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Biography of François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (excerpt)
François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (June 4, 1864 – 1945) was a French architect. Chaussemiche was born in Tours, and in 1883 entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he became a student and later colleague of Victor Laloux. He won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1893, and served as chief architect of the Palace of Versailles from 1917-1924, during which time he created the Parc botanique de Jussieu (now the Arboretum de Chèvreloup).
Biography of Eugénie Cotton (excerpt)
Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 27)– 16 June 1967) was a French scientist and Women's rights activist. She was a founding member and the first president of the Women's International Democratic Federation. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961.
Biography of Antonio Cesti (excerpt)
Pietro Marc'Antonio Cesti (Italian pronunciation: ) (baptism 5 August 1623 – 14 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".
Biography of Émile Henry (anarchist) (excerpt)
Émile Henry (26 September 1872 in Barcelona – 21 May 1894 in Paris, France) was a French anarchist, who on 12 February 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty.
Biography of Henri Sellier (excerpt)
Henri Charles Sellier (22 December 1883 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 November 1943) was a French administrator, urban planner and Socialist politician. He did much to develop garden cities in the Paris region. He was Minister of Health in 1936–37.
Biography of Kliment Voroshilov (excerpt)
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: About this soundКлиме́нт Ефре́мович Вороши́лов (help·info), Kliment Jefremovič Vorošilov; Ukrainian: Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, Klyment Okhrimovyč Vorošylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Вороши́лов, Klim Vorošilov) (4 February 1881 (Gregorian calendar) – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era.
Biography of Nicolae Iorga (excerpt)
Nicolae Iorga (Romanian pronunciation: ; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga; January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. Co-founder (in 1910) of the Democratic Nationalist Party (PND), he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly (1931–32) as Prime Minister.
Biography of Albin Michel (editor) (excerpt)
Albin Michel, born on July 29, 1873 in Bourmont (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 2, 1943 in Bourg-la-Reine, is a French editor, the founder, in 1900, of Éditions Albin Michel, a French publisher.
Biography of Aspazija (excerpt)
Aspazija was the pen name of Elza Johanna Emilija Lizete Pliekšāne (née Elza Rozenberga; 16 March 1865 – 5 November 1943), a Latvian poet and playwright. Aspazija is the Latvian transliteration of Aspasia. Her first publication appeared in 1887 in the newspaper Dienas Lapa.
Biography of Enriqueta Martí (excerpt)
Enriqueta Martí i Ripollés (February 2, 1868 – 12 May 1913) was a Spanish child serial killer, kidnapper, prostitute and procuress of children. She was called The Vampire of carrer Ponent , The Vampire of Barcelona and The Vampire of the Raval in the press.
Biography of Sergei Korsakoff (excerpt)
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Ко́рсаков; January 22 (February 3 Gregorian Calendar), 1854, Gus-Khrustalny – May 1, 1900, Moscow) was a Russian neuropsychiatrist, known for his studies on alcoholic psychosis. His name is lent to the eponymous Korsakoff's syndrome and Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome.
Biography of Léon Jaussely (excerpt)
Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner. Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié.
Biography of Georges Wybo (excerpt)
Eugène Adolphe Henri Georges Wybo (11 October 1880 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1943) was a French architect who is known for the casino and the Hôtel Royal in Deauville, and for the department stores that he built for the Printemps chain.
Biography of Francesco Provenzale (excerpt)
Francesco Provenzale (15 September 1624 in Naples – 6 September 1704 in Naples) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere Nicolo Grimaldi (detto Nicolini)'.
Biography of Harriet Shaw Weaver (excerpt)
Harriet Shaw Weaver (1 September 1876 – 14 October 1961) was a political activist and a magazine editor. She was a patron of Irish writer James Joyce. In 1911 she began subscribing to The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review, a radical periodical edited by Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpe.
Biography of Karl Liebknecht (excerpt)
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist, originally in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany which split way from the SPD.
Biography of Teresa Carreno (excerpt)
María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García ( December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pianist and was often referred to as the "Valkyrie of the Piano.
