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Biography of Léon Walras (excerpt)
Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (December 16, 1834 in Évreux, France - January 5, 1910 in Clarens, near Montreux, Switzerland) was a French economist, considered by Joseph Schumpeter as "the greatest of all economists". He was a mathematical economist associated with the creation of the general equilibrium theory.
Biography of Charlotte of Belgium (excerpt)
Charlotte of Belgium (Princess Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine of Belgium), (June 7, 1840–January 19, 1927) as Charlotte (or Carlota), Empress of Mexico was the consort of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. Princess of Belgium The only daughter of Léopold I, King of the Belgians (1790–1865) by his second wife, Louise-Marie, Princess of France (1812–1850), Charlotte was born at Laeken Palace in Brussels, Belgium.
Biography of Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (excerpt)
Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (November 7, 1838 – August 19, 1889) was a French symbolist writer and journalist. Life Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to a distinguished aristocratic family. His parents, Marquis Joseph-Toussaint and Marie-Francoise (née Le Nepvou de Carfort) were not rich, however, and were financially supported by Marie's aunt, Mademoiselle de Kerinou.
Biography of Alfonso VII of León and Castile (excerpt)
Alfonso VII (1 March 1105 – 21 August 1157), born Alfonso Raimúndez, called the Emperor (el Emperador), became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126. Alfonso first used the title Emperor of All the Spains, alongside his mother Urraca, once his mother vested him with the direct rule of Toledo in 1116.
Biography of Madeleine de Scudéry (excerpt)
Madeleine de Scudéry (15 November 1607 - 2 June 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. She was the younger sister of author Georges de Scudéry, but is generally regarded as his superior in skill. Born at Le Havre, Normandy, in northern France, she is said to have been very plain as well as without fortune, but she was very well educated.
Biography of Alexandrine Zola (excerpt)
Alexandrine Zola, born March 23, 1839 in Paris, was the wife of French writer Emile Zola.
Biography of Peter Carl Faberge (excerpt)
Peter Carl Fabergé known as Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (RussianКарл Густавович Фаберже, May 30 1846 – September 24 1920) was a Russian jeweler, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials.
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Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara River. It is nicknamed the "Garden City of the Caribbean." It is the retail and administrative and financial services centre of the country, and the city accounts for a large portion of Guyana's GDP.
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Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah, as well as the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With an estimated population of 200,567 in 2019, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,222,540 (2018 estimate).
Biography of Oscar de Négrier (excerpt)
Oscar de Négrier was a French General, born October 2, 1839 in Belfort.
Biography of François-Marie Raoult (excerpt)
François-Marie Raoult (10 May 1830 - 1 April 1901) was a French chemist who conducted research into the behavior of solutions, especially their physical properties. Life and work Raoult was born at Fournes, in the département of Nord. He became aspirant répétiteur at the Lycée of Reims in 1853, and after holding several intermediate positions was appointed in 1862 to the professorship of chemistry in Sens lycée.
Biography of Léopoldine Hugo (excerpt)
Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo, born in Paris 28 August 1824 and died in Villequier on 4 September 1843, was the daughter of novelist, poet and dramatist Victor Hugo and his wife, Adèle Foucher. She married Charles Vacquerie at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843 but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843.
Biography of Bernard of Clairvaux (excerpt)
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist (1090–August 21, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. "The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Catholic Church from 1125 to 1153", his authority helped to end the schism of 1130.
Biography of Gabriel Naudé (excerpt)
Gabriel Naudé (3 February 1600 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – 10 July 1653) was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural.
Biography of Sophia Tolstaya (excerpt)
Countess Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya (née Behrs) (Russian: Со́фья Андре́евна Толста́я, in German transliteration Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja, sometimes Anglicised as Sophia Tolstoy, or in French Sophie Tolstoï ; August 22, 1844 – November 4, 1919), was the wife of Russian novelist and thinker Leo Tolstoy.
Biography of Léon Bonnat (excerpt)
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (June 20, 1833 – September 8, 1922) was a French painter. He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old masters, developing a passion for drawing.
Biography of James McNeill Whistler (excerpt)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail.
Biography of Zéphyrin Camélinat (excerpt)
Zéphyrin Camélinat (Various spellings of his first name are: Zéphirin, Zéphyrenne.) Born: Mailly-la-Ville, Yonne, 1840. Died: Paris, 1932. Zéphyrin Camélinat was a French politician, writer, communard, socialist and communist. Zéphyrin Rémy Camélinat was born into a poor peasant family and became a metal worker by trade.
Biography of Gérard Desargues (excerpt)
Girard Desargues (February 21 1591,and baptized March 2, 1591–October 1661) was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour.
Biography of Pierre Loti (excerpt)
Louis Marie Julien Viaud (January 14, 1850 - June 10, 1923) was a French sailor and writer, who used the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Viaud was born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France, to an old Protestant family. His education began in Rochefort, but at the age of seventeen, being destined for the navy, he entered the naval school in Brest and studied on Le Borda.
Biography of Ludovic Halévy (excerpt)
Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 - 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas. Biography Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris.
Biography of Charles Lancelin (excerpt)
Charles Lancelin, born January 4, 1852 in Dreux, died in 1941, was a French occulist and author.
