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Biography of Maisie Renault (excerpt)
Maisie Renault (13 December 1907 – 7 April 2003) was a French Resistance fighter, a member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944. Awards Renault received the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre and the Resistance medal.
Biography of Trygve Klingenberg (excerpt)
Trygve Olavssøn Klingenberg (born 18 February 1900, died 12 January 1987) was a Norwegian architect. He was the brother of the architect Ørn Klingenberg, with whom he also worked in partnership. Education and work After graduating in art in 1917, Klingenberg briefly attended the War College before studying at the architecture department at NTH in 1918–22.
Biography of Jeanne Matthey (excerpt)
Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais (25 January 1886 – 24 November 1980) was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis.
Biography of Alf Løvberg (excerpt)
Alf Gunnar Løvberg (19 September 1898 (Wikipedia gives 1899 in error) – 17 October 1986) was a Norwegian painter from Oslo. Løvberg, who was the son of an orchestra musician, was a student of Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strøm at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
Biography of Suhayr al-Qalamawi (excerpt)
Sahier al-Qalamawi (Arabic: سهير القلماوي; July 20, 1911 – May 4, 1997) was a significant literary figure and politician from Egypt who shaped Arabic writing and culture through her writing, feminist activism, and advocacy. She was one of the first women to attend Cairo University and in 1941 became the first Egyptian woman to earn her Master of Arts Degree and PhD for her work in Arabic literature.
Biography of Geneviève Aclocque (excerpt)
Geneviève Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Geneviève Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes. She graduated in 1910. In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at Chartres.
Biography of Hilde Radusch (excerpt)
Hilde Radusch (6 November 1903 – 2 August 1994) was a German political activist (KPD, SPD) who became involved in anti-fascist resistance. As the 20th century progressed, she became increasingly prominent as a feminist and lesbian activist. Throughout her life Radusch kept a diary.
Biography of Alice Ball (excerpt)
Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor.
Biography of Martha Desrumaux (excerpt)
Martha Desrumaux (18 October 1897 - 30 November 1982) was a militant communist and a member of the French Resistance. Martha Desrumaux was born on October 18, 1897, in Comines in France. She was an emblematic figure of the workers' movement and the French internal resistance.
Biography of Marie Reynoard (excerpt)
Marie Reynoard, born in Bastia (Haute-Corse) on October 28, 1897, and died in Ravensbrück (Germany) on January 30, 1945, was a heroine of the Grenoble Resistance during the Second World War. Biography A brilliant student, she joined the prestigious École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Sèvres); in 1921, she taught in Cahors and then in Marseilles, before being appointed in 1936 to the Lycée Stendhal in Grenoble.
Biography of Anna Blake Mezquida (excerpt)
Anna Blake Mezquida (September 1, 1883 – March 12, 1965) was an American writer, poet, and journalist based in San Francisco. Career Anna Blake began writing poems as a girl. In 1915, she wrote the lyrics to "The Wondrous Exposition," the theme song of the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Biography of Herta Ehlert (excerpt)
Herta Ehlert (née Liess; 26 March 1905 – 4 April 1997) was a female guard at many Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. During the war On 15 November 1939, Ehlert was called for Schutzstaffel (SS) work by the Labor Exchange, and began working at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Biography of Clara González (excerpt)
Clara González (11 September 1898 – 11 February 1990) was a Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist. She became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922. In 1922, she created the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women's rights and suffrage.
Biography of Alexander Imich (excerpt)
Alexander Herbert Imich (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family.
Biography of Jacques Vaché (excerpt)
Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, an artist and author. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said: "En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
Biography of Arthur Blake (actor) (excerpt)
Arthur Blake (February 24, 1914 – March 24, 1985) was an American actor and nightclub entertainer who was famous for his female impersonations; particularly those of Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, and Eleanor Roosevelt. He performed in nightclubs in cities throughout the United States and United Kingdom in the 1940s and the 1950s.
Biography of Otto Nagel (excerpt)
Otto Nagel (27 September 1894 – 12 July 1967) was a German painter, graphic designer and long-time head of the Berlin Academy of Arts who was one of the most prolific artists of East Germany. Life Born at Berlin-Wedding, Nagel was the son of a carpenter and social democrat.
