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SUMMARY: Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) German poet, novelist, playwright
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Goethe held many different titles and names during his life. Some of which he is known for are poet, novelist, scientist, theatre director, playwright, and philosopher. He is considered today to be one of the greatest German Literary figures of the modern era. He has without a doubt left his mark upon society. But who was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? Here is a short synopsis of his life.

Birth and Early Life
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt Germany to Johan Caspar Goethe and Catharine Elisabeth Textor. Goethe and a sister were the only two children of their parents to survive past a young age. Goethe received education in all subjects and language from his father and from other private teachers. His greatest passion while growing up was drawing when led him to a keen interest in literature. By the time he was eight years old he already knew how to speak Greek, Latin, French, and Italian. His love for the artist no doubt stemmed from his mother who had a knack for storytelling, and his favorite toy puppet sparked his first interest in a life on the stage.

• When Goethe was sixteen he was sent to Leipzig to study law (1965-1768). He was not much for the judicial rules and actually detested the structure. He would much rather attend poetry readings which is where he fell in love with Katchen Schonkopf and began writing poetry versus about her. His first collection of poems titled “Annette” was released in 1970, undoubtedly about his first love. Unfortunately because his studies seemed to be on low priority and did not show improvement he was asked to leave and returned to Frankfurt in August of 1768.

• After returning to Frankfurt in 1768 Goethe became very sick and as a result the relationship with his father became worse. As his mother nursed him back to health, he proved to not enjoy bed rest much and became extremely bored. During this recovery time he wrote an impudent crime comedy but his father grew impatient with him and sent him back to finish his studies in law. He loved Strasbourg and here he met Johann Gottfried Herder who sparked the young man’s interest in Shakespeare. He fell in love with another young woman whom he ended the relationship quickly, but much of his writing at this time reflected the relationship he had been in.

Later Life

• In 1782 Goethe was ennobled
• 1786-1788 Goethe travels to the Italian peninsula which proves to be of great significance for his philosophical development.
• 1782 Goethe declares that he is a “decided non Christian.”
• 1792 Goethe takes part in a battle of Valmy against revolutionary France
• 1806 Goethe married Christiane Vulpius

At the age of 74 Goethe fell in love with a 19 year old girl by the name of Ulrike von Levetzow. He had high hopes for their relationship but was sorely disappointed so returned to Weimar. He wrote a very personal poem called Marienbad. Goethe died in 1832 on March 22. He was buried with Schiller who had died much earlier. after having written many things and contributed to the culture of literature greatly. He was a key figure in German literature and is remembered by many literary figures.

SUMMARY: Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) American physicist
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Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was a famous American physicist. Now, he was not your typical physicist. Not to generalize too much, but people have pretty standard ideas about what a physicist will look like, behave like, dress like, and so forth—for example, the scientists you find in the Far Side might typify your average person’s idea of a physicist. Nerdy, huge headed, bald, with glasses, a lab coat, etc. But Feynman had a little rock ’n roll in him. He dressed very casually—Feynman was a T-shirt kind of guy, a T-shirt and sneakers physicist. He had long, wavy hair, he was handsome; he looked mischievous all the time, as if he’d left a whoopee cushion on your chair.

Now, why spend so much time on this boyish aspect of Feynman; why try to separate him from the physicist herd on the basis of his looks, right off? That’s a good question, but in this instance you have someone whose outward appearance really conformed to his inward personality, and many people believe that it was this T-shirt and tennis shoes aspect of Feynman that helped him to make his exciting and important discoveries. That is, he didn’t think gravely and solemnly as befitting an eminent scientist; he thought about physics with the reckless, curious, adventurous, risk-taking excitement of a child; you know how a child his, excitedly trooping to the backyard with his jar and butterfly net. Not only did this youthful tendency help him in his discoveries, it helped him to become a great and magnetic teacher as well. Students swarmed to hear Feynman lecture, and suddenly a subject that seemed intimidating and cold and out of bounds became this wild adventure.

Feynman, then, quite apart from his discoveries, helped to make physics interesting and approachable for the average person. He published many books in his lifetime, avoiding highly complicated scientific jargon and developing a style that made the complicated subject of physics available to anyone who cared to take a look. Many of his live lectures were recorded and are available on CD, so that you can hear him lecture with all of the pauses, jokes, asides, inspirations, digressions, etc., that made him such a popular professor to begin with.

