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Biography of Emil Fischer (excerpt)
Hermann Emil Fischer (9 October 1852 - 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. Biography Early years Fischer was born in Euskirchen, near Cologne in Germany, the son of a businessman.After graduating he wished to study natural sciences, but his father compelled him to work in the family business until determining that his son was unsuitable.
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Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,278,365 as of 2016. The easternmost of the three prairie provinces, Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) of widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie grasslands in the central and southern regions.
Biography of André Brulé (excerpt)
André Brulé (Bordeaux, 26 September 1879 – Paris, 14 February 1953), born André Gresely, was a French theatre and film actor. He was married to Ghislaine Dommanget, a French comedy actress, but the couple later divorced and she married Louis II, Prince of Monaco. He was the creator of Arsène Lupin for the French Stage in 1908. Filmography * Retour de flamme (1943) ..
Biography of Willard Straight (excerpt)
Willard Dickerman Straight (January 31, 1880 – December 1, 1918) was an American investment banker, publisher, reporter and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York.His father had been a faculty member at Oswego Normal School.He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture.
Biography of Jacques Maritain (excerpt)
Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher.Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906.An author of more than 60 books, he is responsible for reviving St.
Biography of Arnold Rothstein (excerpt)
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 6, 1928), nicknamed "the Brain", was a Jewish-American racketeer, businessman and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York. Rothstein was widely reputed to have organized corruption in professional athletics, conspiring in the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
Biography of Francisco Madero (excerpt)
Francisco Indalecio Madero González (October 30, 1873 – February 22, 1913) was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913.As a respectable upper-class politician he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce.
Biography of Reginald Fessenden (excerpt)
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early—possibly the first— transmissions of voice and music. In his later career he received hundreds of patents for devices in fields such as high-powered transmitting, sonar, and television.
Biography of Edward William Bok (excerpt)
Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, The Netherlands.At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, USA, and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876.
Biography of Alfonso XII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
Biography of Mary Mallon (excerpt)
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever.She was presumed to have infected some 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.
Biography of Edith Hamilton (excerpt)
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally acclaimed author, regarded as one of the most prominent classicists of her time in the United States. Her time of birth comes from the book "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton", by Victoria Houseman (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Biography of Jules Bordet (excerpt)
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (Soignies (Belgium) 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist.The bacterial genus Bordetella is named for him. Ballin of Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, where, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, he described phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells.
Biography of Jacques Copeau (excerpt)
Jacques Copeau (February 4, 1879, Paris birth time source: Didier Geslain, Arielle Aumont, birth certificate) – October 20, 1949) was an influential French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist.Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Française in 1909, along with writer friends, such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger.
Biography of Richard Cromwell (excerpt)
Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 (14 October, Gregorian calendar) – 12 July 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for little over eight months, from 3 September 1658 until 25 May 1659.
Biography of Léon Delagrange (excerpt)
Ferdinand Léon Delagrange (13 March 1873 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 259, Fdaf) – 4 January 1910) was a French aviator and sculptor. Biography He was born in Orléans and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Louis Barrias and Charles Vital-Cornu.
Biography of Conrad Albrecht (excerpt)
Conrad Albrecht (* 7 October 1880 in Bremen; † 18 August 1969 in Hamburg) was a German admiral during World War II. Military career Albrecht entered the Kaiserliche Marine in 1899 as a sea-cadet and served as a Korvettenkapitän and commander of a torpedo boat flotilla in Flanders during World War I.
Biography of Vincent Scotto (excerpt)
Vincent Scotto, (born April 21, 1874 in Marseille (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – died November 15, 1952 in Paris), was a French composer from Marseille. Vincent Scotto started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris.
Biography of Ernest Seillière (excerpt)
Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 - 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic. Biography Seillière was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde.He studied at the École polytechnique.He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1914. Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud, René Grousset, Octave Aubry and Robert d'Harcourt) one of the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe.
Biography of Werner von Fritsch (excerpt)
Werner Thomas Ludwig Freiherr von Fritsch (4 August 1880 – 22 September 1939) was a prominent Wehrmacht officer, member of the German High Command, and the second German general to be killed during World War II. Early life Von Fritsch was born in Düsseldorf (birth certificate).
Biography of Victor Benjamin Neuburg (excerpt)
Victor Benjamin Neuburg (6 May 1883 - 30 May 1940) was an English poet and writer. He also wrote on the subjects of theosophy and occultism. He was an associate of Aleister Crowley and the publisher of the early works of Pamela Hansford Johnson and Dylan Thomas.
Biography of Frederik van Eeden (excerpt)
Frederik Willem van Eeden (April 3, 1860 in Haarlem, Netherlands – June 16, 1932 in Bussum) was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885.
Biography of Gaston Doumergue (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue (Aigues-Vives, Gard, 1 August 1863 – 18 June 1937 in Aigues-Vives) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Doumergue came from a Protestant family.Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age.He served as Prime Minister from 9 December 1913 to 2 June 1914.
Biography of Mohammad Mosaddegh (excerpt)
Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq (Persian: مُحَمَد مُصَدِق, IPA: ( listen)*), also spelled Mossadegh, Mossadeq, Mosadeck, or Musaddiq (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967), was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 until being overthrown in a coup d'état. His administration introduced a wide range of social reforms but is most notable for its nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC/AIOC) (later British Petroleum or BP). Mosaddegh was removed from power in a coup on 19 August 1953, organised and carried out by the United States CIA at the request of the British MI6 which chose Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Mosaddegh.
Biography of Hans Pfitzner (excerpt)
Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist.His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Biography Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer.
