* Torkel Franzén ( 1950 – 2006 ), a Swedish academic

Torkel helped the king conquer the castle of Nyköping, which belonged to duke Eric, and in Kolsäter ( 1305 ), he forced the two dukes to sign a declaration that they would not cause any harm to Torkel either.

In Torkel Klingberg's 2009 book The Overflowing Brain, he proposes that working memory is enhanced through exposure to excess neural activation.

* Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.

Torkel Weis-Fogh, an eminent pioneer on the study of insect flight, was a student of August Krogh's.

Torkel hailed from an old noble family of West Geatish ancestry and was related to the Folkungs, the royal family, and like them, he had a lion in his coat of arms.

When king Magnus Ladulås died, Torkel became regent for the underage king Birger, being the highest state official and because Magnus ' foreign-born widow, Hedwig of Holstein, was not trusted to such powerful position yet.

When Tavastland had been attacked by the Republic of Novgorod, in 1292, marshal Torkel led the third Swedish crusade against Novgorod, in 1293 and conquered parts of Karelia, where he founded the stronghold of Viborg.

In the struggles between king Birger Magnusson and his brothers, the dukes Eric and Valdemar, Torkel was faithfully on the king's side.

However, Torkel was finally struck by the vengeance of his enemies.

In December 1305, King Birger and the dukes arrived at Torkel's estate Lena ( where formerly the Battle of Lena had taken place ) in Västergötland, and arrested Torkel who was taken to Stockholm in chains.

The dukes were so hateful against Torkel that his body was entered on the place of execution.

Torkel was married twice.

Torkel's powerful personality and tragic end has been the matter of poetry, in e. g. B. v. Beskow's tragedy Torkel Knutsson.

A statue of Torkel was raised, in 1908, on the square Rådhustorget in Viborg.

Thorgil Sprakling ( also called Torkel Styrbjörnsson, Torgils or Sprakalägg ) was a Dane, killed at the Battle of Swold, whose grandsons became kings of Denmark and England.

Thorkell the Tall, also known as Thorkell the High in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles ( Old Norse: Þorke ( ti ) ll inn hávi ; ; Swedish ; Torkel Höge: Danish: Torkild den Høje ) was a Jomsviking, a son of the Scanian chieftain Strut-Harald, a brother of Jarl Sigvaldi, commander of the Jomvikings and the legendary stronghold, mythical Jomsborg, on the Island of Wollin, while himself a notable lord.

Retired Major General Torkel Hovland claims that General Ruge to a large degree was responsible for the ease of which Nazi-German forces were able to occupy Norway.

Partially in contrast to what Terje Holm as well as Torkel Hovland claim, military historian Tom Kristensen emphasizes that even though Otto Ruge participated in the downsizing of the Norwegian Army during the early 1930s, he also warned against the renewed threat after 1935 and pointed to the weakness of the Norwegian mobilization system.

In 2005, the magazine Time included this work in their " 100 Best Novels from 1923 – 2005 ", and in 2010 American author Jonathan Franzen hailed the novel as a " masterpiece " in The New York Times.

* Franzen Fajardo ( 2005 – 2006 )

After much deliberation, Endemol decided on Day 86 ( November 15, 2005 ) that Franzen should be evicted .< sup ></ sup > However, in lieu of this, Cass ( who somehow understood Franzen's " words ") made up her mind to voluntarily exit from the house in exchange of his retention.

* Jonathan Franzen ( born 1959 ), National Book Award-winning novelist

Authors clearly influenced by Gaddis include Jonathan Franzen ( The Corrections ), David Markson ( Epitaph for a Tramp ), Joseph McElroy ( A Smuggler's Bible ) and Stanley Elkin ( The Magic Kingdom ).

* Cola Franzen ( b. 1923 ), an American writer and translator

* Jonathan Franzen ( b. 1959 ), an American novelist and essayist

* Freedom ( Franzen novel ), a novel by Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen, who in an essay in The New Yorker called Gaddis " an old literary hero of mine ", dubbed him ' Mr. Difficult ', stating that " by a comfortable margin, the most difficult book I ever voluntarily read in its entirety was Gaddis ' nine-hundred-and-fifty-six-page first novel, The Recognitions.

Franzen Fajardo was an early favorite when ABS-CBN ’ s Pinoy Big Brother was still in its infancy stage.

The beginning of the season was a struggle for the Wings, with key players out of the lineup including Henrik Zetterberg, Tomas Holmström, Johan Franzen, Valtteri Filppula, and Niklas Kronwall.

Soon Pei was so inundated with projects that he asked Zeckendorf for assistants, which he chose from his associates at the GSD, including Henry N. Cobb and Ulrich Franzen.

Unsuccessful nominees ( in chronological order of earliest nomination ) include such established writers as V. S. Naipaul, Cees Nooteboom, José Saramago, Rohinton Mistry, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Peter Carey, Carlos Fuentes, Jonathan Franzen, John McGahern, Julian Barnes, J. M. Coetzee, Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie, Barbara Kingsolver and Joyce Carol Oates.

Prior to 1995, Itasca's School District 10 had one PreK-5 elementary school on each side of town: Franzen School on the North Side and Washington School on the South Side.

Beginning with the 1995-1996 school year, the elementary schools were consolidated: Benson Primary School, formerly Washington School, would become PreK-2nd Grade ; Franzen Intermediate School would become 3rd-5th Grades.

According to Franzen, it depicted Webster Groves High School, which he attended only a few years after the documentary's broadcast, as being " ruled by a tiny elite of ' soshies ' who made life gray and marginal for the great majority of students who weren ’ t ' football captains ,' ' cheerleaders ' or ' dance queens '"; the school was depicted as having a " student body obsessed with grades, cars and money.

" Franzen thought " the Webster Groves depicted in it bears minimal resemblance to the friendly, unpretentious town I knew when I was growing up.

, members of the Tabernacle Township Committee are Mayor Richard Franzen, Deputy Mayor Kim Brown, Joseph Barton, Stephen Lee, IV and Joseph Yates, IV.

Franzen is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.

" Franzen continued: " In the four decades following the publication of The Recognitions, Gaddis's work grew angrier and angrier.

: Franzen, D. E.

Jonathan Franzen at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival.

Jonathan Franzen, Wallace's friend and contemporary, rose to prominence after the 2001 publication of his National Book Award-winning third novel, The Corrections.

* The F. M. Franzen memorial