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Biography of Georges Grente (excerpt)
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (5 May 1872 – 5 May 1959) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Le Mans from 1918 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
Biography of Theodor Lessing (excerpt)
Theodor Lessing (February 8, 1872, Hanover - August 31, 1933, Marienbad) was a German Jewish philosopher. He is known for opposing the rise of Hindenburg as president of the Weimar Republic and for his classic on Jewish self-hatred (Der jüdische Selbsthaß), a book which he wrote in 1930, three years before Hitler came to power, in which he tried to explain the phenomenon of Jewish self-hatred--Jewish intellectuals who incited anti-Semitism against the Jewish people and who regarded Judaism as the source of evil in the world.
Biography of Louis Cousin (excerpt)
Louis Cousin, le président Cousin (21 August 1627, Paris - 26 February 1707, Paris) was a French translator, historian, lawyer, royal censor and president of the cour des monnaies. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1697.
Biography of Maud Watson (excerpt)
Maud Watson (9 October 1864 – 5 June 1946 in Charmouth, Dorset) was an English tennis player. Born in Harrow, London, the daughter of a local vicar, she began playing competitive tennis in 1881. Undefeated in tournament play, in 1884 the nineteen-year-old Watson won the first ever Ladies’ Singles title at Wimbledon.
Biography of Marthe de Meligny (excerpt)
Marthe de Meligny, born Maria Boursin on February 22, 1869 in Saint-Amand-Montrond (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives départementales du Cher), died in 1942, was the model and wife of French painter Pierre Bonnard.
Biography of Bob Smith (excerpt)
Robert Holbrook Smith (August 8, 1879 – November 16, 1950) was an American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson, more commonly known as Bill W. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A.
Biography of Robert J. Flaherty (excerpt)
Robert Joseph Flaherty, F.R.G.S. (February 16, 1884; Iron Mountain, Michigan – July 23, 1951; Dummerston, Vermont) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of docufiction, e.
Biography of Albert Schrenk-Notzing (excerpt)
Albert Schrenk-Notzing, born May 18, 1862 in Oldenburg, died February 12, 1929 in Munich, was a German psychiatrist.
Biography of Albert Portevin (excerpt)
Albert Portevin, born November 1, 1880 in Paris, died in 1962 in Italy, was a French engineer, scientist, metallurgist and chemist. He was a member of Académie des Sciences (Institut) in 1942, and later President, in 1959.
Biography of Charles Trippe (excerpt)
Charles Trippe, born on July 6, 1855 in Woodstock, New Brunswick (source: Raphael's Almanac), died on January 26, 1939 (penumonia), was a Canadian artist born without arms.
Biography of Maurice Leloir (excerpt)
Maurice Leloir, born November 1, 1853, died October 7, 1940, was a French artist, illustrator and painter. He is the son of painter Auguste Leloir (1809-1892) and aquarelist Héloïse Colin (1820-1874), and the brother of artist Alexandre-Louis Leloir.
Biography of Wilhelm Middelschulte (excerpt)
Wilhelm Middelschulte (April 3, 1863, Werve, Kreis Hamm, now part of Kamen – May 4, 1943, Dortmund) was a German organist and composer who resided in America for most of his career. Life Middelschulte initially studied organ with August Knabe. He later attended the Royal Academic Institute for Church Music, where he studied organ and theory with August Haupt.
Biography of Pierre Roques (excerpt)
Pierre Auguste Roques (28 December 1856 in Marseillan (Hérault) – 1920 in Saint-Cloud) was a French general and creator of the French air force. Born to a modest family, his lively intelligence earned him a study grant that allowed him to prepare for the entrance examinations to the École Polytechnique, where he became a friend of Joseph Joffre.
Biography of Moritz Moszkowski (excerpt)
Moritz (Maurice, Maurycy) Moszkowski (23 August 1854 – 4 March 1925) was a German-Jewish composer, pianist and teacher of Polish descent on his paternal side only. His brother Alexander Moszkowski (1851–1934) was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin. Moszkowski belongs to the Schumann school and indulges at times in abstruse and morbid harmonies.
Biography of Henri Christine (excerpt)
Henri Marius Christiné (27 December 1867 – 25 November 1941) was a French composer of Swiss birth. The son of a French Savoyard watchmaker, Christiné was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He began by teaching at the lycée in Geneva, while pursuing his interest in music and playing organ in a local church.
Biography of Simon Debré (excerpt)
Simon Debré, born on January 23, 1854 in Westhoffen (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 15, 1939, was a French rabbi and author. He is also the father of Robert Debré (1882-1978), Jacques Debré, (1885-1969), Claire Debré-Schwartz (1888-1972), and Germain Debré (1890-1948).