For those who are interested in the man behind the lectures, Feynman wrote two very popular autobiographical books as well. These help to give insight into how and why and who Feynman was. Years after his death, they still sell very well, and can be found at any local bookstore or online.

Feynman was something of a prodigy from a very early age. Interestingly, however, his I.Q. was only scored at 123—one point below Ted Bundy’s. Not just interestingly, some would say, but inspiringly—Feynman proved that you can be a genius without having a genius’s I.Q. (Feynman disparaged such tests, anyhow, claiming that they couldn’t tell anybody anything fundamental about a person’s intelligence, abilities, creativity, etc.) Anyhow, from very early on Feynman took a keen interest in mathematics and science, and from very early on his unconventional approach to these subjects was made manifest in the classroom. One day, for example, he (along with the rest of his class) was informed that the lecture for that day would be on feline anatomy. Feynman asked the teacher, “Do you have a map of the cat?”

“Do you have a map of the cat?” might very well sum Feynman up in one line. He meant, of course, do you have an illustration of feline anatomy, but he essentially saw the world as a boy does—as a gigantic treasure map with plenty of unexplored territory.

Feynman would go on to gain perfect scores on his entrance exams to Princeton, where he began his lifelong career of discovering and explicating more and more of the “map of the cat.” He eventually received the Noble Prize for his efforts, and is a fine example of the particularly American style of getting a job done.

SUMMARY: Rene Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, writer
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Rene Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician of considerable powers, but his talents went further than that. Rene Descartes is to modern philosophy what Plato is to ancient philosophy, and what Aquinas is to the philosophy of the middle ages—that is, its founding father. From his youth, Descartes was obsessed with math and science. It dominated him; he would rather think about math and science than play outside. He would rather think about math and science than play soldier with the neighbor boys—for Descartes was unusual and talented indeed. He would rather think about math and science than play soldier with the neighbor boys, but when he came to manhood he actually joined the Dutch army—in order to have more time to think, he said! And think he did. He traveled around Europe thinking; he fathered a child, a daughter, who died very young, and broke his heart. He returned to France and devoted himself to philosophy. He began writing books in secret.

Descartes, more than anything else, was interested in unifying science into one great organized schemata, into a system; he wanted to impose order on the disunity of science. But to do that, he must find some grounding principle first. Descartes is the founding father of modern philosophy because he was the first to create a system—a philosophical system, that is, a system that encompassed all areas of knowledge and wisdom, including math and science, including even theology—in the modern style. The modern style of creating philosophical systems is to do it on your own.

In ancient philosophy, but especially in the philosophy of the middle ages, the system, while filled with enormous, important personalities to be sure, was nevertheless more like a web cast out, out, out across the west and deeply into the east. (We owe our Aristotelian inheritance largely thanks to the astonishing efforts of medieval Islamic philosophers, for example, who preserved and handed down Aristotle’s texts when they had been all but lost to their native lands.) I.e., it was “the” system, not “a” system. You had enormous personalities to be sure, but still they were joined together as it were with a web, with each building on the efforts of each, or at least borrowing heavily from one another; ancient and medieval philosophy have very much a family feel to them, while modern philosophy is about renegades, lone wolves.

Modern philosophy is the story of lone wolves creating philosophical systems, seemingly, out of nothing; when you think of modern philosophers, you think of them singly—Descartes, Hegel, Kant, Newton, Pascal, James, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein—you think of these lonely figures spinning out webs of systems, but in the privacy of their library. Of course, modern philosophers relied heavily on the past and on each other. Still, though, it can’t be denied that modern philosophy (as well as much of modernity in general) has a certain loneliness to it. Descartes wanted to build a system that would unify philosophy, and said that he must first have a groundwork, a foundation. His essential question was, what can I build my system on? What am I sure of enough that I can construct an entire philosophical system on it?