Biography of Anna Ulyanova (excerpt)
Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova (Russian: Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова; 26 August 1864, Nizhny Novgorod – 19 October 1935, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary and a Soviet stateswoman, journalist, editor, and author. The older sister of Vladimir Lenin and of Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, she married Mark Timofeyevich Yelizarov (1863-1919), who became Soviet Russia's first People's Commissar for Transport (in office, 1917-1918).
Biography of Hilda Nilsson (excerpt)
Hilda Nilsson (24 May 1876 – 10 August 1917) was a Swedish serial killer from Helsingborg who became known as "the angel maker on Bruks Street". She is one of Sweden's most notorious female serial killers. In 1917, she was imprisoned for murdering eight children.
Biography of Eugene V. Debs (excerpt)
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Biography of Roderic O'Conor (excerpt)
Roderic O'Conor (17 October 1860 – 18 March 1940) was an Irish painter who spent much of his later career in Paris and as part of the Pont-Aven movement. O'Conor's work demonstrates Impressionist and Post-Impressionist influence. In 1892 O'Conor went to Pont-Aven in Brittany where he worked closely with a group of artists around the Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin, whom he befriended.
Biography of Nora Barnacle (excerpt)
Nora Barnacle (21 March 1884 – 10 April 1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic assignation in 1904 on a date celebrated worldwide as the "Bloomsday" of his modernist novel Ulysses, a book that she did not, however, enjoy.
Biography of Herwarth Walden (excerpt)
Herwarth Walden (actual name Georg Lewin; 16 September 1879, in Berlin – 31 October 1941, in Saratov, Russia) was a German Expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century (Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Magic Realism).
Biography of Louise Saumoneau (excerpt)
Louise Saumoneau (17 December 1875 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 759) – 23 February 1950) was a French feminist who later renounced feminism as being irrelevant to the class struggle. She became a union leader and a prominent socialist.
Biography of Mikhail Pokrovsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (August 29 (O.S. August 17) 1868 – April 10, 1932) was a Russian Marxist historian. One of the earliest professionally trained historians to join the Russian revolutionary movement, Pokrovsky is regarded as the most influential Soviet historian of the 1920s.
Biography of Francisco Largo Caballero (excerpt)
Francisco Largo Caballero (15 October 1869 – 23 March 1946) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist. He was one of the historic leaders of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and of the Workers' General Union (UGT). In 1936 and 1937 Caballero served as the Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Reinhold Glière (excerpt)
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; 11 January 1875 (O.S. 30 December 1874) – 23 June 1956), was a Soviet Ukrainian and Russian composer, of German and Polish descent. As Taneyev's pupil and an 'associated' member of the circle around the Petersburg publisher Mitrofan Belyayev, it appeared Glière was destined to be a chamber musician.
Biography of Gabrielle Duchêne (excerpt)
Gabrielle Duchêne (26 February 1870 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 200) – 3 August 1954) was a French feminist and pacifist who was active in the French section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Duchêne was present at the founding conference of the Universal Assembly for Peace in Brussels in September 1936.
Biography of Alfred Korzybski (excerpt)
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.
Biography of Vernon Lee (excerpt)
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel.
Biography of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (excerpt)
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (10 January 1883 (O.S. 29 December 1882) – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and in historical novels. During World War II he served on the Extraordinary State Commission of 1942-1947 which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers.
Biography of Frederick Trump (excerpt)
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump, or possibly Friedrich Drumpf; 14 March 1869 – 30 May 1918) was a German–American businessman and the patriarch of the Trump family. Born in Kallstadt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), he immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber.
Biography of Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (excerpt)
Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (21 March 1883 (gregorian calendar) – 10 February 1938), real surname Ovseyenko, party aliases the 'Bayonet' (Штык) and 'Nikita' (Ники́та), a literary pseudonym A. Gal (А. Га́льский), was a prominent Ukrainian Bolshevik leader and diplomat. Antonov-Ovseyenko was the first former Trotskyist to be posthumously rehabilitated, and in 1956 was named in a speech by Anastas Mikoyan to the 20th party congress.
Biography of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (9 January 1861 in Aix-les-Bains (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 October 1930 in Paris) was a French landscape architect, trained with Alphand and became conservateur of the promenades of Paris. He developed an arboretum at Vincennes and the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars below the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Mehmet Akif Ersoy (excerpt)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was an Ottoman-born Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time, Ersoy is noted for his command of the Turkish language, as well as his patriotism and role in the Turkish War of Independence.
