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#14551

Charles William Jefferys

Charles William Jefferys

1869 - 1951 (82 years)

Charles William Jefferys , also known as C. W. Jefferys, was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author and teacher, best known as a historical illustrator. Early life Jefferys was born in Rochester, England to Charles Thomas Jefferys and Ellen Kennard. He moved with his family first to Philadelphia in 1875, then to Hamilton, Ontario in 1878, and finally to Toronto around 1880. There, he attended school and was apprenticed with the York Lithography Company from 1885 to 1890.

#14552

Jacopo Bassano

1510 - 1592 (82 years)

Jacopo Bassano , known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the Elder, and studying under Bonifazio Veronese in Venice, he painted mostly religious paintings including landscape and genre scenes. He often treated biblical themes in the manner of rural genre scenes, portraying people who look like local peasants and depicting animals with real interest. Bassano's pictures were very popular in Venice because of their depiction of animals and nocturnal scenes.

#14553

Joseph Bingham

1668 - 1723 (55 years)

Joseph Bingham was an English scholar and divine, who wrote on ecclesiastical history. Life He was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire. He was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and University College, Oxford, of which he was made fellow in 1689 and tutor in 1691. A sermon preached by him from the university pulpit in St Mary's church, on the meaning of the terms Person and Substance in the Fathers, brought upon him an accusation of heresy. He was compelled to give up his fellowship and leave the university; but he was immediately presented by Dr John Radcliffe to the rectory of Headbourne Wort...

#14554

Christian Schussele

Christian Schussele

1824 - 1879 (55 years)

Christian Schussele was an American artist and teacher, and is credited with designing the American Medal of Honor. He studied under Adolphe Yvon and Paul Delaroche 1842–1848 and then came to the United States. Here, for some time, he worked at chromolithography which he had also pursued in France. Later he devoted himself almost entirely to painting.

#14555

Oscar Henry Cooper

1852 - 1932 (80 years)

#14556

Edmonia Lewis

1844 - 1907 (63 years)

Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" , was an American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American heritage. Born free in Upstate New York, she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. She was the first African-American and Native American sculptor to achieve national and then international prominence. She began to gain prominence in the United States during the Civil War; at the end of the 19th century, she remained the only Black woman artist who had participated in and been recognized to any extent by the American artistic mainstream. In 2002, the scholar Molefi Ke...

#14557

Robert Lowery

1913 - 1971 (58 years)

Robert Lowery was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in more than 70 films. He is the second actor to play Batman, appearing as the character in the 1949 film serial Batman and Robin.

#14558

Carl von Marr

1858 - 1936 (78 years)

Carl von Marr was an American-born German painter whose work encompassed religious and mythological subjects, genre, and portraits. He was also a professor of art in Munich. Biography He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of the engraver John Marr and his wife Bertha Bodenstein Marr . He was a pupil of Henry Vianden in Milwaukee, of Martin Schauß in Weimar, of Karl Gussow in Berlin, and subsequently of Otto Seitz at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

#14559

Hiram Powers

1805 - 1873 (68 years)

Hiram Powers was an American neoclassical sculptor. He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture The Greek Slave.

#14560

George Heriot

1759 - 1839 (80 years)

George Heriot was a Scots-Canadian civil servant, author and artist. He is most notable as a major figure in early Canadian art. Early life Heriot was born at Haddington, Scotland, in 1759, the eldest child of John Heriot, the sheriff clerk of the town, and his wife Marjory. The Heriots were part of the long-established family of the Heriots of Trabroun, the most well-known member of which was the seventeenth-century goldsmith and philanthropist George Heriot. He was educated at Duns and the Coldstream grammar school, before attending the Edinburgh Royal High School from 1769 to 1774, where he received a conventional classical education.

#14561

Vera Yevstafievna Popova

Vera Yevstafievna Popova

1867 - 1896 (29 years)

Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Vera Bogdanovskaya was a Russian chemist. She was one of the first female chemists in Russia, and the first Russian female author of a chemistry textbook. She "probably became the first woman to die in the cause of chemistry" as a result of an explosion in her laboratory.

#14562

Smbat Shahaziz

1840 - 1908 (68 years)

Smbat Shahaziz was an Armenian educator, poet and publicist. Biography Born in a family of a priest, he was the youngest of six brothers. He was home schooled until the age 10, and then sent to Lazarian College in Moscow. Upon his graduation in 1862 he was asked to stay and teach modern and Classical Armenian at the primary school level, all the while he was preparing for a university degree. In 1867 he was granted a degree in oriental languages by the University of St. Petersburg. He obtained a college level teaching position at Lazarian College and retained it for thirty five years, until h...