Well, everyone, probably, has heard the famous summation of the answer to this question—when at last it came. “I think, therefore I am”—that’s Rene Descartes! He set out and ruthlessly began to doubt everything he was certain of; everything. Love, the natural world, the body—he doubted it all. And he found, in the end, that what he was left with was—his mind. His mind was the one thing he knew, the one thing he controlled with almost absolute power; he couldn’t helpt getting a toothache, he couldn’t helpt it if his knees ached! But his mind, there was the seat of power. And he proceeded to build his system from there, a system, to be sure, that would be knocked about and shaken and tried and examined from every angle in his day, just as it is in our own. Probably today it wouldn’t be a good idea to join the army for a little peace and quiet, for a little thinking time. But perhaps next time you hear or read “I think, therefore I am”—perhaps you’ll think of Descartes in his handsome Dutch uniform, and you’ll know that you are. That is, you’ll know you exist, because you’re thinking! Three cheers!

SUMMARY: Ray Bradbury ( August 22, 1920) American author, playwright
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Ray Bradbury was born in 1920, and the next day he went out and got a library card. Of course, that’s a slightly exaggerated account. He was drawn to books at an age when other boys are drawn to mud pies, though. He was a reader from the beginning. All the librarians in his hometown of Waukegan, Illinois new him on a first-name basis. “Hi, Ray. Back already?” etc. He was one of these figures such as Matilda in Roald Dahl’s book of the same name. Very precocious—though without the gift of ESP. Nevertheless, paranormal activities such as ESP did interest him very much back then, and continued to interest him as got older, and older, and older, so that he’s probably working hard on a short story or novel featuring the paranormal as you read this!

Actually, there’s a story about how Ray Bradbury became a writer himself that might amuse you. It’s a true one; and a little bizarre; and so very, very appropriate. (For Ray Bradbury.) One day in 1932 twelve-year-old Bradbury went to a nearby carnival. Carnivals, as everyone knows, are weird, mysterious events. One of Bradbury’s most famous books is about a carnival. Well—as Bradbury walked around, he noticed an eccentric-looking figure making quite a scene of it there in the carnival grounds. He looked like a mad wizard, or something. He had this shimmery suit on, sunlight reflected off him in these shimmery, blinding ripples. Bradbury was intrigued. Just who was this shimmery, wild-looking, voluble man!

Well, it was Mr. Electrico. He was attached to the carnival. Mr. Electrico was Bradbury’s original wizard, like Merlin was King Arthur’s. Mr. Electrico could perform amazing feats with, you guessed it, electricity. And this is what he did to Bradbury. He preformed a feat on Bradbury, either intuitively or randomly sensing that Bradbury, of all the crowd, was the person requiring a feat. What happened, apparently, was that he suddenly lunged at Bradbury with an electrified sword—Bradbury couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe!—Mr. Electrico lunged out with this terrible blazing sword but at the last second checked himself and very delicately touched Bradbury’s shoulder with the tip of the blade, at the same time shouting “Live forever!” in a commanding and terrible voice.

Electricity went down and up Bradbury as if his veins had become wires. Each and every one of his hairs stood straight up. The crowd laughed. Mr. Electrico forgot Bradbury entirely and went on with his act. But starting the next morning, and every morning since then, without fail, including this morning, Bradbury wrote part of a story.

Strange? Yes—this isn’t at all the typical way that authors begin writing. You can safely say that being zapped with an electrified sword by a partially insane carnival performer doesn’t feature in the early chapters of most writers’ biographies. However—whatever. Whatever works! Bradbury’s output has been enormous. He’s written hundreds of tales, dozens of novels; he’s created universe! There’s no mistaking a Bradbury story, there’s no mistaking the Bradbury style. There are thousands of science fiction writers in existence, and lots of them are good at what they do, but Bradbury—with Bradbury you’ve got a different thing, he’s separated out. He’s a live, fleshy, breathing and aging man, but he’s also a literature; he’s become a literature.

Very few writers become their own literature, so that when you read a single sentence from them you think of them as much as the sentence, and there’s no explaining it when it happens. It’s true that such writers have things in common, such as they read a lot, they wrote a lot, they weren’t your average personality, etc. But this can be said of a million published writers, who, if they aren’t unknown, haven’t managed to become so completely themselves, so completely and authentically “their own style,” that their books are completely themselves. So, all you can do is read the books and learn about these very exceptional writers (for added pleasure). For instance, read Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and then read the account of how, as a very young, very poor father, he tapped it out after work, at about the rate of one page per night, on an primeval typewriter in the basement of his—you guessed it again!—local library.

