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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Robert P. T. Coffin
1892 - 1955 (63 years)
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was an American poet, educator, writer, editor and literary critic. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936, he was the poetry editor for Yankee magazine. Early life Born Robert Peter Coffin, the youngest of ten children to James William Coffin, a descendant of Tristram Coffin and Alice Mary Coombs on a saltwater farm on Sebascodegan Island he earned his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in 1913 and then his Masters of Arts from Princeton University in 1918. In 1922 Coffin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature by Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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Theodor Panofka
1800 - 1858 (58 years)
Theodor Sigismund Panofka was a German archaeologist, art historian, and philologist. He was one of the first scholars to make a systematic study of the pottery of Ancient Greece, and one of the founders of the institution later to become the German Archaeological Institute .
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José Antonio Ramos Sucre
1890 - 1930 (40 years)
José Antonio Ramos Sucre was a Venezuelan poet, professor, diplomat and scholar. He was a member of the Sucre family of Venezuela and the great-great-nephew of Antonio José de Sucre. He was educated at the Colegio Nacional, and then at the Universidad Central de Venezuela where he studied Law, Letters and Languages .
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John Carew Rolfe
1859 - 1943 (84 years)
John Carew Rolfe, Ph.D. was an American classical scholar, the son of William J. Rolfe. Rolfe graduated from Harvard University in 1881 and from Cornell University in 1885. Rolfe taught at Cornell , at Harvard , at the University of Michigan, and at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Otto Roquette
1824 - 1896 (72 years)
Otto Roquette was a German author. Life and work Roquette was born in Krotoschin, Prussian Province of Posen. The son of a district court councillor, he first went to Bromberg in 1834, and from 1846 to 1850 studied Philology and History in Heidelberg, Berlin, and Halle. After tours in Switzerland and Italy, he moved to in Berlin in 1852. He became a teacher in Dresden in 1853. He returned to Berlin in 1857 and in 1862 became a professor of literary history at the War Academy until he changed to the Vocational Academy in 1867. In 1868 he joined the Vandalia-Teutonia Berlin. From 1869 he taught at the Polytechnic in Darmstadt .
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Jakob Baechtold
1848 - 1897 (49 years)
Jakob Baechtold, surname sometimes spelled as Bächtold was a Swiss literary scholar. He studied German philology under Adolf Holtzmann at the University of Heidelberg, then continued his education at the University of Munich and in 1870 received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the Lanzelet of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven. From 1872 he worked as a schoolteacher in Solothurn and Zürich, and from 1879 to 1884 he headed the feuilleton of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .
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Behçet Necatigil
1916 - 1979 (63 years)
Behçet Necatigil was a leading Turkish author, poet and translator. Biography Behçet was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1916. He graduated from the Teachers' High School in Istanbul in 1940, and served as a teacher of literature at Kabatas Erkek Lisesi until the year 1972. His first poem was published in Varlık journal during his high school years in 1935. From then on, he continued to write poetry for over 40 years. Behçet is also well known for his radio dramas.
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Rabindranath Datta
1883 - 1918 (35 years)
Rabindranath Datta was an Indian Poet and educator. He mostly wrote in English. He was born in a renowned Bengali family on 1 October 1883 in Sankar Ghosh Lane, Calcutta. His father was Gyanendra Nath Dutt a member of the Hatkhola Dutt family.
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Manuel Sanchis i Guarner
1911 - 1981 (70 years)
Manuel Sanchís Guarner was a Spanish philologist, historian and writer. He was an author of a vast work ranging from studies of linguistics, literature, history, ethnography to popular culture, basically centered on the Valencian Community, but also on the rest of the territories of the ancient Crown of Aragon and the whole Iberian peninsula.
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F. P. Wilson
1889 - 1963 (74 years)
Frank Percy Wilson was a British literary scholar and bibliographer. Author of many works on Elizabethan drama and general editor of the Oxford History of English Literature, Wilson was Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1947 to 1957.