Biography of Voltairine de Cleyre (excerpt)
Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed state power, the capitalism she saw as interconnected with it, and marriage, and the domination of religion over sexuality and women's lives.
Biography of Nicole Girard-Mangin (excerpt)
Nicole Girard-Mangin (October 11, 1878 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 4536) – June 6, 1919) was the first female doctor to serve in the French Army. She served in several roles during the entire First World War. She was also a specialist in tuberculosis (TB).
Biography of Anne Conway (philosopher) (excerpt)
Anne Conway (also known as Viscountess Conway; née Finch; 14 December 1631 – 23 February 1679) was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Gottfried Leibniz. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of rationalist philosophy, with hallmarks of gynocentric concerns and patterns that lead some to think of it as unique among seventeenth-century systems.
Biography of Georgi Dimitrov (excerpt)
Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov, also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov (18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician. He was the first communist leader of Bulgaria, from 1946 to 1949. Dimitrov led the Communist International from 1934 to 1943.
Biography of Albert Boissière (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene-Albert Boissière, born January 26, 1864 in Thiberville (Eure)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 18, 1939, is a writer and a French serialist, author of crime novel. He is a serialist in the daily Le Figaro. Two of his novels A crime has been committed and The man without a figure are staging a comic judge, M Marathon who is stubbornly mistaken.
Biography of Alice Pike Barney (excerpt)
Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and the Bahá'í writer Laura Clifford Barney.
Biography of Iulia Hasdeu (excerpt)
Iulia Hasdeu (Romanian pronunciation: ; 14 November 1869 in Bucharest – 29 September 1888 in Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, the daughter of writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. From a very young age, Hasdeu wrote poems and prose in both Romanian and French, taught herself foreign languages and studied piano and opera singing.
Biography of Lluís Companys (excerpt)
Lluís Companys i Jover (Catalan pronunciation: ; June 21, 1882 – October 15, 1940) was a Spanish politician. He was the President of Catalonia (Spain), from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. He was a lawyer and leader of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) political party.
Biography of Emils Darzins (excerpt)
Emīls Dārziņš (November 3, 1875 – August 31, 1910) was a Latvian composer, conductor and music critic. Dārziņš' work bears a distinct romantic character, with a strong trend towards national themes. His main musical authorities and influences were Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Jean Sibelius.
Biography of Pompeu Fabra (excerpt)
Pompeu Fabra i Poch (Gràcia, Barcelona, 20 February 1868 - Prada de Conflent, 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer and grammarian. He was the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. In 1932, owing to his scientific prestige, he was unanimously named a professor (catedràtic) of the Republican Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (not to be confused with the later Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona created in the 1960s during the Francoist régime).
Biography of Paul Cornu (excerpt)
Paul Cornu (June 15, 1881 (birth time source : Janine Tissot, birth certificate n° 5) – 6 June 1944) was a French engineer, inventor and aviator. At a young age, he helped his father in his transports company. He made history by designing the world's first successful manned rotary wing aircraft.
Biography of Andrey Vyshinsky (excerpt)
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (Russian: Андре́й Януа́рьевич Выши́нский; Polish: Andrzej Wyszyński) (10 December 1883 – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and for the Nuremberg trials.
Biography of Anna Coleman Ladd (excerpt)
Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Manchester, Massachusetts, who devoted her time throughout World War I to soldiers who were disfigured. She devoted herself to portraiture and was well regarded. Her portrait of Eleanora Duse was one of only three that the actress ever allowed.
Biography of Jeanne Chauvin (excerpt)
Jeanne Chauvin (22 April 1862 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 20) – 7 September 1926) was the second woman to obtain a degree in law in France, in 1890. Her application to be sworn in as a lawyer was at first rejected, but after the law was changed in 1900 she was the second French woman to be authorized to plead at the bar (after Olga Petit.
Biography of Lazare-Lévy (excerpt)
Lazare Lévy, also hyphenated as Lazare-Lévy, (18 January 1882 – 20 September 1964) was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedagogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout Europe, in North Africa, Israel, the Soviet Union and Japan. He taught for many years at the Paris Conservatoire. |
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