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Biography of François-Vincent Raspail (excerpt)
François-Vincent Raspail (January 25, 1794 - January 7, 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physiologist, and socialist politician. Biography Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the republican Carbonari society, Raspail was imprisoned during Louis Philippe's reign (1830-1848) and was a candidate for presidency of the Second Republic in December 1848.
Biography of Washington Irving (excerpt)
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Biography of Adolphe Adam (excerpt)
Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847).
Biography of Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (January 27, 1775 – August 20, 1854), later von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German Idealism, situating him between Fichte, his mentor prior to 1800, and Hegel, his former university roommate and erstwhile friend.
Biography of Félicité de Lamennais (excerpt)
Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, also known as Frédéric de La Mennais (June 19, 1782 - February 27, 1854), was a French priest, and philosophical and political writer. Youth Felicité de Lamennais was born at Saint-Malo in Brittany, the son of Pierre Robert de Lamennais (or La Mennais), a ship-owner ennobled by King Louis XVI for public services, and Gratienne Lorin.
Biography of Samuel F. B. Morse (excerpt)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code. Birth and education Samuel F.B. Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of geographer and pastor Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann loose Morse.
Biography of Francis Scott Key (excerpt)
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Life Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Louis Penn Dagworthy (Charlton) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County and is now Carroll County, Maryland.
Biography of Giovanni Belzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni; sometimes known as The Great Belzoni (November 5, 1778 (birth time source: no original source) – December 3, 1823) was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities. Belzoni was born in Padua as the son of a barber. His family was from Rome and when Belzoni was 16 he went to work there, claiming that he 'studied hydraulics'.
Biography of Phineas Quimby (excerpt)
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866), was a New England philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, and scientist, who resided in Belfast, Maine, and had an office in Portland, Maine. Family The son of blacksmith John Quimby (1765-1827) and Susannah Quimby (1768-1827) née White, Quimby was the sixth of seven children.
Biography of Wilhelm Grimm (excerpt)
Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist, and the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm. Life and work Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel.
Biography of Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (excerpt)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (French pronunciation: ; 15 October 1802 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 October 1857), French general, second son of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Éléonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris. Military career After going through the usual course of study for the military profession, he entered the army as an engineer officer in 1824, and served in the Morea (Peloponnesus) in 1828, becoming captain in the following year.
Biography of Zadkiel (astrologer) (excerpt)
Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology, and in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology, subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac.
Biography of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (excerpt)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 - July 23, 1859) was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore. She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819.
Biography of Pedro I of Brazil (excerpt)
Pedro I (English: Peter of Alcantara Francis Anthony John Charles Xavier of Paul Michael Raphael Joaquim Joseph Gonzaga Pascal Cyprian Seraphim of Braganza and Bourbon) (full name: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon), known as "Dom Pedro Primeiro" (October 12, 1798 – September 24, 1834), proclaimed Brazil independent from Portugal and became Brazil's first Emperor.
Biography of Antoine-Jérôme Balard (excerpt)
Antoine Jérôme Balard (September 30, 1802 - April 30, 1876) was a French chemist and the discoverer of bromine. Born at Montpellier, he started as an apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the faculty of sciences of his native town, and then became professor of chemistry at the royal college and school of pharmacy and at the faculty of sciences.
Biography of Pierre-Chéri Lafont (excerpt)
Pierre-Chéri Lafont, born on May 16, 1797 in Bordeaux (birth time source: Lescaut), died on April 19, 1873, was a French actor. He married dancer Pauline Leroux in 1848.
Biography of Karl von Clausewitz (excerpt)
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz (July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War. Life and times Clausewitz, considered an author of contemporary military strategy, was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, to a poor but middle-class family.
Biography of John Constable (excerpt)
John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection.
