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Biography of Hermann Voss (anatomist) (excerpt)
Christian Heinrich Emil Hermann Voss (October 13, 1894 – January 19, 1987) was a German anatomist known for his medical academic work and textbooks, but also notorious for his experiments during the Third Reich. Born in Berlin, he studied at several universities before completing his doctorate in 1919.
Biography of Antoni Troczewski (excerpt)
Antoni Fortunat Marian Troczewski (born June 1, 1861, in Łomża, died September 22, 1928, in Kutno) was a Polish physician, social activist, and political figure. Son of Antoni and Dionizy, Troczewski moved to Kutno in 1891, where he quickly became prominent. Starting as a volunteer doctor, he directed Saint Valentine Hospital, transforming it with new surgical, gynecological-obstetric, and infectious disease departments.
Biography of Alfred Weber (économist) (excerpt)
Carl David Alfred Weber (July 30, 1868 – May 2, 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist whose work significantly influenced the development of modern economic geography. The younger brother of sociologist Max Weber, he was born in Erfurt and raised in Charlottenburg.
Biography of Felix Jentzsch (excerpt)
Felix Hermann Ferdinand Jentzsch (*September 14, 1882, Königsberg – †November 10, 1946, Berlin) was a German physicist specializing in applied optics, known for his contributions to microscopy innovations. He studied at TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1908 on electron emission from heated metal oxides.
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.
Biography of Johan Huizinga (excerpt)
Johan Huizinga (7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian regarded as one of the pioneers of modern cultural history. Born in Groningen, he initially studied Indo-European languages and wrote his 1897 doctoral thesis on the jester in Indian drama.
Biography of Miguel Covarrubias (excerpt)
José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (Mexico City, November 22, 1904 – February 3, 1957), also known as El Chamaco, was a Mexican artist and researcher. His time of birth comes from the biography "Covarrubias" by Adriana Williams and Doris Ober (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).
Biography of Jeanne Mammen (excerpt)
Jeanne Mammen (21 November 1890 – 22 April 1976) was a German painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity, Symbolism, and Cubism movements. She is best known for her depictions of queer women and Berlin city life during the Weimar period.
Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
Biography of Anne Zernike (excerpt)
Anne Zernike (1887–1972) was a Dutch liberal theologian and the first ordained woman minister in the Netherlands.Initially serving with the Mennonites, the only denomination permitting female ministers, she later joined the Dutch Protestant Association (NPB). Born on 30 April 1887 in Amsterdam into an intellectual family, she studied at the University of Amsterdam and the Anabaptist Seminary.
Biography of Pascual Custode (excerpt)
Pasquale Maria Custode del Vecchio (born in Castelnuovo di Conza, Italy, on November 21, 1873 - died in Sincelejo, Colombia, on January 23, 1928) was a Catholic priest who ministered in the departments of Sucre and Córdoba, Colombia. He served in the parishes of Sampués, Palmito, San Andrés de Sotavento, Chinú, Sahagún, and Sincelejo, where he inspired a whole generation through his dedicated and selfless service.
Biography of Georg Kolbe (excerpt)
Georg Kolbe (April 15, 1877 – November 20, 1947) was a German sculptor and a leading figure of his generation in modernized classical style. Born in Saxony, he initially trained as a painter before turning to sculpture in Rome under Louis Tuaillon.
Biography of Jean Jacoby (artist) (excerpt)
Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a Luxembourgish artist renowned for his sports-themed works. He won two Olympic gold medals in the arts competitions: in 1924 for Étude de sport and in 1928 for Rugby, making him the most decorated Olympic artist in history.
Biography of Julius Richard Petri (excerpt)
Julius Richard Petri (born 31 May 1852 in Barmen, Germany – died 20 December 1921) was a German microbiologist, best known for inventing the Petri dish. He studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians and earned his doctorate from Charité Hospital in Berlin in 1876.
Biography of Francisco Asorey (excerpt)
Francisco Asorey González, born March 4, 1889, in Cambados, and died July 2, 1961, in Santiago de Compostela, was a prominent Spanish sculptor of the 20th century.As a child, he showed talent for carving wooden Christs and saints. He studied with the Salesians in Sarrià and later taught drawing in Baracaldo, where he opened a religious sculpture workshop.
Biography of Ramón Menéndez Pidal (excerpt)
Ramón Menéndez Pidal (13 March 1869 – 14 November 1968) was a Spanish philologist and historian, renowned for his work on the Spanish language, folklore, and poetry. He was best known for his studies on El Cid and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature a record 154 times.
