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Biography of Cläre Jung (excerpt)
Cläre Jung (2 February 1892 – 25 March 1981) was a German journalist, writer, and political activist. Born into a middle-class family, she became involved with Berlin’s expressionist poet circle and the journal Die Aktion, where she worked with her partner Franz Jung.
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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 Karel van den Oever (excerpt)
Modestus Carolus (Karel) van den Oever, born November 19, 1879, in Antwerp and passed away on October 6, 1926, in the same city, was a Flemish poet, essayist, and playwright. He came from a Frisian merchant family that settled in Antwerp in 1842.
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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 Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
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Biography of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
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Biography of Beatrice Hastings (excerpt)
Beatrice Hastings, born Emily Alice Haigh (January 25, 1879 – October 30, 1943), was an English writer, literary critic, poet, and theosophist. Her time of birth comes from her, in "Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life" by Stephen Gray (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2012).
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Biography of Wilhelm Vocke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Vocke, born on February 9, 1886, in Aufhausen, and died on September 19, 1973, in Frankfurt am Main, was a German financial expert. He grew up in Mosbach and studied law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Rostock, and Berlin. From 1919 to 1939, Vocke was a member of the board of the Deutsche Reichsbank.
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Biography of Vern Olsen (excerpt)
Vern Jarl Olsen (March 16, 1918 – July 13, 1989) was an American professional baseball player and a left-handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs (1939–42; 1946). Born in Hillsboro, Oregon, Olsen excelled in the minor leagues (23, 19, and 18 wins from 1937 to 1939).
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Biography of Franco Rasetti (excerpt)
Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian-born (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist, and botanist. A collaborator of Enrico Fermi, he contributed to key discoveries about nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project for moral reasons.
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Biography of Ernst Karchow (excerpt)
Ernst Günther Karchow (*23 September 1892 in Berlin; †7 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German actor, director, theater manager, and radio actor. The son of merchant and actor Albert Rudolph Karchow, he studied at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Berlin. He began his career at the Deutschen Theater and in Vienna before serving as a soldier in World War I (1914–1918).
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Biography of Hermann Dietrich (excerpt)
Hermann Robert Dietrich (December 14, 1879 – March 6, 1954) was a German politician from the German Democratic Party (DDP) and served as a minister during the Weimar Republic. In 1930, he succeeded Paul Moldenhauer as Finance Minister during the Great Depression.
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Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
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Biography of Robert Bienaimé (excerpt)
Robert Bienaimé (15 March 1876 – 12 October 1960) was a French perfumer, notable for his work at Houbigant. Bienaimé was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and became a perfumer early in life. About 1910, he joined Houbigant, then under the control of Paul Parquet, remaining there until 1935, and created several well-known fragrances for the company.
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Biography of Werner von Rheinbaben (excerpt)
Werner Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Rheinbaben (19 November 1878 – 14 January 1975) was a German diplomat and author. Rheinbaben was born in Schmiedeberg, Silesia. He was a naval attaché to Rome during 1911–1913. He later wrote of the 1914 July Crisis that it was Wilhelm von Stumm who downplayed the possibility of British intervention and strongly advised the Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg to act quickly.
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Biography of Georg Alfred Stockburger (excerpt)
Georg Alfred Stockburger (born May 12, 1907, in Kusterdingen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg; died April 5, 1986, in Tübingen) was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist. As a young man, Stockburger was encouraged by his teachers to pursue his talent for drawing and trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts.
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Biography of Dorothy West (actress) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, as well as a radio performer. Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, but born in Griffin, Georgia, she began her career in silent films in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1909 with D.
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Biography of Charles Brink (excerpt)
Charles Oscar Brink FBA (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
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Biography of Franz Bachér (excerpt)
Franz Hermann Theodor Nils Bachér was a German chemist and university professor, born on May 21, 1894, in Kassel and died on October 15, 1987, in Salzburg. Son of chemist Franz Bachér and grandson of Theodor Storm, he studied chemistry at Marburg, Kiel, and Rostock starting in 1912.
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Biography of Adriaan Morriën (excerpt)
Adriaan Morriën (Velsen, June 5, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 7, 2002) was a Dutch poet, writer of short prose, essayist, translator, and critic. Morriën made his debut in 1935, shortly before its closure, in the magazine Forum, led by Menno ter Braak and E.
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Biography of Aldo Perroncito (excerpt)
Aldo Perroncito (18 May 1882, Turin – 1929) was an Italian pathologist. He was the son of parasitologist Edoardo Perroncito (1847–1936). He is known for research involving regeneration of peripheral nerves, kinetic behavior of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis, and studies of pellagra.
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Biography of Keyes Metcalf (excerpt)
Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (April 13, 1889 – November 3, 1983) was an American librarian, recognized as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the field. His time of birth comes from him, in "Random Recollections of an Anachronism: Or, Seventy-five Years of Library Work, Volume 1" by Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (Readex Books, 1980).
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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.
Biography of Don Ingalls (excerpt)
Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. A B-17 pilot during World War II, he later became a test pilot before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he met Gene Roddenberry.
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Biography of Jarogniew Drweski (excerpt)
Jarogniew Mikołaj Drwęski (6 December 1875 – 14 September 1921) was a lawyer, national and social activist, and the first Polish mayor of Poznań after independence. Born in Glinno to a noble family, he studied law and economics at the University of Berlin.
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Biography of Nico Rost (excerpt)
Nicolaas Rost, born on June 21, 1896, in Groningen and died on February 1, 1967, in Amsterdam, was a Dutch writer, translator, journalist, and resistance fighter. During the 1920s and 1930s, he lived in Germany, working as a translator and journalist. He traveled to the Soviet Union, joined the Communist Party, and was briefly imprisoned in Oranienburg in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power.
