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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 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 Georges Courteline (excerpt)
Georges Courteline (June 25, 1858 – June 25, 1929) was a French dramatist and novelist. Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth.During the time of the Paris Commune, at age 13, he was sent to study at Collège de Meaux and after graduation in 1876, he went on to serve in the French military before taking a job as a civil servant.
Biography of Margot Asquith (excerpt)
Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She married Herbert Henry Asquith, who would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908-1916).
Biography of Bernarr MacFadden (excerpt)
Bernarr Macfadden, born Bernard Adolphus McFadden (16 August 1868 – 12 October 1955) was an influential exponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories.He additionally founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfadden Publications. Born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Missouri, Bernarr Macfadden changed his first and last names to give them a greater appearance of strength.
Biography of Alfred Harmsworth (excerpt)
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865 (source for his time of birth: David Hamblin)–August 14,1922) rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market.
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.
Biography of Ramsay MacDonald (excerpt)
James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.He rose from humble origins to become the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924. His first government lasted less than one year.
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 Marguerite Audoux (excerpt)
Marguerite Audoux (July 7, 1863 at Sancoins, Cher – January 31, 1937 at Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French novelist. Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father.
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 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 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 Ella Young (excerpt)
Ella Young (December 26, 1867 – 1956) was an Irish poet, political activist, and mystic. Born in County Antrim, she grew up in Dublin and attended the Royal University. Her interest in Theosophy led her to become an early member of the Hermetic Society, and her acquaintance with "Æ" (George William Russell) led to her becoming one of his select group of protegés, known as the "singing birds." Her nationalist sentiments also led her to a friendship with Patrick Pearse, and she had a supporting role in the Easter Rising; as a member of Cumann na mBan, she smuggled rifles and other supplies in support of Republican forces.
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 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 Christopher Nicholson Johnston (excerpt)
Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (October 18, 1857–1934) was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency) between two by-elections in 1916 and 1917. He stood down as an MP when he became a Senator of the College of Justice, a senior judicial post.
Biography of François Crépin (excerpt)
François Crépin (30 October 1830 in Rochefort, Belgium – 30 April 1903 in Brussels) was an important botanist of the 19th century and director of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. The genus Crepinella (Araliaceae) is named after him.
Biography of Castro Alves (excerpt)
Antônio de Castro Alves (March 14, 1847 - July 6, 1871), more commonly known as Castro Alves, was a Brazilian poet best remembered for his abolitionist and republican poems, and is considered one of the most important Brazilian poets of the 19th century.
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 Jean-Baptiste Faure (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Faure, born January 15, 1830 in Moulins, died in 1914, was a French baritone.
Biography of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (excerpt)
Henri Alexandre Deslandres (July 24, 1853 – January 15, 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories. Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career.
Biography of Venustiano Carranza (excerpt)
Venustiano Carranza Garza (December 29, 1859 – May 21, 1920) was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution.He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Charcot (July 15, 1867 – September 16, 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist.His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). Jean-Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904 until 1907.
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 Hippolyte Taine (excerpt)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 5 March 1893) was a French critic and historian.He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
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 Paul Bourget (excerpt)
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (September 2, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 25, 1935), was a French novelist and critic. Biography He was born in Amiens in the Somme département of Picardie, France.His father, a professor of mathematics, was later appointed to a post in the college at Clermont-Ferrand, where Bourget received his early education.
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 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 Alfred Werner (excerpt)
Alfred Werner (December 12, 1866 - November 15, 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a professor at the University of Zurich.He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry.
Biography of Wilhelm Dilthey (excerpt)
Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833 – October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
Biography of Adolphe Deslandres (excerpt)
Adolphe Édouard Marie Deslandres, born January 22, 1840 in Paris and raised in Batignolles-Monceau, died July 30, 1911 in Paris, was a French composer and organist. Works (extract) * Bajazet et le Joueur de flûte, cantate, 1858 * Ivan IV, cantate, 1860
Biography of Luther Burbank (excerpt)
Luther Burbank (7 March 1849 – 11 April 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables.
Biography of Richard Garnett (excerpt)
Richard Garnett C.B. (27 February 1835 – 13 April 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet.He was son of Richard Garnett, an assistant keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. Born at Lichfield in England, and educated at a school in Bloomsbury, he entered the British Museum in 1851 as an assistant librarian.
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 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 Albert Kahn (excerpt)
Albert Kahn, born at Marmoutier, Bas-Rhin, France on March 3, 1860, died at Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine, France on the night of November 14, 1940, was a banker and French philanthropist. He was born into a Jewish family, one of 5 children of his parents, Louis and Babette Kahn.
Biography of Henry Lerolle (excerpt)
Henry Lerolle, born October 4, 1848 in Paris, died in 1929, was a French painter.
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 Benjamin Rabier (excerpt)
Benjamin Rabier (December 30, 1864, La Roche-sur-Yon - 1939, Faverolles) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator. He became famous for creating La vache qui rit, and is one of the precursors of animal comics. His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé and Edmond-François Calvo.
Biography of Albert Maignan (excerpt)
Albert Pierre René Maignan, born October 14, 1845 in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died September 29, 1908 in Saint-Prix, was a French painter and illustrator. Bibliography Dominique Mallet, Albert Maignan et son oeuvre. Conférence au Mans le 14 novembre 1912.
Biography of Johan Wagenaar (excerpt)
Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862, Utrecht – 17 June 1941, Den Haag) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar.Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins.
Biography of Ellen Terry (excerpt)
Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was an English stage actress, who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Born into a family of actors, Terry began acting as a child in Shakespeare plays, and continuing as a teen, sometimes in London and sometimes on tour.
Biography of Ker-Xavier Roussel (excerpt)
Ker-Xavier Roussel (December 10, 1867 - June 6, 1944) was a French painter associated with Les Nabis. Born François Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; alongside his friend Édouard Vuillard, he also studied at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart.
Biography of Paul Mansion (excerpt)
Paul Mansion, born June 3, 1844 in Huy, died April 16, 1919 in Ghent, was a Belgian mathematician, the father of philosopher Augustin Mansion. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
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 Edouard Detaille (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille (October 5, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - December 23, 1912), was a French Academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. Detaille was a student of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.He served in the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and became the official painter of the battles.
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 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. |
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