In October 1889 he read a biography of Conrad Gessner, a Swiss naturalist and a leading figure of modern biology, and swore he would become Japan's Gessner, which was when his quest for the wonders of cryptogam began.

* Tom Bower's biography Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge ( ISBN 0007232349 ) was published in 2006 by Harper Collins.

Yet, for the most part, Ley turned back to his original scientific interests, while writing a biography of Conrad Gessner ( the " Father " of modern Zoology ).

A biography of the couple by Tom Bower, Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge, featuring an unflattering portrayal of Amiel, was published in November 2006.

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A Personal Record is an autobiographical work ( or " fragment of biography ") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.

The series was written ( but not directed ) by Oscar-winning film director Denys Arcand, and because based in large part on Conrad Black's popular biography.

* Charles Conrad biography at the United States Army Center of Military History

George Herbert Volk, his second son, is noted as a pioneer builder of seaplanes, whilst another son, Conrad Volk, wrote a biography of his father.

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

The modern interpretation, following that of Louis Duchesne, who compiled the major scholarly edition, is that the Liber Pontificalis was gradually and unsystematically compiled, and that the authorship is impossible to determine, with a few exceptions ( e. g. the biography of Pope Stephen II ( 752 – 757 ) to papal " Primicerius " Christopher ; the biographies of Pope Nicholas I and Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) to Anastasius ).

Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) is the last pope for which there are extant manuscripts of the original Liber Pontificalis: the biographies of Pope John VIII, Pope Marinus I, and Pope Adrian III are missing and the biography of Pope Stephen V ( 885 – 891 ) is incomplete.

Guillermi's version is mostly copied from other works with small additions or excisions from the papal biographies of Pandulf, nephew of Hugo of Alatri, which in turn was copied almost verbatim from the original Liber Pontificalis ( with the notable exception of the biography of Pope Leo IX ), then from other sources until Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), and with contemporary information from Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ).

When historical events are involved in their biography, overt retcons may be used to accommodate this ; a character who served in the army during World War II might have his service record retconned to place him in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, etc.

This made him heir to the throne according to Edward III's entail to the crown of 1376, but, as Dr. Ian Mortimer has recently pointed out in his biography of Henry IV, this had probably been supplanted by an entail of Richard II made in 1399 ( see Ian Mortimer, The Fears of Henry IV, appendix two, pp. 366 – 9 ).

The account given in Plutarch's biography of Crassus also mentions that, during the feasting and revelry in the wedding ceremony of Artavazd's sister to the Parthian king Orodes II's son and heir Pacorus in Artashat, Crassus ' head was brought to Orodes II.

It exists in only 24 fragments, but he apparently attempted to write a biography of the Greek nation from earliest times to the reign of Philip II.

Francis II depiction in movies are only as the husband of Marie Stuart, as a prologue to the biography of the famous queen of Scotland.

She chronicled the life and times of Charles II in a well-reviewed 1979 eponymous biography.

Baldinucci's son wrote the first biography of his father ; Baldinucci's notes are conserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence ( MSS Fondo Nazionale II. II. 110 )

* Blanning, T. C. W. Joseph II ( 1994 ), 228 pp ; a short scholarly biography

Up to World War II any member of BBC staff involved in a divorce could lose their job though in his biography of Reith Ian McIntyre records that after his BBC days Reith himself may have had an affair with a colleague.

In October 2001, a dedication of the memorial was held, featuring a 12-foot, 26, 000-pound anchor from a World War II destroyer, a memorial wall containing a bronze relief sculpture of the admiral and a plaque with his biography.

In his biography of James II, John Callow states that Anne " made the greatest single impact upon his thinking.

Brand who has published an extensive biography on this Pharaoh and his numerous works, stresses in his thesis that relief decorations at various temple sites at Karnak, Qurna and Abydos which associate Ramesses II with Seti I, were actually carved after Seti's death by Ramesses II himself and, hence, cannot be used as source material to support a co-regency between the two monarchs.

Under the empire he withdrew altogether from political life, and occupied himself entirely with his duties as a professor of history and with historical writings, the most original of which is a biography, Richard II, épisode de la rivalité de la France et de l ' Angleterre ( 2 vols., 1864 ).

He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint Martin of Tours.

His legendary biography is found in several late renderings ( see below ), the earliest surviving narrative being found in a manuscript chronicle of world history written by Elis Gruffydd in the 16th century.

Each of the first four songbooks includes a detailed official biography, which is each time updated: this way, such songbooks, corresponding to the band's first four albums, chronicle the early official biography of Culture Club, from 1982 to 1986.

A chronicle in Venetian dated of 1360-1362 and attributed to an Enrico Dandolo gives a short biography of Marco Sanudo starting with his struggle in Crete against Enrico Pescatore.

He completed Erchanbert's chronicle, arranged a martyrology, composed a metrical biography of Saint Gall, and authored other works.

