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#14851

Mardonius

400 - 400 (0 years)

Mardonius, also spelled Mardonios, was a Roman rhetorician, philosopher and educator of Gothic descent. Mardonius was the childhood tutor and adviser of the 4th century Roman emperor Julian, on whom he had an immense influence.

#14852

Adam Friedrich Oeser

Adam Friedrich Oeser

1717 - 1799 (82 years)

Adam Friedrich Oeser was a German etcherer, painter and sculptor. Biography Oeser worked and studied in Pressburg and Vienna at the Vienna Academy . He went to Dresden in Saxony in 1739, where he studied with Mengs and Dietrich, and created portraits and scenes for the Royal Opera, and mural paintings in Schloss Hubertusburg . In 1756 Count Heinrich von Bünau commissioned him to decorate the newly built Schloss Dahlen.

#14853

Julian Deryl Hart

1894 - 1980 (86 years)

Julian Deryl Hart served as President of Duke University from 1960 to 1963. Previously, he was the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Duke. During his presidency of three years, he planned and initiated programs to enhance the "academic excellence" of the university. For example, he redefined the Office of the Registrar, Undergraduate Admissions, and Development. Faculty salaries increased and the number of distinguished professorships doubled. He also was instrumental in amending the admissions policy to uphold equality regardless of race, creed, or national origin.

#14854

John A. Hammond

1843 - 1939 (96 years)

John Hammond, was a Canadian adventurer, photographer, artist, printmaker and art educator. Career Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hammond began working with his father, who was a marble cutter, at age nine. As a young man, Hammond joined the local militia and was sent to counterattack an expected Fenian raid that never materialized. Seeking his fortune, in the 1860s he joined the Central Otago Gold Rush in New Zealand and spent three years searching for gold. After returning to Montreal, he trained and worked as a staff photographer for the renowned William Notman and joined the Geological Survey of Canada that laid out the route west for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

#14855

Robert Dale

1812 - 1853 (41 years)

Lieutenant Robert Dale was the first European explorer to cross the Darling Range in Western Australia. Robert Dale was born in Winchester, England in November 1810, son of Major Thurston Dale and Helen Matthews. Through the influence of his great-uncle General William Dyott, on 25 October 1827, he was appointed an ensign in the British Army's 63rd Regiment of Foot. In February 1829 Dale embarked for Western Australia on as part of a detachment of troops commanded by Captain Frederick Chidley Irwin. On arrival at the colony, he was seconded as an assistant to Surveyor General John Septimus Roe, whose Survey Department was suffering under an extreme workload.

#14856

Orazio Gentileschi

Orazio Gentileschi

1563 - 1639 (76 years)

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany, he began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other artists.

#14857

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.

#14858

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.

#14859

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...

#14860

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.

#14861

Oscar Henry Cooper

1852 - 1932 (80 years)

#14862

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...

#14863

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.

#14864

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.

#14865

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.

#14866

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.

#14867

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.

#14868

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...

#14869

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.

#14870

Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz

1906 - 1967 (61 years)

Hieronymus Christoph Jan Eugen Franz Gottfried Maria Freiherr von Pölnitz, known as Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz was a German social historian, economic historian and archivist.

#14871

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.

#14872

Oscar Craig

1846 - Present (180 years)

Oscar J. Craig was the first president of the University of Montana. Craig served as the president between July 1895 to October 1908, and he managed the university almost single-handedly for those thirteen years. Craig taught a few classes each semester, as well as helping to establish the campus itself. He also founded a significant amount of the programs at the university that still persist today. Prior to graduating from DePauw University in 1884, Craig served in the position of Superintendent of City Schools in Sullivan, Indiana for a few years. In 1883, he became a professor at Purdue University, teaching political economy and history before moving to Montana to found the University.

#14873

Pratul Chandra Gupta

1910 - 1990 (80 years)

Pratul Chandra Gupta was an Indian historian, writer and the author of Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore, a historical account of the siege of Cawnpore. Considered by many as an authority on Maratha history, he translated The Maharashta Purana, an 18th-century Bengali text written by Gangaram into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known Indologist, being his co-translator. One of his books, INA in Military Operation, was commissioned by Jawaharlal Nehru but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections. The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851 and Shah Alam II and His Court are some of his other notable works.