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Vaclovas Biržiška
1884 - 1956 (72 years)
Vaclovas Biržiška was a Lithuanian attorney, bibliographer, and educator. He was a member of a notable Lithuanian family; his great-grandfather Mykolas Biržiška was a representative in the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth when the Constitution of 3 May 1791 was accepted; his grandfather Leonardas Biržiška was an active participant in the November Uprising; and his brothers, Mykolas Biržiška and Viktoras Biržiška, were also leaders of the Lithuanian community. His father, the physician Antanas Biržiška, declined a professorship at the University of Moscow to practice medicine in the ...
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Israel Gollancz
1863 - 1930 (67 years)
Sir Israel Gollancz, FBA was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London, from 1903 to 1930. Life and career Gollancz was born 13 July 1863, in London, sixth of seven children of Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gollancz , cantor of the Hambro Synagogue, London, and his wife, Johanna Koppell. He was the younger brother of Sir Hermann Gollancz and the uncle of the publisher Victor Gollancz. As a Jew, Gollancz faced significant anti-semitism in his life and career, which was reflected in his academic work through hi...
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Karl Vollmöller
1848 - 1922 (74 years)
Karl Vollmöller was a German philologist. He was educated in Tübingen, Bonn, Munich, Berlin, and Paris. He traveled in Spain in 1874-75 and became a lecturer in Strassburg in 1875. He was professor at Erlangen , and then at Göttingen until 1891, when he retired, settled in Dresden, and devoted himself to Romance philology.
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Jack A. W. Bennett
1911 - 1981 (70 years)
Jack Arthur Walter Bennett was a New Zealand–born literary scholar. Early life and education Jack Arthur Walter Bennett was born at Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of Ernest Bennett, a foreman for a shoe manufacturer, where he was a "shoe clicker and pattern cutter", and Alexandra, née Corrall, both born in Leicester, England. The Bennetts lived in a "suburban bungalow" called "Rocky Nook". Bennett attended Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand. He notably wrote the Mount Albert Grammar School hymn, which is sung at school assemblies to this day.
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Sarojini Naidu
1879 - 1949 (70 years)
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist and poet who served as the first Governor of United Provinces, after India's independence. She played an important role in the Indian independence movement against the British Raj. She was the first woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed as governor of a state.
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Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten
1758 - 1818 (60 years)
Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten , also known as Ludwig Theobul or Ludwig Theoboul, was a German poet and Lutheran preacher. Kosegarten was born in Grevesmühlen, in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After studying theology at the University of Greifswald, he served as the pastor of Altenkirchen on the island of Rügen, then part of Swedish Pomerania.
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Daniel Georg Morhof
1639 - 1691 (52 years)
Daniel Georg Morhof was a German writer and scholar. Bibliography Morhof was born at Wismar. He first studied jurisprudence and then literae humaniores at the University of Rostock, where his elegant Latin versification procured for him in 1660 the chair of poetry. In 1665 he moved to the University of Kiel as professor of eloquence and poetry; this chair he exchanged for that of history in 1673. He died at Lübeck.
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Friedrich Hultsch
1833 - 1906 (73 years)
Friedrich Otto Hultsch was a German classical philologist and historian of mathematics in antiquity. Biography After graduating from the Dresden Kreuzschule, Friedrich Hultsch studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig from 1851 to 1855. After a probationary year at the Kreuzschule, he was employed in 1857 as a second Adjunkt at the Alte Nikolaischule in Leipzig. In 1858 he became a teacher at the Zwickau Gymnasium. In 1861 Hultsch was again employed at the Kreuzschule, where he was the rector from 1868 until his retirement in 1889. From 1879 to 1882 he also headed the newly fou...
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Clifford Herschel Moore
1866 - 1931 (65 years)
Clifford Herschel Moore was an American Latin scholar. Biography Clifford Herschel Moore was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts on March 11, 1866. He married Lorena Leadbetter on July 23, 1890. He was educated at Harvard and in Europe at Munich . He taught classics in California and Massachusetts, at Phillips Academy in Andover .
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Elkanah Settle
1648 - 1724 (76 years)
Elkanah Settle was an English poet and playwright. Biography He was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree. His first tragedy, Cambyses, King of Persia, was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1667. The success of this play led the Earl of Rochester to encourage the new writer as a rival to John Dryden. Through his influence, Settle's The Empress of Morocco was twice performed at Whitehall, and proved a great success. It is said by John Dennis to have been "the first play that was ever sold in England for two shillings, and the first...
