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Biography of Fanny Moser (scientist) (excerpt)
Fanny Moser, also known as Fanny Hoppe-Moser, (27 May 1872 – 24 February 1953) was a Swiss-German zoologist. Her father Johan-Heinrich Moser was an engineer and built the Moser dam in Schaffhausen. In 1896 Fanny Moser became the first female student to register at the University of Freiburg, where she studied medicine.
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Biography of Félix d'Hérelle (excerpt)
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist and co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). He experimented with phage therapy and contributed significantly to applied microbiology. Self-taught, d'Hérelle discovered in 1917 that an "invisible antagonist" (bacteriophage) could kill bacteria, which he confirmed through dilution experiments.
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Biography of Siegfried Oberndorfer (excerpt)
Siegfried Oberndorfer, a Jewish-German physician and cancer researcher, was born on June 24, 1876, in Munich and passed away in 1944 in Istanbul. He studied medicine in Munich and Kiel, becoming a doctor in 1900. After working as a ship's doctor, where he halted a plague outbreak, he returned to Germany in 1902.
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Biography of Käthe Schirmacher (excerpt)
Käthe Schirmacher, born on August 6, 1865, in Danzig (now Gdańsk), was a German writer, journalist, and political activist, notable as a leading advocate for women's rights in the 1890s. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Schirmacher lost her family fortune early and became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in Romance studies.
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Biography of Louis de Vries (actor) (excerpt)
Louis de Vries, born Levi de Vries, (Amsterdam, October 18, 1871 - Nice, March 10, 1940) was a Dutch actor. De Vries came from a background of Jewish diamond workers. His parents were Samuel de Vries and Saartje Philip Peper, both of whom were deaf-mute.
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Biography of Heinrich Ferdinand von Österreich-Toskana (excerpt)
Heinrich Ferdinand von Österreich-Toskana (13 February 1878 – 21 May 1969) was an Austrian Archduke from the Habsburg-Lothringen-Toskana line, a military officer, painter, and photographer. He served as an officer until the end of World War I, after which he retired to Salzburg to pursue his artistic interests.
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Biography of Paul Poirier (surgeon) (excerpt)
Paul-Julien Poirier, born on February 9, 1853, in Granville, and died on May 1, 1907, in Auteuil, was a French surgeon and anatomist. Paul Poirier became a hospital surgeon in 1889, first at the hospital in Ivry, then at Tenon Hospital, and later at Lariboisière Hospital in 1904.
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Biography of José Canalejas (excerpt)
José Canalejas Méndez, born on July 31, 1854, in Ferrol and died on November 12, 1912, in Madrid, was a Spanish lawyer and regenerationist statesman. His time of his birth comes from a biography that is no longer available online. He served as Minister of Public Works, Justice, Economy and Budget, and Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, and Public Works during the regency of Queen Maria Christina.
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Biography of Hermann Abert (excerpt)
Hermann Abert (25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the Hofkapellmeister of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical philology at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig.
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Biography of Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (excerpt)
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (16 December 1875, British Ceylon – 18 June 1953, United States) was a Ceylonese author, occultist, freemason and theosophist. The fourth president of the Theosophical Society, Jinarajadasa was one of the world's foremost Theosophical authors, having published more than 50 books and more than 1600 articles in periodicals during his life.
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Biography of Gustav Landauer (excerpt)
Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism. As an avowed pacifist, Landauer advocated the principle of "non-violent non-cooperation" in the tradition of Étienne de La Boétie and Leo Tolstoy.
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Biography of Pierre-Constant Budin (excerpt)
Pierre-Constant Budin (French pronunciation: ; 9 November 1846 – 22 January 1907) was a French obstetrician who was a native of Enencourt-le-Sec, a village in northern France. In 1876 he earned his medical degree in Paris, and in 1882 became chief obstetrician at the Hôpital de la Charité.
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Biography of Jean-Pierre Morat (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Morat, born on April 18, 1846, in Saint-Sorlin (now La Roche-Vineuse), Saône-et-Loire, and died on July 25, 1920, in the same town, now named La Roche-Vineuse, was a French physician and physiologist. He was a full professor holding the chair of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon.
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Biography of Adelchi Negri (excerpt)
Adelchi Negri (16 July 1876 – 19 February 1912) was an Italian pathologist and microbiologist born in Perugia. He studied medicine and surgery at the University of Pavia, where he was a pupil of Camillo Golgi (1843–1926). After graduation in 1900, he became an assistant to Golgi at his pathological institute.
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Biography of Maximilian Bircher-Benner (excerpt)
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner (22 August 1867 – 24 January 1939), was a Swiss physician, significantly influenced nutrition science by promoting raw food vegetarianism and muesli. His time of birth comes from his niece. After experiencing health benefits from eating raw apples during a bout of jaundice, he conducted further experiments with raw foods, ultimately advocating for their nutritional superiority.
Biography of Sandie Lindsay (excerpt)
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, born on May 14, 1879, in Glasgow, died on March 18, 1952, was a distinguished Scottish academic and peer. Starting his career as a fellow in moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Lindsay also worked at the University of Manchester before joining Balliol College, Oxford, where he became master.
