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Biography of Georges Charensol (excerpt)
Georges Charensol, born on December 26, 1899, in Privas (Ardèche) and died in Paris on May 15, 1995, was a French journalist, art, literary, and film critic, particularly known for his participation in the radio show Le Masque et la Plume, alongside Jean-Louis Bory, from 1964 to 1979.
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 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 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 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.
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 Pierrette Madd (excerpt)
Pierrette Madd, stage name of Paulette Poggionovo, was a French actress from the silent film era, born in Charenton-le-Pont on August 9, 1893, and passed away in Cannes on August 22, 1967. An actress and operetta singer, Pierrette Madd—the younger sister of Jane Pierly—had a brief film career during the 1920s, exclusively under the direction of Henri Diamant-Berger.
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 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 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 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 Klaus Günther (zoologist) (excerpt)
Klaus Alfred Günther (* October 7, 1907, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; † October 1, 1975, in Berlin) was a German zoologist and taxonomist, who made significant contributions to modern evolutionary theory through his definition of the ecological niche. After completing his Abitur at a humanistic gymnasium in Cottbus, Günther studied biology, paleontology, geography, chemistry, and numismatics in Berlin and Munich.
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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 Hubert Amyot d'Inville (excerpt)
Hubert Amyot d'Inville, born on August 3, 1909, in Beauvais and died on June 10, 1944, in Montefiascone, Lazio, Italy, was one of the first Free French fighters in the summer of 1940. Nicknamed "l'Astuce" and always accompanied by his dog Bob, Hubert Amyot d'Inville was one of the key figures of the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL), closely associated with the history of the 1st Marine Fusiliers Regiment.
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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 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 Peder Lunde Sr. (excerpt)
Peder Eugen Lunde (25 May 1918 – 26 December 2009) was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He was born in Nordstrand and represented the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club. He received a silver medal in the 5.5 metre class with the boat Encore at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, together with his wife Vibeke Lunde ("Babben") and Børre Falkum-Hansen.
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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 Mariano Ruiz-Funes (excerpt)
Mariano Ruiz-Funes García, born on February 24, 1889, in Murcia and died in 1953 in Mexico City, was a Spanish criminologist and politician. After studying law at the Central University of Madrid, he became a professor at the University of Murcia, specializing in criminal law, and received the Lombroso Prize in 1927 for Endocrinología y criminalidad.
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Biography of Elías Nandino (excerpt)
Elías Nandino (April 19, 1900 – October 3, 1993) was a Mexican poet. Born in Cocula, Jalisco, he was raised Catholic. He studied medicine at UNAM, becoming a surgeon in 1930. Alongside his medical career, he wrote poetry, influenced by Manuel M. Flores and Los Contemporáneos.
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Biography of Robert Jacquinot de Besange (excerpt)
Robert Jacquinot de Besange, whose Chinese name is 饶家驹 Rao Jia-ju, was born on March 15, 1878, in Saintes, Charente-Maritime (France), and passed away on September 10, 1946, in Berlin (Germany) at the age of 68. He was a French Jesuit priest, a missionary in China, and a professor of science at the Aurore University in Shanghai.
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 Emilio Segrè (excerpt)
Emilio Gino Segrè (January 30, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for discovering the elements technetium and astatine, as well as the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 alongside Owen Chamberlain.
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Biography of Fritz Boehle (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich "Fritz" Boehle, born on February 7, 1873, in Emmendingen, was a German visual artist associated with the Völkisch movement.He is best known for his realistic and romantic depictions of rural German life and Christian tradition figures. Trained at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, Boehle was inspired by old masters like Matthäus Merian and Isaac van Ostade.
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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 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 Paul Berthier (composer) (excerpt)
Paul Berthier (June 23, 1884 – February 6, 1953) was a French organist and composer, known for his contributions to sacred music. A student of Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum, he co-founded the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois choir in 1906.
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Biography of Jean-Paul Neveu (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Neveu, sometimes Jean Neveu, born on February 20, 1918, in Paris 10th arrondissement, and passed away on October 28, 1949, was a French pianist. He was the brother of violinist Ginette Neveu and performed with her in numerous concerts. Both he and his sister died in a plane crash.
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Biography of Heinrich Köhler (excerpt)
Franz Heinrich Köhler (born September 29, 1878, in Karlsruhe – died February 6, 1949) was a German politician. He served as Minister of Finance of the Weimar Republic in 1927/1928 and as Staatspräsident of the Republic of Baden in 1923/1924 and 1926/1927.
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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 Ricardo Palmerín (excerpt)
Ricardo Palmerín Pavia, born on April 3, 1887, in Tekax, Yucatán, and died on January 30, 1944, in Mexico City, was a Mexican composer. He is best known for composing the music for Peregrina in 1922, at the request of Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, to honor American journalist Alma Reed.
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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 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 Chêne 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 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 Tjalling Koopmans (excerpt)
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources.
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Biography of Antonio Irineo Villarreal (excerpt)
Antonio Irineo Villarreal González (July 16, 1877 in Lampazos, Mexico – December 16, 1944 in Mexico City) was a Mexican politician and soldier.Opposed to Porfirio Díaz’s dictatorship from 1903, he published liberal magazines and was imprisoned.After his release, he fled to the U.S.
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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 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 Gershom Scholem (excerpt)
Gershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian, regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Kabbalah. He became the first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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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 Antoni Clavé (excerpt)
Antoni Clavé (5 April 1913 – 31 august 2005) was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen.
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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 Walter Blume (aircraft designer) (excerpt)
Walter Blume (10 January 1896 – 27 May 1964) was an engineer and German fighter ace of World War I. During World War I, he flew with two fighter squadrons, Jagdstaffel 26 and Jagdstaffel 9 gaining 28 aerial victories and earning the Iron Cross, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and the Pour le Merite.
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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 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 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.
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Biography of Ernst Blass (excerpt)
Ernst Blass (October 17, 1890, Berlin – January 23, 1939, Berlin), also known by the pseudonyms Daniel Stabler and Erich Sternow, was a prominent Expressionist poet, critic, and writer. A close friend of Kurt Hiller, he joined Der Neue Club, alongside early Expressionist writers such as Georg Heym and Jakob van Hoddis.
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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 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 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). |
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