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Biography of Piet Meertens (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens (6 September 1899 – 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar specializing in literature, dialectology, and ethnology. He founded the institutes that later merged into the Meertens Instituut, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he served as director until 1965.
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Biography of Dalmacio Iglesias (excerpt)
Jesús María José Dalmacio Iglesias García (5 December 1879 – 13 January 1933) was a Spanish Carlist politician, active almost exclusively in Catalonia. His career climaxed during one term in the Congress of Deputies (1910–1914) and one term in the Senate (1918–1919).
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Biography of Hanna Nagel (excerpt)
Hanna Nagel (born Johanna Nagel on June 10, 1907, in Heidelberg, where she died on March 15, 1975) was a German engraver and illustrator known for her activism against patriarchy and discrimination. The eldest of three children, she grew up in Heidelberg, attended a girls’ school, trained as a bookbinder, and later joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
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Biography of Hans Jonas (excerpt)
Hans Jonas, born on May 10, 1903, in Mönchengladbach (German Empire) and died on February 5, 1993, in New Rochelle (New York State, United States), was a historian of Gnosticism and a German philosopher. He is best known for his ethics for the technological age, particularly beyond philosophical circles.
Biography of Carl Hambro (excerpt)
Carl Joachim Hambro (7 June 1914 – 19 February 1985) was a Norwegian novelist, journalist, essayist, translator, and Romance philologist. The son of Conservative politician C. J. Hambro, he pursued a philological career, graduating in 1939. During World War II, he lectured at Oslo Commerce School and the Norwegian College in Uppsala.
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Biography of Irina Baronova (excerpt)
Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Баронова; 13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s.
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Biography of John Pozzobon (excerpt)
Jean Pozzobon (in Portuguese: João Luiz Pozzobon), born in Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) on December 12, 1904, and died on June 27, 1985, in Santa Maria (Brazil), was a permanent Catholic deacon and the initiator of the Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother Campaign, now present in over 100 countries worldwide.
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Biography of Paul Jacquier (general) (excerpt)
Paul Jacquier (Orange, June 14, 1910 – Paris, January 5, 1995) was a French military officer and a Companion of the Liberation by decree of June 23, 1941. Enlisting in the army in 1928, he was already an experienced officer when World War II broke out.
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Biography of Michel Lejeune (linguist) (excerpt)
Michel Lejeune, born in Paris on January 30, 1907, and died in the same city on January 27, 2000, was a renowned French linguist and Hellenist. He was the brother of the famous cartoonist Jean Effel and the father of writer Philippe Lejeune.
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Biography of Georg Jacoby (excerpt)
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter. Jacoby was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of Wilhelm Jacoby (1855–1925), a German comedic playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces, such as The Duchess of Athens (1883) and Pension Schöller (1890), which he co-authored with Carl Laufs. ![]()
Biography of Emlyn Williams (writer) (excerpt)
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist, and actor. Born into a Welsh-speaking working-class family, he only learned English at age eight. Thanks to Sarah Grace Cooke’s encouragement, he earned a scholarship to study French and Italian at Oxford.
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Biography of Giovanni Minzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Minzoni (1 July 1885 – 23 August 1923) was an Italian Catholic priest and anti-fascist, murdered by fascists in 1923. Ordained in 1909, he served as a military chaplain during World War I and was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor.
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Biography of Kazimierz Sabbat (excerpt)
Kazimierz Aleksander Sabbat (February 27, 1913, Bielany Kapitulne – July 19, 1989, London) was a Polish statesman. He served as Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (1976–1986) and President of the Republic in Exile (1986–1989). A law graduate from the University of Warsaw (1939), he fought in World War II with the Polish Navy and later the First Armored Division in Britain.
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Biography of Jean Jacoby (artist) (excerpt)
Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a Luxembourgish artist renowned for his sports-themed works. He won two Olympic gold medals in the arts competitions: in 1924 for Étude de sport and in 1928 for Rugby, making him the most decorated Olympic artist in history.
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Biography of Carl Theodor Sørensen (excerpt)
Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (24 July 1893 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany – 12 September 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish landscape architect who is considered to be one of the greatest landscape architects of the 20th century. A contemporary of Thomas Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Luis Barragán he was a leading figure in the first generation of Modernists in landscape design.
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Biography of Jean Grenier (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Grenier (February 6, 1898 – March 5, 1971) was a French philosopher and writer. Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Brittany, where he befriended Louis Guilloux and Max Jacob. A philosophy graduate in 1922, he taught at the Algiers high school, mentoring Albert Camus, who dedicated several works to him, inspired by Grenier’s Les Îles (1933).
