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Biography of Louis Perrée (excerpt)
Louis Léonce Théophile Perrée, born on March 25, 1871, in Paris (3rd arrondissement) and died on March 1, 1924, in Ivry-la-Bataille (Eure), was a French fencer specializing in épée. Career Louis Perrée participated in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he won the silver medal.
Biography of Betty Smith (novelist) (excerpt)
Betty Smith, born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, in New York, and died on January 17, 1972, in Shelton, Connecticut, was an American writer best known for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). Born to German immigrant parents, she grew up in poverty in Brooklyn, developing a love for literature through her local library.
Biography of Aribert of Anhalt (excerpt)
Prince Aribert Joseph Alexander of Anhalt (1866–1933) was the regent of Anhalt from September to November 1918 for his underage nephew, Joachim Ernst. During the German revolution, he abdicated on his nephew's behalf on 12 November 1918, ending the House of Ascania's rule.
Biography of Willem van Konijnenburg (excerpt)
Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg (The Hague, February 11, 1868 – The Hague, February 28, 1943) was a Dutch visual artist. During the interwar period (1919-1939), he was, alongside Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters, one of the national figureheads of modern Dutch art.
Biography of Louis Anquetin (excerpt)
Louis Anquetin (born January 26, 1861, in Étrépagny – died August 19, 1932, in Paris) was a French painter.A pioneer of Synthetism, he was friends with Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso. In 1882, he moved to Paris, joining Léon Bonnat's studio, where he befriended Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Biography of Franco Becci (excerpt)
Franco Becci (Rome, December 1, 1888 – Rome, November 5, 1951) was an Italian actor.He began his theater career in 1909 and quickly rose to prominence in Flavio Andò's company. In 1912, he joined companies performing the works of Sem Benelli, working with Gualtiero Tumiati and Arnaldo Ninchi until 1932.
Biography of Isaac José Pardo (excerpt)
Isaac José Pardo Soublette (Caracas, 14 October 1905 - 3 March 2000), was a Venezuelan intellectual of German-Jewish extraction known for his essays: Esta tierra de gracia (1955) and Fuegos bajo el agua. La invención de la utopía (1983). Also, was part of the Generation of 1928, movement against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez; founder of the party Unión Republicana Democrática (URD) in 1945, director of El Nacional, redactor of the humorist paper El Morrocoy Azul, and principal authority of the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela in 1963.
Biography of Willy Kruyt (excerpt)
Willy Kruyt (born John William Kruyt; September 8, 1877 – July 1943) was a Dutch Protestant minister and a Christian socialist turned Communist politician. The son of a Dutch publisher and a Scottish mother, he studied theology at Utrecht and joined the League of Christian Socialists in 1910.
Biography of Heinrich Klose (médecin) (excerpt)
Heinrich Klose, born to a railway official, studied medicine at the University of Göttingen from 1898 and later at the University of Strasbourg, graduating in 1903. He trained in surgery under Ludwig Rehn and Victor Schmieden in Frankfurt.During WWI, he served as a medical officer and later became a professor in Danzig, specializing in urology.
Biography of Yvonne Pagniez (excerpt)
Yvonne Pagniez, born on August 10, 1896, in Cauroir, was a French journalist, award-winning writer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.She studied Philosophy and served as a nurse during World War I. Her family experienced occupation and separation during the war; her father was arrested as a spy but escaped.
Biography of Constantin Oddo (excerpt)
Paul Marie Constantin Oddo, born on June 6, 1860, and died on June 21, 1926, in Marseille, was a French physician and professor at the Marseille School of Medicine, and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine. The son of a broker and grandson of Auguste Laforêt, he spent his career at the Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille, where he became an intern in 1881.
Biography of Jean de Beaumont (excerpt)
Count Jean Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont (13 January 1904 – 12 June 2002) was a French aristocrat, businessman, politician, journalist, and sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Born in Paris, he hailed from a notable aristocratic family and studied at prestigious French institutions.
Biography of Gustav de Vries (excerpt)
Gustav de Vries (22 January 1866 – 16 December 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. He was born on 22 January 1866 in Amsterdam, and studied at the University of Amsterdam with the distinguished physical chemist Johannes van der Waals and with Korteweg.
Biography of Eelco van Kleffens (excerpt)
Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (born 17 November 1894, died 17 June 1983) was a Dutch politician and diplomat. Descending from a Frisian family of civil servants, he studied law at Leiden University and started his career at the League of Nations and later at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Jean Webster (author) (excerpt)
Jean Webster, born Alice Jane Chandler Webster on July 24, 1876, and died on June 11, 1916, was an American author best known for Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her books feature lively young female protagonists who grow intellectually, morally, and socially, while incorporating humor, witty dialogue, and subtle social critique.