Biography of Charles V of France (excerpt)
Charles V (21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380), called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death and a member of the House of Valois. His reign marked a high point for France during the Hundred Years' War, with his armies recovering much of the territory ceded to England at the Treaty of Brétigny.
Biography of Ferdinand von Zeppelin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf (Count) von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 – March 8, 1917) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. He was born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden (now part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
Biography of Thomas Huxley (excerpt)
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career.
Biography of José Echegaray (excerpt)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 – September 14, 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. Along with the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904, making him the first Spaniard to win the prize.
Biography of Edward Smith (excerpt)
Captain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was the captain of the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912. He and his wife had a daughter named Helen Melville Smith. There is a statue to his legacy in Lichfield, England.
Biography of Françoise-Xavière Cabrini (excerpt)
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917) also called Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Early Life She was born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, the youngest of thirteen children of Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini who were farmers.
Biography of Benjamin Harrison (excerpt)
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at age 21 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became a prominent state politician.
Biography of André Theuriet (excerpt)
Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (October 8, 1833 - April 23, 1907), French poet and novelist, was born at Marly-le-Roi (Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his mother's province of Lorraine. He studied law in Paris and entered the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau, before his retirement in 1886.
Biography of José Hernández (excerpt)
José Hernández (born José Rafael Hernández y Pueyrredón) (November 10, 1834 – October 21, 1886) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro. Hernández, whose ancestry was a mix of Spanish, Irish, and French, was born on a farm near San Martín (Buenos Aires Province).
Biography of Henry Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (Paris, October 8, 1850 - Miribel-les-Echelles September 17, 1936) was an influential French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is most famous for devising Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists to predict the effect of a change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium.
Biography of Levi Strauss (excerpt)
Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß, (February 26, 1829 - September 26, 1902), was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Company, began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
Biography of Gustave Le Bon (excerpt)
Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir – 13 December 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology.
Biography of Gregor Mendel (excerpt)
Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
Biography of Henri Dunant (excerpt)
Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 – October 30, 1910), aka Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy.
Biography of Joseph Lister (excerpt)
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds.
Biography of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (excerpt)
Princess Isabel of Brazil, daughter of Pedro II, Emperor of Brasil and Princess Teresa of The Two Sicilies, was born 29 July 1846 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died 14 November 1921 Château d'Eu, France. She was the wife of Gaston d'Eu, born 28 April 1842 Château de Neuilly and died 28 August 1922 (Married 15 October 1864 Rio de Janeiro).
Biography of Léon Lhermitte (excerpt)
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (also known as Léon Augustin L'hermitte). Born Mont-Saint-Père, 1844, died Paris, 1925. French painter and etcher of the late nineteenth century. A student of Lecocq de Boisbourdran. A realist artist whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.
Biography of Paul Déroulède (excerpt)
Paul Déroulède (September 2, 1846 - January 30, 1914) was a French author and politician, and a leading figure of the French right-wing. Early life He was born in Paris, and first appeared as a poet in the Revue nationale, under the pseudonym of "Jean Rebel".
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Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands), a mostly flat region in the east of the country.
Biography of Paul Rée (excerpt)
Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Rée (21 November 1849 - 28 October 1901) was a German author and philosopher, and friend of Friedrich Nietzsche. Biography He was born in Bartelshagen, Province of Pomerania, Prussia on the noble estate "Rittergut Adlig Bartelshagen am Grabow" near the south coast of the Baltic Sea.
Biography of François Mansart (excerpt)
François Mansart (January 23, 1598 in Paris - September 23, 1666 in Paris) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".
Biography of Claude-Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (excerpt)
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (October 9, 1581 - February 26, 1638) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-en-Bresse. Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims. They became close friends. Bachet wrote the Problèmes plaisants, of which the first edition was issued in 1612, a second and enlarged edition was brought out in 1624; this contains an interesting collection of arithmetical tricks and questions, many of which are quoted in W.
Biography of Virginia Oldoini (excerpt)
Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was an Italian courtesan who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France]. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography.
Biography of Thomas Charubel (excerpt)
John Thomas (1826-1908) - a Welsh clairvoyant, occultist and healer better known as Charubel. As a young man John Thomas took the path traditionally taken by natural clairvoyants for most of the last thousand years and studied for the Christian ministry. However, he ultimately felt forced to choose between his religious life and his occult and psychic interests and abilities.
Biography of Alfred Fouillée (excerpt)
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (October 18, 1838 - 1912), French philosopher, was born at La Pouëze. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycées of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by the Academy of Moral Science for his work on Plato and Socrates.
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Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The city is anchor to the Monterrey metropolitan area, the second most productive in Mexico with a GDP (PPP) of US$123 billion, and the second largest metropolitan area in México with an estimated population of 5,341,171 people as of 2020.
Biography of Gérard Cooreman (excerpt)
Gérard François Marie Cooreman (25 March 1852 birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – 2 December 1926) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, Cooreman was trained in law, and practised as a lawyer, but was more active as a businessman and financier, and became involved with Catholic social groups.
Biography of René de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Charles René de Paul de Saint-Marceaux (September 23, 1845 - April 23, 1915) was a French sculptor. He was born in Reims and at age eighteen went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. A student of François Jouffroy, he became primarily a sculptor of portrait busts and animals. |
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