Lilia Basencyan

He owns Giesegaard and Juellund at Ringsted.

Michael Brockenhuus-Schack is the son of count Niels Brockenhuus-Schack and his wife Madeleine Maria nee d'Auchamp. He has a bachelor of Business from Copenhagen Business School (1983) and a cand.agro. degree from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (1989).

Brockenhuus-Schack worked for Danske Bank in 1988-95. He took over the family estate after his father in 1993. He was chair of Landbrug & Fodevarer in 2009-11. He has been a board member of Realdania since 2006 and the chair since 2014. He has been a board member of Det Classenske Fideicommis since 2007.

He is married to Ulla Brockenhuus-Schack who is a managing partner in Seed Capital. They have two children. He was operated on for colorectal cancer in 2011.

Giesegaard is a manor house and estate located in Ringsted Municipality in Denmark. The estate is owned by Michael Brockenhuus-Schack and has been owned by members of the Schack/Brockenhuus-Schack family since 1736. The oldest part of the main building was built in 1751 for countess Anna Sophie Schack but it was later expanded by an extra storey in 1847 and adapted in 1873 and again in 1904. It now appears as a two-storey, white-plastered building with two octagonal towers and black-glazed tile roofs. The estate covers 3,115 hectares of land.

History

1668–1719: the Giesegaard family

A village named Skivede was located where Giesegaard stands today until the 1670s. It belonged to the Crown until 1668 when Frederick IV ceded it to Frederik Giese in exchange for land elsewhere. Giese was originally from Husum. He also acquired other land in the area before establishing the manor of Giesegaard in 1683. After his death in 1693, Giesegaard was taken over by his widow Margrethe Elisabeth Schönbach and son Christoffer Joachim Giese.

Christian Carl Gabel

Christoffer Joachim Giese died in 1719 and his mother had to cede the estate to her debitor Christian Scavenius. In 1720, he sold it to Christian Carl Gabel. He had been appointed to Chief Secretary of War (overkrigssekretær). He expanded the estate considerably through the acquisition of more land. In 1823, he fell out of favour at the court and was dismissed. He ran into economic difficulties and was forced to obtain a loan from countess Anna Sophie Schack in 1726, the same year that he was appointed to prefect of Ribe County.

In 1736, Anna Sophie Schack took over Giesegaard when Gabel was unable to pay his debts. She founded Stamhuset Giesegaard [da] in her will with the effect that the land could not be sold or divided between heirs. The land was heavily mortgaged and Stamhuset Giesegaard could therefore not be established until 1766.

Christian Frederik Schack, the son of Otto Didrik Schack and Anna Ernestine Frederikke née Gabel, inherited the estate in 1760. Knud Bille Schack inherited Stamhuset Giesegaard in 1790. He died on a journey to Karlsruhe in 1821 and Giesegaard was then passed on to his nephew, Henrik Adolph Brockenhuus-Schack, who was made a count the following year.

Giesegaard after the 1873 adaptation

Brockenhuus-Schack's son, Knud Bille Brockenhuus-Schack, inherited Giesegaard in 1847. His son, Adolph Ludvig Brockenhuus-Schack, became the owner of Giesegaard in 1892.

Stamhuset Giesegaard was dissolved in 1922 as a result of lensafløsningloven [da] of 1919. Large areas of land were also ceded to the state and divided into small holdings. Frederik Knud Bille Brockenhuus-Schack inherited the remaining part of the estate in 1924.

Architecture

A one-storey main building was built for countess Anna Sophie Schack in 1750–1751. It was heightened with an extra storey in 1843. Both sides of the building feature a triangular pediment. The building was in 1873 adapted to the Renaissance Revival style by Theodor Zeltner. He constructed two copper-clad towers, changed the roof and added sandstone decorations. The building was restored under supervision of the architect G. Tvede in 1904. Most of the decorations were removed and the walls were dressed. Most of the associated farm buildings are from 1902.

Today

Giesegaard covers 3115 hectares of which 1,013 hectares is farmland and 1,499 is woodland. In April 2017, DR estimated the value of the estate to DKK 330 million.

Cultural references

Giesegaard has been used as a location in the feature films Komtessen (1961), Mazurka på sengekanten (Bedroom Mazurka, 1970), Rektor på sengekanten [da] (1972) and Pigen og drømmeslottet (1974).

Anna Sophie von Rantzau was born in Hamburg. She was the daughter of secretary and land minister Christian von Rantzau (1649-1704) and Margrethe von Rantzau (1642-1708). She was married in 1711 to Hans Schack, count of the County of Schackenborg. Hans Schack was a widower and had a son and heir, Otto Didrik Schack (1710-1741). Hans Schack died in 1719, and his widow assumed his position as county administrator of Schackenborg. She also became manager of her husband's estate as guardian of her stepson.

