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Biography of Andrejs Upits (excerpt)
Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer. Career and literary activity Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas viesis" under the pseudonym Andrei Araji in 1892, published his first articles, Parunas, Skrīveros uzrakstītas (Recorded Proverbs of Skrīveri) (No.
Biography of Ermete Zacconi (excerpt)
Ermete Zacconi (14 September 1857, Montecchio Emilia, Province of Reggio Emilia – 14 October 1948 in Viareggio) was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina and Paola Pezzaglia.
Biography of Léonie La Fontaine (excerpt)
Léonie La Fontaine (October 2, 1857 – February 26, 1949) was a Belgian pioneering feminist and pacifist. Active in the international feminism struggle, she was a member of the Belgian League for the Rights of Women, the National Belgian Women Council and the Belgian’s Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Biography of Rosa Valetti (excerpt)
Rosa Valetti (born Rosa Alice Vallentin; 26 January 1876 – 10 December 1937) was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer. Biography Rosa Valetti was born in Berlin, the daughter of industrialist Felix Vallentin and sister of actor Hermann Vallentin. She played her first roles in the theatres of suburban Berlin.
Biography of Marcel Rouff (excerpt)
Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Geneva – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a prolific novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer. With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises (Gastronomic France: Guide to the culinary marvels and the good inns of France).
Biography of Olga Petit (excerpt)
Olga Petit or Sophie Balachowsky-Petit (16 March 1870 – 1966) was a Russian-born, French lawyer. She is noted as the first woman to take the legal oath in France. She is also known for assisting Russian emigres settling in the country after the Russian Revolution.
Biography of Eliza Calvert Hall (excerpt)
Eliza Caroline "Lida" Obenchain (née Calvert), (February 11, 1856 – December 20, 1935) was an American author, women's rights advocate, and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lida Obenchain, writing under the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall, was widely known early in the twentieth century for her short stories featuring an elderly widowed woman, "Aunt Jane", who plainly spoke her mind about the people she knew and her experiences in the rural south.
Biography of Annie S. D. Maunder (excerpt)
Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell) FRAS (14 April 1868 – 15 September 1947) was an Irish-British astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun's 11-year cycle. She was one of the leading astronomers of her time, but because of her gender, her contribution was often underplayed at the time.
Biography of Alfred Redl (excerpt)
Alfred Redl (14 March 1864 – 25 May 1913) was an Austro-Hungarian military officer who rose to head the Evidenzbureau, the counterintelligence wing of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was one of the leading figures of pre-World War I espionage; his term in office was marked by radical innovations and the use of advanced technology to ensnare foreign spies.
Biography of Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (excerpt)
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (June 25, 1878 – March 23, 1966) was a German politician and women's rights activist. Lüders was born in Berlin as the descendant of the 18th century agricultural reformer Philipp Ernst Lüders. Her father was a senior Prussian civil servant.
Biography of Jaime Sabartes (excerpt)
Jaume Sabartés i Gual (Catalan: Jaume Sabartés i Gual, Spanish: Jaime Sabartés y Gual, born in Barcelona, 10 June 1881 - died in Paris, 12 February 1968), was a Catalan Spanish artist, poet and writer. He was a close friend of Pablo Picasso and later became his secretary/administrator.
Biography of Auguste Tuaillon (excerpt)
Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon, known as Boffy, bornMarch 18, 1873 at Esmoulières and died in November at Paris, is a French dwarf chansonnier. Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon was about five years old when his growth slowed down or stopped. His significant muscular weakness preventing him from taking part in agricultural work, Auguste earned some money by performing from the age of fifteen as a fairground attraction in Luxeuil-les-Bains and Nancy.
Biography of Anne Bosworth Focke (excerpt)
Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke (September 29, 1868 – May 15, 1907) was an American mathematician who became the first mathematics professor at what is now the University of Rhode Island, and later became the first female doctoral student of David Hilbert.
Biography of Alexandre Promio (excerpt)
Jean Alexandre Louis Promio (9 July 1868 – 24 December 1926) was a French film photographer and director. He is mentioned as a pioneer in film and was the director for Sweden's first Newsreel. The newsreel was shown for King Oscar II:s arrival at the General Art and Industrial Exposition on 15 May 1897.
Biography of Phil Nesser (excerpt)
Phillip Gregory Nesser (December 10, 1880 – May 9, 1959) was a German-American professional American football player in the Ohio League and the early National Football League (NFL) for the Columbus Panhandles. He was also a member of the Nesser Brothers, a group consisting of seven brothers who made up the most famous football family in the United States from 1907 until the mid-1920s.
Biography of Léonie Yahne (excerpt)
Léonie Yahne (born Eugénie Léonie Jahn on August 8, 1867 in Versailles, and died on April 26, 1950 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris) was a French actress of the Belle Époque, known today through the works of Toulouse-Lautrec. In a 1899 newspaper article, she was described as one of the most beautiful and famous Parisian actresses.
