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#9951

George Smith Gibbes

George Smith Gibbes

1771 - 1851 (80 years)

Sir George Smith Gibbes M.D. was an English physician and writer. Life He was the son of George Gibbes, D.D., rector of Woodborough, Wiltshire. From the King Edward VI School, Southampton under Richard Mant, he went to Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1792. He was elected a fellow of Magdalen College, and graduated M.B. in 1796 and M.D. in 1799.

#9952

Harold North Fowler

Harold North Fowler

1859 - 1955 (96 years)

Harold North Fowler was an American classicist. He was married to Mary Blackford Fowler. He was the original translator of a number of Plato's works for the Loeb Classical Library collection. External links

#9953

Bellamkonda Ramaraya Kavindrulu

1875 - 1914 (39 years)

Bellamkonda Ramaraya Kavindrulu was an Indian poet, author, yogi, Sanskrit scholar and a philosopher. Ramaraya Kavi wrote nearly 148 classic works in Sanskrit . All but 45 are missing. While some are available in part, the remaining are available full length.

#9954

Bettina Linn

1905 - 1962 (57 years)

Mary Bettina Linn was an American writer and college professor. She wrote three published novels, and was on the faculty at Bryn Mawr College. She worked with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

#9955

Jerónimo Bermúdez

1530 - 1599 (69 years)

Jerónimo Bermúdez de Castro was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. Biography He belonged to the order of St. Dominic, and was professor of theology at Salamanca. Works He published at Madrid in 1577, under the name of Antonio de Silva, two tragedies upon the subject of Inez de Castro, Nise Lastimosa and Nise Laureada. He also published a poem originally written in Latin, and translated by himself into Spanish, entitled La Hesperoida, of which the duke of Alva was the hero.

#9956

Ion G. Sbiera

1836 - 1916 (80 years)

Ion G. Sbiera was a Romanian folklorist. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.

#9957

Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto

Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto

1722 - 1777 (55 years)

Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, was born at Minto, Roxburghshire, and was a Scottish statesman, philosopher and poet. Early life Elliot was born in September 1722 in Minto, Roxburghshire. He was one of nine children born to Helen Steuart and Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet, of Minto.

#9958

Kaoru Maruyama

1899 - 1974 (75 years)

Kaoru Maruyama was a Japanese poet. His collected works were translated by Robert Epp. He was the professor first in Tokyo and later at Aichi University. He was the editor of Four Seasons Literary Magazine. Ten Years, Fairy Country, and Heart of flowers are his best-known books. He is sometimes called "the poet of the sea".

#9959

Vasily Anisimoff

Vasily Anisimoff

1878 - 1938 (60 years)

Vasily Onisimovich Afanasiev was a revolutionary and a propagandist of Marxism as well as a prominent activist and supporter of the Russian and international Socialist movement. He was among the active members of the RSDLP and was a Menshevik. In 1925, Anisimoff became the deputy head of the economic department of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the RSFSR, managing the "Exportles" trust.

#9960

John Russell

1885 - 1956 (71 years)

John Russell was an American writer and screenwriter. Biography Born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1885, Russell wrote for the New York City News Association news agency, and then for the New York Tribune. The Pagan was based on one of his stories, and he wrote the screenplay for Beau Geste.

#9961

Antoine-Léonard Thomas

1732 - 1785 (53 years)

Antoine Léonard Thomas was a French poet and literary critic, best known in his time for his great eloquence, especially for éloges in praise of past luminaries. It was in recognition of this that he was elected to Académie Française.

#9962

Clyde R. Miller

Clyde R. Miller

1888 - 1958 (70 years)

Clyde Raymond Miller was an associate professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University who co-founded the Institute for Propaganda Analysis with Edward A. Filene and Kirtley F. Mather in 1937.

#9963

John Wilson

1626 - 1696 (70 years)

John Wilson was an English playwright and lawyer. Life and work He was son of Aaron Wilson, a royalist divine, and was born in London in 1626. He matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1644, and entered Lincoln's Inn two years later, being called to the bar in 1649. His unswerving support of the royal pretensions recommended him to James, duke of York, through whose influence he became Recorder of Derry about 1681. His Discourse of Monarchy , a tract in favour of the succession of the duke of York, was followed by a "Pindarique" on his coronation. In 1688 he wrote Jus regium Coronae, a learned defence of James's action in dispensing with the penal statutes.

