Tag: Biography
Edward I Edward I (1239-1307), King of England from 1272, son of Henry III. During his reign he worked out a series of statutes designed to strengthen government aid …
Thomas Edison Thomas Edison (1847-1931), US inventor. Largely self-taught, Edison set up his first laboratory at the age of ten. At 12 he was printing his own newspaper, on board a …
George Eastman George Eastman (1854-1932), US inventor of the Kodak roll film camera Eastman developed a process for making dry photographic plates in 1880 and subsequently pioneered the use …
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (1941), US singer and songwriter. Born Robert Zimmerman, he is thought to have taken his new surname from the poet Dylan Thomas. He started ‘ …
Antonin Dvorak Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Czech composer. He began composing in the 1860s and in 1875 was awarded a grant to work in Vienna. There he met Brahms, who …
Albrecht Durer Albrecht Darer (1471-1528), German painter and engraver. Durer was the son of a goldsmith, from whom he probably learned the art of precise detailed drawing. At the …
Duns Scotus Duns Scotus (1265-1308), Scottish philosopher, known as the Subtle Doctor. He became a Franciscan monk and lectured at Oxford, Paris, and Cologne, where he died prematurely. Duns …
Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), French novelist and dramatist, known as Dumas pere. He frequently worked with such collaborators as August Maquet, who re-searched the background for his famous …
