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#14451

Heinrich Husmann

1908 - 1983 (75 years)

Heinrich Husmann was a German musicologist and university professor. Biography At the University of Göttingen, Husmann was a pupil of Friedrich Ludwig and then of Johannes Wolf, Arnold Schering, Friedrich Blume and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel at the Humboldt University, Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1932.

#14452

Otto Heurnius

1577 - 1652 (75 years)

Otto Heurnius was a Dutch physician, theologian and philosopher. Life He studied at Leiden University. He subsequently succeeded his father Johannes Heurnius as professor of medicine at Leiden University, and took over anatomy teaching from Pieter Pauw from 1617. Alongside his practical anatomy teaching, he had the care of a very various collection of zoological and botanical specimens. The aims of the collection included reconstruction of the life of the Israelites in Egypt, as in the Book of Exodus.

#14453

Gumersindo de Azcárate

Gumersindo de Azcárate

1840 - 1917 (77 years)

Gumersindo de Azcárate was a Spanish philosopher, jurist and politician. Biography After law studies in Oviedo, he taught comparative law in Madrid since 1864 and represented León in the Cortes. In the 1870s, he joined Francisco Giner de los Ríos and Julián Sanz del Río to teach at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza .

#14454

Teofil Rutka

1622 - 1700 (78 years)

Teofil Rutka SJ - Polish Jesuit. Rhetorician, philosopher, theologian and missionary. Biography Born in the region of Kyiv, he received his secondary education at the Jesuit College in Ostroh. On 13 August 1643, he joined the Jesuit Order in Kraków and was ordained priest in Poznań in 1652. He was a professor of rhetorics, philosophy, polemical theology and moral theology in many Jesuit schools in Poland . He served as a professor in the years 1653–76, with short breaks for being a court missionary , a missionary to the Crimean Khanate , a poenitentiarius in Loreto , and a missionary to Constantinople .

#14455

William Thomas Blanford

William Thomas Blanford

1832 - 1905 (73 years)

William Thomas Blanford was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Biography Blanford was born in London to William Blanford and Elizabeth Simpson. His father owned a factory next to their house on Bouverie street, Whitefriars. He was educated in private schools in Brighton and Paris . He joined his family business in carving and gilding and studied at the School of Design in Somerset House. Suffering from ill health, he spent two years in a business house at Civitavecchia owned by a friend of his father.

#14456

Michał Falkener

1460 - 1533 (73 years)

Michael Falkener, Michał z Wrocławia, Michał Wrocławczyk, Michael de Wratislava, Michael Vratislaviensis was a Silesian Scholastic philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, theologian, philologist, and professor of the Kraków Academy.

#14457

David Williams

1738 - 1816 (78 years)

David Williams was a Welsh philosopher of the Enlightenment period. He was an ordained minister, theologian and political polemicist, and was the founder in 1788 of the Royal Literary Fund, of which he had been a proponent since 1773.

#14458

John William Turner

John William Turner

1790 - 1835 (45 years)

John William Turner MD FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish physician who served as Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. Life He was born in England in 1790. His family moved to Newbattle south of Edinburgh around 1795.

#14459

Saverius Pace

1501 - 1601 (100 years)

Saverius Pace was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised in physics. Life Little is known about the private life of Saverius Pace. Neither his dates of birth and death nor his birthplace in Malta are identified as yet. He might have lectured at the Collegium Melitense see in Valletta. Only one work of Pace's has survived. No portrait of Pace is known to exist so far.

#14460

Newton Spaulding Manross

1825 - 1862 (37 years)

Newton Spaulding Manross was an American scientist and engineer. Early life and education He was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1850. He sailed for Europe the day after graduation, and spent a year and a half in studying chemistry at the University of Göttingen. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from that university in 1852.

