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Biography of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (excerpt)
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German sexologist and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous series of cases studies of sexual perversity. The book remains well-known for his coinage of the term masochism using the name of a contemporary writer, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose partially autobiographical novel Venus in Furs tells of the protagonist's desire to be whipped and enslaved by a beautiful woman.
Biography of Jean Dampt (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Auguste Dampt (January, 2, 1854 - September 26, 1945) was a French sculptor, medalist, and jeweler. Born in Venarey-les-Laumes as the son of a cabinetmaker, Dampt studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, then in 1874 under the leadership of François Jouffroy and Paul Dubois at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris .
Biography of Chauncey Depew (excerpt)
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. Biography He was born on April 23, 1834.
Biography of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (excerpt)
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, born October 1, 1856 in Perth, died in 1930, was a Scottish musician, composer and author. Biography on http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/records/nineteen1/kennedyfr.html Marjory Kennedy was the daughter of the well-known singer David Kennedy who died in while on tour in Ontario, Canada in 1886.
Biography of Jules Antoine Lissajous (excerpt)
Jules Antoine Lissajous (March 4, 1822 - June 24, 1880) was a French mathematician, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device which creates the figures that bear his name. In it a light is shone (or laser beam) off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, which is then reflected off another mirror attached to another, perpendicular vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), then onto a wall, which resulted in a Lissajous figure.
Biography of Joseph Gurney Cannon (excerpt)
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.
Biography of Edouard Alexandre Sain (excerpt)
Edouard Alexandre Sain, born on May 13, 1830 in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1910, was a French painter.
Biography of Paul Reclus (excerpt)
Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (Orthez, March 7, 1847 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut)) – Paris, 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of Jacques Reclus and brother of Elijah Elisha Onesimus and Armand Reclus.
Biography of Mabel Collins (excerpt)
Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 - 31 March 1927) was a theosophist and author of over 46 books. She was born in London. Works (extract) The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) The Idyll of the White Lotus (1890) Morial the Mahatma (1892)
Biography of Paul Bert (excerpt)
Paul Bert (October 19, 1833 - November 11, 1886) was a French physiologist and politician. Life He was born at Auxerre (Yonne). He entered the École polytechnique at Paris with the intention of becoming an engineer; then changing his mind, he studied law; and finally, under the influence of the zoologist, Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865), he took up physiology, becoming one of Claude Bernard's most brilliant pupils.
Biography of Carrie Jacobs-Bond (excerpt)
Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 (birth time source: original source unknown) – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s. She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song "I Love You Truly", becoming the first woman to sell one million copies of a song.
Biography of Roelf Takens (excerpt)
Roelf Takens, born in Obergum, Netherlands, on October 2 in 1862, was a Ductch astrologer better known as "Libra". He published his book "Astrology and Ethics". He was previously a veterinarian doctor for horses and a painter.
Biography of Camille Chevillard (excerpt)
Camille Chevillard (14 October 1859 – 30 May 1923) was a French composer and conductor. He was born in Paris, France. He led the Lamoureux Orchestra in the premieres of Debussy's Nocturnes (1900 and 1901) and La mer (1905). He was the son-in-law of conductor Charles Lamoureux.
Biography of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (excerpt)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /ˈælmə ˈtædɪmə/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.
Biography of Jean-Paul Laurens (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Laurens (1838 – 1921), was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Born in Fourquevaux (not Fourqueux), he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression.
Biography of Madame Davia (excerpt)
Madame Davia, born October 25, 1861 in Savoie, France, died January 2, 1884, was a French psychic and medium.
Biography of Charles Philippe Robin (excerpt)
Charles-Philippe Robin (4 June 1821–5 October 1885) was a French anatomist, biologist, and histologist who was born in Jasseron, département Ain. He studied medicine in Paris, and while still a student took a scientific journey with Hermann Lebert to Normandy and the Channel Islands, where they collected specimens for the Musée Orfila.
Biography of Jean Richepin (excerpt)
Jean Richepin (English pronunciation: /ˈʒɑːn riːʃˈpæn/; 4 February 1849 - 12 December 1926), French poet, novelist and dramatist, the son of an army doctor, was born at Medea (Algeria). At school and at the École Normale Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, powers, for which he found physical vent in different directions—first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War, and afterwards as actor, sailor and stevedore--and an intellectual outlet in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his erratic but unmistakable talent.
Biography of Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux (excerpt)
Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux (7 May 1811 – 16 January 1886) was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favorizing private Catholic teaching. Life He was born at Angers, Maine-et-Loire. His father had been ennobled by King Charles X of France, and Falloux began his career as a Legitimist and clerical journalist under the influence of Madame Swetchine.
Biography of Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (excerpt)
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle.
Biography of Maarten Maartens (excerpt)
Maarten Maartens, pen name of Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz (Amsterdam, 15 August 1858 - Doorn, 3 August 1915), was a Dutch writer, who wrote in English. He was quite well known at the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in both the UK and the US, but he was soon forgotten after his death.
Biography of Leland Stanford (excerpt)
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician and founder of Stanford University. Biography Early years Stanford was born in 1824 in what was then Watervliet, New York (in what is now the town of Colonie).
Biography of Auguste Vacquerie (excerpt)
Auguste Vacquerie (November 19, 1819 in Villequier - February 19, 1895 in Paris), French journalist and man of letters, was born at Villequier (Seine Inferieure) on 19 November 1819. He was from his earliest days an admirer of Victor Hugo, with whom he was connected by the marriage of his brother Charles with Léopoldine Hugo.