Biography of Robert Burnier (excerpt)
Robert Burnier (19 May 1897 in Paris 6e – 24 April 1974 in Paris 16e) was a French film actor. Selected filmography When Do You Commit Suicide. (1931) Let's Get Married (1931) Miche (1932) The Porter from Maxim's (1933) Ciboulette (1933) Radio Surprises (1940) Dakota 308 (1951) L'Amour, Madame (1952)
Biography of William Tubbs (excerpt)
William Tubbs (May 10, 1907 – January 25, 1953) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in a number of European films in the years after the Second World War, including several by Roberto Rossellini. Bibliography Bondanella, Peter. The Films of Roberto Rossellini.
Biography of Kay Boyle (excerpt)
Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. Legacy In her lifetime Kay Boyle published more than 40 books, including 14 novels, eight volumes of poetry, 11 collections of short fiction, three children's books, and French to English translations and essays.
Biography of Eduardo Mallea (excerpt)
Eduardo Mallea (14 August 1903 in Bahía Blanca – 12 November 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine essayist, cultural critic, writer and diplomat. In 1931 he became editor of the literary magazine of La Nación. Eduardo Mallea began studying law, which he abandoned in 1926 to devote himself to literature.
Biography of Karl Gebhardt (excerpt)
Karl Gebhardt (November 23, 1897 – June 2, 1948) was a Nazi doctor, the personal physician of Heinrich Himmler and one of the main coordinators and authors of medical experiments on prisoners of the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps. After the war, Gebhardt was one of twenty-three defendants in the doctors' trial, held before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
Biography of Alberto Lagos (excerpt)
Alberto Lagos, an Argentine sculptor and ceramist, was born on October 15, 1885, in La Plata and passed away on February 2, 1960, in Buenos Aires. His sculptural self-portrait is located in Buenos Aires, opposite the Recoleta Cemetery. Son of engineer José Antonio Lagos Galup, Alberto was influenced by his father's accomplishments and his family's lineage of founders in various Argentine cities.
Biography of Yvette Labrousse (excerpt)
Yvonne Blanche Labrousse, best known as Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan (15 February 1906 – 1 July 2000) was the fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III. The couple had married for thirteen months after the Aga Khan III and his third wife were divorced by mutual consent.
Biography of Anna de Waal (excerpt)
Anna de Waal (25 November 1906, Culemborg – 22 March 1981, Arnhem), was a Dutch politician (Catholic party) and geographer. She was state secretary of education in 1953–1957. De Waal was the first female government secretary or minister in the Netherlands.
Biography of Fritz Wolffheim (excerpt)
Fritz Wolffheim (30 October 1888 – 17 March 1942) was a German communist politician and writer. He was a leading figure in the National Bolshevism tendency that was briefly influential in Germany after World War I. Wolffheim, from a prominent Jewish family, was politically active from 1909, joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany and later the Socialist Party of America in San Francisco.
Biography of Louise Lagrange (excerpt)
Louise Lagrange (19 August 1898 – 28 February 1979) was a French film actress. Lagrange was born in Oran, French Algeria, and had a film career spanning from 1907 through 1951. Beginning her career as a child actor before the First World War, she appeared in French and American films, and was in the serial Les Vampires (1915–1916).
Biography of Elise Reiman (excerpt)
Olga Elise Reiman (October 17, 1911 – August 26, 1993) was an American ballet dancer and dance educator. After starting her career working with choreographer Adolph Bolm, she danced at the American Ballet and Ballet Society, both forerunners of the New York City Ballet, and originated several roles for choreographer George Balanchine.
Biography of Paula Hertwig (excerpt)
Paula Hertwig (11 October 1889 – 31 March 1983) was a German biologist and politician. Her research focused on radiation health effects. Hertwig was the first woman to habilitate at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin) in the field of zoology.
Biography of Fernando Tambroni (excerpt)
Fernando Tambroni Armaroli (25 November 1901 – 18 February 1963) was an Italian politician. A member of Christian Democracy, he served as the 36th Prime Minister of Italy from March to July 1960. He also served as Minister of the Interior from July 1955 until February 1959, Minister of Budget and Treasury from February 1959 to March 1960, and Minister of the Merchant Navy from August 1953 until July 1955.
Biography of Edmund Lowe (excerpt)
Edmund Sherbourne Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. Lowe was born in San Jose, California. His father was a local judge. His childhood home was at 314 North 1st Street, San Jose.