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James Burrill Angell
1829 - 1916 (87 years)
James Burrill Angell was an American educator and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan, from 1871 to 1909. He represented the transition from small college life to nationally oriented universities. Under his energetic leadership, Michigan gained prominence as an elite public university. Angell is often cited by school administrators for providing the vision that the university should provide "an uncommon education for the common man." Angell was also president of the University of Vermont from 1866 to 1871 and helped that small school recover from its financial difficulties brought on by the Civil War.
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John Taylor
1781 - 1864 (83 years)
John Taylor was an English publisher, essayist, and writer. He is noted as the publisher of the poets John Keats and John Clare. Life He was born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the son of James Taylor and Sarah Drury; his father was a printer and bookseller. He attended school first at Lincoln Grammar School and then he went to the local grammar school in Retford. He was originally apprenticed to his father, but eventually he moved to London and worked for James Lackington in 1803. Taylor left after a short while because of low pay.
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John Banks
1652 - 1706 (54 years)
John Banks was an English playwright of the Restoration era. His works concentrated on historical dramas, and his plays were twice suppressed because of their implications, or supposed implications, for the contemporaneous political situation.
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Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski
1897 - 1973 (76 years)
Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski was a Polish philologist, teacher, poet, translator and publisher. He used the pseudonym KAJ. He was born in Siedliszcze. His parents were Edward Jaworski and Maria Jaworska née Smoleńska. He lived in Chełm. During World War I he was deported to Kharkiv, where he started studying medicine in the years 1917–1918. After he had come back to Poland, he studied Polish philology at Catholic University of Lublin
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Hyam Plutzik
1911 - 1962 (51 years)
Hyam Plutzik , a Pulitzer prize finalist, was a poet and Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Books The Three . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1933. Death at the Purple Rim . Brooklyn: The Artisan Press, 1941. 37ppAspects of Proteus, a book of poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. 94pp.Apples from Shinar: A book of poems. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959. 59pp.Horatio. New York: Atheneum, 1961. 89pp.Hyam Plutzik: The Collected Poems, with a foreword by Anthony Hecht. Brockport, N.Y..: BOA Editions, 1987. 313pp.Apples from Shinar: Special Edition, with an afterword by David Scott Kastan.
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Arthur Freed
1894 - 1973 (79 years)
Arthur Freed was an American lyricist and Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for An American in Paris and in 1958 for Gigi. Both films were musicals, and both were directed by Vincente Minnelli. In addition, he produced and was a co-lyricist for the film Singin' in the Rain.
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Karol Wiktor Zawodziński
1890 - 1949 (59 years)
Karol Wiktor Zawodziński, pseudonym Karol de Johne, was highly acclaimed Polish literary critic, theoretist and historian of literature. Associated with a poetical group Skamander. Biography Zawodziński was born on 1 June 1890 in Warsaw. In the years of 1908–1913 he studied a Roman philology at the university of Saint Petersburg. In 1914 he joined Polish Legions and during the years of 1918–1932 was an officer in a Polish Army.
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James Donaldson
1831 - 1915 (84 years)
Sir James Donaldson was a Scottish classical scholar, and educational and theological writer. Life Donaldson was born in Aberdeen on 26 April 1831. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Marischal College, Aberdeen, New College, London, and Berlin University. In 1854 he was appointed Rector of the Stirling High School where he remained for two years, before leaving for the Royal High School of Edinburgh, of which he was appointed Rector in 1866.
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Dore Schary
1905 - 1980 (75 years)
Isadore "Dore" Schary was an American playwright, director, and producer for the stage and a prolific screenwriter and producer of motion pictures. He directed one feature film, Act One, the film biography of his friend, playwright and theater director Moss Hart. He became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and replaced Louis B. Mayer as president of the studio in 1951.
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Pinchas Hacohen Peli
1930 - 1989 (59 years)
Pinchas Hacohen Peli was an Israeli modern Orthodox rabbi, essayist, poet, and scholar of Judaism and Jewish philosophy. Early life He was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1930 to a Hasidic family named Hacohen.
