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Biography of Hans Pfitzner (excerpt)
Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist.His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Biography Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer.
Biography of Édouard Debat-Ponsan (excerpt)
Édouard Debat-Ponsan (Toulouse, 25 April 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Paris, 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter. Biography A pupil of Cabanel, Debat-Ponson was famous for his portraits of wealthy citizens and politicians in Paris, paintings of ancient history and scenes of peasant life.
Biography of Georges Gasté (excerpt)
Georges Gasté, born on August 30, 1869 in Paris (birth time source: Cedra), died in 1910 in India, was a French painter and photographer.
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Reading is a historic market town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and Kennet. It is on the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, 40 miles (64 km) east of Swindon, 25 miles (40 km) south of Oxford, 40 miles (64 km) west of London, 15 miles (24 km) north of Basingstoke, 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Maidenhead and 15 miles (24 km) east of Newbury.
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 Paul Gachet (excerpt)
Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate - 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise.Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement.
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 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 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 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.
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Springfield is the third largest city in the state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 159,498. As of 2019, the Census Bureau estimated its population at 167,882. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which has a population of 462,369 and includes the counties of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, and Webster.
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 George Robert Sims (excerpt)
George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 (source not archived) - 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums.
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 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 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 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 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 Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Jean-Baptiste Faure (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Faure, born January 15, 1830 in Moulins, died in 1914, was a French baritone.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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-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 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 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 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 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 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.
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Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking, Central European microstate, situated in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. The principality is a semi-constitutional monarchy headed by the Prince of Liechtenstein; the Prince's extensive powers are equivalent to those of a President in a semi-presidential system like France.
Biography of Henry Lerolle (excerpt)
Henry Lerolle, born October 4, 1848 in Paris, died in 1929, was a French painter.
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 Daniel Burnham (excerpt)
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C.
Biography of Tristan Bernard (excerpt)
Tristan Bernard (September 7, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 7, 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, the son of an architect. He left Besançon at the age of 14, moving with his father to Paris, where he studied at the Lycée Condorcet, which was noted for its numerous literary alumni.
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 Horatio Brown (excerpt)
Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 (birth time source: Ed Steinbrecher) – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian and author who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city. |
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