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5d93e7d2884b2c70646efeefc0103986 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Manuel-Blanes | Juan Manuel Blanes | Juan Manuel Blanes
Juan Manuel Blanes, (born June 8, 1830, Montevideo, Uruguay—died April 15, 1901, Pisa, Italy), Uruguayan painter known for his paintings of historical events in South America and his depictions of gaucho life.
Blanes was born into a turbulent period in Uruguayan history. Although the country had bee... |
063962d5a4054b900ca760be71b3ce95 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Montalvo | Juan Montalvo | Juan Montalvo
Juan Montalvo, (born April 13, 1832, Ambato, Ecuador—died January 17, 1889, Paris, France), Ecuadorean essayist, often called one of the finest writers of Spanish American prose of the 19th century.
After a brief period during which he served in his country’s foreign service, Montalvo spent most of his l... |
1ea4e6d75bf664f27d4d089764422dbd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Pablo-Bonet | Juan Pablo Bonet | Juan Pablo Bonet
Juan Pablo Bonet, (born 1560, Torres de Berrellen, Spain—died 1620, Torres de Berrellen), Spanish cleric and educator who pioneered in the education of the deaf.
Bonet helped develop one of the earliest and most successful methods for educating the deaf and improving their verbal and nonverbal communi... |
c0236ad6ac77c575e7cdf84c545ce74c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Ramon-Balcarce | Juan Ramón Balcarce | Juan Ramón Balcarce
…to his legal successor, General Juan Ramón Balcarce. However, Balcarce’s assumption of the office fanned sparks of dissidence among those who had pledged to uphold the principles of federalism. Balcarce was overthrown, and his successor took office with a cabinet composed of Rosas’s friends. They a... |
edc746d7aef8766de17c5ff21a3744b7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-T-Trippe | Juan T. Trippe | Juan T. Trippe
Juan T. Trippe, in full Juan Terry Trippe, (born June 27, 1899, Seabright, N.J., U.S.—died April 3, 1981, New York, N.Y.), American pioneer in commercial aviation and one of the founders of the company that became Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Trippe was the son of a New York banker and broker of En... |
5e2092747a5efa1f350276ecbbee35b6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Vucetich | Juan Vucetich | Juan Vucetich
Juan Vucetich, an employee of the police of the province of Buenos Aires in 1888, devised an original system of fingerprint classification published in book form under the title Dactiloscopía comparada (1904; “Comparative Fingerprinting”). His system is still used in most Spanish-speaking countries.
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cccfade6a6098801dc40aca7be0b44be | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Zorrilla-de-San-Martin | Juan Zorrilla de San Martín | Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, (born Dec. 28, 1855, Montevideo—died Nov. 3, 1931, Montevideo), Uruguayan poet famous for a long historical verse epic, Tabaré (1886; final edition after several revisions, 1926), a poem in six cantos, based upon a legend of the love between a Spanish girl and ... |
f6ed46ea50726cf59307bdba045a8606 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-ben-Solomon-Hai-Alkalai | Judah ben Solomon Hai Alkalai | Judah ben Solomon Hai Alkalai
Judah ben Solomon Hai Alkalai, (born 1798, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Ottoman Empire [now Bosnia and Herzegovina]—died 1878, Jerusalem, Palestine), Sephardic rabbi and an early advocate of Jewish colonization of Palestine.
Alkalai was taken to Jerusalem at an early age, and there he was reared an... |
706ccd5537f2f5c0afced93ba93d3380 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judea-Pearl | Judea Pearl | Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl, (born 1936, Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel]), Israeli-American computer scientist and winner of the 2011 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence.”
Pearl received a bachelor’s degree in electrical e... |
98c82c125e3ce5d65b2be424a577c902 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judi-Dench | Judi Dench | Judi Dench
Judi Dench, in full Dame Judith Olivia Dench, (born December 9, 1934, York, North Yorkshire, England), British actress known for her numerous and varied stage roles and for her work in television and in a variety of films.
Dench studied at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London. In... |
b5d559fbfa21c8c9de3ac354f1be6f2c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judith-Anderson | Dame Judith Anderson | Dame Judith Anderson
Dame Judith Anderson, original name Frances Margaret Anderson, (born Feb. 10, 1898, Adelaide, S.Aus., Australia—died Jan. 3, 1992, Santa Barbara, Calif., U.S.), Australian-born stage and motion-picture actress.
Anderson was only 17 years old when she made her stage debut in 1915 in Sydney and 20 ... |
e63d65c51b2d034cb8c98f2c3970e654 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judy-Chicago | Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago, original name Judith Sylvia Cohen, married name Judy Gerowitz, (born July 20, 1939, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American feminist artist whose complex and focused installations created some of the visual context of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s and beyond.
