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Biography of Gerald Finzi (excerpt)
Gerald Raphael Finzi, born July 14, 1901 in London and died September 27, 1956 in Oxford, was an English composer whose music is deeply infused with poetic sensibility. Best known for his choral works, he also wrote orchestral and concert pieces, including Dies natalis and concertos for cello and clarinet.
Biography of Betsy van Vloten (excerpt)
Elizabeth “Betsy” van Vloten, born July 12, 1862 in Deventer and died February 21, 1946 in Haarlem, was a Dutch poet and writer. She was the daughter of scholar Johannes van Vloten and sister to translators Martha and Kitty. She was close to the “Tachtigers” literary circle, where she connected with writers like Frederik van Eeden and Frank van der Goes, enjoying both intellectual and social interactions with them.
Biography of Karl Beurlen (excerpt)
Karl Beurlen (April 17, 1901 – December 27, 1985) was a German paleontologist. Born in Aalen, he studied at the University of Tübingen and earned his PhD in 1923. A student and assistant of Edwin Hennig, he conducted extensive research on evolutionary processes and fossil morphology.
Biography of Hans Gustav Güterbock (excerpt)
Hans Gustav Güterbock (May 27, 1908 – March 29, 2000) was a German-American Hittitologist. Trained in Germany, his career there ended with the rise of the Nazis due to his Jewish heritage, forcing him to relocate to Turkey. Fluent in Turkish, he became a professor at Ankara University, received an honorary doctorate, and joined the Turkish Historical Society.
Biography of Paul Alduy (excerpt)
Paul Alduy, born October 4, 1914, in Lima, Peru, and died January 23, 2006, in Perpignan, was a French senior civil servant and politician.A law graduate from the universities of Montpellier and Paris and of the École Libre des Sciences Politiques, he began his diplomatic career in Ankara in 1942 before joining Free France.
Biography of Nancy Melcher (excerpt)
Nancy Melcher Diemand (21 January 1916 – 28 March 2015) was an American fashion designer specializing in lingerie.In 1950, she became the first underwear designer to receive a Coty Award. The daughter of publisher Frederic G.Melcher and children’s author Marguerite Fellows Melcher, she grew up in New Jersey.
Biography of Ulrich Becher (excerpt)
Ulrich Becher (January 2, 1910 – April 15, 1990) was a German author and playwright.Born in Berlin, he studied law after attending the Wickersdorf Free School Community and, while still young, became the only pupil of painter George Grosz. In 1932, his novella collection Männer machen Fehler was published, and he joined the PEN Club the same year.
Biography of Karl-Hermann Geib (excerpt)
Karl-Hermann Geib (March 12, 1908 – July 21, 1949) was a German physical chemist best known for developing the dual-temperature exchange sulfide process, also known as the Girdler sulfide process, in 1943.This innovation became the most cost-effective method for producing heavy water, crucial for nuclear research, and was independently mirrored by Jerome S.
Biography of Gustav Fröhlich (excerpt)
Born on March 21, 1902, in Hanover, Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich was a German actor and film director. He began his stage career in small theaters before being noticed by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. His breakthrough came with his role as Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), which established him as one of the major stars of Weimar cinema.
Biography of Mariano Benlliure (excerpt)
Mariano Benlliure y Gil (8 September 1862 – 9 November 1947) was a Spanish sculptor and medallist, renowned for his public monuments and religious works in a heroic realist style.Born in Valencia, he began sculpting bullfighting scenes as a teenager and exhibited a wax model at the 1876 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Biography of Clorinda Málaga de Prado (excerpt)
Clorinda Málaga de Prado (born Clorinda Mercedes Málaga Bravo; July 3, 1905 – September 17, 1993) was the First Lady of Peru from 1958 to 1962 during her marriage to President Manuel Prado Ugarteche. She was born in Lima to Fermín Málaga Santolalla, a mining executive and state official, and Clorinda Bravo Bresani.
Biography of Witold Conti (excerpt)
Witold Conti (1908–1944) was a Polish film actor who appeared in nine films between 1930 and 1937, often portraying charming romantic leads. The son of Stanisława and Maksymilian Kozikowski, he studied law in Poznań while taking singing lessons, later moving to Paris to study violin and voice at the conservatory.