Over the years, her activities as landowner became more extensive. At Giesegaard she built a new main building, and at Gram she rebuilt a manor house, Schloss Gram. She increased the manor and estate at Juellund in 1752 and in 1730 she acquired the Nybølgård estate in North Schleswig. The year before she had bought Thotts Palace at Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen and in 1754 she took over Schack's Palace at Amalienborg.

Her relationship with her stepson, Otto Didrik Schack, was never the best and worsened over the years. In 1741, her step-son died. His heir was his eldest son, Hans Schack (1735-1796). Shortly before her death in 1760, she set up a will in which she completely bypassed Hans Schack in favor of his younger brother Frederik Christian Schack (1736-1790). In 1758, a commission had to be set up to settle the resulting disputes.

Josias Rantzau was a Danish military leader and Marshal of France.Josias was the grandson of Paul, the youngest son of Johann Rantzau.He married his Cousin Hedwig Margarethe Elisabeth vor Rantzau, but had no children.As a young man, he served Prince Maurice of Orange and King Christian IV of Denmark. Later he fought for Sweden, then the Holy Empire, again for Sweden and finally since 1635 for France, where he was noticed at Court for his blond beauty.He commanded troops in the Franche-Comté, on the Rhine, and in Flanders. In 1633, he successfully defended Andernach against the Spanish, but is in general better remembered for his bravery than for his military skills.He was taken prisoner by the Spanish in 1642 at the Battle of Honnecourt, and again in 1643 by Imperial troops at the Battle of Tuttlingen. On 30 June 1645, he became Marshal of France and in 1646 Governor of the newly conquered Dunkirk Fortress.During the Fronde, he was arrested by Mazarin and locked up in the Bastille.He was acquitted, but died shortly after being released.

Jacques d'Estampes , born in 1590 at Mont-Saint-Sulpice and died onMay 20 , 1668à Mauny , Marquis de La Ferté-Imbault, was a French soldier created Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIV.

1st Marquess of La Ferté-Imbault and Mauny . Courtesy titles given by the king in the 1620s, confirmed onJanuary 5, 1651when he was elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France. His eldest son is called the Marquis de Mauny. Baron de la Ferté-Imbault (Sologne) and Mauny (Normandy, near Rouen), Lord of Salbris , Mont-Saint-Sulpice , Villefargeau and Touberville.

Chef de nom et d'armes de la Maison d'Estampes , eldest son of Claude d'Estampes (1526 + 1591), Baron de la Ferté-Imbault , captain of 50 men-at-arms of the king's ordinances, killed in action, and Jeanne de Hautemer, lady of Mauny.

Grandson of Marshal de Fervaques, alias Guillaume de Hautemer (1538 + 1613; Count of Châteauvillain , Count then Duke of Grancey and Peer of France (1611), Lord of Fervacques and Baron of Mauny, Knight of the King's Orders (1595) , Marshal of France (1597) and lieutenant-general of the province of Normandy).

Married on eldest daughter of Charles de Choiseul (1563 +February 1 , 1626), Marquis of Praslin , Marshal of France (1619), Knight of the Orders of the King (1595), Lieutenant-General in the government of Champagne, Captain of the King's Bodyguards. Later first lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Orléans.

Friend of Gaston de France , Duke of Orléans (Monsieur, brother of the king).

Not to be confused with his cousin Jacques d'Estampes de Valençay .

Ensign of the company of 200 Gendarmes of Monsieur, Duke of Orléans , with the rank of maester of cavalry camp, from 1610, he found himself the same year at the siege of Juliers , where he began his military career. In 1617, he was at the sees of Soissons , Château-Porcien , Rethel and Sainte-Menehould .

Second lieutenant of the Gendarmes company of the Duke of Orléans in 1620, he fought in Ponts-de-Cé at the end ofJuly 1620, in the victorious army, commanded by the Marquis de Créquy and the Comte de Bassompierre . That same year, he followed the King on the voyage to Béarn .

La Ferté-Imbault took part in all the campaigns of Louis XIII against the Protestants, from 1620 to 1630.

He took part in the sieges of Saint-Jean-d'Angély , Nérac , Tonneins , Clérac (July–August, again as field marshal), Royan , Montauban (October –August).November 1621).

He passed as field marshal in the army commanded by the Duke of Nevers, sent to Champagne to oppose the Count of Mansfeld in 1622.

He does not appear to have fought in the Valtellina War, which ended onMarch 5, 1626.