Reared in Chicago wher... |
cf459569639915b7abc0bf8257c6b72e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juho-Kusti-Paasikivi | Juho Kusti Paasikivi | Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Juho Kusti Paasikivi, (born Nov. 27, 1870, Tampere, Fin.—died Dec. 14, 1956, Helsinki), Finnish statesman and diplomat who, as prime minister (1918, 1944–46) and then president (1946–56) of Finland, cultivated harmonious relations with the Soviet Union in an effort to ensure some measure of indep... |
e9cb6c8363a21d99fff3b8b22e46beaf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Bastien-Lepage | Jules Bastien-Lepage | Jules Bastien-Lepage
Jules Bastien-Lepage, (born November 18, 1848, Damvillers, France—died December 10, 1884, Paris), French painter of rustic outdoor genre scenes widely imitated in France and England.
Bastien-Lepage studied under Alexandre Cabanel, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1870, and won a medal at the ... |
65e31c187869d05a792ec7427db49b5d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Cambon | Jules Cambon | Jules Cambon
Jules Cambon, in full Jules-martin Cambon, (born April 5, 1845, Paris, France—died Sept. 19, 1935, Vevey, Switz.), French diplomat who played an important role in the peace negotiations between the United States and Spain (1898) and was influential in the formation of French policy toward Germany in the ... |
6db55749b30c0c72b27bcc21d303f40e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Francois-Camille-Ferry | Jules Ferry | Jules Ferry
Jules Ferry, (born April 5, 1832, Saint-Dié, France—died March 17, 1893, Paris), French statesman of the early Third Republic, notable both for his anticlerical education policy and for his success in extending the French colonial empire.
Ferry pursued his father’s profession of law and was called to the... |
95d1b8c4f73883f3049eb85f1551d286 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Laforgue | Jules Laforgue | Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue, (born Aug. 16, 1860, Montevideo, Uruguay—died Aug. 20, 1887, Paris), French Symbolist poet, a master of lyrical irony and one of the inventors of vers libre (“free verse”). The impact of his work was felt by several 20th-century American poets, including T.S. Eliot, and he also influenc... |
5cb2c607b7f98ac3d76d87ed0ec00768 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Sebastien-Cesar-Dumont-dUrville | Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville | Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville
Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville, (born May 23, 1790, Condé-sur-Noireau, Fr.—died May 8, 1842, near Meudon), French navigator who commanded voyages of exploration to the South Pacific (1826–29) and the Antarctic (1837–40), resulting in extensive revisions of existing chart... |
7a649fdb932cba8488da731d0eb3d5c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Supervielle | Jules Supervielle | Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle, (born Jan. 16, 1884, Montevideo, Uruguay—died May 17, 1960, Paris, France), poet, dramatist, and short-story writer of Basque descent who wrote in the French language but in the Spanish tradition.
Supervielle’s themes are the love of a lonely but fraternal man for the pampas and f... |
b4be443bca0b544dd93a699b7a935180 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Carabias-Lillo | Julia Carabias Lillo | Julia Carabias Lillo
Julia Carabias Lillo, (born Aug. 11, 1954, Mexico City, Mex.), Mexican ecologist and environmentalist who served as Mexico’s secretary of the environment, natural resources, and fisheries from 1994 to 2000.
Carabias earned both bachelor’s (1977) and master’s (1981) degrees in biology from the Nati... |
01ee044ce9ed47e5642e4a76a5223a8b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Clifford-Lathrop | Julia Clifford Lathrop | Julia Clifford Lathrop
Julia Clifford Lathrop, (born June 29, 1858, Rockford, Ill., U.S.—died April 15, 1932, Rockford), American social welfare worker who was the first director of the U.S. Children’s Bureau.
Lathrop attended Vassar College, graduating in 1880. Over the next 10 years she worked in her father’s law of... |
fcd4ff6e2431cbdec6e088b697a4f1c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-daughter-of-Augustus | Julia | Julia
Julia, (born 39 bc—died ad 14, Rhegium [present-day Reggio di Calabria, Italy]), the Roman emperor Augustus’ only child, whose scandalous behaviour eventually caused him to exile her.
Julia’s mother was Scribonia, who was divorced by Augustus when the child was a few days old. Julia was brought up strictly, her ... |
e08ab315de911aef65fe9655af9e33ff | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Roberts | Julia Roberts | Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts, in full Julia Fiona Roberts, (born October 28, 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, U.S.), American actress whose deft performances in varied roles helped make her one of the highest-paid and most-influential actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Although Roberts’s parents briefly ran an actors’ works... |
fb5ea116f1ee2dbf3c08fe26d847da8c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-Barnes | Julian Barnes | Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes, in full Julian Patrick Barnes, pseudonyms Edward Pygge and Dan Kavanagh, (born January 19, 1946, Leicester, England), British critic and author of inventive and intellectual novels about obsessed characters curious about the past.
