Anton Bergmann

Anton Bergmann

male, deceased (1874)
writer, activist, Free University of Brussels alumni, belgian, liberal, university of ghent…MagnumOpus
Anton Bergmann (Lier, 29 June, 1835-Lier, 21 January, 1874) was a Belgian writer and a liberal Flemish activist. Already during his youth he was...
Chaim Halberstam

Chaim Halberstam

male, deceased (1876)
rabbi, Rudnik, Rudnik nad Sanem, kabbalistic, sanz, Jewish person…MagnumOpus
Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1793-1876) (Hebrew: חיים הלברשטאם מצאנז), known as the "Divrei Chaim" after his magnum opus on halakha, was a fa...

Hamid Al-Din Al-Kirmani

male, deceased (1021)
ismaili, Ismailis, druze, fatimid, philosopher, Islamic scholar…MagnumOpus
Hamid al–Din Abu’l–Hasan Ahmad b. ‘Abdallah al–Kirmani was a Persian Isma'ili scholar who served as a "da'i", theologian and philosopher under the...
Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris

male, 70 years old
E.T.A. Hoffmann, MagnumOpus, Translator, Microcosmi, Italian Senate, Stadelmann…opus magnum
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...
John Duigan

John Duigan

male, 60 years old
Head in the Clouds, Bruce Beresford, Trilby Beresford, John Lawless Duigan, The Parole Officer, The Year My Voice Broke…MagnumOpus
John Lawless Duigan, (born June 19, 1949 in Hampshire, England) is a film director. Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an...
Harald Sverdrup

Harald Sverdrup

male, deceased (1957)
MagnumOpus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, norwegian, swedish, scientist, Bergen
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (November 15, 1888 - August 21, 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist who made a number of important...
John Richard Green

John Richard Green

male, deceased (1883)
Anglican, Jesus College, The Making of England, The Conquest of England, A History of the English People, Short History of the English People…MagnumOpus
John Richard Green was an English historian. Born the son of a tradesman in Oxford, where he was educated, first at Magdalen College School, and...
Christian David Ginsburg

Christian David Ginsburg

male, deceased (1914)
Jacob ben Chaim, masoretic, judaism, Kabbala, rabbi, Biblical scholar…MagnumOpus
Christian David Ginsburg (1831-1914) was a prominent Bible scholar and student of the masoretic tradition in Judaism. He was born to a Jewish...

Nachman Goldstein

male, deceased (1894)
rabbi, child prodigy, you, Breslov rabbi, MagnumOpus, Breslov
Nachman Goldstein of Tcherin (d. 1894), also known as the Tcheriner Rav (rabbi of Tcherin, a town in eastern Ukraine), was a leading disciple of...

Alan Cameron

male
Columbia University faculty, Columbia University, Callimachus and his Critic, Greek Mythography in the Roman World, The Greek Anthology From Meleager to Planudes, Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius…MagnumOpus
Alan Cameron, a British classicist (B.A. Oxford, 1961; M.A. 1964), is Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia...