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Biography of Kurt Hiller (excerpt)
Kurt Hiller (born August 17, 1885, Berlin – died October 1, 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, expressionist poet, and pacifist journalist. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he was a communist inspired by Kant and Schopenhauer, though he rejected Hegel, which alienated him from Marxists.
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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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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 James Rosati (excerpt)
James Rosati (9 June 1911 in Washington, Pennsylvania – 24 February 1988 in New York City) was an American abstract sculptor. He is best known for creating an outdoor sculpture in New York: a stainless steel Ideogram that was located in the World Trade Center Plaza.
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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 Luigi Cacciatore (excerpt)
Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the minister of posts and communications in 1947. He was a member and one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party. Cacciatore was born in Mercato San Severino, near Salerno, on 26 July 1900.
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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 Ruth Snyder (excerpt)
May Ruth Snyder (née Brown, March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1928. Her execution was captured in a widely publicized photograph. Married to Albert Snyder in 1915, she lived an unfulfilled life in their Queens home.
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Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
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Biography of Martín Ramírez (artist) (excerpt)
Martín Ramírez (* January 30, 1895 – † February 17, 1963) was a self-taught Mexican artist, now regarded as one of the 20th century's masters of outsider art. Biography Born in Tepatitlán, Mexico, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1925 to work on railroads, leaving his family behind.
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Biography of Carlos Sáenz Herrera (excerpt)
Carlos Sáenz Herrera (Brussels, Belgium, 1 September 1910 – Saint José, 7 November 1980) was a Vice President of Costa Rica. He also served as a pioneer pediatrician in Costa Rica. His parents were José Carlos Sáenz Esquivel and Úrsula Celina Herrera and Paut.
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Biography of Jeanne Bates (excerpt)
Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American radio, film, and television actress. She began her career in radio serials before signing a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942. Her filmography includes roles in both minor parts and significant appearances in horror and noir films such as The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946).
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Biography of Marcel Moore (excerpt)
Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Alberte Malherbe, 19 July 1892 – 19 February 1972) was a French illustrator, designer, and photographer, known for her work with Claude Cahun. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Nantes and formed both an artistic and romantic partnership with Cahun.
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Biography of Martin Dibelius (excerpt)
Martin Dibelius (Dresden, September 14, 1883 – Heidelberg, November 11, 1947) was a German Protestant theologian and biblical scholar, professor of New Testament at Heidelberg University. The son of pastor Franz Wilhelm Dibelius and cousin of Otto Dibelius, he studied theology and philosophy at renowned universities before becoming a professor in Heidelberg in 1915.
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Biography of Henriette Hardenberg (excerpt)
Henriette Hardenberg (born Margarete Rosenberg, February 5, 1894 – October 26, 1993) was a German-Jewish poet who emigrated to Britain in the late 1930s. In the 1910s, she was part of the literary Expressionist circle around the magazine Die Aktion. Her poetry often examined the relationship between people and their bodies, especially the skin as an interface between self and world.
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Biography of Laureto Tieri (excerpt)
Laureto Tieri (born February 24, 1879, in Bolognano, and died 1952 in Florence) was an Italian physicist. He graduated in physics from the University of Rome in 1903, where he worked as an assistant to Pietro Blaserna and was a lecturer in experimental physics.
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Biography of Ann Tiné (excerpt)
Ann Tiné, pseudonym of Anne Marie France Tiné, was born on March 30, 1916, in Algiers and died on January 29, 1990, in Cassis. She was a French sculptor and engraver. Her work belongs to the non-figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Biography of Gustave André (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Gustave André, born on November 21, 1908, in Chabeuil and executed by the Germans by machine gun on August 29, 1944, in Limonest, was a French resistance fighter and Companion of the Liberation. He was a schoolteacher in Chabrillan and a member of the BCRA.
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Biography of Minoru Yasui (excerpt)
Minoru Yasui (安井稔, Yasui Minoru, October 19, 1916 – November 12, 1986) was an American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants.
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Biography of Katharine Cornell (excerpt)
Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893 – June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner, and producer. Born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York, she was dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott.