SUMMARY: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856–2 November 1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist
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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, literary critic and a social reformer. He accepted the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. He was born on July 26, 1856 in a lower-middle class family, in Dublin, Ireland. He was the third child and the only son of George Carr Shaw, a corn miller, and Lucinda Elisabeth (Gurly) Shaw a professional singer and a voice teacher. The family didn’t have very much money to send George to the best private school or university. He attended several regular schools in his hometown in Dublin. George developed a profound knowledge of music, art and literature which originated from his mother’s influence and a few of his visits to the National Gallery of Ireland.

When George was 15, his mother decided to leave his father taking her two daughters to pursue her singing and music teaching career in London. George stayed behind and worked as a junior clerk for an estate office to support his father and himself. In 1876, he finally convinced himself to leave Dublin and his father and join his mother and sisters in London. His mother and his older sister had established a successful music career for them in London. When his father died in 1885, he didn’t attend the funeral, and neither did his mother and his surviving sister (the other sister had died previously). While in London, George had high hopes of becoming a writer, but unfortunately he continually experienced frustration and poverty. He depended heavily on his mother to help him financially. He spent a lot of his time in libraries and in the British Museum reading room writing novels and educating himself. He soon joined other public street speakers and gave lectures on socialism standing on soapboxes on street corners. He quickly became one of the most sought after public speakers in England. He wrote “Fabian Manifest”, “Fabianism and the Empire” and “Socialism for Millionaire” and many other articles. He tried to have his written work published but every publisher in London continuously rejected the writings.

His first success started on September 17, 1894 after he wrote “Arms and the Man” which was presented on the American soil at the Herald Square Theater in New York by Richard Mansfield. His work began to quickly take off especially in the U.S. theatre and worldwide. Gradually, he started to reach popularity and fame but not yet in English Theater until ten years later around 1904. He became one of the most magnificent journalists in London. Some of his greatest works for the stage are “Caesar and Cleopatra”, “the Don Juan in Hell”, Episode of “Man and superman”, “Heartbreak house” and many more. In 1898, George decided to cease working as a theatre critic and marry Charlotte Payne Townsend, a wealthy Irish woman. It’s been said that his marriage to his wife Charlotte was no more than a platonic relationship. Anyhow, they stayed married until her death in 1943. Being a celebrity, George continued to be involved in local and international politics, writing plays and travelling the world. He visited the Soviet Union having been invited by Stalin himself.

George Bernard Shaw had lived a long and prosperous life. He died in 1950 at the age of 94. He died from complications of his injuries caused by falling from a ladder while pruning a tree on his property at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hetfordshire outside of London.

SUMMARY: Galileo (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
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Galileo Galilei, one of the world’s most renowned and famous scientists, was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. His father was Vincenzo Galilei, who died in 1591, wished for Galileo to go to medical school, and so Galileo went to the University of Pisa to study medicine in 1581. However, Galileo was actually more interested in math and science than in medicine, and he ended up studying math instead. In 1589 Galileo received a job from the University as the head of the math department. It was during this time that he proved that objects fell at the same speed, no matter how heavy they are. He would work at the University of Pisa until 1592 when he would switch to the University of Padua where he would also become a professor of mathematics, and work there for about 18 years.

While at the University of Padua, Galileo had three children between the years 1600 to 1606 with a woman named Marina Gamba, although they were never officially married. His two oldest children became nuns, but his youngest son was able to get married. Some suppose that this is because there was a dowry required for daughters, which Galileo was not able to pay, and since Galileo came from nobility, and his daughters were considered to be illegitimate, he didn’t feel that he would be able to get them married, and so they went into the convent.

During Galileo’s 18 years at the University of Padua, Galileo accomplished much scientific and technological advancement. He would explore his love for mechanical things. He loved to visit the shipyard and explore mechanical devices that could benefit the naval industry. He worked on an improved a precision compass, which was more precise than previous versions. He invented a pump during this time as well. He also continued to be interested in physics, continuing the work of his predecessors. He formulated the correct mathematical expression for acceleration.

