Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809 –1831) was assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata, a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.
Where did the early 19th century art movement which reacted against Neoclassicism, the academy system and virtuosity in art, take shape?
Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama "Faust", numerous poems and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?
In the early 19th century, who began classifying minerals by their physical characteristics and not, as had been done traditionally, by their chemical composition?