Biography of Max Samter (excerpt)
Born on March 8, 1909, Max Samter was a German-American immunologist best known for identifying the triad of asthma, aspirin allergy, and nasal polyps, now called Samter’s triad or aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease. A third-generation physician, he received his medical training in Europe before fleeing Nazi Germany.
Biography of Richard Church (poet) (excerpt)
Richard Thomas Church, born March 26, 1893, in Battersea and died March 4, 1972, in Cranbrook, was an English writer, poet, novelist, and critic. The son of a postal worker and a schoolteacher, he published his first poetry collection The Flood of Life in 1917 but worked in the Civil Service until 1933, when he turned to full-time writing.
Biography of Erika Dannhoff (excerpt)
Erika Margot Dannhoff, born on December 2, 1909, in Berlin and died there on June 18, 1996, was a German stage, film, and television actress. Discovered early, she began appearing in films in the late 1920s and later trained at Ilka Grüning’s acting school.
Biography of Charles Douglass (sound engineer) (excerpt)
Charles Rolland Douglass, born January 2, 1910, in Guadalajara, Mexico, and deceased April 8, 2003, in California, was an American sound engineer credited as the inventor of the laugh track. A graduate in electrical engineering from the University of Nevada, he began working for CBS Radio before serving in the Navy during World War II.
Biography of Gabriel de Frazzanò (excerpt)
Frei Gabriel de Frazzanò, born Antonino Machi on February 25, 1907, in Frazzanò, Sicily, and died on April 17, 1973, in Frutal, Brazil, was an Italian Capuchin friar who became known in Minas Gerais for his missionary work and social projects.
Biography of José Storie (excerpt)
José Storie (born 2 April 1899 in Bruges – died 29 July 1961) was a Belgian painter best known for his portraits. Educated in Bruges, Brussels, and Paris, he received a thorough artistic training, though it was disrupted by World War I.
Biography of Charles de Beistegui (excerpt)
Born in Paris on January 31, 1895, Carlos de Beistegui e Yturbe — known as Charlie de Beistegui — was a French-born Mexican millionaire, art collector, and interior decorator famed for his eccentricity and lavish taste.Heir to a vast Basque-Mexican fortune, he was educated at Eton and raised between France, Spain, and England.
Biography of René Cresté (excerpt)
René Auguste Cresté, born on December 5, 1881 in Paris 19th and died on November 30, 1922 in Paris 20th, was a French actor of stage and silent film.First noticed as a romantic leading man on stage, he performed in Claudine à Paris by Colette, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo and Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe.
Biography of Pedro Espinel Torres (excerpt)
Pedro Espinel Torres, born in Lima on August 1, 1908, and who died there on November 8, 1981, was a Peruvian composer of música criolla, known as “El Rey de las Polcas.” Coming from a humble background, he left school after the first grade to help support his family, working as a messenger, apprentice typographer, and lumber depot clerk.
Biography of Otto Risch (excerpt)
Otto Risch (December 6, 1871 – date of death unknown) was a German senior civil servant. The son of a publishing bookseller, he studied administrative sciences at the University of Tübingen from 1890 to 1895 and passed his two higher civil service examinations in 1895 and 1897.
Biography of Antonio Garland Sánche (excerpt)
Antonio Geraldo Garland Sánchez, born on June 22, 1891, in Chorrillos and died on September 4, 1958, in San Isidro, was a Peruvian writer, journalist, and diplomat. His literary work spanned poetry, essays, and theater, alongside a long career in journalism.
Biography of Alfred Bittins (excerpt)
Alfred Richard Paul Bittins, born on October 7, 1909, in Berlin and died there on November 24, 1970, was a German film producer who also worked as a production and manufacturing manager. After completing commercial training, he entered the film industry in 1933 as a production assistant.
Biography of Walter Ledgard (excerpt)
Walter Ledgard Jiménez (born October 25, 1915, in Lima – died May 10, 1999, in Lima) was a renowned Peruvian swimmer. Known as “El Brujo,” he was the second of six children of diplomat Carlos Ledgard Neuhaus and María Jiménez. Married, he had two children, Táter and María Luz.
