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Biography of Paul Fritsch (excerpt)
Paul Fritsch (25 February 1901 – 22 September 1970) was a French featherweight professional boxer who competed in the early 1920s. In 1920 he became the first French boxer to win an Olympic title, defeating teammate Jean Gachet in the final, despite losing to Gachet at the national championships before the Olympics.
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Biography of Sig Ruman (excerpt)
Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann (October 11, 1884 – February 14, 1967), known as Sig Ruman, was a German-American actor famous for his portrayals of pompous officials or villains in over 100 films. Born in Hamburg, German Empire, he studied electrical engineering before becoming an actor.
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Biography of Ernst Toller (excerpt)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
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Biography of Ruth Landshoff (excerpt)
Ruth Landshoff-Yorck (born Ruth Levy, January 7, 1904 – January 19, 1966) was a German-American actress and writer. Life and Career Born in Berlin in 1904 to a middle-class Jewish family, she was the niece of publisher Samuel Fischer.During the Weimar Republic, she was part of Berlin’s intellectual circles and befriended figures like Bertolt Brecht and Albert Einstein.
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Biography of Josette Andriot (excerpt)
Camille Élisa Andriot, known as Josette Andriot (23 August 1886 – 13 May 1942), was a French actress from the silent film era of the 1910s. Without theatrical training, she began her career in 1909 at Laboratoires Éclair, standing out as an actress thanks to her athletic skills (swimming, cycling, horse riding).
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Biography of Carlo Ninchi (excerpt)
Carlo Ninchi (Bologna, May 31, 1896 – Milan, April 27, 1974) was a prominent Italian actor. The youngest of five children of Arnaldo Ninchi and Lidia Bedetti, he began his career in his brother Annibale’s troupe, debuting as Pilade in L'Oreste by Alfieri.
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Biography of Albert Hahn (excerpt)
Albert Pieter Hahn (17 March 1877 – 3 August 1918) was a Dutch political cartoonist, caricaturist, poster artist and book cover designer; well known for his socialist and antimilitaristic viewpoints. Some of his drawings, especially those of the railroad strikes of 1903, have been regularly used in history textbooks.
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Biography of Joris Ivens (excerpt)
Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are A Tale of the Wind, The Spanish Earth, Rain, ...A Valparaiso, Misère au Borinage (Borinage), 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, The Seine Meets Paris, Far from Vietnam, Pour le Mistral and How Yukong Moved the Mountains.
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Biography of Nino Salvaneschi (excerpt)
Nino Salvaneschi (Pavia, December 3, 1886 – Turin, November 24, 1968) was an Italian writer, journalist, and poet. He began his journalism career very young, working for several newspapers and co-founding Guerin Sportivo. After World War I, he expressed pacifist ideals in his book Uccidiamo la guerra.
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Biography of Joseph Jessurun de Mesquita (excerpt)
Joseph Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, September 7, 1865 – April 1, 1890) was a Dutch photographer. He was influenced by the principles of Impressionism and chose unembellished snapshots of the moment, unposed, at a time when photography was still heavily dominated by staged and prop-laden works of studio photographers.
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Biography of Amanda Labarca (excerpt)
Amanda Labarca Hubertson (5 December 1886 – 2 January 1975) was a Chilean diplomat, educator, writer, and feminist, committed to advancing women’s rights in Latin America and promoting women’s suffrage in Chile. For her time of birth, sources leave some doubt as to whether she was born at the beginning or end of the day.
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Biography of Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (excerpt)
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (24 February 1883 – 17 December 1973) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Vatican Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969, and Dean of the College of Cardinals from 1972 until his death.
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Biography of Armando Businco (excerpt)
Armando Businco (Jerzu, June 11, 1886 – Cagliari, September 4, 1967) was an Italian physician. He earned his medical degree in 1912, specializing in pathological anatomy. He held various teaching positions, including at the Universities of Perugia and Cagliari, where he was appointed professor in 1927.
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Biography of Sem Benelli (excerpt)
Sem Benelli (August 12, 1877 – December 18, 1949) was an Italian playwright, essayist and librettist.He provided the texts for several noted Italian operas, including Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re and L'incantesimo, and Umberto Giordano's La cena delle beffe, based on Benelli's own play of the same title.
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Biography of Raymond Callemin (excerpt)
Raymond Callemin, born on March 26, 1890, in Brussels, and guillotined on April 21, 1913, in Paris, was a French anarchist and member of the Bonnot Gang, nicknamed "Raymond the Science" for his passion for reading. Coming from a modest family, he grew up with figures like Viktor Kibaltchich and Édouard Carouy.
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Biography of Justus Koch (excerpt)
Ernst Friedrich Adolf Justus Koch (* November 5, 1891 in Magdeburg; † May 30, 1962 in Düsseldorf) was a German lawyer and notary. During the Weimar Republic, he specialized in copyright law and played a central role in founding the German Society for the Exploitation of Musical Copyright (Stagma).