Biography of Nunzio Filogamo (excerpt)
Nunzio Filogamo (20 September 1902 – 24 January 2002) was an Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer. Life and career Born in Palermo, Filogamo moved to Turin at a young age, then he studied law at the Sorbonne University and at the Turin University, where he graduated.
Biography of Cor van der Lugt Melsert (excerpt)
Cornelis Dirk van der Lugt Melsert (Rotterdam, July 4, 1882 – The Hague, August 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor and director. He debuted at age 9 with the Nederlandsche Tooneelvereeniging and graduated from the Amsterdam School of Theatre in 1902. He directed the Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel from 1923 to 1938, then became head of NV Het Nederlandsch Tooneel in Amsterdam.
Biography of Elga Brink (excerpt)
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (born Frey, formerly Brink; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known as Elga Brink, was a German film actress.She rose to prominence in the 1920s through her roles in numerous silent films.Her final silent film, Marriage in Trouble, was released in 1928.
Biography of Max Slevogt (excerpt)
Max Slevogt (8 or 20 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German impressionist painter, engraver, and illustrator, and a key figure of the "plein air" style alongside Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1885–1889) and later moved to Paris, where he was influenced by Manet.
Biography of David van Dantzig (excerpt)
David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician renowned for constructing the solenoid in topology. He was a member of the Significs Group. Born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam, he earned his PhD in 1931 at the University of Groningen under Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, focusing on topological algebra.
Biography of Elsa Gindler (excerpt)
Elsa Gindler (19 June 1885 – 8 January 1961) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany. Born in Berlin, teacher of gymnastik, student of Hedwig Kallmeyer (who, in turn, had been a student of Genevieve Stebbins). From her personal experience of recovering from tuberculosis (it is said by concentrating on breathing only with her healthy lung and resting the diseased lung), Gindler originated a school of movement education, in close collaboration with Heinrich Jacoby.
Biography of Carles Riba (excerpt)
Carles Riba i Bracons (23 September 1893 – 12 July 1959) was a Catalan poet, writer, and translator of Spanish nationality. Born in Barcelona, he studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1916, he married poet Clementina Arderiu and worked at the School of Librarianship.
Biography of Lino Vaccari (excerpt)
Lino Vaccari, born on August 23, 1873 in Crespano del Grappa and died in Rome in 1951, was an Italian botanist known for his alpine flora studies and educational contributions. He earned a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Padua and taught in various secondary schools before becoming a headmaster, school inspector, and professor of botany in Rome and Florence.
Biography of Herbert Myrick (excerpt)
Herbert Myrick, born on 20 August 1860 in Arlington, Massachusetts, was an American writer, editor, and businessman known for his influential work in agricultural publishing.He was the owner of the Phelps Publishing Company and served as editor-in-chief of the New England Homestead.
Biography of Wilfred Talbot Smith (excerpt)
Wilfred Talbot Smith, born Frank Wenham on June 8, 1885, and died April 27, 1957, was an English occultist and ceremonial magician.He was a key figure in spreading the religion of Thelema across North America. His time of birth comes from the book "The Unknown God: W.
Biography of Vincenzo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Vincenzo Scarpetta (born May 4, 1876, and passed away August 3, 1952) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, and composer. The son of Eduardo Scarpetta, he was the stepbrother of Eduardo, Peppino, Titina De Filippo, Eduardo Passarelli, and Pasquale De Filippo. After his father retired, he became the head of his theater company and was a pioneer of Neapolitan and Italian cinema.
Biography of Georg Aumann (excerpt)
Georg Aumann (11 November 1906 in Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician.He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr.
Biography of Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
Biography of Alfred Kröner (publisher) (excerpt)
Alfred Kröner (born February 27, 1861, in Stuttgart; died January 2, 1922, in Berlin) was a German publisher and founder of the Alfred Kröner Verlag in 1904. Son of publisher Adolf von Kröner, he began his publishing career after military training, managing the magazine Die Gartenlaube in Leipzig from 1886.
Biography of Gertrud von Le Fort (excerpt)
Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort, born on October 11, 1876, in Minden, was a German writer. The daughter of a Prussian colonel, she studied at Heidelberg, Marburg, and Berlin, and settled in Bavaria in 1918. Her literary career began in earnest in 1925 when she edited a posthumous work by her mentor, Ernst Troeltsch.
