The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Sylvain Maréchal
1750 - 1803 (53 years)
Sylvain Maréchal was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged utopian socialism and communism. His views on a future golden age are occasionally described as utopian anarchism. He was editor of the newspaper .
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William Inge
1913 - 1973 (60 years)
William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, including Picnic, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest".
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K. N. Ezhuthachan
1911 - 1981 (70 years)
Kudiyirikkal Narayanan Ezhuthachan was an Indian writer and scholar of Malayalam literature. He was one among the principal followers of the idea of social impact on literature. Ezhuthachan supported Marxist literary criticism and interpreted Indian literary works based on Marxist aesthetics. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Keralodayam, a long narrative poem written in Sanskrit. He is the first Malayali to win Sahitya Akademi Award in Sanskrit. He died on 28 October 1981 while delivering a lecture at Calicut University.
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Boris Vian
1920 - 1959 (39 years)
Boris Vian was a French polymath – i.e., writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor, and engineer – who is primarily remembered for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release due to their unconventional outlook.
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Howard Lindsay
1889 - 1968 (79 years)
Howard Lindsay, born Herman Nelke, was an American playwright, librettist, director, actor and theatrical producer. He is best known for his writing work as part of the collaboration of Lindsay and Crouse, and for his performance, with his wife Dorothy Stickney, in the long-running play Life with Father.
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Helen Gray Cone
1859 - 1934 (75 years)
Helen Gray Cone was a poet and professor of English literature. She spent her entire career at Hunter College in New York City. Early life and education Cone was born in New York and attended the Normal College of the City of New York, later renamed Hunter College. She graduated in 1876 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and became an instructor in the Normal College English department. In the 1880s she served as president of the Associate Alumnae of the Normal College.
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Martin Lamm
1880 - 1950 (70 years)
Martin Lamm was a Swedish literary scholar elected to a lifetime membership of the Swedish Academy . Life and work Lamm was the son of businessman Herman Lamm and Lisen Philipson. He became associate professor of literature at Uppsala University in 1908. Lamm was a professor at Stockholm University 1919–1945.
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Eduard Koschwitz
1851 - 1904 (53 years)
Eduard Koschwitz was a Romance philologist. In 1877 he became docent at Strassburg and afterward was made professor at Greifswald and Marburg. His specialty was French and Occitan. His works include:die Provenzalischen Feliber und Ihre Vorgänager, Wilhelm Gronau, 1894.und Sprache der Chanson du voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem, 1876plus anciens monuments de la langue française, 1889der neufranzösischen Schriftsprache , 1889parlers parisiens, 1893Les Français avant, pendant et après la guerre de 1870-1871;historique de la langue des félibres., 1894poème provençal de Frédéric Mistral, 1900"La Phonétique expérimentale et la philologie franco-provençale".
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Carl Carmer
1893 - 1976 (83 years)
Carl Lamson Carmer was an American writer of nonfiction books, memoirs, and novels, many of which focused on American myths, folklore, and tales. His most famous book, Stars Fell on Alabama, was an autobiographical story of the time he spent living in Alabama. He was considered one of America's most popular writers during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Hugo Andresen
1844 - 1918 (74 years)
Hugo Andresen was a German Romance philologist and medievalist. He was the son of Germanist Karl Gustaf Andresen . He studied languages at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1874 at Bonn. Following graduation, he took an extended study trip to Paris and London , and in 1880 obtained his habilitation for Romance and English philology at the University of Göttingen. In 1892 he relocated to the Münster Academy, where he succeeded Gustav Körting as professor of Romance philology.
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Vinicius de Moraes
1913 - 1980 (67 years)
Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes , better known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinha , was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwright. With his frequent and diverse musical partners, including Antônio Carlos Jobim, his lyrics and compositions were instrumental in the birth and introduction to the world of bossa nova music. He recorded numerous albums, many in collaboration with noted artists, and also served as a successful Brazilian career diplomat.
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T. Gwynn Jones
1871 - 1949 (78 years)
Professor Thomas Gwynn Jones C.B.E. , more widely known as T. Gwynn Jones, was a leading Welsh poet, scholar, literary critic, novelist, translator, and journalist who did important work in Welsh literature, Welsh education, and the study of Welsh folk tales in the first half of the twentieth century. He was also an accomplished translator into Welsh of works from English, German, Greek, and Irish.
