Leo Frobenius

Identifier
990004387780304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1935 - 31 Dec 1977
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Spanish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

[151] p.

Envelope 7/24 ; microfilm reel 064; Frames 1026-1265

Scope and Content

"Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Josef Frolík (September 22, 1928 - May 1989) was a Czechoslovak spy who, in 1969, defected to the United States and joined the CIA."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory"--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Friedrich Fromm (8 October 1888 – 12 March 1945) was a German army officer. A recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, he was executed for failing to act against the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"L. (Leslie) Fry (February 16, 1882 – July 15, 1970) was the pen name of Paquita Louise de Shishmareff. Her name is given as Paquita Deshishmaref in the SSDI (Social Security Death Index). She was a pro-Christian, activist, who is primarily known for her authorship of Waters Flowing Eastward (1931), which asserts that Jews were to blame for both Capitalism and Bolshevism, and that it was primarily certain Jews who started World War I. She alleged that certain Freemasons were involved as well. She postulated that the ultimate aim of these particular Jews and Freemasons was "World Domination". These conclusions were based in part on her study of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Daniel Fuchs (June 25, 1909 – July 26, 1993) was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Emil Fuchs (13 May 1874, Beerfelden, Grand Duchy of Hesse - 13 February 1971) was a German theologian. A religious socialist, Fuchs was one of the first Lutheran pastors to join the Social Democratic Party of Germany. As a devoted pacifist, he later joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who, in 1950, was convicted of supplying information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons, and later, early models of the hydrogen bomb."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Marta Fuchs (January 1, 1898 - September 22, 1974) was a German concert and operatic soprano."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs (11 February 1908 – 11 November 1999) was an English explorer whose expeditionary team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958. "--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016).

"Fück, Johann Wilhelm Born July 8, 1894, in Frankfurt am Main; died Nov. 24, 1974, in Halle. German Orientalist. Fück was a professor at the University of Dacca from 1930 to 1935. From 1938 to 1966 he was a professor at the University of Halle. Fück was elected a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig in 1948 and a corresponding member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Giza in 1961. He received the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic in 1956. In addition to Arabia (1950), a fundamental work on the history of Arabic studies, Fück has produced studies on the history of early Islam and a number of works on the history of the Arabic language and of Arabic literature."--The free dictionary (English)(viewed 27.7.2016).

"Franz Fühmann (15 January 1922 – 8 July 1984) was a German writer who lived and worked in East Germany. He wrote in a variety of formats, including short stories, essays, screenplays and children's books. Influenced by Nazism in his youth, he later embraced (and renounced) socialism"--wikipedia (English)(viewed 27.7.2016).

"Louis Fürnberg (May 24, 1909 in Jihlava (Iglau) – June 1957, Weimar) was a Czechoslovak-German writer, poet and journalist, composer and diplomat of Jewish descent. He wrote "The Party is always right", the song that served for years as the official anthem of the East German ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED)."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 27.7.2016).

"Carl Fürstenberg (August 28, 1850 – February 9, 1933) was one of the most prominent German bankers of the late nineteenth and early twenteeth century, and was responsible for the revival of the German mining industry during his era. Fürstenberg was born to Jewish parents in Danzig (Gdańsk). "--wikipedia (English)(viewed 27.7.2016).

"James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 27.7.2016).

"Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda (July 7, 1862 – March 7, 1939) was a German playwright and a poet with a strong social commitment."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 27.7.2016).

"Major General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. With 45 books and many articles,, he was a highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the interested public. He explored the business of fighting, in terms of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and economic factors in the civilian sector. Fuller emphasized the potential of new weapons, especially tanks and aircraft, to stun a surprised enemy psychologically."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 27.7.2016).

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Note(s)

  • Detailed dates of material: 1935 - 1936, 1938 - 1939, 1941, 1943 - 1946, 1948 - 1960, 1963, 1966 - 1967, 1973 - 1977.

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