Category: Biography

  • John Perry Barlow

    John Perry Barlow in Europe John Perry Barlow is an author and cyber rights activist. He was born on October 3, 1947 in Wyoming. In 1969, Barlow graduated with High Honors in Comparative Religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. John Perry Barlow is a former Grateful Dead […]

  • Jacques Derrida

    Jacques Derrida in Europe Jacques Derrida was born to a Sephardic Jewish family near Algiers in 1930 (and died on October 9, 2004), in what was then French Algeria. After World War II, Dorrida moved to France, where in 1950 he failed the entrance examination at the Ecole normale supérieure. […]

  • Ray A. August

    Ray A. August in Europe Professor Ray August teaches in the College of Business and Economics at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He is the coordinator for the College’s business law program and he teaches courses on international business law, public international law, […]

  • Bouvier´s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law

    Bouvier´s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law in Europe Review of Bouvier´s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law This review was written in North American Review (July, 1861) by S. Austin Allibone, author of the Dictionary of Authors The author of these volumes taught […]

  • Henry Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice

    Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne in Europe Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927), British statesman, had, during his tenure of office as Foreign Minister (1900-5), definitely set his mark on British foreign policy at a […]

  • Edward Patrick Morris

    Edward Patrick Morris in Europe Edward Patrick Morris, 1st Baron Morris (1859 – 1935) was a lawyer and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (The Dominion of Newfoundland was a British Dominion from 1907 to 1949). He was born at St. John’s, Newfoundland, May 8 1859, and was educated at St. […]

  • Venustiano Carranza

    Venustiano Carranza in Europe Venustiano Carranza (1859-1920), Mexican revolutionary and president, was born Dec. 29 1859, at Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila. He was educated in the Ateneo Fuentes at Saltillo and in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria at Mexico City. Defective eyesight prevented a […]

  • Karl Renner

    Karl Renner in Europe Karl Renner (1870-1950), Austrian politician and first President of the country, was born on Dec. 14 1870, the son of a peasant, at Unter-Tannowitz, Moravia. He studied law at the university of Vienna, occupying himself especially with questions of administration, and […]

  • Edgar Algernon Cecil

    Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood in Europe Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864-1958), English lawyer and statesman, third son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, was born Sept. 14 1864. […]

  • George Ranken Askwith

    George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith in Europe George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith (1861-1942), English lawyer and civil servant, was born at Morley, Yorks, Feb. 17 1861, and was educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1886 (K.C. 1908), and […]