Barnes attended Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., 1968), and ... |
7fc27e0d3ab3f43c7cdadf704a3cb9c2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-bishop-of-Halicarnassus | Julian | Julian
…extreme; it was proclaimed by Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus, who asserted that the body of Christ was divine and therefore naturally incorruptible and impassible; Christ, however, was free to will his sufferings and death voluntarily. Severus, patriarch of Antioch, himself a condemned Monophysite, vigorously ... |
1b22a93d0e792a4d5f4fa5d3c0800e88 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-Bond | Julian Bond | Julian Bond
Julian Bond, in full Horace Julian Bond, (born January 14, 1940, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.—died August 15, 2015, Fort Walton Beach, Florida), U.S. legislator and Black civil rights leader, best known for his fight to take his duly elected seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Bond, who was the son... |
f4a0d2536d15469c0817593905f25ee3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-Schnabel | Julian Schnabel | Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel, (born October 26, 1951, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker who was one of a number of international painters—including David Salle in the United States, Georg Baselitz in Germany, and Francesco Clemente in Italy—to emerge in the late 1970s ... |
f5ba5ce241d394e20b5f69204cfe48f2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julie-Andrews | Julie Andrews | Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews, in full Dame Julie Andrews, original name Julia Elizabeth Wells, (born October 1, 1935, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England), English motion-picture, stage, and musical star noted for her crystalline four-octave voice and her charm and skill as an actress.
At the age of 10, Andrews began sin... |
111be419567634dbabc9db989f20ad7d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julie-de-Lespinasse | Julie de Lespinasse | Julie de Lespinasse
Julie de Lespinasse, in full Julie-Jeanne-Éléonore de Lespinasse, (born 1732, Lyon, France—died May 23, 1776, Paris), French hostess of one of the most brilliant and emancipated of Parisian salons and the author of several volumes of passionate letters that reveal her romantic sensibility and lite... |
2eddc433b0c39a4bf40eb82092ef6887 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julie-Newmar | Julie Newmar | Julie Newmar
…role that was shared with Julie Newmar) were among the celebrities who made appearances as Batman’s foes. The show was an immediate hit, spawning an unprecedented wave of Bat-merchandise. The Batman newspaper strip resumed, and a theatrical movie was churned out for the summer of 1966. Late in the series,... |
8e1c80c8db01dada2813b0ed739609c0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julie-Taymor | Julie Taymor | Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor, (born December 15, 1952, Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.), American stage and film director, playwright, and costume designer known for her inventive use of Asian-inspired masks and puppets. In 1998 she became the first woman to win a Tony Award for best director of a musical, for her Broadway p... |
93d7b4b2ed4961066fbe6331933ea5a1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julie-Taymor/Feature-films-and-beyond | Feature films and beyond | Feature films and beyond
Following the critical and financial success of The Lion King, Taymor dedicated more of her time to feature films, releasing her first, Titus, based on Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, in 1999. The score was composed by Goldenthal, and the film starred Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Taymor f... |
17a6c22db29c33261fd3b33b4c154440 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julien-David-LeRoy | Julien-David LeRoy | Julien-David LeRoy
…Nollet and studied architecture under J.-D. Leroy. He visited England at least once, and the sketchbook that survives is a rare record of the view by a French architect of late 18th-century England.
…by a French architecture student, Julien-David LeRoy. Faced with the problem of discussing Athenian ... |
53e08281d2cfc528f612b5a1a14e73cf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julien-Gracq | Julien Gracq | Julien Gracq
The novelists Julien Green, Julien Gracq (pseudonym of Louis Poirier), and Yourcenar (discussed above) were among several figures of an earlier generation who began in the 1970s to publish journals and memoirs rather than fiction, and the film versions of Marcel Pagnol’s 1950s recollections of his Provença... |
4d90aade9382b23996501592b2d9ec29 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juliet-Prowse | Juliet Prowse | Juliet Prowse
…meets a cabaret dancer (Juliet Prowse). After the military musical All Hands on Deck (1961), Taurog helmed three more Elvis films: Blue Hawaii (1961), with the signature tune “Can’t Help Falling in Love”; Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), which featured “Return to Sender”; and It Happened at the World’s Fair
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ae8ea919f61fc3b82e90a3f3cb0b163f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juliette-Gordon-Low | Juliette Gordon Low | Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low, née Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon, (born October 31, 1860, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.—died January 18, 1927, Savannah), founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
Juliette Gordon was born into a prominent Georgia family. She was educated at private schools in Virg... |
31a831987d34d6e3a644c3ea96bd806c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julio-Adalberto-Rivera | Julio Adalberto Rivera | Julio Adalberto Rivera
Julio Adalberto Rivera (1962–67) to power. PRUD was dismantled and replaced by the National Conciliation Party (Partido de Conciliación Nacional; PCN), which would control the national government for the next 18 years. Under the banner of the Alliance for Progress, Rivera advanced programs aimed ... |
1885b7da797d4ea8061829053dc34293 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Caesar-Roman-ruler/Antecedents-and-outcome-of-the-civil-war-of-49-45-bce | Antecedents and outcome of the civil war of 49–45 bce | Antecedents and outcome of the civil war of 49–45 bce
During his conquest of Gaul, Caesar had been equally busy in preserving and improving his position at home. He used part of his growing wealth from Gallic loot to hire political agents in Rome.