Biography of Joseph Wittig (excerpt)
Joseph Wittig, born January 22, 1879, in Neusorge and died August 22, 1949, was a German Catholic theologian and writer. After earning his doctorate in 1903, he was ordained a priest and later became professor of church history and patrology at the University of Breslau, where he also served as dean.
Biography of Andrée Viollis (excerpt)
Andrée Viollis, born Andrée Jacquet on 9 December 1870 in Les Mées and died on 10 August 1950 in Paris, was a French journalist and writer. She was also known as Andrée Téry and later Andrée d’Ardenne de Tizac, adopting the pen name Viollis after her second marriage.
Biography of Marion Shilling (excerpt)
Marion Helen Schilling, born on December 3, 1910, in Denver, Colorado, and died on November 6, 2004, was an American stage and film actress.She was among the most popular B-movie leading ladies of the 1930s. After moving to St.Louis as a child, she graduated from Central High School in 1928 and began her acting career on stage in plays such as Miss Lulu Betts and Mrs.
Biography of Felipe Benavides Barreda (excerpt)
Felipe Benavides Barreda, born on August 7, 1917, in Lima, Peru, and deceased on February 21, 1991, in London, was a renowned Peruvian conservationist. Recognized as a pioneer of environmental protection in Latin America, he played a key role in establishing many of Peru’s reserves and national parks, including the Pampa Galeras National Reserve and the Manú National Park.
Biography of Gerard Walschap (excerpt)
Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (born 9 July 1898 in Londerzeel-St. Jozef – died 25 October 1989 in Antwerp) was a Belgian writer. Initially educated in Catholic schools, he left priesthood training and became a journalist. He married in 1925 and had five children, including Hugo, who became an ambassador for the King of Belgium.
Biography of John Collier (fiction writer) (excerpt)
John Henry Noyes Collier (born 3 May 1901 in London, died 6 April 1980) was a British writer and screenwriter, best known for his short stories, many published in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.His acclaimed collection Fancies and Goodnights won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print.
Biography of Eugène Dieudonné (excerpt)
Eugène Dieudonné (May 1, 1884 – August 21, 1944) was a French anarchist wrongly accused of belonging to the Bonnot Gang and of taking part in the 1912 rue Ordener bank robbery.Sentenced to life at hard labor, he was deported to the penal colony in French Guiana, from which he escaped after twelve years.
Biography of Teresa Hooley (excerpt)
Teresa Mary Hooley (January 19, 1888 – April 4, 1973) was an English poet also known as Mrs. F. H. Butler. Born in Risley, Derbyshire, she grew up at Risley Lodge in a wealthy lace-manufacturing family. Before World War I, she gained recognition publishing poems in the Daily Mirror alongside Edith Sitwell, who did not admire her work.
Biography of Ernestina de Champourcín (excerpt)
Ernestina de Champourcín (born 10 July 1905 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, died 27 March 1999 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet linked to the Generation of ’27. Born into an aristocratic family, she received a refined education and developed a passion for poetry and languages early on.
Biography of Ernst Rowohlt (excerpt)
Ernst Rowohlt (born 23 June 1887, died 1 December 1960) was a major German publisher and founder of Rowohlt Verlag in 1908. He gained recognition for publishing American authors such as Hemingway and Faulkner. His time of birth comes from the book "Ernst Rowohlt in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten" by Paul Mayer, Ernst Rowohlt (Rowohlt, 1968).
Biography of Camilo Díaz Baliño (excerpt)
Camilo Buenaventura Díaz Baliño (1889–1936) was a Spanish writer, politician, Galician intellectual, and graphic artist.He was a member of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Santiago, the Irmandades da Fala, the Seminar of Galician Studies, and the Galicianist Party.
Biography of Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, born on May 29, 1912, in Strasbourg and died on January 2, 1994, in Geneva, was a French civil servant who served as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1963 to 1973. A graduate of the École libre des sciences politiques in 1934, he became an inspector of finance in 1936.
