Mononymous person town of Stendal, birthplace of the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, whom Stendhal admired. In the 20th century, a fourth French writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (author of "Gigi", 1945), used her actual surname as her mononym pen name, Colette. Some French actors and singers have used their given name or surname as a stage mononym. In the 17th and 18th centuries, most Italian castrato singers used mononyms as stage names (e.g. Caffarelli, Farinelli). The German writer, mining engineer and philosopher, Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), became famous as Novalis. The 19th-century Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–87), better
Gabrielle Clerk Gabrielle Clerk Gabrielle "Gaby" Clerk (born Gabrielle Brunet; 30 June 1923 – 18 December 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at the Université de Montréal. She was one of the first psychoanalysts in Canada. In 1940 Gabrielle Brunet enrolled at the Université de Montréal's Institute of Psychology, which had just been founded by Father Noël Mailloux. She was part of the first class of six students along with and Thérèse Gouin-Décarie. After obtaining a licence in psychology in 1948 from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, she was entrusted with teaching duties as a