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Biography of Rukhmabai (excerpt)
Rukhmabai (22 November 1864 – 25 September 1955) was an Indian physician and feminist. She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India (first one being Dr. Kadambini Ganguly who started practicing in 1886) as well as being involved in a landmark legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888.
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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 Marie Heim-Vögtlin (excerpt)
Marie Heim-Vögtlin (7 October 1845 in Bözen – 7 November 1916 in Zürich) was the first female Swiss physician and a co-founder of the first Swiss gynaecological hospital. She received a private education in the Romandie and Zürich. After her fiancé left her, she decided to study medicine at the University of Zürich, which caused a national scandal.
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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 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 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 Carlos, Duke of Madrid (excerpt)
Don Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este (Spanish: Carlos María de los Dolores Juan Isidro José Francisco Quirico Antonio Miguel Gabriel Rafael; French: Charles Marie des Douleurs Jean Isidore Joseph François Cyr Antoine Michel Gabriel Raphaël; 30 March 1848 – 18 July 1909) was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain as Carlos VII from 1868 (his father's Spanish renunciation), and holder of the Legitimist claim to the throne of France under the name Charles XI after the death of his father in 1887.
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Biography of Hans Jantzen (excerpt)
Hans Jantzen (26 April 1881 – 15 February 1967) was a German art historian specializing in Medieval art. Initially studying law, he later turned to art history, archaeology, and philosophy, studying under Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin and Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle. He earned his PhD in 1908 with a dissertation on architecture in Netherlandish paintings.
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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 Georg von Küchler (excerpt)
Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler (30 May 1881 – 25 May 1968) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.
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Biography of Marie Dauguet (excerpt)
Marie Dauguet, born Julie Marie Aubert on April 2, 1860, in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont, and died on September 10, 1942, in Ville-d'Avray, was a French poet. She grew up immersed in the Vosges nature, with a love for botany and the arts. Her first collection, À travers le voile (1902), was praised by Stuart Merrill, who compared her to Verlaine.
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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 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 Renato Simoni (excerpt)
Renato Simoni (Verona, 5 September 1875 – Milan, 5 July 1952) was an Italian journalist, playwright, writer, and theatrical critic, best known for collaborating with Giuseppe Adami on Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Born in Verona, Simoni lost his father in 1879 and became the family's main provider.
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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 Ludwig Finckh (excerpt)
Ludwig Finckh (* March 21, 1876 in Reutlingen; † March 8, 1964 in Gaienhofen) was a German writer and physician. Born into a modest family, Finckh initially studied law but switched to medicine, earning his doctorate in 1904.He moved to Gaienhofen, where he formed a friendship with Hermann Hesse.
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Biography of Harry Northrup (actor) (excerpt)
Henri Stabo Wallace Northrup (born July 31, 1875, in Paris and died July 2, 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was a French-born American actor, known as Harry Northrup (or Harry S.Northrup). After emigrating to the United States, he began his film career in 1911, appearing in six short films, including Vanity Fair by Charles Kent (with Helen Gardner and William V.
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Biography of Frieda Lawrence (excerpt)
Frieda Lawrence (August 11, 1879 – August 11, 1956) was a German author and wife of the British novelist D.H.Lawrence.
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Biography of Porfirio Díaz Ortega (excerpt)
Deodato Lucas Porfirio Díaz Ortega (October 18, 1873 – December 28, 1946) was the fourth child of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and Delfina Ortega. A military engineer, he contributed to several important projects in Mexico and had eight children. His time of birth comes from the biography Verdad y mito de la Revolución Mexicana, Volume 1, by Ignacio Muñoz (Ediciones Populares, 1960).
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Biography of Friedrich Naumann (excerpt)
Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and (non-Marxist) socialism with Protestant Christian values, proposing social reform to prevent class struggle.
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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 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 Édouard-Émile Violet (excerpt)
Édouard-Émile Violet, born on December 8, 1880 in Mâcon and died on January 4, 1955 in Perpignan, was a French actor, director, screenwriter, and producer, primarily active during the 1910s and 1920s. He founded Les Films Lucifer in July 1919, but the company was dissolved by the end of 1922.
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Biography of Ricciotto Canudo (excerpt)
Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular.Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy.
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Biography of Sem Benelli (excerpt)
Sem Benelli (August 12, 1877 – December 18, 1949) was an Italian playwright, essayist and librettist.He provided the texts for several noted Italian operas, including Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re and L'incantesimo, and Umberto Giordano's La cena delle beffe, based on Benelli's own play of the same title.
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Biography of Christian Ernst Stahl (excerpt)
Christian Ernst Stahl, born on June 21, 1848, in Schiltigheim, Alsace, and died on December 3, 1919, in Jena, was a German botanist. He studied in Strasbourg and Halle, earning his doctorate in 1874. He worked with Julius von Sachs in Würzburg, developing his theory on lichens.
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Biography of Fritz Pregl (excerpt)
Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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Biography of Hermann Schmitz (industrialist) (excerpt)
Hermann Schmitz (January 1, 1881 – October 8, 1960) was a German industrialist and Nazi war criminal who served as CEO of IG Farben from 1935 to 1945. Born in Essen, Schmitz advanced his career through roles in various companies and became involved in Nazi politics, serving in the Reichstag.
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Biography of Jules-Albert de Dion (excerpt)
Marquis Jules Félix Philippe Albert de Dion de Wandonne (10 March 1856 (French Wikipedia) – 19 August 1946) was a significant figure in the early automotive industry, co-founding De Dion-Bouton, once the world's largest car manufacturer, and the sports newspaper L'Équipe.
