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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 Dawn Powell (excerpt)
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.
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 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 Dorothy Mackaill (excerpt)
Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress, best known for her roles during the silent and pre-Code film eras. Born in Kingston upon Hull, she was raised by her father after her parents separated. She trained in London and Paris, then moved to New York at 17 to dance in the Ziegfeld Follies.
Biography of Georges Lepape (excerpt)
Georges Lepape (26 June 1887 – 15 February 1971) was a French fashion illustrator, poster artist, engraver, and designer, closely associated with the Art Deco movement. A student at the Académie Humbert, he gained early fame in 1911 with Les Choses de Paul Poiret, considered his masterpiece.
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 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 Edith Klatt (excerpt)
Edith Klatt, born Edith Mischke on January 24, 1895 in Berlin and died on December 14, 1971 in Ribnitz-Damgarten, was a German physician and writer. Daughter of socialist journalist Karl Mischke, she spent her childhood in Japan and traveled through India and Siberia, sparking an early interest in ethnography.
Biography of Arnold Zweig (excerpt)
Arnold Zweig, born November 10, 1887 in Glogau (now in Poland) and died November 26, 1968 in East Berlin, was a German writer, pacifist, and socialist. A volunteer in World War I, he emerged disillusioned and became a strong anti-war voice.
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 Leon Krynski (excerpt)
Leon Paweł Wawrzyniec Kryński (born February 20, 1866, in Warsaw; died October 8, 1937, in Warsaw) was a Polish surgeon and urologist. Born into a Warsaw family, he studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, earning his doctorate in 1891. After advancing his skills in Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Paris, and Vienna, he became a professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1901.
Biography of Oscar Fetrás (excerpt)
Oscar Fetrás (16 February 1854 – 10 January 1931), born Otto Kaufmann Faster in Hamburg, was a German composer of light music, known for his waltzes and marches. His best-known piece is the waltz Mondnacht auf der Alster Op. 60, still widely loved today.
Biography of Marcel Vibert (excerpt)
Marcel Vibert (2 November 1883 – 11 June 1959) was a French film actor. Vibert worked primarily in the French film industry, but in the late 1920s he also appeared in several British silent films including Moulin Rouge and Champagne. On 14 October 1930, Vibert married actress Hélène Darly.
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 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 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.
Biography of Eloísa Díaz (excerpt)
Eloísa Díaz Inzunza (June 25, 1866 – November 1, 1950) was a Chilean medical doctor and the first woman to obtain a medical degree in South America. Born in Santiago, Chile, Díaz attended several schools before enrolling in the University of Chile's School of Medicine in 1880, following a law allowing women to study at the university.
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).
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 Karl Plagge (excerpt)
Karl Plagge (10 July 1897 – 19 June 1957) was a German engineer and army officer who saved over 1,250 Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania. A wounded World War I veteran, he joined the Nazi Party in 1931 hoping to help rebuild Germany.
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 Gildardo Magaña (excerpt)
Gildardo Magaña Cerda (born March 7, 1891, died December 13, 1939) was a Mexican general, politician, and revolutionary. Born into a liberal trading family in Zamora, Michoacán, Magaña studied economics in the United States before joining the anti-reelectionist movement in Mexico in 1911.
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 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 Alexander Kanoldt (excerpt)
Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German painter associated with New Objectivity and magic realism. Born in Karlsruhe, he was the son of Edmund Kanoldt, a Nazarene-style painter.After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, he moved to Munich in 1908, where he interacted with modernists like Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky.
Biography of Lola Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Lola Álvarez Bravo (April 1, 1903 – July 31, 1993) was Mexico’s first female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolutionary cultural renaissance. In 1964, she received the Premio José Clemente Orozco for her contributions to photography and cultural preservation.
Biography of Armando Falconi (excerpt)
Armando Falconi (born July 6, 1871 in Rome – died September 10, 1954 in Milan) was an Italian actor who appeared in over forty films. Born into a family of Neapolitan stage actors, he began acting professionally in the late 1890s after working in other fields.
Biography of Albert Johan Kramer (excerpt)
Albert Johan Kramer (Amsterdam, 15 June 1897 – Amsterdam, 4 April 1976) was possibly the tallest Dutchman of all time, with a reported height of 2.42 meters. He performed worldwide as a variety artist under the stage names Lofty and Jan van Albert.
