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Bergmann or Bergman is a surname which is German, Swedish, in origin, respectively. It means 'mountain man' in both languages. Bergman is a common surname in the Netherlands, as well. A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ...


Bergmann

  • Art Bergmann, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
  • Carl G. L. Ch. Bergmann (1814–1865), see Bergmann's Rule
  • Erika Bergmann, Nazi guard during World War II
  • Ernst von Bergmann, German surgeon
  • Juliette Bergmann, Dutch female bodybuilder
  • Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (born 1946), a German conservative politician who served as the last head of state of East Germany
  • Theodor Bergmann (1850-1931), founder company Bergmann in Suhl

Art Bergmann is a Canadian rock singer_songwriter, who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s. ... The large size of a polar bear allows it to radiate less heat in a cold climate. ... Erika Bergmann (born January 3, 1915 in an unknown German city) was a Nazi guard in at least three slave labor camps during World War II. In 1943 Bergmann arrived at Ravensbruck where she received her initial training and first assignment. ... Ernst von Bergmann (16 December 1836 - 25 March 1907) was a German surgeon who was the first to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments, thus marking the beginning of aseptic surgery. ... Juliette Bergmann (born November 30, 1958) is famous a Dutch female bodybuilder. ... Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (born 20 April 1946) is a German conservative politician who served as the last Head of State of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) from April 5 to October 2, 1990 - on October 3rd East and West Germany were reunited. ...

Bergman

Andrew Bergman is an American screenwriter, director, and novelist born in 1945. ... Carl Johan Bergman (born 14 March 1978 in Ekshärard (near Torsby)) is a Swedish biathlete. ... Daniel Da Pimpzmastah of Huddinge is known for some stuff. ... Erik Bergman (born 1911) is an influential composer of classical music from Finland. ... Eva Bergman (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English), born 5 September 1945 in Helsingborg, Sweden is a Swedish film and TV director. ... Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman (November 19, 1883 - January 1, 1931) was a Swedish writer and playwright. ...   (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA notation) (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning Swedish actress. ... Ingmar Bergman   (IPA: in Swedish) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ... Lowell Bergman was a television producer for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes and is best known for investigating the tobacco industry, and specifically utilizing scientist Jeffrey Wigand of Brown & Williamson as a source. ... Autographed photo of Peter Bergman Peter Bergman as Jack Abbott Peter Bergman (born June 11, 1953) is a three time Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actor. ... Cover for the 2006 book Butch Is A Noun S. Bear Bergman is a transgender author, poet, playwright, and theater artist. ... Torbern Olof Bergman (March 20, 1735 Katrineberg, Sweden, – July 8, 1784 Medevi, Sweden) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist. ... Walter Bergman (1913-1986) was born Walter Bergmann in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), East Prussia, on 30 July 1913. ... Ulrika Bergman is a Swedish curler from Svegs. ...

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The often viciously partisan positions his extreme views have invoked meant that Bergmann was always surrounded by a fog of often ill-founded rumours, a situation exacerbated by his refusal to communicate with the media.
Bergmann, however, claimed that "the only rational view of the Roman Catholic Church" was that it was "a monstrous blasphemy of transcendent evil: incomparably more corrupt than the Mafia (if indeed it can be separated from organised crime, which of course it cannot)".
Unsubstantiated rumours suggest that the Church's tolerance of Bergmann was not due solely or even primarily to the C of E's well-known spinelessness, but to his reputed competence in the ostensibly discontinued practice of exorcism, a subject about which the Church has been consistently evasive.
Bergmann's Rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (523 words)
In zoology, Bergmann's Rule is a principle that correlates environmental temperature with body mass in warm-blooded animals.
Bergmann's rule and Allen's rule are examples of clines frequently seen in mammals.
The Inuit of Alaska and northern Canada are known for their accumulation of fat and compact bodies as acclimatizations to severe cold.
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