The Most Influential People Across History
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John Adams
1704 - 1740 (36 years)
John Adams was an American poet. Biography Adams was the only son of merchant Hon. John Adams and Hannah Checkley of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was pastor there. Clap's friends formed a new society, and Adams was dismissed in about two years.
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Caleb Afendopolo
1464 - 1523 (59 years)
Caleb Afendopolo was a Jewish polyhistor. He was the brother of Samuel ha-Ramati, ḥakam of the Karaite congregations in Constantinople and of Judah Bali, brother-in-law and disciple of Elijah Bashyatzi.
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Clarence G. Child
1864 - 1948 (84 years)
Clarence Griffin Child was an American educator, scholar of medieval literature, and hobbyist mathematician who served as dean of the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. Early life and education Born in Newport, Rhode Island, to Rev. William Spencer Child and Jessie Isabella Davis, Child received his undergraduate education at Trinity College, Connecticut, where he was initiated into Psi Upsilon and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to complete a master's degree at Trinity, remaining there briefly afterwards to teach mathematics, which was his long-time hobby. He subsequently studied at the University of Munich and Johns Hopkins University, receiving his Ph.D.
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Karl Heinrich Frotscher
1796 - 1876 (80 years)
Karl Heinrich Frotscher was a German classical philologist, known for his scholarly editions of Xenophon, Cicero, Quintilian and Velleius. From 1815 he studied philology at the University of Leipzig, where his teachers included Christian Daniel Beck, Gottfried Hermann and Ernst Platner. He served as an auxiliary teacher at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig, and in 1820 became an instructor at the Nikolaischule. From 1822 he worked as a librarian at the Ratsbibliothek , and in 1826 obtained his habilitation at the university.
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Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass
1914 - 1965 (51 years)
Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass was an Indian poet and script writer who wrote mainly in the Tamil language. He wrote more than 500 lyrics for Tamil films. Early life Born to Narayanasamy and Pappu at Manampoochavadi in Thanjavur district, he had his primary and secondary education at St. Peters Higher Secondary school in Thanjavur. Then he graduated as a Pulavar from Karanthai Thamizh Sangam. He was trained as a teacher.
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Mary Robinson
1758 - 1800 (42 years)
Mary Robinson was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. She lived in England, in the cities of Bristol and London; she also lived in France and Germany for a time. She enjoyed poetry from the age of seven and started working, first as a teacher and then as actress, from the age of fourteen. She wrote many plays, poems and novels. She was a celebrity, gossiped about in newspapers, famous for her acting and writing. During her lifetime she was known as "the English Sappho". She earned her nickname "Perdita" for her role as Perdita in 1779. She was the first publi...
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George Dunbar
1774 - 1851 (77 years)
George Dunbar FRSE was a Scottish classical scholar and lexicographer who authored a classical Greek dictionary, and Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh. Biography George Dunbar was born on 30 March 1777 at Coldingham in Berwickshire. In early life he was a gardener, however having been permanently injured by an accident, he instead chose to study the classics.
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George P. Elliott
1918 - 1980 (62 years)
George P. Elliott was an American poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Life Elliott was born and raised on a dairy farm outside Knightstown, Indiana. When he was ten, his father lost the farm in a mortgage foreclosure and moved the family to Riverside, California, when he bought a carob farm. He later said that growing up in the desert shaped his life considerably: "Nobody lived nearby, and I could not afford to visit people far away. I was thrown back on books and I read enormously--mostly books from the public library." He also said that his father had a strong influence on him...
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Alfred Körte
1866 - 1946 (80 years)
Alfred Körte was a German classical philologist who was a native of Berlin. He was a younger brother to surgeon Werner Körte and archaeologist Gustav Körte . In 1896, he married Frieda Gropius, the daughter of the architect Martin Gropius .
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Diego Valeri
1887 - 1976 (89 years)
Diego Valeri was an Italian poet and literary critic. Bibliography Bibliografia 1926-1996: http://www.diegovaleri.it/fondo.html@act=5Antonello Nave, Il carme ‘Rodiginorum Goliardorum’ di Diego Valeri e Marino Cremesini, in “Quaderni per la storia dell’Università di Padova”, 36, 2003, pp. 153-158.Matteo Giancotti, Diego Valeri, Padova, Il Poligrafo, 2013.Matteo Giancotti, Valeri, Diego, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 97, 2020.Antonello Nave, Diego Valeri e gli "Amici dell'Arte", in "Padova e il suo territorio", XXXVI, 211, giugno-luglio 2021, pp.
