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Biography of Léo Taxil (excerpt)
Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, known as Léo Taxil (21 March 1854 – 31 March 1907), was a French writer infamous for his anti-clerical publications and a later hoax targeting Freemasonry. Born into a Catholic, royalist family, he broke from religion in his teens and became a radical republican and satirical journalist, attacking the Church with provocative writings.
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 Isabelle Rivière (excerpt)
Isabelle Fournier, née Rivière (July 16, 1889 – June 18, 1971), was a French writer. The sister of Alain-Fournier, she was the daughter of schoolteachers Marie-Albanie Barthe and Augustin Fournier. She married Jacques Rivière, a writer and director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).
Biography of Henry Winterfeld (excerpt)
Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children’s and young adult novels. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he lived until his death.
Biography of Felice Casorati (excerpt)
Felice Casorati (4 December 1883 – 1 March 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for his figure compositions, portraits, and still lifes with unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara, he abandoned piano studies after an illness and turned to art.
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 Albertus Antonie Nijland (excerpt)
Albertus (Albert) Antonie Nijland (born October 30, 1868 – died August 18, 1936) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a professor of astronomy at Utrecht University and served as director of the Sterrewacht Sonnenborgh observatory. Nijland was born in Utrecht and took part in a Dutch solar eclipse expedition to Karang Sago, Sumatra, in 1901.
Biography of A.M. de Jong (excerpt)
Adrianus Michiel de Jong (Nieuw-Vossemeer, March 29, 1888 – Blaricum, October 18, 1943) was a Dutch writer, also using pseudonyms like Frank van Waes. Born in a farming family, he grew up in Nieuw-Vossemeer and Rotterdam. His youth inspired the series Merijntje Gijzens jeugd en jonge jaren.
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 Heinrich Seufferheld (excerpt)
Heinrich Seufferheld (* January 27, 1866, in Weinsberg; † February 20, 1940, in Tübingen) was a German draftsman, painter, and etcher. From 1909 to 1933, he served as a professor at the University of Tübingen, where he reformed university-level drawing education.
Biography of André Helbronner (excerpt)
André Samson Seby Helbronner, born on December 23, 1878, in Paris and died on March 14, 1944, at the Buchenwald concentration camp, was a French physicist, chemist, and inventor. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet and the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, earning his PhD in 1904 under Gabriel Lippmann, Nobel Prize winner in 1908.
Biography of Franz Bachér (excerpt)
Franz Hermann Theodor Nils Bachér was a German chemist and university professor, born on May 21, 1894, in Kassel and died on October 15, 1987, in Salzburg. Son of chemist Franz Bachér and grandson of Theodor Storm, he studied chemistry at Marburg, Kiel, and Rostock starting in 1912.
Biography of Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
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 Robert Bienaimé (excerpt)
Robert Bienaimé (15 March 1876 – 12 October 1960) was a French perfumer, notable for his work at Houbigant. Bienaimé was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and became a perfumer early in life.About 1910, he joined Houbigant, then under the control of Paul Parquet, remaining there until 1935, and created several well-known fragrances for the company.
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 Georg Alfred Stockburger (excerpt)
Georg Alfred Stockburger (born May 12, 1907, in Kusterdingen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg; died April 5, 1986, in Tübingen) was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist. As a young man, Stockburger was encouraged by his teachers to pursue his talent for drawing and trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts.
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 Jorge Basadre (excerpt)
Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann (born February 12, 1903 – died June 29, 1980) was a leading Peruvian historian, best known for his extensive work on the history of Peru’s Republic. He served twice as Minister of Education and directed the National Library of Peru.
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 Hanns Kräly (excerpt)
Hanns Kräly, credited as Hans Kraly in the United States, was a German actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with director Ernst Lubitsch, with whom he worked on 30 films between 1915 and 1929. Their partnership ended in 1930 due to an affair between Kräly and Lubitsch’s then-wife, Helene Krauss.
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 Ramiro Fabiani (excerpt)
Ramiro Fabiani (Barbarano Vicentino, May 15, 1879 – Rome, April 28, 1954) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Born into a modest family after the early death of his father, he studied at the Pigafetta High School in Vicenza and later at the University of Padua, earning degrees in mathematics (1901) and natural sciences (1903).
Biography of Paulette Noizeux (excerpt)
Marie-Paule Cœuré, known professionally as Paulette Noizeux, was a French actress born on May 30, 1887, in Saint-Omer, and died on April 9, 1971, in Paris. The daughter of a military officer, she began life in northern France before pursuing her artistic career in the capital.
Biography of Anzia Yezierska (excerpt)
Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist, known for her stories about Jewish immigrants in New York. Born in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Biography of Miguel A. Catalán (excerpt)
Miguel Antonio Catalán y Sañudo (9 October 1894 – 11 November 1957) was a Spanish spectroscopist born in Zaragoza. He earned his chemistry degree there and completed his doctorate in Madrid in 1917 on spectrochemistry. His time of birth comes from the journal Cuadernos de Aragón, Issues 14-17 (1981).
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 Henry Malherbe (excerpt)
Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe, known as Henry Malherbe or Henry Croisilles, was a French writer, born on February 4, 1886, in Bucharest and died on March 17, 1958, in Paris. A journalist for Le Temps and co-director of La Revue des vivants, he won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 for La flamme au poing, a poetic account of World War I.
