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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Billot (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Billot (15 August 1828 - 31 May 1907) was a French general and politician.Educated at Saint-Cyr, he maintained republican beliefs while advancing his career under Napoleon III, receiving the Legion of Honor in 1859. He distinguished himself in the Mexican expedition and the Franco-Prussian War, achieving the rank of general and participating in key battles.
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Biography of Maria Konopnicka (excerpt)
Maria Konopnicka, a significant Polish poet, novelist, and women's rights activist, was born in Suwałki on May 23, 1842. Educated at home and in Warsaw, she debuted as a writer in 1870. Konopnicka's marriage to Jarosław Konopnicki was strained due to her literary pursuits, leading to their separation in 1878.
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Biography of Georges Rayet (excerpt)
Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet (12 December 1839 – 14 June 1906) was a French astronomer. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy. He specialized in what was then the new field of spectroscopy.
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Biography of Oscar Pletsch (excerpt)
Oscar Pletsch (March 26, 1830 - January 12, 1888) was a German illustrator.Born in Berlin to a poor family, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts under Ludwig Richter and Eduard Bendemann. Pletsch worked in Dresden and then Berlin, specializing in genre paintings and illustrations, mainly depicting children.
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Biography of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (excerpt)
Louis IV (German: Ludwig IV.Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein; 12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892.Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family.
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Biography of Padre Cruz (excerpt)
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ (29 July 1859 – 1 October 1948), known as Father Cruz, was a Portuguese Catholic priest celebrated for his apostolic zeal and charity. He visited prisons and hospitals, helped the poor, and ministered to many, earning a reputation for sanctity during his lifetime.
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Biography of Josephine Lang (excerpt)
Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a gifted German composer, born to musician parents.She was taught piano by her mother and began composing at a young age. Mentored by prominent artists like Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller, and with support from Robert Schumann, her music gained recognition.
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Biography of Jeanne Fallières (excerpt)
Jeanne Fallières, born Jeanne Bresson on May 24, 1849, in Nérac, was the wife of Armand Fallières, President of the French Republic from 1906 to 1913. Coming from a family of lawyers, she married Armand in 1868, and they had two children.
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Biography of Wladyslaw Belza (excerpt)
Władysław Bełza, born on October 17, 1847, in Warsaw, died on January 29, 1913, in Lwów, was a Polish writer. Bełza, who was the son of a prominent chemist, studied partly in his hometown and partly in Kazan, but after travels in Western Europe, he was expelled from Posen in 1871 and settled in Lwów, where he became a library secretary after 1882.
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Biography of Paul Regnard (excerpt)
Paul Marie Léon Regnard, born on November 7, 1850, in Châtillon-sur-Seine (Côte-d'Or) and died on April 18, 1927, in Paris (5th arrondissement), was a French physician, physiologist, and biologist, and the director of the National Agronomic Institute from 1901 to 1917.
Biography of Félix Léon Edoux (excerpt)
Félix Léon Edoux born May 29, 1827 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) and died October 13, 1910 in Paris was a French engineer and industrialist. Edoux is best known for having designed a hydraulic lift he baptized "elevator" in 1867. In 1884, Eiffel ordered from Edoux the elevator which was to connect the second floor to the top of the future Eiffel Tower, and which would operate until 1983.
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Biography of Thérèse Schwartze (excerpt)
Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 1851 - 23 December 1918) was a renowned Dutch portrait painter born in Amsterdam. Trained initially by her father, Johan Georg Schwartze, she furthered her studies at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten and in Munich under Gabriel Max and Franz von Lenbach.
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Biography of Edmond Loutil (excerpt)
Eugène Edmond Loutil, known as Pierre the Hermit, born November 17, 1863 in Mohon (Ardennes) and died April 16, 1959 in Paris, is a parish priest who became honorary canon of the Paris chapter and apostolic protonotary. He was also a journalist, editor at La Croix from 1891 and a writer under the pseudonym Pierre L'Ermite.
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Biography of Daniel Oehlert (excerpt)
Daniel Victor Œhlert, also known as Oehlert (born November 1, 1849, in Laval and died September 17, 1920, in the same city) was a French scientist. His roles as a librarian and later as a curator of the archaeology and natural history museums of Laval allowed him to devote himself to paleontology and geology. ![]()
Biography of Eberhard Nestle (excerpt)
Eberhard Nestle (May 1, 1851, Stuttgart - March 9, 1913, Stuttgart) was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, and orientalist. He edited the Novum Testamentum Graece and was the father of Erwin Nestle. He studied at the University of Tübingen, focusing on Hebrew and Greek texts of the Book of Ezekiel, and later worked in orientalism and textual criticism of the New Testament.
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Biography of Paul Brousse (excerpt)
Paul Louis Marie Brousse (23 January 1844 – 1 April 1912) was a French socialist, leader of the possibilistes group.He was active in the Jura Federation, a section of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA), from the northwestern part of Switzerland and the Alsace.
