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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 Arne Johnson (excerpt)
Arne Johnson (3 May 1907, Oslo – 12 July 1994, Oslo) was a Norwegian designer, illustrator, stamp artist and painter. He studied at the SHKS in Oslo and undertook study trips to Paris in 1930, to Berlin in 1932-1933, to London in 1934-1935, to Portugal and Italy in 1938 and to East Africa in 1972.
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 Maria Martins (artist) (excerpt)
Maria Martins (born Maria de Lourdes Alves; 7 August 1894 – 27 March 1973) was a Brazilian visual artist who was particularly well known for her modern sculptures. Martins had an affair with the artist Marcel Duchamp, which lasted for several years from 1946 onwards, ending with her departure for Brazil in 1951 and with his 1954 marriage to his second wife Alexina Duchamp.
Biography of Sverre Matheson Halbo (excerpt)
Sverre Matheson Halbo (25 December 1899 – 27 July 1991) was a Norwegian jurist and officer. He was a genealogist and wrote several books about his family. He worked in the Norwegian Goldsmiths' Association for 36 years. Halbo helped start the national association Build your country after the end of the war in 1945 and was chairman of the board for 14 years in the association.
Biography of Hartzell Spence (excerpt)
John Hartzell Spence (February 15, 1908 – May 9, 2001) was an American writer and founding editor of Yank, the Army Weekly, a weekly magazine published by the United States military during World War II. He is credited with coining the term "pinup".
Biography of Julia Cruger (excerpt)
Julia Grinnell Storrow Cruger (pseudonym, Julien Gordon; July 19, 1854 – July 12, 1920) was an American novelist. Because many of her books examined the American social world, she was known as the Edith Wharton of her day. Family She was the daughter of Thomas Wentworth Storrow of Boston and a grandniece of Washington Irving.
Biography of Hoyt Vandenberg (excerpt)
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a United States Air Force general. He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence. During World War II, Vandenberg was the commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England and in France, supporting the Army, from August 1944 until V-E Day.
Biography of Ellen Osiier (excerpt)
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer. Osiier was born in Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark. The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing. Osiier, then 33, won the gold medal and went undefeated in the 16 matches she fenced in the event.
Biography of Hermelinda Urvina (excerpt)
Hermelinda Urvina Mayorga (26 September 1905 – 20 September 2008) was an Ecuadorian pilot. She was the first Ecuadorian woman to obtain a pilot's license, issued in the United States in 1932. Personal life Urvina was born to José Belisario Urvina and Felicidad Mayorga in the city of Ambato, Ecuador on 26 September 1905.
Biography of Juana Bormann (excerpt)
Juana Bormann (or Johanna Borman; 10 September 1893 – 13 December 1945) was a German prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938, and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, after a court trial in 1945.
Biography of Thorleif Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thorleif Heyerdahl (born 16 April 1900 in Oslo, died 11 February 1981 in Lillehammer) was a Norwegian painter. Heyerdahl lived 20 years of his life on Tjøme, where many of his motifs are also from. He also took motifs from Svolvær and later from Gausdal, Gudbrandsdalen and the Lillehammer area, especially after he moved to Lillehammer in 1953.
Biography of Helena Kuipers-Rietberg (excerpt)
Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg (Winterswijk, 1893 – Ravensbrück, 27 December 1944) was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that supported those who were hiding from the German occupying forces.
Biography of Diego Valeri (poet) (excerpt)
Diego Valeri (January 25, 1887, Rome - November 28, 1976) was an Italian poet and literary critic.
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 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 Grace Vanderbilt Stevens (excerpt)
Grace Vanderbilt Stevens is an American heiress, born as the sole daughter of Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (1873–1942) and Grace Graham Wilson Vanderbilt (1870-1953). Her only sibling was an elder brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898–1974), who went through seven marriages but did not have any children.
Biography of Marta Abba (excerpt)
Marta Abba (25, June 1900 – 24 June 1988) was an Italian actress, considered as the muse of the playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba lost her mother early and was raised by her grandparents. She began acting at 14, later joining Enrico Reinach's company in Milan.
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 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 Franz Radziwill (excerpt)
Johann Franz Wilhelm Eduard Radziwill (* 6. Februar 1895 in Strohausen, heute Rodenkirchen in der Wesermarsch; † 12. August 1983 in Wilhelmshaven) war ein deutscher Künstler des Magischen Realismus. Sein Œuvre umfasst verschiedene Schaffensperioden: ein expressionistisches Frühwerk, ein magisch-realistisches Hauptwerk und ein symbolistisches Spätwerk.