Meanwhile the cohesion of the triumvirate had been placed under strain. ... |
c2d976327891f2df07cf00205267e270 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Caesar-Roman-ruler/The-first-triumvirate-and-the-conquest-of-Gaul | The first triumvirate and the conquest of Gaul | The first triumvirate and the conquest of Gaul
The value of the consulship lay in the lucrative provincial governorship to which it would normally lead. On the eve of the consular elections for 59 bce, the Senate sought to allot to the two future consuls for 59 bce, as their proconsular provinces, the unprofitable supe... |
7020b6ef2bf3b95bdbeec7ede9dfce76 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Curtius | Julius Curtius | Julius Curtius
Julius Curtius, (born Feb. 7, 1877, Duisburg, Ger.—died Nov. 10, 1948, Heidelberg), German statesman, foreign minister of the Weimar Republic (1929–31).
Following the completion of his legal studies at Berlin, Curtius became a lawyer at Duisburg in 1905 but moved to Heidelberg in 1911. After distinguis... |
2376acb4caca31956c7bb3426afdda5d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Plucker | Julius Plücker | Julius Plücker
Julius Plücker, (born June 16, 1801, Elberfeld, Duchy of Berg [Germany]—died May 22, 1868, Bonn), German mathematician and physicist who made fundamental contributions to analytic and projective geometry as well as experimental physics.
Plücker attended the universities in Heidelberg, Bonn, Berlin, and ... |
cc1cdf88bb3fb41d6970a72bc03e91d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Rosenwald | Julius Rosenwald | Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald, (born August 12, 1862, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.—died January 6, 1932, Chicago), American merchant and unorthodox philanthropist who opposed the idea of perpetual endowments and frequently offered large philanthropic gifts on condition that they be matched by other donations. He wa... |
4dd11f8165f61022274ec13d7d64c0cc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-von-Hann | Julius von Hann | Julius von Hann
Austrian meteorologist Julius von Hann, working with data from balloon ascents and climbing in the Alps and Himalayas, concluded in 1874 that about 90 percent of all the water vapour in the atmosphere is concentrated below 6,000 metres—from which it follows that high mountains can be barriers…
For examp... |
1b1d8ceb16d7fb9cb02134ce2d08ed50 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Wagner-Jauregg | Julius Wagner-Jauregg | Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, original name Julius Wagner, Ritter (Knight) von Jauregg, (born March 7, 1857, Wels, Austria—died Sept. 27, 1940, Vienna), Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist whose treatment of syphilitic meningoencephalitis, or general paresis, by the artificial induction of malaria br... |
b0de59d2bf5ba724d23a913cac391e2d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Wellhausen | Julius Wellhausen | Julius Wellhausen
Julius Wellhausen, (born May 17, 1844, Hameln, Hanover [Germany]—died Jan. 7, 1918, Göttingen, Ger.), German biblical scholar best known for his analysis of the structure and dating of the Pentateuch.
Wellhausen studied at the University of Göttingen and taught there briefly before becoming professo... |
32792739daed60cb71f08262df03f285 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Junnin | Junnin | Junnin
…Oi, who ruled as Emperor Junnin. In 761 she met Dōkyō when he was lecturing at the imperial palace. Her attempts to promote the career of the priest, who was presumably her lover, brought him into conflict with Junnin’s favourite minister, the powerful Oshikatsu.
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d09632b4e9dbf167c4bc6c8c9737ede5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juste-Aurele-Meissonier | Juste-Aurèle Meissonier | Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonier, (born 1693/95, Turin, Savoy—died July 31, 1750, Paris), French goldsmith, interior decorator, and architect, often considered the leading originator of the influential Rococo style in the decorative arts.
Early in his career Meissonier migrated to Paris, receiving a wa... |
1cf571c3f2bbac054cc8472441431045 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-Ahomadegbe | Justin Ahomadégbé | Justin Ahomadégbé
…Sourou-Migan Apithy (president in 1964–65), Justin Ahomadégbé (1972), and Hubert Maga (1960–63 and 1970–72), drawing their principal support respectively from Porto-Novo, Abomey, and the north. After independence in 1960, these political problems were exacerbated by economic difficulties, reflected i... |
5c5d976b79ffbe3be871fe20d342c8fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-Dart-Jr | Justin Dart, Jr. | Justin Dart, Jr.
Justin Dart, Jr., in full Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., (born August 29, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died June 21, 2002, Washington, D.C.), American advocate for the disabled who was widely recognized as the “father” of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA; 1990).
Dart was born into a prominent fam... |
10dd7cbbf64e52fe0d63dee919378c7c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-Kaplan | Justin Kaplan | Justin Kaplan
Justin Kaplan, in full Justin Daniel Kaplan, (born September 5, 1925, New York, New York, U.S.—died March 2, 2014, Cambridge, Massachusetts), American writer, biographer, and book editor who was best known for his acclaimed literary biographies of Mark Twain, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman and for hi... |
438c4e8baeab7e029bdc370663ffb91b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-Lekhanya | Justin Lekhanya | Justin Lekhanya
Justin Lekhanya, deposed Chief Jonathan and established military rule, making the king head of state.
