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Biography of Maria Pascoli (excerpt)
Mariù Pascoli was the pseudonym of Italian writer and poet Maria Pascoli (1 November 1865 – 5 December 1953). She was the sister of poet Giovanni Pascoli, whom she assisted until his death, preserving his archives in the house that bears his name.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of André Lalande (philosopher) (excerpt)
Pierre André Lalande (July 19, 1867 – November 15, 1963) was a French philosopher known for his work in logic and methodology of science. He ranked first in the philosophy agrégation in 1888 and taught at several prestigious high schools before becoming a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1906.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Ferdinand von Bredow (excerpt)
Ferdinand von Bredow (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German Generalmajor, head of the Abwehr, and deputy defence minister in Kurt von Schleicher's cabinet. He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives, accused of plotting against Hitler. ![]()
Biography of Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio.
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Biography of Michel Théato (excerpt)
Michel Théato (born March 22, 1878, in Luxembourg City, and died April 2, 1923, in Paris) was a Luxembourgish athlete competing for France.A member of the Union Athlétique de Paris, he won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, becoming the first Olympic champion in athletics for France.
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Biography of Wolfgang Friedmann (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar.Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School. Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930.
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 Siegfried Jacobsohn (excerpt)
Siegfried Jacobsohn (born January 28, 1881, in Berlin – December 3, 1926, in Berlin) was a German journalist and theater critic. His magazine Die Weltbühne was regarded as a pacifist forum for the left. Many prominent contributors wrote for it, including Kurt Tucholsky, Kurt Hiller, Alfons Goldschmidt, Hans Reimann, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Heinrich Ströbel, Adolf Behne, Walter Mehring, Richard Lewinsohn, Friedrich Sieburg, and Carl von Ossietzky.
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Biography of Jean Tilho (excerpt)
Jean Auguste Marie Tilho (May 1, 1875, Domme – April 8, 1956, Paris) was a French officer and explorer. Graduating from Saint-Cyr in 1895, he joined the Colonial Infantry and took part in border delineation missions in Africa. Between 1903 and 1907, he explored French Niger and reached Lake Chad.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
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Biography of Léon Langeron (excerpt)
Léon Langeron (December 5, 1888 – June 29, 1963) was a French professor of medicine. A graduate of the University of Lyon, he became a hospital physician in 1926 before joining the Free Faculty of Medicine in Lille in 1927. For 35 years, he led the medical department at the Hôpital de la Charité, shaping both research and medical education.
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Biography of Joseph Wirth (excerpt)
Karl Joseph Wirth (7 September 1879 – 3 January 1956) was a German politician from the Catholic Centre Party, serving as Germany's chancellor from May 1921 to November 1922 during the early Weimar Republic. Between 1920 and 1931, he also held several ministerial posts, including Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Interior.
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Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne.He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
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Biography of Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer) (excerpt)
Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (10 July 1894 – 18 April 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi Party member known for defending figures like Joseph Goebbels before their rise to power. Born into a noble family in Charlottenburg, he lost a leg in World War I and earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1919.
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Biography of Lillian Smith (author) (excerpt)
Lillian Eugenia Smith, born December 12, 1897, and died September 28, 1966, was a writer and social critic from the Southern United States, known for her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A White woman from the South, she embraced controversial positions advocating for racial and gender equality.
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Biography of Karolina Widerström (excerpt)
Karolina Olivia Widerström (December 10, 1856 – March 4, 1949) was a Swedish medical doctor and gynecologist, the first woman in Sweden to earn a medical degree. A strong advocate for women's rights, she fought for sexual education and female suffrage. She served as chairwoman of the National Association for Women's Suffrage and was a member of Stockholm’s city council.
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Biography of Robert Jentzsch (excerpt)
Robert Georg Adolf Alfred Jentzsch (November 4, 1890 – March 21, 1918) was a German mathematician and poet. Born in Königsberg, he was the youngest of four children.His father, Alfred Jentzsch, was a prominent geologist, and his mother, Clara Falkson, was the daughter of a Jewish physician.
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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.
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Biography of Heinrich Köhler (excerpt)
Franz Heinrich Köhler (born September 29, 1878, in Karlsruhe – died February 6, 1949) was a German politician. He served as Minister of Finance of the Weimar Republic in 1927/1928 and as Staatspräsident of the Republic of Baden in 1923/1924 and 1926/1927.