Biography of Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (excerpt)
Gerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez, born March 18, 1897 in Montevideo and died April 25, 1948, nicknamed “Becho,” was a Uruguayan musician, composer, and journalist.The son of the owner of Montevideo’s Moulin Rouge cabaret, he studied architecture but never completed the degree.
Biography of Ernesto Galarza (excerpt)
Ernesto Galarza (August 15, 1905 – June 22, 1984) was a Mexican-American labor organizer, activist, professor, poet, writer and storyteller, and a key figure in the history of immigrant farmworker organization in California. Born in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, he immigrated to California as a child, adapted to public school, earned a scholarship to Occidental College, and completed a master’s degree in history at Stanford University in 1929.
Biography of Bernard Fitzalan-Howard (excerpt)
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (May 30, 1908 – January 31, 1975), was a British peer and politician. The only surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, he inherited his father’s title at the age of nine and later his mother Gwendoline Herries’s Scottish peerage in 1945.
Biography of Max Meid (excerpt)
Max Meid (July 18, 1910, Berlin – July 16, 2009, Frankfurt am Main) was a German architect. Together with his partner Helmut Romeick, he was one of the leading representatives of postwar modern architecture in Frankfurt, playing a key role in the city’s reconstruction and urban identity.
Biography of Steven Geray (excerpt)
Steven Geray, born István Gyergyai on 10 November 1904 and died 26 December 1973, was a Hungarian-born American actor who appeared in over 100 films and numerous television shows. He featured in major Hollywood productions such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) and To Catch a Thief (1955), Joseph L.
Biography of Jan Kalf (excerpt)
Jan Kalf (born May 10, 1873, in Amsterdam – died March 6, 1954, in The Hague) was a Dutch art historian and director of the Rijksbureau voor de Monumentenzorg (National Office for Monument Preservation) from 1918 to 1939. The son of editor Martinus Kalf, he studied Dutch literature and art history in Amsterdam and contributed many articles, including theatre reviews, to De Kroniek.
Biography of André Varennes (excerpt)
André Varennes, born on April 14, 1882, in Châtillon (Hauts-de-Seine), and died on February 29, 1972, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), was a French stage and film actor. He began his career in the theatre in the early 20th century and gradually established himself as a reliable performer in both classical and modern productions.
Biography of Jacques Corrèze (excerpt)
Jacques Corrèze, born on 11 February 1912 in Auxerre and died on 26 June 1991 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a senior executive of the L’Oréal group and a notorious collaborator during the German occupation of France. Before the war, he was a leading member of the Cagoule, a clandestine far-right organization led by Eugène Deloncle, with whom he worked closely in the 1930s.
Biography of Emil Botta (excerpt)
Emil Botta, born on September 15, 1911, and died on July 24, 1977, was a Romanian actor, poet, and prose writer, the younger brother of essayist Dan Botta.Raised in Muscel County by their Corsican mother, he adopted a bohemian lifestyle when he moved to Bucharest.
Biography of Victor Ehrenberg (historian) (excerpt)
Victor Ehrenberg (22 November 1891 – 25 January 1976) was a German-British Jewish historian. Born in Altona, Hamburg, into a noted German Jewish family, he was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg, and the nephew of jurist Victor Ehrenberg and economist Richard Ehrenberg.
Biography of Kate Barnard (excerpt)
Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (May 23, 1875 – February 23, 1930) was the first woman elected to a state office in Oklahoma and the eleventh woman in the United States to hold statewide public office. Elected in 1907, she served as Oklahoma’s first Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four-year terms, the only position the 1907 state constitution allowed women to hold.
Biography of Manuel Beltroy (excerpt)
Manuel Beltroy Vera (born April 25, 1893, in Lima – died November 23, 1965) was a Peruvian writer, poet, teacher, translator, literary critic, editor, and cultural promoter. He was a key figure in developing and disseminating Peruvian culture throughout the twentieth century.
Biography of María Wiesse (excerpt)
María Jesús Wiesse Romero (born November 19, 1890, in Lima – died July 29, 1964, in Lima) was a Peruvian poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, and translator. The daughter of historian Carlos Wiesse Portocarrero and Teresa Romero Paz, she spent her childhood between London and Lausanne, where her father worked as a lawyer for the Peruvian Corporation. |
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