Alfred R. Loeblich Jr
Alfred R. ("Al") Loeblich Jr (1914–1994) was an American micropaleontologist. He was married to Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich and the two co-authored a number of important works on the Foraminifera and related organisms.
Biography
Alfred R. Loeblich Jr was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 15 August 1914, and spent his early life in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the University of Oklahoma and there met Helen Tappan, and they were married in June 1939. After completing his doctorate at the University of Chicago, Loeblich took up a post at Tulane University in New Orleans. Their first child, Alfred III (who later took a Ph.D. in botany at Scripps Institute), was born in 1941. Loeblich joined the Army during World War II, becoming captain in the U.S. Army Field Artillery. After the war he worked as a curator in invertebrate paleontology at the United States Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. and was sponsored by the Smithsonian to study foraminifera in European collections. In 1957 he went to work for the Chevron oil company, and later became adjunct professor at UCLA. Loeblich and Tappan were jointly awarded the Paleontological Society Medal in 1982, and the same year they received the Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research. In 1984 Loeblich was made an Honorary Member of the SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). In 1987 the AASG (Association of American State Geologists) awarded him the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontology. Loeblich was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and was described after his death as "one of the giants [of] micropaleontology." He died on 9 September 1994.
Alfred
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Alfred (Dvořák)
Alfred is a heroic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's first opera and the only one he composed to a German text. The libretto, by Karl Theodor Korner, had already been set by Friedrich von Flotow (as Alfred der Große) and is based on the story of the English king Alfred the Great. Composed in 1870, Alfred was never performed during Dvořák's lifetime. It received its premiere (in Czech translation) at the City Theatre, Olomouc on 10 December 1938.
The opera was performed for the first time with its original German libretto on 17 September 2014, in Prague.
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Alfred of Sherborne
Alfred was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne.
Alfred was consecrated between 932 and 934. He died between 939 and 943.