One of the things for which he is famous is improving the telescope. He was able to see planets, their moons, the moon and the sun up to 20 times as close as previous telescopes. With this tool, his interest and study of astronomy, he proved that Nicolas Copernicus was correct about the earth not being the center of the universe, or even the solar system. He was able to show that the sun is actually the center of the solar system and that the other planets orbit the sun.

In 1613, Marina Gamba, the mother of Galileo’s children, married another man, but remained friends with Galileo.

Because of Galileo’s insistence that the earth rotated around the sun, Galileo got in trouble with the Catholic inquisition. The inquisition was an organization in the church responsible getting rid of heresies. He was warned in 1624 that he could write about the sun being the center of the solar system only as a mathematical idea, and not as a fact. It was the belief of the Catholic Church at that time that the earth was the center of the universe. However, after Galileo’s book on the subject was published, he had to defend himself in front of the inquisition. Galileo was found guilty of heresy and would remain under house arrest for the remainder of his life. In 1638, he was allowed to move to his home in Florence where he lived out his life until he died in 1642.

SUMMARY: Fyodor Dostoevsky (November 11 1821–February 9 1881) Russian novelist
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Fyodor Dostoevsky a Russian novelist and short story writer was born on October 30, 1821 at the Marinsky Hospital for the poor in Moscow where his father Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky worked as a doctor. His mother was Maria Fyodorovna Nechaeva, the daughter of a wealthy Moscow merchant. Fyodor was the second son of seven children. He received a private education at home and at a private school. He grew up in an oppressive middle-class family in Moscow. His mother was very gentle and loving but his father on the other hand, was known to be a stingy and authoritative man as well as the main disciplinarian in the family. It was also speculated that after his father retired to his estate in the village of Darovoye situated in the district of Kashir, province of Tula, he was murdered by his own slaves due to his awful temper and fearful state of mind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky lived much of his childhood being reserved and alienated from his father, mother and family. Regardless of his relationship with his parents, he grew closer to his elder brother Mikhail. The two brothers joined the semi-boarding school of Drashusov in January of 1833 where they took different courses but never failed to meet for lunch every day. A year later in 1834, both Fyodor and Mikhail entered the Moscow private boarding school of Leonty Ivanovich Chermak. In 1837, Fyodor’s mother passed away just before he turned 16. After her death, Fyodor and his brother Mikhail decided to escape the tyrant atmosphere of his father’s household. They moved to Petersburg where they first entered the preparatory boarding school of Captain K.F. Kostmarov. Later on around 1838, Fyodor entered the Academy of Military Engineering while his brother Mikhail moved to Revel to join an Engineering detachment.

Fyodor graduated from the Academy of Military Engineering as a lieutenant but soon realized that working in the military gave him no profound satisfaction. He found that he would rather become an author and started devoting himself to writing. His writing career started as a translator. He translated Balzac’s Eugenie Grandet in 1843 and George Sand’s La Derniere Aldini in 1844. While working on the two translations, he also started writing his first novel called “Poor Folk”. Before its publication in 1846, Fyodor’s name became known in the Petersburg literary circles. In 1848, he began attending a group of young intellectuals to discuss political and literary matters. This type of group was not permitted at the time in Russia so in 1849, they were caught, imprisoned and sentenced to death. As they waited for the firing squad to proceed with the sentence, a miracle happened. Their lives were spared. The Czar announced the reducing of their sentence from death to hard labor in Siberia. He spent four years in hard labor in Siberia penitentiary and was released in 1858. While he was serving his sentence in the prison of Siberia, he became a soldier, a monarchist and a faithful follower of the Russian Orthodox Church.