Biography of Henri Baulig (excerpt)
Henri Baulig, born on June 17, 1877 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died on August 8, 1962 in Ingwiller, is a French scientist and geographer. Publications Le Plateau central de la France et sa bordure méditerranéenne, étude morphologique, 1928
Biography of Arturo Riccardi (excerpt)
Arturo Riccardi (30 October 1878 – 20 December 1966) was an Italian admiral during World War II, serving as the Ministry of Marine director general of personnel from 1935 to 1940 and Under Secretary of State of the Navy from 1941 until 1943.
Biography of Isaac Levitan (excerpt)
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; August 30, 1860 – August 4 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Wirballen, Kowno region, now Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family.
Biography of Ethel Thomson Larcombe (excerpt)
Ethel Larcombe (born Ethel Warneford Thomson on 8 June 1879 in Islington, Middlesex, England to 11 August 1965 in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England) was a former British female tennis player. She is best remembered for winning the ladies' singles title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships.
Biography of Arnaud Massy (excerpt)
Arnaud Massy (6 July 1877 – 16 April 1950) was one of France's most successful professional golfers. Massy was born in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. The son of a sheep farmer, he worked on a sardine boat and supplemented his income by caddying at the new Biarritz golf course where a great many of the best professional golfers from Britain came to practice during the off-season in the warm climate of southern France.
Biography of Albert Mockel (excerpt)
Albert Mockel (December 27, 1866 - January 30, 1945) was a Belgian Symbolist poet. Born in Ougrée, he was the editor of La Wallonie, an influential journal of Belgian Symbolism. He died on January 1930 in Ixelles. Bibliography Chantefable un peu naïve (1891)
Biography of O. O. McIntyre (excerpt)
Oscar Odd McIntyre (February 18, 1884 (birth time source: Sims) – February 14, 1938) was a famed New York newspaper columnist of the 1920s and 1930s, who used the byline O. O. McIntyre. His writings cleverly combined a small town point of view with urban sophistication.
Biography of Katharine Drexel (excerpt)
Saint Katharine Drexel, S.B.S., (November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Religious Sister, heiress, philanthropist and educator, later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Life and religious work Katharine Mary Drexel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 26, 1858 to Francis Anthony Drexel and Hannah Langstroth.
Biography of Henri-Jacques Proumen (excerpt)
Henri-Jacques Proumen, born on May 23, 1879 in Dison-les-Verviers (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1962, was a Belgian writer, novelist, and scientist. Selected works Sur le chemin des dieux – La Renaissance du Livre, 1928. Le sceptre volé aux hommes – La Renaissance du Livre, 1930.
Biography of William Didier-Pouget (excerpt)
William Didier-Pouget, born November 14, 1864 in Toulouse, died in 1959, was a French landscape painter. He began his formal art training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in his birth city, Toulouse. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français.
Biography of Franc-Nohain (excerpt)
Maurice Étienne Legrand, best known as Franc-Nohain, born October 25, 1872 in Corbigny, died in 1934 in Paris, was a French attorney, lawyer, civil servant, writer and poet. Selected works Inattentions et sollicitudes, Paris, 1894 Flûtes, Paris, 1898
Biography of Adolphe Max (excerpt)
Adolphe Eugène Jean Henri Max (Brussels, 30 December 1869–6 November 1939) was a Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death. He graduated in law at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and entered the legal profession, besides doing journalistic work.
Biography of Paul Dullac (excerpt)
Paul Dullac, born Paul Aurel Gouteredonde on March 9, 1882 in Bègles, died on August 17, 1941 in Vichy, was a French comedian and actor. Filmography 1931 : Marius de Alexandre Korda : Félix Escartefigue 1932 : Maquillage de Karl Anton 1935 : Bonne chance ! de Sacha Guitry : Le maire 1936 : César de Marcel Pagnol : Félix Escartefigue 1937 : Regain de Marcel Pagnol 1937 : La Marseillaise de Jean Renoir 1938 : La Femme du boulanger de Marcel Pagnol
Biography of Paul Scardon (excerpt)
Paul Scardon (6 May 1874 Melbourne, Australia - 17 January 1954 Fontana, California) was an actor, a producer, and a director on both Australian and New York stages. He directed Blanche Sweet in Unwilling Husband, Bessie Barriscale in some of her most successful productions, and most of the melodramas which starred his wife, actress Betty Blythe.
Biography of C.E. Mitchell (excerpt)
C.E. Mitchell, born on April 23, 1883 in Halifax, was a Canadian businessman and astrologer (source: BJA 3/1933).
Biography of Ruggero Ruggeri (excerpt)
Ruggero Ruggeri, born November 14, 1871 in Fano and died July 20, 1953 in Milan, was an Italian actor. Selected filmography Retour de Don Camillo, Le (1953) .... La voce di Gesù (Italian version) ... alias Ritorno di Don Camillo, Il (Italy)
Biography of Paul Kammerer (excerpt)
Paul Kammerer (17 August 1880, in Vienna – 23 September 1926, in Puchberg am Schneeberg) was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated the now largely abandoned Lamarckian theory of inheritance – the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime.