Biography of Martin Dibelius (excerpt)
Martin Dibelius (Dresden, September 14, 1883 – Heidelberg, November 11, 1947) was a German Protestant theologian and biblical scholar, professor of New Testament at Heidelberg University. The son of pastor Franz Wilhelm Dibelius and cousin of Otto Dibelius, he studied theology and philosophy at renowned universities before becoming a professor in Heidelberg in 1915.
Biography of Carl Spiecker (excerpt)
Carl Spiecker (January 7, 1888 – November 16, 1953) was a German journalist and politician, first with the Zentrum party and later with the CDU. Spiecker started as a journalist and led propaganda operations in Silesia during the 1920s. He later became press chief for Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and founded the influential Deutsche Nachrichten- und Korrespondenz-Gesellschaft in 1925.
Biography of Ruth Rewald (excerpt)
Ruth Rewald (born June 5, 1906, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and likely killed in Auschwitz in 1942) was a German children’s author of Jewish origin.Her work combined revolutionary proletarian literature with humanist themes. After abandoning her law studies, she published her first children’s books in 1931, focusing on social issues like working children’s lives and feelings of statelessness.
Biography of Chrix Dahl (excerpt)
Chrix Dahl (January 5, 1906 – June 16, 1994) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. Born in Kristiania (now Oslo), he was the eldest son of a naval officer and Elise Augusta Steen. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and the National Academy of Fine Arts from 1924 to 1932.
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.
Biography of Corrado Alvaro (excerpt)
Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
Biography of Louis Z. Rollini (excerpt)
Louis Z.Rollini, born August 26, 1866 in Paris, died July 4, 1951 in Le Vésinet, was a French film writer whose works range from La leçon du gouffre (1913), Bigorno fume l'opium (1914) and Il bacio della gloria (1913).He was the brother of film director Ferdinand Zecca.
Biography of Martín Ramírez (artist) (excerpt)
Martín Ramírez (* January 30, 1895 – † February 17, 1963) was a self-taught Mexican artist, now regarded as one of the 20th century's masters of outsider art. Biography Born in Tepatitlán, Mexico, he emigrated to the U.S.in 1925 to work on railroads, leaving his family behind.
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.
Biography of Marius Daille (excerpt)
Marius Daille, born on October 10, 1878, in Les Mollettes, was a distinguished French general during the Second World War. Beyond his military career, he gained international recognition as a speaker and columnist, publishing works in English and authoring several books on military analysis and strategy.
Biography of Katharine Cornell (excerpt)
Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893 – June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner, and producer. Born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York, she was dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott.
Biography of Caio Prado Júnior (excerpt)
Caio da Silva Prado Júnior (February 11, 1907 – November 23, 1990) was a Brazilian historian, geographer, writer, philosopher, and politician.He pioneered a Marxist-inspired historiographic tradition in Brazil to reinterpret its colonial society. He graduated in law from Faculdade do Largo de São Francisco in 1928, later becoming a professor of political economy.
Biography of Hugo Vollrath (excerpt)
Hugo Vollrath, born April 11, 1877, in Zeitz, Germany, was a German theosophist, astrologer, and publisher. He became a pioneer of the early 20th-century revival of astrology in German-speaking countries. In 1909, he launched the theosophical magazine Prana with Austrian Brandler-Pracht, including an astrological supplement, Astrologische Rundschau, which sparked widespread interest.
Biography of Lucien Andriot (excerpt)
Lucien Andriot (November 19, 1892 – March 19, 1979) was a French cinematographer who built most of his career in the United States. A member of the American Society of Cinematographers, he was sometimes credited as Lucien N. Andriot. He began in France between 1909 and 1913, working on silent short films directed by Victorin Jasset, often starring his sister, actress Josette Andriot.
Biography of Ernst Balcke (excerpt)
Ernst Balcke (*April 9, 1887, Berlin – †January 16, 1912, Gatow) was a German author, best known for his friendship with poet Georg Heym, with whom he tragically died while skating on the Havel. The eldest son of a banker, Balcke grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg near the Heym family.
Biography of Herbert Assmann (excerpt)
Herbert Assmann (born November 25, 1882, in Danzig (now Gdańsk in Poland), died February 27, 1950, in Oldenburg) was a German internist and university professor. Son of Edwin Assmann and Anna Emma Laura Steimmig, he studied medicine in Freiburg, Munich, and Königsberg, earning his doctorate in 1905.
Biography of Nico Rost (excerpt)
Nicolaas Rost, born on June 21, 1896, in Groningen and died on February 1, 1967, in Amsterdam, was a Dutch writer, translator, journalist, and resistance fighter. During the 1920s and 1930s, he lived in Germany, working as a translator and journalist. He traveled to the Soviet Union, joined the Communist Party, and was briefly imprisoned in Oranienburg in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power.
