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Biography of Ettore Bastico (excerpt)
Ettore Bastico (9 April 1876 – 2 December 1972) was an Italian military officer before and during World War II. He held high commands during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War (Ethiopia), the Spanish Civil War, and the North African Campaign. Bastico was born in Bologna, Italy.
Biography of Niels Ryberg Finsen (excerpt)
Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 – September 24, 1904) was a Faroese-Danish physician and scientist of Icelandic descent. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science.
Biography of Louis Gillet (excerpt)
Louis Gillet (11 December 1876, Paris - 1 July 1943, Paris) was a French art historian and literary historian. Works * Raphaël, 1907 * Watteau, 1921 * Trois variations sur Claude Monet, 1927 * Essais sur l'art français, 1937, dedicated to Bernard Berenson.
Biography of Harald Weber (excerpt)
Harald Weber, born September 9, 1881 in Hamburg, was a German astrologer and author of astrology books.
Biography of Victor Herbert (excerpt)
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway. He was prominent among the tin pan alley composers and later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
Biography of Evangeline Booth (excerpt)
Evangeline Cory Booth (December 25, 1865 – July 17, 1950) was the 4th General of the Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. Early life She was born in London, England, the seventh of eight children born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, who had earlier in the year founded The Christian Mission, which became the Salvation Army in 1878.
Biography of Philippe Quinault (excerpt)
Philippe Quinault (3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris. He was educated by the liberality of Tristan L'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen.
Biography of Johann Erasmus Kindermann (excerpt)
Johann Erasmus Kindermann (29 March 1616 – 14 April 1655) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century. Life Kindermann was born in Nuremberg and studied music from an early age; at 15 he already had a job performing at Sunday afternoon concerts at the Frauenkirche (he sang bass and played violin).
Biography of Lucien Pissarro (excerpt)
Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 (birth time source: Scholfield) – 10 July 1944) was a French painter, printmaker and wood engraver. Eldest son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, he was born in Paris and studied with his father. His works employ techniques of Impressionism and its successor, Neo-impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX.
Biography of Enoch L. Johnson (excerpt)
Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson (January 20, 1883 – December 9, 1968) was an Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss and racketeer. From the 1910s until his imprisonment in 1941, he was the undisputed "boss" of the political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government.
Biography of Victor Kinon (excerpt)
Victor Felix Kinon, born on March 17, 1873 in Tienen, died on October 23, 1953, was a Belgian poet and author.
Biography of Nicolas Pietri (excerpt)
Nicolas Pietri (February 2, 1862, Sartène, Corsica, France) was a French politician, business man and art amateur.
Biography of Paul Hymans (excerpt)
Paul Louis Adrien Henri Hymans (Ixelles/Elsene, 23 March 1865 – Nice, March 8, 1941), was a Belgian politician associated with the Liberal Party. He was the first President of the League of Nations, and served again as its president in 1932-33.
Biography of Pierre Souvestre (excerpt)
Pierre Souvestre (1 June 1874 - 26 February 1914) was a French lawyer, journalist, writer and organizer of motor races. He is mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Marcel Allain of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas. He was born in Plomelin, a commune in Finistère, Brittany.
Biography of Tom Mix (excerpt)
Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and screenwriter, and the star of many early Western movies. Between 1909 and 1935, Mix appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent movies.
Biography of Paul Harel (excerpt)
Paul Harel, born on May 18, 1854 in Échauffour, died in 1927, was a French poet and innkeeper. Selected publications Sous les pommiers, poésies, 1879 Gousses d'ail et fleurs de serpolet, 1881 Les Vingt-Huit Jours du caporal Ballandard, 1882 Rimes de broche et d’épée, 1883 Aux champs, 1886 Gustave Le Vavasseur, 1888 La Hanterie, 1889 Souvenirs d’auberge, 1894 Gorgeansac.
Biography of Camille Jullian (excerpt)
Camille Jullian (March 15, 1859 - December 12, 1933) was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of French literature, student of Fustel de Coulanges, whose posthumous work he published. Biography Jullian was born in Marseille. Specialising in Gaul and the Roman epoch, he was notably a student of the École Normale Supérieure, member of the École française de Rome and professor of national antiquities at the Collège de France.
