Month: May 2025

Georg Weidinger

Georg Weidinger

Since 1994, freelance composer and pianist, giving lectures on his own work and the Iannis Xenakis-Stochastics connection between scientific thought and composition, and lecturing on Traditional Chinese Medicine.Since 1996, practicing as a physician.In 1998, he founded the label "klaviermusik.at" and has released numerous CDs since then.In 2000, the CD "Vienna Concert 2000" was released by Extraplatte.Since 2002, he has had his own practice for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Vienna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0PqeUQI9KE 2004 Read more [...]
Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse, CBE (born Daniel Abse on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff, Wales; died on 28 September 2014[1] in Golders Green, London) was a British author and poet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3qbLAluIA Dannie Abse at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2013 | age 90 Dannie Abse grew up in his Jewish family with his brothers Leo Abse (1917–2008; lawyer, politician, author) and Wilfried Abse (1915–2005; psychoanalyst), who were about ten years older than him.[2] After successfully Read more [...]
Christos Pantazis

Christos Pantazis

Christos Pantazis (born October 9, 1975 in Hanover)[1] is a German physician and politician (SPD). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 26, 2021. Previously, he was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament from February 2013 to November 2021 and deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there from November 2017. 1998 Joined the SPD2001 – 04 Elected to the Seelze local council (where he was parliamentary group leader)2003 – 05 Spokesperson for the Jusos Read more [...]
Giorgos Chimonas

Giorgos Chimonas

Giorgos Chimonas (Kavala, March 17, 1938 – Paris, February 27, 2000) was a Greek prose writer, translator and psychiatrist who became known and distinguished in the field of Greek literature in the 1960s. Giorgos Himonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and grew up in Thessaloniki. There he studied medicine. He continued his studies in Paris, specializing in psychiatry and neurolinguistics. After completing his studies, he returned to Greece and lived in Athens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIkyuNmRSfw In Read more [...]
Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon during the Korean War and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for the award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie M*A*S*H (1970) Read more [...]
Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis (born October 5, 1933, in Thessaloniki) is a contemporary Greek poet, prose writer, essayist, critic, and anthologist. His prose has been published in several languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrodemyXb1U Periklis Sfyridis was born in 1933 in Thessaloniki, where he lives. He graduated from the American College "Anatolia" in 1952. He studied medicine at the University of Thessaloniki (as a student of the Military Medical School) and worked as a cardiologist Read more [...]
Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 in Vienna,[1] Austrian Empire; October 21, 1931, ibid.) was an Austrian physician, narrator, and playwright. He is considered one of the most important representatives of Viennese Modernism. From 1871 to 1879, Arthur Schnitzler attended the Akademisches Gymnasium in the 1st district and graduated with honors on July 8, 1879.[2] Afterwards, at his father's request, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna. On May 30, 1885, he received his doctorate in Read more [...]
Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou

Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou

Vasos Vogiatzoglou, son of Elias, was born in 1935 in Nea Ionia, Attica. He is a pediatrician and member of the Doctors of the World organization, a researcher of the history and folk culture of the Greeks of Asia Minor, a poet, onomasticologist, and essayist. His parents were refugees from Sparta (Isparta) in Pisidia. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in pediatrics. She provides voluntary pediatric care for children in the women's prisons of Korydallos and Thebes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8qAffxkz0 Vasos Read more [...]
Takis Sinopoulos

Takis Sinopoulos

Takis Sinopoulos was born in 1917 in the Peloponnese. He served as a military doctor in the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949; his experiences of fratricide and excessive violence had a lasting impact on him and his work. He died in 1981 in Pyrgos in the Peloponnese. He was born in Agolinitsa, the first-born son of philologist Giorgos Sinopoulos and Roussa-Veneta Argyropoulou. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, graduating in 1944. In 1934, under the pseudonym Argyros Roubanis, Read more [...]
François Rabelais

François Rabelais

François Rabelais [fʁɑ̃.swa ʁa.blɛ] (c. 1494, perhaps 1483, in La Devinière near Chinon, Touraine; † April 9, 1553, in Paris) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, Roman Catholic friar and secular priest, practicing physician, and lecturer. He is one of the most important prose writers in French literature; of his works, the novel cycle Gargantua and Pantagruel is most well-known. Rabelais-Museum Rabelais began his novitiate as a religious priest in the Franciscan monastery Read more [...]