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Biography of Bill Carey (songwriter) (excerpt)
William D. Carey (May 21, 1916 – January 27, 2004) was an American songwriter, actor, and author. Born on May 20, 1916, in Hollister, California, he appeared in films such as Roberta, Old Man Rhythm, Freshman Love, and A Yank at Oxford.
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Biography of Benigno Zaccagnini (excerpt)
Benigno Zaccagnini (April 17, 1912 – November 5, 1989) was an Italian politician and physician. Graduating in pediatrics in 1937, he joined the Italian Resistance during World War II, contributing to the liberation of Romagna. A co-founder of Christian Democracy (DC), he was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946, then to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, serving until 1979, before becoming a senator.
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Biography of Henri Jacotot (excerpt)
Henri Louis Jacotot, born on May 29, 1896, in Dijon and died on April 16, 1991, in Paris, was a French veterinarian and biologist. His entire career was spent at the Pasteur Institute: first in Indochina, at the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang (where he served as director from 1927 to 1947), and later at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (from 1948 to 1966).
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Biography of Herta Gotthelf (excerpt)
Herta Gotthelf (6 June 1902 – 13 May 1963) was a German journalist and SPD politician. Before 1933, she was editor-in-chief of the SPD women's magazine Genossin, and after 1945, she became a key figure in the SPD’s reconstruction. Born in Breslau, she joined the SPD in 1918 after earlier involvement with the Spartacus League.
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Biography of Henry Pachter (excerpt)
Henry Pachter (1907–1980) was a Marxist intellectual and libertarian socialist activist. Renowned as an essayist on historical and political topics, he authored several books on diverse subjects. An exile from Nazi Germany, he taught at the New School for Social Research and City College in New York until his death.
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Biography of Vincent Persichetti (excerpt)
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School.
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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.
Biography of Fabián Dobles (excerpt)
Fabián Dobles Rodríguez (January 17, 1918 – March 22, 1997) was a Costa Rican writer and left-wing political activist. An author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays, he earned international recognition as an author dealing with the plight of the poor and with social protest.
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Biography of Doris Kenyon (excerpt)
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist minister. Doris studied at Packer College Institute and Columbia University, singing in church choirs.
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Biography of Ramiro Fabiani (excerpt)
Ramiro Fabiani (Barbarano Vicentino, May 15, 1879 – Rome, April 28, 1954) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Born into a modest family after the early death of his father, he studied at the Pigafetta High School in Vicenza and later at the University of Padua, earning degrees in mathematics (1901) and natural sciences (1903).
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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 Nic Waal (excerpt)
Nic Waal, born Caroline Schweigaard Nicolaysen on January 1, 1905, in Kristiania and passed away on May 28, 1960, in Oslo, was a Norwegian psychoanalyst and physician. She graduated in medicine in 1930, specialized in psychology in Berlin, and studied under Harald Schjelderup and Wilhelm Reich.
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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 Felix Jentzsch (excerpt)
Felix Hermann Ferdinand Jentzsch (*September 14, 1882, Königsberg – †November 10, 1946, Berlin) was a German physicist specializing in applied optics, known for his contributions to microscopy innovations. He studied at TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1908 on electron emission from heated metal oxides.
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Biography of Chris Lebeau (excerpt)
Joris Johannes Christiaan Lebeau, known as Chris Lebeau (May 26, 1878 - April 30, 1945), was a Dutch artist, art teacher, theosophist, and anarchist. Born into a poor working-class family, he supported his father in selling an anarchist magazine and led a sober, vegetarian lifestyle.
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Biography of Betty Smith (novelist) (excerpt)
Betty Smith, born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, in New York, and died on January 17, 1972, in Shelton, Connecticut, was an American writer best known for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). Born to German immigrant parents, she grew up in poverty in Brooklyn, developing a love for literature through her local library.
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Biography of Aline de Saint-Hubert (excerpt)
Aline de Saint-Hubert (22 August 1874 – 24 January 1947) was a Luxembourgish writer and patron, dedicated to women's education and cultural exchange. Married to industrialist Émile Mayrisch, she founded in 1906 the "Association for the Defense of Women's Interests" and advocated for a girls' high school in Luxembourg.
