Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: GGB

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Francois Guizot, French Historian
(1787-1874)

Just the Facts:

Name: Francois Guizot
Birth: October 4, 1787, Nîmes, France
Death: September 12, 1874, Saint-Ouen-le-Pin, France
Language: French
Who he was: French historian, orator, and statesman prior to the Revolution of 1848; numerous works include A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times (6 Volumes); Memoirs
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3)

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve,
French Literary Critic (1804-1869)

Just the Facts:

Name: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Birth: December 23, 1804, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Death: October 13, 1869, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French literary critic widely translated into English; "What Is a Classic?"; "Montaigne"
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2, 3)

John C. Calhoun, American Statesman
(1782-1850)

Just the Facts:

Name: John C. Calhoun
Birth: March 18, 1782, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
Death: March 31, 1850, Washington, D.C., USA
Language: English
Who he was: American statesman and political theorist; seventh Vice President of the United States. "The Concurrent Majority" lays out his most important idea; a 1837 speech in the U.S. Senate, "Slavery a Positive Good"
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3)

Andrew Russell Forsyth, British Mathematician
(1858-1942)

Andrew Russell Forsyth, by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1917 / NPG x167616

Just the Facts:

Name: Andrew Russell Forsyth
Birth: June 18, 1858, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Death: June 2, 1942, South Kensington, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: British mathematician known for lecture "Mathematics, in Life and Thought"; mammoth six-volume Theory of Differential Equations, among many other sleep-inducing tomes
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2)

Rachel Carson, American Biologist
(1907-1964)

Just the Facts:

Name: Rachel Carson
Birth: May 27, 1907, Springdale, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: April 14, 1964, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American biologist; The Sea Around Us; The Edge of the Sea; Silent Spring
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2)

Virginia Woolf, English Writer
(1882-1941)

Just the Facts:

Name: Adeline Virginia Woolf
Known as: Virginia Woolf
Birth: January 25, 1882, Kensington, London, England, UK
Death: March 28, 1941, River Ouse, Sussex, England, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English novelist, essayist, and critic; Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; A Room of One's Own; How to Read a Book
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 1, 2); LRP; Bloom; GC

Tobias Dantzig, Latvian-American Mathematician
(1884-1956)

I cannot find a photo of Dantzig;
here is one of his most famous books.

Just the Facts:

Name: Tobias Dantzig
Birth: February 19, 1884, Latvia
Death: August 9, 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: Latvian, French, English
Who he was: Latvian-American mathematician; Number: The Language of Science; Aspects of Science; Mathematics in Ancient Greece
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1)

Thomas Mann, German Writer
(1875-1955)

Just the Facts:

Name: Paul Thomas Mann
Known as: Thomas Mann
Birth: June 6, 1875, Lübeck, Germany
Death: August 12, 1955, Zürich, Switzerland
Language: German
Who he was: German novelist, short story writer, essayist; Buddenbrooks; The Magic Mountain; Death in Venice; Joseph and His Brothers; Doctor Faustus; Nobel Prize in Literature (1929)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 3); LRP; Bloom; GC

Albert Einstein, German-American Physicist
(1879-1955)

Just the Facts:

Name: Albert Einstein
Birth: March 14, 1879, Ulm, Germany
Death: April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Language: German, English
Who he was: German-American physicist; Relativity: the Special and General Theory; The Meaning of Relativity; "The World As I See It"; "My Views"; Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 3)

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher
and Mathematician (1872-1970)

Just the Facts:

Name: Bertrand Russell
Birth: May 18, 1872, Trellech, Wales, UK
Death: February 2, 1970, Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, UK
Language: English
Who he was: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and activist; Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead); "On Denoting"; The Problems of Philosophy; Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays; What I Believe; Why I Am Not a Christian; A History of Western Philosophy; Nobel Prize in Literature (1950)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 3, 4)

John Millington Synge, Irish Writer
(1871-1909)

Just the Facts:

Name: Edmund John Millington Synge
Known as: John Millington Synge
Birth: April 16, 1871, Rathfarnham, Republic of Ireland
Death: March 24, 1909, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Language: English
Who he was: Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer, and folklorist; play The Playboy of the Western World
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2); Bloom

John Galsworthy, English Novelist and Playwright
(1867-1933)

Just the Facts:

Name: John Galsworthy
Birth: August 14, 1867, Kingston upon Thames, England, UK
Death: January 31, 1933, Hampstead, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English novelist and playwright; The Forsyte Saga; A Modern Comedy; End of the Chapter; Nobel Prize in Literature (1932)
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2); Bloom

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer
(1865-1936)

Just the Facts:

Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Known as: Rudyard Kipling
Birth: December 30, 1865, Mumbai, India
Death: January 18, 1936, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist; The Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Kim; Captains Courageous; "If—"; "Gunga Din"; "The White Man's Burden";; Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); Bloom; GC

Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Novelist
(1857-1924)

Just the Facts:

Name: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Known as: Joseph Conrad
Birth: December 3, 1857, Berdychiv, Ukraine
Death: August 3, 1924, Bishopsbourne, England, UK
Language: Polish, English
Who he was: Polish-British novelist; The Nigger of the "Narcissus"; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Typhoon; Nostromo; The Secret Agent; Under Western Eyes; Victory
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 2); LRP; Bloom; GC

Anton Chekhov, Russian Playwright
and Short Story Writer (1860-1904)

Just the Facts:

Name: Anton Chekhov
Birth: January 29, 1860, Taganrog, Russia
Death: July 15, 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian playwright and short story writer,; Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters; "The Darling"
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 2); LRP; Bloom; GC

Alfred North Whitehead, British Mathematician
and Philosopher (1861-1947)

Just the Facts:

Name: Alfred North Whitehead
Birth: February 15, 1861, Ramsgate, England, UK
Death: December 30, 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: British mathematician and philosopher; A Treatise on Universal Algebra; Principia Mathematica; An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2)

William Clifford, English Mathematician
and Philosopher (1845-1879)

Just the Facts:

Name: William Clifford
Birth: May 4, 1845, Exeter, England, UK
Death: March 3, 1879, Madeira, Portugal
Language: English
Who he was: English mathematician and philosopher; "The Ethics of Belief"; Seeing and Thinking; The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3, 4)

Guy de Maupassant, French Writer
(1850-1893)

Just the Facts:

Name: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
Known as: Guy de Maupassant
Birth: August 5, 1850, Tourville-sur-Arques, France
Death: July 6, 1893, Passy, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French short story writer, novelist, and poet; "Boule de Suif"; "The Necklace"; "The Piece of String"; "Two Friends"
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); HCF; Bloom

Henri Poincaré, French Mathematician
(1854-1912)

Just the Facts:

Name: Jules Henri Poincaré
Known as: Henri Poincaré
Birth: April 29, 1854, Nancy, France
Death: July 17, 1912, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French mathematician and philosopher of science; Science and Hypothesis; The Value of Science; Science and Method; "The Future of Mathematics"
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2, 3, 4)

Henry James, American-Born British Writer
(1843-1916)

Just the Facts:

Name: Henry James
Birth: April 15, 1843, New York City, New York, USA
Death: February 28, 1916, Chelsea, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: American-born British writer; The American; The Turn of the Screw; The Portrait of a Lady; What Maisie Knew; The Wings of the Dove; Daisy Miller; The Ambassadors; Washington Square; Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1931)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990); GGB (+PGR 3); LRP; HCF; Bloom

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