Metz, the Luther school and (1910–1912) Schiller gymnasium in Münster, and 1912–1917 the Mommsen-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he passed the Notabitur. He volunteered for the German military engineers in World War I, participated in the attrition warfare near Reims and Soissons and was captured 26 September 1918 during the tank battle near Cheppy by American soldiers. After his release in September 1919 he studied"
"Nathan Weiss Nathan Weiss (May 8, 1851 – September 13, 1883) was an Austrian physician and neurologist born in Gross-Meseritsch (today known as Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). His father was the famous Talmudic scholar Isaac Hirsch Weiss. He studied medicine in Vienna, earning his doctorate in 1874. He worked as secondary physician at the ""Allgemeines Krankenhaus"" in Vienna, and in 1879 became habilitated for internal medicine. Weiss is remembered for pioneer systematic research of the spinal marrow, medulla oblongata and basal ganglia. The eponymous ""Weiss' sign"" is named after him, which today is usually referred to as ""Chvostek's sign"". In"
"Siegfried Weiß Siegfried Weiss (18 April 1906 – 8 October 1989) was an East German actor. Weiss made his artistic debut on the stage of the Halberstadt Theater, at 1924. He continued his career in the theaters of Luebeck, Koenigsberg, Magdeburg, Leipzig and Berlin, where he acted in the Berlin Ensemble, among others. Weiss' film career started already in the Nazi era, with the 1937 Sherlock Holmes inspired movie ""Die Graue Dame"" (The Gray Lady), and had lasted for almost fifty years. After the Second World War he returned to acting on screen, working with the East German studio DEFA"
"Moses Ehrich Moses Ehrich (fl. 1850-1875) was an American businessman and underworld figure known as Old Unger who served as a fence to burglars, thieves and shoplifters from his Eldridge Street store throughout the mid to late 19th century. He was indicted four or five times on charges of receiving stolen goods during the administration of A. Oakley Hall, but always escaped conviction. Ehrich was represented by Hall in later years. In 1875, Ehrich was indicted for his involvement in the infamous Adams Express safe robbery and was accused of receiving stolen bonds and an uncut diamond valued at $800."
"working in London, Weiss married Marliese Oppa, they had two children. They also adopted her relative, who survived at Belsen. Their daughter Ruth worked as a programmer at Bell Labs. Weiss's sister Helene was a specialist in ancient philosophy and in Martin Heidegger's work, who was her teacher in 1920s. Another sister, Gertrud, was married to a famous psychologist Kurt Lewin. Paul Weiss (mathematician) Paul Weiss (April 9, 1911 – January 19, 1991) was a German and British mathematician and theoretical physicist, pioneer of canonical quantization of field theories. Paul Weiss was born in Sagan in the German part of"
"an early age, as well as familiar with Aramaic. He studied the Jewish Bible or Tanakh, the text and commentaries of the Talmud, the Mishna and Gemara, also delving into the intricacies of Biblical exegesis and the Targum. At the age of fourteen he escaped school and joined the Austrian army under a false name. After a week or so, his father traced him with the help of the police, and he was escorted back to Vienna. After abandoning university in Vienna, Weiss drifted aimlessly around 1920s Germany, working briefly for the expressionist film director Fritz Lang (F. W. Murnau,"
"his novels and stories. Ernst Weiss Dr Ernst Weiss (German: Weiß, August 28, 1882 – June 15, 1940) was a German-speaking Austrian author of Jewish descent. He is the author of """" (The Eyewitness), a novel dealing with the Hitler period. Ernst Weiss was born in Brno, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now the Czech Republic) to the family of a prosperous Jewish cloth merchant. After his father died when he was four, he was brought up by his mother Berta, née Weinberg, who led him to art. However, after completing his secondary education in Brno, Litoměřice and Hostinné, he came to"
"Ehrlich's Magic Bullet"" with Edward G. Robinson in the title role. It focused on Salvarsan (arsphenamine, ""compound 606""), his cure for syphilis. Since the Nazi government was opposed to this tribute to a Jewish scientist, attempts were made to keep the film a secret in Germany. Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel prize-winning German-Jewish physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He is credited with finding a cure for syphilis in 1909. He invented the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria. The methods he"
"Leslie George Cole Leslie George ""Les"" Vante Cole, known professionally by the stage names ""Levant"", ""Levante"", ""The Great Levante"" and Magician Cole (5 March 1892 – 20 January 1978), was an Australian illusionist. He is regarded as one of the greatest magicians in the world and ""Australia's most famous magician"". He is also credited with creating the Impaling illusion. Leslie George Vante Cole was born 5 March 1892 in Alexandria, Sydney, Australia to Sydney-born couple George Cole, a driver and Sarah Catherine (née Chapman, later Reid.), a homemaker. His family later moved to Wangaratta, Victoria where the elder George Cole"