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Henry Lamar Crosby
1880 - 1954 (74 years)
Henry Lamar Crosby , known as H. Lamar Crosby, was an American classicist who served as dean of the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. Crosby graduated from high school in San Antonio, Texas and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas. While at Texas, due to a paucity of funds, he supported himself as a day laborer and dairy farm hand. The financial generosity of an uncle allowed him to attend Harvard University, from which he received his Ph.D. After stints at the University of Missouri and Princeton University, Crosby began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and, from 1928 to 1938, was dean of its graduate school.
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Younghill Kang
1898 - 1972 (74 years)
Younghill Kang was a Korean-American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee. He also wrote an unpublished play, Murder in the Royal Palace, which was performed both in the US and in Korea. He has been called "the father of Korean American literature."
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William Grocyn
1446 - 1519 (73 years)
William Grocyn was an English scholar, a friend of Erasmus. Grocyn was a prominent English scholar and educator, born in Colerne, Wiltshire. Intended for the church, he attended Winchester College and later New College, Oxford. He held various positions, including a fellow at New College and a reader in divinity at Magdalen College. Grocyn visited Italy and studied Greek and Latin, later helping to promote Greek learning in England. Erasmus regarded him as a friend and preceptor.
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Hermann Bonitz
1814 - 1888 (74 years)
Hermann Bonitz , German scholar, was born at Langensalza in Prussian Saxony. Having studied at the University of Leipzig under G. Hermann and at Berlin under Böckh and Lachmann, he became successively teacher at the Blochmann-Institut in Dresden , Oberlehrer at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium and the Graues Kloster in Berlin, professor at the gymnasium at Stettin , professor at the University of Vienna , member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences , member of the council of education , and director of the Graues-Kloster-Gymnasium . He retired in 1888, and died in that year at Berlin.
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Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg
1852 - 1937 (85 years)
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg was an Argentine natural historian and novelist, one of the leading figures in Argentine biology. Together with Florentino Ameghino he undertook the inventory of Argentine flora and fauna, and explored all the ecoregions in the country, summarizing for the first time the biodiversity of its territory. The son of botanical aficionado and grandson of the Baron Holmberg, Holmburg accompanied Argentine Libertador Manuel Belgrano on his campaigns and introduced the cultivation of the camellia to Argentina. As director of the Buenos Aires Zoological Garden he greatly deve...
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Jan Gruter
1560 - 1627 (67 years)
Jan Gruter or Gruytère, Latinized as Janus Gruterus , was a Flemish-born philologist, scholar, and librarian. Life Jan Gruter was born in Antwerp. His father was Wouter Gruter, who was a merchant and city administrator of Antwerp, and his mother was Catharina Tishem from Norwich in England. To avoid religious persecution in the early stages of the Eighty Years' War, his parents emigrated to England while he was a child. For some years he studied at Caius College, Cambridge, after which he went to Leiden. In 1584 he obtained the degree of doctor iuris. He then left the Netherlands and com...
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H. J. C. Grierson
1866 - 1960 (94 years)
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, FBA was a Scottish literary scholar, editor, and literary critic. Life and work He was born in Lerwick, Shetland, on 16 January 1866. He was the son of Andrew John Grierson and his wife, Alice Geraldine Grierson. In 1896 he married Mary Letitia Grierson, daughter of Sir Alexander Ogston, Professor of Surgery at Aberdeen. They had five daughters including Molly Dickins, author of A Wealth of Relations, about family history, writer Flora Grierson who co-founded the Samson Press, and writer and pianist Janet Teissier du Cros.
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John Moore
1729 - 1802 (73 years)
John Moore FRSE was a Scottish physician and travel author. He also edited the works of Tobias Smollett. Life He was born on 10 October 1729 in Stirling, the son of Rev Charles Moore of Rowallan and his wife, Marion Anderson. The family moved to Glasgow in his youth and he was educated at Glasgow Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to Dr. John Gordon in Glasgow 1745 to 1747.
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Josefina Niggli
1910 - 1983 (73 years)
Josefina Niggli was a Mexican-born Anglo-American playwright and novelist. Writing about Mexican-American issues in the middle years of the century, before the rise of the Chicano movement, she was the first and, for a time, the only Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes; her egalitarian views of gender, race and ethnicity were progressive for their time and helped lay the groundwork for such later Chicana feminists as Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros. Niggli is now recognized as "a literary voice from the middle ground between Mexican and Anglo heritage." Cri...