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Biography of Pierre Palué (excerpt)
Pierre Palué (May 13, 1920, Bordeaux – March 29, 2005, Chavannes) was a French painter. Early Life From a modest background, he joined the army in 1939 but was captured and escaped in 1940. He then discovered drawing in Saint-Donat. Artistic Beginnings After the Liberation, he exhibited at the Surindépendants salon and settled in the Drôme.
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Biography of Georg Heym (excerpt)
Georg Theodor Franz Artur Heym (30 October 1887 – 16 January 1912) was a German writer, best known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism. Born in Hirschberg, Silesia, he often clashed with social conventions, leaving his Wilhelmian middle-class parents baffled. In 1900, the family moved to Berlin, where Heym attended various schools unsuccessfully before enrolling at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin.
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Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
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Biography of Livio Cambi (excerpt)
Livio Cambi (born June 14, 1885, in Ancona, died August 14, 1968, in Guastalla) was an Italian chemist. Graduating in chemistry with honors in 1906 from the University of Bologna, he received a gold medal as the best graduate of the year.
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Biography of Hans Posse (excerpt)
Hans Posse (6 February 1879 – 7 December 1942) was a German art historian and museum curator, best known for his role in assembling Hitler's art collection for the Führermuseum in Linz. He studied art history at the University of Vienna under Franz Wickhoff after initial studies in history and philology at Marburg.
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Biography of A.M. de Jong (excerpt)
Adrianus Michiel de Jong (Nieuw-Vossemeer, March 29, 1888 – Blaricum, October 18, 1943) was a Dutch writer, also using pseudonyms like Frank van Waes. Born in a farming family, he grew up in Nieuw-Vossemeer and Rotterdam. His youth inspired the series Merijntje Gijzens jeugd en jonge jaren.
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Biography of Émile Allegret (excerpt)
Émile Allegret, born on April 24, 1907, in Dijon and passed away on November 22, 1990, in Vaux-sur-Mer, was a French military officer and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1926, becoming a test pilot and engineer.
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Biography of Alfred de Waart (excerpt)
Alfred de Waart, born on October 12, 1888, in The Hague and passed away on April 6, 1981, in Voorburg, was a Dutch professor of physiology. He graduated in medicine from Leiden University under Willem Einthoven, working as his assistant before serving as a ship doctor and working in Constantinople.
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Biography of Dossibai Patell (excerpt)
Dossibai Rustomji Cowasji Patell MBE, MRCP (16 October 1881 – 4 February 1960), later known as Dossibai Jehangir Ratenshaw Dadabhoy, was an Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist, who in 1910 became the first woman to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).
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Biography of Elga Brink (excerpt)
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (born Frey, formerly Brink; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. She rose to prominence in the 1920s through her roles in numerous silent films. Her final silent film, Marriage in Trouble, was released in 1928.
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Biography of Élisabeth Casteret (excerpt)
Élisabeth Casteret (born Élisabeth Martin on May 13, 1905, in Paris; died on May 6, 1940, in Saint-Gaudens) was a French caver and the wife of Norbert Casteret. She moved to Saint-Gaudens after her father’s retirement and met her future husband, Norbert Casteret, there.
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Biography of Petru Comarnescu (excerpt)
Petru Comarnescu (November 23, 1905 – November 27, 1970) was a Romanian literary and art critic, as well as a translator. His time of birth comes from him, in "Pagini de jurnal: 1948-1961" by Petru Comarnescu (Noul Orfeu, 2003). Born in Iași, he earned degrees in law, philosophy, and philology, then received a scholarship to study in the United States, where he earned a PhD in aesthetics in 1933.
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Biography of Maria Mandl (excerpt)
Maria Mandl (10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a high-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. She is linked to the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners.
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Biography of Julius Curtius (excerpt)
Julius Curtius (born February 11, 1877, in Duisburg and died November 10, 1948, in Heidelberg) was a German politician. A member of the German People's Party (DVP), he served as Minister of Economy (1926–1929) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1929–1931). From a family of industrialists, he studied law in Bonn, Kiel, and Strasbourg, earning his doctorate in 1900.
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Biography of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (excerpt)
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist. Though often credited with first describing Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this is disputed. Born into a medical family in Harburg an der Elbe, he earned his doctorate from the University of Rostock in 1909.
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Biography of Robert Wlérick (excerpt)
Joseph François Robert Wlérick, known as Robert Wlérick, was born on April 13, 1882, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on March 7, 1944, in Paris. He was a French sculptor. Born into a family of cabinetmakers, he was encouraged by his teacher Ismaël Morin to pursue his artistic talents.
