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Biography of Ludwig Beck (excerpt)
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 – 21 July 1944) was a German general and the Chief of the General Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II.
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Biography of Willard Straight (excerpt)
Willard Dickerman Straight (January 31, 1880 – December 1, 1918) was an American investment banker, publisher, reporter and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. His father had been a faculty member at Oswego Normal School. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture. ![]()
Biography of Hans Driesch (excerpt)
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (October 28, 1867 - April 16, 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. Early years Driesch began to study medicine in 1886 under August Weismann at the University of Freiburg. ![]()
Biography of Charles Proteus Steinmetz (excerpt)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German- American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Edward Housman (excerpt)
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Pottecher (excerpt)
Maurice Pottecher, born October 19, 1867 in Bussang, Vosges, died in 1960 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, was a French writer and poet. ![]()
Biography of Edith Hamilton (excerpt)
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally acclaimed author, regarded as one of the most prominent classicists of her time in the United States. Her time of birth comes from the book "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton", by Victoria Houseman (Princeton University Press, 2023). ![]()
Biography of Edward William Bok (excerpt)
Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, The Netherlands. At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, USA, and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876.
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Biography of Werner von Fritsch (excerpt)
Werner Thomas Ludwig Freiherr von Fritsch (4 August 1880 – 22 September 1939) was a prominent Wehrmacht officer, member of the German High Command, and the second German general to be killed during World War II. Early life Von Fritsch was born in Düsseldorf (birth certificate). ![]()
Biography of Hermann von Keyserling (excerpt)
Hermann Alexander Graf Keyserling (July 20, 1880, in Könno (Kõnnu), Russian Empire, – April 26, 1946, in Innsbruck, Austria) was a wealthy philosopher from the aristocratic Baltic German Keyserling family. He married Goedela von Bismarck-Schönhausen, granddaughter of Otto von Bismarck. ![]()
Biography of Frank Wedekind (excerpt)
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (Hannover July 24, 1864 – Munich March 9, 1918), usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism, and he was a major influence on the development of epic theatre.
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Biography of Francis de Croisset (excerpt)
Francis de Croisset (born Franz Wiener, January 22, 1876 - November 8, 1937) was a Belgium-born French playwright and opera librettist. His opera librettos include Massenet's Chérubin (1905), based on his play of the same name, and Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette (1923). He married, in 1910, Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim, the widow of banking heir Maurice Bischoffsheim and the daughter of Count and Countess Adhéaume de Chevigné. ![]()
Biography of Christopher Nicholson Johnston (excerpt)
Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (October 18, 1857–1934) was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency) between two by-elections in 1916 and 1917. He stood down as an MP when he became a Senator of the College of Justice, a senior judicial post. ![]()
Biography of Vincent Scotto (excerpt)
Vincent Scotto, (born April 21, 1874 in Marseille (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – died November 15, 1952 in Paris), was a French composer from Marseille. Vincent Scotto started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris. ![]()
Biography of Hans Pfitzner (excerpt)
Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Biography Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer.
Biography of Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet (excerpt)
Sir John Traill Cargill, 1st Baronet (10 January 1867 – 24 January 1954) was a Scottish oil magnate. Cargill was born in Glasgow, the second son of David Sime Cargill, founder of the Burmah Oil Company. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and in 1890 went to Burma to work in the Rangoon office of his father's company, returning to Glasgow three years later.
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Biography of Ferdinand Mannlicher (excerpt)
Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher (January 30, 1848 in Mainz, Germany – January 20, 1904 in Vienna, Austria) was an engineer and small armaments designer. He was famous for inventing the en-bloc clip loading system, and later for patenting the Mannlicher-Schönauer rotary magazine rifle with his protégé Otto Schönauer.
Biography of Heinrich Daath (excerpt)
Heinrich Daath, born September 19, 1872 in Peterborough, was a British author and astrologer, author of Medical Astrology.
Biography of Herschell (astrologer) (excerpt)
Herschell, born October 22, 1863 in Froma, England, was an American astrologer. Herscell is a pseudonym. His identity was either J.W. Long or William Sharp Cross, depending of the sources. ![]()
Biography of Margot Asquith (excerpt)
Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She married Herbert Henry Asquith, who would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908-1916). ![]()
Biography of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (excerpt)
Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 25, 1852 - September 14, 1905), was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized Frenchman. With the backing of the Société de Géographique de Paris, he opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo that eventually led to French colonies in Central Africa. ![]()
Biography of Francis Jammes (excerpt)
Francis Jammes (Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées December 2, 1868 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) November 1, 1938) was a French poet, from an ancient family. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life (donkeys, maidens).
