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Biography of Emmanuel de Martonne (excerpt)
Emmanuel de Martonne, born in Chabris (Indre), April 1st, 1873 and died in Sceaux July 24, 1955, was a French geographer and author. Works (extract) Recherches sur l'évolution morphologique des Alpes de Transylvanie (Karpates meridionales), Paris, Delagrave, 1906. Traité de géographie physique : Climat, Hydrographie, Relief du sol, Biogéographie, Paris, Armand Colin, 1909 (réédité).
Biography of Christian X of Denmark (excerpt)
Christian X (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947, and the only King of Iceland (as Kristján X) between 1918 and 1944. He was a member of the House of Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg, and the first monarch since King Frederick VII born into the Danish royal family; both his father and his grandfather were born as princes of a ducal family from Schleswig.
Biography of Ada Muir (excerpt)
Ada Muir, born June 4, 1874 in Birmingham, was a British astrologer, publisher and author. She lived in Vancouver, Canada.
Biography of Jean Aicard (excerpt)
Jean François Victor Aicard (February 4, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - May 13, 1921) was a French poet, dramatist and novelist. He was born in Toulon. His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son early began his career in 1867 with Les Jeunes Croyances, followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at the Marseille theatre.
Biography of Georg Schnéevoigt (excerpt)
Georg Schnéevoigt (8 November 1872 – 28 November 1947) was a Finnish conductor and cellist, born in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland, which is now in Russia. Schnéevoigt began his career as a cellist performing throughout Europe in the 1890s. He was principal cellist of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1896 to 1902.
Biography of Félix Fénéon (excerpt)
Félix Fénéon (29 June 1861 at 4:00 AM (source : Joan U. Halperin, "Félix Fénéon, œuvres plus que complètes"), Turin, Italy – 29 February 1944, Châtenay-Malabry) was a Parisian anarchist, journalist and art critic during the late 1800s. He coined the term "Neo-impressionism" in 1886 to identify a group of artists led by Georges Seurat, and ardently promoted them.
Biography of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (excerpt)
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (Leopold George Duncan Albert; 7 April 1853 – 28 March 1884) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Leopold was later created the Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow.
Biography of Frederick Delius (excerpt)
Frederick Albert Theodore Delius (January 29, 1862 – June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. Life Delius's parents were German. Julius and Elise Pauline Delius had moved from Bielefeld, Germany to England to set themselves up in the woollen business.
Biography of Albert Lavignac (excerpt)
Albert Lavignac (Paris 22 January 1846 – Paris, 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer. Lavignac studied with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris where later he taught harmony.
Biography of Eusapia Palladino (excerpt)
Eusapia Palladino (alternate spelling: Eusapia Paladino; 1854-1918) was a famous Spiritualist medium born in Minervino Murge, Italy. Life and work In her early life, Eusapia Palladino was married to a traveling conjuror. In Italy, France, Germany, Warsaw, Poland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, Palladino was noted to allegedly display extraordinary powers in the dark: levitating and elongating herself, bringing forth flowers, physically materializing the dead, producing spirit hands and faces in wet clay, levitating tables, playing musical instruments under the table without contact, directly communicating with the dead through her spirit guide, John King, etc.
Biography of Theodore Dreiser (excerpt)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
Biography of Jeanne d'Alcy (excerpt)
Jeanne d'Alcy (20 March 1865 – 14 October 1956) was the earliest French film actress. She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1926 until his death in 1938. She was born Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis.
Biography of Carlos I of Portugal (excerpt)
Carlos I (pronounced ; Eng. Charles), the Diplomat (also known as the Martyr) (Port.O Diplomata and o Martirizado) - (Lisbon, September 28, 1863 - Lisbon, February 1, 1908) named Carlos Fernando Luís Maria Victor Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis José Simão de Bragança Sabóia Bourbon e Saxe-Coburgo-Gota was the 33rd (or 34th or 35th according to some historians) and penultimate King of Portugal and the Algarves.