#9964

C. Violet Butler

1884 - 1982 (98 years)

Christina Violet Butler was a social researcher and educator active in Oxford. She was known for her 1912 study Social Conditions in Oxford which recorded the lives of working class citizens in the Edwardian city. She also taught economics, women's studies, and trained social workers in Oxford.

#9965

Arkadi Kuleshov

1914 - 1978 (64 years)

Arkadź Aljaksandravič Kulašoǔ was a Soviet and Belarusian poet, translator and screenwriter. He was best known for his poems, Brigade Flag and Cymbalon, as well as his translations of poetry into Belarusian.

#9966

Clarice Short

1910 - 1977 (67 years)

Clarice Short was an American poet and academic. Early life and education Clarice Short was born in Ellinwood, Kansas, and grew up in the Arkansas Ozarks, and later near Taos, New Mexico. She attended the University of Kansas, where she earned her B. A. and M. A., She received her PhD from Cornell University in 1941.

#9967

William Moir Calder

1881 - 1960 (79 years)

Sir William Moir Calder, FBA was a Scottish archaeologist, epigraphist, classicist, and academic. He was Hulme Professor of Greek at the University of Manchester from 1913 to 1930, and Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh from 1930 to 1951.

#9968

James Lindsay

1852 - 1923 (71 years)

James Lindsay FRSE FGS was a Scottish minister, theologian and writer. Life He was born in Ayrshire in 1852, where his father, John Cowan Lindsay, was headmaster of Kilmarnock Grammar School, where he was later educated. He studied divinity at Glasgow University, graduating MA in 1878. In 1889 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley, and Sir James David Marwick. He gained a doctorate in 1899.

#9969

Joseph Waltl

1805 - 1888 (83 years)

Dr. Joseph Waltl was a German physician and naturalist. Waltl was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee and studied at Landshut and Munich, graduating in medicine in 1819. He then travelled in Austria, France and Spain. In 1833 he became a teacher in Passau, and in 1835 a professor of natural history at the university.

#9970

Hazel Hutchins Wilson

1898 - 1992 (94 years)

Hazel Hutchins Wilson was an American writer of children's books who turned to writing after a career as a school and university librarian. Biography Born in Portland, Maine, she attended Bates College in Lewiston, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919. In 1920 she received a Bachelor of Science degree in library science from Simmons College in Boston.

#9971

Albin Lesky

1896 - 1981 (85 years)

Albin Lesky was an Austrian classical philologist. He was married to Austrian historian of medicine Erna Lesky. List of works Strom ohne Brücke. Leykam, Graz 1918.Alkestis, der Mythus und das Drama. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1925.Die griechische Tragödie. Kröner, Stuttgart 1938.Der Kosmos der Choephoren. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1943.Humanismus als Erbe und Aufgabe. Rauch, Innsbruck 1946.Erziehung. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1946.Thalatta. Rohrer, Wien 1947.Die Maske des Thamyris. Rohrer, Wien 1951.Sophokles und das Humane. Rohrer, Wien 1952.Die Homerforschung in der Gegenwart. Sexl, Wien 1952.Die Entzifferung von Linear B.

#9972

Jessie Raven Crosland

1879 - 1973 (94 years)

Jessie Crosland was a scholar of medieval French literature, Lecturer in French at Westfield College. Life Jessie Raven was the youngest daughter of the Plymouth Brethren preacher Frederick Edward Raven . She married Joseph Beardsall Crosland, a civil servant whom she met through the Brethren, in 1904. In 1921, she accompanied her husband to the Cairo Conference on the Middle East, later relating her recollections of Winston Churchill's behaviour at the conference: She retired in 194647. Her son was the politician Anthony Crosland . She died on 16 June 1973, in Merton, London.

#9973

Clifford Grey

1887 - 1941 (54 years)

Clifford Grey was an English songwriter, librettist, actor and screenwriter. His birth name was Percival Davis, and he was also known as Clifford Gray. Grey contributed prolifically to West End and Broadway shows, as librettist and lyricist for composers including Ivor Novello, Jerome Kern, Howard Talbot, Ivan Caryll and George Gershwin. Among his best-remembered songs are two from early in his career, in 1916: "If You Were the Only Girl " and "Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm". His later hits include "Got a Date with an Angel" and "Spread a Little Happiness".

