Guido Knopp

Guido Knopp (born January 29, 1948 in Treysa, Hesse) is a German journalist and author. He is well known in Germany, mainly because he has produced a great number of TV documentaries, predominantly about the "Third Reich" and National Socialism, but also about other topics, such as Stalinism.

Life and work

After gaining his doctorate degree in history and political science, Knopp worked as a newspaper editor at the Welt am Sonntag and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 1978 he took up employment at the German TV station ZDF. Since then, he has produced many documentaries about the Nazi dictatorship like Hitlers Helfer ("Hitler's Henchmen"), Hitler-Eine Bilanz ("Hitler-taking stock") or Die SS: Eine Warnung der Geschichte ("The SS: A warning from history"), but also for example Vatikan (about the power of the popes) or Kanzler: Die Mächtigen der Republik (about Germany's post-war federal chancellors). He also hosts a weekly show on German television, usually broadcast on Sundays, called "History". In 1999 he produced a series called "100 Jahre – der Countdown", which sums up the whole 20th Century year by year and is still sometimes broadcast, mainly during holidays, by the German TV station Phoenix.

Guido

Guido is a given name Latinised from the Old High German name Wido. The given name Guy is the Norman-French version of this name.

In the United States and Canada, guido is sometimes used as a pejorative for certain Italian-Americans deemed to fit a particular ethnic stereotype.

People named Guido

Given name

  • Guido of Acqui (c. 1004–1070), bishop of Acqui
  • Guido of Cortona (c. 1190–1250), saint and founder of a convent in Cortona (Tuscany) who joined Franciscan friars in 1211
  • Guido of Arezzo (991/992–after 1033), (also Guido Aretinus, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco, or Guido D'Arezzo), music theorist
  • Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663), Italian painter
  • Guido Calabresi (b. 1932), American judge and former Dean of Yale Law School
  • Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1250/1259–1300), Italian (Florentine) poet and friend of Dante
  • Guido Calza (1888–1946) Italian archaeologist
  • Guido de Bres (1522–1567) pastor, theologian, author of Belgic Confession
  • Guido delle Colonne (early 13th century), Italian writer and contemporary of Dante
  • Guido (footballer)

    Guido Alves Pereira Neto (born 9 March 1976 in Ribeirão Preto) is a Brazilian retired professional association football player.

    Playing career

    Guido was signed by MetroStars in 1997. He had trouble acclimating to the American lifestyle while living in Newark's Ironbound district.

    Statistics

    References

    External links

  • Profile on Worldfootball
  • Profile on MetroFanatic
  • Profile on MLSSoccer.com
  • Guido Pisano

    Guido Pisano (died 1149) was a prelate and diplomat from Pisa. He probably belonged to the family of the counts of Caprona, and was promoted to the College of Cardinals and appointed to the deaconry of Santi Cosma e Damiano by Pope Innocent II on 4 March 1132.

    Between 10 and 11 December 1146 he was created Papal chancellor by the Pisan Pope Eugene III. He was widely travelled, intervening in Spain, Portugal, France and Germany, and well-connected, to Wibald, to Anselm of Havelberg and to a succession of popes as well as several emperors and kings.

    Guido served as a Papal legate to the Spains on three occasions. His first visit probably took place in 1133–34, his second in 1135–37 and his third and final in 1143. During the first he went to León (before August 1134), there to either preside over a synod or attend the royal court, to resolve in favour of Bernardo of Compostela a dispute with his archbishop, Diego Gelmírez, and to confirm the election of Berengar as Bishop of Salamanca, also against Diego's wishes. During the second he presided over a synod in Burgos, which granted an indulgence to the Confraternity of Belchite, and on 26 November 1143 during the third he held a council at Girona, where Count Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona granted of fifth of the territory he had conquered from the Moors to the Knights Templar. On his way through southern France on his first legation, he resolved in favour of the abbey of Saint-Thibéry a dispute over the church of Bessan with the monastery of La Chaise-Dieu.

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