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Biography of Hans Huber (composer) (excerpt)
Hans Huber (28 June 1852 – 25 December 1921) was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys.
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Biography of Eugénie of Sweden (excerpt)
Eugénie of Sweden and Norway (24 April 1830 - 23 April 1889) was a Swedish-Norwegian princess, the only daughter of King Oscar I and Joséphine of Leuchtenberg. Frail in health, she never married but was recognized as an amateur artist.She founded the Animal Rights Association in 1882.
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Biography of Xavier Privas (excerpt)
Antoine Paul Taravel, known as Xavier Privas (27 September 1863 – 6 February 1927) was a French singer, poet, goguettier and composer. Life Antoine Paul Taravel was born in Lyon on 27 September 1863.He made his debut in the goguette of the Caveau Lyonnais in 1888, where he obtained great success.
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Biography of Eduard Kaufmann (excerpt)
Eduard Kaufmann (24 March 1860, Bonn – 15 December 1931, Göttingen) was a German physician. The disease Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome is named for him. Career Kaufmann studied in Bonn and Berlin, and earned his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1884. He was appointed Privatdozent for anatomical pathology in Breslau three years later, and assisted at Emil Ponfick’s institute.
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Biography of J.-H. Rosny jeune (excerpt)
J.-H. Rosny jeune was the pseudonym of Séraphin Justin François Boex (July 21, 1859 – July 21, 1948), a French author of Belgian origin who, along with his better known older brother J.-H. Rosny aîné, is considered one of the founding figures of modern science fiction.
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Biography of Euphrosine Beernaert (excerpt)
Euphrosine Beernaert (11 April 1831 – 7 July 1901) was a Belgian landscape painter. Life Beernaerts was born at Ostend in 1831, and studied under Pierre-Louis Kuhnen in Brussels.She travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and exhibited landscapes at Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris, her favorite subjects being Dutch.
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Biography of Jan Van Beers (artist) (excerpt)
Jean Marie Constantin Joseph "Jan" Van Beers (27 March 1852 – 17 November 1927) was a Belgian painter and illustrator, the son of the poet Jan van Beers.They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger.
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Biography of Marian Langiewicz (excerpt)
Marian Langiewicz (August 5, 1827 – May 11, 1887), was a key figure in the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863. Born in Krotoszyn, he was educated in Posen, Breslau, and Prague, and worked as a lecturer to earn a living. ![]()
Biography of Gaston La Touche (excerpt)
Gaston de La Touche, born on October 22, 1854, in Saint-Cloud, was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. He began taking drawing lessons in 1864, but his studies were interrupted by the 1870 war. In 1875, he exhibited his first bas-relief medallion at the Salon, later befriending Édouard Manet and admiring Émile Zola, whose works he illustrated.
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Biography of Septime Le Pippre (excerpt)
Septime Le Pippre born February 13, 1833 in Montfort-l'Amaury died January 2, 1871 was a French painter and junior officer. Septime Le Pippre was mortally wounded on January 12, 1871, during the Battle of Le Mans. He died ten days later. His remains were brought back to Villers-le-Sec, where a large ceremony took place.
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Biography of Paul Berger (surgeon) (excerpt)
Paul Berger (January 6, 1845 - October 17, 1908) was a French surgeon renowned for his research on abdominal hernias and his operative technique for interscapulothoracic amputation, known as the Berger technique. Born in Beaucourt, he studied medicine in Paris, becoming an intern in 1866 and a surgeon at Paris hospitals in 1877.
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Biography of Bonar Law (excerpt)
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from October 1922 to May 1923. Born in New Brunswick, he moved to Scotland in 1870 and became wealthy in the iron industry. Elected to the House of Commons in 1900, he served in various roles including Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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Biography of Hugo Heermann (excerpt)
Hugo Heermann (3 March 1844, in Heilbronn – 6 November 1935, in Meran, Italy) was a German violinist.He studied the violin with Lambert Joseph Meerts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels, and later with Joseph Joachim. From 1864 he lived in Frankfurt am Main, where he taught violin from 1878 to 1904 at the Hoch Conservatory.
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Biography of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (excerpt)
Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (16 December 1847 – 21 May 1923) was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894.
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Biography of Pierre Termier (excerpt)
Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859, and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, was a prominent French geologist, specializing in tectonics and the structural synthesis of the Alps. Graduating top of his class from Polytechnique, he joined the prestigious Corps des mines and quickly developed a passion for studying the Alps.
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Biography of John Scott Haldane (excerpt)
John Scott Haldane CH FRS (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J.