#14461

William Roxburgh

William Roxburgh

1751 - 1815 (64 years)

William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE FLS was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known as the founding father of Indian botany. He published numerous works on Indian botany, illustrated by careful drawings made by Indian artists and accompanied by taxonomic descriptions of many plant species. Apart from the numerous species that he named, many species were named in his honour by his collaborators.

#14462

James Whale

1889 - 1957 (68 years)

James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein , The Old Dark House , The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein , all considered classics. Whale also directed films in other genres, including the 1936 film version of the musical Show Boat.

#14463

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Fukuzawa Yukichi

1835 - 1901 (66 years)

Fukuzawa Yukichi was a Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur and samurai who founded Keio University, the newspaper Jiji-Shinpō, and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in Japan. His ideas about the organization of government and the structure of social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji period. He appears on the current 10,000-Japanese yen banknote.

#14464

Cornelis Bontekoe

Cornelis Bontekoe

1647 - 1685 (38 years)

Cornelis Bontekoe , whose real name was Cornelis Dekker, was a Dutch physician known also as a popular essayist, particularly on his promotion of tea, and editor of the works of Arnold Geulincx, a Belgian philosopher. He also applied what were generally Cartesian theories in medicine, but with innovations such as a purely hydraulic and muscular explanation of the mechanism of the heart.

#14465

Sarah Hackett Stevenson

Sarah Hackett Stevenson

1841 - 1909 (68 years)

Sarah Ann Hackett Stevenson was an American physician in Illinois, and the first female member of the American Medical Association , as an Illinois State Medical Society delegate in 1876. She was a leader and advocate for the emancipation of women and for the equal treatment of men and women.

#14466

James Freeman Dana

1793 - 1827 (34 years)

James Freeman Dana was an American chemist. Biography He graduated from Harvard in 1813, and from the medical school in 1817. He studied with Dr. John Gorham, and developed such ability that in 1815 he was selected by the authorities of Harvard to procure for the chemical laboratory a new outfit of apparatus. For this purpose, he visited London, where for six months he worked in the laboratory of Friedrich Christian Accum.

#14467

Walter Gerstenberg

1904 - 1988 (84 years)

Walter Gerstenberg was a German musicologist and an expert on Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert. Publications Die Klavierkompositionen Domenico Scarlattis. Schiele, Regensburg 1931; also as . Bosse, Regensburg 1933 .as editor with Heinrich Husmann and Harald Heckmann: Bericht über den internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongreß Hamburg 1956. Bärenreiter, Kassel among others 1957, .as editor with Jan LaRue and Wolfgang Rehm: Festschrift Otto Erich Deutsch zum 80. Geburtstag am 5. September 1963. Bärenreiter, Kassel atc. 1963, .

#14468

Alexander Hegius von Heek

1430 - 1498 (68 years)

Alexander Hegius von Heek was a German humanist, so called from his birthplace Heek . Hegius learned, likely in Emmerich, Greek from Rodolphus Agricola. In 1474 he settled down at Deventer in the Netherlands, where he either founded or succeeded to the headship of a school, which became famous for the number of its distinguished alumni. First and foremost of these was Erasmus; others were Hermann von dem Busche and Murmellius, the missionaries of humanism, Conrad Goclenius , Conrad Mutianus and Frans van Cranevelt.

#14469

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds

1807 - 1871 (64 years)

John Addington Symonds was an English physician and author. Life He was born in Oxford, where his father John Symonds was a medical practitioner. His mother was Mary Williams, of Aston, Oxfordshire. Symonds was educated at Magdalen College School; at the age of sixteen he went to the University of Edinburgh for medical training, and graduated M.D. in 1828.

#14470

Yun Jeung

1629 - 1714 (85 years)

Yun Jeung or Yun Chǔng was a Confucian scholar in Korea during the late period of the Joseon dynasty. He was known as being a progressive thinker and for his opposition to the formalism and ritualism in the predominant philosophy of Chu Hsi. Yun Chung refused government office because he thought the Korean monarchy was corrupt, and spend his life teaching Sirhak ideas. He is known for the quote, "The king could exist without the people, but the people could not exist without the king."

