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Biography of Anne Zernike (excerpt)
Anne Zernike (1887–1972) was a Dutch liberal theologian and the first ordained woman minister in the Netherlands.Initially serving with the Mennonites, the only denomination permitting female ministers, she later joined the Dutch Protestant Association (NPB). Born on 30 April 1887 in Amsterdam into an intellectual family, she studied at the University of Amsterdam and the Anabaptist Seminary.
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Biography of Walter Czollek (excerpt)
Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 – 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt from 1954 to 1972. Born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, into a Jewish family, he trained in textile production and studied applied economics.
Biography of Jean de Vaugelas (excerpt)
Jean Vincent de Vaugelas, born on January 2, 1913, in Paris, and died on February 13, 1950, in Mendoza, Argentina, was a French military officer and a leader of the French Militia during World War II. As a Waffen-SS officer, he participated in suppressing resistance fighters in Limousin and was involved in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.
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Biography of Tony Duquette (excerpt)
Anthony Duquette (June 11, 1914 – September 9, 1999) was an American artist specializing in stage and film design. Born in Los Angeles, he grew up between there and Michigan, and studied at Chouinard Art Institute and Yale School of Theatre.
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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 Ava Helen Pauling (excerpt)
Ava Helen Pauling (born Miller; December 24, 1903 – December 7, 1981) was an American human rights activist.Throughout her life, she was involved in various social movements including women's rights, racial equality, and international peace. An avid New Dealer, Ava Helen Pauling was heavily interested in American politics and social reforms.
Biography of Robert Hayden (poet) (excerpt)
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.He was the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, now known as U.S.Poet Laureate. Born in Detroit to separated parents, he was raised by neighbors.
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Biography of Amado Alonso (excerpt)
Amado Alonso García (13 September 1896 – 26 May 1952) was a Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic, later naturalized as an Argentine citizen. He was a key figure in the development of stylistics and a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal at Madrid’s Center for Historical Studies.
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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 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 Aleksander Zelwerowicz (excerpt)
Aleksander Zelwerowicz, born on August 14, 1877, in Lublin and died on June 18, 1955, in Warsaw at the age of 77, was a Polish actor, director, theater manager, and educator. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors and directors in the history of Polish theater and is also considered a founder of theater education in Poland.
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Biography of Eugène Mousset (excerpt)
Eugène Mousset, born on September 26, 1877, in Esch-sur-Alzette and died on February 14, 1941, in the same city, was a Luxembourgish painter. Coming from a modest family, he showed an early passion for painting. He studied in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Paris, where he honed his skills by copying works from masters like Rubens and Van Dyck.
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Biography of Stefan Pogonowski (excerpt)
Stefan Pogonowski (12 February 1895 – 15 August 1920) was a Polish professional soldier and military officer. He served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and then the newly recreated Polish Army during the Polish-Bolshevist War of 1920.
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Biography of Ruth Rewald (excerpt)
Ruth Rewald (born June 5, 1906, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and likely killed in Auschwitz in 1942) was a German children’s author of Jewish origin.Her work combined revolutionary proletarian literature with humanist themes. After abandoning her law studies, she published her first children’s books in 1931, focusing on social issues like working children’s lives and feelings of statelessness.
Biography of Ah Jook Ku (excerpt)
Ah Jook Ku, born April 24, 1910, in Kailua, Hawaii, and died August 6, 2007, was a trailblazing American journalist. She was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press and the first Asian American woman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, where she began as a high school correspondent.
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Biography of Lucien Andriot (excerpt)
Lucien Andriot (November 19, 1892 – March 19, 1979) was a French cinematographer who built most of his career in the United States. A member of the American Society of Cinematographers, he was sometimes credited as Lucien N. Andriot. He began in France between 1909 and 1913, working on silent short films directed by Victorin Jasset, often starring his sister, actress Josette Andriot.