Biography of Constance Stone (excerpt)
Emma Constance Stone (December 4, 1856 – December 29, 1902) was the first woman to practice medicine in Australia. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she moved with her family to Melbourne in 1872. Unable to study medicine in Australia, she went to the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, earning her degree in 1888.
Biography of Jane Poupelet (excerpt)
Jane Poupelet (born 19 April 1874 in Clauzure, a hamlet in Saint-Paul-Lizonne, Dordogne, and died 17 October 1932 in Talence, Gironde) was a French sculptor and illustrator. She also excelled in animal sculpture and created female nudes. Artistic Technique To create her unique works, Jane Poupelet developed her own technique: she first shaped a piece in clay, then cast it in plaster.
Biography of Jean Grenier (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Grenier (February 6, 1898 – March 5, 1971) was a French philosopher and writer.Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Brittany, where he befriended Louis Guilloux and Max Jacob. A philosophy graduate in 1922, he taught at the Algiers high school, mentoring Albert Camus, who dedicated several works to him, inspired by Grenier’s Les Îles (1933).
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 Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen.
Biography of Jean Gilbert (composer) (excerpt)
Jean Gilbert, born Max Winterfeld (February 11, 1879 – December 20, 1942), was a German composer and conductor. Born into a musical family in Hamburg, he studied with Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin and debuted as a piano virtuoso at 15. At 18, he became a conductor in Bremerhaven and composed his first operetta, Das Jungfernstift, adopting the pseudonym Jean Gilbert.
Biography of Marcel Gitton (excerpt)
Marcel Gitton, born on April 20, 1903, in Versailles and died on September 5, 1941, in Paris, whose real name was Marcel Giroux, was a French politician. As the third-ranking member of the French Communist Party (SFIC) at the beginning of World War II, he was one of the communist politicians who opposed the party’s official line in 1939-1940 following the German-Soviet Pact.
Biography of Alfred Gause (excerpt)
Alfred Gause, born on February 14, 1896, in Königsberg, and died on September 30, 1967, in Bonn, was a German Generalleutnant who served in the Heer of the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, a prestigious decoration for extreme bravery on the battlefield or successful military leadership.
Biography of Willem van Hoogstraten (excerpt)
Willem van Hoogstraten was born on March 18, 1884, in Utrecht.A Dutch violinist and conductor, he began studying the violin at eight and continued his training in Cologne and Prague. He started his career conducting at a health resort before leading the Kleefeld Orchestra from 1914 to 1918.
Biography of Rudolf Kaesbach (excerpt)
Rudolf Kaesbach, born on July 22, 1873, in Gladbach and died on December 4, 1955, in Berlin, was a German sculptor. He studied in Hanau, Paris, and Brussels, and ran his own casting workshop in Düsseldorf. From 1904, he worked in Berlin and gained recognition with life-size marble sculptures.
Biography of Piero Sraffa (excerpt)
Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.
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 Joan Cornudella (excerpt)
Joan Cornudella i Barberà (born November 3, 1904, in les Borges Blanques, Garrigues - died March 26, 1985, in Barcelona) was a Catalan nationalist politician, secretary general of Estat Català, and co-founder of the Front Nacional de Catalunya. After the democratic transition, he joined the Pacte Democràtic per Catalunya before concluding his political career with the PSC, where he served as a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for two terms.
Biography of André Fontainas (excerpt)
André Fontainas, born on February 5, 1865, in Brussels and died on December 8, 1948, in Paris, was a French poet and critic, Belgian by birth. The grandson of André-Napoléon Fontainas and the son of Charles Fontainas, a lawyer at the Court of Brussels, André had to follow his father to Paris in 1877 for professional reasons.
Biography of William Sharp (writer) (excerpt)
William Sharp, born on September 12, 1855, in Paisley and died on December 12, 1905, in Syracuse, was a Scottish writer best known for publishing under the secret pseudonym Fiona MacLeod. This alter ego allowed him to explore mystical and Celtic themes.
Biography of Arthur Kronfeld (excerpt)
Arthur Kronfeld was born on January 9, 1886, in Berlin and died on October 16, 1941, in Moscow.He was a German physician, psychologist, and psychotherapist, trained in philosophy within the Berlin circle of Leonard Nelson. He specialized in psychiatry and published a scientific critique of psychoanalysis in collaboration with Karl Jaspers, Otto Meyerhof, and Otto Heinrich Warburg.
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. |
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