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Biography of William Falconer (excerpt)
William Falconer (Edinburgh, UK, February 21 1732–1769) was a Scottish poet. Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, The Shipwreck (1762), a work of genuine, though unequal, talent.
Biography of Friedrich Klopstock (excerpt)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (IPA: ) (2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. Biography Klopstock was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer. Both in his birthplace and on the estate of Friedeburg on the Saale, which his father later rented, young Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more attention having been given to his physical than to his mental development he grew up a strong healthy boy and was an excellent horseman.
Biography of Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (excerpt)
Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (b. 31 December 1715 at Darney in Lorraine; d. at Versailles, 9 April 1790) was a French Catholic theologian. He was a critic of the philosophes, accusing them in particular of distorting the facts on social life in China and Confucianism.
Biography of Robert Clive (excerpt)
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He began as a writer for the East India Company (EIC) who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by securing a decisive victory in Bengal.
Biography of Henry Fielding (excerpt)
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the comic novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners.
Biography of Julie de Lespinasse (excerpt)
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (9 November 1732 – 23 May 1776) was a French salon holder and letter writer. She held a prominent salon in Paris during the Enlightenment. She is best-known today, however, for her letters, first published in 1809, which offer compelling accounts of two tragic love affairs.
Biography of Johann Georg Hamann (excerpt)
Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as the “the Wizard of the North” who was one of the leader figures of post Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J.
Biography of Luise Gottsched (excerpt)
Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (born Kulmus, 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy. She was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal Prussia (Crown of Poland).
Biography of Louis, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis, Dauphin of France (Louis Ferdinand; 4 September 1729 – 20 December 1765) was the elder and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and his wife, Queen Marie Leszczyńska. He had a younger brother, Philippe, who died as a toddler.
Biography of Anne-Marie du Boccage (excerpt)
Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage, née Le Page, (22 October 1710 – 8 August 1802) was an 18th-century French writer, poet, and playwright. In February 1748, she published a translation in six cantos of Milton's Paradise Lost, which she dedicated to the Rouen Academy.
Biography of Louise d'Épinay (excerpt)
Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (11 March 1726 – 17 April 1783), better known as Mme d'Épinay, was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment.
Biography of Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle (excerpt)
Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress from 1742 until 1744.
Biography of Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius (excerpt)
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius (23 July 1722 – 12 August 1800), also Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d'Autricourt, nicknamed "Minette", maintained a renowned salon in France in the eighteenth century. One of the twenty-one children of Jean-Jacques de Ligniville and his wife Charlotte de Saureau, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, the niece of Madame de Graffigny, married the philosopher Helvétius in 1751.
Biography of Marie-Louise Mignot (excerpt)
Marie Louise Mignot (1712–1790) was a French literary figure. She was the daughter of Voltaire's sister, Catherine Arouet (1686–1726) and her husband Pierre-François Mignot (d. 1737). After the death of her widowed father in 1737, Voltaire provided her with a dowry Madame Denis.
Biography of Gabriela Silang (excerpt)
María Josefa Gabriela Cariño de Silang (19 March 1731 – 20 September 1763) was a Filipina military leader best known for her role as the female leader of the Ilocano independence movement from Spain. She took over from her second husband Diego Silang after his assassination in 1763, leading her people for four months before she was captured and executed by the colonial government of the Captaincy General of the Philippines.
Biography of François Hemsterhuis (excerpt)
François Hemsterhuis (27 December 1721 – 7 July 1790) was a Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy. The son of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, he was born at Franeker in the Netherlands. He was educated at the University of Leiden, where he studied Plato.
Biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (excerpt)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. "The prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology", Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art.
Biography of Anne d'Arpajon (excerpt)
Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles (Anne Claude Louise d'Arpajon; 4 March 1729 – 27 June 1794) was a French noblewoman and court official. She served as the dame d'honneur of two Queens of France, Marie Leszczyńska and Marie Antoinette. She was called "Madame Etiquette" by Marie Antoinette for her insistence that the minutiae of court etiquette could never be altered or disregarded.
Biography of Peter Faneuil (excerpt)
Peter Faneuil (June 20, 1700 (July 1, Gregorian calendar) – March 3, 1743) was a wealthy American colonial merchant, slave trader and philanthropist who donated Faneuil Hall to Boston. Peter Faneuil was the eldest child of a wealthy Huguenot family that fled France.
Biography of William Cullen (excerpt)
William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790), a Scottish physician, chemist, and agriculturalist, was a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and at the Edinburgh Medical School. Friends with David Hume, Joseph Black, and Adam Smith, he was also President of the Royal College of Physicians in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and First Physician to the King in Scotland.
Biography of Louise of Denmark (1726) (excerpt)
Louise of Denmark and Norway (October 19, 1726 – August 8, 1756) was a Danish and Norwegian princess, and later the Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen following her marriage to Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Known for her lively personality, Louise often clashed with the rigid environment of her parental home. |
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