Rudolf Tönnies
Rudolf Tönnies was a Austro- Hungarian and Yugoslav architect and politician( councillor of the Drava Banovina), son of the famous Swedish industrialist Gustav Tönnies.
Together with the Czeck Josip Pospišil and the Austrian Ernst Lichtblau, who had all studied at the Art Academy in Vienna with Karl von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner, Tönnies is considered one of the proponents of the" Bosnian style" as a step towards architectural modernism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as opposed to Moorish Revival style
François Zola
François Zola (7 August 1796 – 27 March 1847) was an Italian-born French engineer.
He built the Zola Dam in Aix-en-Provence.
His son was author Émile Zola.
Percy Edward Pinkerton
Percy Edward Pinkerton( 19 June 1855 – 31 August 1946) was an English translator and poet.
His translations included two novels by Émile Zola and a Puccini libretto.
Percy Edward Pinkerton
Percy Edward Pinkerton( 19 June 1855 – 31 August 1946) was an English translator and poet.
His translations included two novels by Émile Zola and a Puccini libretto.
Ernst Lichtblau
Ernst Lichtblau( 24 June 1883 in Vienna- 8 January 1963 in Vienna) was an Austrian architect and designer.
Brian Nelson (literature professor)
Brian Nelson( born 29 September 1946 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, UK) is a professor emeritus of French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne and editor of the" Australian Journal of French Studies".
Nelson graduated with an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and did postgraduate work at Oxford University where he obtained his D. Phil. in 1979.
Before going to Monash he taught one year in Paris( 1970 – 71) and several years at the University of Wales Aberystwyth( 1973 – 86).
In 1986, he became professor at Monash and retired in 2008.
Nelson taught modern French literature and cultural studies on topics such as Paris and" The Female Body", as well as translation studies.
In addition to a number of monographs including" Zola and the Bourgeoisie" and" Émile Zola: A Selective and Analytical Bibliography", he has made a number of modern translations of Émile Zola for the Oxford World's Classics series.
About these translations, Nelson said:
In addition to being editor of the" Australian Journal of French Studies" since 2002, Nelson co-founded the journal" Romance Studies", edit the monograph series" Monash Romance Studies", and is President of AALITRA( the Australian Association for Literary Translation).
Paul Alexis
Paul Alexis( 16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist.
He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola.
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola( 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best- known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline" J'Accuse …!"
Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
Édouard Toulouse
Édouard Toulouse( 1865- 1947) was a French psychiatrist, journalist, and director of the literary magazine" Demain".
He was born in Marseille on 10 December 1865 and died in Paris 19 January, 1947.
At the beginning of World War I, Toulouse conducted a survey of asylum care in France, and looked to' trasform asylums of confinement into hospitals of mentail health care.'
In 1896 he conducted a survey of men of exceptional genius where he profiled writer Émile Zola and French luminaries to identify shared, explainable characteristics.
Folliowing this project, Toulouse was named the director of a modern clinic in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif.
Toulouse believed artistic creativity had an important role to play in psychological treatment.
In 1912 he established the fortnightly literary journal Demain, which covered a wide array of topics.
A number of important figures worked on the journal, including Antonin Artaud and Jean Paulhan.
Johannes Schlaf
Johannes Schlaf( June 21, 1862 in Querfurt – February 2, 1941 in Querfurt) was a German playwright, author, and translator and an important exponent of Naturalism.
As a translator he was important for exposing the German- speaking world to the works of Walt Whitman, Émile Verhaeren and Émile Zola and is known as a founder of the" Whitman Cult" in Germany.
His literary achievements lie foremost in the scenic- dialogue innovations of" sequential naturalism" and in the formalization of literary impressionism.
He also contributed to the emergence of the" intimate theater."
Some of his poems have been set to music by composers Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg.
He is sometimes mistakenly cited for coining the term" The Third Reich" in relation to Nazism because of his 1906 novel by that name.
The Nazi use of the term comes from a 1923 book Das Dritte Reich by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck.

Question: Did Émile Zola and Ernst Lichtblau have the same nationality?
Answer: no