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#7301

Herbert Tampere

1909 - 1975 (66 years)

Herbert Tampere was an Estonian folklorist and musicologist. From 1927 until 1933, he studied at the University of Tartu. From 1929 until 1945, he worked as an assistant at Estonian Folklore Archives. Since 1945 he taught folk music at the Tallinn Conservatory.

#7302

Raphael Hamilton

1892 - 1980 (88 years)

Raphael Noteware Hamilton, S.J. was an American Jesuit and professor of history at Marquette University. He is also considered the founder of Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives.

#7303

Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert

1804 - 1852 (48 years)

Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert was a Dutch born, German historian and classical philologist. From 1821 he studied history and philology at the University of Bonn, where he was a pupil of Karl Friedrich Heinrich and August Ferdinand Naeke. At Bonn, he came under the influence of historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, of whom he worked as a tutor to his son Marcus. In 1825 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the fabulist Aesop, titled De Aesopo et fabulis Aesopicis. In 1827 he was appointed associate professor of history and classical studies at the Academy of Münster, where in 1836 he attained a full professorship of history.

#7304

Andre Morize

1883 - 1957 (74 years)

Andre Morize was a professor of French literature at Harvard University from 1918 to 1951. He is well known for his involvement and activism during World War I and World War II. Early life Morize was born on September 18, 1883, at Le Fleix, France. In 1900, at the age of 16 he graduated with a Bachelier-ès-lettres from the University of France, and won the Prix d’honneur in the Councours General of the Lycées. He continued his studies at the University of France and earned Licencié-ès-lettres and Agrégé-des-lettres .While at the University of Paris, he worked under Joseph Bédier and Gustave ...

#7305

Kenneth Porter

1905 - 1981 (76 years)

Kenneth Wiggins Porter was an American poet and historian. Life He graduated from Harvard University in history and business history. He taught at Southwestern College, and Vassar College. He worked for the National Archives from 1941 to 1943, and from 1948 to 1955, for the Business History Foundation. He married Annette MacDonald in 1946. In 1954, was a Fulbright lecturer at Melbourne University. From 1955 and 1958 he taught at the University of Illinois, and at the University of Oregon, from 1958 to 1972.

#7306

Philip Hughes

1895 - 1967 (72 years)

Philip Hughes was a Roman Catholic priest and Catholic ecclesiastical historian. He taught post-graduate courses at the University of Notre Dame. Early life Hughes was born in Gorton, Manchester, on 11 May 1895. He received his early education at St Augustine's RC School, Manchester prior to being admitted to St Bede's College, Manchester in September 1907, graduating at midsummer 1912. He then studied at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw and Leeds Seminary, where he was ordained deacon on 16 June 1917, prior to continuing his studies at Louvain University where he received his degree in 1921. He...

#7307

Gilbert Stuart

1742 - 1786 (44 years)

Gilbert Stuart was a Scottish journalist and historian. Early life He was born in Edinburgh, the only surviving son of George Stuart , professor of the Latin language and Roman antiquities in Edinburgh University.

#7308

Edwin A. Grosvenor

Edwin A. Grosvenor

1845 - 1936 (91 years)

Edwin Augustus Grosvenor was a historian, author, chairman of the history department at Amherst College, and president of the national organization of Phi Beta Kappa societies from 1907 to 1919. Grosvenor was called "one of the most cosmopolitan of Americans" by author and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson. His son, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, was the first employee and longtime editor of National Geographic Magazine.

#7309

Oliver of Paderborn

1170 - 1227 (57 years)

Oliver of Paderborn, also known as Oliver Scholasticus or Oliver of Cologne , was a German cleric, crusader and chronicler. He was the bishop of Paderborn from 1223 until 1225, when Pope Honorius III made him cardinal-bishop of Sabina. He was the first Paderborn bishop to become a cardinal. Oliver played a significant role in the Crusades as a preacher, participant and chronicler.

#7310

Khalil Kamarah'i

Khalil Kamarah'i

1898 - 1984 (86 years)

Ayatollah Haj Mirza Khalil Kamarah'i . He was an author, researcher and philosopher of contemporary theology that sought to unite the Muslim sects supporting his cause. He studied under Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi in Arak and Qom. He continued his studies of various Islamic subjects and philosophy throughout his life. He worked with the administration in the Vatican City on various philosophical questions, which he later released in a separate book. He travelled to Cairo on behalf of Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi and Mahmud Shaltut, the Grand Mufti and dean of Al-Azhar University Sheikh, for fatwa. H...