#14563

Rudolf Gopas

1913 - 1983 (70 years)

Rudolf Gopas was a New Zealand artist and art teacher. He was born in Šilutė, Germany . Gopas' works are held in the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery and the Hocken Library.

#14564

John McCrae

1872 - 1918 (46 years)

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during the First World War and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.

#14565

Hans Stumme

1864 - 1936 (72 years)

Hans Stumme was a German linguist, known for his research of Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages. He studied at the universities of Tübingen, Halle, Leipzig and Strasbourg, obtaining his habilitation in 1895. While a student at Leipzig, his teachers were Ludolf Krehl, Albert Socin and Friedrich Delitzsch. In 1900 he became an associate professor of Oriental philology at Leipzig, where in 1909 he was named an honorary professor of Neo-Arabic and Hamitic languages.

#14566

Elena Freda

1890 - 1978 (88 years)

Elena Freda was an Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist known for her collaboration with Vito Volterra on mathematical analysis and its applications to electromagnetism and biomathematics.

#14567

Maximilian Salzmann

1862 - 1954 (92 years)

Maximilian Salzmann was an Austrian ophthalmologist. In 1887 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he later worked as an assistant to Ernst Fuchs at the eye hospital. In 1906 he became an associate professor, then in 1911 was appointed professor of ophthalmology at the University of Graz. In 1918/19 he served as dean to the faculty of medicine.

#14568

Katherine R. Whitmore

1897 - 1982 (85 years)

Katherine R. Whitmore was a Spanish literature professor at Smith College. She majored in Spanish language and literature at the University of Kansas, and received her doctorate from Berkeley. She taught at a college in Richmond and, from 1930 on, at Smith College. She married Brewer Whitmore, another professor at Smith, in 1939.

#14569

Shina Inoue Kan

Shina Inoue Kan

1899 - 1982 (83 years)

Shina Inoue Kan , also seen as "Shina Inouye", "Shina Kan", and "Shinako Kan", was a Japanese college professor. Early life Shina Inoue was born on 25 July 1899 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. In 1921, her mother Hideko Inoue attended the Conference on Limitation of Armament in Washington D.C., representing the women's peace movement in Japan, with Yajima Kajiko and plant scientist Marian Irwin Osterhout. In 1931, Hide Inoue became the first woman president of Japan Women's University.

#14570

John Edwin Windrow

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

John Edwin Windrow was an American educator. He became known as "Mr. Peabody" for his five-decade career at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a critic of Nashville's social ills and intellectual segregation.

#14571

Georges Dwelshauvers

Georges Dwelshauvers

1866 - 1937 (71 years)

Georges Dwelshauvers, who also wrote under the pseudonym Georges Mesnil was a Flemish Belgian philosopher and psychologist. He was the brother of the art critic and anarchist Jacques Mesnil. Dwelshauvers studied philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles before studying in Germany, where he was attracted to the new experimental psychology of Wilhelm Wundt. His attempt to submit a psychological thesis for a Brussels doctorate was blocked by Guillaume Tiberghien in what became known as the Dwelshauvers affair, and Dwelshauvers only started lecturing in philosophy after Tiberghien's retire...

#14572

Charles Leonard Hamblin

1922 - 1985 (63 years)

Charles Leonard Hamblin was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer, as well as a professor of philosophy at the New South Wales University of Technology in Sydney. Among his most well-known achievements in the area of computer science was the introduction of Reverse Polish Notation and the use in 1957 of a push-down pop-up stack. This preceded the work of Friedrich Ludwig Bauer and Klaus Samelson on use of a push-pop stack. The stack had been invented by Alan Turing in 1946 when he introduced such a stack in his design of the ACE computer. In philosophy, Hamblin is known for his book Fallacies, a standard work in the area of the false conclusions in logic.

#14573

Ralph Leigh

1915 - 1987 (72 years)

Ralph Alexander Leigh was a modern languages scholar, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of French in the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1982, later Sandars Reader in Bibliography, in 1986–87. He specialized in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

#14574

Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow

1857 - 1922 (65 years)

Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator. Early life Arthur Wesley Dow was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1857. Dow received his first art training in 1880 from Anna K. Freeland of Worcester, Massachusetts. The following year, Dow continued his studies in Boston with James M. Stone, a former student of Frank Duveneck and Gustave Bouguereau. In 1884, he went to Paris for his early art education, studying at the Académie Julian, under the supervision of the academic artists Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

#14575

Leo Friedlander

Leo Friedlander

1888 - 1966 (78 years)

Leo Friedlander was an American sculptor, who has made several prominent works. Friedlander studied at the Art Students League in New York City, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Brussels and Paris, and the American Academy in Rome. He was an assistant to the sculptor Paul Manship and taught at the American Academy in Rome and at New York University, where he headed the sculpture department. He was also president of the National Sculpture Society. In 1936, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1949.

