Famous People with Name Jeppe

Jeppe Sebastian Kofod            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jeppe Sebastian Kofod: a Danish politician. He has been a member of Folketing from the Social Democrats since 1998.In March 2008, Kofod was driven into a scandal following his short sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Jeppe Feldsted Brandrup            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jeppe Feldsted Brandrup: is a Danish former professional football player. He scored two goals in 16 matches for the Danish national team and represented his country at the 1984 European Championship.Brylle started playing football with local club Frederiksberg Boldklub (FB). He played for Hvidovre IF in the secondary Danish 2nd Division, and helped the club win promotion for the top-flight Danish 1st Division in the 1978 season. Before the start of the 1979 season, he moved to 1st Division rivals Vejle Boldklub, where he got his national breakthrough.

Jeppe Huldahl            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jeppe Huldahl: is a professional golfer from Denmark who currently plays on the European Tour.He turned professional in 2003 and finished 4th at European Tour's final qualifying school at the end of the year to obtain his tour card. He had limited success in his first y

Jeppe Mehl            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jeppe Mehl: is a Danish professional football midfielder, who currently plays for the Danish Superliga side Esbjerg fB.

Jeppe Tengbjerg            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jeppe Tengbjerg: is a Danish football manager and former football (soccer) player. In his playing career, Tengbjerg represented a number of Danish clubs, as well as Dutch clubs SC Cambuur and Excelsior Rotterdam.

Karen Jeppe            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Karen Jeppe: was a Danish missionary and social worker, known for her work aid worker with Ottoman Armenian refugees and survivals of the Armenian Genocide, mainly widows and orphans, from 1903 until her death in Syria in 1935. She was a member of Johannes Lepsius's Deutsch Orient-Mission (German Orient Mission) and assumed responsibility (in 1903) for the Armeinian children in the Millet Khan German Refugee Orphanage after the 1895 Urfa massacres.

Martin Jeppesen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Martin Jeppesen: is a Danish former football player who spent the majority of his career with Boldklubben Frem.Jeppesens father Jørn Jeppesen made around 260 first-team appearances for Frem, scoring 99 goals. Jeppesen was said to be chasing this record.

Jørn Jeppesen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jørn Jeppesen: was a Danish stage and film actor.

Carl Jeppesen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Carl Jeppesen: was a Danish-born Norwegian worker, newspaper editor and politician. He edited the newspaper Social-Demokraten from 1887 to 1892, and from 1906 to 1912. He was among the founders of the Norwegian Labour Party, and served as chairman for two periods, from 1890 to 1892, and from 1894 to 1897. He was Mayor of Kristiania from 1917 to 1919. He was chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1890 to 1892.[3] From 1892 he was running a cigar shop, but also contribted to the newspaper while Christian Holtermann Knudsen had taken over as editor. From 1894 to 1897 he was chairman of the Labour Party for a second period. He was a member of the Kristiania City Council from 1898 to 1925, and served as Mayor of Kristiania from 1917 to 1919. He also edited Social-Demokraten from 1906 to 1912. He was a co-founder of the Norwegian Press Association in 1910, and chaired this organization from 1920 to 1922.

Knud Jeppesen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Knud Jeppesen: was a Danish musicologist, composer, and writer on the history of music. He passed the organist exam at the Royal Danish Conservatory of music in 1916. Owing to Hammerich's retirement, there was nobody on the faculty of the university to examine Jeppesen's work; therefore, he subitted his dissertation to the University of Vienna where it was reviewed by Guido Adler and Jeppesen was awarded a doctorate in 1922. He taught music theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Music from 1920 to 1947, also serving on its board of directors. He was organist at Copenhagen's St. Stephens church from 1917–1932 and at the Holmen church in 1947. He became the first professor of musicology at Aarhus University in 1947. Jeppesen's name is invariably associated with the study of musical counterpoint, particularly in the style of Palestrina. His 1930 Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century has been a standard textbook since its appearance in German (1935) and English (1939), and remains in print today (the third and final edition remains untranslated). He doctoral thesis was enlarged in 1923 and appeared in English in 1927 as "The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance." His published writings on music mostly by Italian and Danish composers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Jeppesen engaged in much primary research – locating early manuscript and print copies of old scores and preparing editions with annotations and commentary. In 1962 he finished the first complete thematic catalog of Palestrina's oeuvre. Among his accomplishments were the discovery of ten previously unknown masses by Palestrina in 1949.