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#9401

Robert Maxwell

1908 - 1971 (63 years)

Robert Maxwell Joffe was an American radio and television producer, screenwriter, and entertainment executive. He was one of the producers of The Adventures of Superman radio show and a producer of several TV series, including the early episodes of both Adventures of Superman and Lassie . Maxwell acquired the rights to Lassie in 1953 for $2,000 and sold the popular television program starring the collie to Jack Wrather in 1956 for a reported $3.5 million.

#9402

Henri Patin

1793 - 1876 (83 years)

Henri Joseph Guillaume Patin was a French writer and translator of Ancient Greek and Latin. Works Mélanges de littérature ancienne et moderne Études sur les tragiques grecs, ou Examen critique d'Eschyle, de Sophocle et d'Euripide, précédé d'une histoire générale de la tragédie grecque Œuvres d'Horace . Text onlineÉtudes sur la poésie latine Discours et mélanges littéraires Odes d'Horace . Text onlinePoètes moralistes de la Grèce : Hésiode, Théognis de Mégare, Callinos, Tyrtée, Mimnerme, Solon, Sémonide d'Amorgos, Phocylide, Pythagore, Aristote Lucretius. De la Nature

#9403

Henry Fitzsimon

1566 - 1643 (77 years)

Henry Fitzsimon was an Irish Jesuit controversialist. Life Raised a Protestant, he was educated at Oxford , 1583-1587. Going to the University of Paris, he became a zealous supporter of Protestantism, "with the firm intention to have died for it, if need had been". But having engaged in controversy with "an owld English Jesuit, Father Thomas Darbishire, to my happiness I was overcome."

#9404

Arne Novák

1880 - 1939 (59 years)

Arne Novák, born as Arnošt Novák, was a Czech literary historian and critic, specialist in German and Czech studies. Life He was born as a son of the high school teacher Josef Novák and the novelist Teréza Nováková.

#9405

William Kirby

1817 - 1906 (89 years)

William Kirby, was a Canadian author, best known for his classic historical novel, The Golden Dog. Life Born in Yorkshire, England, Kirby immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1832, and then to Canada in 1839. After visiting Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City, he settled in Niagara, Ontario, where his house still stands.

#9406

John Walker

1732 - 1807 (75 years)

John Walker was an English stage actor, philologist and lexicographer. Life Early in life Walker became an actor, his theatrical engagements including one with David Garrick at Drury Lane, and a long season in Dublin, Ireland. In 1768 he left the stage.

#9407

Jordi Rubió

1887 - 1982 (95 years)

Jordi Rubió i Balaguer was a Catalan philologist and librarian. Some works La lògica en rims del Gazzali glosada en rims per Ramon Llull De l'Edat mitjana al Renaixement: Figures literàries de Catalunya i València Obres essencials de Ramon Llull La cultura catalana del Renaixement a la Decadència , recull d'articlesDocumentos para la Historia de la Universidad de Barcelona. I. Preliminares Il·lustració i Renaixença Llibreters i impressors a la Corona d'Aragó

#9408

Karl Zuchardt

1887 - 1968 (81 years)

Karl Zuchardt was a German writer of historical novels. Zuchardt was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. In 1961 he received the Martin Andersen Nexø-Arts-Award from the city of Dresden, where he later died.

#9409

Walter Bauer

1904 - 1976 (72 years)

Walter Bauer was a German-Canadian biographer, novelist and poet. Walter Bauer showed himself a promising poet in pre-Hitler Germany, but with the rise of the Nazis he found his poetry being banned. He became an elementary school teacher and after the war had high hopes for a literary life. However, in 1953, feeling the cynicism of the German Economic Miracle, he emigrated to Canada where, after a stint as a dishwasher, he became a professor in the German Department of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario in 1954.

#9410

Robert Angus Brooks

1920 - 1976 (56 years)

Robert Angus Brooks was an American philologist and under secretary at the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Logistics under the Johnson Administration.