#9974

Richard Bristow

1538 - 1581 (43 years)

Richard Bristow was an English Catholic controversialist and Biblical scholar. Life Richard Bristow was born in 1538 in Worcester, England. At the Age of 17, he studied at the University of Oxford, possibly at Exeter College. In 1559, he gained his bachelor's degree. He continued his studies at Christ Church, Oxford, and gained his MA in 1562.

#9975

Philip Hunton

1604 - 1682 (78 years)

Philip Hunton was an English clergyman and political writer, known for his May 1643 anti-absolutist work A Treatise of Monarchy. It became a banned book under the Restoration. A Treatise of Monarchie At the time of publication, it provoked a much better-known rebuttal, the 1648 Anarchy of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy by Robert Filmer. It was part of a pamphleteering exchange initiated by the royal chaplain Henry Ferne.

#9976

Eliza Hall Kendrick

1863 - 1940 (77 years)

Eliza Hall Kendrick was an American college professor. She taught Biblical history at Wellesley College from 1899 to 1931. She was active in ecumenical efforts both internationally and in New England.

#9977

Emrys Evans

1891 - 1965 (74 years)

Sir David Emrys Evans was a Welsh classicist and university principal. Life Evans, from Clydach, Glamorgan, was educated at Ystalyfera County School, before going on to University College, Bangor, and then Jesus College, Oxford, where he obtained a B. Litt. degree. He taught at the secondary school in Pentre from 1918, before becoming assistant lecturer in classics at Bangor.

#9978

Cornelius Grapheus

Cornelius Grapheus

1482 - 1558 (76 years)

Cornelius Grapheus , Latinized from Cornelis De Schrijver, was a secretary to the city of Antwerp and writer. Life Grapheus was born in Aalst, County of Flanders, in 1482. His brother was Joannes Grapheus, the printer who also settled in Antwerp. As a young man Cornelius travelled in Italy. When Thomas More's Utopia was first printed in 1516, Grapheus provided some liminary verses.

#9979

C. Delisle Burns

C. Delisle Burns

1879 - 1954 (75 years)

Cecil Delisle Burns was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer. Early life Burns was born in Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies where his father was treasurer of St. Christopher-Nevis in the Leeward Islands. After leaving Christ's College, Cambridge, he was trained in Rome for the priesthood, but left the Church in 1908 and devoted time to the study of social problems in a wider sense. In 1912, he married the painter Margaret Hannay: the sister of Alexander Howard Hannay, art critic of the famous "London Mercury".

#9980

William Wantling

1933 - 1974 (41 years)

William Wantling was an American poet, novelist, ex-Marine, ex-convict, and college instructor born in East Peoria, Illinois. After graduating high school he joined the Marine Corps until 1955. He served in Korea during 1953. After leaving the Marines he moved to California and eventually had a son with his then-wife Luana. Wantling went to San Quentin State Prison in 1958 convicted of forgery and possession of narcotics. During his imprisonment Luana divorced him and took custody of the child. He was released in 1963, and returned to Peoria. There he married Ruth Ann Bunton, a fellow divorcee, in 1964.

#9981

John Longmuir

1803 - 1883 (80 years)

John Longmuir MA LLD was a Scottish minister of first the Church of Scotland then the Free Church of Scotland. He is mainly remembered as a poet and antiquary. Life He was born on 13 November 1803 at Fetteresso near Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, the son of John Longmuir, a sailor, and his wife, Christian Paterson. He was christened on 17 November 1803.

#9982

William Stevenson

1530 - 1575 (45 years)

William Stevenson was an English clergyman and presumed playwright of the early English language comedy Gammer Gurton's Needle. Born in Durham, England, he studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1553, his Master of Arts degree in 1560 and his Bachelor of Divinity degree, also in 1560. Account books at Christ's College list him in 1550–1553 and again in 1559–1560 as involved in putting on plays, though they do not mention Gammer Gurton's Needle explicitly. He became a prebend at Durham Cathedral in 1561.

