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Georg Forster became an important eighteenth-century German author rather by accident after growing up and beginning his writing career in England. He saw more of the world than any other German writer of his time and played a significant ...
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The July 1830 Revolution in Paris, followed by the deaths of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe over the ensuing two years, marked a caesura in German political and cultural history. While the poet...
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Philosopher and inventor of deontic logic, Georg Henrik von Wright (1916–2003), who was born in Helsinki, Finland, on June 14, was also a cultural critic of technoscientific progress. In philosophy, von Wright is best known as Ludwi...
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Among the German political poets of the Vormärz (Pre-March), the revolutionary years preceding the European March revolutions of 1848, Georg Herwegh probably was the most popular. The two volumes of his Gedichte eines Lebendigen (Poem...
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Born in Feldkirch, Austria to the town physician, Rheticus was exposed to science throughout his childhood. However, in 1528, his father was tried and convicted on a charge of sorcery, and subsequently beheaded. This family tragedy did not...
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Gyorgy Lukacs, whose name appeared as Georg Lukacs on his English-language publications, was one of the most important philosophers in the twentieth century and an influential theoretician of Hungarian aesthetics and literary criticism. Wr...
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1640-1697 Danish mathematician. Initially taught mathematics by his parents, Mohr later studied in Holland, France, and England. He fought in the Dutch-French wars, and was briefly a prisoner of war. Mohr was little known in mathematics un...
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The German physicist Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854) was the discoverer of the law, named for him, which states the exact relationship of potential and current in electric conduction. Georg Ohm was born on March 16, 1789, in Erlangen, Bavaria,...
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Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, one of the most prolific and influential poets, theoreticians, and translators in seventeenth-century Germany, was the founder and leader of the so-called Nuremberg Poet's Circle, known for its playful and o...
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), a German composer of the late baroque era, was one of the leaders of the Hamburg school during its preeminence in Germany. Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdeburg on March 14, 1681. He was educated ...
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1423-1461 Austrian Mathematician and Astronomer Author of a work containing a table of sines, Georg von Peuerbach advanced mathematics in general with his use of Hindu-Arabic numerals in his sine tables. His student was the German astronom...
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"GEntle reader, Behold here a small booke written in English by a German, and printed in Germanie. Therefore if thou art too daintie a reader, I doe intreat thee, to seeke somewhere els fit food, to bee pleased withall, as I know, there is...
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The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) wrote important studies of urban sociology, social conflict theory, and small-group relationships. Georg Simmel was born on March 1, 1858, in Berlin, the youngest of seven chi...
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SOURCE: A review of Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl, in Poetry, Vol. C, No. 5, August, 1962, pp. 322-24. In the following excerpt, the reviewer points out the singular appeal of Trakl's abstract poetry, commenting also on Bly's and Wright's tra...
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Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-born scientist who discovered how sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, part of the inner ear. For this work, in 1961 he became the first physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in m...
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The nineteenth-century literary critic and historian Karl Goedeke called Georg (also known as Jörg) Wickram the founder of the German novel. This claim has often been challenged, but Wickram's position as one of the more important aut...
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The German philosopher and educator Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) took all of knowledge as his domain and made original contributions to the understanding of history, law, logic, art, religion, and philosophy. Living in a time ...
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Though many of his films became merely historical curiosities, G.W. Pabst (1885-1967) was one of Germany's leading early film directors. A master of silent realist cinema, Pabst explored various genres, and his post-World War I films show ...
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George Wittig is the German chemist famous for discovering a method for synthesizing alkenes from carbonyl compounds. Born in Berlin, Germany on June 16, 1897, as a youth Wittig was educated at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium. He entered the Univer...
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American electrical engineer who helped develop the first electronic sight simulator for fighter aircraft and guided bombsight simulator for bombers during World War II. To do this, Philbrick also developed the first use for a small-scale ...
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1704-1772 1750-1795 English engineers who were famous for designing microscopes. One type of microscope they produced had interchangeable parts so that it could be easily converted from a simple microscope (containing one lens) to a compou...
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George Ade is considered by those who know his work best to be the most significant American humorist between Twain and Thurber. In the words of S. J. Perelman--whose urbane, baroque zaniness may well stand on the opposite literary corner ...
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George Alec Effinger is one of the most promising and prolific of the new breed of contemporary writers of speculative fiction. Since the appearance in 1972 of his acclaimed first novel, What Entropy Means to Me, Effinger has published nin...
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The recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Olah is primarily known for his crucial work on reactive intermediates in hydrocarbons. The complex chemistry of hydrocarbons, compounds of carbon and hydrogen, includes the study of num...