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Biography of Pauline Trigère (excerpt)
Pauline Trigère, born on November 4, 1908, in Paris and died on February 13, 2002, in New York, was a French-born American fashion designer. She quickly moved towards ready-to-wear after a brief start in couture and became known for her sharp, tailored cuts, coats, and capes.
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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 Jeanne Mammen (excerpt)
Jeanne Mammen (21 November 1890 – 22 April 1976) was a German painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity, Symbolism, and Cubism movements. She is best known for her depictions of queer women and Berlin city life during the Weimar period.
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Biography of Bulldog Turner (excerpt)
Clyde Douglas "Bulldog" Turner (March 10, 1919 – October 30, 1998) was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL).He was elected, as a player, to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966.
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Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
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Biography of Manfred George (excerpt)
Manfred George (October 22, 1893 – December 30, 1965), born Manfred Georg Cohn, later shortened to Manfred Georg, was a German journalist, author and translator. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power, living in several different European countries and eventually emigrating penniless to the United States in 1939.
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Biography of Aïcha (circus performer) (excerpt)
Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed (December 10, 1876 – July 18, 1930) was a French circus performer and the maternal grandmother of Édith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. Early Life Born in her parents' wagon in Soissons, she was the daughter of Saïd Ben Mohamed, a Kabyle acrobat from Algeria, and Margherita Bracco, an Italian acrobat.
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Biography of Shirley Warde (excerpt)
Shirley Warde (January 23, 1901 - October 1991) was an American actress and playwright active in theater from the 1910s to the 1930s, then in film and radio. Born in New York City, she studied theater at the Ethical Culture School and began performing as a teenager.
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Biography of Marcelle Tassencourt (excerpt)
Marcelle Tassencourt, born on May 28, 1914, in Neuilly-sur-Seine and passed away on December 18, 2001, in Clamart, was a French actress and theater director. On October 27, 1940, she met journalist and essayist Thierry Maulnier, whom she married on November 25, 1944.
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Biography of Maurice Maillot (excerpt)
Maurice Maillot, born on September 18, 1906, in Rethel and deceased on February 8, 1968, in Paris, was a French film actor. The son of a Reims-based garment maker, he also played rugby with the SSPP before making his screen debut in 1930.
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Biography of Konrad Wolff (excerpt)
Konrad Wolff (11 March 1907 – 23 October 1989) was a German pianist and musicologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning a Doctor of Law degree.He was close friends with Stephan Kuttner and Hsu Dau-lin.
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Biography of Marcel Vibert (excerpt)
Marcel Vibert (2 November 1883 – 11 June 1959) was a French film actor. Vibert worked primarily in the French film industry, but in the late 1920s he also appeared in several British silent films including Moulin Rouge and Champagne. On 14 October 1930, Vibert married actress Hélène Darly.
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Biography of Georg Kolbe (excerpt)
Georg Kolbe (April 15, 1877 – November 20, 1947) was a German sculptor and a leading figure of his generation in modernized classical style. Born in Saxony, he initially trained as a painter before turning to sculpture in Rome under Louis Tuaillon.
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Biography of Peretz Naftali (excerpt)
Peretz Naftali (March 19, 1888 – April 30, 1961) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who held several ministerial positions in the 1950s. Born Fritz Naftali in Berlin, he joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1911 and served in the German Army during World War I.
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Biography of Günter Eich (excerpt)
Günter Eich, born on February 1, 1907, in Lebus and died on December 20, 1972, in Salzburg, was a German writer and playwright. Husband of the novelist and poet Ilse Aichinger, and trained as a sinologist, he was one of the participants in the Group 47.
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Biography of Youki (model) (excerpt)
Youki, born Lucie Badoud (July 31, 1903 – October 13, 1966), was a Montparnasse model during the 1930s.Her nickname, meaning "snow" in Japanese, was given to her by her first husband, painter Tsugouharu Foujita. Daughter of Joséphine Bousez, from Wallonia, and Swiss-born Célestin Badoud, Lucie was raised in Paris by her maternal grandmother after the family farm was sold.