#14471

Carl Wurzinger

1817 - 1883 (66 years)

Carl Wurzinger was an Austrian history painter and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Life and work His father was the caretaker for an estate. In 1832, at the age of fourteen, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited his first works in 1844. Three years later, he left Vienna to continue his education in Italy. He remained there for nine years.

#14472

Joseph Hilarius Eckhel

Joseph Hilarius Eckhel

1737 - 1798 (61 years)

Joseph Hilarius Eckhel was an Austrian Jesuit priest and numismatist. Biography Eckhel was born at Enzersfeld, in Lower Austria. His father was farm-steward to Count Zinzendorf, and he received his early education at the Jesuits' College, Vienna, where at the age of fourteen he was admitted into the order. He devoted himself to antiquities and numismatics. After being engaged as professor of poetry and rhetoric, first at Steyr and afterwards at Vienna, he was appointed in 1772 keeper of the cabinet of coins at the Jesuits' College, and in the same year he went to Italy for the purpose of personal inspection and study of antiquities and coins.

#14473

Elsie Inglis

1864 - 1917 (53 years)

Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.

#14474

Liu Yiming

1734 - 1821 (87 years)

Liu Yiming was a Chinese Taoist master, thinker, and writer. He was one of the main representatives of Taoist Internal Alchemy, or Neidan. He was an 11th-generation master of one of the northern branches of the Longmen 龍門 lineage, and the author of a large number of works that illustrate his views on both Taoism and Neidan.

#14475

Julia Gulliver

1856 - 1940 (84 years)

Julia Henrietta Gulliver was an American philosopher, educator and college president. She was only the second woman in America to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy and was a tireless advocate for increased female representation in higher education.

#14476

Charles Taylor

1840 - 1908 (68 years)

Charles Taylor was an English Christian Hebraist. Life Taylor was born on 27 May 1840 in London. He was educated at King's College School, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where graduated BA as 9th wrangler in 1862 and became a fellow of his college in 1864. He became Master of St John's in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of Coheleth; in 1877 Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, an elaborate edition of the Pirḳe Abot ; and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts.

#14477

Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin

Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin

1744 - 1774 (30 years)

Samuel George Gottlieb Gmelin was a German physician, botanist, and explorer. Background Gmelin was born at Tübingen as part of a well-known family of naturalists. His father was Johann Conrad Gmelin, an apothecary and surgeon. His uncle was Johann Georg Gmelin, who was also uncle to Johann Friedrich Gmelin . Samuel earned his medical degree in 1763 from the University of Leiden at the young age of 18. While living in the Dutch Republic, Gmelin developed a keen interest in marine algae. In 1766 he was appointed professor of botany at St Petersburg. In the following year he was sent on an expedition to study the natural history of the Russian Empire.

#14478

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

1822 - 1907 (85 years)

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz.

#14479

Thomas Trotter

1760 - 1832 (72 years)

Thomas Trotter was a Scottish naval physician and author who was a leading medical reformer in the Royal Navy and an ardent critic of the slave trade. Trotter was born in Melrose, Roxburghshire, and studied medicine under Alexander Monro in Edinburgh. His major work, the Medicina Nautica, was published in 1802 and provides a detailed examination of the state of naval medicine during the French Revolutionary Wars.

#14480

Erich Hoffmann

1868 - 1959 (91 years)

Erich Hoffmann was a German dermatologist who was a native of Witzmitz, Pomerania. He studied medicine at the Berlin Military Academy, and was later a professor at the Universities of Halle and Bonn.

#14481

Heinrich Stromer

Heinrich Stromer

1482 - 1542 (60 years)

Heinrich Stromer was a physician of the German Renaissance, professor rector at the University of Leipzig and founder of Auerbachs Keller. Born in Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, he enrolled at Leipzig University in 1497, receiving the title of magister in 1501 and a professorship in philosophy as well as the office of rector in 1508. He graduated in medicine in 1511, and was professor of pathology from 1516 and dean of the medical faculty from 1523. He was popularly known as Dr. Auerbach after his native town.