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1697-1762 English explorer who circumnavigated the world in the early 1740s while leading a group of British warships during war against Spain. Anson's mission was primarily military in nature, designed to harass Spanish shipping in...
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No figure of the Indian wars in America so typifies that era as George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876). He is known universally for the massacre that bears his name and for the blundering that brought it about. George Custer was born in New R...
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George Bacovia is one of the most accomplished poets of Romania, and certainly one of the most distinguishable stylistically. As scholar Adriana Mitescu indicated in the introduction to a 1976 edition of his collection Plumb (1916; transla...
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The Russian-born American choreographer George Balanchine (1904-1983) formed and established the classical style of contemporary ballet in America. His choreography emphasized form rather than content, technique rather than interpretation....
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George Ball (1909-1994) was a classic Atlanticist who promoted both strong ties between the United States and Western Europe and the development of an economically united Europe. He served as undersecretary of state during the Kennedy and ...
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George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an eminent American historian and a diplomat and politician. He also founded the U.S. Naval Academy. George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Mass., on Oct. 3, 1800. His father was a Unitarian minister. At 17 ...
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George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925) was a prolific and accomplished leader among American painters who approached representation of the American scene realistically. George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 19, 1882. At Ohio State ...
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1800-1884 English botanist who was one of the most prolific botanists of his time. Among his many written contributions was Genera Plantarum, in which he and Joseph Dalton Hooker described and classified the flowering plants and gymnosperm...
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Anglican bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) developed a unique type of idealism based on an empirically oriented attack on abstract philosophizing combined with a defense of immaterialism. Although born on March 3, 1685, at Dysert Castle i...
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The British playwright, critic, and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) produced more than 52 plays and playlets, three volumes of music and drama criticism, and one major volume of socialist commentary. George Bernard Shaw's theat...
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The Scottish novelist George Blake is remembered mainly for his Depression-era novel The Shipbuilders (1935). About this novel and similar ones by Blake a reviewer for the Times of London wrote in 1946: "To the river [Clyde] Mr. Blake brin...
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The English mathematician George Boole (1815-1864) invented mathematical, or symbolic, logic and uncovered the algebraic structure of deductive logic, thereby reducing it to a branch of mathematics. George Boole was born on Nov. 2, 1815, i...
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George Borrow achieved instant literary fame when John Murray published his The Bible in Spain (1843). The four editions of this three-volume work in the year of publication, followed in 1846 by a single-volume edition (the first title in ...
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The back cover of Another Mouth (1979) calls George Bowering "fearlessly honest," and a note "About the Author" tells the reader that he was born in 1939; John Roberto Colombo, in Contemporary Poets (a reference book) says 1938; Frank Dave...
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A Union Army commander in the American Civil War, George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) repelled Gen. Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. He was later a governor of New Jersey. George B. McClellan was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on ...
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George Brown (1818-1880) was a Canadian politician and newspaper editor who stood for the principle of majority rule, favored expansion into the West, and gave powerful support to the movement for the federation of British North America. G...
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The British admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718-1792), by winning notable victories in Caribbean waters over French, Spanish, and Dutch forces, contributed substantially to British command of the seas in the late 18th cen...
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The Scotsman George Buchanan was acknowledged the foremost Latin poet of his age. He also became well known as an educator, historian, and political propagandist. Although a satirist of Roman Catholic orders, a victim of the Inquisition, a...
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Comedian and actor George Burns (1896-1996) is a show business legend. When he died at the age of 100 in 1996, he had spent 90 years as a comic entertainer, making numerous television and film appearances and earning an enduring popularity...
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George Caspar Homans (1910-1989) an American sociologist, was a leading theorist in developing testable hypotheses and explanations about fundamental social processes in small groups. George Homans was born August 11, 1910, in Boston, Mass...
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George C. Scott (1927-1999) was one of the finest and most versatile stage, television, and film actors of the last half of the twentieth century, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as American General George Patton. In an acting...
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The American painter George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) depicted life in Missouri around the middle of the 19th century. His best-known subjects are the masculine world of river boatmen and rural politics. Although George Caleb Bingham is kn...
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The English statesman George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore (ca. 1580-1632), was the founder of the colony of Maryland in America. George Calvert was born in Yorkshire about 1580, the son of Leonard and Alice Crossland Calvert. He matriculate...
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The English orator and statesman George Canning (1770-1827) opposed intervention by Continental powers in constitutionalist movements of other states. He successfully supported the insurgent Spanish-American colonies and the establishment ...
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George William Mundelein (1872-1939) was an outstanding American Roman Catholic prelate and an outspoken foe of totalitarianism in the 1930s. Born in New York City on July 2, 1872, of American-born parents of German descent, George Mundele...
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