In 1626 he was appointed captain-lieutenant of the Company of 200 Gendarmes of the Duke of Orléans , governor of the city and duchy of Orléans , adviser and chamberlain to the Duke of Orléans .

During her husband's campaigns, Madame de la Ferté-Imbault usually resided at the Château du Mont Saint-Sulpice . From 1627, he also raised his castle of La Ferté-Imbault , victim in 1562 of the wars of religion, and modernized that of Mauny , near Rouen.

He served at the siege of La Rochelle as field marshal in 1627-1628.

Passed to Italy, he served there under the Duke of Guise , as Mestre de Camp Général de la Cavalerie-Légère, then served in the same capacity at the siege of Privas in 1629.

In 1630, La Ferté distinguished himself extremely during the Piedmont campaign against the Duke of Savoy, to help the Duke of Mantua. He is at the battle of Veillane, where at the head of his only company of two hundred men of the Duke of Orleans, he charges three thousand enemies, kills nine hundred, takes three hundred prisoners and takes fourteen flags. He then fought in the second aid of Cazals (or Casal ), the same year.

In 1635 he served in the Netherlands and distinguished himself at the Battle of Avein or Avennes, won by the Marshals of Châtillon and Brézé over Prince Thomas of Savoy . He was again noticed the following year (1636), when Corbie was retaken , reparation for a failure which had greatly moved Paris and the court.

He is at the seats of Bohain, Landrecies, Maubeuge, La Capelle, Renty, and Castelet.

Mestre de camp owner of a cavalry regiment of his name in 1638 (at the formation of cavalry regiments), he was present at the battle of Mouzon and at the siege of Yvoy in 1639.

Having come to join the King's Army at Corbie, he was left there to command 10,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 cavalry.

Appointed French Ambassador to England inJuly 1641, he stays two years in London. The choice of La Ferté-Imbault was determined as much by his skill as by the conciliatory qualities of his character. We can also believe that he was designated for this difficult post by the Comte d'Harcourt, under whose orders he had served in Piedmont. D'Harcourt had himself occupied the London Embassy in 1636, and returned there later. He prevented the embarkation of 14,000 Irishmen, recruited by the Spaniards, for the defense of Perpignan, and himself raised 6,000 Scots for the service of France.

King Charles I then experienced a critical situation, under pressure from Parliament.

Jacques d'Étampes is named theAugust 11, 1643 Colonel-General of the King's Scottish Guards , aka Scottish Infantry of France (1643–1645), a rank created for him. This body was wholeheartedly devoted to the royal cause of the Stuarts. He is lieutenant-general for the king in the government of Orléanais, Vendômois and Dunois leNovember 21, 1644, then appointed Councilor of State.

Employed in the Army of Flanders from 1645 to 1649, he found himself in 1645, at the sieges of Gravelines , as first Marshal of Camp, of Bourbourg , of Mardick , where he was promoted to Lieutenant General of the King's Armies, of Linck , Bergues and the passage of the Corne in 1645. He took part in the siege of Courtray , as well as in the second siege of Mardick , inAugust 1646.

He is at the capture of Veurne onSeptember 7, then at the siege of Dunkirk (1646) , fromSeptember 7toOctober 11, under the command of the Duke of Enghien.

theOctober 31, 1646he distinguished himself near Courtray, with the same prince, pushing back a Spanish force composed of six regiments of infantry and five regiments of cavalry. He contributed to the victory of Lens in 1648 and was at the passage of the Scheldt in 1649.

He was then employed in the Army of Normandy (1649-1650).

Raised to the dignity of Marshal of France onJanuary 5, 1651, on the recommendation of Gaston, Duke of Orléans , uncle of the king , with Antoine, Duke of Aumont (1601 + 1669), Henri, Duke of La Ferté-Senneterre (1600 + 1681), Jacques Rouxel , Count of Grancey ( 1603 + 1680; his younger first cousin, son of Charlotte de Hautemer), and Charles de Monchy, Marquis d'Hocquincourt (1599 + 1658; husband of Eléonore d'Estampes - Valençay ).

He was made a knight of the King's orders the following year but received theDecember 31, 1661(Patent No. 327 ).

He was honorary adviser to all the parliaments and sovereign courts of the kingdom, as Marshal of France (1651), received in this capacity at the Parliament of Paris in 1654.

Jacques d'Étampes commanded the royal army with Turenne in 1654, when the Spaniards had to lift the siege of Arras . In 1656, Don Juan Jose of Austria and Prince of Condé was completely defeated at the Battle of Valenciennes.