Justin Lekhanya, who subsequently suspended Moshoeshoe’s executive powers. In 1990 Moshoeshoe went into exile in England.
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d4e2e37a1a87cf5f6c461abfe01d5f02 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-Peck | Justin Peck | Justin Peck
Justin Peck, (born 1987, Washington, D.C.), American ballet dancer and choreographer who earned acclaim as a soloist but was better known for crafting ballets in which complex structures frame clearly articulated classical steps. He became resident choreographer of New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 2014.
Peck... |
6b303de54f583b0fd740e96ec49cbc8a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-S-Morrill | Justin S. Morrill | Justin S. Morrill
Justin S. Morrill, in full Justin Smith Morrill, (born April 14, 1810, Strafford, Vt., U.S.—died Dec. 28, 1898, Washington, D.C.), U.S. Republican legislator who established a record for longevity by serving 43 years in both houses of the Congress; his name is particularly associated with the first... |
e13a27d71356d0a64a5aee4bf8d16091 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-Trudeau/Prime-ministership | Prime ministership | Prime ministership
Among Trudeau’s campaign promises was a pledge to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet, which he followed up on, bringing 15 women into his 30-member cabinet. When asked by a reporter why he had taken this approach, Trudeau made headlines around the world with his matter-of-fact but trenchant response: ... |
95ef270b40da980402563b864cca7d92 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justin-Trudeau/SNC-Lavalin-affair | SNC-Lavalin affair | SNC-Lavalin affair
Beginning in February 2019, Trudeau faced arguably the biggest political crisis of his premiership as allegations surfaced that members of his staff had improperly pressed Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was attorney general and justice minister, to take actions to halt the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a hu... |
9cdffbda2994b17459f779de9ad0534c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justinus-Andreas-Christian-Kerner | Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner | Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner
Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner, (born Sept. 18, 1786, Ludwigsburg, Württemberg—died Feb. 21, 1862, Weinsberg), German poet and spiritualist writer. He and the poet Ludwig Uhland founded the so-called Swabian group of late Romantic poets.
After the death of his father (1799), Kern... |
1200b01517a3d483747feacc654166b5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justo-Rufino-Barrios | Justo Rufino Barrios | Justo Rufino Barrios
Justo Rufino Barrios, (born 1835, San Lorenzo, Guatemala—died April 2, 1885, Chalchuapa, El Salvador), president of Guatemala (1873–85), who carried out liberal domestic policies by dictatorial means and persistently advocated Central American unity, to be imposed by force if diplomacy proved ina... |
48368b4e40a7751bed2a9957914d7748 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justus-Freiherr-von-Liebig/Developments-in-agricultural-animal-and-food-chemistry | Developments in agricultural, animal, and food chemistry | Developments in agricultural, animal, and food chemistry
Liebig’s realization that organic chemistry could be used as a tool to investigate living processes led him to abandon pure chemistry in 1840. In that year he published Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie (Chemistry in Its Appl... |
61adbf6353b22b814096a0e3a4c5dd0b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kaarlo-Bergbom | Kaarlo Bergbom | Kaarlo Bergbom
Kaarlo Bergbom, (born Oct. 2, 1843, Vyborg, Russia—died Jan. 17, 1906, Helsinki, Fin.), activist in the struggle to enhance Finnish-language institutions, and founder-director of the first stable Finnish-language theatre, the Finnish National Theatre. Bergbom, himself the author of a romantic tragedy, ... |
eabdadc50f3976cb5a11021e38b5688e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kab-al-Ahbar | Kaʿb al-Aḥbār | Kaʿb al-Aḥbār
For example, the Jewish convert Kaʿb al-Aḥbār brought much of the Isrāʾīliyyāt—narratives said to originate from Jewish sources—into Islamic tradition. Later on, the mystics’ commentaries expressed some gnostic (a dualistic viewpoint in which spirit is viewed as good and matter as evil) and Hellenistic co... |
2a159ecc2a98664f039329d593f6b0b6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kai-Winding | Kai Winding | Kai Winding
…to tour with fellow trombonist Kai Winding; their duets have been recognized as watersheds in the evolution of jazz trombone technique.
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368756257ab1b5565690b9792ca2c06d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kalidasa | Kalidasa | Kalidasa
Kalidasa, (flourished 5th century ce, India), Sanskrit poet and dramatist, probably the greatest Indian writer of any epoch. The six works identified as genuine are the dramas Abhijnanashakuntala (“The Recognition of Shakuntala”), Vikramorvashi (“Urvashi Won by Valour”), and Malavikagnimitra (“Malavika and Ag... |
81f9a5184893491a785d421f37324c4e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kamau-Brathwaite | Kamau Brathwaite | Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite, original name Lawson Edward Brathwaite, also published as Edward Brathwaite and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, (born May 11, 1930, Bridgetown, Barbados—died February 4, 2020, Barbados), Barbadian author whose works are noted for their rich and complex examination of the African and indig... |
46765709f181963ee8db47ef38885283 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kamehameha-III | Kamehameha III | Kamehameha III
Kamehameha III, also called Kauikeaouli, (born March 7, 1814, Hawaiian Islands—died Dec. 15, 1854, Honolulu, Oahu), king of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854, brother of Kamehameha II.