Biography of Jacques Thibaud (excerpt)
Jacques Thibaud (September 27, 1880 - September 1, 1953) was a French violinist. Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin first with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won the conservatoire's violin prize with Pierre Monteux (who later became a famous conductor).
Biography of Gaston Caudron (excerpt)
Gaston Caudron (January 18, 1882 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, archives - December 10, 1915) and his brother René Caudron (July 1, 1884 - September 27, 1959), were born in Favières, Somme. They were French aviators and industrialists, the founders of The Caudron Airplane Company.
Biography of André Corap (excerpt)
André Georges Corap (born 15 January 1878 died 15 August 1953) was a General in the French Army who fought in World War II. He commanded the 9th Army during the battle of France in 1940. Corap was born in Pont Audemer, Normandy.
Biography of Marguerite Sylva (excerpt)
Marguerite Sylva (also known as Marguerita Sylva) (2 July 1875, Brussels – 21 February 1957, Glendale, California) was a Belgian born mezzo-soprano who achieved fame not only on the opera stage but also in operetta and musical theatre. She was particularly known for her performances in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, which she sang over 300 times in the course of her career.
Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian (excerpt)
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections.
Biography of Georges Rouault (excerpt)
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching. Childhood and education Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family. His mother encouraged his love for the arts, and in 1885 the fourteen-year-old Rouault embarked on an apprenticeship as a glass painter and restorer, which lasted until 1890.
Biography of Bangalore S. Rao (excerpt)
Bangalore S. Rao, born February 12, 1856 in Srikakulam, died in March 1937, was an Indian author and professional astrologer.
Biography of Edmond Haraucourt (excerpt)
Edmond Haraucourt, born October 18, 1856 in Bourmont, died in 1941 in Paris, was a French writer, composer and poet. Bibliography (extract) L’Âme nue, 1885 Amis, 1887 - Collection "In Extenso" N°17 Seul, roman en vers, 1890 La Passion, pièce évangélique en vers, 1890
Biography of Ivar Kreuger (excerpt)
Ivar Kreuger (Kalmar, Sweden, March 2, 1880 – March 12, 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. Between the two world wars, he was one of the most powerful businessmen of Europe. Negotiating match monopolies with European and Central and South American governments, he finally controlled two thirds of the worldwide match production, and became known as the "Match King".
Biography of Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert; 15 October 1874 – 6 February 1899) was born a member of the British Royal Family. Early life Prince Alfred of Edinburgh was born on 15 October 1874 at Buckingham Palace, London.
Biography of Maxime Weygand (excerpt)
Maxime Weygand (January 21, 1867 - January 28, 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II. Though not as infamous as Philippe Petain, Weygand is remembered for initially fighting the German invasion of France in 1940, then surrendering to and collaborating with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.
Biography of Georges Urbain (excerpt)
Georges Urbain (b. 12 April 1872; d. 5 November 1938 in Paris) - French chemist, professor of Sorbona. The discoverer of the element Lutetium, number 71. He discovered it in 1907.
Biography of Louis Pergaud (excerpt)
Louis Pergaud (22 January 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 8 April 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to their rooting in the flora and fauna of the Franche-Comté. His most famous work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (English: "War of the Buttons"), written in 1912.
Biography of Augusta Foss Heindel (excerpt)
Augusta Foss Heindel, born January 27, 1865, was the wife of Max Heindel, born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. In 1905, he met Augusta Foss who was also interested along similar lines of research and in astrology; she would become his future wife, August 1910.
Biography of Jose Lobato (excerpt)
Jose Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato, born April 18, 1882 in Taubaté, died July 4, 1948 in Sao Paulo, was a Brazilian editor, author, novelist and painter.
Biography of Charles Wagner (excerpt)
Charles Wagner (4 January 1852 Château-Salins (source: Lescaut) – 12 May 1918) was a French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping reformed theology. Biography At the age of 14, he was sent to Paris to school; was graduated at the Sorbonne in 1869; and studied theology at Strassburg and Göttingen.
Biography of Prince Arthur of Connaught (excerpt)
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria. Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916.