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Francesco Alziator
1909 - 1977 (68 years)
Francesco Alziator was an Italian writer and journalist. He was concerned for much of his career with the preservation of traditional Sardinian culture, mainly of is hometown Cagliari. Biography Alziator was born into an aristocratic and monarchical family on March 12, 1909. His father Mario was consul of Holland. He graduated in literature in 1932 and, two years later, in political science. In 1928 he published his first article, Prefices and funeral songs, on The Sardinian Union; in the same year he began to collaborate with the Mediterranean magazine. For years a convinced fascist, was part of the cultural organization G.U.F.
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Ferdinand Sommer
1875 - 1962 (87 years)
Ferdinand Sommer was a German classical and Indo-European philologist. From 1893 he studied at the universities of Marburg and Freiberg, where he was a pupil of Rudolf Thurneysen. In 1899 he obtained his habilitation from the University of Leipzig with the thesis Die Komparationssuffixe im Lateinischen . In 1902 he was named professor of Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit and classical philology at the University of Basel, and later on in his career, he held professorships in Indo-European linguistics at the universities of Rostock , Jena and Bonn . From 1926 to 1951 he was a professor of c...
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Thomas Edward Brown
1830 - 1897 (67 years)
Thomas Edward Brown , commonly referred to as T. E. Brown, was a late-Victorian scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian from the Isle of Man. Having achieved a double first at Christ Church, Oxford, and election as a fellow of Oriel in April 1854, Brown served first as headmaster of The Crypt School, Gloucester, then as a young master at the fledgling Clifton College, near Bristol
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John Payne
1842 - 1916 (74 years)
John Payne was an English poet and translator. Initially he pursued a legal career and had associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing and the Villon Society.
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Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle
1825 - 1892 (67 years)
Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle was an Austrian poet and scholar. Zingerle was born, the son of the Roman Catholic theologian and orientalist Pius Zingerle , at Meran. He began his studies at Trento, and entered for a while the Benedictine monastery at Marienberg. Abandoning the clerical profession, he returned to Innsbruck, where, in 1848, he became teacher in the gymnasium, and in 1859 professor of German language and literature at the university. He died at Innsbruck in September 1892.
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Wilhelm Dittenberger
1840 - 1906 (66 years)
Wilhelm Dittenberger was a German philologist in classical epigraphy. Life Wilhelm Dittenberger was the son of the Protestant theologian Wilhelm Theophor Dittenberger. After attending school in Heidelberg and Weimar , he studied classical philology at Jena from 1859 and transferred to Göttingen in 1861, where he was reunited with Hermann Sauppe and received his doctorate at the beginning of 1863 for a work on the Athenian ephebes. From autumn of that year, he taught at the Göttingen Gymnasium while he completed his habilitation on Sallust at the University of Göttingen. Initially, Dittenberg...
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Vasily Lytkin
1895 - 1981 (86 years)
Vasily Ilyich Lytkin was a Soviet Komi poet, translator, linguist, Finno-Ugrist, Doktor nauk. and member of Finnish Academy of Sciences . He was a laureate of the State Prize of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Marc Allégret
1900 - 1973 (73 years)
Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director. Biography Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in Paris, but while accompanying his lover André Gide on a trip in 1927 to the Congo in Africa, he recorded the trip on film, after which he chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. He is credited with helping develop the careers of Simone Simon, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Danièle Delorme, Odette Joyeux, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raimu, Gérard Ph...
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Anton Westermann
1806 - 1869 (63 years)
Anton Westermann was a German classical philologist. From 1825 to 1830, he studied philology at the University of Leipzig, where in 1833 he became an associate professor of classical philology. From 1834 to 1865, he was a full professor of Greek and Roman literature at Leipzig. On four separate occasions he was dean to the faculty of philosophy.
