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Biography of François-Marie Raoult (excerpt)
François-Marie Raoult (10 May 1830 - 1 April 1901) was a French chemist who conducted research into the behavior of solutions, especially their physical properties. Life and work Raoult was born at Fournes, in the département of Nord. He became aspirant répétiteur at the Lycée of Reims in 1853, and after holding several intermediate positions was appointed in 1862 to the professorship of chemistry in Sens lycée.
Biography of Léopoldine Hugo (excerpt)
Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo, born in Paris 28 August 1824 and died in Villequier on 4 September 1843, was the daughter of novelist, poet and dramatist Victor Hugo and his wife, Adèle Foucher. She married Charles Vacquerie at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843 but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843.
Biography of Joseph Déchelette (excerpt)
Joseph Déchelette, born January 8, 1862 in Roanne (Loire), died October 4, 1914 in Vingré (Aisne), was a French archaeologist and author.
Biography of Theodor Herzl (excerpt)
Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הרצל (Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl)) (May 2, 1860–July 3, 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl was born in Pest, the Kingdom of Hungary (today the eastern half of Budapest, then a separate city) to a Jewish family originally from Zemun, the Kingdom of Hungary (today in Serbia).
Biography of James McNeill Whistler (excerpt)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail.
Biography of Léon Bonnat (excerpt)
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (June 20, 1833 – September 8, 1922) was a French painter. He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old masters, developing a passion for drawing.
Biography of Pierre Loti (excerpt)
Louis Marie Julien Viaud (January 14, 1850 - June 10, 1923) was a French sailor and writer, who used the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Viaud was born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France, to an old Protestant family. His education began in Rochefort, but at the age of seventeen, being destined for the navy, he entered the naval school in Brest and studied on Le Borda.
Biography of Charles Lancelin (excerpt)
Charles Lancelin, born January 4, 1852 in Dreux, died in 1941, was a French occulist and author.
Biography of Ferdinand von Zeppelin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf (Count) von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 – March 8, 1917) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. He was born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden (now part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
Biography of Théodore Gosselin (excerpt)
Théodore Gosselin (October 7, 1855(birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) - February 7, 1935) was a French historian who wrote under the pen name G. Lenotre. Under the pen name Lenotre, Gosselin wrote articles in publications such as Figaro, Revue des deux mondes, Monde illustré and Temps.
Biography of Thomas Huxley (excerpt)
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career.
Biography of Edward Smith (excerpt)
Captain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was the captain of the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912. He and his wife had a daughter named Helen Melville Smith. There is a statue to his legacy in Lichfield, England.
Biography of José Echegaray (excerpt)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 – September 14, 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. Along with the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904, making him the first Spaniard to win the prize.
Biography of Anatole Le Braz (excerpt)
Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" (April 2, 1859 – March 20, 1926) was a Breton folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. Le Braz was born in Duault and raised amongst woodcutters and charcoal burners, speaking the Breton language; his parents did not speak French.
Biography of Françoise-Xavière Cabrini (excerpt)
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917) also called Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Early Life She was born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, the youngest of thirteen children of Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini who were farmers.
Biography of Benjamin Harrison (excerpt)
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at age 21 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became a prominent state politician.
Biography of André Theuriet (excerpt)
Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (October 8, 1833 - April 23, 1907), French poet and novelist, was born at Marly-le-Roi (Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his mother's province of Lorraine. He studied law in Paris and entered the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau, before his retirement in 1886.
Biography of David Lloyd George (excerpt)
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and the only Welsh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was the last Liberal to hold the office. He was Prime Minister throughout the latter half of World War I and the first four years of the subsequent peace.
Biography of Charles-Eugène Delaunay (excerpt)
Charles-Eugène Delaunay (April 9, 1816 – August 5, 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics. Life Born in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, Delaunay studied under Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Sorbonne.
Biography of Henry Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (Paris, October 8, 1850 - Miribel-les-Echelles September 17, 1936) was an influential French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is most famous for devising Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists to predict the effect of a change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium.
Biography of Hervé Faye (excerpt)
Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye (October 1, 1814 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – July 4, 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M.
Biography of Gustave Le Bon (excerpt)
Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir – 13 December 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology.
Biography of Grandma Moses (excerpt)
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses" was a renowned American folk artist. She is most often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age.
Biography of Henri Dunant (excerpt)
Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 – October 30, 1910), aka Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy.
Biography of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (excerpt)
Princess Isabel of Brazil, daughter of Pedro II, Emperor of Brasil and Princess Teresa of The Two Sicilies, was born 29 July 1846 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died 14 November 1921 Château d'Eu, France. She was the wife of Gaston d'Eu, born 28 April 1842 Château de Neuilly and died 28 August 1922 (Married 15 October 1864 Rio de Janeiro).
Biography of André Charles Weiss (excerpt)
André Charles Weiss, born September 30, 1858 in Mulhouse, died in 1928, was a French author, law teacher in Paris, international law specialist.
Biography of Paul Déroulède (excerpt)
Paul Déroulède (September 2, 1846 - January 30, 1914) was a French author and politician, and a leading figure of the French right-wing. Early life He was born in Paris, and first appeared as a poet in the Revue nationale, under the pseudonym of "Jean Rebel".