#9411

Oliver W. F. Lodge

1878 - 1955 (77 years)

Oliver William Foster Lodge , was a poet and author; he was the eldest son of Sir Oliver Lodge , the physicist, and his wife Mary , who had studied painting at the Slade. His five brothers all qualified as engineers, so that he was the only one of the boys with literary leanings, although their uncle Sir Richard Lodge and their aunt Eleanor Constance Lodge both became distinguished academic historians. They grew up in Liverpool, close to Sefton Park, and frequented the Rathbone family of Greenbank House.

#9412

Margarita de Mayo Izarra

1889 - 1969 (80 years)

Margarita de Mayo Izarra was a Spanish writer, teacher, and journalist. Professional career Margarita de Mayo, after obtaining the title of teacher of Primary Higher Education, taught at a graduate school for girls in Valdepeñas from 1914 to 1918.

#9413

Mihailo Valtrović

Mihailo Valtrović

1839 - 1915 (76 years)

Mihailo Valtrović was a Serbian architect, professor of archeology, one of the first pioneers of art history in Serbia, and key representative of the Historismus along with architect Dragutin Dragiša Milutinović. Valtrović was the first professor of archeology in Serbia, the initiator and founder of Serbian Archeology and founder and first president of the Serbian Archaeological Society. He designed a number of state orders and decorations.

#9414

Martin Crusius

1526 - 1607 (81 years)

Martin Kraus , commonly Latinized as Crusius, was a German classicist and historian, and long-time professor at the University of Tübingen. He was a follower of Philip Melanchthon and wrote an epitome of Melanchthon's Elementorum rhetorices libro duo. Kraus also wrote a commentary on the Iliad.

#9415

Carolina Marcial Dorado

Carolina Marcial Dorado

1889 - 1941 (52 years)

Carolina Marcial Dorado was a Spanish educator, writer, and lecturer based in the United States. She was head of the Spanish department at Barnard College from 1920 until her death in 1941. Early life Carolina Marcial Dorado was born in Camuñas, Toledo, the daughter of José Marcial Palacios, a Protestant clergyman, and María de la Luz Marcial-Dorado; her parents were originally from Andalusia. Her older brother, José Marcial Dorado, was a journalist and briefly a member of the Spanish parliament; he was also secretary of the American Bible Society for the Caribbean, based in Cuba.

#9416

Robert Gilbert

1899 - 1978 (79 years)

Robert Gilbert was a German composer of light music, lyricist, singer, and actor. His father was Max Winterfeld, a composer and conductor who went by the pen name of Jean Gilbert. His brother was Henry Winterfeld, an author of children's books. Sometimes described as a "divided author", his early depression-era poem "Stempellied" about living on the dole was set to music by Hanns Eisler. But "Am Sonntag will mein Süsser mit mir segeln gehen" and "Das gibt's nur einmal" , became his better known work.

#9417

James Hurdis

1763 - 1801 (38 years)

James Hurdis was an English clergyman and poet. Life Born in Bishopstone, East Sussex, Hurdis attended the The Prebendal School and studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford, later becoming a Fellow of Magdalen College.

#9418

Harold Arthur Harris

1902 - 1974 (72 years)

Professor Harold Arthur Harris was an academic associated with the University of Oxford. He was born in Oxford, where his father was a college servant. He was educated at Oxford High School, and went on to study at Jesus College, Oxford. Here, he gained a first in Classical Moderations, becoming a senior scholar, and graduating with first class honours in English.

#9419

John Swinnerton Phillimore

John Swinnerton Phillimore

1873 - 1926 (53 years)

John Swinnerton Phillimore was a British classical scholar, translator, and poet. Born at Boconnoc in Cornwall, Phillimore was, like his father, Augustus Phillimore before him, and four brothers, educated at Westminster School , where he was a Queen's Scholar, before going on to read Literae Humaniores at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was also President of the Oxford Union. After taking his degree, he remained at Christ Church as a Student until 1899, when he was made Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow; in 1906 he became Professor of Humanity there, a position he held until his death.

#9420

Max Förster

1869 - 1954 (85 years)

Max Theodor Wilhelm Förster was a German scholar of Old English. In 1934, Förster was forced to retire from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: he was an opponent of the Nazi regime and was married to a Jewish woman. He was a visiting professor at Yale University from 1934 to 1936. Wrongly thought to live in the United Kingdom, he was included in The Black Book, a SS list of prominent British residents to be arrested after the invasion of Britain.