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Mortimer Lamson Earle
1864 - 1905 (41 years)
Mortimer Lamson Earle, Ph. D. was an American classical scholar. Biography He was born in New York City on October 14, 1864, the only child of Mortimer Lent Earle and Mercy Josephine Allen. He received his early education from Ashland Public School in East Orange, New Jersey, and through private tutors, and was educated at Columbia College of Columbia University, receiving his doctorate from Columbia University in 1889. He studied at the University of Bonn and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the period from 1887 to 1889. At the latter in 1887 he was placed in charge of the excavations of the site of ancient Sikyon by Professor Augustus C.
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Edward Plumptre
1821 - 1891 (70 years)
Edward Hayes Plumptre was an English divine and scholar born in London. Life He was born on 6 August 1821, being the son of Edward Hallows Plumptre, a London solicitor. Charles John Plumptre was his brother. He was educated at home, and after a brief stay at King's College, London, entered Oxford as a scholar of University College, Oxford, of which his uncle, Frederick Charles Plumptre , was master from 1836 till his death. In 1844, he took a double first-class, alone in mathematics, and in classics with Sir George Bowen, Dean Bradley, and E. Poste. He was elected to a fellowship at Braseno...
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Agostino Steuco
1497 - 1548 (51 years)
Agostino Steuco , Italian humanist, Old Testament scholar, Counter Reformation polemicist and antiquarian, was born at Gubbio in Umbria. He discoursed on the subject of perennial philosophy and coined the term philosophia perennis.
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Alexander Griboyedov
1795 - 1829 (34 years)
Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov , formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Griboyedoff, was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. His one notable work was the 1823 verse comedy Woe from Wit. He was Russia's ambassador to Qajar Persia, where he and all the embassy staff were massacred by an angry mob as a result of the rampant anti-Russian sentiment that existed through Russia's imposing of the Treaty of Gulistan and Treaty of Turkmenchay , which had forcefully ratified for Persia's ceding of its northern territories comprising Transcaucasia and parts of the North Caucasus. G...
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Johannes du Plessis Scholtz
1900 - 1990 (90 years)
Johannes du Plessis Scholtz was a South African philologist, art historian, and art collector. Scholarly life Scholtz studied first at the University of Stellenbosch, completing an M.A. in 1920. He then took a job assisting the philologist in editing Die Huisgenoot, but he moved shortly thereafter over to the Nasionale Pers to be head of the publication department. In 1924 he went to Amsterdam and in 1927 he received a PhD from the Gemeentelijke Universiteit. He returned to the Netherlands for two years to pursue further studies in Dutch dialectology and structural linguistics, studies whic...
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Vukašin Filipović
1930 - 1990 (60 years)
Vukašin "Vuk" Filipović was a Serbian writer, painter and professor at the University of Priština. He is considered one of the most important Serbian 20th-century writers. Biography He attended primary school in Babin Most, Bresje and Priština, and high school in the Second Men's Gymnasium in Belgrade and Priština, and graduated in Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1954. He received his doctorate at the same faculty in 1964 on the topic "Childhood in the work of Bora Stanković". He was a professor at the "Ivo Lola Ribar" Gymnasium in Priština , a lecturer at the H...
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Anders Platou Wyller
1903 - 1940 (37 years)
Anders Platou Wyller was a Norwegian philologist and humanist. Biography Wyller was born at Stavanger in Rogaland, Norway. He was the son of Thomas Christian Wyller and Birgitte Platou . His sister, Ingrid Wyller , was associated with the Norwegian Nurses Association and Norwegian Red Cross Nursing School in Oslo.
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Avdo Međedović
1875 - 1953 (78 years)
Avdo Međedović was a guslar from Montenegro. He was the most versatile and skillful performer of all those encountered by Milman Parry and Albert Lord during their research on the oral epic tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in the 1930s. At Parry's request, Avdo sang songs he already knew and some songs he heard in front of Parry, convincing him that someone Homer-like could produce a poem so long. Avdo dictated, over five days, a version of the well-known theme The Wedding of Meho Smailagić that was 12,323 lines long, saying on the fifth day to Nikola that he knew even longer songs.
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Hans Blüher
1888 - 1955 (67 years)
Hans Blüher was a German writer and philosopher. He attained prominence as an early member and "first historian" of the Wandervogel movement. He was aided by his taboo breaking rebellion against schools and the Church. He was received with some genuine interest but sometimes perceived as scandalous.
