Sunday, April 27, 2008

Hjalmar Sderberg

Hjalmar Sderberg

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Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Sderberg (July 2, 1869 - October 14, 1941) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His work often encircle melancholy and lovelorn characters, and inject a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the eyes of the flaneur. Sderberg is greatly appreciated in his native country, and is sometimes considered to be the equal of August Strindberg, Sweden's national author.



[Frvillelser]

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)

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Giuseppe Garibaldi (was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and afterward returned to Italy as a commander in the conflicts of the Risorgimento. He has been dubbed the "Hero of the Two Worlds" in tribute to his military expeditions in both South America and Europe. He is considered an Italian national hero.



[Cantoni Il Volontario | Clelia]

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Kuno Francke

Kuno Francke

Kuno Francke (1855-1930), was a U.S. educator and historian. Francke was born in Kiel, Germany, in 1855, and earned a Ph.D. in medieval folklore and poetry in Munich in 1878. He was a close associate of art historian Ephraim Emerton, and through him met Harvard University president Charles William Eliot. In 1884 he became an instructor at Harvard, and earned a full professorship in 1896. He was curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Germanic Museum of Harvard University, and authored several books. Among them are "The Americans", an ethnological study of the American people, and "A German-American's Confession of Faith", about World War I. He also edited Munsey's collections of German classics. He remained curator at Harvard until 1929, when he retired, and died the next year in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A professorship in "German Art and Literature" at Harvard is named after Francke.



[The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries V19]

Friday, April 11, 2008

Aline Murray Kilmer

Aline Murray Kilmer

Aline Murray Kilmer (1 August 1888 - 1 October 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).



[For All Ladies Of Shalott]

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Alexander Ferrier Mitchell

Alexander Ferrier Mitchell

Alexander Ferrier Mitchell (1822 1899) was a Scottish ecclesiastical historian and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.



[The Scottish Reformation]

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Charles Maclaren

Charles Maclaren

Charles Maclaren (7 October 1782-10 September 1866) was a Scottish editor born in Ormiston, Haddingtonshire, the son of a farmer and cattle-dealer. He was almost entirely self-educated, and when a young man became a clerk in Edinburgh. In 1817, with others, he established The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh and at first acted as its editor. Offered a post as clerk in the custom house, he resigned his editorial position, resuming it in 1820, and resigning it again in 1845. In 1820 Maclaren was made editor of the sixth edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica. From 1864-1866 he was president of the Geological Society of Edinburgh, in which city he died in 1866.



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