#9421

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

1829 - 1902 (73 years)

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was an English scholar, from 1863 Professor of Greek at Queen's College, Galway. Life D'Arcy was the elder son of John Skelton Thompson, shipmaster, and his wife Mary Mitchell, both of Maryport, Cumberland; it was a seafaring family, and he was born at sea on board his father's barque Georgiana, off Van Diemen's Land, on 18 April 1829. After twelve years at Christ's Hospital, London, he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Michaelmas 1848, later migrating to Pembroke College. At Cambridge his main tutors were Augustus Arthur Vansittart and with Joseph Barber Lightfoot, both of Trinity; his closest friends were James Lempriere Hammond and Peter Guthrie Tait.

#9422

Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell

1891 - 1972 (81 years)

Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell was an American theologian, writer, and professor. Rockwell served as national secretary for the YWCA and as a member of their Board of Trustees for two terms. She also chaired the YWCA's Department of Religious Education.

#9423

Branca Edmée Marques

Branca Edmée Marques

1899 - 1986 (87 years)

Branca Edmée Marques de Sousa Torres was a leading Portuguese specialist in the peaceful applications of nuclear technology who obtained a doctorate in Paris under the guidance of Marie Curie. Returning to Lisbon she founded the Radiochemistry Laboratory, where she continued her research for three decades.

#9424

Trygve Heltveit

1913 - 1985 (72 years)

Harald Trygve Heltveit was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in Balestrand as a son of teacher Olav Heltveit and Petra Sættevik . In 1943 he married Erna Røisum. He became a student in 1936 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree from the University of Oslo in 1942. He was hired as a school teacher at Vestheim School in 1943 and Sinsen School in 1952, but received a research fellowship in 1947 and took the dr.philos. degree in 1954 with the thesis Studies in English Demonstrative Pronouns. He was hired as a lecturer in 1954, was promoted to docent in 1962 and professor in 1970. His field was English philology.

#9425

Harry Ruby

1895 - 1974 (79 years)

Harry Rubenstein , known professionally as Harry Ruby, was an American actor, pianist, composer, songwriter and screenwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. He was married to silent film actress Eileen Percy.

#9426

Inna Meiman-Kitrossky

Inna Meiman-Kitrossky

1932 - 1987 (55 years)

Inna Ilyinichna Meiman-Kitrossky was a refusenik, a member of a group of refuseniks-cancer patients, and an author of textbooks for the English language. Life Inna Meiman was born as Ina Fuxson in a Jewish family in Moscow, and graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University, where she worked for many years teaching English. This experience resulted in being awarded a Ph.D. and also in two textbooks: , , which was in usage in several Russian Universities. Meiman also translated from English to Russian and vice versa. She was married for several years and had a son.

#9427

Judy Holliday

1921 - 1965 (44 years)

Judy Holliday was an American actress, comedian and singer. She began her career as part of a nightclub act before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success as Billie Dawn in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday led to her being cast in the 1950 film version for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She was known for her performance on Broadway in the musical Bells Are Ringing, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and reprising her role in the 1960 fi...

#9428

Raïssa Maritain

1883 - 1960 (77 years)

Raïssa Maritain was a French poet and philosopher. She was the wife of Jacques Maritain, with whom she worked and whose companion she was for more than half a century, at the center of a circle of French Catholic intellectuals. Her memoir, Les Grandes Amitiés, which won the prix du Renouveau français, chronicles this. Jacques Maritain, Raïssa and her sister Vera formed what would be called "the three Maritains".

#9429

William Jane

1645 - 1707 (62 years)

William Jane was an English academic and clergyman, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1680. Life The son of Joseph Jane, he was born at Liskeard, Cornwall, where he was baptised on 22 October 1645. He was educated at Westminster School, elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1660, and graduated B.A. in June 1664, M.A. in 1667, and D.D. in November 1674. After his ordination he was appointed lecturer at Carfax Church, Oxford.