Biography of Elie-Joseph Cartan (excerpt)
Élie Joseph Cartan (9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, and group theory. ![]()
Biography of Andrew W. Mellon (excerpt)
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 (birth time sources: Lescaut, Penfield) – August 26, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. Early life Mellon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Papini (excerpt)
Giovanni Papini (January 9, 1881 - July 8, 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist. Early life Born in Florence as the son of a modest furniture retailer (and former member of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts) from Borgo degli Albizi, Papini was baptized secretly to avoid the aggressive atheism of his father, and he lived a rustic, lonesome, and precociously introspective childhood.
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Biography of Gaston Doumergue (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue (Aigues-Vives, Gard, 1 August 1863 – 18 June 1937 in Aigues-Vives) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age.
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Biography of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (excerpt)
Henri Alexandre Deslandres (July 24, 1853 – January 15, 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories. Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career.
Biography of Luigi Borro (body-builder) (excerpt)
Luigi Borro, born January 12, 1869 in Milan, was an Italian body-builder who exhibited in the circus.
Biography of Alexandre Emile Taskin (excerpt)
Émile-Alexandre Taskin, born in Paris on March 18 1853, was a French singer at the Opera-Comique. ![]()
Biography of Alfonso XII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic. ![]()
Biography of Kenneth Grahame (excerpt)
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film.
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Biography of Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Grasset (excerpt)
Joseph Grasset (18 March 1849 – July 1918), was a French neurologist and parapsychological investigator, born in Montpellier. He received his medical degree (1873) in Montpellier, where in 1881 he became a professor of therapy. In 1886 he attained the chair of clinical medicine, and in 1909 was appointed chair of general pathology.
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Biography of Max von Schillings (excerpt)
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Biography of Benjamin Rabier (excerpt)
Benjamin Rabier (December 30, 1864, La Roche-sur-Yon - 1939, Faverolles) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator. He became famous for creating La vache qui rit, and is one of the precursors of animal comics. His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé and Edmond-François Calvo. ![]()
Biography of Hideyo Noguchi (excerpt)
Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世, Noguchi Hideyo., November 24, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi (野口清作, Noguchi Seisaku.), was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis in 1911. Early life Noguchi Hideyo was born in Inawashiro, Fukushima prefecture in 1876. ![]()
Biography of Jules Bordet (excerpt)
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (Soignies (Belgium) 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named for him. Ballin of Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, where, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, he described phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells. ![]()
Biography of Saint-Pol-Roux (excerpt)
Paul-Pierre Roux, best known as Saint-Pol-Roux, born January 15, 1861 in Marseille, died October 18, 1940 in Brest, was a French symbolist poet. Works (extract) Sous le nom de Paul Roux Maman!, Ollendorff, 1883 Garçon d'honneur, Ollendorff, 1883 Le Poète, Ghio, 1883 ![]()
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Biography of Wilhelm Adam (excerpt)
Wilhelm Adam (September 15, 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German general who served as chief of staff for the Reichswehr in the period before Adolf Hitler. Adam was born on in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Frick (excerpt)
Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent Nazi official, serving as Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich. After the end of World War II, he was executed for war crimes. Early life and family Frick was born in Königsberg, Bavaria, Germany, the last of four children of teacher Wilhelm Frick the elder and his wife Henriette (née Schmidt).
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Biography of Johan Wagenaar (excerpt)
Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862, Utrecht – 17 June 1941, Den Haag) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar. Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins.
Biography of Auguste Louis Fauchard (excerpt)
August Louis Fauchard, born March 5, 1881, was a French organist and composer.
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Biography of Frederick Rolfe (excerpt)
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Life and work Rolfe was born in London, the son of a piano manufacturer; he left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher.
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Biography of Jules-Emile Verschaffelt (excerpt)
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (27 January 1870, Ghent – 22 December 1955) was a Belgian physicist. He worked at Kamerlingh Onnes’s laboratory in Leiden from 1894 to 1906 and once again from 1914 to 1923. From 1906 to 1914 he worked at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ![]()
Biography of Henri Manguin (excerpt)
Henri Charles Manguin (Paris, March 23, 1874-1949) was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves. Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre.
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Biography of Emile Mathis (excerpt)
Émile Ernest Charles Mathis, born March 15, 1880 in Strasbourg, died August 3, 1956 in Genève, is a French engineer and businessman, founder of firm Mathis. Mathis produced cars between 1910 and 1950. History Originally, Émile Mathis was a leading car dealer in Strasbourg, Alsace, handling Fiat, De Dietrich and Panhard-Levassor, among other makes from his Auto-Mathis-Palace.
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Biography of Édouard Debat-Ponsan (excerpt)
Édouard Debat-Ponsan (Toulouse, 25 April 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Paris, 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter. Biography A pupil of Cabanel, Debat-Ponson was famous for his portraits of wealthy citizens and politicians in Paris, paintings of ancient history and scenes of peasant life. ![]()
Biography of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Helena (Helena Augusta Victoria: Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein by marriage; 25 May 1846 – 9 June 1923) was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Biography of Paul Alexis (excerpt)
Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola. Life Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a graduate. |
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