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 Otto Ruff (excerpt)
Otto Ruff was born on 30 December 1871 in Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg. Initially a pharmacist under Carl Magnus von Hell, he later joined Hermann Emil Fischer in Berlin, gaining early fame in 1898 for the Ruff degradation, which converts d-Glucose into d-Arabinose.
Biography of Gottfried of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Gottfried of Austria (‹See Tfd›German: Gottfried Maria Joseph Peter Ferdinand Hubert Anton Rupert Leopold Heinrich Ignaz Alfons, Erzherzog von Österreich, Prinz von Toskana; 14 March 1902 – 21 January 1984), also styled as Gottfried Erzherzog von Österreich, was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Archduke of Austria, and Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.
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 Ewald Mataré (excerpt)
Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré, born on February 25, 1887, in Burtscheid, Aachen, and passed away on March 28, 1965, in Büderich, was a German painter and sculptor, known for his stylized figures of men and animals. Mataré studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin starting in 1907.
Biography of Wilibald Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wilibald Gurlitt (March 1, 1889, Dresden – December 15, 1963, Freiburg) was a German musicologist. The son of art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, he studied at Heidelberg and Leipzig, focusing on philosophy and musicology, particularly 16th- and 17th-century music. Trained in violin and organ, he also studied composition with Karl Straube, organist in Leipzig.
Biography of Jessie Tarbox Beals (excerpt)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was the first published female photojournalist in the U.S. and the first woman to do night photography. She became known for her news photography, notably of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and for portraits of bohemian Greenwich Village.
Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
Biography of Francisco Lagos Cházaro (excerpt)
Francisco Jerónimo de Jesús Lagos Cházaro Mortero (Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, September 30, 1878 – November 13, 1932, in Mexico City) was the acting President of Mexico, appointed by the Convention of Aguascalientes, from June 10 to October 10, 1915. Lagos Cházaro studied law in Veracruz, Puebla, and Mexico City.
Biography of Oskar Maria Graf (excerpt)
Oskar Maria Graf (July 22, 1894 – June 28, 1967) was a German-American writer known for his autobiographical narratives about life in Bavaria. Born in Berg, Bavaria, Graf fled his family in 1911 to live in Munich’s bohemian circles.During World War I, he was discharged after refusing orders and being institutionalized.
Biography of Marguerite Carré (soprano) (excerpt)
Marguerite Carré (born Marguerite Giraud, also known as Marguerite Giraud-Carré; Cabourg, August 16, 1880 - Paris 9th arrondissement, November 26, 1947) was a French soprano who, throughout her career, created numerous roles at the Opéra-Comique. She was the daughter of baritone and theater director Auguste Louis Giraud and the niece of Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier.
Biography of Jacques-Paul Bonjean (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Bonjean (born April 3, 1899, in Paris 15ᵉ, died November 18, 1990, in Paris 8ᵉ) was a French art dealer, antique dealer, and collector. In 1927, he co-founded La Maison des quatre chemins with Maurice Sachs, publishing luxury editions of works by Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and later opened galleries with Pierre Colle and Christian Dior.
Biography of Nicolette Hennique (excerpt)
Nicolette Hennique (Paris 8th, April 17, 1882 - Paris 16th, April 11, 1956) was a French poet.Daughter of novelist Léon Hennique and Nicolette-Louise Dupont, she was born on Rue de Courcelles in Paris. She contributed to several literary magazines, including L'Ermitage, L'Hémicycle, La Revue blanche, La Revue, and Le Gaulois.
Biography of Edmundo O'Gorman (excerpt)
Edmundo O'Gorman (born November 24, 1906, in Mexico City, died September 28, 1995, in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian, and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the foremost historical revisionists challenging established narratives about the Spanish colonial period in Latin America.
Biography of Jarogniew Drweski (excerpt)
Jarogniew Mikołaj Drwęski (6 December 1875 – 14 September 1921) was a lawyer, national and social activist, and the first Polish mayor of Poznań after independence. Born in Glinno to a noble family, he studied law and economics at the University of Berlin.
Biography of Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (excerpt)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund; 22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne. He was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who was crown prince for most of his son's life and ascended the Swedish throne three years after his son's death.
Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
Biography of Ludwig Schames (excerpt)
Ludwig Schames (born August 11, 1852, in Frankfurt am Main; died July 3, 1922, in the same city) was a German art dealer who supported German expressionists, notably Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, becoming his principal gallerist. Coming from a long-established Jewish family in Frankfurt, he initially worked as a banker in Paris, where he became fascinated by the emerging art scene.
Biography of Gaston Roussel (industrialist) (excerpt)
Gaston Roussel (Auxonne, December 1, 1877 – Boulogne-sur-Seine, January 8, 1947) was a French veterinarian, physician, and industrialist, founder of France's leading pharmaceutical company. Graduating as a veterinarian in 1903, he became a doctor of medicine in 1909 with research on rabbit syphilis.
Biography of Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Biography of Pierre Daura (excerpt)
Pierre Daura (born Pedro Francisco Daura y García, February 21, 1896, Ciudadela, Minorca – 1976, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia) was a Spanish painter. Born to a family of musicians and textile merchants, he lost his mother at the age of seven. He studied at La Llotja, Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, under José Ruiz Blanco, Picasso’s father.
Biography of Gaston Calmette (excerpt)
Gaston Calmette (July 30, 1858, Montpellier – March 17, 1914, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French journalist and the director of Le Figaro. Career The elder brother of bacteriologist Albert Calmette, he joined Le Figaro at 27 and became its director in 1902. In January 1914, he led a fierce campaign against Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, publishing compromising personal letters. |
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