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Authors are writters who write various forms of literature including books, artices, essays etc.

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Joseph Wharton

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Joseph Wharton (March 3, 1826 – January 11, 1909) was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, industrialist and philanthropist, who was involved in mining, manufacturing and education. He founded the ...

Thomas Abbt

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Thomas Abbt (25 November 1738 – 3 November 1766) was a German mathematician and writer.Born in Ulm, Abbt visited a secondary school in Ulm, then moved in 1756 to study theology, philosophy and ...

Johann Christoph Adelung

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Johann Christoph Adelung (8 August 1732 – 10 September 1806) was a German grammarian and philologist.He was born at Spantekow, in Western Pomerania, and educated at schools in Anklam and Berge ...

Rodolphus Agricola (Phrisius) (February 17, 1444 – October 27, 1485) was a pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries, famous for his supple Latin and one of the first north of the Alps to ...

Ilse Aichinger

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Ilse Aichinger (born 1 November 1921) is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.

Hermann Allmers

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Hermann Allmers (11 February 1821, Rechtenfleth – 9 March 1902) was a German poet.He was an only child, and was privately tutored. He began his career in public education, but took over the family ...

Peter Altenberg

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He was born Richard Engländer on 9 March 1859. The nom de plume, "Altenberg", came from a small town on the Danube River. Allegedly, he chose the "Peter" to honor a young girl whom he remembered as ...