1501?-1542 German conquistador and explorer who led two expeditions (1530-1532 and 1533-1539) into South America for the Weslers, a powerful German banking family. In 1530, the Wesler family sent Federmann to South America to explore the interior of a...
Nikolaus Federmann (around 1505 in Ulm – February 1542 in Valladolid) was a German adventurer and conquistador in Venezuela and Colombia. He worked in the service of the Welser...
Keeping the peace ALAN POWERS Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner Edited by Peter Draper. Ashgate, 2004. 262pp. £55 Nikolaus Pevsner was reassessed in 1977 when David Watkin, his former doctoral student, published Morality and Architecture. Even those who have never read the book will know...
Yekutiel Federmann founded the Dan Hotels Group in the 1950s, prompted by the then lack of high-quality accommodations in Israel. He journeyed to Miami, FL, and, together with five American Jewish businessmen, raised $1.5 million. He began by expanding an existing hotel, the Dan...
