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Biography of Joaquín Torres García (excerpt)
Joaquín Torres García, born on July 29, 1874, in Montevideo (Uruguay), where he died on August 8, 1949, was a Spanish-Uruguayan muralist painter, sculptor, writer, teacher, and theorist. His time of birth ceoms from him in his autobiography. "Torres-García is one of the great figures of art in this century." His influence spans European, American, and South American modern art, and he is considered the father of universal constructivism.
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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.
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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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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 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 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 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 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 Otto Leiber (excerpt)
Otto Leiber, born on May 11, 1878, in Strasbourg and died on January 27, 1958, in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, and sculptor. He created landscapes and portraits, both engraved and painted, and sculpted several busts of notable figures, including a 1929 bust of Albert Schweitzer, which helped establish his artistic reputation.
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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 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 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 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 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 Ingeborg of Denmark (1878) (excerpt)
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Louise; 2 August 1878 – 12 March 1958), was a Princess of Sweden by marriage to Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland. Princess Ingeborg was a daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden, she grew up in Copenhagen as a Danish princess.
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Biography of Théodore Thalès (excerpt)
Théodore Marius Jammet, known as Théodore Thalès or simply Thalès, was born on February 25, 1857, in Marseille and died on October 13, 1935, in Paris's 10th arrondissement.He was a French mime and silent film actor. Mime Thalès performed in pantomimes at the Palais de Cristal, where he enjoyed great success with the audience.
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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 Elsas (excerpt)
John Elsas, born Jonas Mayer on July 6, 1851, in Frankfurt am Main and passing away on June 5, 1935, in the same city, was a German painter. He spent most of his life working as a merchant and stockbroker, only fully dedicating himself to art in 1927, at the age of 76.
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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 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 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 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 Hermann Seeger (excerpt)
Hermann Seeger (15 October 1857 – 23 February 1945) was a German genre and landscape painter.Seeger was also known as a talented engraver. Hermann Seeger was born at Halberstadt.At the age of 18, he moved to Halle to study philosophy, but eventually, Seeger turned to art and enrolled at the Berlin Academy.
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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 Charles Moureu (excerpt)
François Charles Léon Moureu (19 April 1863, in Mourenx – 13 June 1929, in Biarritz) was a French organic chemist and pharmacist. In 1902 Charles Moureu published Notions fondamentales de chimie organique, translated into English as Fundamental principles of organic chemistry (1921).
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Biography of Marie Baum (excerpt)
Marie Baum (23 March 1874 – 8 August 1964), was a German politician of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and social activist and author. She was one of the first female members of the Weimar National Assembly. She was a pioneer within German welfare and workers security.
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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 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. Onions.
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Biography of Mario Calvino (excerpt)
Mario Calvino (Sanremo, March 26, 1875 – Sanremo, October 25, 1951) was an Italian agronomist and botanist, husband of naturalist Eva Mameli, and father of writer Italo Calvino and geologist Floriano. After graduating in agricultural sciences from Pisa in 1899, he promoted floriculture in the Imperia region.
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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 Leo von König (excerpt)
Leo Freiherr von König (28 February 1871 - 19 April 1944) was a German painter and a member of the Berlin Secession. He was the eldest son of Götz von König, a cavalry general, and Baroness Hertha von Cramm. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Art and later at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1897.
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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 Giotto Dainelli (excerpt)
Giotto Dainelli Dolfi (May 19, 1878 - November 16, 1968) was an Italian geographer, geologist, paleontologist, traveler, and writer. Born in Florence, he was the son of General Luigi and Virginia Mari. After studying natural sciences in Florence, he began teaching at the university in 1903.
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Biography of Gaston Chérau (excerpt)
Gaston Chérau (6 November 1872 – 20 April 1937) was a French man of letters and journalist. The son of an industrialist, Gaston Chérau died in Boston during a lecture tour. A journalist and chronicler, he regularly gave the press his impressions of travel.
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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 Henri van Booven (excerpt)
Hendrik Cornelis Alexander (Henri) van Booven (7 July 1877 in Haarlem – 31 January 1964 in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. His most successful work was the novel Tropenwee (Tropical agony, 1904), a thinly veiled autobiographical literary report of a mission to Congo in 1898, somewhat similar to Heart of Darkness.
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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 Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (excerpt)
Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, born on February 8, 1856, in Rouen and died on February 17, 1901, at the Château de Montgrimont in Fontaine-le-Bourg (Seine-Inférieure), was a French industrialist and inventor, a pioneer of the automobile, and the founder of Automobile Delamare-Deboutteville.
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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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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 Carry van Bruggen (excerpt)
Carry van Bruggen, pen name of Caroline Lea de Haan, was a Dutch writer born in Smilde on January 1, 1881, and died in Laren on November 16, 1932. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Justine Abbing and May. She was the elder sister of Jacob Israël de Haan, a Dutch writer, lawyer, politician, and significus (nl), who was born on December 31 of the same year.
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Biography of Gertrud von Le Fort (excerpt)
Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort, born on October 11, 1876, in Minden, was a German writer. The daughter of a Prussian colonel, she studied at Heidelberg, Marburg, and Berlin, and settled in Bavaria in 1918. Her literary career began in earnest in 1925 when she edited a posthumous work by her mentor, Ernst Troeltsch.
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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 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 Draga Ljocic (excerpt)
Draga Ljočić Milošević (22 February 1855 – 5 November 1926) was a Serbian physician, socialist, and feminist. In 1872, she became the first Serbian woman to be accepted at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. During the war between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, she worked as a medical assistant in the army and received the grade of a Lieutenant.
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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 Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (excerpt)
Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (born November 21, 1871, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on June 7, 1946, in Paris) was a French physician and scientist, primarily known for her discovery, alongside her mentor Paul Carnot, of hemopoietin (erythropoietin). She also initiated research that led to the development of organ transplantation.
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Biography of Bernardus Arps (excerpt)
Bernardus Arps was a Dutch painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and especially his still lifes. Born in Culemborg September 1, 1865, he was the son of a printer and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Polytechnic School in Delft.
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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 Suzanne Talba (excerpt)
Suzanne Weil, known as Suzanne Talba, born June 27, 1881 in Paris 9th and died March 9, 1967 in Paris 14th2, is a French actress. |
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