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Emil Fagure
Emil D. Fagure (born Samuel Honigman; April 7, 1873 – March 16, 1948) was a Romanian prose writer, translator, journalist and theatre and music critic. Life Born into a Jewish family in Iași, his father was a cantor and piano teacher; his brother Albert would become a socialist journalist.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 573. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. From a young age, he had a solid musical education, and attended the National College. He graduated from the law faculty of the University of Bucharest, beginning a career in journalism as an editor for ''Munca'' and then ''Lumea nouă''. He subsequently edited ''Adevărul'', where, between 1895 and 1921, he reached the positions of editing secretary and later editor-in-chief, and was also chief editor of the supplement ''Adevărul literar și artistic'' from 1920 to 1921. At Paris between 1918 and 1919, contributing to several French periodicals, he formed part of the editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Jews
The history of the Jews in Romania concerns the Jews both of Romania and of Romanian origins, from their first mention on what is present-day Romanian territory. Minimal until the 18th century, the size of the Jewish population increased after around 1850, and more especially after the establishment of ''Greater Romania'' in the aftermath of World War I. A diverse community, albeit an overwhelmingly urban one, Jews were a target of religious persecution and racism in Romanian societyfrom the late-19th century debate over the "Jewish Question" and the Jewish residents' right to citizenship, to the genocide carried out in the lands of Romania as part of the Holocaust. The latter, coupled with successive waves of ''aliyah'', has accounted for a dramatic decrease in the overall size of Romania's present-day Jewish community. Jewish communities existed in Romanian territory in the 2nd century AD, after Roman annexation of Dacia in 106 AD. During the reign of Peter the Lame (1574–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Kadelburg
Gustav Kadelburg (26 January 1851, in Pest – 11 September 1925, in Berlin) was a Hungarian-German Jewish actor, dramatist, writer. He made his first appearance at Leipzig in 1869, and two years later played at the Wallnertheater in Berlin. He was very successful in comedy parts, but abandoned the stage to write comedies and farces. In 1908 The Manchester Guardian reviewed ''Der Weg zur Holle'' ("The Road to Hell"), his farce over three acts, then playing at the Midland Theatre. While chiding the lack of originality, the reviewer praised the pace - neither too quick to exhaust nor too slow to see the chinks.The Manchester Guardian, THE MIDLAND THEATRE: DER WEG ZUR HOLLE 16 May 1908 Literary works His best-known plays (some written in conjunction with and Oscar Blumenthal) are: *''Migräne'' (with , 1876) *''Voltaire wird verbrannt'' (1876, German adaption of ' by Eugène Marin Labiche and Louis Leroy) *''Der wilde Baron'' (1880) *''Goldfische'' (with Franz von Schönt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the '' Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the United States Army. * February 11 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I, and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 ** Emilio Castelar, the former foreign minister, becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. ** The Coinage Act of 1873 in the United States is signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant; coming into effect on April 1, it ends bimetallism in the U.S., and places the country on the gold standard. * February 20 ** The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. ** British naval officer John Moresby discovers the site of Port Moresby, and claims the land for Britain. * March 3 – Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Univers Enciclopedic
Univers () is a large sans-serif typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957. Classified as a neo-grotesque sans-serif, one based on the model of nineteenth-century German typefaces such as Akzidenz-Grotesk, it was notable for its availability from the moment of its launch in a comprehensive range of weights and widths. The original marketing for Univers deliberately referenced the periodic table to emphasise its scope. Univers was one of the first typeface families to fulfil the idea that a typeface should form a family of consistent, related designs. Past sans-serif designs such as Gill Sans had much greater differences between weights, while loose families such as American Type Founders' Franklin Gothic family often were advertised under different names for each style, to emphasise that they were not completely matching. By creating a matched range of styles and weights, Univers allowed documents to be created in one consis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Simion
Eugen Simion (25 May 1933 – 18 October 2022) was a Romanian literary critic and historian, editor, essayist and academic. Born in Chiojdeanca, Prahova County, the son of two farmers, Simion completed his secondary education at the Saints Peter and Paul High School in Ploiești. He then studied philology at the University of Bucharest, and made his professional debut as a literary critic in 1960, collaborating with the journals ''Tribuna'' and ''Gazeta literară''. With his first book, ''Proza lui Eminescu'', published in 1964, he was awarded the literary criticism prize of the Uniunii Scriitorilor (the Romanian Writers' Union). The same year he started working in his alma mater, first as an assistant, later as a lecturer, and from 1990 as a professor. He also held courses on Romanian culture and civilisation at the Sorbonne University between 1970 and 1973. Simion's body of work includes numerous monographs, essays, curation of anthologies as well as over 3,000 published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Buchbinder