#7311

Robert Vaughan

1795 - 1868 (73 years)

Robert Vaughan was an English minister of the Congregationalist communion, academic, college head and writer, from a Welsh background. He was professor of history in the London University, and then president of the Independent College, Manchester. He founded, and for a time edited, the British Quarterly.

#7312

Ernst Molden

1886 - 1953 (67 years)

Ernst Hermann Wilhelm Molden was an Austrian journalist and historian. An editor-in-chief of the Neue Freie Presse before WW2, he founded the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse in 1946. Ernst Molden was married to Paula von Preradović, a Serbian and Austrian poet who, in 1947, composed the lyrics for the national anthem of Austria. Their sons Otto and Fritz Molden participated in the Austrian resistance.

#7313

William Fraser Tytler

1777 - 1853 (76 years)

William Fraser Tytler of Balnain FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and historian. Life He was born at Campbells Close on the Grassmarket in Edinburgh on 10 September 1777 the son of Anne Fraser of Balnain and Alexander Fraser Tytler. He was the grandson of William Tytler of Woodhouselee.

#7314

Georges Smets

1881 - 1961 (80 years)

Georges Smets was a Belgian lawyer, historian, sociologist and ethnologist. Initially trained as a historian and lawyer, He was Professor and Rector of the Free University of Brussels and Director of the Solvay Institute of Sociology .

#7315

Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli

1655 - 1740 (85 years)

Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli was an Italian lawyer and historian of Greek origin. Life He was born to Zuanne Papadopoli, a Venetian administrator at Candia, present day Heraklion. Papadopoli studied Canon Law and became a librarian at the University of Padua. In 1726 he published on the history of the university.

#7316

Theodor Lindner

1843 - 1919 (76 years)

Ernst Friedrich Theodor Lindner was a German historian. He studied history, ancient philology and Sanskrit at the University of Breslau, and at the same time worked as an assistant at the municipal library. He continued his education at the University of Berlin as a student of Johann Gustav Droysen and Leopold von Ranke, and graduated with a dissertation on the Council of Mantua of 1064. In 1868 he qualified as a lecturer at Breslau, and six years later became an associate professor. In 1876 he was named a full professor at the Academy in Münster, where in 1883/84 he served as academic rector.

#7317

Leandro Alberti

Leandro Alberti

1479 - 1552 (73 years)

Leandro Alberti was an Italian Dominican historian. Life Alberti was born and died at Bologna. In his early youth he attracted the attention of the Bolognese rhetorician, Giovanni Garzoni, who volunteered to act as his tutor. He entered the Dominican Order in 1493, and after the completion of his philosophical and theological studies was called to Rome by his friend, the Master General, Francesco Silvestri of Ferrara, called "Ferrariensis". He served him as secretary and socius until the death of Silvestri in 1528.

#7318

John Brown

1830 - 1922 (92 years)

John Brown was a British theologian, historian, and pastor. Brown obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Doctor of Divinity and served as pastor of Bunyan Meeting in the town of Bedford, Bedfordshire in the Eastern part of England. He was the author of several oft referenced works on church history and theology, including an important biography of John Bunyan, subtitled His Life, Times and Work.

#7319

Friedrich Ludwig

1872 - 1930 (58 years)

Friedrich Ludwig was a German historian, musicologist, and college instructor. His name is closely associated with the exploration and rediscovery of medieval music in the 20th century, particularly the compositional techniques of the Ars Nova and the isorhythmic motet.

#7320

Oscar Albert Johnsen

Oscar Albert Johnsen

1876 - 1954 (78 years)

Oscar Albert Johnsen was a Norwegian historian. He published a number of books on historical topics. Life Johnsen became a student a 1896; he graduated with a master's degree in 1898, and in 1906 he received a PhD with his dissertation De norske stænder . In 1906 and 1907 he studied as a government scholar in Copenhagen, Paris, and Berlin. Later, he made a number of study trips abroad, including to England, Germany, and the Baltic countries. He was professor of history at the University of Oslo from 1913 to 1945.

#7321

Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann

1710 - 1739 (29 years)

Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann was a German historian, jurist and writer. Life Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann was born in 1710 in Zittau, Electorate of Saxony, the son of school rector Gottfried Hoffmann. After the early death of his father in 1712, his mother and later his brother, Christian Gottfried Hoffmann, took over his upbringing. After he completed his education in 1728, he moved on to the University of Frankfurt to pursue studies in law.

#7322

John Logan

1748 - 1788 (40 years)

Rev John Logan FRSE was a minister in Leith, Scotland, a popular preacher known also as a historian. Self-destructive behaviour saw him end his life as a hack writer in London. Early life He was born at a farm in Soutra, near Fala, Midlothian to George Logan, a farmer, and his wife Janet Waterston, daughter of John Waterston in the parish of Stow. The family moved to Gosford Mains, near Aberlady in East Lothian. In terms of their religious belief they were dissenters: members of the Burgher branch of the First Secession. They attended the church of John Brown in Haddington. John then went to...

