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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Gotthold Gundermann
1856 - 1921 (65 years)
Gotthold Gundermann was a German classical philologist. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena, receiving his doctorate in 1880. Afterwards, he worked as a schoolteacher in Jena and served as an educator in Stuttgart. He took a study trip to Italy and England, and for several years worked as a collaborator on the multi-volume glossarium latinorum. He obtained his habilitation at Jena, and in 1891 became an associate professor. Later on, he held professorships at the universities of Giessen and Tübingen .
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Albert Curtis Clark
1859 - 1937 (78 years)
Albert Curtis Clark, was an English classical scholar, who specialised in Latin literature, Cicero, and the New Testament. From 1913 to 1934, he was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. He was also President of the Classical Association from 1930 to 1931.
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Sergei Diaghilev
1872 - 1929 (57 years)
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
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Diran Chrakian
1875 - 1921 (46 years)
Diran Chrakian was an Armenian poet, writer, painter and teacher, and a victim of Armenian genocide. Biography Diran Chrakian was educated at Berberian College of Constantinople, then finished the College of Arts, where his works were appreciated by the famous painter Hovhannes Aivazovsky. Indra worked as a teacher, wrote articles, literary researches and notes. He signed his books "Inner World" and "Cypress Wood" , with the pseudonym Indra .
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Friedrich Gottlob Haase
1808 - 1867 (59 years)
Friedrich Gottlob Haase was a German classical scholar. He was born in Magdeburg on 4 January 1808. Haase studied at the Universities of Halle, Greifswald, and Berlin. In 1834, he obtained an appointment at Schulpforta, but he was suspended and sentenced to six years' imprisonment for identifying himself with the Burschenschaften .
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John Raven
1914 - 1980 (66 years)
John Earle Raven was an English classical scholar, notable for his work on pre-Socratic philosophy, and amateur botanist. Early life and education John Raven was born on 13 December 1914 in Cambridge, the son of Charles Earle Raven, sometime Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge and of Margaret Wollaston. His mother's family endowed Raven with a distinguished intellectual pedigree, including between 1723 and 1829 seven Fellows of the Royal Society ; Raven was also a 7th generation descendant of William Wollaston, the philosophical writer. On his f...
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Paul Hamelius
1868 - 1922 (54 years)
Paul Hamelius or Hamélius was a Belgian philologist who produced the two-volume Early English Text Society edition of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville . Life Hamelius was born on 26 April 1868 in Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, where his father, originally from Luxembourg, was stationed as a military doctor. Between the ages of 3 and 12 he grew up in Metz, which was then in the German Empire, and received his primary education in German. After returning to Belgium he trained as a teacher, and taught at secondary schools in Tournai, Charleroi and Ixelles. He received a doctorate in Germanic ...
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William Hamilton
1704 - 1754 (50 years)
William Hamilton was a Scottish poet associated with the Jacobite movement. Life Hamilton was born at the family seat in Ecclesmachan, West Lothian. He was the second son of James Hamilton of Bangour, advocate, whose grandfather, James, second son of John Hamilton of Little Earnock, Lanarkshire, founded the Bangour family. On the death of his elder brother, without heir, in 1750, Hamilton succeeded to the estate.
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Charles Johnson
1679 - 1748 (69 years)
Charles Johnson was an English playwright, tavern keeper, and enemy of Alexander Pope's. He was a dedicated Whig who allied himself with the Duke of Marlborough, Colley Cibber, and those who rose in opposition to Queen Anne's Tory ministry of 1710–1714.
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Janet Spens
1876 - 1963 (87 years)
Janet Spens was a Scottish literary scholar specialising in Elizabethan literature. She was the assistant to Regius Professor Macneile Dixon in the Department of English Language and Literature and "tutor to the women students in Arts" at the University of Glasgow, before joining Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford as a fellow and tutor in English . In 1910, she became the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Glasgow.
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Lazarus Geiger
1829 - 1870 (41 years)
Lazarus Geiger was a German-Jewish philosopher and philologist. Life He was born at Frankfurt-on-Main, was destined to commerce, but soon gave himself up to scholarship and studied at Marburg, Bonn and Heidelberg. From 1861 till his sudden death in 1870 he was professor in the Jewish high school at Frankfurt. His chief aim was to prove that the evolution of human reason is closely bound up with that of language. He further maintained that the origin of the Indo-Germanic language is to be sought not in Asia but in central . He was a convinced opponent of rationalism in religion.