Biography of Léon Lhermitte (excerpt)
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (also known as Léon Augustin L'hermitte). Born Mont-Saint-Père, 1844, died Paris, 1925. French painter and etcher of the late nineteenth century. A student of Lecocq de Boisbourdran. A realist artist whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.
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Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands), a mostly flat region in the east of the country.
Biography of William Jennings Bryan (excerpt)
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American politician, orator and lawyer. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for his deep, commanding voice.
Biography of Lady Randolph Churchill (excerpt)
Lady Randolph Churchill, CI, DStJ (January 9, 1854 – June 9, 1921), born Jennie Jerome, was the American-born wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Early life Jennie Jerome was born in Brooklyn (Kings County), New York, the second of three daughters of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clara, daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner and sometime New York State Assemblyman.
Biography of Léon Bourgeois (excerpt)
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (29 May 1851 – 29 September 1925) was a Jewish French statesman. He was born in Paris, and was trained in law. After holding a subordinate office (1876) in the department of public works, he became successively prefect of the Tarn (1882) and the Haute-Garonne (1885), and then returned to Paris to enter the ministry of the interior.
Biography of Georges-Joseph Toutée (excerpt)
Georges-Joseph Toutée, born February 26, 1855 in Saint-Fargeau (birth certificate n° 16), died November 16, 1927 in Paris, was a French military, general, politician, and explorer in Africa. He was also an author, and has written Dahomé, Niger, Touareg, Récit de voyage (1897), Du Dahomé au Sahara and La nature et l'homme (1899).
Biography of Hugo Wolf (excerpt)
Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique.
Biography of Alexander Petofi (excerpt)
Sándor Petőfi (born January 1, 1823, Kiskőrös, Hungary (his birth time comes from this online archive) – died most likely July 31, 1849, in Segesvár, Hungary) was a Hungarian national poet of Serb and Slovak descent and a key figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Biography of Arsène d'Arsonval (excerpt)
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (June 8, 1851 – December 13, 1940) was born in La Porcherie and was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil galvanometer and probably of the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.
Biography of John Davidson (poet) (excerpt)
John Davidson (11 April 1857 – 23 March 1909) was a Scottish poet and playwright, best known for his ballads. He was born at Barrhead, East Renfrewshire as the son of a Dissenting minister and entered the chemical department of a sugar refinery in Greenock in his 13th year, returning after one year to school as a pupil teacher.
Biography of Louis-Aimé Maillart (excerpt)
Louis-Aimé Maillart (March 24, 1817 – May 26, 1871) was a French composer, best known for his operas, particularly Les Dragons de Villars and Lara. Biography Maillart was born in Montpellier (Hérault). He studied at the Paris Conservatory from 1833, learning composition from Aimé-Ambroise-Simon Leborne and Fromental Halévy, and violin from Guérin, and winning the Prix de Rome in 1841.
Biography of Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) (excerpt)
Engelbert Humperdinck (September 1, 1854 – September 27, 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893). Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces. He produced his first composition after receiving piano lessons when he was only seven.
Biography of André Chantemesse (excerpt)
André Chantemesse (October 13, 1851 - February 25, 1919) was a French bacteriologist. After graduation from the University of Paris in 1884, he traveled to Berlin to study bacteriology at the laboratory of Robert Koch (1843-1910). Chantemesse is primarily known for his collaborative work done with Georges-Fernand Widal (1862-1929) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Biography of Virginia Oldoini (excerpt)
Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was an Italian courtesan who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France]. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography.
Biography of Edmond Frémy (excerpt)
Edmond Frémy (February 22, 1814 - February 3, 1894) was a French chemist. Frémy was born at Versailles, entered Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac's laboratory in 1831, and was employed at the École Polytechnique in 1834 and at the Collège de France in 1837.
Biography of Thomas Charubel (excerpt)
John Thomas (1826-1908) - a Welsh clairvoyant, occultist and healer better known as Charubel. As a young man John Thomas took the path traditionally taken by natural clairvoyants for most of the last thousand years and studied for the Christian ministry. However, he ultimately felt forced to choose between his religious life and his occult and psychic interests and abilities.
Biography of Alfred Fouillée (excerpt)
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (October 18, 1838 - 1912), French philosopher, was born at La Pouëze. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycées of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by the Academy of Moral Science for his work on Plato and Socrates.
Biography of Alexandre Yersin (excerpt)
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (September 22, 1863 (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, email)–March 1, 1943) was a French (born Swiss) physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was re-named in his honour (Yersinia pestis).
Biography of Charles-François Daubigny (excerpt)
Charles-François Daubigny (Paris, February 15, 1817 – February 19, 1878 in Paris) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism. Daubigny was born into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny.
Biography of Gérard Cooreman (excerpt)
Gérard François Marie Cooreman (25 March 1852 birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – 2 December 1926) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, Cooreman was trained in law, and practised as a lawyer, but was more active as a businessman and financier, and became involved with Catholic social groups.
Biography of René de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Charles René de Paul de Saint-Marceaux (September 23, 1845 - April 23, 1915) was a French sculptor. He was born in Reims and at age eighteen went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. A student of François Jouffroy, he became primarily a sculptor of portrait busts and animals.
Biography of Léon Frapié (excerpt)
Léon Eugène Frapié (born January 27, 1863 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 1949 Paris) was a French novelist. He first contributed to magazines and newspapers, then a few novels. He is most known for the 1904 Prix Goncourt winning novel La Maternelle.
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