Biography of Camille Bert (excerpt)
Camille Léon Louis Bertrand, best known as Camille Bert, born in Orléans December 27, 1880 and died in Paris June 18, 1970, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1911 : Au fil de l'eau de Max André 1911 : Le Roi de Louis Feuillade
Biography of Yves Delage (excerpt)
Yves Delage (13 May 1854 – 7 October 1920) was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud, arguing in favour of its authenticity.
Biography of Henri Billet (excerpt)
Henri Billet, born February 3, 1882 in Châteauroux, was a French physician, a member of the Académie des Sciences.
Biography of Paul Hervieu (excerpt)
Paul Hervieu, full name Paul-Ernest Hervieu (2 November 1857 - 25 October 1915), French dramatist and novelist, was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography He was called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified for the diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French legation in Mexico.
Biography of Georges Lefebvre (excerpt)
Georges Lefebvre (7 August 1874–28 August 1959) was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He coined the term "history from below", which was later popularised by the British Marxist Historians. Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord pendant la Révolution française ("The Peasants of the North During the French Revolution”), which was the result of 20 years of research into the role of the peasantry during the revolutionary period.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Esteva (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Esteva, born September 14, 1880 in Reims and died January 11, 1951 in Reims, was a French military officer and politician.
Biography of Ernest Duchesne (excerpt)
Ernest Duchesne (30 May 1874 – 12 April 1912) was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those moulds, but his research went unnoticed.
Biography of Emile Baumann (excerpt)
Emile Baumann (born in September 24 1868 in Lyon, France) was a French novelist. Selected works (in French) Le Baptême de Pauline Ardel (1913) La Paix du septième jour (1918) Job le prédestiné (1922) Abel et Caïn (1930) La Vie terrible d’Henry de Groux (1936)
Biography of Jean Tharaud (excerpt)
Jean Tharaud (9 May 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 8 April 1952) was a French writer. Tharaud was born in Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne. He was the eighteenth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1946. His brother, Jérôme Tharaud, was earlier seated at chair 31 in 1938.
Biography of Louis Couturat (excerpt)
Louis Couturat (January 17, 1868 – August 3, 1914) was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Life Born in Paris and raised in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, France, he was educated in philosophy and mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure. He held professorships, first at the University of Toulouse, then subsequently at the Collège de France.
Biography of Maurice Schutz (excerpt)
Maurice Schutz (4 August 1866 – 22 March 1955) was a French film actor and comedian. He starred in some 91 films between 1918 and 1952. Filmography (selection) 1910 : Nick Winter l'adroit détective de Paul Garbagni 1914 : Le Train des bois - une production Pathé -
Biography of Louis Brocq (excerpt)
Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (February 1, 1856 – December 18, 1928) was a French dermatologist who was born in Laroque-Timbaut, a village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He practiced medicine in Paris at the Hospice la Rochefoucauld, the Hôpital Broca, and from 1906 to 1921, the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Biography of Rudolf Ganz (excerpt)
Rudolph Ganz (24 February 1877 – 2 August 1972) was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer. He claimed direct descent from Charlemagne. Biography Ganz was born in Zurich, Switzerland. A pupil of Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, he became head of piano studies at the Chicago Musical College in 1901.
Biography of Joseph Calmette (excerpt)
Joseph Calmette, born on September 1, 1873 in Perpignan, died on August 16, 1952 in Toulouse, was a French historian and writer, a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1934).
Biography of Ronald Ross (excerpt)
Sir Ronald Ross KCB FRS (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles, and laid the foundation for combating the disease.
Biography of Alida Rouffe (excerpt)
Alida Rouffe, born Joséphine Marie Rouffe March 20, 1874 in Bordeaux and died November 21, 1949 in Marseille, was a French comedian, actress and singer. Filmography 1931 : Marius de Alexandre Korda : Honorine Cabanis 1931 : Mam'zelle Nitouche de Marc Allégret : La mère supérieure 1932 : Toine de René Gaveau 1932 : Fanny de Marc Allégret : Honorine Cabanis 1932 : Paris Soleil de Jean Hémard : Tante Maria 1935 : Cigalon de Marcel Pagnol : Sidonie 1936 : Topaze de Marcel Pagnol : Baronne Pitart-Vergnolles 1936 : César de Marcel Pagnol : Honorine Cabanis 1937 : Le Chanteur de minuit de Léo Joannon : Marceline
Biography of Al Smith (excerpt)
Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr. (December 30, 1873 - October 4, 1944), known in private and public life as Al Smith, was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He was the first Roman Catholic and Irish-American to run for President as a major party nominee.
