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Biography of Ernest Daltroff (excerpt)
Ernest Daltroff, (November 17, 1867, Sainte-Cécile, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - February 3, 1941, New York) , was a French perfumer and the founder of Parfums Caron in 1904. In his thirties, he memorised the captivating scents of flowers, fruits and spices and developed an exceptional olfactory memory, without any formal training, he chose to embark on the profession of perfumer. ![]()
Biography of Bach (actor) (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Pasquier (1882 (birth time source : Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 1953), known by his stage name of Bach, was a French actor, singer and music hall performer. Selected filmography The Regiment's Champion (1932) The Blaireau Case (1932) Bach the Millionaire (1933) Bach the Detective (1936)
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Biography of Sante Geronimo Caserio (excerpt)
Sante Geronimo Caserio (9 September 1873 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 16 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic. Caserio was born in Motta Visconti, Lombardy.
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Biography of Henri-Edmond Cross (excerpt)
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement.
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Biography of Luigi Lucheni (excerpt)
Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Luigi Lucheni was born Louis Luccheni in Paris on April 22, 1873. His father, unknown, and his mother, Luigia Laccheni, left the baby to a foundling hospital.
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Biography of Stepan Shaumian (excerpt)
Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (13 October (gregorian calendar, 1st October julian calendar) 1878 – 20 September 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. Shahumyan was an ethnic Armenian and his role as a leader of the Russian revolution in the Caucasus earned him the nickname of the "Caucasian Lenin", a reference to the leader of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin.
Biography of Marie-Louise Meilleur (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur (née Chassé; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a French Canadian supercentenarian. Meilleur is the oldest validated Canadian ever and upon the death of longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment, became the world's oldest recognized living person. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Malassis (excerpt)
Edmond Malassis, born on December 14, 1874 in Paris 10e, died on September 3, 1944 in Paris 7e, was a French artist, painter, watercolorist, and illustrator. He was a studend of Gustave Moreau. ![]()
Biography of Constantine P. Cavafy (excerpt)
Constantine Peter Cavafy also known as Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a Greek poet, journalist and civil servant from Alexandria. He was also a homosexual whose work, as one translator put it, "holds the historical and the erotic in a single embrace.
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Biography of Lidia Poët (excerpt)
Lidia Poët (26 August 1855 – 25 February 1949) was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy. Career Born in 1855 in the hamlet of Traverse, Perrero commune, in the Valle Germanasca, she passed her law examinations at the University of Turin, Faculty of Law and received her degree on June 17, 1881.
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Biography of Tom Mann (excerpt)
Thomas Mann (1856–1941) was an English trade unionist. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the labour movement. Mann was born on 15 April 1856 in Grange Road, Longford, now a suburb of Coventry, the son of a clerk who worked at a colliery.
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Biography of Artur Kapp (excerpt)
Artur Kapp (28 February 1878 (Gregorian calendar) – 14 January 1952) was an Estonian composer. Born in Suure-Jaani, Estonia, then part of the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician.
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Biography of Wilhelm Pieck (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (3 January 1876 – 7 September 1960) was a German politician and a communist. In 1949, he became the first President of the German Democratic Republic, an office abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was Walter Ulbricht, who served as chairman of the Council of State. ![]()
Biography of Joaquín Sorolla (excerpt)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencian: Joaquim Sorolla i Bastida, 27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.
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Biography of Jules-Auguste Lemire (excerpt)
Jules Auguste Lemire (April 23, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – March 7, 1928), French priest and social reformer, was born at Vieux-Berquin (Nord). He organized a society called La Ligue française du coin de terre et du foyer, the object of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of land for every French family desirous of possessing one.
Biography of Louis Bénech (lyricist) (excerpt)
Louis Bénech, born September 24, 1875 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), city where he died on March 19, 1925 in his home in the 10th arrondissement, physician, is a French lyricist, composer and publisher.
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Biography of Sylvio Lazzari (excerpt)
Sylvio Lazzari (born Josef Fortunat Silvester Lazzari) (30 December 1857 – 10 June 1944) was a French composer of Austrian origin. Born in Bolzano – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – , Lazzari came to Paris in 1882 after studying law in Austria.