Biography of Egisto Olivieri (excerpt)
Egisto Olivieri, born on March 21, 1880, in Rome and died on March 4, 1962, in Bologna, was an Italian actor active in both theatre and cinema. He was known for his classical stage work and collaborations with major theatrical figures.
Biography of Philipp Franck (painter) (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860 – 13 March 1944) was a German Impressionist painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Encouraged by his father, Franck initially studied architecture but shifted to art after his father’s death.At 17, he enrolled at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, specializing in landscapes and fairy tale illustrations under Eduard Jakob von Steinle.
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 Juventino Rosas (excerpt)
José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (January 25, 1868 – July 9, 1894) was a renowned Mexican composer and violinist, best known for his piece Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves). Born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato (now Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas), he began as a street musician, performing with dance bands in Mexico City.
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 Gabriel Figueroa (excerpt)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was one of the most renowned cinematographers of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema.He was known for his mastery of chiaroscuro, precise framing, and painterly aesthetics. Trained in painting and violin, he began as a photographer before entering film in 1933.
Biography of Rudolf Levy (excerpt)
Rudolf Levy (July 15, 1875 – January 1944) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish descent. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, he grew up in Danzig.Despite his parents’ objections, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1895, later moving to Munich.
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 Piet Meertens (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens (6 September 1899 – 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar specializing in literature, dialectology, and ethnology. He founded the institutes that later merged into the Meertens Instituut, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he served as director until 1965.
Biography of Georg Florschütz (physician) (excerpt)
Johann Georg Karl Jacob Florschütz, born on February 1, 1859, in Königsberg, Bavaria, and died on April 18, 1940, in Gotha, was a German physician, recognized as the founder of life insurance medicine in Germany. He studied medicine at Würzburg and Berlin from 1879 to 1884, earning his doctorate in 1884.
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 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 Leopold Abraham Ries (excerpt)
Leopold Abraham Ries (born 15 April 1893 in Groningen, died 10 July 1962 in New York) was a Dutch senior civil servant, appointed Treasurer-General in 1935. A talented jurist from a wealthy Jewish family, he was close to Eelco van Kleffens and an early quiet supporter of gay rights in the Netherlands.
Biography of Clément Étienne Challier (excerpt)
Clément Étienne Challier was born on August 10, 1851, in Toulon, Var, and died on October 2, 1884, in Tonkin, aboard the gunboat "Massue". He was the son of Michel Magloire Challier, a chief mechanic and Knight of the Legion of Honor, born in La Roche-Guyon (now in Val d'Oise) and who died in Toulon in 1887.
Biography of Nando Bruno (excerpt)
Nando Bruno, born Fernando Bruno (Rome, October 6, 1895 – Rome, April 10, 1963), was an Italian actor. He began performing at a young age in Rome's avanspettacolo and variety shows. After a long theater career, he was cast by Mario Mattoli for the film L'ha fatto una signora (1938).
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 James Lewin (excerpt)
James Lewin (October 28, 1887 – December 31, 1937) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in 1912. He specialized in psychiatry, working in Kiel and Leipzig.
Biography of Käthe Latzke (excerpt)
Käthe Latzke (8 May 1899 - 31 March 1945) was a German political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism and spent most of her final twelve years in state detention.Her health having been broken, she died in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Käthe Latzke came from a working-class family and started her political activism by joining socialist youth organizations in 1918.
Biography of Werner Scholem (excerpt)
Werner Scholem (December 29, 1895 – July 17, 1940) was a German politician.A member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1928, he was arrested in 1933 due to his Jewish background and communist activities.
Biography of Manfred George (excerpt)
Manfred George (October 22, 1893 – December 30, 1965), born Manfred Georg Cohn, later shortened to Manfred Georg, was a German journalist, author and translator. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power, living in several different European countries and eventually emigrating penniless to the United States in 1939.
Biography of Robert Pferdmenges (excerpt)
Robert Pferdmenges (27 March 1880 – 28 September 1962) was a German banker and CDU politician, known for his close friendship with Konrad Adenauer.He served as a member of the Bundestag from 1950 to 1962. After completing a banking apprenticeship, he worked in London for Disconto-Gesellschaft, eventually becoming branch manager. |
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