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Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei
1901 - 1973 (72 years)
Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei was an Iranian mystic, poet, translator of the Quran, and one of the grand Masters of the philosophical school of Tehran. Family His family were originally from Bahrain. Most of them were sophisticated men of knowledge. They resided in Ghomshe or Sah-Reza near the south Isfahan City. He was born in 1319 lunar Islamic year in Isfahan. He was known as the reviver of religion . He selected the title of Elahi in his poems.
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Alice Huntington Bushee
1867 - 1956 (89 years)
Alice Huntington Bushee was an American librarian and early pioneer in Hispanic studies. She was a professor at Wellesley College and wrote several books, including Fundamentals of Spanish Grammar. Early years and education Bushee was born on December 4, 1867, in Worcester, Massachusetts. She grew up in Morrisville, Vermont. Bushee graduated from the Peoples Academy in 1886. In 1891, she graduated from Mount Holyoke College. She was the class valedictorian.
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Félix Armando Núñez
1897 - 1972 (75 years)
Félix Armando Núñez was a Venezuelan poet, essayist, and critic who lived in Chile since 1914, where he worked as a professor. He was born on November 28, 1897, in Boqueron, Maturín, Monagas State, Venezuela. He studied at the Federal School of Maturin and enrolled at the Teacher Training School of Caracas in 1913 and in 1914 he received a scholarship to study at the José Abelardo Núñez Teacher Training School in Santiago, Chile. In 1915 he graduated from the Teacher Training School, and in 1916, after graduating from high school, he began his studies at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile where in 1919 he obtained the title of Castilian professor.
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Susa Young Gates
1856 - 1933 (77 years)
Susa Gates was an American writer, periodical editor, president of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and women's rights advocate. She was a daughter of LDS Church president Brigham Young. Throughout her life, Gates wrote many short stories, novels, poems, and other literary works. According to R. Paul Cracroft's thesis, Gates wrote more than other Mormon writers. Gates was also actively involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where, among other things, she wrote the lesson manuals, was a member of the Relief Society general board, lead genealogical efforts, and served as a ...
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José María Egas
1896 - 1982 (86 years)
José María Egas was an Ecuadorian poet. Many of his poems were turned into the lyrics of "pasillos". Egas studied law at the University of Guayaquil graduated in 1927. He was then active as a lawyer and journalist, but became best ko
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Charles Grant Robertson
1869 - 1948 (79 years)
Sir Charles Grant Robertson was a British academic historian. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham. Biography Grant Robertson was born in 1869 and educated at Highgate School and Hertford College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1893. At Oxford he became a distinguished and influential historian. He was one-time tutor to Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and had many academic publications to his name. He also published a light work called "Voces academicae, short scenes of student life in Oxford" in 18...
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Harry B. Smith
1860 - 1936 (76 years)
Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composers Victor Herbert and Reginald De Koven. He also wrote the book or lyrics for several versions of the Ziegfeld Follies.
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William Keith Leask
1857 - 1925 (68 years)
W. Keith Leask was a writer and a classics lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He wrote several biographies and works in classics. Biography Leask was born in the parish of Old Machar in Old Aberdeen on 16 April 1857. He was the son of James Leask who attended King's College, Aberdeen 1844-6 and was an advocate in Aberdeen. His mother was Mary Ann Allan. Leask attended Aberdeen Grammar School and graduated M.A. at the University of Aberdeen in 1877. He then studied at the University of Oxford and graduated first class Class. Mods. at Oxford in 1879 and second class Litt. Hum. in 1881. He ...
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Lambert Hillyer
1893 - 1969 (76 years)
Lambert Harwood Hillyer was an American film director and screenwriter. Biography Lambert Harwood Hillyer was born July 8, 1893, in Tyner, Indiana. His mother was character actress Lydia Knott. A graduate of Drake College, he worked as a newspaper reporter and an actor in vaudeville and stock theater. During World War I he began working in motion pictures and became a prolific director and screenwriter, working on many silent-era Westerns by William S. Hart, Buck Jones, Tom Mix and others.
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Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
1513 - 1575 (62 years)
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar was a Spanish man of letters and rector of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, founded in 1551. He was born and raised in Toledo, Spain. He first attended Alejo Venegas’s Grammar School and then studied at the University of Salamanca. In 1539 he accompanied Licenciado Pedro Giron to the Low Countries where he met Juan Luis Vives. In 1546 he published a collection of three works, Apólogo de la ociosidad y el trabajo by Luis Mejia, Introducción y camino de la sabiuduría by J. L. Vives, and Diálogo de la dignidad del hombre by Pérez de Oliva, which Cerv...
