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Biography of Rudolf Peierls (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (June 5, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a key role in Britain’s Tube Alloys nuclear program and the Manhattan Project. He studied physics at various universities, including under Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli.
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Biography of Tina Modotti (excerpt)
Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.
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Biography of Gottfried of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Gottfried of Austria (‹See Tfd›German: Gottfried Maria Joseph Peter Ferdinand Hubert Anton Rupert Leopold Heinrich Ignaz Alfons, Erzherzog von Österreich, Prinz von Toskana; 14 March 1902 – 21 January 1984), also styled as Gottfried Erzherzog von Österreich, was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Archduke of Austria, and Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.
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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 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.
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Biography of Manuel Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 3, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, his photography is self-taught.
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Biography of Lutz Heck (excerpt)
Ludwig Georg Heinrich Heck, called Lutz Heck (23 April 1892 in Berlin, German Empire – 6 April 1983 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) was a German zoologist, animal researcher, animal book author and director of the Berlin Zoological Garden where he succeeded his father in 1932.
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Biography of Alfred Lichtenstein (writer) (excerpt)
Alfred Lichtenstein (August 23, 1889 – September 25, 1914) was a German Expressionist writer, born in Wilmersdorf, a district of Berlin. The eldest son of a textile industrialist, he studied law in Berlin and at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg after completing his Abitur in 1909.
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Biography of Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (excerpt)
Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle, born on 11 November 1898 in Gut Externbrock, Westphalia, was a German Jesuit priest and one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism. He was ordained as a priest in 1927 and traveled to Japan in 1929, where he developed an interest in Buddhist practices.
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Biography of Quirino Cristiani (excerpt)
Quirino Cristiani (Santa Giuletta, July 2, 1896 – Bernal, August 2, 1984) was an Argentine animator and filmmaker of Italian origin, creator of El Apóstol and Sin dejar rastros, the first two animated feature films in history, as well as Peludópolis, the first animated feature with sound.
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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 Cesare Fantoni (excerpt)
Cesare Fantoni (1 February 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937. He made his debut film appearance in Doctor Antonio.
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Biography of Xavier Villaurrutia (excerpt)
Xavier Villaurrutia y González (27 March 1903 – 25 December 1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos, published in 1953.
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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 Hans Jonas (excerpt)
Hans Jonas, born on May 10, 1903, in Mönchengladbach (German Empire) and died on February 5, 1993, in New Rochelle (New York State, United States), was a historian of Gnosticism and a German philosopher. He is best known for his ethics for the technological age, particularly beyond philosophical circles.
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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 Jo Bouillon (excerpt)
Jo Bouillon (May 3, 1908 – July 9, 1984) was a French composer, conductor, and violinist, best known as the fourth husband of Joséphine Baker. Born to a musicologist in Montpellier, he led Jo Bouillon et son orchestre from 1936 to 1947 before accompanying artists like Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, and Joséphine Baker.
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Biography of Ernest Cadine (excerpt)
Ernest Cadine (12 July 1893 – 20 May 1978) was a French weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. As a teenager Cadine trained in gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting and swimming. He finished third in the national middleweight weightlifting championships before World War I.
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Biography of Paul Jacquier (general) (excerpt)
Paul Jacquier (Orange, June 14, 1910 – Paris, January 5, 1995) was a French military officer and a Companion of the Liberation by decree of June 23, 1941. Enlisting in the army in 1928, he was already an experienced officer when World War II broke out.
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Biography of John Pozzobon (excerpt)
Jean Pozzobon (in Portuguese: João Luiz Pozzobon), born in Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) on December 12, 1904, and died on June 27, 1985, in Santa Maria (Brazil), was a permanent Catholic deacon and the initiator of the Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother Campaign, now present in over 100 countries worldwide.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Emlyn Williams (writer) (excerpt)
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist, and actor. Born into a Welsh-speaking working-class family, he only learned English at age eight. Thanks to Sarah Grace Cooke’s encouragement, he earned a scholarship to study French and Italian at Oxford.
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Biography of Carl Theodor Sørensen (excerpt)
Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (24 July 1893 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany – 12 September 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish landscape architect who is considered to be one of the greatest landscape architects of the 20th century. A contemporary of Thomas Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Luis Barragán he was a leading figure in the first generation of Modernists in landscape design.
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Biography of Émile Allegret (excerpt)
Émile Allegret, born on April 24, 1907, in Dijon and passed away on November 22, 1990, in Vaux-sur-Mer, was a French military officer and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1926, becoming a test pilot and engineer.
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Biography of Jean Jacoby (artist) (excerpt)
Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a Luxembourgish artist renowned for his sports-themed works. He won two Olympic gold medals in the arts competitions: in 1924 for Étude de sport and in 1928 for Rugby, making him the most decorated Olympic artist in history.
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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 Elga Brink (excerpt)
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (born Frey, formerly Brink; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. She rose to prominence in the 1920s through her roles in numerous silent films. Her final silent film, Marriage in Trouble, was released in 1928.
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Biography of Alfred de Waart (excerpt)
Alfred de Waart, born on October 12, 1888, in The Hague and passed away on April 6, 1981, in Voorburg, was a Dutch professor of physiology. He graduated in medicine from Leiden University under Willem Einthoven, working as his assistant before serving as a ship doctor and working in Constantinople.
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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 Petru Comarnescu (excerpt)
Petru Comarnescu (November 23, 1905 – November 27, 1970) was a Romanian literary and art critic, as well as a translator. His time of birth comes from him, in "Pagini de jurnal: 1948-1961" by Petru Comarnescu (Noul Orfeu, 2003). Born in Iași, he earned degrees in law, philosophy, and philology, then received a scholarship to study in the United States, where he earned a PhD in aesthetics in 1933.
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Biography of Jean Clarieux (excerpt)
Jean Clarieux (April 3, 1911 – February 11, 1970) was a French film and television actor. Generally a supporting actor appearing in smaller parts, he played a more substantial role in René Clément's 1946 resistance film The Battle of the Rails.
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Biography of Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
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Biography of Paul Cambo (excerpt)
Paul Cambo (de son vrai nom Paul-Marius-Raymond Mignonat), born on July 2, 1908, in Bort-les-Orgues (Corrèze) and died on February 19, 1978, in Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines), was a French actor and comedian.
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Biography of Walter Gramatté (excerpt)
Walter Gramatté (Berlin, January 8, 1897 - Hamburg, February 9, 1929) was a German painter and printmaker of the second generation of Expressionism. In 1920, he married Sophie Eckhardt, known as Sonia, whom he painted numerous times. A renowned soloist, Sonia Gramatté stopped performing in public after her husband’s death and dedicated herself to composing.
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Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
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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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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 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 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (excerpt)
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento.
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Biography of Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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