Only 10 years of age when he succeeded to the throne, he was initially under the regency of Kamehameha I’s favourite wife, Kaah... |
c05b9ea38e7faadb10c04f952af247b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kamel-Daoud | Kamel Daoud | Kamel Daoud
Kamel Daoud, (born June 17, 1970, Mostaganem, Algeria), Algerian writer and journalist who won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his novel Meursault, contre-enquête (2013; The Meursault Investigation).
Daoud, the eldest of six children, was born into an Arabic-speaking Muslim family in Algeria. As a t... |
53cab07f8f4255847a47794b9b9f6b28 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kander-and-Ebb | Kander and Ebb | Kander and Ebb
Kander and Ebb, American songwriting duo made up of John Kander (b. March 18, 1927, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) and Fred Ebb (b. April 8, 1928?, New York, New York, U.S.—d. September 11, 2004, New York City), who collaborated for more than 40 years—from the mid-1960s to the early 2000s—to produce score... |
733c61f42520b08f3489b26ed105138f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kang-Youwei | Kang Youwei | Kang Youwei
Kang Youwei, Wade-Giles romanization K’ang Yu-wei, original name Kang Zuyi, courtesy name (zi) Guangxia, literary name (hao) Changsu, (born March 19, 1858, Nanhai, Guangdong province, China—died March 21, 1927, Qingdao, Shandong province), Chinese scholar, a leader of the Reform Movement of 1898 and a key... |
28379480edd050a752182e047b2130e9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kano-Sanraku | Kanō Sanraku | Kanō Sanraku
Kanō Sanraku, , original name Kanō Mitsuyori, (born 1559, Japan—died Oct. 30, 1635, Kyōto), sixth-generation member of the famous Kanō family of painters to the Japanese shoguns.
He produced some of the greatest screen paintings of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574–1600). Sanraku was the disciple and adop... |
45e05a1e4ae7754040629b95a2e6f317 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kara-DioGuardi | Kara DioGuardi | Kara DioGuardi
…of a fourth judge, songwriter Kara DioGuardi. Judges were also given the power to directly influence the final rounds of competition with the “judges’ save rule,” which allowed the panel to override the votes of the viewing public once per season to give a deserving contestant a second chance. In…
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8e1be3fe26f16a307a1e21fa44c03336 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karel-Appel | Karel Appel | Karel Appel
Karel Appel, (born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switzerland), Dutch painter of turbulent, colourful, and semiabstract compositions, who was a cofounder (1948) of the COBRA group of northern European Expressionists. He was also a noted sculptor and graphic artist.
Appel a... |
d2a75d1bc0f1879c8e0cb03afcb09d61 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karel-van-de-Woestijne | Karel van de Woestijne | Karel van de Woestijne
Karel van de Woestijne, (born March 10, 1878, Ghent, Belg.—died Aug. 23, 1929, Zwijnaarde), Flemish poet whose body of work constitutes a symbolic autobiography.
Van de Woestijne studied Germanic philology. He worked as a journalist and government official in Brussels (1907–20) and as a professo... |
784e2203ecc6f24f2d7c004b15a737af | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Abraham | Karl Abraham | Karl Abraham
Karl Abraham, (born May 3, 1877, Bremen, Germany—died December 25, 1925, Berlin), German psychoanalyst who studied the role of infant sexuality in character development and mental illness.
While serving as an assistant to the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli Mental Hospital in Zürich (1904–07)... |
ced8150bdba9f4d38853ffe493949be8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Anton-von-Terzaghi | Karl Terzaghi | Karl Terzaghi
Karl Terzaghi, (born Oct. 2, 1883, Prague—died Oct. 25, 1963, Winchester, Mass., U.S.), civil engineer who founded the branch of civil engineering science known as soil mechanics, the study of the properties of soil under stresses and under the action of flowing water.
He studied mechanical engineering ... |
f1a912dd5dbc271e3480f835b79a2b2f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Augustus-Menninger | Karl Augustus Menninger | Karl Augustus Menninger
…in practice by his son Karl Augustus Menninger (born July 22, 1893, Topeka—died July 18, 1990, Topeka), who received a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1917 and spent two years working under Ernest Southard at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. In 1919 the two Menningers established... |
1f88426d34a807dfa91f95302293881f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Baedeker | Karl Baedeker | Karl Baedeker
Karl Baedeker, (born Nov. 3, 1801, Essen, Duchy of Oldenburg—died Oct. 4, 1859, Koblenz, Prussia), founder of a German publishing house known for its guidebooks.