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Biography of Jessie Tarbox Beals (excerpt)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was the first published female photojournalist in the U.S. and the first woman to do night photography. She became known for her news photography, notably of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and for portraits of bohemian Greenwich Village.
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Biography of Margaret Wilson (novelist) (excerpt)
Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson (January 16, 1882 – October 6, 1973) was an American novelist and the 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner for The Able McLaughlins. Born in Traer, Iowa, she grew up on a farm and earned degrees from the University of Chicago in 1903 and 1904.
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Biography of Willem van Hoogstraten (excerpt)
Willem van Hoogstraten was born on March 18, 1884, in Utrecht. A Dutch violinist and conductor, he began studying the violin at eight and continued his training in Cologne and Prague. He started his career conducting at a health resort before leading the Kleefeld Orchestra from 1914 to 1918.
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Biography of Olivier Alain (organist) (excerpt)
Olivier Georges Alain (August 3, 1918 – February 28, 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist, and composer. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he came from a family of musicians, the son of Albert Alain and brother of Jehan and Marie-Claire Alain. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, winning first prizes in composition (1951) and musical analysis (1950).
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Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
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Biography of James Denis (aviator) (excerpt)
James Denis (February 1, 1906 – June 21, 2003) was a French military officer and Compagnon de la Libération. A skilled pilot, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940, flying to England with five companions. He fought in North Africa and the Middle East, serving with the Royal Air Force before forming the Escadrille française de chasse n°1.
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Biography of Billy Cotton (musician) (excerpt)
William Edward "Billy" Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969) was an English bandleader and entertainer, remembered for his success across the British dance band era and later as a popular 1950s–60s radio and TV personality. A former choirboy and drummer, he enlisted in WWI underage, serving in Gallipoli and later training as a pilot.
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Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne. He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
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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 René Tavernier (geologist) (excerpt)
René Tavernier (August 26, 1914 – November 19, 1992) was a Belgian geologist, pedologist, and stratigrapher, born in Nevele and died in Ghent. A professor of geology at Ghent University, he was a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten and co-founder of the Belgian Soil Science Society (SBSS).
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Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929. This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
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Biography of Dorothy Yost (excerpt)
Dorothy Yost (April 25, 1899 – June 10, 1967) was a prominent screenwriter of both silent and sound films, contributing to over 90 productions. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she passed away in Monrovia, California. Before turning to screenwriting, she performed in theater plays.
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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 Gisèle Freund (excerpt)
Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 – 31 March 2000) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book, Photographie et société (1974), is a expanded edition of her seminal 1936 dissertation.
Biography of Robert Oboussier (excerpt)
Robert Oboussier (July 9, 1900 – June 9, 1957) was a Swiss composer and music critic. He began his musical studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim, then continued at the Zurich Conservatory under Volkmar Andreae and Carl Vogler. He later studied composition in Berlin with Philipp Jarnach and conducting with Siegfried Ochs and Rudolf Krasselt.
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Biography of Wolfgang Friedmann (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar. Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School. Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930.
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Biography of Gabriele De Rosa (excerpt)
Gabriele De Rosa (June 24, 1917 – December 8, 2009) was an Italian historian, politician, and writer. A law graduate from the University of Turin, he fought at El Alamein in 1942 and later published La passione di El Alamein. After the war, influenced by Benedetto Croce, he joined the Resistance and founded a Christian-social movement.
Biography of James Lewin (excerpt)
James Lewin (October 28, 1887 – December 31, 1937) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in 1912. He specialized in psychiatry, working in Kiel and Leipzig. ![]()
Biography of Siegfried Jacobsohn (excerpt)
Siegfried Jacobsohn (born January 28, 1881, in Berlin – December 3, 1926, in Berlin) was a German journalist and theater critic. His magazine Die Weltbühne was regarded as a pacifist forum for the left. Many prominent contributors wrote for it, including Kurt Tucholsky, Kurt Hiller, Alfons Goldschmidt, Hans Reimann, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Heinrich Ströbel, Adolf Behne, Walter Mehring, Richard Lewinsohn, Friedrich Sieburg, and Carl von Ossietzky.
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Biography of Joaquín Zamacois (excerpt)
Joaquín Zamacois y Soler was a Chilean-Spanish composer, music educator, and author, born on December 15, 1894, in Santiago, Chile, and died on September 8, 1976, in Barcelona. Coming from a renowned family of Spanish artists, he was the son of composer Joaquín Zamacois y Zabala and the nephew of notable writers, singers, and painters.
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Biography of Isabelle Rivière (excerpt)
Isabelle Fournier, née Rivière (July 16, 1889 – June 18, 1971), was a French writer. The sister of Alain-Fournier, she was the daughter of schoolteachers Marie-Albanie Barthe and Augustin Fournier. She married Jacques Rivière, a writer and director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).
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Biography of Oswald de Andrade (excerpt)
José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and cultural critic, born, raised, and deceased in São Paulo. His time of birth comes from his autobiography. A founder of Brazilian modernism, he took part in the Modern Art Week and belonged to the Group of Five, alongside Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, and Menotti del Picchia.
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Biography of Ferdinand von Bredow (excerpt)
Ferdinand von Bredow (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German Generalmajor, head of the Abwehr, and deputy defence minister in Kurt von Schleicher's cabinet. He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives, accused of plotting against Hitler. ![]()
Biography of Harry Clarke (artist) (excerpt)
Henry Patrick (Harry) Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator, and a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. His work was influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and French Symbolism. |
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