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John Belushi
1949 - 1982 (33 years)
John Adam Belushi was an Albanian and American comedian, actor, and musician. He was one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live . Throughout his career, Belushi had a personal and artistic partnership with his fellow SNL star Dan Aykroyd, whom he met while they were both working at Chicago's Second City comedy club.
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Percy Stafford Allen
1869 - 1933 (64 years)
Percy Stafford Allen, FBA was a British classical scholar, best known for his writings on Desiderius Erasmus. Life Percy Stafford Allen was born on 7 July 1869 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. He was a son of Joseph Allen and Mary Mason Satow . He received his early education in Rottingdean. From 1882, he studied Latin and Greek at Clifton College and after 1888 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. One of his Oxford tutors was the historian and biographer James Anthony Froude. In 1892 he received his BA, and his MA in 1896.
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Henry Beeching
1859 - 1919 (60 years)
Henry Charles Beeching was a British clergyman, author and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919. Biography H.C Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill. He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish at Mossley Hill. He was Rector of Yattendon from 1885 to 1900; Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1900; professor of Pastoral Theology at King's College London from 1900 to 1903; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn from 1900 to 1903; Canon of Westminster Abbey from October 1902 until 1911 and Dean of Norwich from 1911 until his death.
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Jiang Biwei
1899 - 1978 (79 years)
Jiang Biwei was influential in the lives of the painter Xu Beihong and the politician Chang Tao-fan. She published her memoirs and she is portrayed in Chinese historical dramas. Life Early life Jiang was born as Jiang Tangzhen in Yixing, Jiangsu province on 9 April 1899. Her father Jiang Meisheng was a scholar and poet who wrote a book on the Zhuangzi, and her mother Dai Qingbo was a poet. She attended the Young Girls Normal School in Changzhou. In 1911, her parents betrothed her to Zha Zihan, who came from an influential family of Haining, Zhejiang.
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Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1918 - 1990 (72 years)
Benjamin Lawrence Reid was an American professor in English from the 1940s to 1980s. During his career, Reid primarily taught at Sweet Briar College from 1951 to 1957 and Mount Holyoke College from 1957 to 1983. Outside of academics, Reid wrote multiple books, and won a Pulitzer Prize and other honors.
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Jeremiah Markland
1693 - 1776 (83 years)
Jeremiah Markland was an English classical scholar. Life He was born in Childwall in Lancashire on 29 October 1693. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He left Cambridge in 1728 to act as private tutor to the son of W. Strode of Punsbourn, Hertfordshire, returning to the university in 1733. At a later date he lived at Twyford, and in 1744 went to Uckfield, Sussex, in order to superintend the education of the son of his former pupil, Mr. Strode. In 1752 he fixed his abode at Milton Court, near Dorking, Surrey, and remained there, living in great privacy, to the...
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William Jones
1726 - 1795 (69 years)
William Jones was a Welsh antiquary, poet, scholar and radical. Jones was an ardent supporter of both the American and French Revolutions – his strong support of the Patriot and Jacobin causes earned him the nicknames "the rural Voltaire", the "Welsh Voltaire", and accusations of being, "a rank Republican and a Leveller". Despite his vocal support for foreign revolutions, however, Jones never advocated a violent Welsh republican uprising against the House of Hanover and instead encouraged the Welsh people to emigrate en masse to "The Promised Land"; in the newly founded United States of America.
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Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba
1917 - 1970 (53 years)
Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba was a Mongolian writer. He was born in Govi-Altai Province in 1917. In 1954 he graduated from National University of Mongolia, the same year that his first story "Malgaitai Chono" was published.
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August Lange
1907 - 1970 (63 years)
Christian August Manthey Lange was a Norwegian educator, non-fiction writer and cultural attaché. Personal life Lange was born in Kristiania, the son of politician and Nobel Laureate Christian Lous Lange and his wife Bertha Manthey . He was a brother of politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs Halvard Lange, and of Parliament of Norway member Carl Viggo Manthey Lange. He spent part of his childhood in Brussels, where his father had a position as secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
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Josef Kohler
1849 - 1919 (70 years)
Josef Kohler was a German jurist, author and poet. Biography Kohler was born in Offenburg. He studied at Offenburg and Rastatt gymnasiums and Freiburg and Heidelberg universities. He became Doctor of Laws and was appointed judge at Mannheim . He was a professor at Würzburg and Berlin . Through his many contributions to the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft and other law journals he aided much in advancing the comparative history of law.
