Henri (Hendrik) Conscience (3 December 1812 – 10 September 1883) was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought a...

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, A...

Henry Bordeaux (25 January 1870 – 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer.Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. He was born in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chambéry bar. During his early life, he relocated between Savo...

Henry Céard, born in Bercy on November 18, 1851 and died in Paris on August 16, 1924, was a French novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic. A naturalist writer, he was a close friend of Émile Zola until the Dreyfus Affair. First employed at the War Ministry, he was successively attaché to the...

Henry Gréville (12 October 1842 in Paris – 26 May 1902), pen name for Mrs. Alice Durand, born Fleury, was a French writer.The daughter of a professor, she accompanied her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages and science and married Émile Durand, a French law professor at Petersburg, with whom...

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now b...

Hippolyte de Chavannes de la giraudière is a writer and journalist, whose singular adventures are reported in the Memoirs of Brissot. He is the author of children's books published in the collections "Bibliothèque des familles", "Bibliothèque des enfants", "Bibliothèques des écoles chrétiennes", etc...

Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered repre...

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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law of linguistics, the co-author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the edi...