The full-length portrait of Marshal d'Étampes de La Ferté-Imbault was produced in 1835 by Jean-Léonard Lugardon on the order of Louis -Philippe I 1 . It is in the sixth room of the Marshals, in the historical museum of Versailles.

Adolf IV (before 1205 – 8 July 1261), was a Count of Schauenburg (1225–1238) and of Holstein (1227–1238), of the House of Schaumburg. Adolf was the eldest son of Adolf III of Schauenburg and Holstein by his second wife, Adelheid of Querfurt.

Life

Adolf IV won several victories against the Danes. In 1225 he won the Battle of Mölln against Albert II, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde. On 22 July 1227 with his coalition army Adolf was victorious in the Battle of Bornhöved against King Valdemar II of Denmark with his Danish army and German allies (the Welfs), and thus regained Holstein. In 1235 he founded Kiel and in 1238 Itzehoe. In 1238 he took part in a crusade in Livonia.

In fulfilment of an oath taken during the heat of the Battle of Bornhöved, Adolf withdrew in 1238 to a Franciscan friary and in 1244 was ordained a priest in Rome (his two under-age sons passed into the guardianship of his son-in-law Duke Abel of Schleswig). Also in 1244 he founded Neustadt in Holstein. He died in 1261 in the Franciscan friary in Kiel, which he himself had founded, whereupon Holstein was divided between his sons John (of Holstein-Kiel) and Gerhard (of Holstein-Itzehoe).

Marriage and issue

He married Heilwig of Lippe, daughter of Herman II, Lord of Lippe and by her had the following children:

Mechthild (1225–1288): she married firstly in 1237 Abel of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig and later King of Denmark (this marriage provided the basis for later claims by the Schauenburgers on the Duchy of Schleswig); and secondly Birger Jarl, Regent of Sweden

John I, Count of Holstein-Kiel (1229–1263)

Gerhard I, Count of Holstein-Itzehoe (1232–1290)

Ludolf, d. in childhood

Barbro Alving was a Swedish journalist and writer, a pacifist and feminist, often using the pseudonym Bang. She wrote for, among others, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the magazines Idun and Vecko-Journalen. She reported from various scenes during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.

Alving was born in Uppsala, as the youngest daughter of the author and columnist Fanny Alving and Hjalmar Alving, who was a lecturer in Scandinavian languages and Nordic literature. At the age of eleven she moved with her family to Stockholm, where Hjalmar Alving had been appointed headmaster at Whitlockska samskolan. Alving was enrolled at Whitlockska, and graduated in 1928.

Alving never married, but she had a daughter, Maud Fanny Alving, with illustrator and artist Birger Lundquist in 1938. Maud, better known as Ruffa Alving-Olin, was also a journalist, who collected and published letters, notes and other materials after Barbro Alving's death. Alving formed a household with Anna Laura Sjöcrona when her daughter was one year old, and the three constituted "a different kind of family", in Ruffa's words. Alving and Sjöcrona lived together for over 40 years, until Alving's death.

Alving was an editorial secretary at the weekly magazine Idun from 1928 to 1931, and then a journalist at Dagens Nyheter from 1934 to 1959. At the age of 27 she reported from the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and the Spanish Civil War. Dagens Nyheter also sent her as a reporter to write about the Finnish Winter War in 1939-40, the German occupation of Norway in 1940, and the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. As a foreign correspondent, she reported from the United States, Vietnam, Africa and the Far East over a number of years.

Alving became a pacifist, and converted to Catholicism in 1959. She supported the campaign in the 1950s to prevent Sweden from acquiring nuclear weapons. Because of her convictions, she left Dagens Nyheter, whose editor-in-chief was in favour of a Swedish nuclear defence, and started working at the weekly magazine Vecko-Journalen.[6] She was called to do civil defence duty, but refused to participate and was jailed at Långholmen Prison in Stockholm for one month. She wrote of her period in prison in her book Dagbok från Långholmen (Diary of Långholmen) (1956).

Alving was inspired as a journalist, feminist and pacifist by Elin Wägner. She collected biographical material after Wägner's death in 1949, which later became a biography written by Ulla Isaksson and Erik Hjalmar Linder.

She published a number of books, including an annual volume of collected newspaper columns under the pseudonym "Käringen mot strömmen" ("old woman against the current", alluding to a 12th-century Swedish proverb); these were published from 1946 to 1973. She also wrote several screenplays, and was awarded the Nios Grand Prize in 1975. The feminist magazine Bang is named after her.

Karl Hjalmar Alving , born June 3, 1877 in Kalmar , died August 5, 1958 in Stockholm , was a Swedish teacher and linguist mainly in Nordic languages.

