Breuer
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A number of notable people are known by the surname Breuer
- Carolyn BreuerCarolyn Breuer-External links:...
, German musician - Eric BreuerEric BreuerEric Breuer is a Swiss archaeologist and historian.He studied archaeology and history at the Universities of Munich, Vienna, Fribourg and Basel...
, Swiss archaeologist and historian - Hans Breuer (physicist), German physicist
- Hans Breuer (politics)Hans Breuer (politics)Hans Breuer was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany for twenty-eight years between 1972 and 1990. He was Sudenten German and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. One of his most memorable achievements was the grand celebration of Augsburgs 2,000 years of existence in 1985. In 1991...
, German mayor - Isaac BreuerIsaac BreuerIsaac Breuer was a rabbi in the German Neo-Orthodoxy movement of his maternal grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch, and was the first president of Agudat Israel Workers.- Biography :...
, German-Jewish intellect - Jim BreuerJim BreuerJim Breuer is an American stand-up comedian, actor and radio host. He is most noted for his time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and starring in the 1998 cult "stoner comedy" Half Baked, alongside Dave Chappelle....
, American comedian - Josef BreuerJosef BreuerJosef Breuer was an Austrian physician whose works laid the foundation of psychoanalysis.Born in Vienna, his father, Leopold Breuer, taught religion in Vienna's Jewish community. Breuer's mother died when he was quite young, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother and educated by his father...
, physician and physiologist - Rabbi Joseph BreuerJoseph BreuerJoseph Breuer was a rabbi and community leader in Germany and the United States. He was a Rabbi of one of the large Jewish synagogues founded by German-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression that had settled in Washington Heights, New York....
, rabbi - Lagos Breuer (Eluzar Zvi Breuer; of Sopron, Hungary)
- Lanny A. BreuerLanny A. BreuerLanny Breuer is an American lawyer and the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.After graduating from Columbia Law School, Breuer was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan from 1985 to 1989...
, White House lawyer for President Bill ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
in the Lewinsky scandalLewinsky scandalThe Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998 from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 25-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of... - Lee BreuerLee BreuerLee Breuer is an American academic, educator, film maker, poet, lyricist, writer and stage director.-Work with Mabou Mines:Lee Breuer is a founding artistic director of Mabou Mines Theater Company in New York City, which he began in 1970 with colleagues Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne...
, theatre director - Marcel BreuerMarcel BreuerMarcel Lajos Breuer , was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.- Life and work :Known to his friends and associates as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at...
, Architect and furniture designer - Menahem Breuer, Israeli violinist, member of the Israel Piano TrioIsrael Piano TrioThe Israel Piano Trio is a classical piano trio founded in 1972 by the pianist Alexander Volkov, the violinist Menahem Breuer, and the cellist Zvi Harell, who was later replaced by Marcel Bergman...
- Michel BreuerMichel BreuerMichel Breuer is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen.-Club career:Breuer started his professional career with Excelsior Rotterdam. In Summer 2004 he moved to Heerenveen. He became captain of the Heerenveen team at the start of the 2008–09 Eredivisie season.-External links:* ...
, Dutch footballer - Miles J. BreuerMiles J. BreuerMiles John Breuer was an American physician and science fiction writer. He was part of the first generation of writers to appear regularly in the pulp science fiction magazines, publishing his first story, "The Man with the Strange Head", in the January 1927 issue of Amazing Stories...
, science fiction writer and physician - Rabbi Mordechai BreuerMordechai BreuerMordechai Breuer was an Orthodox rabbi. He was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh , and especially of the text of the Aleppo Codex....
, Orthodox rabbi - Mordechai Breuer (historian)Mordechai Breuer (historian)Mordechai Breuer was a German-Jewish Historian and writer.-Background and Family:Breuer was born to Isaac Breuer and his wife Jenny Breuer in 1917. He had four siblings: Yaakov; Ulla, Tzipora, and Simeon. The family originated in Frankfurt but left for Israel in 1936.-References:*German-Jewish...
, Jewish historian, Bar Ilan professor emeritus - Rabbi Solomon BreuerSolomon BreuerShlomo Zalman Breuer was a Rabbi, initially in Pápa, Hungary and from the early 1890s in Frankfurt as a successor of his father-in-law Samson Raphael Hirsch....
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