Teodor Shanin was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class: Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910–25. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shanin moved to Russia where, with funding from The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and others, he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995. Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Teodor Vârnav was a Romanian writer and translator. Born in Moldavia, he settled in Bessarabia after the 1812 partition of Moldavia at the end of the Russo-Turkish War.
Teofil Aleksander Lenartowicz was a Polish ethnographer, sculptor, poet and Romantic conspirator. Linked to Bohemians among Warsaw intellectuals, Lenartowicz was associated with Oskar Kolberg and Roman Zmorski in the anti-Tsarist independence movement, and participated in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 during his stay in Kraków. While in exile he taught Slavic literature at the University of Bologna, composed patriotic and religious poems, as well as lyrical and historical epics based on the folklore of his beloved region of Mazowsze. He did portrait-sculptures, and designed tombstones.
Teofilis Tilvytis was a Lithuanian poet. He was born in Gaidžiai in the Tauragnai district, Ukmergė county. He studied at the Panevėžys and Utena gymnasiums, before joining the Tax Inspectorate in Kaunas where he worked from 1923 to 1930. He studied acting at the National Theatre, and appeared in performances of the Vilkolakis Theatre troupe. He also began writing seriously from the mid-1920s, and between 1933 and 1940, he edited or co-edited the satirical newspaper Kuntaplis.
Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga was a Portuguese writer, playwright, politician and the leader of the Republican Provisional Government after the overthrow of King Manuel II, as well as the second elected president of the First Portuguese Republic, after the resignation of President Manuel de Arriaga.
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was an African Roman playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 166–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. It is thought that Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease. He was supposedly on his way to explore and find inspiration for his comedies. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by William Shakespeare.
Terence Copley was a British academic and author. Terence Copley was Professor of Educational Studies at the University of Oxford, England and also Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at the University of Exeter, England.
