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Walter Wangerin Jr. (February 13, 1944 – August 5, 2021 [1]) was an American author and educator best known for his religious novels and children's books.
First edition (publ. Harper & Row) The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) is a fantasy novel by Walter Wangerin Jr. It is loosely based upon the beast fable of Chanticleer and the Fox adapted from the story of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Walther Wangerin (15 April 1884, in Giebichenstein, Halle an der Saale – 19 April 1938, in Danzig-Langfuhr) was a German botanist. He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1906. Following graduation, he worked as an assistant to Adolf Engler at the botanical garden in Berlin-Dahlem.
Wanger was born Walter Feuchtwanger in San Francisco. He was the son of Stella (Stettheimer) and Sigmund Feuchtwanger, who were from German Jewish families that had emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century. [2] Wanger was from a non-observant Jewish family, and later attended Episcopalian services with his wife.
Lebor na hUidre (Middle Irish: [ˈl͈ʲevor nˠə ˈhuiðʲrʲə], LU) or the Book of the Dun Cow (MS 23 E 25) is an Irish vellum manuscript dating to the 12th century. It is the oldest extant manuscript in Irish.
Wangerin may refer to: Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin (1844-1933), German mathematician; Walther Wangerin (1884–1938), German botanist; Walter Wangerin, Jr. (1944-2021), American author; Wangerin Organ Company, American pipe organ company; The German name of Węgorzyno, Poland
Walter Wangerin, Jr., author of religious novels and children's books; Military. Charles W. Lindberg, Marine, part of the first raising the flag on Iwo Jima;
Washington was born in Frankfort, Indiana, and adopted at a young age by Ruthanne and Walter Wangerin. [4] [5] She was raised in Evansville, Indiana, and attended Benjamin Bosse High School. [6] After serving in Costa Rica with the American Field Service, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Spelman College in 1996. [7]