Biography of Eugène Verboeckhoven (excerpt)
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (June 9, 1798 - January 19, 1881), Belgian painter, was born at Warneton in West Flanders, and received instruction in drawing and modelling from his father, the sculptor Barthélemy Verboeckhoven. Subsequently he settled in Brussels and devoted himself almost exclusively to animal subjects.
Biography of Jean-Jacques Ampère (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Ampère (August 12, 1800 – March 27, 1864) was a French philologist and man of letters. Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère. Jean-Jacques' mother died while he was an infant. He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe.
Biography of Beau Brummell (excerpt)
Beau Brummell, né George Bryan Brummell (June 7, 1778, London, U.K.–March 30, 1840, Caen, France), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent. He established the mode of men wearing understated, but fitted, beautifully cut clothes, adorned with an elaborately-knotted cravat.
Biography of Marie Dorval (excerpt)
Marie Dorval (January 6, 1798 - May 20, 1849), was a talented French actress. Early life Born Marie Thomase Amélie Delauney; abandoned by her father when she was five years old, and losing her mother to tuberculosis while still a teenager, at age of 15 she married Alain Dorval, a much older actor, who died five years later.
Biography of Agustín de Iturbide (excerpt)
Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824), also known as Augustine of Mexico, was a Mexican army general and politician. During the Mexican War of Independence, he built a successful political and military coalition that took control in Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively gaining independence for Mexico.
Biography of Louis-Eugène-Marie Bautain (excerpt)
Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (February 17, 1796 – October 15, 1867), French philosopher and theologian, was born in Paris. At the École Normale he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of higher teaching, and was soon after called to the chair of philosophy in the university of Strasbourg.
Biography of Frédéric Soulié (author) (excerpt)
Frédéric Soulié, born in Foix December 23, 1800 and died in Bièvres in Essonne Septembre 23, 1847, was a French author, journalist and novelist. Selected bibliography Clothilde, théâtre, 1832 Les deux cadavres, roman, 1832 Le comte de Toulouse, roman, 1835 Le vicomte de Béziers, roman, 1835
Biography of Félix Savary (excerpt)
Félix Savary, born October 4, 1797 in Paris, died July 15, 1841 in Estagel, was a French astronomer, member of Académie des Sciences, December 24, 1832. The discovery of the orbital motion of visual double stars by William Herschel aroused the interest of French astronomers for the observation of double stars and the computation of their orbits at the beginning of the XIX-th century.
Biography of Charles de Bériot (excerpt)
Charles Auguste de Bériot (20 February 1802 - 8 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist. Born in Leuven (Louvain), where there is now a street named in his honour, he studied violin with Jean-Francois Tiby, a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti. He was later encouraged by Viotti himself and briefly worked with Baillot but did not embrace all their teachings and was also influenced by Paganini.
Biography of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (excerpt)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (January 10, 1797 – May 25, 1848) was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets. She was born at the family seat of Hülshoff near Münster into an aristocratic, Catholic family in Westphalia.
Biography of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Xavier Francois, Dauphin of France (October 22, 1781–June 4, 1789) was the second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the Dauphin.
Biography of Antonio José de Sucre (excerpt)
Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (February 3, 1795 – June 4, 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (English: "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan independence leader. Sucre was one of Simón Bolívar's closest friends, generals and statesmen.
Biography of Nicholas I of Russia (excerpt)
Nicholas I (Russian: Николай I Павлович, Nikolaj I Pavlovič), July 6 (June 25, Old Style), 1796 – March 2 (18 February Old Style), 1855), was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs.
Biography of Eduard Mörike (excerpt)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike (Ludwigsburg, 8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875 in Stuttgart) was a German romantic poet. He studied Theology at the Seminary of Tübingen, and followed the ecclesiastical career, becoming a Lutheran pastor. In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Cleversulzbach near Weinsberg, and, after his early retirement for reasons of health, in 1851 became professor of German literature at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart.