#9983

Reginald Walter Macan

1848 - 1941 (93 years)

Reginald Walter Macan was an Irish classical scholar. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he gained a First in Classical Moderations in 1869 and a First in Literae Humaniores in 1871. He held a Fellowship at the college and was appointed Master in March 1906. He was only the second layman Master of the college after Anthony Gate, Master from 1584 to 1597.

#9984

Martin Kellogg

1828 - 1903 (75 years)

Martin Kellogg was born in Vernon, Connecticut, to Allyn Kellogg and Eliza Kellogg née White. He graduated from Yale as valedictorian of the Class of 1850. He was ordained as a missionary in the Congregational Church and served as a pastor in Shasta, California, in 1855, then in Grass Valley, California, from 1857 to 1860, and then in Oakland, California, starting in 1861.

#9985

Gessner Harrison

Gessner Harrison

1807 - 1862 (55 years)

Gessner Harrison was an American educator, author, and college administrator during the antebellum era. He was appointed by James Madison as an associate professor of ancient languages at the University of Virginia . Harrison was recognized for teaching the fundamentals of the classics as well as linguistics, and for advancing these in his publications. He often served as chairman of the faculty and was required to address years of riotous student behavior.

#9986

Johann Zahn

1641 - 1707 (66 years)

Johann Zahn was the author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium, a book that depicts Zahn’s interests in production of the camera obscura and other inventions relating to his study of light. Zahn was born in Germany and became a priest of the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, Unlike most orders, Zahn and his fellow canons preached and served nearby parishes. Zahn was born on March 29, 1641 and died on June 27, 1707. During his life he produced many writings and illustrations of the camera obscura before eventually designing a prototype that was 23 inches long and capable of enlarging and focusing images with the assistance of mirrors.

#9987

Philip Henry Savage

1868 - 1899 (31 years)

Philip Henry Savage was an American poet. Biography Born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts on February 11, 1868, he was the son of Minot Judson Savage, a well-known Unitarian minister, and Ella A. Dodge. The family moved several times during his early life: to Framingham, then to Chicago and finally to Boston in 1874. He graduated from the English High School of Boston in 1885. He worked at the leather and shoe company Bachfelder and Lincoln, spending "a number of years drumming boots and shoes in the northeastern states" before he began attending Harvard in 1889 at age 21. He graduated there in 1893, and was conferred the degree of A.M.

#9988

John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie

1780 - 1844 (64 years)

John Abercrombie was a Scottish physician, author, philosopher and philanthropist. His Edinburgh practice became one of the most successful medical practices in Scotland. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after James Gregory's death, he was "recognized as the first consulting physician in Scotland". As surgeon to The Royal Public Dispensary and the New Town Dispensary he provided free medical care for the poor of the town and taught medical students and apprentices. He published extensively on medical topics and latterly on metaphysics morality and religion. A devout Christian, he gave financial support to missionary work.

#9989

Johann Karl Zeune

1736 - 1788 (52 years)

Johann Karl Zeune was a German academic and philologist. External links

#9990

David Lewis

1682 - 1760 (78 years)

David Lewis was an 18th-century British poet. Life Lewis was the son of Roger Lewis of Llanddewi Felffre, in the county of Pembrokeshire, and was probably born in Wales. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1698 and obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1702. He was undermaster at Westminster School . During this time, he started to publish poetry, beginning in 1726 with Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands, which mixed various styles of poetry from different London-based poets from Oxford and Cambridge. Some unidentified poems were by Lewis himself. The collection co...

#9991

John Wedderburn

1505 - 1556 (51 years)

John Wedderburn was a Scottish poet and theologian. Life The second son of James Wedderburn and Janet Barry, he was born in Dundee about 1500. He studied at the pædagogium , St Andrews, graduated B.A. in 1526 and M.A. in 1528. While at college he came under the teaching of John Mair and Patrick Hamilton the martyr, and, like his elder brother, became an ardent reformer. Returning to Dundee, he was placed under the tuition of Friar Hewat of the Dominican monastery there, and he took orders as a priest. He was chaplain of St Matthew's Chapel, Dundee, in 1532.