Biography of Maurice Denis (excerpt)
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 – November 13, 1943) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. Life and work Childhood and Education
Biography of Joseph Babinski (excerpt)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (November 17, 1857, Paris – October 29, 1932, Paris) was a French neurologist of Polish ethnicity. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.
Biography of André-Gaston Prételat (excerpt)
André-Gaston Prételat (14 November 1874, Wassy, Champagne, France – 6 December 1969, Paris, France) was a general in the French Army. Military career 1910-1918 His first post, from 1910 to 1912, was as military attaché to Tangier. During the First World War he was the chief of staff of 70th Division (1915) and then of XXIII Corps (1916), before becoming the commanding officer of the 159th Regiment and Deputy Chief of Staff to Gouraud's French Fourth Army (1917), and finally Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army.
Biography of Luigi Cadorna (excerpt)
Luigi Cadorna (September 4, 1850–December 21, 1928) was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian army during the first part of World War I. Born to General Raffaele Cadorna in Verbania Pallanza, Piedmont, after joining the Italian Army in 1868 Cadorna was offered the post of chief of staff for the first time in 1908, which he rejected due to the issue of political control during wartime.
Biography of Paul Doumer (excerpt)
Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905.
Biography of J. P. Morgan Jr. (excerpt)
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (September 7, 1867 — September 9, 1943) was an American philanthropist. He was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was the son of banking tycoon, J.
Biography of Mario Ancona (excerpt)
Mario Ancona (1860-1931) was an Italian baritone, born in Livorno, Tuscany to a Jewish family. A master of bel canto singing, he enjoyed an international reputation as a star of what is commonly referred to as the "Golden Age of Opera".
Biography of Emil Kirdorf (excerpt)
Emil Kirdorf (8 April 1847 (source not archived) - 13 July 1938) was a German industrialist, one of the first important employers in the Ruhr industrial sectors. He was personally awarded by Adolf Hitler the Order of the German Eagle, Nazi Germany's highest distinctions, on his 90th birthday in 1937, for his support to the Nazi Party in the late 1920s.
Biography of George Santayana (excerpt)
George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid – September 26, 1952, Rome), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters, although, of his nearly 89 years, he spent only 39 in the U.
Biography of Ernestine Schumann-Heink (excerpt)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 - 17 November 1936) was a well-known operatic contralto, noted for the great control, tone, beauty, and wide range of her singing. Biography She was born as Tini Rössler to a German-speaking family in the town of Prague, now in the Czech Republic but then part of the Austrian Empire.
Biography of Jules Drach (excerpt)
Jules Drach, born March 13, 1871 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, died March 7, 1949 in Cavalaire Sur Mer, was a French mathematician, member of Academie des Sciences.
Biography of Curt John Ducasse (excerpt)
Curt John Ducasse (July 7, 1881, Angoulême, France - September 3, 1969) was a philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University. He is most notable for his work in philosophy of mind and aesthetics, and his influence can be seen in the work of Roderick Chisholm and Wilfrid Sellars.
Biography of Fuad I of Egypt (excerpt)
Fuad I, born Ahmed Fuad, (Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu'ād al-Awwal), (March 26, 1868 - April 28, 1936), was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan Husayn Kamil.
Biography of George Robert Sims (excerpt)
George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 (source not archived) - 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums.
Biography of George Jean Nathan (excerpt)
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and editor. Early life Nathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated from Cornell University in 1904, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.
Biography of Amedeo Giannini (excerpt)
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California.
Biography of Ernest Bichat (excerpt)
Ernest Bichat, born September 17,1845 in Luneville, died in 1905 in Nancy, was a French physicist, teacher and researcher.
Biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (excerpt)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, psychologist, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he was considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time.
Biography of Lincoln Steffens (excerpt)
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works.
Biography of Cyriel Verschaeve (excerpt)
Cyriel Verschaeve (April 30, 1874 - November 8, 1949) was a noted Flemish clergyman and writer who was condemned for collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War. Born in Ardooie to a staunch Roman Catholic family, he began training to be a priest at a small seminary in Roeselare in 1886, before moving on to Bruges in 1892 to complete his studies. |
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