Some historians have also conjectured that Alexander crucified Callisthenes, his official historian and biographer, for objecting to Alexander's adoption of the Persian ceremony of royal adoration.

Although the Bouffes-Parisiens played to full houses, the theatre was constantly on the verge of running out of money, principally because of what his biographer Alexander Faris calls " Offenbach's incorrigible extravagance as a manager ".

He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell.

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 Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "

About a slightly earlier period, 1815, Beethoven's authoritative biographer, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, writes, " Diabelli, born near Salzburg in 1781, had now been for some years one of the more prolific composers of light and pleasing music, and one of the best and most popular teachers in Vienna.

** Alexander Gilchrist, biographer

His great-niece and biographer, Jean, Lady Polwarth, published a collection of his short stories ( or sketches ) entitled Beattock for Moffatt and the Best of Cunninghame Graham ( 1979 ) and Alexander Maitland added his selection under the title Tales of Horsemen ( 1981 ).

According to his biographer Alexander De Grand, Giolitti was Italy's most notable prime minister after Cavour.

It was in Vienna, Schnittke's biographer Alexander Ivashkin writes, where " he fell in love with music which is part of life, part of history and culture, part of the past which is still alive.

The effort was met with immediate acclaim, and according to Salinger biographer Paul Alexander, it was " the story that would permanently change his standing in the literary community .” Salinger ’ s decision to collaborate with Maxwell and The New Yorker staff in developing the story marked a major advance in his career and led to his entry into that echelon of elite writers at the journal.

* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great

* Alexander Slidell Mackenzie ( 1803 – 1848 ), American naval officer involved in the " Somers Affair ", and biographer

Nevertheless, some historians maintain their original, higher estimates, among them Stalin biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, Perestroika architect and former head of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, and the director of Yale's " Annals of Communism " series Jonathan Brent, putting the death toll at about 20 million.

One biographer claimed that Brown received his earliest military training when he was a military secretary to Alexander Hamilton during the winter of 1798-99, while Hamilton was organizing the U. S. Army for possible war with France.

* Alexander Gilchrist ( 1828 – 1861 ), British biographer

Paul Alexander left the show in December 2003 to pursue work as a playwright and biographer.

Alexander Gilchrist, son of another minister, was the biographer of William Blake.

Alexander Gilchrist ( 1828 – 30 November 1861 ) was the biographer of William Blake.

* Ludwig ( I )' s daughter Countess Charlotte ( 1701-1761 ( married to General Alexander von Dönhoff ), Count Heinrich ( VII )' s widow Marie Thérèse, née d ' Harscamp and Friedrich ( V )' s widow Leopoldine, the biographer of Zieten, were all chief ladies-in-waiting to Princess Henry, sister-in-law of Frederick the Great.

One biographer, Kristin Alexander, suggests that it may have caused Caldwell's attitude to harden significantly.

Marx's biographer Francis Wheen considers the " history of the twentieth century " to be " Marx's legacy ", whilst philosopher Peter Singer believes that Marx's impact can be compared with that of Jesus Christ and Muhammad.

Joseph Ellis, another biographer of Jefferson, believes the events encompassed a variety of elements.

Eric Ives, the biographer of Anne Boleyn ( 1986 ), believes that the play is really a parallel of the fall of the queen, who was beheaded on false charges of adultery on the orders of her husband Henry VIII in 1536.

Her biographer, Jan Dalley, believes that, " Unity found life in her big family very difficult because she came after these cleverer, prettier, more accomplished sisters.

Another biographer believes that they had " no direct physical relationship ", although he dismisses as unlikely suggestions that Balfour was homosexual, or, in view of a time during the Boer War when he replied to an important message whilst drying himself after his bath, Lord Beaverbrook's famous claim that he was " a hermaphrodite " whom no-one ever saw naked.

However, this view is contradicted by David Douglas, a historian and biographer of William the Conqueror, who believes that Robert merely relayed Edward's decision, probably while Robert was on his way to Rome to receive his pallium.

However, later biographer Horner believes the tale dubious, suggesting that Grant made the decision unaided by Hanna.

" His biographer David Dutton believes that Dunglass became interested in politics because of the widespread unemployment and poverty in the Scottish lowlands where his family lived.

Suharto biographer Robert E. Elson believes that such rumours cannot be entirely ruled out, given that much of the information Suharto has given on his origins has been tinged with political meaning.

This negative view of Jane has been rejected by her modern-day biographer, Julia Fox, who believes that Jane actually enjoyed a warm and supportive relationship with Queen Anne and that it was the terror of the palace coup against the Boleyns in 1536 that provoked Jane's testimony, which was twisted by her family's enemies anyway.

" The biographer Carol Rosen believes that after Lind rejected Andersen as a suitor, he portrayed her as The Snow Queen with a heart of ice.

Richard Holmes believed the loan was never repaid, but Haig ’ s biographer Walter Reid believes the loan was probably repaid in 1909.

" Her biographer Sarah Helm believes that Atkins, who still had relatives in Nazi occupied Europe, may have helped them escape by bribing Abwehr officials.

Wand's biographer Wolfgang Seifert believes that " it is no exaggeration to say that Günter Wand has made an indispensable contribution toward the understanding of Bruckner in our time.

While it has been presumed that Raymond took on the writing duties of the strip until a replacement could be found, biographer Tom Roberts instead believes that the strip was written by committee during editorial conference, a view R. C. Harvey believes is supported by the strips themselves.

No copy of the letter has ever surfaced, and based on several other comments the director subsequently made about how the edits " ruined the film ", Reeves's biographer Benjamin Halligan believes Trevelyan may have somehow " misremembered " the existence of this letter, confusing it with an earlier missive from the director in which he made a plea for the BBFC's leniency.

Her biographer Stephen D. Cox ( 2004 ) believes Paterson is the " earliest progenitor of libertarianism as we know it today.

For the first time, the phrase " told for children " was not part of the title — an omission Andersen scholar and biographer Jackie Wullschlager believes exhibited a new confidence on Andersen's part: " These were the most mature and perfectly constructed tales he had written, and though some of them at once became, and have remained favorites of children, Andersen here melds together the childlike and the profound with exceptional artistry.

However, biographer Alonzo Hamby believes that this story, which is not supported by any recorded facts, was a confabulation based on a meeting with a hostile and menacing group of Democrats that contained many Klansmen, showing Truman's “ Walter Mitty-like tendency to rewrite his personal history ”.

In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice ( K. 51 ) for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne ( K. 50 ), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place.

Mozart's earliest biographer Niemetschek alleged that the opera was completed in just 18 days, and in such haste that the secco recitatives were supplied by another composer, probably Süssmayr, believed to have been Mozart's pupil.