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Biography of William Thomas Stead (excerpt)
William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 - 15 April 1912) was an English journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational minister. Early journalism He attended Silcoates School in Wakefield, but was early apprenticed in a merchant's office at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Biography of Emile Guillaumin (excerpt)
Émile Guillaumin, born November 10, 1873 in Ygrande, died September 27, 1951 in Ygrande, was a French peasant and writer. Biography: * 1873 - 10 novembre : Naissance à Ygrande ("Neverdière"), d'ascendants paternels bourbonnais et maternels bourguignons (Manière) issus d'une communauté familiale agricole. ![]()
Biography of James Branch Cabell (excerpt)
James Branch Cabell, pronounced /ˈkæbəl/ (April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his works were most popular. ![]()
Biography of Georg Kaiser (excerpt)
Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (November 25, 1878 in Magdeburg, Germany – June 4, 1945 in Ascona, Switzerland) was a German dramatist. Although he was highly prolific and wrote in a number of different styles, he made his mark as the most successful expressionist dramatist and, along with Gerhart Hauptmann, the most frequently performed playwright in the Weimar Republic.
Biography of Jennie Bollenbacher (excerpt)
Jennie Bollenbacher, born September 7, 1864 in Peoria, Illinois, was an American professional astrologer and theosophist. ![]()
Biography of Clovis Vincent (excerpt)
Famous neurosurgeon. One of the most eminent medical personality of France in his time. ![]()
Biography of Louis Barthou (excerpt)
Jean Louis Barthou (25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Early years He was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and served as Deputy from that constituency. He was an authority on trade union history and law.
Biography of John Hazelrigg (excerpt)
John Hazelrigg, born June 20, 1860 in Hazelrigg, Indiana, died in October 1941, was an American astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Gabriel Dupont (excerpt)
Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, born in Caen March 1, 1878 and died (tuberculosis) in Le Vésinet August 1, 1914, was a French composer. Selected works 1895 Airs de ballet (2) Pavane Aria Piano 1897 Feuillets d'album Valse Fughette ![]()
Biography of Antoine Bourdelle (excerpt)
Antoine Bourdelle (October 30, 1861, Montauban (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 1, 1929), originally Émile Antoine Bourdelle, was a French sculptor and teacher. Career Antoine Bourdelle (pronounceed an-twahn boor-dell) was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne. He left school at the age of 13 to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet making shop. ![]()
Biography of Armand Cortes (excerpt)
Armand Cortes, born August 16, 1880 in Nîmes, died November 19, 1948 in San Fransisco, was an American actor. Filmography (extract) Rhapsody in Blue (1945) (uncredited) .. Hotel clerk Allergic to Love (1944) .. Doctor Uncertain Glory (1944) (uncredited) .. Detective with Commissioner The Song of Bernadette (1943) (uncredited) . ![]()
Biography of Kurt von Schleicher (excerpt)
Kurt von Schleicher (7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic. Schleicher was born in Brandenburg an der Havel, the son of a Prussian officer and a shipowner's daughter. ![]()
Biography of Harry Lauder (excerpt)
Sir Henry Lauder (4 August 1870 - 26 February 1950), known professionally as Harry Lauder, was a notable Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!" Early life Henry Lauder was born at Portobello, Edinburgh in the home of his maternal grandfather, Henry McLennan. ![]()
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Biography of Charles Chamberland (excerpt)
Charles Chamberland (March 12, 1851 – May 2, 1908) was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, consisting of an unglazed porcelain bar. ![]()
Biography of Emile Vandervelde (excerpt)
Emile Vandervelde (1866 in Ixelles – 1938) was a Belgian statesman, born at Ixelles. He studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and became doctor of laws in 1885 and doctor of social science in 1888.
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Biography of Paul Hazard (excerpt)
Paul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard (30 August 1878, Noordpeene, Nord — 12 April 1944, Paris), was a French scholar, professor and historian of ideas. Hazard was the son of a school teacher. Starting in 1900, he attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Mauss (excerpt)
Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist . Background Mauss was born in Epinal to a Jewish family, and studied philosophy at Bordeaux, where his uncle Émile Durkheim was teaching at the time and agregated in 1893.
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Biography of Alfred Deakin (excerpt)
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 in Melbourne, Australia – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the protection of rights at work. ![]()
Biography of Charles Le Goffic (excerpt)
Charles Le Goffic (July 14, 1863 in Lannion (birth time source: email and http://sallevirtuelle.cotesdarmor.fr/EC/ecx/consult.aspx.image=090025478950888) - February 12, 1932 in Lannion) was a French poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany. He was a member of the Académie française.
Biography of Horatio Bottomley (excerpt)
Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was a British financier, swindler, journalist, newspaper proprietor, populist politician and Member of Parliament (MP). Early life Horatio Bottomley was born in Birmingham on 23 March 1860. He was orphaned at the age of 4 and spent 14 years growing up in an orphanage.
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Biography of George Arliss (excerpt)
George Arliss (April 10, 1868 - February 5, 1946) was an English Academy Award-winning actor, author, playwright and film maker who found success in America. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award. Born George Augustus Andrews in London, England, he began his acting career on the stage in the English provinces in 1887. ![]()
Biography of Georges Eekhoud (excerpt)
Georges Eekhoud (May 27, 1854, Antwerp, Belgium – May 29, 1927, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life. He tended to portray the dark side of human desire and write about social outcasts and the working classes. ![]()
Biography of Henri La Fontaine (excerpt)
Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). ![]()
Biography of Mary Garden (excerpt)
Mary Garden (20 February 1874 - 3 January 1967), was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and retired to Scotland.
