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Biography of Frederick Rolfe (excerpt)
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Life and work Rolfe was born in London, the son of a piano manufacturer; he left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher.
Biography of Luigi Borro (body-builder) (excerpt)
Luigi Borro, born January 12, 1869 in Milan, was an Italian body-builder who exhibited in the circus.
Biography of Douglas Haig (excerpt)
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a British soldier and senior commander (field marshal) during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War.
Biography of François Schommer (excerpt)
François Schommer, born November 20, 1850 in Paris and died in 1935, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet (excerpt)
Sir John Traill Cargill, 1st Baronet (10 January 1867 – 24 January 1954) was a Scottish oil magnate. Cargill was born in Glasgow, the second son of David Sime Cargill, founder of the Burmah Oil Company. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and in 1890 went to Burma to work in the Rangoon office of his father's company, returning to Glasgow three years later.
Biography of Charles Proteus Steinmetz (excerpt)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German- American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers.
Biography of Alfred Edward Housman (excerpt)
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900.
Biography of Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer.
Biography of Kenneth Grahame (excerpt)
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film.
Biography of Francis Jammes (excerpt)
Francis Jammes (Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées December 2, 1868 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) November 1, 1938) was a French poet, from an ancient family. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life (donkeys, maidens).
Biography of Elbert Hubbard (excerpt)
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia.
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Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is the county seat of Ramsey County, the state's smallest in terms of area, second-most populous, and most densely populated county. As of 2020, its population was 311,527, making it the 63rd-largest city in the United States and the 11th-most populous in the Midwest.
Biography of Jean de Reszke (excerpt)
Jean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw, (14 January 1850 – 3 April 1925) was a Polish operatic tenor. He was born in Warsaw in 1850. His parents were Poles; his father was a state official and his mother a capable amateur singer, their house being a recognized musical centre.
Biography of Jules-Emile Verschaffelt (excerpt)
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (27 January 1870, Ghent – 22 December 1955) was a Belgian physicist. He worked at Kamerlingh Onnes’s laboratory in Leiden from 1894 to 1906 and once again from 1914 to 1923. From 1906 to 1914 he worked at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Biography of Arthur Sullivan (excerpt)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer, of Irish and Italian descent, best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert, including such continually-popular works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado.
Biography of Etienne-Jules Marey (excerpt)
Étienne-Jules Marey (March 5, 1830 – May 21, 1904) was a French scientist and chronophotographer, born in Beaune, France. His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of labor photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema.
Biography of Max von Schillings (excerpt)
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
Biography of Frank Wedekind (excerpt)
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (Hannover July 24, 1864 – Munich March 9, 1918), usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism, and he was a major influence on the development of epic theatre.
Biography of Paul Deussen (excerpt)
Paul Jakob Deussen (German pronunciation: ; January 7, 1845 – July 6, 1919) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft).
Biography of Émile Bernard (excerpt)
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897.
Biography of Alexandre Emile Taskin (excerpt)
Émile-Alexandre Taskin, born in Paris on March 18 1853, was a French singer at the Opera-Comique.
Biography of Pierre De Geyter (excerpt)
Pierre Chretien De Geyter (also known as Pierre Chrétien Degeyter) (Ghent, Belgium, 8 October 1848 (birth time source: André Dekoster, birth certificate n° 2547) – Saint-Denis, France, 26 September 1932) was a socialist (who later became a communist) and a composer, known for writing the music of The Internationale.
Biography of Jules Bordet (excerpt)
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (Soignies (Belgium) 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named for him. Ballin of Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, where, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, he described phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells.
Biography of Paul Georges Dieulafoy (excerpt)
Paul Georges Dieulafoy (November 18, 1839 – August 16, 1911) was a French physician and surgeon. He is best known for his study of acute appendicitis and his description of Dieulafoy's lesion, a rare cause of gastric bleeding. Life, studies, and career
Biography of Edith Hamilton (excerpt)
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963) was an American educator and author, and was "recognized as the greatest woman classicist." She was 62 when she published her first book, The Greek Way, in 1930. The Greek Way was in instant success, and was the earliest expression of her belief in "the calm lucidity of the Greek mind" and "that the great thinkers of Athens were unsurpassed in their mastery of truth and enlightenment.
Biography of Joseph Grasset (excerpt)
Joseph Grasset (18 March 1849 – July 1918), was a French neurologist and parapsychological investigator, born in Montpellier. He received his medical degree (1873) in Montpellier, where in 1881 he became a professor of therapy. In 1886 he attained the chair of clinical medicine, and in 1909 was appointed chair of general pathology.
Biography of Wilhelm Marx (excerpt)
Wilhelm Marx (January 15, 1863 (birth time source: Lescaut)– August 5, 1946) was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of the German Reich twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as minister president of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic.
Biography of Gaston Doumergue (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue (Aigues-Vives, Gard, 1 August 1863 – 18 June 1937 in Aigues-Vives) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age.