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D. I. Suchianu
1895 - 1985 (90 years)
Dumitru Ion Suchianu, most often shortened to D. I. Suchianu or D.I.S. , was a Romanian essayist, translator, economist and film theorist, also noted for his participation in politics. The son of a distinguished Armenian teacher-editor and his Romanian socialist wife, he was acquainted with, and inspired by, writer Ion Luca Caragiale, who visited his childhood home. Attending Iași's Boarding High School in the 1910s, he formed a lasting bond with Mihai Ralea. The two young men went on to study together at the University of Paris, where they earned their credentials as social scientists and political thinkers; Ralea also married Suchianu's sister Ioana.
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Dmitry Ushakov
1873 - 1942 (69 years)
Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov was a Russian philologist and lexicographer. He was the creator and chief editor of the 4-volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language with over 90,000 entries. He was also the creator of an orthographic dictionary of the Russian language .
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Vladimir Varankin
1902 - 1938 (36 years)
Vladimir Valentinovich Varankin was a Soviet writer of literature in Esperanto, an instructor of western European history, and director of the Moscow Ped. Instituto for foreign languages. He wrote the novel Metropoliteno.
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Wilhelm Kroll
1869 - 1939 (70 years)
Wilhelm Kroll was a German classicist who was full professor at the universities of Greifswald , Münster and Breslau . Education and Career Kroll was born in the town of Frankenstein in the Prussian Province of Silesia and brought up in Breslau, the capital city. From 1887 to 1891 he studied Classics, Archeology, History and Sanskrit at the universities of Breslau and Berlin. After obtaining his Ph. D. in 1891, Kroll went to Italy for the first of many times to study Greek manuscripts in Florence and Venice and continued his studies at the University of Bonn in the summer term of 1892.
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Timothy Dwight V
1828 - 1916 (88 years)
Timothy Dwight V was an American academic, educator, Congregational minister, and President of Yale University . During his years as the school's president, Yale's schools first organized as a university. His grandfather was Timothy Dwight IV, who served as President of Yale College ninety years before his grandson's tenure.
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Juan Manuel Rozas
1936 - 1986 (50 years)
Juan Manuel Rozas was a Spanish writer. After her died the Juan Manuel Rozas Prize was set up in his memory and it was won by the Spanish poet Ada Salas in 1988. Works The Count of Villamediana. Bibliography and contribution to the study of texts. Madrid, CSIC, 1964 Songs of Mendes Brito. Unpublished works of Count Villamediana. Madrid, CSIC, 1965Academy held in the city of Ciudad Real in 1678. Ciudad Real, Manchegos Studies Institute, 1965The language and literature at the CSIC. Madrid, CSIC Bartholomew Jimenez Paton. Spelling Epitome of Latin and Castilian. Institutions of Spanish grammar. Study and editing.
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Adam Fox
1883 - 1977 (94 years)
Adam Fox , Canon, was the Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was one of the first members of the literary group "Inklings". He was Oxford Professor of Poetry and later he became Canon of Westminster Abbey. He was also warden of Radley College.
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Jean Sendy
1910 - 1978 (68 years)
Jean Sendy was a French writer and translator, author of works on esoterica and UFO phenomena. He was also an early proponent of the ancient astronaut hypothesis. Ancient astronauts He wrote the book "The Moon: The Key to the Bible" in 1968, in which he claimed the word "Elohim" mentioned in the Hebrew Genesis of the Bible, which is usually translated as God, should in fact be translated in the plural as "Gods" because the singular of the word Elohim is Eloah. He claimed that the "Gods" were actually space travelers . Sendy believed that Genesis was factual history of ancient astronauts colonizing earth who became "angels in human memory".
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Svetislav Vulović
1847 - 1898 (51 years)
Svetislav Vulović was a Serbian teacher, literary critic and literary historian. Early life and education Svetislav Vulović was born on 29 November 1847 in Ivanjica. He completed his elementary education in his hometown, before graduating from gymnasium in Kraljevo. He studied law at the Belgrade Higher School grande école, graduating in 1868.
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Johann Caspar von Orelli
1787 - 1849 (62 years)
Johann Caspar von Orelli , was a Swiss classical scholar. Life He was born at Zürich of a distinguished Italian family which had taken refuge in Switzerland at the time of the Protestant Reformation. His cousin, Johann Conrad Orelli , was the author of several works in the department of later Greek literature.
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Elmer Truesdell Merrill
1860 - 1936 (76 years)
Elmer Truesdell Merrill was an American Latin scholar, born at Millville, Massachusetts. Merrill graduated from Wesleyan University in 1881. He is primarily remembered for his student edition of the Roman poet Catullus and for his studies on the text and tradition of the Letters of Pliny the Younger, culminating in his 1914 Teubner edition, which constituted an important basis for the works of later scholars.
