Famous People with Name Leupold

Herbert Leupold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Herbert Leupold: was a German cross country skier and biathlete who competed in the 1930s.

Jacob Leupold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jacob Leupold: was a German physicist, scientist, mathematician, instrument maker, mining commissioner and an engineer. He wrote the important and popular book Theatrum Machinarum Generale, ("The General Theory of Machines") which was published in 1727.

Matthias Leupold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Matthias Leupold: is a German photographer who lives and works in Berlin. Matthias Leupold completed his photographic education at the D.E.F.A. studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. in the early eighties, he started staging photographs in order to express his interest in both photography and film. At first small exhibitions in East Berlin were tolerated by the GDR government. More extensive exhibitions for example at Bauhaus in Dessau and University of Fine Arts in Dresden were forbidden. In 1986, threats of arrest and condemnation influenced his decision to move from East Berlin to West Berlin. He started studying Visual Communications in 1987 at the University of the Arts (UdK, Berlin), completing his degree as a master student. He has traveled to many places, including America, in order to exhibit his work and to photograph in very diverse places.

Johann Michael Leupoldt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Michael Leupoldt: was a German psychiatrist born in Wießenstadt, Bavaria. In 1818 he obtained his medical doctorate at the University of Erlangen, and following graduation taught classes in anatomy, physiology and on mental illness at Erlangen. In 1820 he received a grant from the Bavarian government to continued his education in psychiatry in Berlin. While working in the mental ward at the Charité, he made the acquaintanceship of Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn (1774-1848) and Johann Gottfried Langermann (1768-1832). In 1821 he became an associate professor at Erlangen, followed by a full professorship in 1826. He was a primary force in creation of the first mental hospital in Bavaria (at Erlangen in 1845), and for 17 years was chairman of the Erlanger Societas physica-medica.