Biography of William Craigie (excerpt)
Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a renowned philologist and lexicographer. A University of St Andrews alumnus, he became the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-edited its 1933 supplement with C. T. Onions.
Biography of Oscar Andriani (excerpt)
Oscar Andriani (28 December 1905 – 17 July 1987) was an Italian actor and playwright.He appeared in more than fifty films from 1937 to 1969. Life and career Born in Brescia, Andriani made his stage debut at 17 years old in the theatrical company of Amedeo Chiantoni , and later worked with other important companies of the time, such the ones led by Emma Gramatica, Wanda Capodaglio and Annibale Ninchi.
Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
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.
Biography of Elías Nandino (excerpt)
Elías Nandino (April 19, 1900 – October 3, 1993) was a Mexican poet. Born in Cocula, Jalisco, he was raised Catholic. He studied medicine at UNAM, becoming a surgeon in 1930. Alongside his medical career, he wrote poetry, influenced by Manuel M. Flores and Los Contemporáneos.
Biography of Georges Bruhat (excerpt)
Georges Bruhat (21 December 1887 – 1 January 1945) was a French physicist known for his contributions to optics and for authoring a renowned four-volume physics textbook series. He studied at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne, completing a PhD in optics under Aimé Cotton.
Biography of Boleslaw Barlog (excerpt)
Boleslaw Stanislaus Barlog (28 March 1906 – 17 March 1999) was a German stage, film, and opera director primarily known for his work in reviving the theatrical life of Berlin after World War II. From 1951 until 1972 he served as the Intendant of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin, the municipal theatre company of West Berlin that at its height employed over 80 actors and operated three theatrical venues—Schiller Theater, Schiller Theater Werkstatt, and Schlosspark Theater.
Biography of Roger Babson (excerpt)
Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
Biography of Marian Januszajtis-Zegota (excerpt)
Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.
Biography of Elisabeth Zernike (excerpt)
Elisabeth Zernike (July 8, 1891 – March 12, 1982) was a Dutch writer. She was the sister of Anne Zernike and Frits Zernike. Her father was a school principal and pedagogue, and her mother was a teacher. She attended the girls’ HBS (secondary school) in Amsterdam and later the School of Music for Sound Art before pursuing writing.
Biography of Augusto B. Leguía (excerpt)
Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo (19 February 1863 – 6 February 1932) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930, the latter term known as the "Oncenio" after its eleven-year length.
Biography of Beatrice Hastings (excerpt)
Beatrice Hastings, born Emily Alice Haigh (January 25, 1879 – October 30, 1943), was an English writer, literary critic, poet, and theosophist.Her time of birth comes from her, in "Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life" by Stephen Gray (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2012).
Biography of María Domínguez Remón (excerpt)
María Domínguez Remón (1 April 1882 – 7 September 1936) was a Spanish journalist, poet, and republican socialist politician. In 1932, she was the first democratic mayor of the Second Spanish Republic in the town of Gallur, Zaragoza. She was shot by Francoists at the beginning of the Civil War.
Biography of Bettiola Heloise Fortson (excerpt)
Bettiola Heloise Fortson (December 29, 1890 – April 13, 1917) was an African-American poet, essayist, activist, and suffragist. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she moved to Chicago at age 12. Fortson co-founded the University Society of Chicago, promoting artistic and intellectual development among African Americans.
Biography of Leopoldo Méndez (excerpt)
Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century. Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.
Biography of Pierre-Paul Grassé (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul Grassé (born November 27, 1895, in Périgueux, Dordogne, and died July 9, 1985, in Paris) was a French biologist, zoologist, and paleontologist, author of over 300 publications, including a significant treatise on zoology. A Doctor of Biological Sciences, he taught at the University of Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he became the Chair of Evolution in 1941.
Biography of Émile Allegret (excerpt)
Émile Allegret, born on April 24, 1907, in Dijon and passed away on November 22, 1990, in Vaux-sur-Mer, was a French military officer and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1926, becoming a test pilot and engineer.
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.
Biography of Christina Broom (excerpt)
Christina Broom, born on December 28, 1862, in London and passed away on June 5, 1939, in Margate, was a Scottish photographer, recognized as the UK’s first female photojournalist. After the failure of her family business in 1903, she taught herself photography and started selling postcard prints near Buckingham Palace.
Biography of André Daven (excerpt)
André Daven (13 March 1899 - 17 November 1981) was a French film producer, actor and director. In the mid-1920s he was the artistic director of the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris when Josephine Baker was hired to appear there. During the German occupation of France during the Second World War he went to the United States where he produced four films. |
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