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Biography of Mentona Moser (excerpt)
Mentona Moser (19 October 1874 – 10 April 1971) was a Swiss social worker, communist functionary and writer. Born into wealth, she disapproved of high society, and became involved in philanthropic work, helping to launch the Swiss Communist Party and one of the first birth control clinics in Zürich.
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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 Mabel Forrest (excerpt)
Helena Mabel Checkley Forrest, born on 6 March 1872 near Yandilla, Queensland, was an Australian writer and journalist. She began writing early, but her first book, The Rose of Forgiveness and other Stories, was published only in 1904. Her approximate time of birth comes from one of her poems, "When I Was Born", in which Forrest writes that she was born at night, in the early hours before sunrise.
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Biography of Julius Curtius (excerpt)
Julius Curtius (born February 11, 1877, in Duisburg and died November 10, 1948, in Heidelberg) was a German politician.A member of the German People's Party (DVP), he served as Minister of Economy (1926–1929) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1929–1931). From a family of industrialists, he studied law in Bonn, Kiel, and Strasbourg, earning his doctorate in 1900.
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Biography of Xavier Nogués (painter) (excerpt)
Xavier Nogués i Casas (Barcelona, February 18, 1873 - Barcelona, January 28, 1941) was a Spanish painter, illustrator, ceramicist, and engraver. His work, influenced by the noucentisme movement, is known for its satirical humor, best expressed in his drawings and famous caricatures.
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Biography of Charles Joseph Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier (4 March 1865, in Orléans – 15 November 1937, in Paris) was a French zoologist. He initially taught classes at École normale (1883–85) in Orléans and at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, afterwards becoming a professor of natural history at the École normale (1887) in Grenoble.
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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 Nielsine Nielsen (excerpt)
Nielsine Nielsen (June 10, 1850 – October 8, 1916) was Denmark’s first female academic and physician. Graduating in 1885, she opened her own practice in 1889 and worked as a general practitioner. She was active in the gender equality movement within the Danish Women's Society.
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Biography of Albert Capellani (excerpt)
Albert Capellani, born on August 23, 1874, in Paris 4th and died on September 26, 1931, in Paris 17th, was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. Long forgotten, he is now regarded as one of the greatest pioneers of world cinema, directing the first feature-length film adaptations of major works of French literature.
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Biography of Lucien von Römer (excerpt)
Lucien Sophie Albert Marie von Römer (23 August 1873 – 23 December 1965) was a Dutch physician, botanist, and writer who often wrote about homosexuality, arguing it was an innate characteristic. Born in Kampen, Netherlands, he studied medicine at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, receiving his medical license in 1903.
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Biography of Afonso V of Portugal (excerpt)
Afonso V (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (Portuguese: o Africano), was king of Portugal from 1438 until his death in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477. His sobriquet refers to his military conquests in Northern Africa.
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Biography of Johanna Tesch (excerpt)
Johanna Friederike Tesch (born Carillon, 24 March 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a leading German Social Democratic Party politician, most active on the national stage during the 1920s. After 1933, as Germany became a one party dictatorship, she and her husband Richard stayed in the country.
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Biography of Enrique Flores Magón (excerpt)
Enrique Flores Magón (April 13, 1877 – October 28, 1954) was a Mexican journalist and politician associated with the Mexican Liberal Party and anarchism. His name is often linked with that of his elder brother, Ricardo Flores Magón, and the political philosophy they promoted, magonismo.
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Biography of Mathilde of Saxony (1863) (excerpt)
Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony (19 March 1863 – 27 March 1933), was the third child of George of Saxony and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal. As a young girl, she was quiet and gentle but not considered attractive.
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Biography of Suzanne Noël (excerpt)
Suzanne Noël, born Suzanne Blanche Marguerite Gros on January 19, 1878, in Laon (Aisne) and died on November 11, 1954, in Paris, was a medical doctor specializing in plastic surgery and a pioneer in the field. She is also known for founding the French chapter of the Soroptimist International service club in 1924, a women's professional and service organization established in the United States in 1921.
Biography of Charles Murray (poet) (excerpt)
Charles Murray, born on September 28, 1864, and passing away on April 12, 1941, was a Scottish poet renowned for writing in the Doric dialect of Scots. Much of his poetry was penned during his time in South Africa, where he worked as a civil engineer.
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Biography of Johann Salvator of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (25 November 1852 - presumed dead, July 1890; declared dead in absentia 2 February 1911) was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. After renouncing his titles, he was known as Johann (John) Orth.
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Biography of Alfred Döblin (excerpt)
Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).A prolific writer, he is a key figure in German literary modernism. His œuvre spans over fifty years and includes a dozen novels (historical fiction, science fiction, urban themes), plays, radio scripts, philosophical treatises, essays, and letters.
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Biography of Henri Borel (excerpt)
Henri Jean François Borel (* November 23, 1869, in Dordrecht; † August 31, 1933, in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. Life Henri Borel studied Chinese language and literature in Leiden and Amoy.In 1894, he became a Chinese interpreter in the Dutch East Indies, took a leave of absence in 1899, and then settled in The Hague.