#14482

Plotino Rhodakanaty

1828 - 1890 (62 years)

Plotino Constantino Rhodakanaty was a Greek and Mexican socialist and anarchist, as well as a prominent early member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico. He is known as one of the first advocates for anarchist thought in Mexico. He was also an early activist in Mexico's mid-nineteenth century labor and campesino movement, which foreshadowed the Mexican Revolution in 1910. Rhodakanaty moved to Mexico in 1861 after being drawn to the country's rural system of small, self-governing agricultural communities. He published various books and essays about the threats of privatization and capitalism, and helped establish an "escuela libre" in Chalco.

#14483

Robley Dunglison

Robley Dunglison

1798 - 1869 (71 years)

Robley Dunglison was an English-American physician, medical educator and author who served as the first full-time professor of medicine in the United States at the newly founded University of Virginia from 1824 to 1833. He authored multiple medical textbooks and is considered the "Father of American Physiology" after the publication of his landmark textbook Human Physiology in 1832. He was the personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. He consulted in the treatment of Andrew Jackson and was in attendance at Jefferson's death.

#14484

Max Lingner

1888 - 1959 (71 years)

Max Lingner was a German painter, graphic artist, communist, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Life Born in Leipzig, the son of a xylographer, Lingner graduated from high school in 1907 and studied as a master student under Carl Bantzer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he completed his training in 1912 with a painting Singing Girls, for which he received the "Saxon State Prize". On a study trip in 1913/1914 he visited England, the Netherlands, France and Belgium.

#14485

Alexander Catlin Twining

Alexander Catlin Twining

1801 - 1884 (83 years)

Alexander Catlin Twining was an American scientist and inventor. Twining, the son of Stephen Twining and Almira Twining, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, July 5, 1801. He graduated from Yale College in 1820. He left College with the intention of entering the ministry, and soon after studied for one year in Andover Theological Seminary. In 1823 he returned to New Haven as tutor in at Yale, in which office he served for two years.

#14486

Adolf Eugen Fick

Adolf Eugen Fick

1829 - 1901 (72 years)

Adolf Eugen Fick was a German-born physician and physiologist. Early life and education Fick began his work in the formal study of mathematics and physics before realising an aptitude for medicine. He then earned his doctorate in medicine from the University of Marburg in 1851. As a fresh medical graduate, he began his work as a prosector. He died in Flanders at age 71.

#14487

Karl Küpfmüller

1897 - 1977 (80 years)

Karl Küpfmüller was a German electrical engineer, who was prolific in the areas of communications technology, measurement and control engineering, acoustics, communication theory, and theoretical electro-technology.

#14488

George Chatterton-Hill

1883 - 1947 (64 years)

George Chatterton-Hill was the Irish writer of several books on evolution and sociology. He wrote at the start of the 20th century, when the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work, had created turmoil over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. He was also very influenced by the writings of Herbert Spencer regarding evolution and society, and of Benjamin Kidd regarding society and religion.

#14489

Edward Cutbush

1772 - 1843 (71 years)

Edward Cutbush was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794, where he was resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1790 to 1794. Cutbush was surgeon general of the Pennsylvania militia during the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion.

#14490

Kurd Lasswitz

1848 - 1910 (62 years)

Kurd Lasswitz was a German author, scientist, and philosopher. He has been called "the father of German science fiction". He sometimes used the pseudonym Velatus. Biography Lasswitz studied mathematics and physics at the University of Breslau and the University of Berlin, and earned his doctorate in 1873. He spent most of his career as a teacher at the Ernestine Gymnasium in Gotha .