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Biography of Agnes Günther (excerpt)
Agnes Günther (born Agnes Breuning, 21 July 1863 – 16 February 1911) was a German writer. Life Agnes Breuning was a daughter of Hermann Otto Breuning, a businessman and banker, and his wife Anna Maria Barrell, who came from England.Agnes attended schools in Geneva and London.
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Biography of Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
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Biography of Marcel Boulestin (excerpt)
Marcel Boulestin, also known as Xavier Marcel Boulestin, was born on April 14, 1877, in Poitiers, and died on September 20, 1943, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.A French chef and writer, he became famous in England and the United States for introducing French cuisine to the English-speaking world.
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Biography of Johanna Ey (excerpt)
Johanna Ey (4 March 1864 – 27 August 1947) was a German art dealer of the 1920s, nicknamed "Mutter Ey" (Mother Ey) for her support of artists like Max Ernst and Otto Dix. Born in Wickrath, she moved to Düsseldorf at 19, married, and had twelve children, eight of whom died young.
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Biography of Charles Brunier (excerpt)
Charles Armand Brunier, born on May 31, 1901, in Paris, and passed away on January 26, 2007, in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, was a French adventurer and soldier. He fought in World War I in Syria, earning the Croix de Guerre.In 1923, he was sentenced to life in prison for murder and sent to the French Guiana penal colony, where he escaped several times.
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Biography of Pierre-Félix Lagrange (excerpt)
Pierre-Félix Lagrange, born in 1857 in Soumensac (Lot-et-Garonne) and died in 1928 in Paris, was a renowned French ophthalmologist. Born to a modest family, his teacher recognized his potential and encouraged his family to pursue his education. He became an associate professor of surgery at 26, before specializing in ophthalmology.
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Biography of Renato Simoni (excerpt)
Renato Simoni (Verona, 5 September 1875 – Milan, 5 July 1952) was an Italian journalist, playwright, writer, and theatrical critic, best known for collaborating with Giuseppe Adami on Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Born in Verona, Simoni lost his father in 1879 and became the family's main provider.
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Biography of Liliana Lubinska (excerpt)
Liliana Lubińska (October 14, 1904 - November 19, 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport. Born in Łódź in 1904, she married neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski. She began her studies at the University of Warsaw, then continued at the Sorbonne, earning her doctorate in 1932 for work on reflexes.
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Biography of Willy Rosen (excerpt)
Willy Rosen (18 July 1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player. Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944. Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1942, Rosen was incarcerated in the Westerbork transit camp, and in 1944 deported to Theresienstadt on 4 September 1944 and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 29 September, where he was murdered.
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Biography of Hildebrand Gurlitt (excerpt)
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art". A Nazi-associated art dealer and war profiteer, during the Nazi era Gurlitt traded in "degenerate art", purchasing paintings in Nazi-occupied France, many of them stolen, for Hitler's planned Führermuseum (which was never built) and for himself.
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Biography of Franciska Clausen (excerpt)
Franciska Clausen (7 January 1899 – 5 March 1986) was a Danish painter who was involved in the abstract art movement of the early twentieth century. Clausen studied at the Die Grossherzogliche sächsische Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Weimar, Germany (1916–17), at the Women's Academy in Munich (1918–19), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark (1920–21), and under Hans Hofmann at the Hofmann Schule Fur Moderne Kunst in Munich (1921–22).
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Biography of Erich Kettelhut (excerpt)
Erich Kettelhut (born November 1, 1893, in Berlin; died March 13, 1979, in Hamburg) was a German set designer and scenographer. He trained as a theater painter at the Städtische Oper in Berlin and also worked in cities such as Aachen. He entered the film industry in 1919, working on productions by Joe May.
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Biography of Ricardo Palmerín (excerpt)
Ricardo Palmerín Pavia, born on April 3, 1887, in Tekax, Yucatán, and died on January 30, 1944, in Mexico City, was a Mexican composer. He is best known for composing the music for Peregrina in 1922, at the request of Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, to honor American journalist Alma Reed.
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Biography of Katta Sterna (excerpt)
Katta Sterna (born Katharina Ida Stern, December 19, 1897 – July 29, 1984) was a German actress and dancer. The daughter of engineer Georg Stern and Bertha Schmidt, she was the niece of Käthe Kollwitz and sister to actresses Johanna Hofer, Maria Matray, and Regula Keller.
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Biography of Ramiro Prialé (excerpt)
Ramiro Abelardo Prialé Prialé (January 6, 1904 – February 27, 1988) was a Peruvian politician.A member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, he was a friend of Víctor Raúl Haya De La Torre. He served as the President of the Senate from July 1964 to July 1965, and from July 1987 until his death.
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Biography of Anya Seton (excerpt)
Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American writer of historical fiction, which she preferred to call "biographical novels." Her first novel, My Theodosia, was published in 1941.Her best-known works include Dragonwyck (1944) and Foxfire (1950), both adapted into Hollywood films, as well as Katherine (1954), Green Darkness (1973), and The Winthrop Woman.
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Biography of Selmar Aschheim (excerpt)
Selmar Aschheim (October 4, 1878 – February 15, 1965) was a German gynecologist and a native of Berlin. Born into a Jewish family, he earned his medical doctorate in Freiburg in 1902 and later became the director of the laboratory at the Universitäts-Frauenklinik in Berlin’s Charité.