#9992

Zaheen Shah Taji

1902 - 1978 (76 years)

Baba Zaheen Shah Yousufi Taji , born Muhammad Tuaseen , was a great sufi of sub-continent as well as an Urdu poet, philosopher and scholar of high repute. Biography He was born in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan India. He was in direct lineage from Caliph Umar Farooq and was adapted in Chishtia he was also part of family of Great sufi Saint Khawaja Hameed uddin Nagori who adopt order of Sufism by Syed Muhammad Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri. Zaheen Shah Taji was the disciple of Baba Yousuf Shah Taji, who was disciple of Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur.

#9993

John of Schoonhoven

1356 - 1432 (76 years)

John of Schoonhoven was a Flemish theologian and writer. After a philosophical education at the University of Paris he entered the convent of the regular canons at Groenendaal near Brussels , where he met John of Ruysbroeck. In 1386 he became prior and master to the novices. After the accession Groenendaal to the Windesheimer congregation he wrote many sermons, some of which became the most well-known writings at the general chapter. Beside these and other sermons, spiritual writings and letters, he wrote the then celebrated Epistola responsalis super epistolam cancellarii.

#9994

Jonathan Carl Zenker

1799 - 1837 (38 years)

Jonathan Carl Zenker was a German naturalist born in Sundremda, located in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district. Originally a student of theology at the University of Jena, he subsequently devoted his energies to science and medicine. From 1823 he lived in Dresden, later returning to Jena, where on the basis of his dissertation "Batrachomyologia", he became a privat-docent of natural history. In 1828 he became an associate professor of botany and natural history, followed by a full professorship in 1836 .

#9995

Helena Theresa Goessmann

1868 - 1926 (58 years)

Helena Theresa Goessmann was an American lecturer, academic, and writer. During the course of 12 years, she gave over 1,000 lectures and talks on historical, educational, literary, and ethical subjects, in the US, including a period of four months in the winter of 1906, when she delivered in the leading Catholic girls' academies, between New York City, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Omaha, Nebraska, and New Orleans, Louisiana, a course, aggregating 125 lectures, on the "Ethics of Scholarship and Education Today". Goessmann served as the head of the department of History, Notre Dame College, Baltimore and professor of English at State College of Massachusetts .

#9996

Otto Walper

1546 - 1624 (78 years)

Otto Walper was a German theologian and philosopher. Otto Walper was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda, and studied at the University of Marburg, where he later became the main professor of Greek and Hebrew , having received a Ph.D. degree at the University of Basel in 1582. Being a Lutheran, Walper left Marburg in 1593 after the ruling Prince of Hesse-Kassel converted to Calvinism and professors at the territory's university were expected to follow suit. Walper went to Lübeck, where he became principal of the Catharineum Latin school.

#9997

Marcus Niebuhr Tod

1878 - 1974 (96 years)

Marcus Niebuhr Tod, OBE, FBA was a British historian and epigraphist. He was a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1903 to 1947, and Reader in Greek Epigraphy at the University of Oxford from 1927 to 1947.

#9998

George Edmond Pierce

1794 - 1871 (77 years)

Rev. George Edmond Pierce was an American minister and the second President of Western Reserve College, now Case Western Reserve University. Pierce was born in Southbury, Conn, September 9, 1794. His father was Samuel Pierce, and his mother Martha, daughter of Robert Edmond, from Ireland. He graduated from Yale College in 1816. After graduation, he taught in Fairfield Academy for two years, and was for the next three years a member of Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Harwinton, Conn., July 10, 1822, and continued so until June 1834, when he was dismissed to accept the Presidency of the Western Reserve College, in Hudson, Ohio.

#9999

Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt

1870 - 1943 (73 years)

Ernest de Sélincourt was a British literary scholar and critic, the eldest son of Charles Alexandre De Sélincourt and Theodora Bruce Bendall. He is best known as an editor of William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth. He was an Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1928 to 1933 and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. After a distinguished career at Oxford, he became a Professor of English at Birmingham. Early in his career he taught in the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where his students included Virginia Woolf .

#10000

Benjamin Dean Meritt

1899 - 1989 (90 years)

Benjamin Dean Meritt was a classical scholar, professor and epigraphist of ancient Greece. His father, Arthur Herbert Meritt, was a professor of Greek and Latin at Trinity College . Meritt was educated at Hamilton College and Princeton University . He was an assistant director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, is notable for his development of the Athenian Tribute Lists and worked extensively on Athenian calendaring.

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