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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 Johanna Ey (excerpt)
Johanna Ey (4 March 1864 – 27 August 1947) was a German art dealer of the 1920s, nicknamed "Mutter Ey" (Mother Ey) for her support of artists like Max Ernst and Otto Dix. Born in Wickrath, she moved to Düsseldorf at 19, married, and had twelve children, eight of whom died young.
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Biography of Leon Dabo (excerpt)
Leon Dabo, born Pierre-Paul-Léon Schott on July 9, 1864, in Saverne, Alsace, and died in New York on November 7, 1960, was an American painter, the son of artist Ignace Schott and Madeleine Oberlé. He was associated with the Tonalist movement and is best known for his landscapes of New York, especially the Hudson Valley.
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Biography of Florence R. Sabin (excerpt)
Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
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Biography of Laura Marx (excerpt)
Jenny Laura Marx, born on September 26, 1845, in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Belgium), and died on November 25, 1911, in Draveil (France), was a socialist activist. The second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen, she was the wife of Paul Lafargue. The couple dedicated their lives to popularizing and spreading Marxist thought in France.
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Biography of Gusta Noske (excerpt)
Gustav Noske (9 July 1868 – 30 November 1946) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence (Reichswehrminister) of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske was known for using army and paramilitary forces to suppress the socialist/communist uprisings of 1919.
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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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Biography of Paul Maas (classical scholar) (excerpt)
Paul Maas (18 November 1880, in Frankfurt am Main – 15 July 1964, in Oxford) was a German scholar who, among other things, developed principles of textual criticism inherited from Karl Lachmann. He studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1903.
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Biography of André Fontainas (excerpt)
André Fontainas, born on February 5, 1865, in Brussels and died on December 8, 1948, in Paris, was a French poet and critic, Belgian by birth. The grandson of André-Napoléon Fontainas and the son of Charles Fontainas, a lawyer at the Court of Brussels, André had to follow his father to Paris in 1877 for professional reasons.
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Biography of Adolphe Clément-Bayard (excerpt)
Gustave Adolphe Clément, known from 1909 Clément-Bayard (22 September 1855 – 10 March 1928), was a French entrepreneur. Despite being orphaned, he became a blacksmith and a Compagnon du Tour de France. He later ventured into racing and manufacturing bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships.
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Biography of Richard Dehmel (excerpt)
Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (November 18, 1863, in Hermsdorf, Province of Brandenburg – February 8, 1920, in Blankenese, Germany) was a German writer and poet. After being expelled from high school in Berlin due to a conflict with a teacher, he completed his education in Danzig and then studied natural sciences, economics, literature, and philosophy, submitting a thesis in economics.
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Biography of Ricardo Castro (pianist) (excerpt)
Ricardo Castro Herrera (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the Porfirio Díaz era. Born at Hacienda de Santa Bárbara, Durango, Castro began his music education with Pedro H. Ceniseros.
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Biography of Karl Klingler (excerpt)
Karl Klingler (7 December 1879 in Strasbourg – 18 March 1971 in Munich) was a German violinist, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and lecturer.
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Biography of Albert Hahn (excerpt)
Albert Pieter Hahn (17 March 1877 – 3 August 1918) was a Dutch political cartoonist, caricaturist, poster artist and book cover designer; well known for his socialist and antimilitaristic viewpoints. Some of his drawings, especially those of the railroad strikes of 1903, have been regularly used in history textbooks.
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Biography of Norbert Jacques (excerpt)
Norbert Jacques, born on June 6, 1880, in Eich, Luxembourg, and died on May 16, 1954, in Koblenz, Germany, was a Luxembourgish writer, journalist, and translator writing in German. After studying in Hamburg and Bonn, he became a journalist and traveled worldwide before World War I. ![]()
Biography of Bart van der Leck (excerpt)
Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876, Utrecht – 13 November 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist.He co-founded the De Stijl art movement with Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. The son of a house painter, he began his career learning stained glass making in Utrecht.
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Biography of Constantin Oddo (excerpt)
Paul Marie Constantin Oddo, born on June 6, 1860, and died on June 21, 1926, in Marseille, was a French physician and professor at the Marseille School of Medicine, and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine. The son of a broker and grandson of Auguste Laforêt, he spent his career at the Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille, where he became an intern in 1881.
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Biography of Waldemar Erfurth (excerpt)
Waldemar Erfurth (4 August 1879 – 2 May 1971) was a German general of infantry, a writer and liaison officer to Finland during World War II Erfurth was born in Berlin.He served in World War I, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern.
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Biography of Felipe Trigo (excerpt)
Felipe Trigo (13 February 1864 in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz – 2 September 1916 in Madrid) was a 20th-century Spanish writer. He studied Medicine in Madrid and practised in several villages in Extremadura. He later become a member of Military Health Corps and he was appointed to Philippines, where he was about to die and he had to be repatriated as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
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Biography of Arthur Meyer (journalist) (excerpt)
Arthur Meyer (16 June 1844 - 2 February 1924) was a French press baron, known for directing the conservative daily newspaper Le Gaulois, which merged with Le Figaro in 1929. A royalist, he played a significant role in the press, society, and politics of the French Third Republic.
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Biography of Selmar Aschheim (excerpt)
Selmar Aschheim (October 4, 1878 – February 15, 1965) was a German gynecologist and a native of Berlin. Born into a Jewish family, he earned his medical doctorate in Freiburg in 1902 and later became the director of the laboratory at the Universitäts-Frauenklinik in Berlin’s Charité. |
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