The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

* 1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer and author ( b. 1799 )

* February 10 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian author ( b. 1799 )

** Honoré de Balzac, French author ( b. 1799 )

* June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss author, painter, and caricature artist ( b. 1799 )

Jedediah Strong Smith ( January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831 ) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader, trailblazer, author, cartographer and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the 19th century.

Besides editing, with memoirs, the works of Friedrich von Hagedorn, Zachariä and other German poets, he was the author of a Handbuch der klassischen Literatur ( 1783 ); Entwurf einer Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften ( 1783 ); Beispielsammiung zur Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften ( 8 vols, 1788 – 1795 ); Lehrbuch der Wissenschaftskunde ( 1792 ); and Denkmäler altdeutscher Dichtkunst ( 1799 ).

A fifth edition with an appendix about ' Medical Electricity ' by John Birch, a surgeon and author of Della Forza dell ' Electricita ( Naples, 1778 ), was published in 1799 with corrections and additions by William Jones, mathematical instrument maker.

Rodolphe Töpffer ( 31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846 ) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist.

* Leger, T., Animal Magnetism ; or, Psycodunamy, D. Appleton, ( New York ), 1846 author is Théodore Léger ( 1799 – 1853 ).

Discharged on health grounds, he obtained a much more congenial post in the newly-founded école centrale of Besançon ; and in 1799 he made his first appearance as an author by an Essai sur l ' art oratoire ( Paris, Fructidor, An VII.

Mary Howitt, author of over 200 books, was born here on 12 March 1799.

* John Wilson ( historian ) ( 1799 – 1870 ), author of Our Israelitish Origin ( 1840 ), a founding text of British Israelism

João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, better known as the author, Almeida Garrett, was born in 1799 in Porto, Portugal.

The last of the direct descendants of Simon Grynaeus was his namesake Simon ( 1725 – 1799 ), translator into German of French and English anti-deistical works, and author of a version of the Bible in modern German ( 1776 ).

* Serafín Estébanez Calderón, Spanish author ( 1799 – 1867 )

The organic remains of the London Clay attracted particular attention, and about the year 1836 he and six other workers founded The London Clay Club-the members comprising Dr Bowerbank, Frederick E. Edwards ( 1799 – 1875 ), author of The Eocene Mollusca ( Palaeontograph.

Serafín Estébanez Calderón ( 27 December 1799 – 5 February 1867 ) was a Spanish author, best known by the pseudonym of El Solitario.

According to Ethelbert Dudley Warfield's book The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: An Historical Study, Breckinridge was the major author of the Kentucky Resolutions.

Quoting Frank Ra ( author of the new year's resolution book " A course in happiness " ): " Resolutions are more sustainable when shared, both in terms of with whom you share the benefits of your resolution, and with whom you share the path of maintaining your resolution.

According to tradition, he was the author of the famous Conciliatory Resolutions, or proposed amendments to the constitution, which did much to win over Samuel Adams and John Hancock to ratification.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.

The author of Crystal Structures is Ralph W.G. Wyckoff, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

the author possesses an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects of vast importance that are highly topical for our time.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

This latter failure is more than merely bad reportage and it is distinctly more important than it would have been had the author drawn Clerfayt as, say, a tournament golfer.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: " The map is not the territory ".

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

Isabel Allende is a prominent Chilean author of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

This is the position set out by the anti-democratic pamphlet known whose anonymous author is often called the Old Oligarch.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Andrew " Tridge " Tridgell ( born 28 February 1967 ) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm.

What rasa actually is, in a theoretical sense, is not discussed and given the Nātyashāstra's pithy wording it is unlikely the exact understanding of the original author ( s ) will be known.

Amy Lee Grant ( born November 25, 1960 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music.

Ammonius Grammaticus is the supposed author of a treatise titled Peri homoíōn kai diaphórōn léxeōn ( περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων, On the Differences of Synonymous Expressions ), of whom nothing is known.

He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

Chapters 7, 21, and 36 – 39 appear also in 2nd Kings: it is not known whether the author of Isaiah borrowed them from Kings, or vice-versa.

Chapters 24 – 27, known as the " Isaiah Apocalypse ", are usually thought to be the work of an author who lived long after Isaiah.

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

In 1972, the winning author John Berger, known for his Marxist worldview, protested during his acceptance speech against Booker McConnell.

Nothing is known of the biography of the author of the book of Malachi although it has been suggested that he may have been Levitical ( which is curious, considering that Ezra was a priest.

Malachi was apparently known to the author of Ecclesiasticus early in the 2nd century BCE.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

The ballads do not have any known author or correct version ; instead, having been passed down mainly by oral tradition since the Middle Ages, there are many variations of each.

Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.

The doctor Bernardo Vera, known in the history of the independence, was the author of the verses that were sung to Robles ' music.

Even earlier examples of this sentiment may be found in Wild Talents by author Charles Fort where he makes the statement: "... a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.