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Robert Davidson
1778 - 1855 (77 years)
Robert Davidson was a Scottish poet and labourer, whose writings give a rare glimpse into the life of the rural labouring poor at the beginning of the 19th century. He was born at Lempitlaw in the historic County of Roxburgh , later moving to the village of Morebattle. Despite the harsh existence of agricultural labour and having to support a family, Davidson managed to publish three collections of poems during his lifetime. His third collection, Leaves from a Peasant's Cottage Drawer, was published in Edinburgh in 1848 by James Hogg, the son of the 'Ettrick Shepherd' author.
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Jovita Idar
1885 - 1946 (61 years)
Jovita Idar Vivero was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, which lasted a decade from 1910 through 1920, she worked for a series of newspapers, using her writing to work towards making a meaningful and effective change. She began her career in journalism at La Crónica, her father's newspaper in Laredo, Texas, her hometown.
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Claudio Achillini
1574 - 1640 (66 years)
Claudio Achillini was an Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, and jurist. He is a major figure in the history of Italian Baroque poetry. Biography Born in Bologna, he was a grandson to Giovanni Filoteo Achillini and grand-nephew of Alessandro Achillini. He was professor of jurisprudence for several years at his native Bologna, Parma, and Ferrara, with the highest reputation. So much admiration did his learning excite, that inscriptions to his honour were placed in the schools in his lifetime. He was a member of a number of learned and literary societies, including the Accadem...
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John Thompson
1938 - 1976 (38 years)
John Thompson was an English-born, Canadian poet, translator and university professor. He is noted for his mastery of poetic forms, which he used to express the intensity and power of images in spare and precise language evoking beauty and wonder, anguish and despair. Thompson's second and best-known book, Stilt Jack, a collection of 38 ghazals published after his death, records his poetic journeys through darkness in an uncertain quest for the light. His first collection, At the Edge of the Chopping there are no Secrets published in 1973, conveys vivid images of natural cycles of death and ...
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Cercidas
300 BC - 300 BC (0 years)
Cercidas was a poet, Cynic philosopher, and legislator for his native city Megalopolis. A papyrus roll containing fragments from seven of his Cynic poems was discovered at Oxyrhynchus in 1906. Life Cercidas was an admirer of Diogenes, whose death he recorded in some Meliambic lines. He is mentioned and cited by Athenaeus and Stobaeus. At his death he ordered the first and second books of the Iliad to be buried with him. Aelian relates that Cercidas died expressing his hope of being with Pythagoras of the philosophers, Hecataeus of the historians, Olympus of the musicians, and Homer of the po...
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Abdulkadir Inan
1889 - 1976 (87 years)
Abdulkadir Inan was a Bashkir historian and folklorist. He was the author of over 350 scientific articles. Early life and education He was born into the Qazböri family of the Ulu Qatay tribe in the village Çigay, close to Jekaterinburg He received his primary education in Çigay and in 1905 he entered vocational school in Troick from which he graduated in 1914. Following he was a teacher for secondary education in the Russian Empire, and served in the army of the Russian Empire during World War I. From 1908 onwards he wrote articles for the Vakit in Orenburg. Initially focusing on education, h...
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Barton MacLane
1902 - 1969 (67 years)
Barton MacLane was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including his role as General Martin Peterson on the 1960s NBC television comedy series I Dream of Jeannie, with Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman.
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John Alexander Stewart
1846 - 1933 (87 years)
John Alexander Stewart was a Scottish writer, educator and philosopher. He was a university professor and classical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford from 1875 to 1883, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, and professorial fellow of Corpus Christi College, from 1897 to his retirement in 1927. Throughout his academic career, he was an editor and author of works on Aristotle and considered one of the foremost experts on the subject. His best known books were Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle and The Myths of Plato .
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Conrad Cichorius
1863 - 1932 (69 years)
Conrad Cichorius was a German historian and classical philologist. He is known for publishing a complete survey of the reliefs of Trajan's Column, which still forms the basis of modern scholarship. From 1882 to 1886 he studied at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig and Berlin, and in 1895 became an associate professor at Leipzig. Later on, he was a full professor of ancient history at the universities of Breslau and Bonn . In 1923/24 he served as university rector. His doctoral students included Vasile Pârvan.
