Search Results

Sign in Modify your search

Narrow Your Choices

Format

Type

Articles containing

Sex

Life event

Date

Occupations

Religious Affiliation

 1-5 of 5 Results  for:

  • Results with images only x
Clear all

Article

Braham, John (1777?–1856), singer  

George Biddlecombe

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Braham, John (1777?–1856), singer, was probably born on 20 March 1777 in London. The year of his birth has often been given as 1774, but two accounts published during his lifetime—in The Harmonicon (10, 1832, 1), and in the Illustrated London News...

Article

Brodum, William (fl. 1767–1824), quack  

Edgar Samuel

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Brodum, William (fl. 1767–1824), quack, claimed to have been born in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, the son of Abraham and Caroline Brodum. This was thrown into doubt in 1805 by an article in the Medical and Physical Journal which stated that his real name was, in fact, ...

Article

Marx, Karl Heinrich (1818–1883), revolutionary and thinker  

E. J. E. Hobsbawm

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Marx, Karl Heinrich (1818–1883), revolutionary and thinker, known from student days to his intimates as Mohr (the Moor), was born on 5 May 1818 at Brückengasse 664, in Trier, a recent addition to the kingdom of Prussia, the third of nine children and only surviving son of the lawyer ...

Article

Meitner, Lise (1878–1968), physicist  

Xavier Roqué

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Meitner, Lise (1878–1968), physicist, was born on 7 November 1878 at 27 Kaiser Josefstrasse, Vienna, the third of the eight children of Philipp Meitner (d. 1910), a lawyer, and his wife, Hedwig Skovran (1850–1924). Both parents were of Jewish descent, yet Meitner...

Article

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, (Jacob Ludwig) Felix (1809–1847), composer  

Peter Ward Jones

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, (Jacob Ludwig) Felix (1809–1847), composer, was born on 3 February 1809 at Hamburg, Germany, the second of four children of the Jewish banker Abraham Mendelssohn (1776–1835) and his wife, Lea, née Salomon (1777–1842). In 1811 the family moved to Berlin, where the precocious musical gifts of ...