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Almas Ildyrym
1907 - 1952 (45 years)
Almas Ildyrym , born Ildyrym Almaszade , was an Azerbaijani poet. After the Bolsheviks established their power in Azerbaijan in 1920, the fact that Ildyrym had been born into a wealthy merchant family plagued him for the rest of his life. Though he was accepted to the faculty of Oriental Literature at Azerbaijan State University, it was not long before they dismissed him because of his family origins.
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Oskar von Redwitz
1823 - 1891 (68 years)
Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz was a German poet from Lichtenau, Bavaria. Having studied at the universities of Munich and Erlangen, he was apprenticed to the law in the Bavarian State service . He next studied languages and literature at Bonn, and in 1851 was appointed professor of aesthetics and of the history of literature at Vienna. In 1852, however, he gave up this post and retired to his estate of Schellenberg, near Kaiserslautern.
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Edgar Lobel
1888 - 1982 (94 years)
Edgar Lobel was a Romanian-British classicist and papyrologist who is best known for his four decades overseeing the publication of the literary texts among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and for his edition of Sappho and Alcaeus in collaboration with Denys Page. His contributions to the fields of papyrology and Greek studies were many and substantial, and Eric Gardner Turner believed that Lobel should "be acknowledged as a scholar to be mentioned in the same breath as Porson and Bentley, a towering genius of English scholarship."
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Bill Finger
1914 - 1974 (60 years)
Milton "Bill" Finger was an American comic strip, comic book, film and television writer who was the co-creator of the DC Comics character Batman. Despite making major contributions as an innovative writer, visionary mythos/world builder and illustration architect, Finger was often relegated to ghostwriter status on many comics—including those featuring Batman, and the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott.
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René Goscinny
1926 - 1977 (51 years)
René Goscinny was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Astérix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. He was raised primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schools, as well as lived in the United States for a short period of time. There he met Belgian cartoonist Morris. After his return to France, they collaborated for more than 20 years on the comic series Lucky Luke .
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Eva Le Gallienne
1899 - 1991 (92 years)
Eva Le Gallienne was a British-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author. A Broadway star by age 21, Le Gallienne gave up her Broadway appearances to devote herself to founding the Civic Repertory Theatre, in which she was director, producer, and lead actress. Noted for her boldness and idealism, she became a pioneering figure in the American repertory movement, which enabled today's off-Broadway. A versatile and eloquent actress herself , Le Gallienne also became a respected stage director, coach, producer and manager.
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Eduard Wölfflin
1831 - 1908 (77 years)
Eduard Wölfflin was a Swiss classical philologist. He was the father of art historian Heinrich Wölfflin. Career From 1848 to 1854, Wölfflin studied at the Universities of Basel and Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Karl Friedrich Hermann. Following graduation, he worked as an assistant librarian at the University of Basel .
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Eberhard Gottlieb Graff
1780 - 1841 (61 years)
Eberhard Gottlieb Graff was a German philologist. He was born at Elbing, Prussia, and was educated at Königsberg, where he became professor of the German language in 1824. Influenced by the work of Jacob Grimm and Karl Lachmann, he followed in the footsteps of these eminent scholars, and produced several philological works distinguished by careful research, such as his valuable discussion on Old High German, entitled Althochdeutscher Sprachschatz . Other significant literary efforts by Graff include:Diutiska, Denkmäler deutscher Sprache und Literatur aus alten Handschriften, 3 volumes, 1826–29 – Diutiska, German language and literature from ancient manuscripts.Krist.
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Pieter Burman the Younger
1713 - 1778 (65 years)
Pieter Burman , also known as Peter or Pieter Burmann and distinguished from his uncle as , was a Dutch philologist. Life Born at Amsterdam, he was brought up by his uncle in Leiden, and afterwards studied law and philology under CA Duker and Arnold von Drakenborch at Utrecht. In 1735 he was appointed professor of eloquence and history at Franeker, with which the chair of poetry was combined in 1741. In the following year he left Franeker for Amsterdam to become professor of history and philology at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam. He was subsequently professor of poetry , general librarian , and inspector of the gymnasium .
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