herman

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Definition of herman in English English dictionary

A male given name

rare after Middle Ages and revived in the 19th century, partly due to American immigrants from continental Europe where the name has been more popular

{i} male first name; family name; Woodrow Herman (1913-1987) known as "Woody", U.S. jazz musician (saxophonist and clarinetist) and bandleader; village in Minnesota (USA)

Curtis Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Dreiser Theodore Herman Albert Anton Herman Gerard Fokker Frye Herman Northrop Herman Jerry Gerald Herman Herman Woody Woodrow Charles Herman Hollerith Herman Kahn Herman Melville Herman Herman Melvill Herman Harold Potok George Herman Ruth Wouk Herman

United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)

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Herman Hesse

(1877-1962) German novelist and poet, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature

Herman Hollerith

born Feb. 29, 1860, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S. died Nov. 17, 1929, Washington, D.C. U.S. inventor. He attended Columbia University's School of Mines and later assisted in the 1880 U.S. census. By the time of the 1890 census, he had invented machines to record statistics by electrically reading and sorting punched cards, and the census results were consequently obtained in one-third the time required in 1880. In 1896 he founded the Tabulating Machine Co., which later became IBM Corp. Hollerith's electromechanical sensing and punching devices were forerunners of the input/output units of later computers

Herman Kahn

born Feb. 15, 1922, Bayonne, N.J., U.S. died July 7, 1983, Chappaqua, N.Y. U.S. physicist and strategist. He studied at the California Institute of Technology and joined the RAND Corp., where he studied the application to military strategy of new analytic techniques such as game theory, operations research, and systems analysis. He won public notice with On Thermonuclear War (1960), in which he contended that thermonuclear war differs only in degree from conventional war and ought to be analyzed and planned in the same way. In 1961 he established the Hudson Institute for research into matters of national security and public policy

Herman Melville

(1819-1891) American writer and poet, author of "Moby Dick

Herman Melville

a US writer who wrote about his experiences as a sailor. He wrote Moby-Dick, one of the most famous American novels. He also wrote Billy Budd, a story which Benjamin Britten used in his opera of the same name (1819-91). orig. Herman Melvill born Aug. 1, 1819, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 28, 1891, New York City U.S. writer. Born to a wealthy New York family that suffered great financial losses, Melville had little formal schooling and began a period of wanderings at sea in 1839. In 1841 he sailed on a whaler bound for the South Seas; the next year he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. His adventures in Polynesia were the basis of his successful first novels, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). After his allegorical fantasy Mardi (1849) failed, he quickly wrote Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), about the rough life of sailors. Moby-Dick (1851), his masterpiece, is both an intense whaling narrative and a symbolic examination of the problems and possibilities of American democracy; it brought him neither acclaim nor reward when published. Increasingly reclusive and despairing, he wrote Pierre (1852), which, intended as a piece of domestic "ladies" fiction, became a parody of that popular genre, Israel Potter (1855), The Confidence-Man (1857), and magazine stories, including "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853) and "Benito Cereno" (1855). After 1857 he wrote verse. In 1866 a customs-inspector position finally brought him a secure income. He returned to prose for his last work, the novel Billy Budd, Foretopman, which remained unpublished until 1924. Neglected for much of his career, Melville came to be regarded by modern critics as one of the greatest American writers

Herman Northrop Frye

born July 14, 1912, Sherbrooke, Que., Can. died Jan. 23, 1991, Toronto, Ont. Canadian literary critic. He was educated in Canada and Britain and from 1939 taught at Victoria College. In Anatomy of Criticism (1957), his most influential work, he analyzed various modes of literary criticism and stressed the recurring importance of archetypal symbols in literature. His other critical works include the influential Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947), The Well-Tempered Critic (1963), The Secular Scripture (1976), The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), and Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986)

Herman Wouk

born May 27, 1915, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. novelist. His experience serving aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in World War II provided material for The Caine Mutiny (1951, Pulitzer Prize; film, 1954), a drama of naval tradition that presented the unforgettable character Captain Queeg. The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978) together represent a two-volume novel of the war. His other novels include Marjorie Morningstar (1955) and The Glory (1994)

Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker

{i} (1890-1939) Dutch born United States airplane manufacturer who established the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America

Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis

born June 18, 1850, Portland, Maine, U.S. died June 7, 1933, Wyncote, Pa. U.S. publisher. Curtis began publishing a local weekly in Portland. When fire destroyed his plant, he moved to Boston; there he published The People's Ledger magazine, which he continued after his move to Philadelphia in 1876. In 1879 he founded The Tribune and Farmer, from the women's section of which he formed the Ladies' Home Journal. In 1890 he organized the Curtis Publishing Co. Later acquisitions included The Saturday Evening Post (1897) and several newspapers. His daughter Mary Louise (1876-1970) founded the Curtis Institute of Music and named it for her father

Jerry Herman

orig. Gerald Herman born July 10, 1933, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. songwriter. Herman studied drama in Miami, Fla., and wrote for TV but soon switched to theatre. After some off-Broadway successes, his Milk and Honey (1961, Tony Award) opened on Broadway. The wildly successful Hello, Dolly! (1964; film, 1969) won 10 Tony Awards. Later Herman musicals include Mame (1966) and La Cage Aux Folles (1983)

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser

born Aug. 27, 1871, Terre Haute, Ind., U.S. died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, Calif. U.S. novelist. Born to poor German immigrant parents, Dreiser left home at age 15 for Chicago. He worked as a journalist, and in 1894 he moved to New York, where he had a successful career as a magazine editor and publisher. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), about a young kept woman who goes unpunished for her transgressions, was denounced as scandalous. His subsequent novels would confirm his reputation as the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. After the success of Jennie Gerhardt (1911), he began writing full-time, producing a trilogy consisting of The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (published 1947), which was followed by The Genius (1915) and its sequel, The Bulwark (published 1946). An American Tragedy (1925), based on a murder trial and itself the basis for the 1931 film by that name and for a 1951 film entitled A Place in the Sun, made him a hero among social reformers

Woodrow Herman

{i} (1913-1987) known as "Woody", U.S. jazz musician (saxophonist and clarinetist) and bandleader

Woody Herman

orig. Woodrow Charles Herman born May 16, 1913, Milwaukee, Wis., U.S. died Oct. 29, 1987, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and leader of one of the most popular big bands in jazz. Herman formed his first band in 1936. Known as "The Band That Plays the Blues," the group had a hit in 1939 with the riff tune "Woodchopper's Ball." His 1940s bands, the Thundering Herds, evolved into powerful and colourful ensembles that combined a light rhythm-section sound with explosive, forward-looking arrangements. He led his bands almost continuously for more than 50 years, and in them many notable jazz musicians gained early professional exposure

Hyphenation

Her·man

Turkish pronunciation

hırmın

Pronunciation

/ˈhərmən/ /ˈhɜrmən/

Etymology

[ 'h&r-m&n ] (biographical name.) Germanic heri, hari "army" + man "man". Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001. It was revived in the 19th century, partly due to American immigrants from continental Europe where the name has been more popular.