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Biography of Pierre de Nolhac (excerpt)
Pierre de Nolhac, born December 15, 1859 in Ambert, died January 31, 1936 in Paris, was a French art historian, poet and author. Works (selection) Le Dernier Amour de Ronsard (1882) Lettres de Joachim Du Bellay publiées pour la première fois d'après les originaux (1883) ![]()
Biography of Adelina Patti (excerpt)
Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 - September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. Considered, along with fellow contemporaries; Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, to be one of the most famous 19th Century sopranos; Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard.
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Biography of Cosima Wagner (excerpt)
Cosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner (née de Flavigny, since 1844 Liszt; December 24, 1837 – April 1, 1930) was the daughter of composer Franz Liszt. She became famous as the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner and, after his death, as director of the Bayreuth Festival for 31 years. ![]()
Biography of Ida Ferrier (excerpt)
Born Marguerite-Joséphine Ferrand May 13, 1811, Ida Ferrier was Alexandre Dumas' wife from 1840, separated in 1845. Dumas wrote the poems Obéissance and À I… for her. She played the leading role in Bathilde. ![]()
Biography of François Fabié (excerpt)
François Fabié, born November 3, 1846 in Durenque, died July 18, 1928, is a French poet. ![]()
Biography of Johann Gottfried Galle (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at (23 September 1846). ![]()
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Arkansas is a state in the South Central region of the United States, home to more than three million people as of 2018. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people.
Biography of Eugène Milon (excerpt)
Eugène Milon, born September 23, 1859 in Loury, died in 1917, was a French carpenter. He was one of the managers who had built the Tour Eiffel in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Jules Massenet (excerpt)
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, his style fell out of favor not long after his death; and, except Manon, his works were rarely performed.
Biography of Pierre-Désiré Lamy (excerpt)
Pierre-Désiré Lamy, born on May 12, 1855 in Clermont-Ferrand (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1919 in Paris, was a FQrench artist and painter.
Biography of Théodore Dubois (excerpt)
François-Clément Théodore Dubois (August 24, 1837 – June 11, 1924) was a French composer, organist and music teacher. Théodore Dubois was born in Bligny in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart (the choirmaster at Reims cathedral) and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. ![]()
Biography of Otto Walkhoff (excerpt)
Friedrich Otto Walkhoff, born April 23, 1860 in Braunschweig, died June 8, 1934 in Berlin, was a German dental therapist. ![]()
Biography of Émile Guimet (excerpt)
Émile Étienne Guimet (2 June 1836 (birth time source: Cedra, birth certificate) - 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur. He was born at Lyon and succeeded his father in the direction of his "artificial ultramarine" factory. He also founded the Musée Guimet, which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885. ![]()
Biography of Théophile Delcassé (excerpt)
Théophile Pierre Delcassé, born on March 1, 1852 in Pamiers (Ariège) (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut), died on February 21, 1923 in Nice, was a French politician and journalist. ![]()
Biography of Hilaire de Chardonnet (excerpt)
Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet, best known as Hilaire de Chardonnet, born May 1, 1839 in Besançon, died March 11, in Paris, was a French engeener, businessman and inventor of artificial silk. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Marie Widor (excerpt)
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 (birth time source: birth certificate on-line) – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. Life Widor was born in Lyon, France to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889. ![]()
Biography of Henry Rider Haggard (excerpt)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential to this day. ![]()
Biography of Arthur James Balfour (excerpt)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He authored the tough Perpetual Crimes Act (1887) (or Coercion Act) aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation, unlawful assembly in Ireland during the Irish Land War, and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, a time when his party and government became divided over the issue of tariff reform.
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Biography of Herbert Spencer (excerpt)
Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) was an English philosopher; prominent classical liberal political theorist; and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. ![]()
Biography of Léon Cladel (excerpt)
Léon Cladel (March 15, 1835 in Agen – July 21, 1892), was a French novelist. The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a reputation in a limited circle by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface. ![]()
Biography of Yuan Shikai (excerpt)
Yuan Shikai (Chinese: 袁世凱; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese military and government official who rose to power during the late Qing dynasty, becoming the Emperor of the Empire of China (1915–1916). He tried to save the dynasty with a number of modernization projects including bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms, despite playing a key part in the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform.
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Biography of Albert de Lapparent (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (30 December 1839 (birth time source: Christophe de Cène, birth certificate) - 5 May 1908) was a French geologist. He was born at Bourges. After studying at the École polytechnique from 1858 to 1860 he became ingénieur au corps des mines, and took part in drawing up the geological map of France; and in 1875 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic Institute in Paris.
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Biography of Léon Hennique (excerpt)
Léon Hennique (November 4, 1850 – December 25, 1935) was a French naturalist novelist and playwright. Born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, he was the son of a naval infantry officer. Initially studying painting, he turned to literature after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. ![]()
Biography of Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (excerpt)
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (21 August 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 19 August 1856) was a French chemist. Biography He was born in Strasbourg, where he attended the gymnasium. He then studied at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where Friedrich Walchner's lectures first attracted his interest to chemistry. ![]()
Biography of Zénaïde Fleuriot (excerpt)
Zénaïde-Marie-Anne Fleuriot (born in Saint-Brieuc (source not archived), 28 October 1829; died in Paris, 18 December 1890) was a French novelist. Life She published her first novel, Les souvenirs d'une douairière, in 1859, and its success led her to adopt the literary profession.