#14874

Jack Roderick

1913 - 1990 (77 years)

Jack William Roderick, FIStructE, FICE, FASCE FTSE, FAA was Challis Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney from 1951 until his retirement in 1978. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta.

#14875

Raimundo Lida

1908 - 1979 (71 years)

Raimundo Lida was an Argentine philologist, philosopher of language, literary critic and essayist. He specialised in Romance philology, aesthetics, the literature of the Spanish Golden Age and modernist literature. He taught at Harvard University from 1953, where he was chair of the department of Romance Languages. The second of three children, his siblings were the hematologist Emilio Lida and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, also a philologist.

#14876

Howard H. Aiken

Howard H. Aiken

1900 - 1973 (73 years)

Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. Biography Aiken studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1939. During this time, he encountered differential equations that he could only solve numerically. Inspired by Charles Babbage's difference engine, he envisioned an electro-mechanical computing device that could do much of the tedious work for him. This computer was originally called the ASCC and later renamed Harvard Mark I.

#14877

John Ely Burchard

1898 - 1975 (77 years)

John Ely Burchard was an American professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was a historian and architectural critic. He was President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1954 to 1957.

#14878

Walter Rautenstrauch

1880 - 1951 (71 years)

Walter Rautenstrauch was an American mechanical and consulting engineer, and Professor at Columbia University's Department of Industrial Engineering in the 1930s. He coined the term break-even point, and developing the break-even chart together with Charles Edward Knoeppel.

#14879

Horace Day

1909 - 1984 (75 years)

Horace Day , also Horace Talmage Day, was an American painter of the American scene who came to maturity during the Thirties and was active as a painter over the next 50 years. He traveled widely in the United States and continued to explore throughout his life subjects that first captured his attention as an artist in the Thirties. He gained early recognition for his portraits and landscapes, particularly his paintings in the Carolina Lowcountry.

#14880

William A. Martin

1938 - 1981 (43 years)

William Arthur Martin was a computer scientist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After graduating from Northwest Classen High School, where he was a state wrestling champion, he attended MIT where he received a bachelor's degree , master's and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering under supervision of Marvin Minsky, with a dissertation on Symbolic Mathematical Laboratory. He joined MIT as an assistant professor of electrical engineering in 1968 and was promoted to associate professor in 1972. In 1975, he received tenure. He held a joint appointment at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

#14881

Albert Hanson

1913 - 1971 (58 years)

Albert Henry Hanson was the first Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. Early life and education Hanson was born in Swindon and educated at Swindon Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class BA in Modern History in 1934. Whilst at Oxford University, he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, remaining a member until 1953 when he concluded that membership conflicted with his academic independence.

#14882

Benno Lischer

1876 - 1959 (83 years)

Benno Edward Lischer was an American orthodontist who at one point was the president of American Association of Dental Schools and American Association of Orthodontists. He was the first full-time dean at Washington University School of Dental Medicine.

#14883

Harris Fletcher

1892 - 1979 (87 years)

Harris Francis Fletcher was an American academic, professor of English at the University of Illinois for 36 years from 1926 to 1962, an author, and a leading authority on the work of John Milton. Early life He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Fletcher received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1925.

#14884

William Henry Schofield

1870 - 1920 (50 years)

William Henry Schofield was an American academic, founder of the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. He was professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation .

#14885

Victor D'Amico

1904 - 1987 (83 years)

Victor D'Amico was an American teaching artist and the founding Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. D’Amico explored the essence of the art experience as spiritual involvement, and the ability to communicate one's most profound ideas and emotions through aesthetic expression. He considered that the individual's personality had to be respected and developed by providing opportunities for creative experimentation. D'Amico's philosophy was based on the fundamental faith in the creative potential in every man, woman and child. He believed "that the arts ...

#14886

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

1888 - 1945 (57 years)

Stefan Mazurkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning . His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Saks, and Antoni Zygmund. For a time Mazurkiewicz was a professor at the University of Paris; however, he spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Warsaw.