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Susanna Centlivre
1667 - 1723 (56 years)
Susanna Centlivre , born Susanna Freeman, and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century". Centlivre's "pieces continued to be acted after the theatre managers had forgotten most of her contemporaries." During a long career at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the second woman of the English stage, after Aphra Behn.
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Cora Lenore Williams
1865 - 1937 (72 years)
Cora Lenore Williams was a writer and educator known for pioneering new approaches to small-group instruction for children. She founded the A-Zed School and the Institute for Creative Development, later renamed Williams College, in Berkeley, California.
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Geoffrey T. Hellman
1907 - 1977 (70 years)
Geoffrey Theodore Hellman was an American journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker. Early life Hellman was the son of writer and rare-books dealer, George S. Hellman. Born in New York City, he was also the great-grandson of banking titan Joseph Seligman, and thus, by ancestry, part of the city's German-Jewish elite who referred to themselves as Our Crowd.
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George Hermonymus
1452 - 1508 (56 years)
George Hermonymus , also known as Hermonymus of Sparta, was a 15th-century Greek scribe, diplomat, scholar and lecturer. He was the first person to teach Greek at the Collège de Sorbonne in Paris. Life Although he claimed to originally be from Sparta, that city no longer existed in the 15th century, so it most likely referred to Mystra, the second largest city in the rapidly decaying Byzantine Empire of the time. Mystra was located in the hills overlooking the ancient ruins of Sparta, was the centre of a major revival in Greek literature at the time, and was the home of Gemistus Pletho.
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Alexander Souter
1873 - 1949 (76 years)
Alexander Souter was a Scottish biblical scholar and university professor Biography Souter was born in Perth, and studied at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge. He subsequently became a Latin assistant at Aberdeen. While at Cambridge he studied under J. E. B. Mayor, whom Souter would credit with influence on his later scholarship.
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Byeon Yeong-ro
1898 - 1961 (63 years)
Byeon Yeong-ro , also known by the art name Suju , was a Korean poet and English literature scholar. His original name was Byeon Yeong-bok , but he changed his name in 1958. He is considered a pioneer of modern Korean poetry and is well known for the poem, "Nongae" , which was included in South Korean government-issued textbooks from 1953 to 2003.
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Lettie Hamlet Rogers
1917 - 1957 (40 years)
Lettie Hamlett Rogers was an American novelist and educator. She was born in Suzhou, central China, the daughter of missionary parents. She spent her childhood in China and Japan. After graduating from high school at the Shanghai American School she came to the United States to attend Woman's College of the University of North . Rogers received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1940, and accepted a position as an assistant in the Sociology Department the following year. She shared a home with faculty members Lyda Gordon Shivers and Mereb Mossman. Two years later she left her position,...
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Karl Philipp Conz
1762 - 1827 (65 years)
Karl Philipp Conz was a German poet. External links
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Howard Baker
1905 - 1990 (85 years)
Howard Wilson Baker, Jr was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Background Baker was born in Philadelphia. While pursuing graduate studies in English at Stanford University, he befriended Yvor Winters, and was co-editor of the literary magazine Gyroscope. After earning his master's degree, he moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. While there, he married the novelist Dorothy Baker, and met and was influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, who helped him to publish his first work, the autobiographical novel Orange Valley .
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John Veatch
1808 - 1870 (62 years)
John Allen Veatch , a surgeon, surveyor, and scientist, was known for his discovery of large deposits of borax at Tuscan Springs, California, on 8 January 1856. Veatch moved with his family to Texas in 1833, where he surveyed for the Mexican government. He received two land grants in 1835, one located in what would become Beaumont, Texas, and another near the future Sour Lake, Texas. After the Texas Revolution, where he served as a surgeon, Veatch moved to California, where he discovered borax in Lake County, California. Veatch eventually ended up in Oregon, where he taught at the Willamette U...