Biography of William James Mayo (excerpt)
William James Mayo, M.D. (June 29, 1861 – July 28, 1939) was a physician in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s.
Biography of Jan Toorop (excerpt)
Jean Theodoor Toorop (Poerworedjo, Java, December 20, 1858 — The Hague, Netherlands, March 3, 1928), better known as Jan Toorop, was a Dutch painter whose works straddle the space between the Symbolist painters and Art Nouveau. Born in Java, Toorop moved with his family to the Netherlands in 1872, and he studied in Delft and Amsterdam.
Biography of William Michael Rossetti (excerpt)
William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic. Born in London, he was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti.
Biography of Paul Alexis (excerpt)
Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola. Life Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a graduate.
Biography of Hugo Eckener (excerpt)
Dr. Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868–14 August 1954) was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and was commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history.
Biography of Alfred Fripp (excerpt)
Sir Alfred Downing Fripp (12 September 1865 - 1930) was a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London. He was born in Blandford, the son of the artist Alfred Downing Fripp. His godfather was royal tutor John Neale Dalton. After studying at the Merchant Taylors' School in London, he took up medicine, and during the Boer War he worked in South Africa as chief medical officer of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein.
Biography of Saint-Pol-Roux (excerpt)
Paul-Pierre Roux, best known as Saint-Pol-Roux, born January 15, 1861 in Marseille, died October 18, 1940 in Brest, was a French symbolist poet. Works (extract) Sous le nom de Paul Roux Maman!, Ollendorff, 1883 Garçon d'honneur, Ollendorff, 1883 Le Poète, Ghio, 1883
Biography of Florenz Ziegfeld (excerpt)
Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario. He is best known for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907-1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl".
Biography of Alfonso XII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
Biography of Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (excerpt)
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (December 22, 1862 - November 23, 1950) was a French physician who was a native of Bordeaux. He was an associate professor at Val-de-Grâce, as well as medical inspector general with the French Army. Later he attained the chair of epidemiology at Collège de France.
Biography of Louis Landouzy (excerpt)
Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (Reims, March 27, 1845 - May 10, 1917) was a French neurologist from Reims, and whose father and grandfather were also physicians. He studied medicine in Reims and Paris, earning his doctorate in 1876. He spent much his career at the University of Paris, becoming a professor of therapy in 1893 and a dean of medicine in 1901.
Biography of Vincent d'Indy (excerpt)
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (March 27, 1851 – December 2, 1931) was a French composer and teacher. Life D'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age but, to please his family, studied law.
Biography of Albert Samain (excerpt)
Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 — August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris.
Biography of Elsie Inglis (excerpt)
Elsie Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist. She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to a father who worked in the Indian civil service. She had the good fortune to have relatively enlightened parents for the time who considered the education of a daughter as important as that of the son.
Biography of Kate Chase (excerpt)
Katherine Jane ("Kate") Chase (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899), was the daughter of famous Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, the Treasury Secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and later Chief Justice of the United States. She is best known as a society hostess during the American Civil War, and a strong supporter of her widowed father's presidential ambitions that would have made her First Lady.
Biography of Paul Vidal (excerpt)
Paul Antoine Vidal (16 June 1863 – 9 April 1931) was a French composer, conductor and music teacher. Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse. He studied at the conservatoires in Toulouse and in Paris, under Jules Massenet in the latter. He won the Prix de Rome in 1883, one year before Claude Debussy did.
Biography of Oliver Lodge (excerpt)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term "coherer.
Biography of Joaquim Nabuco (excerpt)
Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo (Recife, August 19, 1849 — Washington, D.C., January 17, 1910) was a Brazilian writer and statesman. Born in Brazil, Joaquim was the son of a wealthy landowner named Jose Thomas Nabuco (1849-1910), who was a major political figure in the Brazilian Empire, becoming a lifetime senator and counselor of state.
Biography of A.P. Sinnett (excerpt)
A.P. Sinnett (18 January 1840 - 26 June 1921) was an author and Theosophist. Sinnett's father died while he was young, by 1851 Sinnett is listed as a "Scholar - London University", living with his widowed mother Jane whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature", and his older sister Sophia age 22 who is a teacher.
Biography of Kurt Eisner (excerpt)
Kurt Eisner (14 May 1867 – 21 February 1919) was a Bavarian politician and journalist. As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918. He is used as an example of charismatic authority by Max Weber.
Biography of James Coats (excerpt)
James Coats, born September 5, 1843 in Belfast, was an Irish mesmerist, magnetizer and author.
Biography of Ada Negri (excerpt)
Ada Negri (February 3, 1870 - January 11, 1945) was an Italian poet. She was born in Lodi into an artisan family to Giuseppe Negri, and his wife Vittoria Cornalba, and became a village school-teacher. Her first book of poems, Tempeste (1891), tells the helpless tragedy of the forsaken poor, in words of vehement beauty. |
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