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Biography of Louis Rouffe (excerpt)
Louis Rouffe, born on April 10, 1849, in La Tour-d'Aigues and died on December 21, 1885, in Marseille, was a French mime who succeeded Charles Deburau. He spent most of his career at the Alcazar in Marseille, where pantomime was highly popular.
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Biography of Hedwig Bleibtreu (excerpt)
Hedwig Bleibtreu (23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952. Bleibtreu is perhaps best known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949).
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Biography of Rosa Campbell Praed (excerpt)
Rosa Campbell Praed (née Murray-Prior; 27 March 1851 – 10 April 1935), often credited as Mrs. Campbell Praed (and also known as Rosa Caroline Praed), was an Australian novelist in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her approximate time of birth comes from the biography "Rosa! Rosa!: A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist" by Patricia Clarke (Melbourne UP, 1999), which indicates that she had an Aries Ascendant.
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Biography of Emmanuel de Blommaert (excerpt)
Emmanuel de Blommaert de Soye (15 October 1875 – 12 April 1944) was a Belgian horse rider who competed in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he won the bronze medal in the individual jumping competition, riding Clomore, and finished sixths with the Belgian team in the team jumping event.
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Biography of Irma LeVasseur (excerpt)
Irma LeVasseur (January 20, 1877 – January 18, 1964) was a Canadian physician, a pioneer in pediatric medicine, and the first French-Canadian woman to become a doctor. Born in Quebec, she had to study medicine in the United States as it was prohibited for women in Canada.
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Biography of Friedrich Fichter (excerpt)
Friedrich Fichter (6 July 1869 – 1952) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry. He initiated the founding of the scientific journal Helvetica Chimica Acta. Life Fichter was born on the July 6th, 1869 and attended the University of Basel from 1888 to 1890 and then the University of Strasbourg.
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Biography of William Craigie (excerpt)
Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a renowned philologist and lexicographer. A University of St Andrews alumnus, he became the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-edited its 1933 supplement with C. T.
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Biography of Joel Chandler Harris (excerpt)
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at The Atlanta Constitution.
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Biography of Emmanuel Leclainche (excerpt)
Auguste-Louis-Emmanuel Leclainche, born on August 29, 1861, in Piney (Aube) and died on November 26, 1953, in Paris, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, internationally renowned for his scientific achievements in veterinary medicine, as well as for his major role in organizing veterinary education and French veterinary services.
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Biography of Jehan-Rictus (excerpt)
Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand, initially Gabriel Randon, who took the pseudonym Jehan Rictus (Jehan-Rictus with a hyphen from 1922), was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on September 21, 1867, and died in Paris on November 6, 1933. He was a French poet, famous for his works composed in the language of the common people of Paris of his time.
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Biography of Robert Smyth McColl (excerpt)
Robert Smyth McColl (13 April 1876 – 25 November 1959) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward. Playing career McColl started his career with junior club Benmore in 1892 and moved to Queen's Park in 1894. He represented the Scottish League in 1901.
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Biography of Peter Hille (excerpt)
Peter Hille, born on September 11, 1854, in Nieheim and passed away on May 7, 1904, in Groß-Lichterfelde, was a German writer associated with late Romanticism and Naturalism. After leaving school without a diploma, he began publishing poems and literary critiques.
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Biography of Antoni Kuzniarski (excerpt)
Antoni Kuźniarski (born May 10, 1868, in Latowicz, died December 26, 1945, there) was a Polish social activist, bibliophile, librarian, carpenter by profession, smallholder farmer, co-founder and treasurer of the Consumers' Cooperative, co-founder of the Volunteer Fire Department in Latowicz, member of the Church Building Committee in Latowicz from 1899 to 1911, and founder of the first library in the Latowicz municipality.
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Biography of Dolors Aleu i Riera (excerpt)
Dolores Aleu Riera (April 7, 1857, in Barcelona – February 19, 1913) was a Spanish medical doctor. She was the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree. An only child, she began reading at age 5 and studied at the University of Barcelona, earning her undergraduate degree in 1874.
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Biography of Eduardo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Eduardo Scarpetta (March 13, 1853 – November 12, 1925) was an Italian actor and playwright from Naples. Although he did not come from a theatrical family, he was on stage by the age of four. He is best remembered as the creator of a character that became his stage alter-ego: Felice Sciosciammocca, a figure representing the quintessential Neapolitan spirit—joyful and wide-eyed with a charming gullibility.
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Biography of Winifred Cullis (excerpt)
Winifred Cullis (June 2, 1875 - November 13, 1956) was a British physiologist and the first woman to hold a chair at a medical school in the UK. Born in Gloucester, she studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in science from the University of London in 1908.
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Biography of Gustavo Arce Correa (excerpt)
Gustavo Arce Correa (19 February 1881 - 1966) was a Mexican lawyer, military officer, and politician, born in Tizimín, Yucatán, and died in Mexico City. He collaborated with General Salvador Alvarado during the revolutionary administration that Alvarado led in Yucatán starting in 1915, when Venustiano Carranza sent him to southeastern Mexico in command of a faction of the Constitutionalist Army.