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Biography of Albert Jurardus van Prooijen (excerpt)
Albert Jurardus van Prooijen (7 September 1834 – 31 October 1898) was a Dutch painter known for cityscapes, landscapes (often with animals), and genre scenes. Born in Groningen, he studied at the Academie Minerva under Jacob Bruggink and Jan Ensing. He won the "Grote Koninklijke Medaille" in 1853 and later worked on watercolors and cityscape drawings.
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Biography of Diederik Korteweg (excerpt)
Diederik Johannes Korteweg (31 March 1848 – 10 May 1941) was a Dutch mathematician best known for the Korteweg–de Vries equation, developed with Gustav de Vries. Initially studying at a military academy, he switched to the Polytechnical School of Delft for engineering but ultimately pursued mathematics.
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Biography of Felix Dahn (excerpt)
Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (February 9, 1834 – January 3, 1912) was a German law professor, nationalist author, poet, and historian. Born in Hamburg, he studied law and philosophy in Munich and Berlin, becoming a professor of German Law. Dahn wrote extensively, influencing German historiography of the European Migration Period with works like "Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples."
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Biography of Louis Carrière (excerpt)
Louis Norbert Carrière (7 December 1833 - 31 December 1919) was a French military justice officer.His military career began at Saint-Cyr in 1853, serving in various roles, including in the war against Prussia and in the Versailles army. Promoted within the gendarmerie, he was recognized for his intelligence and competence.
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Biography of Maurice Letulle (excerpt)
Maurice Éléonor Joseph Lucien Letulle, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in the Orne on March 19, 1853, and died in Paris on January 1, 1929, was a physician specializing in pathological anatomy and an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.
Biography of Henri Michel (politician, born 1857) (excerpt)
Henri Michel, a French politician, was born on January 27, 1857, in Lambesc and died on June 19, 1930, in Charenton-le-Pont. Initially a high school teacher in Avignon and later a journalist and lawyer in Paris, Michel entered politics as a deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône in 1898, aligning with the radical-socialist group.
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Biography of Louise Otto-Peters (excerpt)
Louise Otto-Peters (26 March 1819 – 13 March 1895) was a prominent German suffragist and activist for women's rights who engaged in writing novels, poetry, essays, and opera libretti. She contributed to several periodicals and founded the Frauen-Zeitung, Germany's first political women's newspaper.
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Biography of George Hendrik Breitner (excerpt)
George Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.
Biography of Louis Toussaint Doutrelaine (excerpt)
Louis Toussaint Simon Doutrelaine, born on July 9, 1820, and died on May 1, 1881, was a French general in the engineering corps. Educated at the École Polytechnique and the military engineering school in Metz, he held various military positions, including during the siege of Rome and the Italian campaign.
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Biography of Salvatore Farina (excerpt)
Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 – 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens.He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Life Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso, he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
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Biography of Hein Boeken (excerpt)
Hein Boeken, born on December 2, 1861, in Amsterdam, where he also died on October 19, 1933, was a Dutch writer and poet associated with the Tachtigers, a prominent literary movement. A close friend of Willem Kloos, he studied classics and earned his doctorate in 1899 with a thesis on Apuleius' Metamorphoses.
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Biography of Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (German: Elisabeth Maria Maximiliana; 28 May 1860 – 7 February 1881) was the Duchess of Braganza and wife of Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza. Life Elisabeth was a Princess of Thurn and Taxis by birth and an Infanta of Portugal, Princess of Braganza, and titular Queen consort of Portugal through her marriage to Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza, Miguelist claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1866 to 1920.
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Biography of Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (excerpt)
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs.
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Biography of Richard Haldane (excerpt)
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, PC, FRS, FSA, FBA (30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928) was a British lawyer and philosopher and an influential Liberal and later Labour politician.He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented.
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Biography of Oscar Brefeld (excerpt)
Julius Oscar Brefeld (19 September 1839 – 12 January 1925), commonly known as Oscar Brefeld, was a German botanist and mycologist. Born in Telgte, he studied pharmacy and worked as an assistant to Anton de Bary.He became a botany lecturer at Eberswalde Forestry Academy in 1878 and a professor at the University of Münster in 1882, later succeeding Ferdinand Cohn at the University of Breslau in 1898.
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Biography of Victor Delbos (excerpt)
Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902.In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
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Biography of Blanche d'Antigny (excerpt)
Marie-Ernestine Antigny, known as Blanche d'Antigny, born in Martizay in the Indre on May 9, 1840, and died in Paris on June 27, 1874, was a French actress and courtesan. Considered a mediocre performer, she was a famous figure in the demi-monde during the Second Empire and inspired, among others, Émile Zola for his character Nana in the novel of the same name.
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Biography of William Rockefeller Jr. (excerpt)
William Avery Rockefeller Jr.(May 31, 1841 – June 24, 1922) was an American businessman and financier.Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller.He was also a part owner of Anaconda Copper, which was the fourth-largest company in the world by the late 1920s. |
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