Biography of Flori van Acker (excerpt)
Flori Van Acker or Florimond Marie Van Acker (16 April 1858 – 14 March 1940) was a neo-romantic, impressionist Belgian painter, engraver, stamp designer and director of the Academy of Bruges. Life Flori van Acker was born in Bruges in 1858. His father was a wool trader.
Biography of Pierre-Victor Stock (excerpt)
Pierre-Victor Stock, born July 22, 1861 in Paris 18th, died in 1943, was a French publisher, one of the leaders of the publishing house Stock, which now belongs to the Lagardère group. Stock was founded in the 18th century by André Cailleau, who was succeeded in 1753 by Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, author of Voltaire and Rousseau.
Biography of Catherine Pozzi (excerpt)
Catherine Pozzi, born July 13, 1882 in Paris and died December 3, 1934 in the same city, is a French poet and woman of letters. Catherine Pozzi, born into an aristocratic and bourgeois family in Paris in the late 19th century, was the daughter of Samuel Pozzi, a renowned surgeon, and Thérèse Loth-Cazalis.
Biography of Ildebrando Pizzetti (excerpt)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, musicologist, and music critic. Biography Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Alfredo Casella.
Biography of Emily Murphy (excerpt)
Emily Murphy was a trailblazing Canadian writer and the first female magistrate in the British Empire, celebrated for her advocacy for women's rights. Born into a family of legal professionals in 1868, she honed her legal acumen early on. The third of six children, her family's influence included a Supreme Court judge and a senator, which immersed her in legal debates from a young age.
Biography of Enrico Pea (excerpt)
Enrico Pea, born October 29, 1881 in Seravezza and died August 11, 1958 in Forte dei Marmi, was an Italian writer, poet and playwright, winner of the Viareggio Prize. Pea's literary production can be divided into two periods: the first is that of Moscardino (1922), translated into English by Ezra Pound, and other works in which, despite his religious torments, he is incomparable in the description of scenes of popular life, in a disordered ecstasy of recounting between sighs and cries, the memories of villagers in mourning, the glories and triumphs of superstition and sex, the dark stories of those who travel and those who return.
Biography of Maria Bezobrazova (excerpt)
Maria Vladimirovna Bezobrazova (10 June 1857 (gregorian calendar)- 14 September 1914 (gregorian calendar)) was a philosopher, historiographer, educator, journalist and women's rights activist from the Russian Empire. She was "the first among Russian women to receive training in philosophy". Life Maria Bezobrazova was born in Saint Petersburg: her father was an economist, and her mother was a writer.
Biography of Sarmiza Bilcescu (excerpt)
Sarmiza or Sarmisegetuza or Sarmisa Bilcescu (later Bilcescu-Alimănişteanu; 27 April 1867 – 26 August 1935) was a Romanian lawyer, the first woman ever to study law and a PhD in law from the Faculty of Law of Paris (University of Paris), and the first one in her country to practice law.
Biography of Dorothea Bate (excerpt)
Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved.
Biography of Ivy Williams (excerpt)
Ivy Williams (7 September 1877 – 18 February 1966) was the first woman to be called to the English bar, in May 1922. She never practised, but she was the first woman to teach law at a British university. Education Williams studied law at the Society of Oxford Home Students (later St Anne's College), the third woman to study law at Oxford University.
Biography of Alfred Machin (excerpt)
Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director. He is remembered to have been one of the few French film directors whose films expressed progressive tendencies before World War I. He was also a pioneer of aerial filming.
Biography of Emilie Kempin-Spyri (excerpt)
Emilie Kempin-Spyri (born March 18, 1853, in Altstetten; died April 12, 1901, in Basel; née Spyri, married name Kempin) was the first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree and to be accepted as an academic lecturer. However, as a woman she was not permitted to practice as an attorney.
Biography of Alice Hamilton (excerpt)
Alice Hamilton (February 27, 1869 – September 22, 1970) was an American physician, research scientist, and author. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health, laid the foundation for health and safety protections, and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
Biography of Gustav Waldau (excerpt)
Gustav Waldau (27 February 1871 – 25 May 1958) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1955. Life and Work Born Gustav Freiherr von Rummel joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps at age 14. He was promoted to officer in the Infantry-Leib-Regiment.
Biography of Emilia Fogelklou (excerpt)
Emilia Fogelklou, born July 20, 1878 in Simrishamn and died September 26, 1972 in Uppsala, is a Swedish theologian and woman of letters. In 1909, she was the first woman to graduate in theology in her country. After studying at a normal school for women, Emilia Fogelklou became the first female theology graduate in Sweden in 1909 and received an honorary doctorate in 1941.
Biography of Suzan Rose Benedict (excerpt)
Suzan Rose Benedict (November 29, 1873 – April 8, 1942) was the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and had a long teaching career at Smith College. Career at Smith College Suzan returned to Smith as an associate professor after receiving her PhD.
Biography of Alice Zeppilli (excerpt)
Alice Zeppilli (28 August 1881 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists 1885) – 14 September 1969) was a French operatic soprano of Italian heritage who had an active international singing career from 1901 to 1930. The pinnacle of her career was in the United States where she enjoyed great popularity between 1906 and 1914; particularly in the cities of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.