Baedeker was the son of a printer and bookseller. In 1827 he started a firm at Koblenz and two years later brought out a guidebook to the town... |
f1ddcc27f478e11271d88aea3f3ec887 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Barth/Church-Dogmatics | Church Dogmatics | Church Dogmatics
Of his theological works, perhaps the best-remembered is Barth’s massive study Kirchliche Dogmatik (1932–67; Church Dogmatics), a remarkable contribution to 20th-century theology. Church Dogmatics grew year by year out of his class lectures; though incomplete, it eventually filled four volumes in 12 pa... |
865ca694b02dc9f3f648cfba530ffed5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Blossfeldt | Karl Blossfeldt | Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossfeldt, (born June 13, 1865, Schielo, Germany—died December 9, 1932, Berlin), German photographer known best for his stark close-up portraits of plants, twigs, seeds, leaves, and other flora.
In 1881 Blossfeldt began his studies as an apprentice at the Art Ironworks and Foundry in Mägdesprung,... |
6936c4f8d474dd05abe5f43e77257c39 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Bohm | Karl Böhm | Karl Böhm
Karl Böhm, (born Aug. 28, 1894, Graz, Austria—died Aug. 14, 1981, Salzburg), Austrian conductor who earned an international reputation for his concert performances and recordings of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, W.A. Mozart, and other composers.
Böhm studied law but also studied music in Vienna with Euse... |
8d13442a145684a0e70ab4d56823026e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Brugmann | Karl Brugmann | Karl Brugmann
Karl Brugmann, in full Friedrich Christian Karl Brugmann, (born March 16, 1849, Wiesbaden, Nassau [Germany]—died June 29, 1919, Leipzig, Ger.), German linguist who gained a position of preeminence in comparative Indo-European linguistics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a result of his c... |
85f8545411c318c9e1a1b97b07c8033f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Ernst-Haushofer | Karl Haushofer | Karl Haushofer
Karl Haushofer, (born Aug. 27, 1869, Munich, Bavaria [Germany]—died March 13, 1946, Pähl, W.Ger.), German army officer, political geographer, and leading proponent of geopolitics, an academic discipline prominent in the period between the two World Wars but later in disrepute because of its identifica... |
dc4f679d1d33f6284647303a4db5ae02 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Goldmark | Karl Goldmark | Karl Goldmark
Karl Goldmark, (born May 18, 1830, Keszthely, Hung.—died Jan. 2, 1915, Vienna, Austria), Austro-Hungarian composer whose opera Die Königin von Saba (1875; “The Queen of Sheba”) was highly popular in the late 19th century.
The son of a poor Jewish cantor, Goldmark studied violin in Vienna under Georg Böh... |
94706d4a2e596e2ce5c79233ee557eca | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Jansky | Karl Jansky | Karl Jansky
Karl Jansky, in full Karl Guthe Jansky, (born October 22, 1905, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.—died February 14, 1950, Red Bank, New Jersey), American engineer whose discovery of radio waves from an extraterrestrial source inaugurated the development of radio astronomy, a new science that from the mid-20th century... |
ad3b629d1c54863c20ec5d613174ae06 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Karlovich-Klaus | Karl Karlovich Klaus | Karl Karlovich Klaus
Karl Karlovich Klaus, also called Carl Ernst Claus, (born Jan. 23, 1796, Dorpat, Russia [now Tartu, Estonia]—died March 24, 1864, Dorpat), Russian chemist (of German origin) credited with the discovery of ruthenium in 1844.
Klaus was educated at Dorpat, where he became a pharmacist; later he taug... |
49344ed36ae1431513ef7fedbde9859b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx/Character-and-significance | Character and significance | Character and significance
At Marx’s funeral in Highgate Cemetery, Engels declared that Marx had made two great discoveries, the law of development of human history and the law of motion of bourgeois society. But “Marx was before all else a revolutionist.” He was “the best-hated and most-calumniated man of his time,” y... |
bcb7bc24d33c1afe781bb780f1526dec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Otfried-Muller | Karl Otfried Müller | Karl Otfried Müller
Karl Otfried Müller, (born Aug. 28, 1797, Brieg, Silesia [now in Poland]—died Aug. 1, 1840, Athens), German professor and scholar of classical Greek studies whose considerations of ancient Greece in a broad historical and cultural context began an important era in the development of Hellenic schol... |
db6173ed60311007c7500c0d2399837d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Pribram | Karl Pribram | Karl Pribram
…1960 Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl Pribram proposed that stimulus-response (an isolated behavioral sequence used to assist research) be replaced by a different hypothesized behavioral sequence, which they called the TOTE (test, operate, test, exit). In the TOTE sequence a goal is first planned, and a ... |
ebaa3ff5321e8d310ece3ee02b03c4ae | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Renner | Karl Renner | Karl Renner
Karl Renner, (born Dec. 14, 1870, Unter-Tannowitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died Dec. 31, 1950, Doebling, Austria), Social Democratic statesman, chancellor (1918–20, 1945) and president (1945–50) of Austria, who after World War I advocated the Anschluss (union) between Germany and ... |
0e3557a919c3f865103373293e2abf42 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Schwarzschild | Karl Schwarzschild | Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild, (born October 9, 1873, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died May 11, 1916, Potsdam), German astronomer whose contributions, both practical and theoretical, were of primary importance in the development of 20th-century astronomy.