After studying at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University, he defended his dissertation in 1916 in Uppsala on the dissertation The place of the grammatical subject in the narrative movement in Swedish: a linguistic historical study .

Alving then worked as a high school teacher , first at Gothenburg's higher school , then as a lecturer in Uppsala. From 1919 to 1929 he was the principal of Whitlockska Samskolan . He later received a senior lecturer position at Norra Real in Stockholm, where he remained until his retirement in 1942.

During the years 1929–1932, he published the standard work Swedish Literary History in three parts.

Alving is best known for his translation of Icelandic fairy tales , which was published in five volumes in 1935–1945. He also published linguistic historical studies and essays in stylistic subjects, as well as books about Uppsala and Kalmar.

Hjalmar Alvings was married to the author Fanny Alving . Their daughter was journalist Barbro Alving . She bequeathed her father's surviving writings to the University of Gothenburg's library .

He is buried in Ytterselö cemetery .

Fanny Maria Alving (23 October 1874 – 2 June 1955) was a Swedish novelist who used the pseudonyms Fanny Norrman and Ulrik Uhland.

BIOGRAPHY

Alving was born in Ytterselö, Södermanland on 23 October 1874. Her parents were Captain August Lönn (1837–1920) and Erika Charlotta Persdotter Jonsson. She was educated at Palmgrenska Samskolan in Stockholm where she matriculated in 1893. From 1898 to 1905 she was married to the statistician Sven Norrman and from 1906 to the linguist and educator Hjalmar Alving. The journalist Barbro Alving (1909–1987) was her daughter.

Alving travelled to Norway, Denmark and other European countries. She was a correspondent at the Greek consulate in Malmø from 1894 to 1898. Thereafter she worked for the journal Strix in Stockholm until 1901, signing her articles Maja X. As a novelist, she used the pen name Ulrik Uhland but also used Fanny Norrman and Fanny Alving.

Alving was one of the few Swedes of the day who introduced ordinary local people into her stories. Her crime novel Josefssons på Drottninggatan (The Josefssons on Queen's Street) not only includes people from Stockholm but features Sweden's first woman detective, Jullan Eriksson.

Published under the name Fanny Norrman

• Galläpplen och paradisäpplen, poetry collection, 1901.

• Andra visboken, 1915.

• Brita från Österby, novel, 1914.

Published under the pen name Ulrik Uhland

• Skärgårdsflirt, novel, 1905.

• Aurores bröllopsresor, novel, 1906

• Carl Michael Bellman och Ulla Winblad : en roman från den gamla goda tiden, novel, 1907.

• Fröken från Västervik, novel, 1907

• Baronerna på Sjöberga, novel, 1908.

• Skandalhuset, novel, 1911.

• Juvelerna på Gårda, novel, 1914.

Published under the name Fanny Alving

• På avigsidan, novel, 1918.
• Josefssons på Drottninggatan, novel, 1918.
• Familjen von Skotte novel, 1922.

Charles Cardale Babington (1808-1895) was born on 23 November 1808 at Ludlow, Shropshire. He was educated at Charterhouse, before matriculating at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1826 (B.A., 1830; M.A., 1833), where he became a fellow. He was professor of botany at the university, 1861-1895. Babington carried out intensive research in natural history. He helped to found the Entomological Society in 1833, and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1840. He died at Brookside, Cambridge, on 22 July 1895.

The only child of Joseph Babington and Catherine Whitter, Charles married Anna Maria Walker in 1866. His father, a physician, was a keen amateur botanist and doubtless influenced his son’s inclination to natural history.

After a succession of private schools and a brief interlude at Charterhouse, Babington entered St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1826, graduating B.A. in 1830 and receiving the M.A. in 1833. In his first year at Cambridge he established an enduring friendship with J.S. Henslow, professor of botany, whose enthusiasm confirmed Babington’s lifelong devotion to botany. Completely involved in the natural history activities of Cambridge for more than forty years, Babington was a leading member of the Ray Club, which developed into the Ray Society (founded 1844); and a number of its publications, such as Memorials of John Ray and Correspondence of John Ray, owed much to his help. A man of wide intellectual interests, he was a founding member of the Entomological Society in Cambridge and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

Babington’s first work, Flora Bathoniensis (1834), with critical notes and references to Continental floras, adumbrated the direction of his future taxonomic work. Two visits to the Channel Islands, in 1837 and 1838, resulted in his Primitiae florae Sarnicae (1839). The Napoleonic Wars had isolated the British Isles from botanical research in the rest of Europe, where the natural system of plant classification was generally accepted, and therefore Linnaeus’ artifical arrangement was perpetuated in such standard English works as J.E. Smith’s English Botany and the earlier editions of W.J. Hooker’s British Flora. Consequently, it was difficult for English botanists to identify the new plants published in Continental floras, a defect remedied by Babington in successive editions of his Manual of British Botany. Considered to be his magnum opus, it made its first appearance in 1843 and, with the exception of the fifth edition of Hooker’s British Flora, was the first complete guide to British plants arranged according to a natural system. Accurate and clear in its descriptions, meticulous in its assignment of genera and species, the Manual soon established itself as an indispensable field companion.

