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Biography of Léon Langeron (excerpt)
Léon Langeron (December 5, 1888 – June 29, 1963) was a French professor of medicine. A graduate of the University of Lyon, he became a hospital physician in 1926 before joining the Free Faculty of Medicine in Lille in 1927. For 35 years, he led the medical department at the Hôpital de la Charité, shaping both research and medical education.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio.
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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 Michel Théato (excerpt)
Michel Théato (born March 22, 1878, in Luxembourg City, and died April 2, 1923, in Paris) was a Luxembourgish athlete competing for France.A member of the Union Athlétique de Paris, he won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, becoming the first Olympic champion in athletics for France.
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Biography of Joseph Wirth (excerpt)
Karl Joseph Wirth (7 September 1879 – 3 January 1956) was a German politician from the Catholic Centre Party, serving as Germany's chancellor from May 1921 to November 1922 during the early Weimar Republic. Between 1920 and 1931, he also held several ministerial posts, including Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Interior.
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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.
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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. ![]()
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 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 Jentzsch (excerpt)
Robert Georg Adolf Alfred Jentzsch (November 4, 1890 – March 21, 1918) was a German mathematician and poet. Born in Königsberg, he was the youngest of four children.His father, Alfred Jentzsch, was a prominent geologist, and his mother, Clara Falkson, was the daughter of a Jewish physician.
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Biography of Nicolette Hennique (excerpt)
Nicolette Hennique (Paris 8th, April 17, 1882 - Paris 16th, April 11, 1956) was a French poet.Daughter of novelist Léon Hennique and Nicolette-Louise Dupont, she was born on Rue de Courcelles in Paris. She contributed to several literary magazines, including L'Ermitage, L'Hémicycle, La Revue blanche, La Revue, and Le Gaulois.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
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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 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 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.
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Biography of Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (excerpt)
Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 – 14 September 1949) was a German politician and a conspirator in the 20 July 1944 plot. Born in Berlin, he was the grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.A member of the Nazi Party, he was elected to the Reichstag in 1933 and served as Kreisleiter in Rügen until 1934.
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Biography of Tamie Tsuchiyama (excerpt)
Tamie Tsuchiyama (May 8, 1915 – May 12, 1984) was the only Japanese-American to work full time for the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study during World War II. While interned at the Poston War Relocation Center, she produced detailed sociological journals and ethnographic reports.
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Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
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Biography of Jean Tilho (excerpt)
Jean Auguste Marie Tilho (May 1, 1875, Domme – April 8, 1956, Paris) was a French officer and explorer. Graduating from Saint-Cyr in 1895, he joined the Colonial Infantry and took part in border delineation missions in Africa. Between 1903 and 1907, he explored French Niger and reached Lake Chad.
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Biography of Lillian Smith (author) (excerpt)
Lillian Eugenia Smith, born December 12, 1897, and died September 28, 1966, was a writer and social critic from the Southern United States, known for her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A White woman from the South, she embraced controversial positions advocating for racial and gender equality.
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Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
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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 Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer) (excerpt)
Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (10 July 1894 – 18 April 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi Party member known for defending figures like Joseph Goebbels before their rise to power. Born into a noble family in Charlottenburg, he lost a leg in World War I and earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1919.
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Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
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Biography of André Helbronner (excerpt)
André Samson Seby Helbronner, born on December 23, 1878, in Paris and died on March 14, 1944, at the Buchenwald concentration camp, was a French physicist, chemist, and inventor. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet and the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, earning his PhD in 1904 under Gabriel Lippmann, Nobel Prize winner in 1908.
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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 Luigi Sturzo (excerpt)
Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician, considered one of the fathers of Christian democracy. In 1919, he co-founded the Italian People's Party (PPI) but was forced into exile in 1924 due to fascism.
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Biography of Marion Dönhoff (excerpt)
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (December 2, 1909 – March 11, 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who resisted Nazism alongside Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Born into Prussian nobility, she grew up in Friedrichstein Palace, which was destroyed by the Red Army in 1945.
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Biography of René Navarre (actor) (excerpt)
René Navarre, a French actor, was born on July 8, 1877, in Limoges and died on February 8, 1968, in Azay-sur-Cher.He started his career in theater in Paris before transitioning to cinema in 1909, notably with Gaumont. He gained fame for his leading role in Fantômas, a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade between 1913 and 1914.