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David Owen
1796 - 1866 (70 years)
David Owen known by the pseudonym Brutus, was a Welsh satirical writer, editor and preacher. He was born in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire where he was brought up as a Congregationalist. Thereafter he spent periods of time in other parts working as a schoolmaster. After a troublous stretch working as a Baptist minister he turned his back on Nonconformity to join the Church of England, where he worked as editor of "Yr Haul", the magazine of what was then the Anglican Church in Wales. He published a number of books on religious matters, which became widely used. He also wrote sizeable autobiogra...
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Max D. Raiskin
1919 - 1978 (59 years)
Max D. Raiskin , was a rabbi, Professor of Hebrew Literature, licensed Certified Public Accountant, author of educational textbooks, and the principal and executive director of the East Side Hebrew Institute.
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Huan Tan
40 BC - 32 (72 years)
Huan Tan was a Chinese philosopher, poet, and politician of the Western Han and its short-lived interregnum between AD9 and 23, known as the Xin Dynasty. Life Huan worked as an official under the administrations of Emperor Ai of Han , Wang Mang , the Gengshi Emperor , and Emperor Guangwu of Han . Huan was a close associate of the court astronomer and mathematician Liu Xin, as well as the author and poet Yang Xiong.
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Jean Roemer
1815 - 1892 (77 years)
Jean Roemer was a Dutch soldier and a United States professor of French language and literature at the City College of New York. Biography He was taken in infancy to Hanover, and afterward to Holland. His early education was conducted under the guardianship of William I, king of the Netherlands, and Frederica Louisa, Princess of Orange, and wife of Charles George Augustus, heir-apparent of the crown of Brunswick. He was destined for the army, and served on the Dutch side throughout the Belgian Revolution, a war of secession between Holland and Belgium. At the close of the war he visited the g...
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Robert Walpole
1781 - 1856 (75 years)
Robert Walpole was an English classical scholar. Life Born on 8 August 1781 in Lisbon, he was the eldest son of Robert Walpole, envoy to Portugal, by his first wife, Diana, daughter of Walter Grosset; Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, was his grandfather. He was educated at Charterhouse School. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge from 1800, having first matriculated at Merton College, Oxford in 1797, and there he graduated B.A. in 1803, M.A. in 1809, and B.D. in 1828. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1803.
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Christine Mohrmann
1903 - 1988 (85 years)
Christine A. E. M. Mohrmann was a specialist in early Christian Greek and Latin, vulgar and medieval Latin and honorary professor at Amsterdam University and at the Catholic University of Nijmegen where most of her teaching and research was conducted. Early researches involved her with amongst other writers Augustine, Cyprian and particularly Tertullian. She wrote mainly in Dutch, English French, German and Latin and was particularly known in the English-speaking world for her studies on St Patrick's Latin and for establishing the journal Vigiliae Christianae .
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Charlton Andrews
1878 - 1939 (61 years)
Charlton Andrews was an American educator and writer whose works include the hit Broadway play Ladies' Night. Early life Andrews was born on February 1, 1878, in Connersville, Indiana. After receiving a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from DePauw University and a Master of Arts from Harvard, he began a varied career working as a journalist, fiction writer, and teacher.
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Churchill Babington
1821 - 1889 (68 years)
Churchill Babington was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist. He served as Rector of Cockfield, Suffolk. He was a cousin of Cardale Babington. Life He was born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire, the only son of Matthew Drake Babington. He was a scion of the Babington family. He was first educated by his father, and then studied under Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist. In 1839, he followed his cousin, Cardale, to St John's College, Cambridge and graduated in 1843, seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior optime. In 1845...
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Henry Milner Rideout
1877 - 1927 (50 years)
Henry Milner Rideout was a native of Calais, Maine. Author of sixteen novels, twenty-three short stories and novellas, and a biographical memoir, he also was editor of one college textbook, as well as co-editor of three others. Many of his stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
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David Davis
1745 - 1827 (82 years)
David Davis , known as "Castellhywel" or "Dafis Castellhywel" to differentiate him from others of the same name, was a Welsh minister and poet. He was born at Goetre Farm in Llangybi, Cardiganshire, and educated at Carmarthen Academy. He became a minister at Ciliau Aeron, where he married the local squire's daughter. In about 1782 he moved to Castellhywel in the Cletwr valley, where he opened a school.
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Benjamin Pulleyn
1700 - 1690 (-10 years)
Benjamin Pulleyn was the Cambridge tutor of Isaac Newton. Pulleyn served as Regius Professor of Greek from 1674 to 1686. He was known as a "pupil monger", meaning one who increased his income by accepting additional students.
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Otto Regenbogen
1891 - 1966 (75 years)
Otto Regenbogen was a German linguist and scholar.
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