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Biography of Léopold Bellan (excerpt)
Léopold Bellan, born on September 20, 1857 in Méré (birth time source: Michel Martinet, on-line archives), died on January 4, 1936 in Paris, was a French industrialist, journalist, and politician. He was born with a clubfoot.
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Biography of Saint John Bosco (excerpt)
Saint John Bosco, born Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, and known in English as Don Bosco (August 16, 1815 – January 31, 1888), was an Italian Catholic priest, and recognized educator, who put into practice the dogma of his religion, employing teaching methods based on love rather than punishment. ![]()
Biography of Georg Büchner (excerpt)
Karl Georg Büchner (October 17, 1813 – February 19, 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Georg Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death, he might have attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. ![]()
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Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Tetã Paraguái), is a country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of which live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Russell Wallace (excerpt)
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. ![]()
Biography of Charles Leconte de Lisle (excerpt)
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle ( 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle. Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. ![]()
Biography of Édouard Goursat (excerpt)
Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (21 May 1858 – 25 November 1936) was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis.
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Biography of Édouard Dujardin (excerpt)
Édouard Dujardin (November 10, 1861–1949) was a French writer, one of the early pioneers of the literary technique stream of consciousness, exemplified in his 1888 novel Les Lauriers sont coupés. Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in France near Blois, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain. ![]()
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Bordeaux is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 257,804 (2019). Bordeaux is the centre of Bordeaux Métropole that has a population of 796,273 (2019), the fifth-largest in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille with its immediate suburbs and closest satellite towns. ![]()
Biography of Paul Arène (excerpt)
Paul-Auguste Arène, born 26 June 1843 in Arezzo in Italy and died 17 December 1896 in Antibes, was a Provençal poet and French writer. The son of Adolphe, a clockmaker, and Reine, a cap presser, he studied in Marseille, then in Vannes.
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Biography of Benoît-Constant Coquelin (excerpt)
Benoît-Constant Coquelin (23 January 1841 – 27 January 1909), known as Coquelin aîné, was a French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Biography Coquelin was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais. He was originally intended to follow his father's trade of baker (he was once called "un boulanger manqué" by a hostile critic), but his love of acting led him to the Conservatoire, where he entered Régnier's class in 1859. ![]()
Biography of Hector Malot (excerpt)
Hector Malot (May 20, 1830 - July 17, 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, close to Rouen. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale. ![]()
Biography of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. ![]()
Biography of James Young Simpson (excerpt)
Sir James Young Simpson (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish doctor and an important figure in the history of medicine. Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use. Early life James Simpson was born in Bathgate, West Lothian the youngest of eight children, Thomas, John, Alexander, David, George (died young), George and a sister Mary. ![]()
Biography of Emile Claus (excerpt)
Emile Claus (September 27, 1849–June 14, 1924) was a Belgian painter. Emile Claus was born on September 27, 1849 inLendelede . Later he studied at the Academy of Antwerp. Under the influence of Claude Monet, he developed a style that has been characterized as luminism.
Biography of Frans de Cort (excerpt)
Frans Jozef de Cort (Antwerp, 21 June 1834- Elsene, 18 January 1878) was a Flemish writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857. ![]()
Biography of Clarence Darrow (excerpt)
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 Farmdale, Ohio - March 13, 1938 Chicago) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T.
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Biography of Aimé Morot (excerpt)
Aimé Morot (June 16, 1850 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)–1913) was a French painter. Morot was born in Nancy, where he studied under a drawing master named Thierry. He later attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but left after only two weeks to continue his studies independently. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Dumas Fils (excerpt)
Alexandre Dumas, fils (French for son, similar to Junior in English) (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his father's footsteps becoming a celebrated writer, author and playwright. Alexandre Dumas, fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794 – 1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. ![]()
Biography of Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel (excerpt)
Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel, born on April 2, 1831 in Paris, died on January 2010 in Paris, was a French artist, painter, and lithographer. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Azam (excerpt)
Étienne Eugène Azam (1822 (source not archived – 1899) was a French surgeon from Bordeaux who is chiefly remembered for his work in psychology, particularly a case involving a female patient he named "Félida X" who seemed to have "alternating personalities", or what Azam referred to as doublement de la vie. ![]()
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Swansea is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales. The county area includes Swansea Bay (Welsh: Bae Abertawe) and the Gower Peninsula. Swansea's position on the southwest coast of Wales is within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. ![]()
Biography of Emma Borden (excerpt)
Emma Borden, born March 1, 1851 (birth time source: Charlotte Tuton) and died June 12, 1927, is the sister of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts in the United States. ![]()
Biography of Jenny Lind (excerpt)
Johanna Maria Lind (October 6, 1820 – November 2, 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish-born opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". She is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and Europe, as well as for an extraordinarily popular tour of America beginning in 1850, and for her philanthropic work.
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Biography of José Velarde (excerpt)
José Velarde Yusti, born on November 10, 1848 in Conil de la Frontera, died in 1892 in Madrid, was a Spanish poet. Publications (selection) Poesía (1872) Nuevas poesías (1878) Alegríacuatro partes (La marcha, el holgadero, la fuga,habladurias) |
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