#7323

Ernst Levy

1881 - 1968 (87 years)

Ernst Levy was a German American legal scholar and historian of law. He was a Professor of Roman Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Heidelberg . Being Jewish, he was forced to retire in 1935, and decided to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the United States. At the University of Washington, he was a Professor of Law and History from 1937 to 1952.

#7324

Fortunatus Hueber

1639 - 1706 (67 years)

Fortunatus Hueber was a West German Franciscan historian and theologian. Life He entered the Bavarian province of the Franciscan Reformati on 5 November 1654. He was general lector in theology; cathedral preacher in Freising from 1670 to 1676; then in 1677 Provincial of Bavaria.

#7325

Alexander Cartellieri

1867 - 1955 (88 years)

Alexander Cartellieri was a German historian, principally of the High Middle Ages. Between 1904 and 1934 he held a full professorship for Medieval and Modern History at the University of Jena. After his retirement in 1934, he continued to live in Jena through the National Socialist years, the war, Soviet occupation and the early years of German partition.

#7326

Herman Scholliner

1722 - 1795 (73 years)

Herman Scholliner was a German Benedictine theologian and historian. Biography He entered the Benedictine abbey of Oberaltaich in 1738; studied philosophy and theology at Erfurt and Salzburg. He was director of the house of studies of the Bavarian Benedictines from 1752 to 1757; professor of dogmatic theology at Salzburg from 1759 to 1766. He traveled to Vienna in the interests of his monastery in 1770 and became prior of his monastery in 1772. He taught dogmatic theology at Ingolstadt from 1776 to 1780 and became provost at in 1780. From 1759 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Scien...

#7327

Joe Murphy

1895 - 1920 (25 years)

Joseph Patrick Murphy was one of 22 Irish Republicans who died on hunger strike in the 20th century. He was an Officer in the Irish Republican Army who died as a result of his participation in the 1920 Cork hunger strike at Cork Gaol.

#7328

Orest Miller

1833 - 1889 (56 years)

Orest Fyodorovich Miller was a Russian folklorist, professor in Russian literature, of Baltic German origin from Estonia. He is the author of the book "Муромец и богатырство киевское"

#7329

Johann Philipp Murray

Johann Philipp Murray

1726 - 1776 (50 years)

Johann Philipp Murray was a German historian who was mainly interested in early Nordic studies and the relations between England and Scandinavia. Biography Johann Philipp Murray was born on 30 July 1726 in Schleswig. He was the oldest son of the Prussian-born preacher and theologian Andreas Murray . His brothers were the professors Johann Andreas Murray and Adolph Murray , and the Bishop Gustaf Murray . Murray was a student in Königsberg in 1742, Uppsala in 1746 and Göttingen in 1747. In 1748 he became a Master of Arts at the University of Göttingen, assistant professor in 1755 and full professor in 1762.

#7330

Lorenzo Sears

1838 - 1916 (78 years)

Lorenzo Sears was an American historian and biographer. He was born in Searsville, Massachusetts . He graduated from Yale College in 1861 and from the General Theological Seminary, New York in 1864. He was rector of various Episcopalian parishes in New England until 1885. From 1885 to 1903 he served as professor at the University of Vermont and at Brown University .

#7331

Paul Seabury

1923 - 1990 (67 years)

Paul Seabury was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant. Life Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley starting in 1953. Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities.

#7332

Richard Otto Zöpffel

1843 - 1891 (48 years)

Richard Otto Zöpffel was a Baltic German church historian and theologian born in Arensburg, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire . He studied theology at the University of Dorpat, and history at the University of Göttingen under Georg Waitz . In 1871 he published Die Papstwahlen und mit ihnen im nächsten Zusammenhange stehenden Ceremonien in ihrer Entwickelung vom 11. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert , and based on this work, received his doctorate in Göttingen. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed associate professor of church history at the University of Strasbourg, becoming a full professor in 1877.

#7333

John Musser

1889 - 1949 (60 years)

John Musser was an American historian and educator who was dean of the graduate school at New York University and an instructor of American History. Musser attended Franklin and Marshall College before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his bachelor's degree. He went on to also earn his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania under the direction of Herman Vandenburg Ames. An authority on Benjamin Franklin, in 1937 Musser debunked a claim made by the Nazi Party that Charles Pinkney had once recorded in his diary that Franklin had made an anti-Semitic prophecy about a future...