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Giovanni Argoli
1609 - 1660 (51 years)
Giovanni Argoli was an Italian scholar and poet. Biography Giovanni was the son of a well-known mathematician, Andrea Argoli, and was born at Tagliacozzo in the Abruzzi. At the age of fifteen he published a poem on the silkworm, Bombace e Seta . Two years later, emulous of the reputation Marino had just gained with his Adone, the young Argoli is said to have shut himself in an apartment, where he was visited only by servants bringing his food, and in seven months, at the age of seventeen, produced his Endimione . It met with a success apparently at least equal to the author's hopes. In 1632 he followed his father to Padua , taking the doctorate in law.
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Ibrahim al-Nazzam
760 - 835 (75 years)
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn Sayyār Ibn Hāni‘ an-Naẓẓām was an Arab Mu'tazilite theologian and poet. He was a nephew of the Mu'tazilite theologian Abu al-Hudhayl al-'Allaf, and al-Jahiz was one of his students. Al-Naẓẓām served at the courts of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun. His theological doctrines and works are lost except for a few fragments.
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Filippo Maria Renazzi
1745 - 1808 (63 years)
Filippo Maria Renazzi was an Italian Jurist and historian active in the Papal States of the eighteen century. During his life he was a well known scholar of criminal law, and nowadays he is mainly remembered for his history of the University of Rome.
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William Livingston
1808 - 1870 (62 years)
The poet William Livingston was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Bowmore, Islay and important figure in 19th-century Scottish Gaelic literature. Life Livingstone was born upon the farm of Gartmain, near Bowmore in Islay in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd in 1808. A passionate autodidact, he was a tailor by trade, yet he taught himself the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Welsh languages. During his travels through the Scottish lowlands, Livingstone collected an extensive knowledge of the Scottish nation's topography, place-names and folklore.
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Harutyun Alamdaryan
1795 - 1834 (39 years)
Harutyun Manuki Alamdaryan was an Armenian poet and teacher. Biography In 1813 he was invited to Moscow where he became the first director of Lazarian seminary. In 1824–1830 he was the director of Nersisian Armenian school in Tiflis. Being a supporter of Nerses Ashtaraketsi, in 1830 he was exiled to Haghpat Monastery. In 1832–1834 he lived in Holy Cross Church, Nakhichevan on Don, where he was killed.
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Lee Eun-sang
1903 - 1982 (79 years)
Lee Eun-sang was a Korean poet and historian. He was dedicated to the revival and modernization of sijo, a form of Korean poetry. Early life Lee Eun-sang was born on October 22, 1903, at Sangnam-dong, Masan in Korea. In 1918, he graduated from the Changshin High School which his father had established, and in 1923, he entered the department of liberal arts at Yonhee College, the predecessor of Yonsei University. He withdrew in 1923. He worked for Changshin School as a teacher for a time until he enrolled at Waseda University in Japan, majoring in history in 1925. He worked at Ewha Womans University as a professor from 1931 to 1932.
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Laurentius Corvinus
1465 - 1527 (62 years)
Laurentius Corvinus was a Silesian scholar who lectured as an "extraordinary" professor at the University of Krakow when Nicolaus Copernicus began to study there. He also attracted a reputation as one of the finest Silesian poets of the early Renaissance and as an important agent for cultural and religious change in his adopted home of Breslau .
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Constantin Regamey
1907 - 1982 (75 years)
Constantin Regamey was a philologist, orientalist, musician, composer, and critic. He was a significant presence among intellectual and artistic circles in Warsaw during the 1930s and later a professor at the Universities of Lausanne and Fribourg.
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Svale Solheim
1903 - 1971 (68 years)
Svale Solheim was a Norwegian folklorist. He was born in Naustdal. He graduated from the University of Oslo in 1934. He worked at the institution Norsk Folkeminnesamling from 1952 to 1956, and was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1956. Among his works are his doctor thesis Nemningsfordomar ved fiske from 1940, and Norsk sætertradisjon from 1952.