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Biography of Erich Brauer (excerpt)
Erich Brauer (28 June 1895, in Berlin – 9 May 1942, in Petah Tikvah) was a German Jewish illustrator, ethnographer, and ethnologist.As an artist he chose to be known as Erich Chiram Brauer.He often signed his art work "Chiram".
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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 Arthur Kronfeld (excerpt)
Arthur Kronfeld was born on January 9, 1886, in Berlin and died on October 16, 1941, in Moscow.He was a German physician, psychologist, and psychotherapist, trained in philosophy within the Berlin circle of Leonard Nelson. He specialized in psychiatry and published a scientific critique of psychoanalysis in collaboration with Karl Jaspers, Otto Meyerhof, and Otto Heinrich Warburg.
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Biography of Pierre Jamet (photographer) (excerpt)
Pierre Jamet, born on May 24, 1910, in Saint-Quentin and passed away on August 17, 2000, in Le Palais, was a French humanist photographer and singer, known as a member of the vocal quartet Les Quatre Barbus. From a young age, he developed a passion for singing and photography.
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Biography of Helen Mayo (excerpt)
Helen Mary Mayo OBE (October 1, 1878 – November 13, 1967) was an Australian medical doctor and medical educator, born and raised in Adelaide. In 1896, she enrolled at the University of Adelaide to study medicine. After graduation, she spent two years working in infant health in England, Ireland, and British India.
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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 Corrado Alvaro (excerpt)
Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
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Biography of Paul Guiraud (psychiatrist) (excerpt)
Paul Guiraud, born on August 4, 1882, in Cessenon (Hérault) and died on April 21, 1974, in Paris, was a French psychiatrist. In 1922, he co-authored, alongside Maurice Dide, a seminal manual on psychiatric clinical practice that remained a reference until the 1950s.
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Biography of Virgilio Polara (excerpt)
Virgilio Polara (born in Modica on July 7, 1887, died in Messina on August 25, 1974) was an Italian physicist. A student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 1904, he graduated in physics in 1908 under the mentorship of Angelo Battelli, whom he assisted until 1911.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Alan Baxter (actor) (excerpt)
Alan Edwin Baxter (November 19, 1908 – May 7, 1976) was an American film and television actor. Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Williams College, where he was a Phi Sigma Kappa member and classmate of Elia Kazan. He further studied at Yale University’s 47 Drama Workshop.
Biography of Erich Unger (excerpt)
Erich Unger (1887-1950) was a Jewish philosopher known for his wide range of writings on topics such as poetry, Nietzsche, political theory, and Jewish philosophy, mainly published in German. Born in Berlin, Unger showed an early interest in intellectual debate.He attended school in Berlin-Lichterfelde, where he met Oskar Goldberg and became a founding member of the Expressionist literary movement in Germany.
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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 Edoardo Amaldi (excerpt)
Edoardo Amaldi (5 September 1908 – 5 December 1989) was an Italian physicist, regarded as one of the leading nuclear physicists of the twentieth century. He coined the term "neutrino" during discussions with Enrico Fermi and was involved in the anti-nuclear peace movement.
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Biography of Oscar Grimes (excerpt)
Oscar Ray Grimes Jr. (April 14, 1915 – May 19, 1993) was an American utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1938–1942), New York Yankees (1943–1946) and Philadelphia Athletics (1946). Grimes batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Minerva, Ohio.
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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 Willy Sachs (excerpt)
Wilhelm Josef Sachs known as Willy Sachs (23 July 1896 – 19 November 1958) was a German industrialist and Nazi party member.He served in the SS as an Obersturmbannführer and was appointed as a Wehrwirtschaftsführer, recognizing his company's importance to the war effort.
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Biography of Rudolf Levy (excerpt)
Rudolf Levy (July 15, 1875 – January 1944) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish descent. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, he grew up in Danzig.Despite his parents’ objections, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1895, later moving to Munich. |
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