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Samuel Henley
1740 - 1815 (75 years)
Samuel Henley D.D. was an English clergyman, school teacher and college principal, antiquarian, and man of letters. Life Born in England, he began his career when he was recruited as a professor of moral philosophy for the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. He arrived in 1770. Well-connected there, he became a friend of Thomas Jefferson, who acquired some of his library. He clashed though in public debate with Robert Carter Nicholas, Sr. and John Page, and failed to become rector of Bruton Parish Church.
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Amir Khusrau
1253 - 1325 (72 years)
Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau , better known as Amīr Khusrau, was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived during the period of the Delhi Sultanate. He is an iconic figure in the cultural history of South Asia. He was a mystic and a spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi, India. He wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi. A vocabulary in verse, the Ḳhāliq Bārī, containing Arabic, Persian and Hindavi terms is often attributed to him. Khusrau is sometimes referred to as the "voice of India" or "Parrot of India" , and has been called the "fathe...
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André Roussin
1911 - 1987 (76 years)
André Roussin, , was a French playwright. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française on 12 April 1973. Bibliography 1933 Patiences et impatiences1944 Am Stram Gram1945 Une grande fille toute simple1945 Jean Baptiste le mal aimé1945 La Sainte Famille1947 La petite hutte1948 Les Œufs de l'autruche1949 Nina1950 Bobosse1951 La main de César1951 Lorsque l'enfant paraît1952 Hélène ou la joie de vivre1953 Patience et impatiences1954 Le Mari, la Femme et la Mort1955 L'Amour fou ou la première surprise1957 La Mamma1960 Les Glorieuses et une femme qui dit la vérité1962 ...
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Norman Holmes Pearson
1909 - 1975 (66 years)
Norman Holmes Pearson was an American academic at Yale University, and a prominent counterintelligence agent during World War II. As a specialist on American literature and department chairman at Yale University he was active in establishing American Studies as an academic discipline.
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Fenwicke Holmes
1883 - 1973 (90 years)
Fenwicke Lindsay Holmes was an American author, former Congregational minister, and Religious Science leader. The brother of Ernest Holmes, Fenwicke is widely recognized for being an important factor in the establishment of Religious Science and the founding of the United Centers for Spiritual Living. Fenwicke is recognized as an important figure in the development of the New Thought movement in Japan in particular Seicho-no-Ie.
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Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay
1831 - 1913 (82 years)
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay was a French writer of vaudevilles and politician. He was born in Paris and died in Aix-les-Bains. Life His father was a Legitimist noble who, as Edmond Rochefort, was well known as a writer of ; his mother's views were republican. After experience as a medical student, a clerk at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, a playwright and a journalist, he joined the staff of Le Figaro in 1863; but a series of his articles, afterwards published as Les Français de la décadence , brought the paper into collision with the authorities and caused the terminatio...
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Morris H. Morgan
1859 - 1910 (51 years)
Morris Hicky Morgan was professor of classical philology at Harvard University. Life After graduating from Harvard College, Morgan was immediately after his graduation appointed to the teaching staff. After the death of Frederic D. Allen in 1899 he succeeded to the chair of classical philology. He was praised by his fellow classicists as an interpreter of Vitruvius. His translation of Vitruvius's The Ten Books of Architecture, based on an older translation by Valentine Rose , remains in print today, though he died before completing it, the final parts being translated by Albert A. Howard. In ...
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Alfred Gercke
1860 - 1922 (62 years)
Karl Friedrich August Alfred Gercke was a German classical philologist. He is known for his research pertaining to the history of Greek philosophy, in particular, Hellenistic philosophy, and for his studies involving Seneca the Younger.
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Rudolf Pfeiffer
1889 - 1979 (90 years)
Rudolf Carl Franz Otto Pfeiffer was a German classical philologist. He is known today primarily for his landmark, two-volume edition of Callimachus and the two volumes of his History of Classical Scholarship, in addition to numerous articles and lectures related to these projects and to the fragmentary satyr plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles.