Biography of John Carteek (excerpt)
John Carteek, born January 22, 1861 in Rockland, Michigan, was an American wrestler.
Biography of John Tweed (excerpt)
John Tweed, born January 21, 1869 in Glasgow, died November 12, 1933 in London, was a Scottish sculptor.
Biography of Maurice Donnay (excerpt)
Charles Maurice Donnay (Paris, October 12, 1859 - 1945), French dramatist, was born of middle-class parents in Paris. Graduated as an engineer of École Centrale Paris, he left the industrial sector to write. He made his serious debut as a dramatist on the little stage of the Chat Noir with Phryne (1891), a series of Greek scenes.
Biography of Henry Bordeaux (excerpt)
Henri Bordeaux (27 January 1870 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut) - 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer. Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chambéry bar.
Biography of Lottie Dod (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lottie" Dod (24 September 1871 – 27 June, 1960) was an English sportswoman best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen, in the summer of 1887.
Biography of Henri-Robert (excerpt)
Henri-Robert (September 4, 1863-May 12, 1936) was a French lawyer, historian, and member of the Académie française in 1923. Born an illegitimate child, Robert was admitted to the bar in 1885 and rose to become a celebrated criminal defense laywer. He defended a young woman named Gabrielle Bompard in a sensational 1889 murder trial, calling in Georges Gilles de la Tourette as an expert witness on hypnotism.
Biography of Conrad Noel (excerpt)
Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel (12 July 1869 - 2 July 1942) was a prominent British Christian Socialist. His father was the poet Roden Noël. Born in London, Noel was ordained in the Church of England and officiated in various parishes until 1910, when he became the vicar of Thaxted in Essex until his death in 1942.
Biography of Maurice Blondel (excerpt)
Maurice Blondel (2 November 1861, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 June 1949, Aix-en-Provence) was a French philosopher. Blondel developed a "philosophy of action” that integrated classical Neoplatonic thought with modern Pragmatism in the context of a Christian philosophy of religion.
Biography of Lelio Colista (excerpt)
Lelio Colista (13 January 1629, Rome – 13 October 1680, Rome) was an Italian Baroque composer and lutenist. Funded by his father, who held an important position in the Vatican library, Colista early received an excellent musical education, probably at the Seminario Romano.
Biography of Henry Jean-Marie Levet (excerpt)
Henry Jean-Marie Levet (January 13, 1874 (birth time source: Lescaut)–December 15, 1906) was a French poet, journalist, and diplomat. Selected bibliography Le Drame de l'allée, chez l'auteur, 1897. Dédicace à Francis Jourdain. Le Pavillon, collection bibliophile de l'Aube, 1897.
Biography of Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani (excerpt)
Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani (October 1, 1871—January 13, 1951) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Vicar General of Rome, Secretary of the Holy Office, and Dean of the College of Cardinals.
Biography of Georges Dorignac (excerpt)
Georges Dorignac, born November 8, 1879 in Bordeaux, died in 1925, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Walter Devoe (excerpt)
Walter Devoe, born March 11, 1874 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was an American spiritual healer and author.
Biography of Georges Theunis (excerpt)
Georges Emile Léonard Theunis (28 February 1873, Liège - 4 January 1966, Brussels) was the 24th Prime Minister of Belgium from 16 December 1921 to 13 May 1925 and again from 20 November 1934 to 25 March 1935. He was governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1941 until 1944.
Biography of Arturo Bocchini (excerpt)
Arturo Bocchini (12 February 1880 - 20 November 1940), was head of the Italian police (Polizia di Stato ) from 1927, under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. Under his direction police took a strict control in the life of Italians, also due to the help of OVRA the secret police, controlled in some way by Bocchini.
Biography of Arthur Hannequin (excerpt)
Arthur Hannequin, born October 27, 1856 in Pargny-sur-Saulx (Marne), died July 5, 1905, was a French physicist , professor of philosophy and sciences and author. |
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