#14887

Klaus Samelson

1918 - 1980 (62 years)

Klaus Samelson was a German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation and push-pop stack algorithms for sequential formula translation on computers.

#14888

James Corry

1899 - 1985 (86 years)

James Alexander Corry was a Canadian academic and the thirteenth Principal of Queen's University, Ontario, from 1961 until 1968. Born in Millbank, Ontario, he graduated in 1923 from the University of Saskatchewan. He attended Lincoln College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1927 he became a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1936 he joined Queen's University as a professor of political science. In 1957, when the Queen's Faculty of Law was re-established with his assistance, he was one of the three charter professors, along with Daniel Soberman and Stuart Ryan. From 1951 until 1961 he was a Vice-Principal of Queen's.

#14889

Steven Anson Coons

1912 - 1979 (67 years)

Steven Anson Coons was an early pioneer in the field of computer graphical methods. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He was also a professor at Syracuse University after leaving MIT. Steven Coons had a vision of interactive computer graphics as a design tool to aid the engineer.

#14890

Rene d'Harnoncourt

1901 - 1968 (67 years)

René d'Harnoncourt was an Austrian-born American art curator. He was Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1949 to 1967. Background Of Austrian, Czech, and French descent, Count Rene d'Harnoncourt was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Count Hubert d'Harnoncourt and his wife, the former Julie Mittrowsky. Although he showed an interest in art as a child, he received a technical education. After his family suffered severe financial losses, he moved to Paris in 1924, and went to Mexico in 1926. D'Harnoncourt initially eked out a minimal living as a commercial artist, but quickly ...

#14891

Roscoe C. Martin

1903 - 1972 (69 years)

Roscoe Coleman Martin was an American political scientist. He was Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1930s. From 1938 to 1949, he was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of Alabama , where he strengthened the links between UA and the Tennessee Valley Authority . Finally, he was Professor at Syracuse University in New York from 1949 onwards. He was a pioneer in the academic discipline of Public Administration.

#14892

George Hector Percival

1902 - 1983 (81 years)

George Hector Percival FRSE FRCPE was a British dermatologist, academic author and president of the British Association of Dermatologists. Life He was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife the son of E J Percival.

#14893

Iwo Lominski

1905 - 1968 (63 years)

Iwo Robert Waclaw Lominski FRSE was a Polish-born microbiologist working in Britain in the 20th century. In articles he is referred to as I. R. W. Lominski. Life He was born in Kraków in Poland in 1905. He studied medicine at the University of Kraków and gained his doctorate in 1931. He obtained a prestigious position in the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

#14894

Jacek Lipkowski

1900 - Present (126 years)

#14895

Vanessa Teague

Vanessa Joy Teague is an Australian cryptographer, known for her work on secret sharing, cryptographic protocols, and the security of electronic voting. She was an associate professor of computing and information systems at the University of Melbourne, until resigning in February 2020 and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science. She is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Verified Voting Foundation.

#14896

Carl Dragstedt

1895 - 1983 (88 years)

Carl Dragstedt is a scientist who discovered the role of Histamine in Anaphylaxis. He was a chairman of the Northwestern University's pharmacology department, a Northwestern professor for 38 years and a retired physician with a practice in Edison Park.

#14897

J. C. R. Licklider

J. C. R. Licklider

1915 - 1990 (75 years)

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider , known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered to be among the most prominent figures in computer science development and general computing history.

#14898

Lance Hoffman

Lance J. Hoffman is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He initiated and taught the first course on computer security in a regular accredited degree program in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and established the computer security program there and at GW and led GW’s to national recognition as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

#14899

Frank Rosenblatt

Frank Rosenblatt

1928 - 1971 (43 years)

Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence. He is sometimes called the father of deep learning for his pioneering work on neural networks. Life and career Rosenblatt was born into a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York as the son of Dr. Frank and Katherine Rosenblatt.

#14900

Alan Smeaton

Alan F. Smeaton MRIA is a researcher and academic at Dublin City University. He was founder of TRECVid, and the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust Leadership Award in 2009. Smeaton is a founding director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University . Prior to that he was a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies . As of 2013, Smeaton was serving on the editorial board of the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, Information Processing and Management.

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