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N. P. van Wyk Louw
1906 - 1970 (64 years)
Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw , almost universally known as N.P. van Wyk Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet, playwright and scholar. He was the older brother of Afrikaans-language poet W.E.G. Louw. One of the Dertigers, or "Writers of the Thirties," N.P. van Wyk Louw produced among his most famous works his debut 1935 volume of poems, Alleenspraak , the 1937 poetry collection Die halwe kring , the verse epic Raka, and the 1956 tragedy Germanicus.
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Edward Waldo Emerson
1844 - 1930 (86 years)
Edward Waldo Emerson was an American physician, writer and lecturer. Biography Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian Jackson Emerson, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1866. He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1874, and practiced medicine in Concord until 1882, when he received an inheritance and retired from his practice. He was an instructor in art anatomy at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts from 1885 to 1906. He was also an accomplished equestrian.
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Walter Horace Bruford
1894 - 1988 (94 years)
Walter Horace Bruford, FBA was a British scholar of German literature. Walter Horace Bruford was born in Manchester in 1894. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then at St. John's College, Cambridge, and the University of Zurich. During World War I he served with the Royal Navy cryptographic intelligence division in Room 40 at the Admiralty. After the war he conducted research in Zurich, became a lecturer in German at Aberdeen University in 1920, and then a reader at Aberdeen in 1923. Bruford was then appointed professor of German at the University of Edinburgh in 1929. He was seconded to the Foreign Office during World War II, 1939–1943, to work at Bletchley Park.
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Daniel Albert Wyttenbach
1746 - 1820 (74 years)
Daniel Albert Wyttenbach was a German Swiss classical scholar. A student of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken, he was an exponent of the methods of criticism which they established, and with them he laid the foundations of modern Greek scholarship.
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Frederick William Thomas
1867 - 1956 (89 years)
Frederick William Thomas , usually cited as F. W. Thomas, was an English Indologist and Tibetologist. Life Thomas was born on 21 March 1867 in Tamworth, Staffordshire. After schooling at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1885, graduating with a first class degree in both classics and Indian languages and being awarded a Browne medal in both 1888 and 1889. At Cambridge he studied Sanskrit under the influential Orientalist Edward Byles Cowell.
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Harry Behn
1898 - 1973 (75 years)
Harry Behn was an American screenwriter and children's author. He was involved in writing scenes and continuities for a number of screenplays, including the war film The Big Parade in 1925, and Hell's Angels. He graduated from Harvard University in 1922.
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Johann August Nauck
1822 - 1892 (70 years)
Johann August Nauck was a German classical scholar and critic. His chief work was the Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta . Biography Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia. He studied at the University of Halle as a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In 1853 he became an adjunct under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. After a brief stint as an educator at the Grauen Kloster , he relocated to St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of Greek at the historical-philological institute.
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Frank Oliver Call
1878 - 1956 (78 years)
Frank Oliver Call was a Canadian poet and academic. Born in Brome Lake, Quebec, Call was educated at Bishop's University in Paris and Marburg and at McGill University, and was subsequently a professor of languages at Bishop's and McGill.
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Otto Lagercrantz
1868 - 1938 (70 years)
Carl Otto Lagercrantz was a Swedish classical philologist and rector of Uppsala University. Biography Otto Lagercrantz was born at Näsby in Jönköping County, Sweden. Lagercrantz graduated from high school in Uppsala in 1887. He then studied at Uppsala University, earning his bachelor's degree in 1890 and his licentiate degree in 1895. He completed his Ph.D. in 1898 with a dissertation titled Zur griechischen Lautgeschichte. He then served as professor of Greek, first at the Gothenburg University College and then at Uppsala University. He was appointed prorector of Uppsala University in 1929 ...
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August Reifferscheid
1835 - 1887 (52 years)
Karl Wilhelm August Reifferscheid was a German archaeologist and classical philologist. Biography He was born and educated in Bonn. He received a traveling fellowship in archaeology from the University of Bonn, and spent 1861–66 mostly in Italy, part of the time fulfilling a request by the Vienna Academy to do archival research for the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. He was professor at Breslau , and beginning in 1885, a professor at the University of Strassburg .
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Johannes Valentinus Andreae
1586 - 1654 (68 years)
Johannes Valentinus Andreae , a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of an ancient text known as the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 . This became one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism, which was both a legend and a fashionable cultural phenomenon across Europe in this period.
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