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Biography of Henry Février (excerpt)
Henry Février (2 October 1875 – 6 July 1957) was a French composer. Henry Février was born in Paris, France on 2 October 1875. He married and had a son, the pianist Jacques Février. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré.
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Biography of Harry Kessler (excerpt)
Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler (23 May 1868 – 30 November 1937) was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in Lights" (1971) reveal anecdotes and details of artistic, theatrical, and political life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the late 19th century through the collapse of Germany at the end of World War I until his death in Lyon in 1937.
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Biography of Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (excerpt)
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich (sometimes spelled Bonch-Bruevich; in Polish Boncz-Brujewicz; 28 June 1873 – 14 July 1955) was a Soviet politician, revolutionary, historian, writer and Old Bolshevik (from 1895). He was Vladimir Lenin's personal secretary. He was a brother of Mikhail Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich.
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Biography of Léon Moreau (excerpt)
Léon Moreau (13 July 1870 – 11 April 1946) was a French/Breton composer, winner of the second prize for composition in the Prix de Rome of 1899. Born in Brest, he was active as a piano teacher and composer in Brest and Paris.
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Biography of Rhené-Baton (excerpt)
René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton (5 September 1879 – 23 September 1940), was a French conductor and composer. Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany. He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area.
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Biography of Archbishop Luka (excerpt)
Archbishop Luka (Luke, Russian: Архиепи́скоп Лука́, born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky, Russian: Валенти́н Фе́ликсович Во́йно-Ясене́цкий; May 9, 1877 (gregorian calendar) in Kerch – June 11, 1961, Simferopol) was an outstanding surgeon, the founder of purulent surgery, a spiritual writer, a bishop of Russian Orthodox Church, and an archbishop of Simferopol and of the Crimea since May 1946.
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Biography of Ivan Teodorovich (excerpt)
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich (Russian: Ива́н Адольфо́вич Теодо́рович; Polish: Iwan Adolfowicz Teodorowicz) (September 10 (O. S. August 29), 1875 in Smolensk – September 20, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik activist, and the first Commissar for Food when the Council of People's Commissars was established (October - November 1917).
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Biography of Léon Bérard (physician) (excerpt)
Léon Eugène Bérard (17 February 1870, in Morez – 2 September 1956, in Lyon) was a French surgeon and oncologist. He was the younger brother of Hellenist scholar Victor Bérard (1864–1931). He studied medicine in Lyon. Obtaining his doctorate in 1896. In 1898 he earned his agrégation in surgery, later being assigned as a surgeon to Lyon hospitals (1901).
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Biography of Henri Marteau (excerpt)
Henri Marteau (March 31, 1874 – October 3, 1934) was a French violinist and composer. Marteau was born in Reims, France. He was of German and French ancestry. His father, a Frenchman, was a well known amateur violinist in Reims, and took a great interest in musical affairs.
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Biography of Jean Roger-Ducasse (excerpt)
Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré.
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Biography of Abel Decaux (excerpt)
Abel Decaux (11 February 1869 – 19 March 1943) was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles-Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant, and composition with Jules Massenet. He served as organist at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, in Paris, for 25 years until 1923, when he went to the US to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. ![]()
Biography of Charles Léandre (excerpt)
Charles Lucien Léandre (22 July 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 May 1934), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Émile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. From 1887 Léandre figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures.
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Biography of Else Heims (excerpt)
Else Heims (born October 3, 1878 in Berlin, died February 20, 1958 in Santa Monica) is a stage and screen German actress. During the period of National Socialism (Nazism) she had to emigrate via London to the United States. After the war, she commuted between the US and Europe.
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Biography of James Huneker (excerpt)
James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic and journalist. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time. ![]()
Biography of Maurice de Rothschild (excerpt)
Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (19 May 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 September 1957) was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France. Rothschild inherited a fortune from the childless Adolphe Carl von Rothschild (1823–1900) of the Naples branch of the family and moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he perpetuated the new Swiss branch of the family.
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Biography of Fernand de La Tombelle (excerpt)
Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fernand Fouant de La Tombelle (Paris, 3 August 1854 - Dordogne, 13 August 1928) was a French organist and composer. Discography Sonate pour violon et piano, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, pièces diverses, Detroit Chamber Ensemble, collection du Festival international Albert-Roussel, Azur Classical, AZC 2012
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Biography of Valery Larbaud (excerpt)
Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet. Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau's vote for prix Goncourt. Three years later, his novel Fermina Márquez, inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses, had some prix Goncourt votes in 1911 but did not win; nonetheless, it is still considered to be a minor classic of French literature and one of Larbaud's best known works.