Biography of Johann Karl Zahn (excerpt)
Johann Zahn, born August 21, 1631, died August 22, 1707, was a German architect, critif, author, painter and Professor in the Academy of Arts of Berlin in 1829.
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Odessa or Odesa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transport hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Raion and Odessa Oblast, as well a multiethnic cultural center.
Biography of Frédéric Kuhlmann (excerpt)
Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann (22 May 1803 – 27 January 1881) is a French chemist who patented the reaction later used in the Ostwald process. He was both a research scientist and a professor at Université Lille Nord de France. He promoted chemical engineering education for science graduates in Lille and supported the developpement of École centrale de Lille (IDN).
Biography of William I, German Emperor (excerpt)
Wilhelm I, also known as Wilhelm the Great (William Frederick Louis, German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig) (March 22, 1797 – March 9, 1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (January 2, 1861 – 9 March, 1888) and the first German Emperor (18 January 1871 – 9 March, 1888).
Biography of Frédérick Lemaitre (excerpt)
Frédérick Lemaître, (July 28, 1800 - January 26, 1876) was a French actor and playwright. The son of an architect, he was born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime but adopted the first name Frédérick as a stage name.
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Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Erie County. It is located at the eastern end of Lake Erie, adjacent to the Canadian border with Southern Ontario, and at the head of the Niagara River.
Biography of Eugène Chevreul (excerpt)
Michel Eugène Chevreul (August 31, 1786 (birth time source: Arno Müller, birth certificate) – April 9, 1889) was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with discovering margarine and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt.
Biography of Fromental Halévy (excerpt)
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (pronounced ) (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive. Early career Halévy was born in Paris as Elias Levy, the son of a cantor, Élie Halfon Halévy, who was the secretary of the Jewish community of Paris, a writer and a teacher of Hebrew, and a French Jewish mother.
Biography of Victor Schoelcher (excerpt)
Victor Schoelcher (22 July 1804, Paris - 25 December 1893, Houilles) was a French abolitionist writer in the 1800s and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery, and formed an abolition society in 1834.
Biography of Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (excerpt)
Elizabeth d'York, born April 22, 1444, is the fifth child and second daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She became Duchess of Suffolk through her marriage to John de la Pole, Chaucer's great-grandson.
Biography of Jean Reboul (excerpt)
Jean Reboul, born January 23, 1796 in Nîmes and died May 28, 1864, was a French poet. Publications (extract) * L'Ange et l'enfant, 1828 * Poésies, par Jean Reboul de Nîmes, précédées d'une préface par Alexandre Dumas et d'une lettre à l'éditeur par Alphonse de Lamartine, 1836
Biography of Charles de Rémusat (excerpt)
Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat (14 March 1797 - 6 June 1875), was a French politician and writer. Biography He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, of a good family of Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute Garonne, and then of Nord.
Biography of Ludwig Feuerbach (excerpt)
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. Education Feuerbach matriculated in the University of Heidelberg with the intention of pursuing a career in the Church.
Biography of Charles Lamb (excerpt)
Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 – Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
Biography of François-Auguste Mignet (excerpt)
François Auguste Marie Mignet (8 May 1796 - 24 March 1884) was a French journalist and historian. Biography He was born in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), France. His father was a locksmith from the Vendée, who enthusiastically accepted the principles of the French Revolution and encouraged liberal ideas in his son.
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Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately 37 miles (60 km) south-west of Exeter and 190 miles (310 km) south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Biography of Gustav Fechner (excerpt)
Gustav Theodor Fechner (April 19, 1801 – November 28, 1887), was a German experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited to have created the formula "S = KLogI" that proved the existence of a scientific connection between the body and the mind.
Biography of Ludwig I of Bavaria (excerpt)
Ludwig I (also rendered in English as Louis I) (August 25, 1786 in Strasbourg – February 29, 1868 in Nice) was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. Crown Prince He was the son of Count Palatine Maximilian Joseph of Zweibrücken by his first wife Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. |
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