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Biography of Joseph von Mering (excerpt)
Josef, Baron von Mering (born February 28, 1849, in Cologne - died January 5, 1908, at Halle an der Saale, Germany) was a German physician. Working at the University of Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover (in conjunction with Oskar Minkowski) that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin, a hormone which controls blood sugar levels.
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Biography of Louis de Rougemont (excerpt)
Louis de Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a would-be explorer who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. "De Rougemont" was born Henri Louis Grin in 1847 in Suchy, Switzerland. He left home at the age of sixteen.
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Biography of Jean-Joseph Weerts (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Weerts, born May 1st, 1947 in Roubaix, is a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Estaunie (excerpt)
Édouard Estaunié (Dijon, France, February 4, 1862 - Paris, February 1, 1942) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
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Biography of Don Marquis (excerpt)
Don Marquis (born July 29, 1878, in Walnut, Illinois - died December 29, 1937, in New York City) was an American humorist, journalist and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. ![]()
Biography of William S. Hart (excerpt)
William Surrey Hart (December 6, 1870 – June 23, 1946) was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Biography Hart was born in Newburgh, New York; to James Howard Hart (1829–1902) and Katherine Diédricht Hart (1833–1909). William had 2 brothers and 4 sisters.
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Biography of Charles Van Lerberghe (excerpt)
Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 at Ghent, Belgium, died 26 October 1907 in Brussels) was a Flemish (Belgian) symbolist poet writing in French. ![]()
Biography of Tony Garnier (excerpt)
Tony Garnier (August 13, 1869 Lyon – January 19, 1948, Roquefort-la-Bédoule, France) was a noted architect and city planner. He was most active in his hometown of Lyon. Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects. In 1901, after extensive study of sociological and architectural problems, he began to formulate an elaborate solution to the perceived issues concerning urban design. ![]()
Biography of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (excerpt)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. He was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to a farmer, John Wilson, and his mother Annie Clerk Harper. ![]()
Biography of Siegfried Wagner (excerpt)
Siegfried Wagner (Tribschen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, 6 June 1869 - 4 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was a very productive opera composer and was the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. ![]()
Biography of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (excerpt)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. ![]()
Biography of Jean Cras (excerpt)
Jean Émile Paul Cras (pronounced ) (22 May 1879 - September 14, 1932) was a 20th century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages.
Biography of Marguerite Rachilde (excerpt)
Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Château-l'Évêque near Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died on April 4, 1953. She is considered to be a pioneer of anti-realistic drama and a participant in the Decadent movement.
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Biography of Harry Baur (excerpt)
Harry Baur (born 12 April 1880 as Henri-Marie Baur in Paris – died 8 April 1943 in Paris) was a French actor. He was killed by the Gestapo during World War II. Baur gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Abel Gance's 1936 biopic Un grand amour de Beethoven (Beethoven's Great Love), and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934).
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Biography of Lieven Gevaert (excerpt)
Lieven Gevaert (Antwerp, 28 May 1868 – The Hague, 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist. His father died when he was only three years old. He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods.
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Biography of Vittorio Ambrosio (excerpt)
Vittorio Ambrosio (July 28, 1879 – November 19, 1958) was an Italian general who served in the Italo-Turkish War, World War I, and World War II. During the latter conflict, Ambrosio served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Achille Le Bel (excerpt)
Joseph Achille Le Bel (January 21, 1847 – August 6, 1930), was a French chemist, who was best known for his work in stereochemistry. He was born on January 21, 1847 in Pechelbronn and educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris.
Biography of Richard Willstatter (excerpt)
Richard Martin Willstätter (August 13, 1872 – August 3, 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet. ![]()
Biography of Georges Dumas (excerpt)
Georges Dumas (6 March 1866—12 February 1946) was French doctor and psychologist. His main work is the The Treatise of Psychology (1923-1924, Le Traité de Psychologie). He wrote many articles and leaded the publication in two volumes of the treaty in which the main French psychologists of the time participate.
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Biography of Henry de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Henry de Jouvenel des Ursins (5 April 1876 – 5 October 1935) was a French journalist and statesman. He became the French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon on 23 December 1925 until 23 June 1926. Personal life Henry de Jouvenel was born into a middle-class family of lawyers and politicians.
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Biography of Laurent Tailhade (excerpt)
Laurent Tailhade (16 April 1854, Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées - 2 November 1919, Combs-la-Ville) was a French satirical poet, anarchist polemicist, essayist, and translator, active in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s. His most well-known poetry collections, Au Pays du mufle (1891) and Imbéciles et gredins (1900) have retained their insulting wit and verve, which blends the street slang of the outer faubourgs (suburbs) of Paris with the rich language of a broad-ranging culture. ![]()
Biography of Bernard Lazare (excerpt)
Bernard Lazare (15 June 1865 — 1 September 1903) was a French Jewish literary critic, political journalist, polemicist, and anarchist. He was also among the first Dreyfusards. Youth He was born Lazare Marcus Manassé Bernard (he later switched his first name and last name) in Nîmes on 15 June 1865, the eldest of four sons of Jonas Bernard and Douce Noémie Rouget. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (excerpt)
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, June 6, 1868 - Auschwitz, ca. February 11, 1944) was a graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War. His pupils included the now renowned Mauritis Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). In the postwar years, de Mequita was largely forgotten. ![]()
Biography of Lucien Hillemacher (excerpt)
Lucien Hillemacher, born on June 10, 1860 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died on June 2, 1909 in Paris, was a French musician and composer, the brother of pianist and composer Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933). Awards: Prix de Rome (1880) ![]()
Biography of Richard Harding Davis (excerpt)
Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. |
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