Famous People with Name Becher

Martin William Becher            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Martin William Becher: was a former soldier and steeplechase jockey in whose memory the infamous Becher's Brook obstacle at Aintree race course is named. Upon being released from service, Becher took a commission as a Captain in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, but the few demands

Lilly Becher            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Lilly Becher: was a German writer, journalist, and communist activist. Noted as one of the first anti-Nazi writers to produce documentary work dealing with the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1930s, Lilly Becher was the wife of noted writer Johannes Bech

Johann Joachim Becher            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Joachim Becher: was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer, best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism. He learned and practiced several small handicrafts, and devoting his nights to study of the most miscellaneous description and earned a pittance by teaching. In 1654, at the age of nineteen, he published an edition of Salzthal’s Tractatus de lapide trismegisto; his Metallurgia followed in 1660; and the next year appeared his Character pro notitia linguarum universali, in which he gives 10,000 words for use as a universal language

Johannes Robert Becher            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johannes Robert Becher: was a German politician, novelist, and poet.He was also engaged in many communist organisations, joining the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1917, then went over to the Spartacist League in 1918 from which emerged the Communist Party of

Walter Becher            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walter Becher: was a Bohemian German politician, representative of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE), All German Party (German: Gesamtdeutsche Partei) (GDP) and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.Becher was initially a member of