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Biography of Antoni Ojrzynski (excerpt)
Antoni Ojrzyński (June 8, 1871 – July 16, 1967) was a Polish pharmacist, librarian, and book collector, as well as an active figure in tourism. After studying pharmacy, he worked in various pharmacies across Poland and opened his own in Nałęczów in 1898, later moving to Warsaw. ![]()
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The Orsini affair comprised the diplomatic, political and legal consequences of the "Orsini attempt" (French: attentat d'Orsini): the attempt made on 14 January 1858 by Felice Orsini, with other Italian nationalists and backed by English radicals, to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris.
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Biography of Leonetto Cappiello (excerpt)
Leonetto Cappiello, born in Livorno on 9 April 1875 and died in Cannes on 2 February 1942, was a versatile Italian artist who became a French citizen in 1930. He is recognized as the modernizer of French posters, following Jules Chéret’s influence.
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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 Roger Babson (excerpt)
Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
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Biography of Armando Diaz (excerpt)
Armando Diaz, 1st Duke della Vittoria, OSSA, OSML, OMS, OCI (5 December 1861 – 28 February 1928) was an Italian general and a Marshal of Italy. He is mostly known for his role as Chief of Staff of the Regio Esercito during World War I from November 1917.
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Biography of Adolphe Zimmern (excerpt)
Adolphe Zimmern, born on September 26, 1871, in Paris, and died on April 12, 1935, at the age of 63, was a French electro-radiologist. He was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and the Director of the Medical Electrotherapy Institute of Paris.
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Biography of Alexandre Arquillière (excerpt)
Alexandre Arquillière was a French actor, born on April 18, 1870, in Boën-sur-Lignon and passed away on January 8, 1953, in Saint-Étienne. Originally a house painter, he later became a student at the Conservatoire.He made his stage debut at the Théâtre Libre in 1888 alongside Firmin Gémier, with whom he maintained a close relationship.
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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.
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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 Ada Nilsson (excerpt)
Ada Konstantia Nilsson (September 21, 1872 – May 23, 1964) was one of Sweden's first female medical doctors and a feminist activist.She co-founded the magazine Tidevarvet in 1923. Born in Södra Säms in 1872, she grew up on a farm.After her father's death, she moved to Stockholm.
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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 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 Bridges (general) (excerpt)
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff.
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Biography of Anatole Chauffard (excerpt)
Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard (* 22 August 1855 in Avignon; † 1 November 1932 in Paris) was an internationally renowned French physician, professor of clinical medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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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. He was appointed as lecturer to the Lyceum of Modica in Sicily in 1891, then studied one year in Paris as a post-graduate, before lecturing at the University of Rome in 1893.
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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 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 Coba Ritsema (excerpt)
Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema (27 June 1876, Haarlem – 13 December 1961, Amsterdam) was a Dutch portrait painter.Born into an artistic family, she studied drawing in Haarlem and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam from 1893 to 1897. She was taught by renowned artists like August Allebé and Thérèse Schwartze.
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Biography of Louis Heijermans (excerpt)
Louis Heijermans (December 22, 1873 – July 22, 1938) was a Dutch social physician dedicated to improving the health of the poor and workers in the early 20th century. Born into a family of eleven children, he was the brother of playwright Herman Heijermans.
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 Pierrepont Noyes (excerpt)
Pierrepont Burt Noyes (August 18, 1870 – April 15, 1959) was an American businessman and writer raised in the Oneida Community, a religious Utopian group. His time of birth comes from him, in the book American Childhoods: An Anthology (Little, Brown, 1987).
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Biography of Willem van Konijnenburg (excerpt)
Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg (The Hague, February 11, 1868 – The Hague, February 28, 1943) was a Dutch visual artist. During the interwar period (1919-1939), he was, alongside Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters, one of the national figureheads of modern Dutch art.
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Biography of Leonard Springer (excerpt)
Leonard Antony Springer (Amsterdam, January 24, 1855 – Haarlem, September 28, 1940) was a Dutch garden and landscape architect. He was the son of painter Cornelis Springer and initially trained as a nurseryman before making a name as a garden architect.
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Biography of Viktor von Sprösser (excerpt)
Viktor Felix Sprößer, born January 15, 1853, in Heilbronn and died December 26, 1925, in Stuttgart, was a Württemberg lieutenant general during World War I. The son of a merchant, he married Amalie Pfann.After completing his studies, he joined the Württemberg army in 1871 and advanced through the ranks.
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Biography of Marcel Boulestin (excerpt)
Marcel Boulestin, also known as Xavier Marcel Boulestin, was born on April 14, 1877, in Poitiers, and died on September 20, 1943, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.A French chef and writer, he became famous in England and the United States for introducing French cuisine to the English-speaking world.
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Biography of Luís Cruls (excerpt)
Luíz Cruls or Luís Cruls or Louis Ferdinand Cruls (21 January 1848 – 21 June 1908) was a Belgian-Brazilian astronomer and geodesist. He was Director of the Brazilian National Observatory from 1881 to 1908, led the commission charged with the survey and selection of a future site for the capital of Brazil in the Central Plateau, and was co-discoverer of the Great Comet of 1882.
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Biography of Édouard Brissaud (excerpt)
Édouard Brissaud, born April 15, 1852, in Besançon and died December 19, 1909, in Paris, was a renowned French physician specializing in neurology, anatomo-pathology, and medical history. A student of Charcot, Broca, and Lasègue, he later became a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and a hospital physician.
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Biography of Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (excerpt)
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (24 February 1883 – 17 December 1973) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Vatican Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969, and Dean of the College of Cardinals from 1972 until his death.
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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 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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