#9430

Arthur Ripley

1897 - 1961 (64 years)

Arthur DeWitt Ripley was an American film screenwriter, editor, producer, and director. Biography In 1923, he joined the Mack Sennett studio as a comedy writer. In the 1920s, he worked closely with Frank Capra churning out screenplays for many movies. After breaking with Capra and the Sennett studio, Ripley again returned to being a gag-writer, screenwriter, and occasional director, making short films with such comedians as W. C. Fields and Edgar Kennedy. His directorial work in the 1940s, Voice in the Wind and The Chase , were both critical successes, but neither film was a box office hit.

#9431

Edgar McInnis

1899 - 1973 (74 years)

Edgar Wardell McInnis was a Canadian poet and historian, best known for his Oxford Periodical History of the War, a six-volume year-by-year history of World War II, and for Canada: A Political and Social History, which was an important and influential textbook in Canadian history classes in its era. A longtime professor at the University of Toronto and York University, he was a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, winning for The Unguarded Frontier: A History of American-Canadian Relations at the 1942 Governor General's Awards and for The War: Four...

#9432

Georg Ludwig Walch

1785 - 1838 (53 years)

Georg Ludwig Walch was a German classical philologist largely known for his edition and analysis of works by the Roman historian Tacitus. He was the grandson of theologian Johann Georg Walch . Beginning in 1805, he studied at the University of Jena, where he subsequently worked as a librarian. In 1808 he obtained his habilitation at Jena. Since 1811 he served as an instructor of Latin and Greek languages at the Grauen Kloster in Berlin. In 1830 he succeeded Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt as a professor of ancient languages at the University of Greifswald.

#9433

Thomas Fowler

1832 - 1904 (72 years)

Thomas Fowler was an English academic and academic administrator, acting as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Early life Fowler was born 1832 in Burton upon Stather, Lincolnshire, son of William Henry Fowler and his wife, Mary Anne Welch. He was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, and obtained a Postmastership at Merton College, Oxford. In 1852, he took a second class in Classical moderations and a first class in mathematics, but he bettered that position in the final schools by taking a first class in classics f...

#9434

William Wordsworth

1908 - 1988 (80 years)

William Brocklesby Wordsworth was an English composer. His works, which number over 100, were tonal and romantic in style in the widest sense and include eight symphonies and six string quartets. Life Wordsworth was born in London, the son of a clergyman and a descendant of the poet Wordsworth's brother. He studied harmony and counterpoint under George Oldroyd at St Michael's Church, Croydon from 1921 to 1931, continuing his study with Donald Tovey at Edinburgh University from 1934 to 1936. In anticipation of conscientious objection, he was an active member of the Peace Pledge Union, and vol...

#9435

Pier Jacopo Martello

Pier Jacopo Martello

1665 - 1727 (62 years)

Pier or Pietro Jacopo Martello was an Italian poet, playwright and dramatic theorist. Biography Martello enjoyed a thorough education in grammar and rhetoric under the Jesuits; later he studied theology and law at the University of Bologna; he also read Greek, Latin and French dramas. Under the pastoral name of Mirtilo Dianidio, Martello helped to establish the Arcadian "colony" in his native city of Bologna in 1698. A member of the Bolognese legation in Rome from 1708 to 1716, he was Secretary of the Bolognese Senate from 1717 until his death in 1727.

#9436

John Galt

1779 - 1839 (60 years)

John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Galt has been called the first political novelist in the English language, due to being the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution.

#9437

Aristides Phoutrides

1887 - 1923 (36 years)

Aristides Evangelus Phoutrides was an Ottoman Greek and later Greek-American classical philologist and Neo-Hellenist born on 17 April 1887, on the Greek island of Ikaria, then under the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Harvard, Yale and the University of Athens.

#9438

George Martin Lane

George Martin Lane

1823 - 1897 (74 years)

George Martin Lane was an American scholar. Life and career Lane was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1846 from Harvard, and from 1847 to 1851 studied at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg, and Göttingen. In 1851, he received his doctorate at Göttingen for his dissertation Smyrnaeorum Res Gestae et Antiquitates and upon returning to America was appointed university professor of Latin at Harvard College.

#9439

Frank Justus Miller

Frank Justus Miller

1858 - 1938 (80 years)

Frank Justus Miller was a leading American classicist, translator, and university administrator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He authored the Loeb Classical Library translations of Seneca and of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and was president of the American Classical League for more than a decade, from 1922 to 1934.