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Biography of Ettore Bortolotti (excerpt)
Ettore Bortolotti (6 March 1866 – 17 February 1947) was an Italian mathematician. Bortolotti was born in Bologna. He studied mathematics under Salvatore Pincherle and Cesare Arzelà in Bologna. He graduated in mathematics in 1889 at the University of Bologna, under Pincherle.
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Biography of Jules Destrée (excerpt)
Jules Destrée (Charleroi, 21 August 1863 – Brussels, 3 January 1936) was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician. The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 determined his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. He wrote a Letter to the King in 1912, which is seen as the founding declaration of the Walloon movement. ![]()
Biography of Adolf Hölzel (excerpt)
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter known for transitioning from Realism to Modern styles, including Abstractionism. Born in Olmütz, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich. Hölzel co-founded the Dachauer Malschule, influencing European art students with his novel teaching methods.
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Biography of Julian Ochorowicz (excerpt)
Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (Radzymin, February 23, 1850 – Warsaw, May 1, 1917) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, inventor, poet, publicist, and leading exponent of Polish Positivism. The son of Julian and Jadwiga Ochorowicz, he studied natural sciences at Warsaw University and earned his doctorate at Leipzig in 1874 with a thesis on the conditions of consciousness.
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Biography of Herbert von Meister (excerpt)
Herbert Eugen Albert Meister, born on December 26, 1866, in Frankfurt am Main and died on January 2, 1919, in Sindlingen, was a businessman and chemist, the son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister, co-founder of Farbwerke Hoechst. He studied chemistry at the University of Bonn, then in Dresden and Jena, earning his doctorate in 1894.
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Biography of Walter Heitz (excerpt)
Walter Heitz (8 December 1878 – 9 February 1944) was a German general (Generaloberst) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He served as President of the Reich Military Court and commanded part of the 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Biography of Mary Slessor (excerpt)
Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women's rights and protecting native children.
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Biography of Karl Helfferich (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Helfferich (July 22, 1872 – April 23, 1924) was a German politician, economist, and financier born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. He studied law and political science before becoming a key figure in German economic imperialism, notably as director of Deutsche Bank.
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Biography of Giuseppe Prezzolini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Prezzolini (27 January 1882 – 14 July 1982) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer. He later became an American citizen. Prezzolini was born in Perugia in January 1882, to Tuscan parents from Siena, Luigi and Emilia Pianigiani. In 1903 he founded together with Giovanni Papini the literary journal Leonardo.
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Biography of Albrecht Penck (excerpt)
Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist, known as the father of Walther Penck. Born in Leipzig, he became a university professor in Vienna from 1885 to 1906, then in Berlin until 1927. He contributed to geomorphology and climatology, raising the international standing of the Vienna school of physical geography.
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Biography of Albert Pitres (excerpt)
Albert Pitres, born on August 26, 1848, in Bordeaux and died on March 25, 1928, was a French neurologist. He received his training in Paris, where he was a student of Charcot and Dejerine. He later became the dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux.
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Biography of Marie Popelin (excerpt)
Marie Popelin (10 September 1846 (birth certificate n° 180) – 5 June 1913) was a Belgian jurist and early feminist political campaigner. Popelin worked with Isabelle Gatti de Gamond in the development of women's education and, in 1888, became the first Belgian woman to receive a doctorate in law.
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Biography of Abbé Chaupitre (excerpt)
Jean-Marie-Victor Chaupitre, known as Abbé Chaupitre, born on October 22, 1859, in Gennes-sur-Seiche and died on April 21, 1934, in Naples, was a French Catholic priest and homeopath. Homeopathy, initiated by Hippocrates and developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the early 19th century, gained popularity in France, notably through healings within Napoleon III's circle.
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Biography of Georges Victor-Hugo (excerpt)
Georges Victor-Hugo, born Georges Charles Victor Léopold Hugo on August 16, 1868, in Brussels, was a French painter and skipper who died on February 5, 1925, in Paris. The son of Charles Hugo and grandson of Victor Hugo, he was raised by his grandfather after his father's death when he was 3 years old.
Biography of Léon Stienon (excerpt)
Léon Stienon was a distinguished Belgian physician, having earned his MD in 1874. In 1876, he became an associate at the University of Brussels and a year later, he served as a substitute histology lecturer at the same university. His career progressed as he became a Professor of Medical Matters in 1880 and then took on the role of doctor at the civilian hospitals of Brussels in 1881, later becoming Chief in 1884.
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Biography of John Fox Jr. (excerpt)
John Fox Jr. (December 16, 1862 – July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Stony Point, Kentucky, he studied English at Harvard University and became a reporter in New York. After working for the New York Times and the New York Sun, he published his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in 1892.
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Biography of Blanche Edwards-Pilliet (excerpt)
Blanche Edwards-Pilliet (24 November 1858 – 10 January 1941) was a French physician, medical teacher, and social reformer advocating for women. She was one of the first women to intern at a Parisian hospital. Educated at home by her father, she entered the Paris faculty of medicine at 19. |
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