#14576

Igor Grabar

1871 - 1960 (89 years)

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar was a Russian post-impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art. Grabar, descendant of a wealthy Rusyn family, was trained as a painter by Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg and by Anton Ažbe in Munich. He reached his peak in painting in 1903–1907 and was notable for a peculiar divisionist painting technique bordering on pointillism and his rendition of snow.

#14577

Alexei Zavarzin

Alexei Zavarzin

1886 - 1945 (59 years)

Alexei Alexeivich Zavarzin was a Soviet histologist and biologist. He worked on evolutionary and comparative aspects of histology. He proposed that comparable tissues developed in similar ways across organisms.

#14578

Muriel Sibell Wolle

1898 - 1977 (79 years)

Muriel Sibell Wolle, née Muriel Vincent Sibell was an American artist best known for her drawings and paintings of mining communities in the western states. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, she graduated from the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1920 with diplomas in advertising and costume design. After graduation, she accepted a teaching position at the Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas, then served as an instructor in Art at the Parsons School of Design from 1923 to 1926. After a trip to Colorado in 1926, Sibell began looking for a teaching position in the West.

#14579

J. C. P. Miller

1906 - 1981 (75 years)

Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller was an English mathematician and computing pioneer. He worked in number theory and on geometry, particularly polyhedra, where Miller's monster refers to the great dirhombicosidodecahedron.

#14580

N. I. Herescu

1903 - 1961 (58 years)

Niculae I. Herescu was a Romanian classical scholar, essayist, translator and poet. Descended from a noble family of Oltenia, he was trained in Latin and became a full professor at the University of Bucharest while still in his twenties. He translated widely from the Roman canon, as well as publishing a series of studies devoted to ancient writers. Meanwhile, Herescu wrote poetry of his own, and was president of the Romanian Writers' Society for several years. He left his native country shortly before a Soviet occupation began, and spent the last part of his life in exile, first in Portugal a...

#14581

Harry Holtzman

1912 - 1987 (75 years)

Harry Holtzman was an American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists group. Early life At the age of fourteen, Holtzman visited the Société Anonyme’s 1926 “International Exhibition of Modern Art” at the Brooklyn Museum and developed an early interest in advanced art with the guidance and encouragement of a high school teacher.

#14582

Elisabeth Blochmann

1892 - 1972 (80 years)

Elisabeth Blochmann was a scholar of education, as well as of philosophy, and a pioneer in and researcher of women's education in Germany. Life Born in 1892 as the first child of the public prosecutor Dr. Heinrich Blochmann and his wife Anna née Sachs into an assimilated German-Jewish upper-middle-class family, Elisabeth grew up in the then Grand Ducal capital of Weimar, where she attended the upper girls' school, was certified as an assistant nurse, and qualified as a teacher. Serving as a nurse at a lazarett in Weimar during the first year of World War I, and then for two years as a teacher...

#14583

Adele Goldstine

1920 - 1964 (44 years)

Adele Goldstine was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her work programming the computer, she was also an instrumental player in converting the ENIAC from a computer that needed to be reprogrammed each time it was used to one that was able to perform a set of fifty stored instructions.

#14584

William F. Friedman

William F. Friedman

1891 - 1969 (78 years)

William Frederick Friedman was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. In 1940, subordinates of his led by Frank Rowlett broke Japan's PURPLE cipher, thus disclosing Japanese diplomatic secrets before America's entrance into World War II.

#14585

Beatrice Worsley

1921 - 1972 (51 years)

Beatrice Helen Worsley was the first female Canadian computer scientist. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the first Ph.D. granted in what would today be known as computer science. She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, co-wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1, wrote numerous papers in computer science, and taught computers and engineering at Queen's University and the University of Toronto for over 20 years before her death at the age of 50.

#14586

John Turner MacGregor-Morris

1872 - 1959 (87 years)

John Turner MacGregor-Morris was a professor of electrical engineering at Queen Mary University of London. His papers are held by the Queen Mary Archives. Selected publications Cathode Ray Oscillography. 1936. Sir Ambrose Fleming and the Birth of the Valve. 1954.

#14587

Nelson C. Brown

1885 - 1940 (55 years)

Nelson Courtlandt Brown was an American forester. Early life Brown was born on March 1, 1985, in South Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelors of Arts degree in 1906 and a Master of Forestry degree in 1908.