"Arthur Weiss Arthur Weiss (13 June 1912 – 26 August 1980) was an American script writer for two decades on action/adventure TV shows like """", ""Mannix"", ""The Fugitive"", ""Super Friends"", ""The Time Tunnel"" and ""Sea Hunt"". His most famous creation was the script for the movie ""Flipper"" in 1963, which became a TV series and was remade as a movie in 1996. He also worked alongside Irwin Allen as a writer and producer for ""disaster"" TV films including ""Flood!"" and ""Fire!"". In 1969 Weiss published the novel O'Kelly's Eclipse about the undefeated British racehorse Eclipse. Weiss married actress Fay Baker"
"Emil Rudolf Weiß Emil Rudolf Weiß, or Weiss (12 October 1875, Lahr - 7 November 1942, Meersburg), was a German painter, typographer, graphic artist and poet. His father was a police officer and he grew up in Breisach and Baden-Baden. From 1893 to 1896, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, with Robert Poetzelberger. In 1895, he published his first album of works and a volume of lyric poetry. After leaving Karlsruhe, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. Together with Félix Vallotton, he illustrated a calendar book called ""Der bunte Vogel"" (The Colorful Bird). He then"
"Ernst Weiss Dr Ernst Weiss (German: Weiß, August 28, 1882 – June 15, 1940) was a German-speaking Austrian author of Jewish descent. He is the author of """" (The Eyewitness), a novel dealing with the Hitler period. Ernst Weiss was born in Brno, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now the Czech Republic) to the family of a prosperous Jewish cloth merchant. After his father died when he was four, he was brought up by his mother Berta, née Weinberg, who led him to art. However, after completing his secondary education in Brno, Litoměřice and Hostinné, he came to Prague to study medicine."
"Bruce Eisner Bruce Jay Ehrlich (February 26, 1948 – January 1, 2013), better known by his pen name Bruce Eisner, was an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book ""Ecstasy: The MDMA Story"". Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York. At age 2, he moved with his family to the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles where he lived for the next 25 years. His first publication was at age 16, when he won an LA County-wide essay contest. The essay, ""Democracy and What It Means to Me"" was published in the Congressional Record by Congressman"
"George Herbert Weiss George H. Weiss (February 19, 1930 – February 14, 2017) was an American applied mathematician and physicist at the National Institutes of Health, known for his work on random walks. He did his undergraduate studies at the City College of New York and Columbia University, graduating in 1951, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1958. In 1967, Weiss and Marvin Zelen shared the Washington Academy of Sciences award for their contributions in Mathematics. Established in 1939, this award recognizes noteworthy accomplishments by young scientists (40 years of age and under). In May 2010,"
"in Paris and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In 2003, the Leica Company celebrated his lifelong friendship with Henri Cartier-Bresson by presenting a joint show of their work in Vienna. Annually, the Georg Eisler Medal is awarded to the outstanding young artist in Austria. Georg Eisler died in 1998 and is survived by his wife Alice, who resides in Vienna. One can see some of his works dedicated to the Shoah in the TV series ""Holocaust"" (1978), in which they are known as ""Karl Weiss' drawings"". Georg Eisler Georg Eisler (20 April 1928, Vienna – 15 January 1998, Vienna) was"
"Swiss comedies ""Ein Schweizer Names Notzli"" and ""Der Doppelte Notzli"", Deitrich retired from the active movie production business and committed himself to his movie distribution company ""Ascot-Elite"" which was taken over by his children. Erwin C. Dietrich Erwin C. Dietrich (October 4, 1930 in Glarus – March 15, 2018 in Zurich) was a Swiss film director, producer and actor, often regarded as one of the most influential cinematographers in Switzerland. He quit his dream of becoming an actor rather early on and instead started focusing on his sense for artistic trends appealing to audiences. Starting in 1955 he began producing"
"Weiss has been recognized by numerous awards including: Rainer Weiss Rainer ""Rai"" Weiss (; ; born September 29, 1932) is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT and an adjunct professor at LSU. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. He was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group. He is a member of Fermilab Holometer experiment, which uses a 40m laser interferometer to measure properties of space and time at quantum scale and provide Planck-precision"