Year: 2017

Biography of Hermann Abert: – German musicologist. His interest in music stems from the influence exerted on him by his father, also a musician and author of operas, seven symphonies and different musical works. From 1890 to 1895 he studied classical and contemporary music in Berlin under the supervision of H. Bellermann, Fleischer and Friedlaender. He obtained his doctorate in Berlin in 1897 with a dissertation on the music of

Biography of Mother Teresa of Calcutta :- Albanian nationalist Indian woman, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1979. When Mother Teresa of Calcutta died in 1997, the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity More than five hundred centers in a hundred countries. But perhaps the order he founded, whose aim is to help “the poorest of the poor,” is the minor part of his legacy; The greatest was to be set

Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose:- Indian nationalist leader. Known by the nickname “Netaji”, which in Hindi means “respected leader”, during the 1930s and 1940s he represented, within the Indian independence movement, the party tendency of armed rebellion, against the strategy of peaceful civil disobedience of Gandhi. Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose Born:- 23 January 1897, Cuttack, India Died:- 18 August 1945, Taipei, Taiwan Spouse:-  Emilie Schenkl (m. 1937–1945) Education:- Scottish Church College(1918) Parents:- Janakinath Bose, Prabhavati Devi From a

Biography of Vasco Da Gama:- A navigator and explorer who opened for the Portuguese the so-called spice route, which surrounded the African continent until reaching India. The figure of this great Portuguese seaman, immortalized by the poet Luis Vaz de Camoens (Camoes) in his epic Os Lusíadas , is comparable to that of Christopher Columbus or Magellan, and is fundamental to understand the commercial transformations that took place in the West.

Biography of Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel:- Political and Hindu lawyer. He was known as Serdar Patel, who in Hindi means Leader Patel . He was one of the most prominent Indian nationalist politicians in the struggle for the country’s independence alongside Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru during the crucial years ranging from 1920 to 1950. Biography of Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel Born:- 31 October 1875, Nadiad, India Died:- 15 December 1950, Mumbai, India Fullname:-  Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel

Biography of Alexander the Great :- King of Macedonia whose achievements and extraordinary military skills allowed him to forge, in less than ten years, an empire stretching from Greece and Egypt to India, Thus beginning the so-called Hellenistic period (centuries IV-I BC) of antiquity. It happened very young to his father, Philip II , assassinated in the year 336 BC This one had prepared to him to reign, providing a

Biography of Wilhelm Koppers:- Missionary in Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922) and in India (1938-1939), since 1928 he taught ethnology in Vienna. He was director of the journals Anthropos and Wiener Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik and is the author of important works on the cycles of civilizations. Biography of Wilhelm Koppers Born:-  8 February 1886, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Died:- 23 January 1961, Vienna, Austria Educated in seminaries of the missionary order Societas Verbi Divini

Biography of Bhaskara:- From the earliest times, with Aryabhata (born 476), Brahmagupta (598) and other illustrious mathematicians, there had taken place in India a remarkable development of arithmetic and algebra. The 12th century stands out the figure of Bhaskara, also called Acharya, that is, “the Master”. Biography of Bhaskara Born:- 1114, Bijapur, India Died:- 1185, Ujjain, India Parents:-  Mahesvara Children:-  Lilavati, Loksamudra Bhaskara wrote a treatise on mathematics and astronomy entitled Siddhantasiromani ( Diadem of Astronomical Treatises

Biography of Marco Polo :- By the end of the thirteenth century, Venice remained one of the world’s largest commercial and maritime powers. It was common to hear there, in the shadow of the opal domes, beside the sumptuous palaces and in view of the golden gondolas, the most extraordinary stories and pilgrims. But those that Master Marco Polo, newly arrived from the ends of the world, had eclipsed them

Biography of Strabo:- Aristocratic (descended from a noble Cretan family), he traveled extensively in Asia Minor, Egypt, Italy and Greece. Having lost its historical work, only the seventeen books of its Geography , which covered all the world known until then , are preserved with certain gaps . Biography of Strabo Born:-  Amasya, Turkey Died:- 23 AD, Amasya, Turkey Books:-  Geographica, The Life of St. Gall,  This monumental work, provided with historical indications and varied