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Biography of Harry Nelson Pillsbury (excerpt)
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading American chess player. At the age of 22, he won one of the strongest tournaments of the time (the Hastings 1895 chess tournament) but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship. ![]()
Biography of Anatoly Lunacharsky (excerpt)
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov), 23 November 1875 – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for Ministry and Education as well as active playwright, critic, essayist and journalist throughout his career. ![]()
Biography of Yevgeny Zamyatin (excerpt)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (20 January (Julian) / 1 February (Gregorian), 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. He was also an naval engineer. Despite being the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik.
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Biography of Wilhelm Herzog (excerpt)
Wilhelm Herzog (12 January 1884 in Berlin - 4 April 1960) was a German historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist. Life He studied economics, Germanistics and history of art in Berlin. After publishing works about Lichtenstein (1905) and Heinrich von Kleist (1907), he became the editor of the literary magazine Pan.
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Biography of Aaron Soltz (excerpt)
Aaron Aleksandrovich Soltz (10 March 1872 (22 March Gregorian calendar) - 30 April 1945) was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet politician and lawyer. He was informally known as the "conscience of the Party". While partially responsible for the Soviet repressions he was one of very few high-ranking Joseph Stalin loyalists who openly objected to the Great Purge; he died in a psychiatric clinic after years of involuntary commitment.
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Biography of Ashutosh Mukherjee (excerpt)
Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI, FRSE, FRAS, FPSL, MRIA (anglicised, originally Āśutōṣh Mukhōpādhyāẏa, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University.
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Biography of Victor Klemperer (excerpt)
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic.
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Biography of Lluís Millet (excerpt)
Lluís Millet i Pagès (18 April 1867 in El Masnou – 7 December 1941 in Barcelona) was a Spanish Catalan composer, musician and co-founder of Orfeó Català in 1891. A student of Felip Pedrell, from 1896 he taught choral music at Barcelona's Escuela Municipal de Musica where he later succeeded Nicolau as director.
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Biography of Mary Hunter Austin (excerpt)
Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
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Biography of Ricardo Mella (excerpt)
Ricardo Mella Cea (April 13, 1861 – August 7, 1925) was one of the first writers, intellectuals and anarchist activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Spain. He was characterized as an erudite in various subjects and versed in languages, mastering French, English and Italian.
Biography of Ernest Dumont (excerpt)
Ernest François Dumont, born October 13, 1877 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), the city where he died on December 11, 1941 in his home in the 15th arrondissement, is a French lyricist. Ernest Dumont co-authored numerous works (songs and monologues) with Louis Bénech, notably Nuits de Chine, L'Hirondelle du faubourg, L'Étoile du marin, Riquita, Dans les jardins de l'Alhambra, Du gris, La Femme aux bijoux . ![]()
Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson (excerpt)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. At the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University as a special student. ![]()
Biography of Isidor Philipp (excerpt)
Isidor Edmond Philipp (first name sometimes spelled Isidore) (2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Jewish Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris. He left for the United States in 1941 and taught in New York and L'Alliance Francais in Louiseville, Quebec, Canada.
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Biography of Sergei Vasilenko (excerpt)
Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko (30 March 1872 (O.S. 18 March) – 11 March 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism. Vasilenko was born in Moscow and originally studied Law at Moscow University, but then changed direction and studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1896 to 1901 as a pupil of Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. ![]()
Biography of Théodule Meunier (excerpt)
Théodule Meunier (August 22, 1860 in Bournezeau, France – July 25, 1907 in Cayenne, French Guiana) was a French anarchist who, along with Emile Henry and Auguste Vaillant, was responsible for a series of bombings in Paris, France during early 1892.
Biography of Édouard de Max (excerpt)
Eduard Alexandru Max, known as Édouard de Max, born February 14, 1869 in Iași (Moldavia region in Romania), and died October 28, 1924 in Paris, is a French theater and film actor of Romanian origin. He protected André Gide who wrote Saul for him, as well as Jean Cocteau, then 19 years old (1908), and whose style fascinated him. |
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