#7334

Aleksandre Pirtskhalaishvili

1888 - 1965 (77 years)

Aleksandre Pirtskhalaishvili was a Georgian, Soviet historian, Doctor of Philosophy , and professor . In 1915, he graduated from Kiev University, on Historical Faculty of Philology. In 1912 Pirtskhalaishvili went to Germany, and attended courses at Heidelberg University. After returning to Georgia he worked in pedagogy. In 1929 he was invited by the Tbilisi State University, where he lectured until his last days. He was exploring the history of 19th-century Georgia and Russian-Georgian relations.

#7335

Andreas Kobler

1816 - 1892 (76 years)

Andreas Kobler was a Catholic historian. He made his preliminary studies at Landshut, and studied theology at Munich, where Johann Adam Möhler and Joseph Görres appear to have awakened in the young theologian his preference for the study of history.

#7336

Xiahou Xuan

209 - 254 (45 years)

Xiahou Xuan , courtesy name Taichu, was a Chinese essayist, historian, military general, philosopher, and politician of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Family background Xiahou Xuan was a son of Xiahou Shang. His mother was Princess Deyang , and thus Xiahou Xuan was close to Cao Shuang's faction. Xiahou Xuan had a sister Xiahou Hui, the wife of Sima Shi. One of Xiahou Xuan's daughters became the wife of He Jiao , the grandson of He Qia and the son of He Jiong .

#7337

Johann Franz Bessel

Johann Franz Bessel

1672 - 1749 (77 years)

Johann Franz Bessel was a German Benedictine abbot and historian. Life He made his course in the humanities at Aschaffenburg, Würzburg, and Bamberg, and in 1690 entered the University of Salzburg, conducted by the Benedictines, where he specialized in philosophy, also attending lectures on theology and jurisprudence. He entered the Benedictine Order at Göttweig on the Danube, Lower Austria, 15 June 1692. After making his vows , he completed his theological course at Vienna, was ordained , and on 23 May was granted the degree of Doctor of Theology, being shortly afterwards appointed Lector in ...

#7338

William Sanderson

1586 - 1676 (90 years)

William Sanderson was an English historian. Career Sanderson was secretary to Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, when Holland was chancellor of the university of Cambridge. James Howell describes him as being from his youth bred up at court, and "employed in many negotiations of good consequence both at home and abroad". He suffered in the cause of Charles I, and was made a gentleman of the privy chamber by Charles II and knighted. Holland had made him a grant of the Paddock Walk, Windsor Park, which was confirmed at the Restoration. On 7 June 1671 a pension of £200 per annum was granted to Sanderson and his wife jointly.

#7339

Emeric, King of Hungary

Emeric, King of Hungary

1174 - 1204 (30 years)

Emeric, also known as Henry or Imre , was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1196 and 1204. In 1184, his father, Béla III of Hungary, ordered that he be crowned king, and appointed him as ruler of Croatia and Dalmatia around 1195. Emeric ascended the throne after the death of his father. During the first four years of his reign, he fought his rebellious brother, Andrew, who forced Emeric to make him ruler of Croatia and Dalmatia as appanage.

#7340

Octav Botez

1884 - 1943 (59 years)

Octav Botez was a Romanian literary critic and historian. Born in Iași, his father Panait was a general in the Romanian Army, his mother was Smaranda and his brother was Eugeniu Botez. He attended primary school in the Sărărie neighborhood, followed by the National College and then the literature faculty of the University of Iași, where he studied between 1901 and 1906. His first published work appeared in 1904 in Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol's Arhiva review. He passed a qualifying examination in 1909 for French and philosophy, and taught high school from 1909 to 1913. In 1923, he earned a doc...

#7341

Hu Hua

1921 - 1987 (66 years)

Hu Hua was a Chinese historian. A native of Fenghua, Zhejiang, Hu Hua was born in December 1921. He began working alongside the Communist Party of China to oppose Japanese forces in 1937, shortly after the Second Sino-Japanese War had started. Hu was assigned to the Eighth Route Army in 1938, and was active in Wuhan and Changsha. Hu formally joined the Communist Party of China in February 1939, by which time he had relocated to northern Shanxi. Hu began his teaching and research career in April 1940, at the North China United University. Throughout the 1940s, Hu taught at several educational institutions in North China.

#7342

François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut

1720 - 1794 (74 years)

François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut was a French teacher, writer and translator living in the Age of Enlightenment. Biography François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut is born in Paris in 1720. Having studied theology, he became professor of rhetoric at the Collège du Plessis a part of the University of Paris. He is the author, notably, of a Précis de l'histoire universelle which was very much appreciated by his contemporaries, and of the Essai sur le récit , a fictional dialogue on how to tell good stories, as well as the translator of Melchior de Polignac's L'Anti-Lucrèce.

