granville

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Definition von granville im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A male given name, transferred use of the surname

A surname

transferred use of the surname

Relevante Übersetzungen

Granville Stanley Hall

born Feb. 1, 1844, Ashfield, Mass., U.S. died April 24, 1924, Worcester, Mass. U.S. psychologist. He studied in Germany under Wilhelm Wundt and Hermann von Helmholtz and returned to the U.S. to earn the first psychology Ph.D. granted in America (Harvard, 1878). After teaching at Johns Hopkins University, he helped establish Clark University (1888) in Worcester, Mass., and worked there to shape experimental psychology into a science. He is frequently regarded as the founder of child psychology and educational psychology; he also did much to direct the ideas of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud into the psychological currents of his time. He founded several journals, including the American Journal of Psychology, and he helped found the American Psychological Association, of which he was the first president. Hall's work gave early impetus and direction to the development of psychology in the U.S

granville wilt

a bacterial wilt of tobacco plants

granville-barker

English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)

Harley Granville-Barker

born Nov. 25, 1877, London, Eng. died Aug. 31, 1946, Paris, France British producer, playwright, and critic. An actor from age 15, he directed his own first play, The Marrying of Ann Leete, in 1901. As comanager of the Court Theatre (1904-07) he produced many of George Bernard Shaw's early plays as well as plays by Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, and John Galsworthy, and also produced his own The Voysey Inheritance (1905) and Waste (1907). He influenced 20th-century theatre with his naturalistic stagings of Shakespeare's plays, which emphasized continuous action on an open stage and rapid, lightly stressed speech. He moved to Paris after World War I and there wrote Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927-46), a series of books of criticism

Silbentrennung

Gran·ville

Türkische aussprache

gränvîl

Aussprache

/ˈgranvəl/ /ˈɡrænvɪl/

Etymologie

() Norman baronial surname from a place in France, Old French grand "large" + ville "settlement".