Schwarzschild’s exceptional ability in science became evi... |
43c132e24b303be9cb758e35ebf7e794 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karol-Bacilek | Karol Bacílek | Karol Bacílek
…moved into power in Slovakia; Karol Bacílek, who was compromised by the purges in the 1950s, was replaced as first secretary of the Slovak Communist Party by Alexander Dubček. When the rehabilitated Slovaks, among whom was Gustav Husák, began to clamour for a federal solution to their problem, Novotný co... |
e7fb47aa00d5a7ad8b7f34e48f072bce | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katarina-Witt | Katarina Witt | Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt, (born December 3, 1965, Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany [now Chemnitz, Germany]), German figure skater who was the first woman to win consecutive Olympic gold medals (1984 and 1988) in singles figure skating since Sonja Henie in 1936. The charismatic Witt defined the sport in the 1980s with ... |
7ae30c835a2a5f8db877cfd9243fc6e6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-Barnard | Kate Barnard | Kate Barnard
Kate Barnard, (born May 23, 1875, Geneva, Neb., U.S.—died Feb. 23, 1930, Oklahoma City, Okla.), Oklahoma welfare leader and the first woman to hold statewide elective office in the United States.
Barnard began her public career as an officer of the Provident Association, an Oklahoma benevolent organizati... |
1ca1794fccbba77a3eeb400fe2057278 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-Bateman | Kate Bateman | Kate Bateman
…and his two eldest daughters, Kate and Ellen, aged six and four, respectively, began to tour widely as stars. Later Ellen played Richard III, Shylock, and Macbeth to Kate’s Richmond, Portia, and Lady Macbeth. In 1855 Bateman managed a St. Louis theatre and later, as Kate’s manager, moved to New…
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cbeff401401ae00e042f03a1294fa3b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-Harwood-Waller-Barrett | Kate Harwood Waller Barrett | Kate Harwood Waller Barrett
Kate Harwood Waller Barrett, née Katherine Harwood Waller, (born January 24, 1857, Falmouth, Virginia, U.S.—died February 23, 1925, Alexandria, Va.), American physician who directed the rescue-home movement for unwed mothers in the United States.
Barrett became interested in the issue of pr... |
d4d683242dd887950a26db94dbb51294 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katharine-Anthony | Katharine Anthony | Katharine Anthony
Katharine Anthony, in full Katharine Susan Anthony, (born November 27, 1877, Roseville, Arkansas, U.S.—died November 20, 1965, New York, New York), American biographer best known for The Lambs (1945), a controversial study of the British writers Charles and Mary Lamb. The greater portion of her work ... |
d54e9ecbfa060f5e2c891c57c4c6c053 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katharine-Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn, in full Katharine Houghton Hepburn, (born May 12, 1907, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.—died June 29, 2003, Old Saybrook, Connecticut), indomitable American stage and film actress, known as a spirited performer with a touch of eccentricity. She introduced into her roles a strength of c... |
a55b5bba7f06e5a8f1923668c61e8fbe | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katharine-Lee-Bates | Katharine Lee Bates | Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates, (born Aug. 12, 1859, Falmouth, Mass., U.S.—died March 28, 1929, Wellesley, Mass.), author and educator who wrote the text of the national hymn “America the Beautiful.”
She was educated at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., where she taught English literature from 1885 to 192... |
b86c8cf56d0ef72d9b291f3eb3d8f6d7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katherina-von-Bora | Katherina von Bora | Katherina von Bora
…June 13, 1525, Luther married Katherine of Bora, a former nun. Katherine had fled her convent together with eight other nuns and was staying in the house of the Wittenberg town secretary. While the other nuns soon returned to their families or married, Katherine remained without support. Luther was ... |
2f41d619c154d7864380bdd8db390cb8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kathleen-Battle | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle
Kathleen Battle, in full Kathleen Deanne Battle, (born Aug. 13, 1948, Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S.), American opera singer, among the finest coloratura sopranos of her time.
As a child and young adult Battle was both a good student and a good singer. She was awarded a scholarship to the University of Cincin... |
d54dbee58312979c029495219b0bf67c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kathleen-Parker | Kathleen Parker | Kathleen Parker
…year he began cohosting (with Kathleen Parker) the nightly talk show Parker Spitzer on CNN. In February 2011 Parker left the program, which was subsequently retitled In the Arena. It struggled in the ratings, and in July Spitzer stepped down as host after CNN announced that the show would be…
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97e83516774fc0b035451dac4e919c6a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kathleen-Raine | Kathleen Raine | Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine, in full Kathleen Jessie Raine, (born June 14, 1908, London, England—died July 6, 2003, London), English poet, scholar, and critic noted for her mystical and visionary poetry.
Raine studied psychology and the natural sciences at Girton College in Cambridge (M.A., 1929) and in the 1930s wa... |
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