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Herman Lommel
1885 - 1968 (83 years)
Herman Lommel , born Hermann Lommel, was a German Indologist and Iranologist who was Chair of Indo-European Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1917 to 1950. Biography Herman Lommel was born in Erlangen, Germany on 7 July 1885, the son of physicist Eugen von Lommel . Since 1905, Lommel studied comparative philology, Indology and Iranian studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Göttingen under Jacob Wackernagel , Hermann Oldenberg and Friedrich Carl Andreas .
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Theodore Wade-Gery
1888 - 1972 (84 years)
Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, , known as Theodore Wade-Gery or H. T. Wade-Gery, was a classical scholar, historian and epigrapher. From 1939 to 1953, he was Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford.
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Robert Crawford
1868 - 1930 (62 years)
Robert Crawford was an Australian poet. Biography and career Crawford was born in the Sydney suburb of Doonside in what was in then the Colony of New South Wales, the son of Robert Crawford senior, and was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and the University of Sydney. Crawford settled on a farm as his forefathers had done, but not being successful, became a clerk in Sydney and afterwards had a typewriting business. Some of Crawford's poems were published in The Bulletin and other periodicals. Crawford is believed to have been the first prize-winning haiku poet published in Australia, in The Bulletin on 12 August 1899.
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Abdulla Latif-zade
1890 - 1938 (48 years)
Abdulla Latif-zade was a Crimean Tatar literary critic, poet, writer, and translator who was executed during the purge of Crimean Tatar intellectuals in the Stalin era. Born to a family of teachers in 1890, he attended a madrasah in Crimea and later studied in Istanbul before becoming a teacher himself. He taught in Yevpatoria and Simferopol. In 1917 he was elected as a delegate to the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, and took part in the transliteration of the Crimean Tatar language to the Latin alphabet. After graduating from the State Academy of Art Studies in 1934 he taught Western E...
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Stephen Simpson
1789 - 1854 (65 years)
Stephen Simpson was born in Philadelphia, the son of George Simpson, a prominent Philadelphia banker. During the War of 1812 he fought in the Battle of New Orleans under General Andrew Jackson. Through his father's connections Stephen became a cashier at the First Bank of the United States where he soon resigned and went to work at Stephen Girard's bank. Soon after he worked as a writer for a local newspaper where he wrote a series of editorials publicly attacking the First Bank of the United States. He later co-founded the Columbian Observer where he continued his public attacks on this bank...
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Alexander Berkman
1870 - 1936 (66 years)
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing. Berkman was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vilna in the Russian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1888. He lived in New York City, where he became involved in the anarchist movement. He was the one-time lover and lifelong friend of anarchist Emma Goldman. In 1892, undertaking an act of propaganda of the deed, Berkman made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate businessman Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead strike, for which he served 14 years in prison.
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Walter Hamilton Moberly
1881 - 1974 (93 years)
Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly was a British academic, born into a clerical dynasty. Early life Walter Hamilton Moberly was born on 20 October 1881 in Budworth, Cheshire to Alice Sidney, née Hamilton and Rev. Robert Campbell Moberly and the grandson of George Moberly. His aunt was Charlotte Anne Moberly, first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.
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Leon Feraru
1887 - 1961 (74 years)
Leon Feraru was a Romanian and American poet, literary historian and translator. Cultivating proletarian literature while frequenting the Symbolist movement, he displayed both his origins in the Romanian Jewish underclass and his appreciation for the wider Romanian culture. He popularized the latter with his work in America, having left in 1913 to escape antisemitic pressures. A translator, publicist, and public lecturer, he was involved with the Romanian press of New York City, and eventually as a Romance studies academic at Columbia and Long Island. Feraru's poetry, collected in two volumes...
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Torleiv Hannaas
1874 - 1929 (55 years)
Torleiv Hannaas was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in Hornnes as a son of farmers Thomas Nilsson Hannaas and Anne Tolleivsdotter Vetrhus . In July 1906 he married teacher Ingerd Yttreland . Their daughter Liv married banker Egil Hiis Hauge. Torleiv Hannaas died in November 1929 in Fana.
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Alexander Wilson
1893 - 1963 (70 years)
Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney. After his death, his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist who had lied to many people. As of 2018, documents that could shed light on his activities remain classified as "sensitive" by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, under section 3 of the Public Records Act 1958. The effect of his deceptions on his wives and descendants were dramatised in the 2018 BBC miniseries Mrs Wilson, in which his granddaugh...
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