Babington differed from many of his contemporaries in insisting upon a more critical delimitation of species; this was well demonstrated in his British Rubi (1869), which described in impressive detail some forty-five species.

On the death of his friend Henslow in 1861, Babington was elected to the chair of botany at Cambridge, which he held until his death. He was an indifferent and infrequent lecturer; his interests were mainly in research, and during his professorship many additions were made to the Cambridge Herbarium, the most notable being John Lindley’s collection. His own collection of nearly 55,000 sheets was bequeathed to Cambridge, together with his library. At the time of his death Babington was the senior fellow of the Linnean Society, having been elected in 1830; in 1851 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

Jan Drewes Achenbach was the Walter P. Murphy

Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor

Emeritus-in-Service at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.

Throughout his career, a distinctive feature of Jan’s

research was the elegant use of rigorous mathematical

methods in engineering applications. For example, traditional ultrasonic nondestructive methods are based on

empirical measurements and heuristic analysis based on

signal processing. It was Jan who introduced quantitative

analysis of scattering of ultrasonic waves by defects to

nondestructive evaluation. Later in his career, when Jan

was asked what work of his that he was most proud of,

he answered “I added the letter Q to NDE.” In fact, the

research field is now called quantitative nondestructive

evaluation (QNDE). In 2008, Jan delivered the plenary

lecture at the 27th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation,

the prime annual gathering of the QNDE community around the world. Jan’s lecture was

entitled, “NDE with a Q.” It was a brilliant blend of science with a retrospective on progress

in engineering. A German air base for fighter planes was established on the outskirts of the town and, towards the end of the

war, Jan and his friends, mostly about nine years old, would get as close to the air base as

the barbed wire and the minefields would allow to see the German fighter planes take off

to engage the Allied planes that were flying overhead. The excitement of watching fighter

planes in action generated his lifelong interest in aviation. Jan attended high school in

Leeuwarden, where he excelled at soccer. Jan became so accomplished that he would

have become a professional soccer player if his father, a barber, had not counseled him to

pursue an academic career. So, Jan went to study aeronautical engineering at the Delft

University of Technology (TU Delft). The launch of Sputnik in 1957 and the ensuing

space race, which stimulated rapid growth in both fundamental and applied research

in U.S. universities, inspired Jan. He applied and was awarded a scholarship to attend

Stanford University for graduate studies in 1959, before he was able to officially graduate

from TU Delft. Jan thus became a member of the Sputnik generation of scientists and

engineers.

After receiving a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in

1962, Jan spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. In 1963, he

was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, where he remained for the rest of his career except

for sabbatical leaves at the University of California at San Diego and the TU Delft.

In 1981, he became the Walter P. Murphy Professor in the Departments of Civil and

Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and in 1992 he was named

Distinguished McCormick School Professor.

In June 1999, the night before a planned flight to Korea, Jan suffered serious cardiac

arrhythmia with a loss of consciousness. He was brought by ambulance within a few

minutes to the nearby Evanston Hospital, then transferred to Northwestern Memorial

Hospital and kept for two weeks in an induced hypothermic coma. Upon waking up, his

first phone call was to his secretary to check on his project funding. It took him a year,

but his recovery was remarkable. It is a testimony to Jan’s will, determination and perseverance that he restarted his research programs, and successfully so, which his colleagues

doubted at first.

In 2009, he was awarded emeritus status, which he sought in part to give his departments more positions for hiring younger faculty. He remained a voting member of the

faculty by taking the position of Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick

JAN ACHENBACH

School Professor Emeritus-in-Service in the McCormick School of Engineering and

Applied Science. He kept this position until his death. During all his years as an

emeritus-in-service faculty member, he continued his research, supervised a number of

Ph.D. students, and published numerous papers.

It was on a blind tennis date at Stanford that Jan met his future wife Marcia Fee. They

were married in 1961. The following year, Jan earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics and

astronautics and Marcia her bachelor of arts in history. During their year in New York

when Jan was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia, Marcia worked for Oxford University

Press as a copywriter. When the couple settled in Evanston, Marcia returned to school

and earned a master’s degree in English from Northwestern in 1965 and then taught

at Kendall College and Oak Therapeutic School, both in Evanston. These experiences

led her to pursue a master of social work degree at the University of Chicago in 1975.

