Famous People with Name Veit

Veit Sto            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Veit Sto: was along with Adam Kraft and Peter Vischer the most important sculptors of the late Gothic sculpture in Germany.[1] Veit Stoss was one of the first artists from Northern Europe who could be compared with Italian Renaissance artists. The power of expression of the gestures of his characters, compounded by the folds in their garments, give his sculptures a dramatic aspect.Veit Stoss, besides being a sculptor, was also a productive engraver and painter. Through his engravings he could circulate his works on a generous scale. But even in the two-dimensional space of his engravings, he always expressed himself as a sculptor.

Veit Stoss            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Veit Stoss: was a leading Bavarian (though he was born in Swabia) sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery; it has been called "late Gothic Baroque".[1] He had a large workshop and in addition to his own works there are a number by pupils. He is best known for the altarpiece in St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland.

Veit Hans Schnorr            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Veit Hans Schnorr: was a German iron and cobalt magnate.

Veit Erbermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Veit Erbermann: was a German theologian and controversialist.[1] After completing his ecclesiastical studies he taught philosophy and Scholastic theology, first at Mainz and afterwards at Würzburg. Subsequently he was appointed rector of the pontifical seminary at Fulda, which position he held for seven years.

Veit Ludwig Von Seckendorf            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Veit Ludwig Von Seckendorf: German statesman and scholar, was a member of a German noble family, which took its name from the village of Seckendorf between Nuremberg and Langenzenn. The family was divided into eleven distinct lines, but only three survive, widely distributed throughout Prussia, Württemberg and Bavaria. Veit Ludwig von Seckendorf, son of Joachim Ludwig von Seckendorf, was born at Herzogenaurach, near Erlangen.

Mario Veit            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Mario Veit: is a German boxer who is one of only two boxers to have beaten Juergen Braehmer.

David Veit            Origin/Culture/Country: German

David Veit: was a German doctor and writer. His father Joseph Veit was a banker and his brother Simon Veit was the husband of Moses Mendelssohn's daughter Dorothea Schlegel, making David uncle to the painter Philipp Veit. During David Veit's time as a student he began a correspondence with Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, in which Veit also describes meeting the poet Goethe. Veit and Abraham Mendelssohn travelled to study in Paris, before Veit moved to Hamburg in 1799, where he worked as a doctor and writer and became associated with figures including Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus, Friedrich Christoph Perthes, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.