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Biography of Jay Gould (excerpt)
Jason "Jay" Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. Although he was long vilified as an archetypal robber baron, modern historians have discounted various myths about him and evaluated his career more positively.
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 André Antoine (excerpt)
André Antoine (31 January 1858, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)(birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) - 19 October 1943, Le Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the inventor of modern mise en scène in France.
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 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 François Fabié (excerpt)
François Fabié, born November 3, 1846 in Durenque, died July 18, 1928, is a French poet.
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 Robert Browning (excerpt)
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Youth Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, on May 7, 1812, the first son of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning.
Biography of Léon Cladel (excerpt)
Léon Cladel (March 15, 1835 in Agen (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – 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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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.
Biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (excerpt)
Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Spanish author and scholar from Galicia. Life Pardo Bazán was born in A Coruña, a city in the region of Galicia, Spain, and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular novels, including Los pazos de Ulloa ("The Manors of Ulloa") and its sequel, La madre naturaleza ("Mother Nature").
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 Joseph Chamberlain (excerpt)
Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was an influential British businessman, politician, and statesman. In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later became a Liberal Unionist in alliance with the Conservative Party and was appointed Colonial Secretary.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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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Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: About this soundRepública de Nicaragua (help·info)), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.
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 Henri Maréchal (excerpt)
Henri Maréchal, born January 22, 1842 in Paris, died May 12, 1924 in Paris, was a French musician, composer and poet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Charles Hermite (excerpt)
Charles Hermite (pronounced ) (December 24, 1822 – January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. Hermite polynomials, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor.
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.
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 Ernst Haeckel (excerpt)
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 (birth time source: Thomas Ring, vol 3) – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, phylogeny, ecology and the kingdom Protista.
Biography of Dorothy Dix (excerpt)
Dorothy Dix (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.
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 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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Kansas is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks.
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 Alexandre Georges (excerpt)
Alexandre George, born February 25, 1850 in Arras, died January 18, 1938 in Paris, was a French composer and organist. Works (extract, in French) Daphnis et Chloé (1883), Le Printemps (1888), Charlotte Corday (6 mars 1901), Miarka (Opéra-Comique : 7 novembre 1905) - sans doute son plus grand opéra ; repris et réduit à 3 actes pour l'Opéra (1925) - le public est séduit par l'étrange mélancolie de cette partition,
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.
Biography of Oswald Achenbach (excerpt)
Oswald Achenbach (2 February 1827 - 1 February 1905) was a German landscape painter. Born in Düsseldorf, he received his art education from his brother, Andreas Achenbach. His landscapes generally dwell on the rich and glowing effects of color which drew him to the Bay of Naples and the neighborhood of Rome.
Biography of Marie Emile Fayolle (excerpt)
Marie Émile Fayolle (Le Puy, France, 14 May 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 27 August 1928) was a Marshal of France. Fayolle studied at the École polytechnique, where he graduated with the class of 1873. During his career he served in the artillery. |
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