Biography of Karolina Lanckoronska (excerpt)
Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian. Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989.
Biography of Juvencio Valle (excerpt)
Juvencio Valle, also known by the pseudonym Gilberto Concha Riffo (November 6, 1900 – February 12, 1999), was a noted Chilean poet. He is a recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, a National Prize awarded to poets of high reputation.
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 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 Gert Jynge (excerpt)
Gert Hyld Jynge (1904–1994) was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist and draftsman. His production mainly took place in the interwar period, i.e. from the mid-1920s until 1948, when, according to his own statement, he "gave up". He exhibited at the Autumn Exhibition for the last time in 1961.
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 B. H. Liddell Hart Liddell Hart (excerpt)
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian, and military theorist. He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists.
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 Charlotte Susa (excerpt)
Charlotte Susa (1 March 1898 – 28 July 1976) was a German actress. Susa was born Charlotta Wegmüller in Gut Gaußen (now part of Kretingalė), East Prussia and first appeared on a stage in 1915 at Tilsit. She chose her mother's maiden name "Susa" as her stage name and began a successful career as a singer and actress at different German opera and operetta stages, e.
Biography of Jeanne Provost (excerpt)
Jeanne Provost (28 November 1887 – 24 November 1980) was a French stage and film actress. She was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1907 to 1912. In 1928 she appeared in the original cast of Marcel Pagnol's play Topaze. Selected filmography
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 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 Gina Palerme (excerpt)
Gina Palerme (born Marie Louise Irène de Maulmont, 18 December 1885 – 26 December 1977) was a French actress and dancer. Biography Gina Palerme was born Marie Louise Irène de Maulmont (also spelled Maumont) on 18 December 1885, the daughter of Baron Marie Antoine Aymard Hubert de Maulmont (1850–1891) and Antoinette Gazenaud (born 1853).
Biography of Vicki Baum (excerpt)
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer, famous for her novel "Menschen im Hotel" ("People at a Hotel"), which became a hit film and musical. Born in Vienna into a Jewish family, Baum faced the early loss of her mother and lived under a tyrannical father.
Biography of Alexander Hall (excerpt)
Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894 – July 30, 1968) was an American film director, film editor and theatre actor. Biography Hall acted in the theatre from the age of 4 through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production.
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 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 Zofia Nalkowska (excerpt)
Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, in Warsaw, Congress Poland – 17 December 1954, in Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939) during the interwar period.
Biography of Trygve Klingenberg (excerpt)
Trygve Olavssøn Klingenberg (born 18 February 1900, died 12 January 1987) was a Norwegian architect. He was the brother of the architect Ørn Klingenberg, with whom he also worked in partnership. Education and work After graduating in art in 1917, Klingenberg briefly attended the War College before studying at the architecture department at NTH in 1918–22.
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 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 Maisie Renault (excerpt)
Maisie Renault (13 December 1907 – 7 April 2003) was a French Resistance fighter, a member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944. Awards Renault received the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre and the Resistance medal.
Biography of Victor Fleming (excerpt)
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939).
Biography of Valli Valli (excerpt)
Valli Valli, born Valli Knust (11 February 1882 – 4 November 1927), was a musical comedy actress and silent film performer born in Berlin, Germany. She was descended from an old English family and lived most of her life in England.
Biography of Per Aabel (excerpt)
Per Pavels Aabel (25 April 1902 – 22 December 1999) was a Norwegian actor, artist, dancer, choreographer and instructor. Per Aabel was the son of Hauk Aabel, a popular Norwegian comedian and actor in Norwegian and Swedish silent film, and the actress Svanhild Johannessen.
Biography of Therese Brandl (excerpt)
herese Brandl (1 February 1902 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi concentration camp guard. In March 1942, Brandl was among the SS women assigned to Auschwitz I concentration camp. Her duties included watching over women in the sorting sheds and as the SS Rapportaufseherin.
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 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 Christian Kittilsen (excerpt)
Christian Kittilsen (born 1907 in Oslo, died 1977 in Austbygde i Tinn) was a Norwegian cartoonist, draftsman, painter and illustrator. Kittilsen studied medicine from 1926 to 1931, but interrupted his studies and chose art instead. He completed a short painting course with Carl von Hanno, but was otherwise self-taught. |
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