Biography of Catherine Drinker Bowen (excerpt)
Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American biographer and writer. Born into a Quaker family on the Haverford College campus, she initially studied music but ultimately chose writing as her career. Despite having no formal writing education, she became a bestselling biographer, known for doing her own research and sometimes interviewing without taking notes.
Biography of Anton Saefkow (excerpt)
Anton Emil Hermann Saefkow (22 July 1903 – 18 September 1944) was a German Communist and a resistance fighter against the National Socialist régime. He was arrested in July 1944 and executed on 18 September by guillotine. Anton Saefkow was born in Berlin, a member of a socialist working-class family and in 1920 while still a metalworker's apprentice, joined the Young Communist League of Germany to whose Berlin leadership he rose in 1922.
Biography of Lao She (excerpt)
Shu Qingchun (3 February 1899 – 24 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Manchu novelist and dramatist. He was a writer of 20th-century Chinese literature, known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶馆).
Biography of María Zambrano (excerpt)
María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the 20th century after living many years in exile.
Biography of Tucker McGuire (excerpt)
Anne Tucker McGuire (29 January 1913 in Winchester, Virginia, US – 3 August 1988 in London, England) was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She married actor Tom Macaulay. She appeared in the 1949 West End musical Her Excellency.
Biography of Carl Oberg (excerpt)
Carl Albrecht Oberg (27 January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served as Senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in occupied France, from May 1942 to November 1944, during the Second World War, Oberg came to be known as the Butcher of Paris.
Biography of Elsa Ehrich (excerpt)
Else Lieschen Frida "Elsa" Ehrich (8 March 1914 – 26 October 1948) was a convicted war criminal who served as a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard in Nazi concentration camps, including at Kraków-Płaszów and the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II. She was tried in Lublin, Poland at the Majdanek Trials and sentenced to death for war crimes.
Biography of André Ludwig (excerpt)
André Ludwig, born June 12, 1912 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre and died January 7, 2024 in Longué-Jumelles, was a French supercentenarian. André Ludwig was born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre in Seine-et-Marne on June 6, 1912. He became a commercial executive in working life. He was mobilized in 1939 and was taken prisoner of war in 1940.
Biography of Pedro Salinas (excerpt)
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University.
Biography of Pu Songling (excerpt)
Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡, 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty, best known as the author of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi). His time of birth comes from the biography "Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in Pʻu Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715" by Chun-shu Chang and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang.
Biography of Susie Sharp (excerpt)
Susie Marshall Sharp (July 7, 1907 – March 1, 1996) was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.
Biography of George O'Brien (actor) (excerpt)
George O'Brien, born on April 19, 1899, in San Francisco, was a prominent American actor during the silent and early sound film eras. Notable for his role in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans," O'Brien started his career in Hollywood as a cameraman assistant and stuntman.
Biography of Martin Hellinger (excerpt)
Martin Karl Hellinger (17 July 1904 – 13 August 1988) was a German Nazi dentist who in 1943 was assigned to work at the concentration camp for women at Ravensbrück, with the duty of removing dental gold from those killed at the camp.
Biography of Alice Orlowski (excerpt)
Alice Orlowski (30 September 1903 – 21 May 1976) was a German concentration camp guard at several of the Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland (1939-1945) during World War II. After the war, a Polish court convicted of her crimes against humanity, and she served 10 years in prison in Poland.
Biography of Agostino Salvietti (excerpt)
Agostino Salvietti (22 August 1882 (Wikipedia has 28 August) - 2 December 1967) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1924 to 1964. In 1936-37, he was among the leaders of the "Fascist Union of Operetta, Revue, and Variety Workers.
Biography of Saint-Granier (excerpt)
Saint-Granier, whose real name was Jean Adolphe Alfred de Granier de Cassagnac, was a French actor and singer-songwriter, born on May 27, 1890, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died on June 25, 1976, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine). A creator of numerous revues, he was also a screenwriter, radio personality, and journalist.
Biography of Margarete Buber-Neumann (excerpt)
Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, which turned her into staunch anti-communist, she wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators. It begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after being handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II.
Biography of Jean Gachet (excerpt)
Jean Gachet (2 June 1894 in Saint-Étienne – 4 February 1968) was a French featherweight boxer. He competed in the 1920s. Gachet won a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, losing to Paul Fritsch in the final. Olympic results 1st round bye
Biography of Corrie ten Boom (excerpt)
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. |
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