Marcia worked for three years at Cook County Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry and

then for 23 years at the Jewish Child & Family Services. After her retirement, Marcia

continued helping others through her Evanston community activities. She was appointed

to the Evanston Mental Health Board and Commission on Aging by the mayor and

served as a Master Gardener plant information officer at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Jan and Marcia found especially enriching their time with family and Jan’s students,

many of whom were from China, Japan, and Korea. They also enjoyed traveling, the

Chicago Symphony, Chicago’s Lyric Opera, and live theater. Marcia passed away on July

25, 2019, after 58 years of happy marriage. Marcia was extremely close to her two sisters,

Judy and Wendy, and her godson Paul. She was a devoted and deeply loved aunt and

great aunt to four nephews, one niece, and seven great nieces and nephews. Judy now

lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and Wendy lives in the Washington, D.C., area. Both of

them have fond memories of the Achenbachs.

Marcia was born in Cebu Province in the Philippines, where her American parents were

living for her father’s work with Standard Oil. She was one year old when the Japanese

seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning 5,000 Americans at

Santo Tomas Internment Camp. As a result, Marcia was separated from her parents

until she was two. Her parents had gone to Manila on business, and Marcia was left at

the family home on the island of Cebu under the care of her Amah and the company’s

assistant manager. It is this moment that set Marcia on a path to appreciate the kindness

of strangers and to seek to help others. A British couple with an 11-year-old son cared

for Marcia from hideouts in the hills of Cebu during internments at multiple detention

centers until finally she was reunited with her parents and baby sister Judy at Santo

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Tomas with the help of the Red Cross. They were liberated when Marcia was four years

old. After the war, Marcia’s father resumed his career with Standard Oil in Singapore

and Bangkok, and Marcia attended boarding schools in Australia, Switzerland, and the

United States. She enrolled at Stanford University in 1958.

Both Marcia and Jan were very active within the Northwestern community. The couple

once said, “We have spent most of our lives at Northwestern and have always been happy

here. Northwestern has given us lifelong education, culture, music, travel, and other

benefits.” Their lifelong association with Northwestern inspired the couple to give their

entire estate to the university. The planned gift will establish two endowed professorships

in mechanics of materials and solids in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and

the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Career

In 1963, Jan started his long career at Northwestern University. As an early member

of the solid mechanics group, Jan was instrumental in building a team of top scholars

that established Northwestern’s leadership position in solid mechanics in the United

States and around the world. Established in the early 1960s by George Herrmann, the

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM) Program at Northwestern has been a hub

of research activities even since its inception. In addition to Jan, the early members

of the group in the civil engineering department in the 1970s included excellent

young researchers such as John Dundurs, Leon Keer, Toshio Mura, Zdeněk Bažant,

Sia Nemat-Nasser, and Ted Belytschko, and from the Materials Science Department,

Johannes (Hans) Weertmann, all of whom later attained fame and six became National

Academy of Engineering (NAE) members. The group in the 1960s also included George

Herrmann (later inducted to the NAE, too) until he left to become department chair

at Stanford, and Seng-Lip Lee until he left to become department chair at the Asian

Institute of Technology in Thailand. The largest, multimillion-dollar effort in this group,

conducted jointly with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), took place from

1974 to 1979 and was a project funded by the National Science Foundation’s Research

Applied to National Needs (RANN) program. Led by Weertmann, it also involved Jan

and several others from the Northwestern faculty. The goal was to analyze a proposed

hot-dry-rock geothermal energy scheme and drill in the Jemez caldera in New Mexico.

The findings showed the heat output to decay too fast. Nevertheless, this skeptical

conclusion had a major influence on policy and further research in the United States and

Japan.

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For two decades beginning in the mid-1960s, the young solid mechanics group in the

Civil Engineering Department, with Jan at its helm, was very collaborative and social.

Every Friday at 4 p.m., there was a mechanics seminar, led mostly by a guest speaker.

Long discussions often followed in a group standing at a three-leaf blackboard filled

with equations and sketches in chalk (such a mode of presentation, from which one

could actually understand the speaker’s argument, unfortunately disappeared with the

arrival of transparencies and PowerPoint). John Dundurs made sure that after each

seminar there was a party with the speaker at someone’s home. One memorable party in

1972, at Toshio’s home, lasted until 4 a.m., as Ronald Rivlin, the speaker and one of the

famous mechanics gurus of that time, entertained all with anecdotal stories about other

mechanicians.