Biography of William Ker (excerpt)
William Ker, born August 30, 1855 in Glasgow and died July 17, 1932 (mountain accident), was a Scottis poet, writer and professor of poetry.
Biography of Tomas Masaryk (excerpt)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czech pronunciation: ), sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, also was Moravian patriot.
Biography of Hans Vaihinger (excerpt)
Hans Vaihinger (September 25, 1852 – December 18, 1933) was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Philosophie des Als Ob (Philosophy of As If), published in 1911, but written more than thirty years earlier. Vaihinger was born in Nehren, Germany, near Tübingen, and raised in what he himself described as a "very religious milieu".
Biography of Robert Bosch (excerpt)
Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH. Bosch was born in Langenau/Württ. He was the eleventh of twelve children. His parents came from a class of well-situated farmers from the region.
Biography of Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (excerpt)
Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria (26 August 1826 – 21 September 1875) was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and devoted her life to literature. Early life Alexandra was born in Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg, the eighth child and fifth daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and of his wife Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Biography of Jules de Trooz (excerpt)
Jules Henri Ghislain Marie, Baron de Trooz (21 February 1857 – 31 December 1907) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. De Trooz was born in Leuven, and had studied philosophy before entering politics. He represented Leuven in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1899 onwards, serving as Education and Interior minister.
Biography of Charles XV of Sweden (excerpt)
Karl XV (Karl Ludvig Eugen) (May 3, 1826 – September 18, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Karl IV) from 1859 until his death. He was born in Stockholm Palace and dubbed Duke of Skåne at birth.
Biography of Edouard Branly (excerpt)
Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly (October 23, 1844 - March 24, 1940) was a French inventor and physicist. He was the physics professor at the Catholic University of Paris. He is primarily known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer around 1890.
Biography of Bret Harte (excerpt)
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Life and career He was born in Albany, New York, as Francis Brett Hart. He was named after his great-grandfather Francis Brett, and his family name was Hart.
Biography of Emile Gaboriau (excerpt)
Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction. Life Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866).
Biography of Charles Floquet (excerpt)
Charles Thomas Floquet (October 2, 1828 - January 18, 1896) was a French statesman. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Basses-Pyrénées). He studied law in Paris, and was called to the bar in 1851. The coup d'état of that year aroused the strenuous opposition of Floquet, who had, while yet a student, given proof of his republican sympathies by taking part in the fighting of 1848.
Biography of Valentin Joseph Boussinesq (excerpt)
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (13 March 1842 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at Faculty of Sciences of Lille, lecturing differential and integral calculus at Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille).
Biography of James Buchanan Duke (excerpt)
James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for his involvement with Duke University. Personal life James Buchanan Duke, known by the nickname "Buck", was born near Durham, North Carolina, on December 23, 1856 to Washington Duke and his second wife, Artelia Roney Duke.
Biography of Daniel Chester French (excerpt)
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920) at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. French was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Henry Flagg French, a lawyer, Assistant US Treasury Secretary and author of a book that described the French drain.
Biography of Alfred Espinas (excerpt)
Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche. He was a student of Comte and Spencer. Although initially an adherent of positivism, he later became a committed realist.
Biography of Jules Violle (excerpt)
Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (November 16, 1841, Langres - September 12, 1923, Fixin) was a French physicist and inventor. He is notable for having determined the solar constant at Mont Blanc in 1875, and, in 1881, for proposing a standard for luminous intensity, called the Violle, equal to the light emitted by 1 cm² of platinum at its melting point.
Biography of Charles Herbais de Thun (excerpt)
Charles Herbais de Thun, born October 12, 1862 in Beaurieux, died in 1946, was a French biographor, author and astrologer.
Biography of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (excerpt)
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (born December 8, 1832, died April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland.
Biography of Ruggero Leoncavallo (excerpt)
Ruggero (Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 1857 – 9 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer. His opera Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, appearing as number 14 on Opera America's 2007 list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.
Biography of Annie Horniman (excerpt)
Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH (3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937) was a member of the Horniman Tea family. She founded the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and the Gaeity Theatre in Manchester, which was the first repertory theatre in the country.
Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler (excerpt)
Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 11, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was an inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses.
Biography of Albert Anker (excerpt)
Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. Life Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845–48.
Biography of Henri Philippoteaux (excerpt)
Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, born April 3, 1815 in Paris, died in 1884, was a French painter.
Biography of Mathilde Bonaparte (excerpt)
Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française (May 27, 1820 – January 2, 1904), was a French princess and Salon holder. She was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg. Biography Born in Trieste, Mathilde Bonaparte was raised in Florence and Rome.
Biography of Paul Durand-Ruel (excerpt)
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He was one of the first modern art dealers who provided support to his painters with stipends and solo exhibitions.
Biography of Charles Barlet (excerpt)
Albert Fauch, best known as Charles Barlet or sometimes François Charles Barlet or F.-Ch. Barlet, born October 12, 1838 in Paris, died October 29, 1909 in Paris, was a French occulist and theosopher. His work is close to Papus and Max Théon.
Biography of Georges Adolphe Hue (excerpt)
Georges Adolphe Hüe (6 May 1858 – 7 June 1948) was a French composer of classical music. Georges Hüe was born in Versailles (Yvelines) into a noted family of architects. His musical education included studies with Charles Gounod and César Franck. In 1879, he won the Prix de Rome with his cantata Médée. |
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