Biography of Giovanni Papini (excerpt)
Giovanni Papini (January 9, 1881 - July 8, 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist. Early life Born in Florence as the son of a modest furniture retailer (and former member of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts) from Borgo degli Albizi, Papini was baptized secretly to avoid the aggressive atheism of his father, and he lived a rustic, lonesome, and precociously introspective childhood.
Biography of Ludwig Beck (excerpt)
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 – 21 July 1944) was a German general and the Chief of the General Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II.
Biography of Emile Mathis (excerpt)
Émile Ernest Charles Mathis, born March 15, 1880 in Strasbourg, died August 3, 1956 in Genève, is a French engineer and businessman, founder of firm Mathis.Mathis produced cars between 1910 and 1950.History Originally, Émile Mathis was a leading car dealer in Strasbourg, Alsace, handling Fiat, De Dietrich and Panhard-Levassor, among other makes from his Auto-Mathis-Palace.
Biography of Ernest Esclangon (excerpt)
Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician. Born in Le Poët in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Looking for some means of financial support while he completed his doctorate on quasi-periodic functions, he took a post at the Bordeaux Observatory, teaching some mathematics at the university.
Biography of Francis Jammes (excerpt)
Francis Jammes (Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées December 2, 1868 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) November 1, 1938) was a French poet, from an ancient family.He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life (donkeys, maidens).
Biography of Elsie Inglis (excerpt)
Elsie Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist. She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to a father who worked in the Indian civil service.She had the good fortune to have relatively enlightened parents for the time who considered the education of a daughter as important as that of the son.
Biography of Frank Wedekind (excerpt)
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (Hannover July 24, 1864 – Munich March 9, 1918), usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism, and he was a major influence on the development of epic theatre.
Biography of Georges Gasté (excerpt)
Georges Gasté, born on August 30, 1869 in Paris (birth time source: Cedra), died in 1910 in India, was a French painter and photographer.
Biography of Herschell (astrologer) (excerpt)
Herschell, born October 22, 1863 in Froma, England, was an American astrologer.Herscell is a pseudonym.His identity was either J.W.Long or William Sharp Cross, depending of the sources.
Biography of Lord Dunsany (excerpt)
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (London, UK, 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays.
Biography of Elie-Joseph Cartan (excerpt)
Élie Joseph Cartan (9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, and group theory.
Biography of Léon Bérard (excerpt)
Léon Bérard (6 January 1876 in Sauveterre-de-Béarn – 24 February 1960 in Saint-Étienne) was a French politician and lawyer. He was Minister of Public Instruction in 1919 and from 1921 to 1924, and Minister of Justice from 1931 to 1932 and was elected to the Académie française in 1934.
Biography of Georg Simmel (excerpt)
Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the first generation of German sociologists.His neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society.' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature.', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation.
Biography of Christopher Nicholson Johnston (excerpt)
Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (October 18, 1857–1934) was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency) between two by-elections in 1916 and 1917. He stood down as an MP when he became a Senator of the College of Justice, a senior judicial post.
Biography of Hideyo Noguchi (excerpt)
Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世, Noguchi Hideyo., November 24, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi (野口清作, Noguchi Seisaku.), was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis in 1911. Early life Noguchi Hideyo was born in Inawashiro, Fukushima prefecture in 1876.
Biography of Julien Benda (excerpt)
Julien Benda (December 26, 1867 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – June 7, 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist. Born into a Jewish family, Benda became a master of French belles-lettres.Yet he believed that science was superior to literature as a method of inquiry.
Biography of Henri Manguin (excerpt)
Henri Charles Manguin (Paris, March 23, 1874-1949) was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves. Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre.
Biography of Wilhelm Marx (excerpt)
Wilhelm Marx (January 15, 1863 (birth time source: Lescaut)– August 5, 1946) was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of the German Reich twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as minister president of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic.
Biography of Marius Jacob (excerpt)
Alexandre Jacob (September 27, 1879 – August 28, 1954), known as Marius Jacob, was a French anarchist illegalist. A clever burglar equipped with a sharp sense of humour, capable of great generosity towards his victims, he became one of the models for Maurice Leblanc's character Arsene Lupin.
Biography of Francis de Croisset (excerpt)
Francis de Croisset (born Franz Wiener, January 22, 1876 - November 8, 1937) was a Belgium-born French playwright and opera librettist. His opera librettos include Massenet's Chérubin (1905), based on his play of the same name, and Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette (1923). He married, in 1910, Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim, the widow of banking heir Maurice Bischoffsheim and the daughter of Count and Countess Adhéaume de Chevigné.
Biography of Michael Sadler (educationist) (excerpt)
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler KCSI (3 July 1861 – 14 October 1943) was a British historian, educationalist and university administrator. He worked at the universities of Manchester and Leeds. He was a champion of the public school system. Early life and education
Biography of Henry Royce (excerpt)
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company. Early life Frederick Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, near Peterborough, the son of James and Mary Royce (maiden name King) and was the youngest of their five children.
Biography of Alexandre Emile Taskin (excerpt)
Émile-Alexandre Taskin, born in Paris on March 18 1853, was a French singer at the Opera-Comique.
Biography of Wilhelm Adam (excerpt)
Wilhelm Adam (September 15, 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German general who served as chief of staff for the Reichswehr in the period before Adolf Hitler. Adam was born on in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907.
Biography of Andreas Gryphius (excerpt)
Andreas Gryphius (October 12, 1616 - July 16, 1664) was a German lyric poet and dramatist. Gryphius was born as Andreas Greif in Głogów (Großglogau) in Silesia, where his father was a clergyman.The family name was Greif, latinized, according to the prevailing fashion, as Gryphius. |
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