Bernhard Ludwig Buchbinder (7 July or 20 September 1849 – 24 June 1922), pseudonym ''Gustav Klinger'', was an Austro-Hungarian actor, journalist and writer. His best-known operetta libretto remains '' Die Försterchristl''. Career Buchbinder was born in Budapest, then part of the Austrian Empire. His date of birth is, according to different sources, 7 July or 20 September 1849. Initially he was an actor, later he was the publisher of the humorous fiction weekly ''Das kleine Journal'' in Budapest. He moved to Vienna in 1887 and lived there as a feature writer; among others he wrote for the '. Beside his journalistic activity Buchbinder wrote novels, folk plays and especially operetta libretti in Viennese style. Buchbinder died in Vienna. Works * ''Der Satan vom Neugebäude''. Novel (1884) * ''Der Sänger von Palermo''. 3 acts operette (1888) * ''Die Teufelsglocke''. 3 acts opera (1891) * ''Eine Wiener Theaterprinzessin''. Novel (1894) * ''Fräulein Hexe''. 3 acts operette (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Capus
Alfred Capus (25 November 18581 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist. One of his first articles was an obituary of Darwin.Barrett H. Clark (1915), ''Contemporary French Dramatists,'' Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, page 139 He went on to write humorous pieces for papers such as '' Gaulois'', ''L'Écho de Paris'' and ''L'Illustration''. He also wrote for ''Le Figaro'', under the penname of ''Graindorge''. In 1914, he became the editor of '' Figaro''. During the First World War he wrote stridently patriotic pieces. On 12 February 1914, he became a member of the Académie française. Work and themes In 1878, in collaboration with L. Vonoven, he published a volume of short s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár ( ; hu, Lehár Ferenc ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe''). Life and career Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary (now Komárno, Slovakia), the eldest son of Franz Lehár (senior) (1838–1898), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt (1849–1906), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent. He grew up speaking only Hungarian until the age of 12. Later he put an acute accent above the "a" of his father's surname "Lehár" to indicate the vowel in the corresponding Hungarian orthography. While his younger brother Anton entered cadet school in Vienna to become a professional officer, Franz studied violin at the Prague Conservatory, where his violin teacher was Antonín Bennewitz, but was ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Charvay
Robert Charvay, (5 March 1858 – 1925) is the pen name of Adrien Lefort, a French dramatist and journalist who worked for the daily '' Écho de Paris'', where he signed his papers with the nickname "The Yellow Dwarf". He was the son of Charlotte Jeanne Judlin (1820–1883) and the French lyrical singer Jules Lefort (1822–1898). His parents divorced in 1872. His comedy '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' has been adapted four times on the screen: *'' Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'' (1914) by André Liabel *'' Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'' (1926) by Gaston Ravel *'' Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'' ( 1933) by André Berthomieu *'' Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'' (1951) by André Berthomieu Dramatist * ''Le Fiancé de Thylda'', operetta buffa in 3 acts, written with Victor de Cottens, music by Louis Varney, 1900 ; remade under the title ''Le Voyage avant la noce'' * ''L'Enfant du miracle'', comedy buffa in 3 acts written with Paul Gavault Paul Armand Marce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gavault
Paul Armand Marcel Gavault (1 September 1866 - 25 December 1951) was a French dramatist, playwright and former director of the théâtre de l'Odéon. Biography He enjoyed a hit with his 1906 comic play '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' which was co-authored by Robert Charvay. Paul Gavault was a screenwriter for the production company, working in particular for the films ''La Grande Bretèche'' (1909, after Balzac), ''Joseph vendu par ses frères'' (1909, codirected with Georges Berr), ''Le Luthier de Crémone'' (1909), ''Le Légataire universel'' (1909), ''Werther'' (1910, after Goethe), ''Madame de Langeais'' (1910, after Balzac), ''Carmen'' (1910, after Mérimée), ''Vitellius'' (1910), ''L'Héritière'' (1910), ''Jésus de Nazareth'' (1911) and ''L'Usurpateur'' (1911), '' Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'' (1914). He was named director of the théâtre de l'Odéon in 1914. Works * 1897 : ''Le Pompier de service'', with Victor de Cottens, Théâtre des Variétés ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hervieu
Paul Hervieu (2 September 185725 October 1915) was a French novelist and playwright. Early years He was born Paul-Ernest Hervieu in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hervieu was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family. He studied law, but sought also had contact with writers like Leconte de Lisle, Paul Verlaine and Alphonse Daudet. After graduating in 1877, he first practiced in a law firm, in 1879 qualified for the diplomatic service, and was posted in the French Embassy in Mexico. But he preferred to remain in France, where he attended fashionable literary salons, and the acquaintance of artists and writers such as Marcel Proust, Paul Bourget, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy, Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Degas. On the recommendation of his friend Octave Mirbeau, he tried his hand as a journalist. Career Hervieu was called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified for the diplomatic service, but resigned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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