With support from the Federal Aviation Administration, Jan founded the Center for

Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention (QEFP) at Northwestern in 1985. The

center initially focused on developing nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technologies for

the aerospace industry, then gradually expanded its scope to many areas of engineering

applications, including structural health monitoring of civil infrastructures and nuclear

power facilities. The center quickly became a magnet that attracted many young and

promising students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting professors from all over the world.

Within the NDE community, it was well known that there were two centers of excellence—one was at Iowa State University and focused on applied research, and the other

was the QEFP at Northwestern and focused on fundamental research.

Throughout his career, Jan supervised more than forty Ph.D. students and numerous

postdocs. Some of Jan’s former students, such as Ben Freund and C. T. Sun, the former

a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of

Sciences, have become distinguished researchers themselves. As many of Jan’s students

can testify, Jan was a strict mentor with very high standards. Jan’s high expectations of

his students inspired many of them to make achievements beyond their potentials. For

his teaching and mentoring, Jan was elected to the Chicago Tribune All-Professor Team

in 1993. In 2004, he received the Tutorial Citation Award from the American Society

of Nondestructive Testing. In 2014, Sigma Xi recognized Jan with the Monie A. Ferst

Award for his “notable contributions to the motivation and encouragement of research

through education.”

Jan was also very active in serving the professional societies. He was a leader in our

mechanics research community. As a member of the Executive Committee of the

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Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

and of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, as editor

and founder of the Journal of Wave Motion, as QEFP director, and as holder of other

important offices, he provided strong leadership to our research community.

Jan was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1982 and

the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 and a Fellow of the American Academy

of Arts and Sciences in 1994. He became a Corresponding Member of the Royal

Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and an Honorary Foreign Member of

the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, in 2010. He was awarded the

ASME Timoshenko Medal in 1992, the SES William Prager Medal in 2001, ASME

Honorary Membership in 2002, the ASCE Raymond D. Mindlin Medal in 2009, the

ASCE Theodore Van Karman Medal in 2010, and the ASME Medal in 2012, as well

as a number of other awards. He became a Fellow of the American Association for the

Advancement of Science, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Acoustical

Society of America, and the American Academy of Mechanics. He received honorary

doctorates from Zhejiang University in China in 2011 and from Clarkson University in

Potsdam, New York, in 2017, and was awarded the position of Honorary Professor at the

Beijing Institute of Technology in 2012.

In 2003, Jan was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology for engineering

research and education in the use of ultrasonic methods. In 2005, he received the U.S.

National Medal of Science for pioneering the field of quantitative nondestructive evaluation. He received both from President George W. Bush in ceremonies at the White

House.

Aamisepp was born in 1883 in Harju County. Upon graduation from elementary school, Aamisepp's education became militarily focused, with Aamisepp being set on joining the Imperial Russian Army. After graduating from secondary school in 1903, Aamisepp enrolled in a military electrical engineering school in St. Petersburg. While in St. Petersburg, Aamisepp became involved with a revolutionary movement inside Russia. He was expelled from the academy he was attending and briefly imprisoned, but was later allowed to return to military service on the condition that he remain under surveillance.

Rather than remain in the military, Aamisepp chose instead to return to Estonia to study horticulture; he soon developed a hobby of growing potatoes, which he cultivated near his family's home. He experimented on the Imperator variety of potato, eventually leading to him developing his own variety. Dubbed the "Kalevipoeg", the new potato variety yielded a crop 58% larger than the Imperator. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Aamisepp rejoined the Imperial Army and was commissioned as an artillery officer. When the October Revolution resulted in the collapse of the Russian state, Amisepp joined the burgeoning Estonian Independence movement, helping to organize new army units.

Following the end of the First World War, Aamisepp began working at the Jõgeva Plant Breeding Institute to develop new varieties of potatoes. Notably, Amisepp developed the Jõgeva Yellow, a popular variety of potato in Estonia. In addition to developing the Jõgeva Yellow, Aamisepp bred apples, peas, beans, beatroot, buckwheat, onions, currants, and pears.

He died in Jõgeva in 1950.

He won the Music Industry Leadership Award in the Papuita Kecapi Award 2006.

From 1970 to 2013, he was married to singer Azizah binti Mohamad. After his first wife died in 2013, he married actress Fadilah Mansor on 25 December 2014.

Death

Rahman been hospitalized on 1 June 2019 from complications of a stroke, and died shortly after midnight on 13 June. According to Khir Rahman, his father's body will be taken to the family's residence at Taman Sri Ukay before being buried after Zuhur at Taman Keramat's Cemetery.