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Biography of Charles Despiau (excerpt)
Charles Alfred Marie Despiau, known as Charles Despiau, was a French sculptor born on November 4, 1874, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on October 28, 1946, in Paris. Primarily known as a portraitist with an archaic spirit and simplified features, he also received public commissions, such as the Apollo for the Palais de Tokyo in 1937.
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Biography of Fernando Santiván (excerpt)
Fernando Santiván (pseudonym of Fernando Antonio Santibańez Puga, 1 July 1886 – 12 July 1973) was a Chilean writer and winner of the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1952. Born in Arauco to a Spanish father and a Chilean mother, he became an orphan at age 8.
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Biography of James Tiptree Jr. (excerpt)
Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987), better known as James Tiptree Jr., was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. From 1967 until her death, she published under this male pseudonym, whose true identity was only revealed in 1977.
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Biography of Albert Volk (excerpt)
Albert Volk (* September 13, 1882, in Frankfurt am Main; † March 16, 1982, in Heilbronn) was a German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. After World War I, he created several war memorials in his workshop in Weinsberg. From 1926 until the end of World War II, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart before returning to Weinsberg in 1945, where he actively contributed to artistic and cultural reconstruction.
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Biography of Rahel Straus (excerpt)
Rahel Straus, née Goitein (1880–1963), was a pioneering German-Jewish medical doctor, feminist, and writer. She was the first female student to study medicine normally at Heidelberg University, earning her degree in January 1905. After marrying her childhood friend, lawyer Elias Straus (1878–1933), she moved to Munich, where she opened a medical practice and became a prominent advocate for Zionism and the League of Jewish Women.
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Biography of Maurice Girodias (excerpt)
Maurice Girodias (born Maurice Kahane, April 12, 1919, Paris – July 3, 1990, Paris) was a French publisher and writer, founder of Éditions du Chęne in 1940 and The Olympia Press in 1953. The son of Jack Kahane, founder of Obelisk Press, Maurice adopted his mother’s surname to escape Vichy laws.
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Biography of Werner Scholem (excerpt)
Werner Scholem (December 29, 1895 – July 17, 1940) was a German politician. A member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1928, he was arrested in 1933 due to his Jewish background and communist activities.
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Biography of Jean Amsler (excerpt)
Jean Marcel Amsler (born on February 5, 1914, in Beaune, and died on January 29, 2005, in Paris) was a French-Swiss professor of German and translator, specializing in the works of Günter Grass, for whom he was the official translator. He was an agrégé of the University and a graduate of Oriental Languages.
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Biography of Miguel Covarrubias (excerpt)
José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (Mexico City, November 22, 1904 – February 3, 1957), also known as El Chamaco, was a Mexican artist and researcher. His time of birth comes from the biography "Covarrubias" by Adriana Williams and Doris Ober (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).
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Biography of Robert Pferdmenges (excerpt)
Robert Pferdmenges (27 March 1880 – 28 September 1962) was a German banker and CDU politician, known for his close friendship with Konrad Adenauer. He served as a member of the Bundestag from 1950 to 1962. After completing a banking apprenticeship, he worked in London for Disconto-Gesellschaft, eventually becoming branch manager.
Biography of Caio Prado Júnior (excerpt)
Caio da Silva Prado Júnior (February 11, 1907 – November 23, 1990) was a Brazilian historian, geographer, writer, philosopher, and politician. He pioneered a Marxist-inspired historiographic tradition in Brazil to reinterpret its colonial society. He graduated in law from Faculdade do Largo de Săo Francisco in 1928, later becoming a professor of political economy.
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Biography of Isabel Wilder (excerpt)
Isabel Wilder (January 13, 1900, Madison, Wisconsin – February 27, 1995, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American novelist, biographer, and arts patron. She was the sister of playwright Thornton Wilder, serving as his literary agent, spokesperson, and biographer. Born into a prominent family, her father Amos Parker Wilder was a newspaper publisher and U.
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Biography of Hans Kollwitz (excerpt)
Hans Kollwitz (14 May 1892 – 22 September 1971) was a German epidemiologist and the eldest son of artist Käthe Kollwitz. He earned his degree in medicine and psychotherapy in 1928. Born to Karl (1863–1940) and Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), Hans voluntarily served in the German Army during World War I. |
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