Herbert Read

Herbert Read

male, deceased (1968)
Kirkbymoorside, Unit One, Criterion, World War I poet, free verse, North Yorkshire…ErasmusPrizewinner
Sir Herbert Edward Read, MC, DSO (1893-1968) was an English poet and critic of literature and art. He was born in Kirkbymoorside in North...
Ninette de Valois

Ninette de Valois

female, deceased (2001)
from Barnes, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, English, County Wicklow…ErasmusPrizewinner
Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE (June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001) was the founder of London's renowned Royal Ballet. Born Edris Stannus in...

Maurice Béjart

male, 82 years old
Swiss, ErasmusPrizewinner, Ballet du XXe Siècle, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, The Nutcracker, mephisto
Maurice Béjart is the French choreographer who runs the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He is the son of the French philosopher Gaston Be...

Leszek Kołakowski

male, 82 years old
Polish Briton, immigrant to the United Kingdom, Warsaw University alumni, Polish Britons, philosopher, Scholar of Marxism…John W. Kluge Prize winner, ErasmusPrizewinner
Leszek Kołakowski is a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of Marxist thought, especially his a...
Gustav Leonhardt

Gustav Leonhardt

male, 81 years old
Dutch harpsichordist, Classical music era, choral conductor, pipe organ, baroque, clavichord…ErasmusPrizewinner
Gustav Leonhardt made his debut in as a harpsichordist in Vienna in 1950. After studying musicology there, he served as professor of harpsichord at...
Edward Schillebeeckx

Edward Schillebeeckx

male, 95 years old
Roman Catholic, Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx, University of Louvain, University of Paris, Op zoek naar de levende God, Marie-Dominique Chenu…ErasmusPrizewinner
Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx (Antwerp, November 12, 1914 -) is a Belgian theologian. He is a member of the Dominican Order....
Massimo Pallottino

Massimo Pallottino

male, deceased (1995)
ErasmusPrizewinner, Archaeologist, Italian, apollo, Forgery, Etruscan
Massimo Pallottino (November 9, 1909- February 7, 1995) was an archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art. Pallottino was a...
John Grahame Douglas Clark

John Grahame Douglas Clark

male, deceased (1995)
ErasmusPrizewinner, Order of the British Empire, British Academy, Prehistoric Society, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark CBE FBA (28 July, 1907-12 September, 1995) was a British archaeologist most notable for his work on the Mesolithic...

Claude Lévi-Strauss

male, 101 years old
paroles données, la vie familiale et sociale des ind....., les structures elementaires de la pare.., RACE AND HISTORY, race et histoire, tristes tropiques…ErasmusPrizewinner
Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and c...
Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris

male, 70 years old
E.T.A. Hoffmann, Magnum Opus, Translator, Microcosmi, Italian Senate, Stadelmann…Prince of Asturias Award winner, ErasmusPrizewinner
Claudio Magris ? Claudio Magris was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1939. He left his native Trieste at the age of eighteen to study at the University...