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Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
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Biography of Anton Philips (excerpt)
Anton Frederik Philips, born on March 14, 1874, in Zaltbommel and died on October 7, 1951, in Eindhoven, was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder of Philips Electronics in 1912 with his elder brother Gerard. Born into a Dutch-Jewish family, he joined the family business in 1912 and served as CEO from 1922 to 1939.
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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.
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Biography of Hans Poelzig (excerpt)
Hans Poelzig (born April 30, 1869, in Berlin, died June 14, 1936, in Berlin) was a German architect, designer, painter, and stage designer. A member of the Deutscher Werkbund, he contributed to the Expressionist architecture movement and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in the 1920s.
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Biography of Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (excerpt)
Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 – 14 September 1949) was a German politician and a conspirator in the 20 July 1944 plot. Born in Berlin, he was the grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.A member of the Nazi Party, he was elected to the Reichstag in 1933 and served as Kreisleiter in Rügen until 1934.
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Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
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Biography of René de Castéra (excerpt)
René (d'Avezac) de Castéra (Dax, April 3, 1873 - Angoumé, Landes department, October 8, 1955) was a French composer. A student of Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant, and Isaac Albéniz, he served as secretary of the Schola Cantorum, founder of the Édition Mutuelle, and a music critic.
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Biography of Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf (excerpt)
Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf, known as Fritz Rumpf (* January 5, 1888, in Berlin Charlottenburg; † May 13, 1949, in Potsdam), was a German draftsman, folklorist, and Japanologist. The son of painter Fritz Rumpf the Elder, he learned Japanese at the age of 15 and studied at the Königliche Kunstschule Berlin.
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Biography of Wolfgang Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gurlitt (February 15, 1888 – March 26, 1965) was a German art dealer, museum director, and publisher whose collection included Nazi-looted artworks. The grandson of painter Louis Gurlitt and son of art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, he took over the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in 1907.
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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.
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Biography of Cécile Vogt-Mugnier (excerpt)
Cécile Vogt-Mugnier was born on March 27, 1875, in Annecy and passed away on May 4, 1962, in Cambridge.A Franco-German neurologist and neuropathologist, she made significant contributions to medical research. She was among the first women admitted to medical school and defended her thesis in 1900 on brain myelination.
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Biography of Tess Slesinger (excerpt)
Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter, active in New York’s intellectual scene. Born in New York to a Jewish family of Hungarian descent, she was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Swarthmore College, and Columbia Journalism School.
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Biography of Luigi Sturzo (excerpt)
Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician, considered one of the fathers of Christian democracy. In 1919, he co-founded the Italian People's Party (PPI) but was forced into exile in 1924 due to fascism.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Henri Abraham (excerpt)
Henri Azariah Abraham (12 July 1868 – 22 December 1943) was a French physicist and a pioneer in the field of radioelectricity. He taught at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris, shaping French scientific education. After becoming an agrégé in physics in 1889, he earned his doctorate in 1892 and taught at top Parisian schools before joining the ENS, where he succeeded Jules Violle as head of the physics lab.
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Biography of René Navarre (actor) (excerpt)
René Navarre, a French actor, was born on July 8, 1877, in Limoges and died on February 8, 1968, in Azay-sur-Cher.He started his career in theater in Paris before transitioning to cinema in 1909, notably with Gaumont. He gained fame for his leading role in Fantômas, a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade between 1913 and 1914.
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Biography of Paul Bar (obstetrician) (excerpt)
Paul Bar (November 5, 1853 – November 26, 1945) was a French obstetrician, a student of Stéphane Tarnier, and the founder of clinical obstetrics, merging obstetrics and gynecology. He began his medical career in 1875 as an extern, later becoming an intern and earning his doctorate in 1881.
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Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
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Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
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Biography of Lugné-Poe (excerpt)
Aurélien-Marie Lugné, known as Lugné-Poe, was a French actor, director, and theater manager, born in Paris on December 27, 1869, and died in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon on June 19, 1940. Founder of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, he played a key role in revitalizing Parisian theater at the end of the 19th century, opposing the dominant naturalist movement.
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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.
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Biography of Sofía Casanova (excerpt)
Sofía Casanova (September 30, 1861 – January 16, 1958) was a Spanish poet, novelist, and journalist, the first woman from Spain to become a permanent foreign correspondent and war reporter. A respected figure in literary circles, she wrote for ABC, portraying the human side of civilian suffering in Poland and Russia. |
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