#14491

Marino Tartaglia

Marino Tartaglia

1894 - 1984 (90 years)

Marino Tartaglia was a Croatian painter and art teacher, for many years a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. From 1948 he was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in the arts in 1964.

#14492

Arnold Bax

1883 - 1953 (70 years)

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems, he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist.

#14493

Masatada Yamasaki

Masatada Yamasaki

1872 - 1950 (78 years)

was a gynecologist and president of Kumamoto Medical College . He wrote The history of medical education in Higo and Yokoi Shōnan. After retirement, he travelled in Okinawa. Life He was born in Sagawa town, Takaoka gun, Kōchi Prefecture on 11 May 1872. After graduation from Tokyo Imperial University in 1900, he became professor at private Kumamoto Medical School in 1901. In 1909 and 1910, he studied in München and Bonn universities. He was appointed the president of Aichi Medical School in 1916. In 1925, he was appointed the president of Kumamoto Medical College and director of the Hospital.

#14494

Katharine Sharp

Katharine Sharp

1865 - 1914 (49 years)

Katharine Lucinda Sharp gained prominence as a pioneering librarian for her intense engagement with the library profession that spanned 19 years. Having founded the innovative University of Illinois Library School, she resigned from her position and left the library field as rapidly as she had entered it. She is remembered for ‘professionalizing’ the field of library science and for her considerable contribution to the standards of the discipline. In 1999, Sharp was named in the American Library Association's 100 leaders of the 20th century.

#14495

Peter Kaufmann

1800 - 1869 (69 years)

Peter Kaufmann was known as one of the "Ohio Hegelians", along with John Bernhard Stallo, Moncure Daniel Conway and August Willich. His 1858 book titled, The Temple of Truth, or the Science of Ever-Progressing Knowledge, discussed the process and formation of knowledge according to Hegel's dialectical method, and socialist utopian reform ideals for perfecting humankind.

#14496

Emanuel Goldberg

1881 - 1970 (89 years)

Emanuel Goldberg was an Israeli physicist and inventor. He was born in Moscow and moved first to Germany and later to Israel. He described himself as "a chemist by learning, physicist by calling, and a mechanic by birth." He contributed a wide range of theoretic and practical advances relating to light and media and was the founding head of Zeiss Ikon, the famous photographic products company in Dresden, Germany. His inventions include microdots, the Kinamo movie camera, the Contax 35 mm camera, a very early search engine, and equipment for sensitometry.

#14497

Ōmori Harutoyo

1852 - 1912 (60 years)

Ōmori Harutoyo was a Japanese surgeon who became the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College that was founded in 1903 as a branch of the Medical Faculty of Kyōto University . Ōmori was born in Edo, but he grew up in the domain Kaminoyama where his father Ōmori Kaishun served as a physician to lord Matsudaira Nobumichi. In 1879 he graduated from Tokyo University; the same year he went to a new post in the newly established Fukuoka Medical School. In 1888 when this school was abolished, he was appointed as the first director of the Fukuoka Prefectural Hospital. In 1885, he performed the first cesarean operation in Japan.

#14498

John Cabot

1450 - 1498 (48 years)

John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. To mark the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Cabot's expedition, both the Canadian and British governments declared Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland as representing Cabot's first landing site. However, alternative locations have also been proposed.

#14499

John Collins Warren

John Collins Warren

1778 - 1856 (78 years)

John Collins Warren was an American surgeon. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure. News of this first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia quickly circulated around the world. He was a founder of the New England Journal of Medicine and was the third president of the American Medical Association. He was the first Dean of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

#14500

John Oswald

1701 - 1793 (92 years)

John Oswald was a Scottish philosopher, writer, poet, social critic, vegetarian and revolutionary. Early life Little is known for certain regarding Oswald's early life. He was born between 1755 and 1760 in Edinburgh. His father is said to have been a coffee-house keeper, or a goldsmith. He became a student goldsmith himself. It is said that Oswald learned Latin and Greek without a tutor, and later learned Arabic.

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