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Biography of Manuel A. Odría (excerpt)
Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti (November 26, 1897 – February 18, 1974) was a Peruvian statesman and military officer.He seized power in a 1948 coup, establishing a dictatorial regime known as the Ochenio. Political Career His administration, marked by pragmatism and nationalism, benefited from a favorable economic climate during the Korean War, with rising exports and prices.
Biography of Louis Réard (excerpt)
Louis Réard (10 October 1896 – 16 September 1984) was a French automotive engineer and fashion designer known for introducing the modern bikini in July 1946. In 1940, he took over his mother’s lingerie business near the Folies Bergère in Paris. Noticing women rolling up their swimsuits for a better tan, he designed a swimsuit exposing the midriff.
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Biography of Caroline-Eugénie Segond-Weber (excerpt)
Caroline-Eugénie Weber, known as Mme Segond-Weber (February 6, 1867 – June 14, 1945), was a French actress. The daughter of Charles Weber, politically active during the Third Republic, she took the name of her husband, actor Léon Segond, in 1886, retaining it as her stage name after their divorce in 1907.
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Biography of Walter Fyrst (excerpt)
Walter Fyrst (né Fürst; 6 July 1901 – 23 February 1993) was a Norwegian filmmaker.He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the physician Valentin Fürst and Margarethe Christiane Dedekam.His first film was Troll-elgen from 1927, based on two novels by Mikkjel Fønhus.
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Biography of Florence R. Sabin (excerpt)
Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. ![]()
Biography of Lee Morse (excerpt)
Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor on November 30, 1897, and died December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. She rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s as a torch singer, recording over 200 songs during her career.
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Biography of Neel Doff (excerpt)
Cornelia Hubertina "Neel" Doff (born January 27, 1858, in Buggenum, Netherlands, and died July 14, 1942, in Ixelles, Belgium) was a Dutch-born writer who lived in Belgium and wrote primarily in French.She is a prominent figure in proletarian literature. Born into a large and impoverished family, she grew up in harsh conditions.
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Biography of Rodolphe d'Erlanger (excerpt)
Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger (June 7, 1872 – October 29, 1932) was a French painter and musicologist, specializing in North African and Arabic music. The fourth son of Franco-German banker Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger and American Marguerite Mathilde Slidell, Rodolphe came from a distinguished family.
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Biography of Alfred Poell (painter) (excerpt)
Alfred Poell, born on March 26, 1867, in Oberndorf bei Salzburg and died on September 8, 1929, in Gmunden, was an Austrian painter. Son of the medical inspector François Poell, he initially studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck before shifting to art.
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Biography of Bunny Breckinridge (excerpt)
John Cabell Breckinridge, known as Bunny Breckinridge, was an American millionaire born on August 6, 1903, in Paris, and died on November 5, 1996, in Monterey. A member of the wealthy Breckinridge family, he studied at Eton College and Oxford University. Passionate about theater, he participated in the new burlesque movement in Paris during the 1920s before moving to San Francisco after his divorce in 1929.
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Biography of Leonard Nelson (excerpt)
Leonard Nelson (11 July 1882 – 29 October 1927), sometimes spelt Leonhard, was a German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist. He was part of the neo-Friesian school (named after post-Kantian philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fries) of neo-Kantianism and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert.
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Biography of Clelia Mosher (excerpt)
Clelia Duel Mosher (born December 16, 1863, in Albany, died December 21, 1940, in Palo Alto) was a physician, hygienist, and women's health advocate who opposed Victorian stereotypes about women's physical limitations. She studied at Wellesley College, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University, earning a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1893 and a master’s degree in 1894.
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Biography of Eugène Mousset (excerpt)
Eugène Mousset, born on September 26, 1877, in Esch-sur-Alzette and died on February 14, 1941, in the same city, was a Luxembourgish painter. Coming from a modest family, he showed an early passion for painting. He studied in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Paris, where he honed his skills by copying works from masters like Rubens and Van Dyck.
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Biography of Rukhmabai (excerpt)
Rukhmabai (22 November 1864 – 25 September 1955) was an Indian physician and feminist. She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India (first one being Dr. Kadambini Ganguly who started practicing in 1886) as well as being involved in a landmark legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888.
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Biography of Anita Augspurg (excerpt)
Anita Theodora Johanna Sophie Augspurg (22 September 1857 – 20 December 1943) was a German jurist, actress, writer, activist of the radical feminist movement and a pacifist.
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Biography of Kurt Gerron (excerpt)
Kurt Gerron, born on 11 May 1897 and murdered on 30 October 1944, was a German Jewish actor and film director.He and his wife, Olga, were killed during the Holocaust. From a merchant family, he studied medicine before serving as a military doctor in World War I.
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Biography of Gerrit Mannoury (excerpt)
Gerrit Mannoury (17 May 1867 – 30 January 1956) was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam, and communist. He is known as the central figure in the signific circle, the Dutch counterpart to the Vienna Circle. |
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