#9440

Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena

1778 - 1860 (82 years)

Mariano Velázquez , was a Mexican accomplished grammarian, scholar, and author in the 19th century. He was appointed Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Columbia College in 1830, a position that he held until his death in 1861.

#9441

James Chidester Egbert Jr.

1859 - 1948 (89 years)

James Chidester Egbert Jr., Ph. D. was an American classical scholar and educator. He was born in New York City. He graduated at Columbia University in 1881, and took a doctorate there in 1884. He then became a professor of Classical studies and was dean of the School of Business there from 1916 to 1932. In 1911 he became active in the American Academy in Rome, serving on various committees and becoming vice president from 1940-1944.

#9442

Heinrich Bebel

1472 - 1518 (46 years)

Heinrich Bebel was a German humanist. Biography He was an alumnus of Kraków and Basel universities, and from 1497 professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. His fame rests principally on his Facetiae , a curious collection of bits of homely and rather coarse-grained humor and anecdote, directed mainly against the clergy; on Proverbia Germanica ; and on his Triumph of Venus, a keen satire on the depravity of his time. He was a friend of Erasmus.

#9443

Eric Taylor

1897 - 1952 (55 years)

Eric Taylor was an American screenwriter with over fifty titles to his credit. He began writing crime fiction for the pulps before working in Hollywood. He contributed scripts to The Crime Club, Crime Doctor, Dick Tracy, Ellery Queen, and The Whistler series, as well as six Universal monster movies.

#9444

William Crawford Williamson

William Crawford Williamson

1816 - 1895 (79 years)

William Crawford Williamson was an English Naturalist and Palaeobotanist. Early life Williamson was born at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the son of John Williamson, and Elizabeth Crawford. His father, after beginning life as a gardener, became a well-known local naturalist, who, in conjunction with William Bean, first explored the rich fossiliferous beds of the Yorkshire coast. He was for many years first curator of the Scarborough natural history museum . William Smith, the "father of English geology," lived for two years in the Williamsons' house. Young Williamson's maternal grandfather w...

#9445

James Duncan

1804 - 1861 (57 years)

James Duncan was a Scottish naturalist. After his education in Edinburgh, he followed the family tradition to work in the Scottish church. He however retired and worked with publishing firms, and among other works helping produce an index of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

#9446

Johann Ernst Hebenstreit

1703 - 1757 (54 years)

Johann Ernst Hebenstreit was a German physician and naturalist born in Neustadt an der Orla. He was a student at the University of Leipzig, where in 1728 he earned his philosophy degree, and one year later obtaining his medical doctorate with the dissertation "De viribus minerarum et Mineralium medicamentosis". In 1731, he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

#9447

Alfred Philpott

1870 - 1930 (60 years)

Alfred Philpott was a New Zealand museum curator, entomologist and writer. He was born in Tysoe, Warwickshire, England, on 15 December 1870. He became the first person to describe Zelleria maculata in 1930.

#9448

Robert Thomas

1927 - 1989 (62 years)

Robert Thomas was a French writer, actor and film director. As a writer, almost from the beginning, he was fascinated by a curious genre that he helped invent: the comédie policière or comedy thriller, of which Eight Women is an example. In 1960, Thomas had a hit with Trap for a Lonely Man, a humorous murder mystery which was an overnight success in Paris. Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights and the play established Thomas as a writer of psychological crime dramas with a distinctively Gallic comic twist. The following year the second outing of Eight Women was far more successful as it won the ...

#9449

Ernest Gottlieb Sihler

1853 - 1942 (89 years)

Ernest Gottlieb Sihler was a professor of classics at New York University. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he was the son of Lutheran missionary Wilhelm Sihler and great-uncle to Andrew Sihler. Sihler's professional name was Ernest G. Sihler, but within the Sihler family he was always known as Gottlieb.

#9450

Thomas Ward

1652 - 1708 (56 years)

Thomas Ward was an English author who converted to Catholicism. Biography Ward was born at Danby Castle near Guisborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, just south of the River Tees, in 1652, as the son of a farmer and educated as a Presbyterian at Pickering School. Henry Wharton asserted that he had been a Cambridge scholar, but this is not certain.

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