Biography of Willem de Sitter (excerpt)
Willem de Sitter (6 May 1872 – 20 November 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Life and work Born in Sneek, De Sitter studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa (1897–1899).
Biography of Henri Rabaud (excerpt)
Henri Rabaud (10 November 1873 – 11 September 1949) was a French conductor and composer. Rabaud was born in Paris, France, the son of cellist and a singer, Hippolyte Rabaud (1839-1900), who was a professor of cello at the Paris Conservatory. Henri studied with André Gédalge and Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire.
Biography of Nicolas Steno (excerpt)
Nicolas Steno (11 January 1638 (Gregorian calendar, and 1 January Julian Calendar) – 25 November 1686 ) was a Danish Catholic cleric and scientist who pioneered in both anatomy and geology. By 1659, Steno had decided not to accept a statement as true simply because it was written in a book, but rather to rely on his own research.
Biography of Philippe Goibaud-Dubois (excerpt)
Philippe Goibaud-Dubois (Poitiers, 3 June 1626 - 17 February 1703) was a French writer and translator.
Biography of John Buchan (excerpt)
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (August 26, 1875 – February 11, 1940), was a British novelist, best known for his novel The Thirty-nine Steps, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He is also noted for his horror fiction, including the novel Witch Wood, and the stories Skule Skerry, The Wind in the Portico and The Green Wildebeest.
Biography of Lucille La Verne (excerpt)
Lucille La Verne (November 7, 1872 – March 4, 1945) was an American actress known for her appearances in silent, scolding, and vengeful roles in early color films, as well as for her triumphs on the American stage. La Verne was born Lucille Mitchum in Nashville, Tennessee.
Biography of Marguerite Deval (excerpt)
Marguerite Deval (September 19, 1866 in Strasbourg - December 18, 1955 in Paris) was a French singer and actress. Selected filmography The Man of the Hour (1937) Lady Killer (1937) Street Without Joy (1938) Nine Bachelors (1939) President Haudecoeur (1940) Bécassine (1940) Mademoiselle Béatrice (1943)
Biography of Marcel Maupi (excerpt)
Marcel Maupi, born Marcel Louis Alexandre Barberin on November 6, 1881 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), died on January 10, 1949 in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography 1927 : Mon Paris d'Albert Guyot 1928 : Le Sous-marin de cristal de Marcel Vandal 1929 : Noces d'argent de Maurice Champreux - court métrage - 1930 : Maison de danses de Maurice Tourneur 1931 : Mam'zelle Nitouche de Marc Allégret 1931 : La Dame de chez Maxim's de Alexander Korda - Le sous-préfet 1932 : Fanny de Marc Allégret - Innocent Mangiapan, le chauffeur du Ferry-Boat
Biography of Clémentine Ballot (excerpt)
Clémentine Ballot, born Alphonsine Marie Antoinette Clémentine Leroi on December 20, 1879 in Paris 17e (birth time and city source: Didier Geslain), died in 1964, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Howard Talbot (excerpt)
Richard Lansdale Munkittrick, better known as Howard Talbot (9 March 1865 – 12 September 1928), was an American-born, English-raised conductor and composer of Irish descent. He was best known for writing the music to several hit Edwardian musical comedies, including A Chinese Honeymoon, The Arcadians and The Boy, as well as a number of other successful British musicals during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Biography of Jean Worms (actor) (excerpt)
Jean Worms, born on February 21, 1884 in Paris, died on December 17, 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extracts) 1911 : Cadoudal de Gérard Bourgeois 1911 : Une conquête d'Henri Pouctal - court métrage, 395m - Pierre
Biography of Marc Tiffeneau (excerpt)
Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Tiffeneau (November 5, 1873 – May 20, 1945) was a French chemist who discovered the Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement. Tiffeneau received his Ph.D in science in 1907 and his Ph.D in medicine in 1910 Tiffeneau worked at the hospitals Hôpital Boucicaut and from 1924 at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.
Biography of Carlo Bugatti (excerpt)
Carlo Bugatti (Born February 16, 1856 in Milan, Italy – died April 1940 in Molsheim, France) was a notable decorator, architect (indeed he never applied his work into buildings), designer and manufacturer of Art Nouveau furniture, models of jewelry, musical instruments.
Biography of Bronisław Malinowski (excerpt)
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (IPA: ; April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, with which he also gave a major contribution to the study of Melanesia, and the study of reciprocity.
Biography of Gertrude Bell (excerpt)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
Biography of Charles Siblot (excerpt)
Charles-Louis-Adrien Siblot, born on May 29, 1931 in Vincennes (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died in April 1943 in Paris, was a French comedian, a member of la Comédie-Française.
Biography of Dynam-Victor Fumet (excerpt)
Dynam-Victor Fumet (4 May 1867 – 2 June 1949) was a French composer and organist. Life Born in Toulouse in 1867, son of a very strict watchmaker, Dynam-Victor Fumet began his musical studies at the municipal Conservatory where his exceptional talents were very quickly recognized, and where he received all the possible prizes. |
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