#14588

Henry Thew Stephenson

1870 - 1957 (87 years)

Henry Thew Stephenson was a teacher and writer. Stephenson was born in Cincinnati to Reuben Henry and Louise Stephenson. He attended Woodward High School before gaining degrees from Ohio State University, Harvard University. and Indiana University. He spent a year doing research at the British Museum.

#14589

Jerry Bywaters

1906 - 1989 (83 years)

Williamson Gerald Bywaters , known as Jerry Bywaters, was an American artist, university professor, museum director, art critic and a historian of the Texas region. Based in Dallas, Bywaters worked to elevate the quality of Texas art, attracting national recognition to the art of the region.

#14590

Mahmud Hasan

1897 - Present (129 years)

Mahmood Hasan was an academic who served as the 5th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka. Early life and education Hasan earned his bachelor's and master's in English from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1918 and 1920 respectively. He later got another master's degree and a Ph.D. degree in English from the Oxford University in 1926.

#14591

Mark Rothko

1903 - 1970 (67 years)

Mark Rothko , born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz , was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.

#14592

Bernard Vauquois

1929 - 1985 (56 years)

Bernard Vauquois was a French mathematician and computer scientist. He was a pioneer of computer science and machine translation in France. An astronomer-turned-computer scientist, he is known for his work on the programming language ALGOL 60, and later for extensive work on the theoretical and practical problems of MT, of which the eponymous Vauquois triangle is one of the most widely-known contributions.

#14593

Joshua R. Smith

Joshua R. Smith is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Washington. He is known for research on wireless power , backscatter communication , and robotic manipulation.

#14594

Irving Samuel Cutter

1875 - 1945 (70 years)

Irving Samuel Cutter was a medical doctor, teacher of medicine and a medical journalist from Keene, New Hampshire. Career He was born in New Hampshire, and educated in the Midwest, graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1898. He received his medical degree from the same institution in 1910 and his D.Sc degree in 1925. Cutter became a high school instructor in Humboldt, Nebraska in 1896 and was the principal of Beatrice High School 1898–1900. He instructed physiological chemistry at the University of Nebraska 1910–1913 and went on to teach biochemistry, 1913–1915 working as Professor of Biochemistry and director of laboratories.

#14595

Harold Pender

1879 - 1959 (80 years)

Harold Pender was an American academic, author, and inventor. He was the first Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, a position he held from the founding of the School in 1923 until his retirement in 1949. During his tenure, the Moore School built the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and began construction of its successor machine, the EDVAC. Pender also proposed the Moore School Lectures, the first course in computers, which the Moore School offered by invitation in the summer of 1946.

#14596

Alexander Boyd Stewart

1904 - 1981 (77 years)

Prof Alexander Boyd Stewart CBE FRSE FRIC was a 20th century Scottish organic chemist and agriculturalist. He was President of the British Society of Soil Science. Life He was born on 3 November 1904 at Tarland in Aberdeenshire, the son of Donald Stewart, a farmer. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. He then studied Science at Aberdeen University graduating MA in 1925 and BSc in 1928. He then continued as a postgraduate, gaining his doctorate in 1932. He immediately obtained a post as Head of the Soil Fertility Department at the Macaulay Institute. Remaining at the instit...

#14597

Edward Kimbark

1902 - 1982 (80 years)

Edward Wilson Kimbark was a noted power engineer and professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University. Kimbark was born in Chicago, Illinois to Edward Hall and Maude Kimbark. In 1920 Kimbark enrolled at Northwestern University where he earned his B.S. in 1924 and his E.E. in 1925. After graduation, he worked for two years as a substation operator and testing lab assistant for the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois at Evanston, and for two years as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley.

#14598

Arthur Illies

1870 - 1952 (82 years)

Karl Wilhelm Arthur Illies was a German painter and graphic artist. Life and work He was born to Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Illies, a merchant, and his wife, Albertine Mathilde née Schwarze. He attended the Johanneum then, at sixteen, began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the firm of . In the evenings he studied nude drawing with and, on Sundays, he studied animal drawing at the zoo with . In 1889, after passing his journeyman examination, he went to Munich for studies at the Königlichen Kunstgewerbeschule, where his primary instructor was Ludwig Lesker . The following year, he enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

#14599

Kaj Franck

1911 - 1989 (78 years)

Kaj Gabriel Franck was one of the leading figures of Finnish design and an influential figure in design and applied arts between 1940 and 1980. Franck's parents were Kurt Franck and Genéviève "Vevi" Ahrenberg. He was a Swedish-speaking Finn, and he was of German descent through his father.

#14600

Ernest A. Batchelder

1875 - 1957 (82 years)

Ernest Allan Batchelder was an American artist and educator who made Southern California his home in the early 20th century. He created art tiles and was a leader in the American Arts and Crafts Movement.

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