Unpublished calendars of 1853-1854 by Laurynas Ivinskis by Danutė Labanauskienė

“…New details of L. Ivinskis' biography are disclosed. All didactic stories and other articles that were banned in 1853-1854 survived in Ivinskis' manuscripts and were published in later editions of the calendars. …”
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The gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht by F. Hale

“…The present article explores how Joseph Doke, a scholarly, transplanted Englishman who served as a Baptist pastor in Johannesburg and elsewhere and wrote the first biography of Gandhi, used fiction to criticise Nietzsche early in the twentieth century. …”
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Tobiáš Antonín Seeman a jeho kalendářové zápisy z let 1726–1747 by Jiří Kubeš, Vítězslav Prchal

“…Finally, the article brings a short biography of Tobias Anton Seeman who was serving to his above mentioned masters for long 60 years. …”
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Autour du musée Albert-Kahn. Exposer à partir d’une collection de films. Un essai by Gilles Baud-Berthier

“…First, the life of Albert Kahn (1860-1940), the man to which a museum is dedicated in France, is questionned, the focus in the biography of this self-made banker and pacifist being put on the intellectual influences that might have shaped his vision of the world and of his time. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…In this sense, we propose a brief intellectual biography of an American anthropologist born in 1938 who did fieldwork in Venezuela, taught in the United States, England and Scotland, weaved interdisciplinary dialogues between philosophy, linguistics and anthropology and stimulated exchanges between ethnology carried out in England, France, Scandinavia and Brazil. …”
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Powstańcza działalność Mariana Dubieckiego – sekretarza Rusi w Rządzie Narodowym 1863 roku by Paweł Pryt

“…The figure of the secretary of Ruthenia has not yet been the subject of an extensive historiographical research that would comprehensively analyze his biography. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…The study of unpublished family archives from the architect’s wife, the painter Jane de Montchenu (1857-1924) allows the writing of a sensitive biography, more able to grasp the exuberance of an idealistic architectural signature. …”
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Devotion to Clinical Psychology. To the anniversary of Irina Fedorovna Roshchina by N.V. Zvereva

“…The article highlights the main milestones in her biography and identifies her main areas of scientific interest, including: the study of normal and pathological aging, the methodology and diagnostic tools of clinical psychology, the theoretical and methodological issues of medical (clinical) psychology, as well as issues related to the training and education of young professionals and the preservation of the traditions of the Moscow School of Clinical Psychology. …”
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Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości by Anna Wasilewska

“…I recommend reading Rousseau’ s biography again in order to see the intersection of history and fictitious reality, to reconstruct the linguistic strategy of giving meaning by J.J. …”
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Astronomer and Surveyor Anton Shahin (1799–1842) by Libertas Klimka

“… The paper presents a new data on the biography of eminent astronomer and land surveyor of Vilnius and Kharkiv universities Anton Szahin (1799– 1842). …”
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La représentation de la vie d’un maître estropié du passé au xixe siècle : L’Aleijadinho d’Henrique Bernardelli by Fábio D’Almeida

“…We will discuss how Bernardelli’s painting is inspired by in a very particular way by the first biography dedicated to the sculptor, in the 1850s, to set up the idea of a predestined genius of the Brazilian colonial past. …”
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Osoba i przesłanie św. Franciszka by Roland Prejs

“…There are two different biographies of St. Francis. The biography by Thomas da Celano is a historical description of St. …”
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Życie i twórczość Antoniusa de Butrio by Aleksandra Szymańska

“…The purpose of the article is to introduce the biography and works of this canonist, who also boasted knowledge of Roman law. …”
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« Ici, pas de politique » by Alfredo Mignini

“…Hence, this case study highlights an original way to articulate the dialectic engagement/disengagement and allows to shed new lights on biography linearity.…”
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Servir le roi autour de 1300 by Philippe Josserand

“…Recent investigations, largely unpublished, have focused on his practice of power, but no biography has been dedicated to him from the end of the nineteenth century. …”
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Un’ epica bibliografia visiva della storia della distruzione dei libri by Roberta Cesana

“…Fanno parte di un progetto decennale dal titolo Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book. Iniziato nel 2014, ha portato l’artista a visitare archivi e biblioteche in tutto il mondo e a incontrare donne e uomini che quotidianamente si spendono per difendere i libri e le culture ai margini. …”
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Des œuvres en morceaux et des trous sur les murs. La difficulté d’écrire la vie des œuvres du Pérugin au XIXe siècle by Éloïse Dumas

“…This upheaval in the life of the objects had a profound effect on their biography, which historians wrote throughout the century, reuniting the dismembered altarpieces in books.…”
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Editorial by Thomas D. Wilson

“…Wilson, and when I asked for a biography of myself, one of the systems told me I was dead! …”
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SPIRITUALITY AND CONTINGENCY IN NARRATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWS WITH PRIMARY SCHOOL LEADERS OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE NETHERLANDS by J. Copier, C.A.M. Hermans, T. Van der Zee

“… There is a growing interest in personal biographies of school leaders as a source of their leadership qualities. …”
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Power at play in paranormal history by Christine Ferguson

“… This article presents a collective object biography and discussion of the Cottingley Fairy artefacts – cameras, photographs, watercolour sketches and print materials – held at the National Science and Media Museum. …”
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