#7343

Louis Dyer

1851 - 1908 (57 years)

Louis Dyer was an American educator and writer born in Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. He graduated at Harvard University in 1874, and at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878. He was assistant professor of Greek at Harvard , lecturer at Lowell Institute and at Balliol College, Oxford , and acting professor of Greek at Cornell University . Dyer lectured before the Royal Institution in 1896 and in 1900 gave a series of lectures at the University of California which was repeated at many colleges and universities. He published a translation of Luigi Cossa's An Introduction to the Study of ...

#7344

Seweryn Wysłouch

Seweryn Wysłouch

1900 - 1968 (68 years)

Seweryn Wysłouch was a legal historian and vice-rector of Wrocław University. Biography Seweryn was born in Pirkowicze near Drohiczyn , the Wysłouch family manor. In 1927 he graduated from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and began to work there as an academic. His career was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but he continued it from 1945 at the University of Wrocław as a professor. During the years of 1947 to 1952 he was the vice-rector of the university and from 1956 to 1958 he headed its School of Law

#7345

Agnes Wergeland

Agnes Wergeland

1857 - 1914 (57 years)

Agnes Mathilde Wergeland was a Norwegian-American historian, poet and educator. Agnes Mathilde Wergeland was the first woman ever to earn a doctoral degree in Norway. Early life and education Agnes Mathilde Wergeland was born in Christiania , Norway to Sverre Nicolai Wergeland and Anne Margrethe Larsen . She was from a prominent, distinguished Norwegian family. Wergeland's family hailed from Brekke in Sogn. Her brother was Norwegian painter, Oscar Wergeland. She was the great-niece of Norwegian writer and politician, Nicolai Wergeland; hence Henrik Wergeland, Camilla Collett and Joseph Frant...

#7346

Albert Vandal

1853 - 1910 (57 years)

Albert Count Vandal was a French historian, born in Paris. He wrote:En karriole à travers la Suède et la Norvège Louis XV et Elizabeth de Russie Ambassade française en Orient sous Louis XV Napoléon et Alexandre Ier , awarded the Vaubert prizeLes voyages du Marquis de Nointel L'avènement de Bonaparte Vandal was elected to the Académie française in 1897, and he succeeded his teacher and friend, Albert Sorel as professor at the school of political science.

#7347

Johann Erhard Kapp

Johann Erhard Kapp

1696 - 1756 (60 years)

Johann Erhard Kapp was a German rhetorician and historian. Life Johann Erhard Kapp was born in Oberkotzau, a small market town in the hill country between Leipzig and Nuremberg. His father was a carter . In 1796 he enrolled at the secondary school in Hof, a couple of hours to the north of Oberkotzau. However, according to at least one source he was removed from the school after six months and instead taught privately. In 1714 he moved away from home to study at Leipzig, where he would make his career. Among his more noteworthy teachers, Christian Friedrich Börner taught him Biblical Exegesis and aspects of Church History.

#7348

Ramón Carande

1887 - 1986 (99 years)

Ramón Carande Thovar was a Spanish historian. Bibliography Spanish translation of Los principios filosóficos de la historia del derecho .Spanish translation of Los fundamentos teóricos del marxismo .The Bank of England cumple 252 años S/l, March 1946 .La hacienda real de Castilla .Larguezas de las Cortes .El crédito de Castilla y el precio de la política imperial .Gobernantes y gobernados en la Hacienda de Castilla .El Obispo, el Concejo y los Regidores de Palencia .La economía y la expansión de España bajo el Gobierno de los Reyes Católicos .La huella económica de las capitales hispano-mu...

#7349

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

1839 - 1899 (60 years)

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg was an Austrian historian. He studied history at the university of Vienna, receiving his PhD in 1862. In 1865, became a professor of history at the university of Lemberg, and in 1871 relocated as a professor to Innsbruck. In 1872, he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was a tutor of history to the crown prince Rudolph. In 1892, he was named director of the Vienna institute for historical research, and in 1896 director of the imperial court library at Vienna. He resigned his professorial chair at Vienna in 1897.

#7350

W. L. Newman

1834 - 1923 (89 years)

William Lambert Newman, FBA was a British ancient historian and philosopher. Early life and education Born on 21 August 1834, Newman was the son of a solicitor from Cheltenham. In 1851, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, as a scholar ; he took first class honours in literae humaniores in 1855 and graduated the following year with a BA.

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