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Biography of Marion Eugene Carl (excerpt)
Marion Eugene Carl (November 1, 1915 – June 28, 1998) was an American military officer, World War II fighter ace, record-setting test pilot, and naval aviator. He became the first ace of the U.S. Marine Corps during the war. After resigning from the Army, he earned his "Wings of Gold" in 1939 and joined VMF-1.
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Biography of Jean Clarieux (excerpt)
Jean Clarieux (April 3, 1911 – February 11, 1970) was a French film and television actor. Generally a supporting actor appearing in smaller parts, he played a more substantial role in René Clément's 1946 resistance film The Battle of the Rails.
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Biography of Jane Poupelet (excerpt)
Jane Poupelet (born 19 April 1874 in Clauzure, a hamlet in Saint-Paul-Lizonne, Dordogne, and died 17 October 1932 in Talence, Gironde) was a French sculptor and illustrator. She also excelled in animal sculpture and created female nudes. Artistic Technique To create her unique works, Jane Poupelet developed her own technique: she first shaped a piece in clay, then cast it in plaster.
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Biography of Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
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Biography of Albert Weisgerber (excerpt)
Albert Weisgerber (April 21, 1878 – May 10, 1915) was a German painter and wood engraver who created over 400 modern art works despite his early death. Born in St. Ingbert, he discovered his talent for drawing during school, encouraged by his parents.
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Biography of Paul Cambo (excerpt)
Paul Cambo (de son vrai nom Paul-Marius-Raymond Mignonat), born on July 2, 1908, in Bort-les-Orgues (Corrèze) and died on February 19, 1978, in Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines), was a French actor and comedian.
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Biography of Walter Gramatté (excerpt)
Walter Gramatté (Berlin, January 8, 1897 - Hamburg, February 9, 1929) was a German painter and printmaker of the second generation of Expressionism. In 1920, he married Sophie Eckhardt, known as Sonia, whom he painted numerous times. A renowned soloist, Sonia Gramatté stopped performing in public after her husband’s death and dedicated herself to composing.
Biography of Geneviève Callerot (excerpt)
Geneviève Callerot, born on May 6, 1916, in Paris and passed away on January 16, 2025, in Saint-Aulaye-Puymangou (Dordogne), was a French resistance fighter, farmer, activist, and novelist. During World War II, she, her father, and her sister helped over 200 people cross the demarcation line clandestinely.
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Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
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Biography of Otto Dibelius (excerpt)
Otto Dibelius, born on May 15, 1880, in Berlin, and died on January 31, 1967, in the same city, was a clergyman and an opponent of both Nazism and communism in Germany. Born in 1880, Dibelius studied at the University of Berlin from 1899 to 1903, earning a doctorate in philosophy in 1902.
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Biography of Carl Spiecker (excerpt)
Carl Spiecker (January 7, 1888 – November 16, 1953) was a German journalist and politician, first with the Zentrum party and later with the CDU. Spiecker started as a journalist and led propaganda operations in Silesia during the 1920s. He later became press chief for Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and founded the influential Deutsche Nachrichten- und Korrespondenz-Gesellschaft in 1925.
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Biography of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (excerpt)
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento. ![]()
Biography of Silvana Jachino (excerpt)
Silvana Jachino (February 2, 1916 – August 28, 2004) was an Italian actress born in Milan. The daughter of composer Carlo Jachino and niece of Admiral Angelo Iachino, she began her career in 1935 in Giovacchino Forzano’s Fiordalisi d'oro. During the era of the White Telephone films, she acted alongside notable stars like Vittorio De Sica, Totò, and Amedeo Nazzari, appearing in classics such as Partire and La Cavalerie héroïque.
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Biography of Hans Grundig (excerpt)
Hans Grundig (February 19, 1901 – September 11, 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. Born in Dresden, he trained as an interior decorator before studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts (1920–1921) and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1922–1923). ![]()
Biography of Marguerite Carré (soprano) (excerpt)
Marguerite Carré (born Marguerite Giraud, also known as Marguerite Giraud-Carré; Cabourg, August 16, 1880 - Paris 9th arrondissement, November 26, 1947) was a French soprano who, throughout her career, created numerous roles at the Opéra-Comique. She was the daughter of baritone and theater director Auguste Louis Giraud and the niece of Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier.
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Biography of Henry Malherbe (excerpt)
Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe, known as Henry Malherbe or Henry Croisilles, was a French writer, born on February 4, 1886, in Bucharest and died on March 17, 1958, in Paris. A journalist for Le Temps and co-director of La Revue des vivants, he won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 for La flamme au poing, a poetic account of World War I.
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Biography of Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Biography of Jean Rouverol (excerpt)
Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American actress, screenwriter, and author who was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she was the daughter of playwright Aurania Rouverol, creator of the Andy Hardy character. |
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