Picking up where Niland left off, the Park-completed biography is a carefully compiled chronicle of Darcy's short life as seen through the eyes of his contemporaries.

* Norman Cousins, Editor and Writer-An online biography of his life and chronicle of his work.

Alaqa Gabru continues Tekle Giyorgis ' chronicle only until the beginning of his fifth regnal year, or mid-October 1782 ; from this point, the Royal chronicle is taken up with the biography of one of the warlords of the Zemene Mesafint, Hailu Eshte.

Like Spearhafoc, Mannig's biography, with some precise details, is given in the chronicle maintained by his abbey.

Like Spearhafoc, Mannig's biography, with some precise details, is given in the chronicle maintained by his abbey.

But the historian of literature need not confine his attention to biography or to stylistic questions of form, `` texture '', or technique.

) An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

The Oxfordian case is based on purported similarities between Oxford's biography and events in Shakespeare's narrative works ; parallels of language, idiom, and thought between Oxford's letters and the Shakespearean canon ; and marked passages in Oxford's Bible that appear in some form in Shakespeare's plays.

For an example of the form that morganatic unions tend to take amongst African royalty, we have only to look at the biography of the continent's favourite son: President Nelson Mandela, the former leader of South Africa.

Thus biography can form one part of the larger study of the cultural significance, underlying program, or agenda of a work ; a study which gained increasing importance in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.

King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of recordings by Dr. King, framed by celebrity narrators, including Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Clarence Williams III, Burt Lancaster, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte,

Another form that interested him throughout his life was poetry ; the biographer Peter Alexander includes many of these poems in his biography of Alan Paton.

The whole work was reissued in a revised and slightly abridged form by Ashley in 2 volumes in 1879, with the title The Life and Correspondence of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston ; the letters are judiciously curtailed, but unfortunately without indicating where the excisions occur ; the appendices of the original work are omitted, but much fresh matter is added, and this edition is undoubtedly the standard biography.

" ( 1760 and 1761 ), a burlesque of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life in the form of The Oeconomy of a Winter's Day ( 1750 ), a biography of Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV of France in 1760, and a great deal of translation and review work.

He was the author of numerous works, including: a Greek grammar in the form of question and answer, like the Erotemata of Manuel Moschopulus, with an appendix on the so-called " Political verse "; a treatise on syntax ; a biography of Aesop and a prose version of the fables ; scholia on certain Greek authors ; two hexameter poems, one a eulogy of Claudius Ptolemaeus — whose Geography was rediscovered by Planudes, who translated it into Latin — the other an account of the sudden change of an ox into a mouse ; a treatise on the method of calculating in use amongst the Indians ( ed.

Stephen Calvert, which appeared only in serialized form and in the posthumous 1815 biography, remained little-read until the end of the 20th century, but is notable as the first US novel to thematize same-sex sexuality.

His published books to date form an eclectic list, including debunking the supernatural, anecdotes about Parliament, a biography, his thoughts about the United States, a serious political review, and collected Christmas round-robin letters.

He began to collect notes on his life in diary form to serve as source material for a biography ; although the biography was never written, these notes are a rich source of information on Ashmole and his times.

As the cycle evolved over eight years, Barney looked beyond biology as a way to explore the creation of form, employing narrative models from other realms, such as biography, mythology, and geology.

The Mahāvastu compiled by the Lokottaravadin sub-school of the Mahāsānghika was perhaps originally the preamble to their vinaya that became detached ; hence, rather than dealing with the rules themselves, it takes the form of an extended biography of the Buddha, which it describes in terms of his progression through ten bhumis, or stages.

3 ), and interspersed with ( 210 ) chapters on history ( to 1815 ), as the most philosophical, interesting and natural form ( but modern lives were so many that the plan broke down, and a division of biography, to be in 2 vols., was announced but not published );

As the cycle evolved over eight years, Barney looked beyond biology as a way to explore the creation of form, employing narrative models from other realms, such as biography, mythology, and geology.

She also completed his research into the life of Les Darcy, releasing it in the form of a biography, Home Before Dark ( 1995 ), that was written with her son-in-law Rafe Champion.

* Vida ( Occitan literary form ), the name of a medieval literary genre, a brief prose biography in Occitan of a troubadour or trobairitz

The earliest mention of Dhul-Qarnayn outside the Qur ' an is found in the works of the earliest Muslim historian and hagiographer, Ibn Ishaq (?- 761 AD ), which form the main corpus of the Sira ( religious biography ) literature.

The most notable event in the journal is Boswell's meeting Samuel Johnson, the famous writer, moralist, and lexicographer with whom Boswell would form a close relationship, eventually writing the biography Life of Johnson.

The collaboration between the two men was often contentious due to extreme creative differences in writing style and in their visions of what type of biography should result ; Weik favored a narrative linear form while Herndon wanted essentially a loosely connected volume of reminiscences grouped by type such as domestic life, law practice, political philosophy, etc ..