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Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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Biography of Eric Ledermann (excerpt)
Eric Kurt Ledermann (16 May 1908 – 7 May 2005) was a German psychiatrist, homeopath, naturopath, and philosopher. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he earned his medical degree from the University of Freiburg in 1932.Influenced by Alfred Adler and Jan Smuts, he embraced a vitalist philosophy.
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Biography of Cary Odell (excerpt)
Cary Odell (December 20, 1910 – January 19, 1988) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was employed for several decades by Columbia Pictures. He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California.
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Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
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Biography of Alexander Kanoldt (excerpt)
Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German painter associated with New Objectivity and magic realism. Born in Karlsruhe, he was the son of Edmund Kanoldt, a Nazarene-style painter.After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, he moved to Munich in 1908, where he interacted with modernists like Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky.
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Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
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Biography of Anton Philips (excerpt)
Anton Frederik Philips, born on March 14, 1874, in Zaltbommel and died on October 7, 1951, in Eindhoven, was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder of Philips Electronics in 1912 with his elder brother Gerard. Born into a Dutch-Jewish family, he joined the family business in 1912 and served as CEO from 1922 to 1939.
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Biography of John Wilson McIlvaine (excerpt)
John Wilson McIlvaine (June 22, 1907 – July 1, 1963) was a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Washington & Jefferson College in 1928, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932, before entering private legal practice.
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Biography of Alex Golden Oblad (excerpt)
Alex Golden Oblad (November 26, 1909 – September 19, 2000) was an American chemist and chemical engineer, recognized for his pioneering work in catalysis and catalytic chemistry. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he grew up in Sugar House and studied at the University of Utah before earning a Ph.D.
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Biography of Henriette Wyeth (excerpt)
Henriette Wyeth Hurd (October 22, 1907 – April 3, 1997) was an American artist known for her portraits and still life paintings. Her time of birth comes from her. The eldest daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, she studied painting under her father and brother Andrew Wyeth at their home studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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Biography of Sorley MacLean (excerpt)
Sorley MacLean (* October 26, 1911 – † November 24, 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, regarded as one of the major modern Scottish poets. Born into a strict Presbyterian family on the Isle of Raasay, he was immersed in Gaelic culture and literature but later embraced socialism.
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Biography of Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf (excerpt)
Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf, known as Fritz Rumpf (* January 5, 1888, in Berlin Charlottenburg; † May 13, 1949, in Potsdam), was a German draftsman, folklorist, and Japanologist. The son of painter Fritz Rumpf the Elder, he learned Japanese at the age of 15 and studied at the Königliche Kunstschule Berlin.
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Biography of René de Castéra (excerpt)
René (d'Avezac) de Castéra (Dax, April 3, 1873 - Angoumé, Landes department, October 8, 1955) was a French composer. A student of Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant, and Isaac Albéniz, he served as secretary of the Schola Cantorum, founder of the Édition Mutuelle, and a music critic.
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Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
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Biography of Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen.
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Biography of Mary Eccles (excerpt)
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, born Mary Morley Crapo on July 8, 1912, and died August 26, 2003, was an American-British author and renowned literary collector.She was also known as Mary Hyde during her first marriage. She assembled one of the greatest private collections of 18th-century literature, focused on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, which she donated to Harvard.
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Biography of Wolfgang Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gurlitt (February 15, 1888 – March 26, 1965) was a German art dealer, museum director, and publisher whose collection included Nazi-looted artworks. The grandson of painter Louis Gurlitt and son of art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, he took over the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in 1907.
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Biography of Tess Slesinger (excerpt)
Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter, active in New York’s intellectual scene. Born in New York to a Jewish family of Hungarian descent, she was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Swarthmore College, and Columbia Journalism School.
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Biography of Eugène Bloch (excerpt)
Eugène Bloch (10 June 1878 – 12 March 1944) was a French physicist and professor at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris. He was a pioneer in radioelectricity and one of the first to introduce quantum mechanics in France.
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Biography of Richard Löwenthal (excerpt)
Richard Löwenthal (April 15, 1908 – August 9, 1991) was a German journalist and professor specializing in democracy, communism, and world politics.Born in Berlin, he was influenced by Max Weber and Karl Mannheim.A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) until 1929, he left due to disagreements with Comintern tactics. |
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