Biography of António Cabreira (excerpt)
D. António Tomás da Guarda Cabreira de Faria e Alvelos Drago da Ponte ComSE (30 October 1868 – 21 November 1953) was a Portuguese mathematician, polygraph and publicist. A member of the aristocratic Cabreira family, António Cabreira was a claimant to the Miguelist noble titles of Count of Lagos and Viscount of Vale da Mata, which he used.
Biography of James Pryde (excerpt)
James Ferrier Pryde (1866–1941) was a British artist. A number of his paintings are in public collections, but there have been few exhibitions of his work. He is principally remembered as one of the Beggarstaffs, his artistic partnership with William Nicholson, and for the poster designs and other graphic work they made between 1893 and 1899, which influenced graphic design for many years.
Biography of Josep Maria Sert (excerpt)
Josep Maria Sert i Badia (Barcelona, 21 December 1874 – 27 November 1945, buried in the Vic Cathedral) was a Spanish muralist, the son of an affluent textile industry family, and friend of Salvador Dalí. He was particularly known for his grisaille style, often in gold and black.
Biography of Bertha De Vriese (excerpt)
Bertha De Vriese (26 September 1877 - 17 March 1958) was a Belgian physician. When she earned her degree as a doctor of medicine at Ghent University, where she was the first woman to conduct research and the first woman physician to graduate from the school.
Biography of Titta Ruffo (excerpt)
Titta Ruffo (9 June 1877 – 5 July 1953), born as Ruffo Cafiero (double forename) Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career. Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "which he (Ruffo) bawled away.
Biography of Nadeschda Gernet (excerpt)
Nadeschda Gernet, also Nadezhda, Russian: Надежда Николаевна Гернет, (April 18, 1877 (gregorian calendar) – January 1, 1943), was a Russian mathematician. Gernet was the second woman in Russia to earn a doctorate. She extended the calculus of variations to further functions on the basis developed by her instructor, David Hilbert, and was one of the first to include inequalities in the calculus of variations.
Biography of Elsa Eschelsson (excerpt)
Elsa Olava Kristina Eschelsson (11 November 1861 – 10 March 1911) was the first woman to finish a Doctor of Laws (juris utriusque doctor) degree and the first to attain the academic position of docent at a Swedish university, but was denied the right to even serve as acting professor because of her sex.
Biography of Tajuddin Baba (excerpt)
Sayyed Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin (Arabic: ٱلسَّيِّد تَاجُ ٱلدِّيْن مُحَمَّد بَدْرُ ٱلدِّيْن, romanized: As-Sayyid Tajud-Dīn Muḥammad Badrud-Dīn; January 27, 1861 – August 17, 1925), also known as Tajuddin Baba (Arabic: تَاجُ ٱلدِّيْن بَابَا, romanized: Tajud-Dīn Bābā), was an Indian Sufi master who is considered as a Qutb.
Biography of Théodore Tuffier (excerpt)
Théodore-Marin Tuffier, known as Théodore Tuffier (26 March 1857 – 27 October 1929) was a French surgeon. He was a pioneer of pulmonary and cardiovascular surgery and of spinal anaesthesia. Life He was born at Bellême in Orne in 1857 and was an intern from 1879 onwards.
Biography of Marie de Régnier (excerpt)
Marie de Régnier (French: ; 20 December 1875 – 6 February 1963), also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d'Houville, was a French novelist and poet, and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.
Biography of Emil Schaudt (excerpt)
Johann Emil Schaudt, (* August 14, 1871 in Stuttgart; † April 6, 1957 in Berlin) was a German architect, predominantly designing commercial and administrative buildings in Hamburg and Berlin. / Life Schaudt studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Vienna.
Biography of Francisco Ferrer (excerpt)
Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (January 14, 1859 – October 13, 1909), widely known as Francisco Ferrer (Spanish pronunciation: ), was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
Biography of Hélène Picard (excerpt)
Hélène Picard, born Hélène Dumarc on October 1, 1873, in Toulouse, France, initially gained recognition in her native region. She received two successive awards from the Academy of Floral Games in Toulouse. In 1903, while living in Privas, Ardèche, she published her first book, "La Feuille morte," a lyrical drama that went unnoticed nationally.
Biography of Antonio Susillo (excerpt)
Antonio Susillo Fernández, born April 16, 1855 in Seville, was a renowned Spanish sculptor of the late 19th century. Educated at the Fine Arts School in Paris and in Rome, he won numerous awards, including medals at the Paris Universal Expositions.
Biography of Cornelia Sorabji (excerpt)
Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system.
Biography of Francis X. Bushman (excerpt)
Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s.
Biography of Georges Fourest (excerpt)
Georges Fourest is a French writer and poet, born in Limoges on April 6, 1864, and died in Paris on January 25, 1945. Georges Fourest pursued law studies at the University of Toulouse, then in Paris, but did not practice as a lawyer, humorously declaring himself as a "lawyer. |
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