American writer who is best known for his short stories 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle'. Born 3 April 1783 in the USA, he travelled to Europe coming to England in 1815. He also ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Spain, USA
Dealer in birds and wildlife generally. Born Johann Christian Carl Jamrach in either Hamburg or Memel (depending on source). He moved to London and became an importer, breeder, and exporter of anim...
Artist. Born Renate Hannah Meyer in Berlin. Her family came as refugees to Britain in 1933. She married fellow artist Charles Keeping.
Mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Best known for his laws of planetary motion.
Composer. Born Jerome David Kern at Sutton Place, New York City. Studied music in New York and Heidelberg. He worked his theatrical apprenticeship in New York and London. His first complete score f...
10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...
Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland
Discovered the bacilli for anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera. A founder of bacteriology. Born Clausthal, Germany. Died Baden-Baden, Germany.
Painter. Born in Pöchlarn, Austria. He studied in Vienna and worked in Berlin for many years where he painted expressionist portraits and did illustrations for the periodical 'Der Sturm'. Branded a...
Sculptor and medallist. Born Frankfurt, Germany. From the very informative West Hampstead Life: "Fritz was fourteen when he began an apprenticeship in a workshop specializing in decorative sculptu...
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