He married his first wife the widowed Maria Dimitrievna Isaeva in the town of Kuznetsk in 1857. By an imperial decree, he regained his hereditary as a nobleman. In 1858, he was released from his military service and he returned to Petersburg where he started writing again. He published some of his popular novels called “The House of the Dead” 1862, “Notes from Underground” 1864, “Crime and Punishment” 1866, “The Idiot” 1868 and “Devils” 1971 which most of them describes his painful experiences in Siberia’s prison. In 1862, while visiting Europe, he started having an affair with a young college student Apollinaria Suslova while still married to his wife Dimitrievna. He later asked Apollineria to marry him but unfortunately, she declined. His wife Dimitrievna died in 1864 followed by his brother Mikhail. Now, he was left with no one to love and his brother’s debts up to his ears. This resulted in heavy gambling as a quick fix for his financial problems. He married his second wife Grigorievna Snitkina in February 15, 1867. They met when he desperately needed help with his novel called “The Gambler”. Together, they had 3 children. He died in January 29, 1881 in St. Petersburg.

SUMMARY: Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) American architect
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Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, a genius in the originality of his work and was considered one of the greatest figures in 20th century architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright was originally named Frank Lincoln Wright and later changed his middle name from Lincoln to Lloyd after his parents’ divorce.

Frank Lloyd Wright was born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center in southwestern Wisconsin to William Cary Wright a music teacher and a Baptist minister and Anna Lloyd Jones, a teacher. Growing up, Frank’s mother would post pictures of large and beautiful buildings in his room’s walls with the intent of inspiring him from the earliest time of his life to become an architect. At age 10, his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin where his father taught music lessons and became the secretary of the newly formed Unitarian Church. Unable to consistently provide for his family, his mother asked for a divorce which was finalized in 1885. Frank’s father left Wisconsin after the divorce to never again be seen by his wife or children.

Frank Lloyd Wright attended Madison High School and later took classes for a couple of semesters including drafting at the University of Wisconsin. He was offered a job while attending the University of Wisconsin working for Allan D. Conover, a local professor of civil engineering. In 1887, he decided to leave school and take the next train to Chicago. He quickly found a job working in the architectural firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee as a tracer for about eight dollars a week. He worked for Joseph Lyman Silsbee’s for a period of a year before he decided to take a better paying drafting job working for the firm of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Alder helping with the new design of the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. Frank often referred to Sullivan as his “beloved Master” and considered him to be the only architect who made an impact in his future work. Once Sullivan discovered that Frank was designing houses without his knowledge and was accepting independent commissions, feeling betrayed he soon fired him.

In 1889, he met and married his first of three wives Catherine Lee Clark Tobin the daughter of a wealthy businessman. He bought a lot in Oak Park, Illinois and built his first home. Frank and Catherine raised six children together in the house that went through so many changes and additions to accommodate the needs of his growing family, and more importantly, to develop his Prairie style of architecture.

Frank opened up an architectural office in downtown Chicago after he was fired from Sullivan and Dankmar. In 1894 he relocated his firm to the 11th floor of the Steinway Piano Company building, where others interested in starting the Prairie School of Architecture soon joined him. This arrangement only lasted for four years when he decided to add a studio onto his home in Oak Park to establish his own practice.

In 1903, Frank designed a house for Edwin Cheney, a neighbor in Oak Park and soon fell in love with his client’s wife Margaret or “Mamah” Borthwick Cheney regardless of his 20 years of marriage to his wife Catherine. Catherine refused to grant Frank a divorce so in 1909, Frank and Mamah flew secretly to Europe allowing them a chance to deepen their relationship. They lived in Europe for a period of two years before returning to the U.S.

Shortly after his return to the U.S., Frank closed his Oak Park studio to start a new firm in Chicago. He also built a house that he called Taliesin for himself and Mamah Cheney located in Spring Green, on a property that his mother purchased for him. On August 15, 1914 while Frank was working on an important project in Chicago, a recently hired male worker, Julian Carleton set his Taliesin home on fire after killing Mamah, her two children and four other workers with an axe. Devastated, Frank decided to bury himself in his work. Following the incident at Taliesin, Frank met Miriam Noel a self-proclaimed sculptor. He decided to rebuild his Taliesin home and married Miriam Noel in November 1923. Her addiction to morphine soon dissolved the marriage. Frank met Olga Milanoff Hinzenberg and asked her to move in with him. Three years later after the birth of their daughter, he and Olga were married.

Frank passed away on April 9th 1949. He has left a rich heritage of unique and magnificent buildings. He is one the most recognizable architects of all time.