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Biography of Madame Davia (excerpt)
Madame Davia, born October 25, 1861 in Savoie, France, died January 2, 1884, was a French psychic and medium. ![]()
Biography of Anton Rubinstein (excerpt)
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos. He also founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which, together with Moscow Conservatory founded by his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, helped establish a reputation for musical skill among the subjects of the czar of Russia.
Biography of Frederick Leigh Gardner (excerpt)
Frederick Leigh Gardner, born on March 31, 1857 in London, died on 1930, was a British astrologer and collector of Masonic books. ![]()
Biography of Hans Vaihinger (excerpt)
Hans Vaihinger (September 25, 1852 – December 18, 1933) was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Philosophie des Als Ob (Philosophy of As If), published in 1911, but written more than thirty years earlier. Vaihinger was born in Nehren, Germany, near Tübingen, and raised in what he himself described as a "very religious milieu". ![]()
Biography of Paul Reclus (excerpt)
Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (Orthez, March 7, 1847 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut)) – Paris, 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of Jacques Reclus and brother of Elijah Elisha Onesimus and Armand Reclus. ![]()
Biography of Eugene Field (excerpt)
Eugene Field, Sr. (September 3, 1850 - November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by a cousin, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Biography of Leonard Borwick (excerpt)
Leonard Borwick (26 February 1868 – 15 September 1925) was an English concert pianist especially associated with the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Early training and debuts Born in Walthamstow, Essex, of a Staffordshire family, Leonard Borwick studied piano under Henry R.
Biography of Bessie Leo (excerpt)
Bessie Leo, born April 5, 1858 in Salisbury, was a British astrologer and editor, the wife of Allan Leo.
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Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler (excerpt)
Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 11, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was an inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses.
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Biography of John Wesley Powell (excerpt)
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon. ![]()
Biography of Jules de Trooz (excerpt)
Jules Henri Ghislain Marie, Baron de Trooz (21 February 1857 – 31 December 1907) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. De Trooz was born in Leuven, and had studied philosophy before entering politics. He represented Leuven in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1899 onwards, serving as Education and Interior minister.
Biography of Edouard Alexandre Sain (excerpt)
Edouard Alexandre Sain, born on May 13, 1830 in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1910, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Charpentier (excerpt)
Gustave Charpentier (June 25, 1860 – February 18, 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. He was born in Dieuze, the son of a baker, and after studying at the conservatoire in Lille entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1881. ![]()
Biography of Camille Chevillard (excerpt)
Camille Chevillard (14 October 1859 – 30 May 1923) was a French composer and conductor. He was born in Paris, France. He led the Lamoureux Orchestra in the premieres of Debussy's Nocturnes (1900 and 1901) and La mer (1905). He was the son-in-law of conductor Charles Lamoureux. ![]()
Biography of Charles XV of Sweden (excerpt)
Karl XV (Karl Ludvig Eugen) (May 3, 1826 – September 18, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Karl IV) from 1859 until his death. He was born in Stockholm Palace and dubbed Duke of Skåne at birth. ![]()
Biography of Jean Richepin (excerpt)
Jean Richepin (English pronunciation: /ˈʒɑːn riːʃˈpæn/; 4 February 1849 - 12 December 1926), French poet, novelist and dramatist, the son of an army doctor, was born at Medea (Algeria). At school and at the École Normale Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, powers, for which he found physical vent in different directions—first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War, and afterwards as actor, sailor and stevedore--and an intellectual outlet in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his erratic but unmistakable talent. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Branly (excerpt)
Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly (October 23, 1844 - March 24, 1940) was a French inventor and physicist. He was the physics professor at the Catholic University of Paris. He is primarily known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer around 1890.
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Biography of Charles Floquet (excerpt)
Charles Thomas Floquet (October 2, 1828 - January 18, 1896) was a French statesman. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Basses-Pyrénées). He studied law in Paris, and was called to the bar in 1851. The coup d'état of that year aroused the strenuous opposition of Floquet, who had, while yet a student, given proof of his republican sympathies by taking part in the fighting of 1848. ![]()
Biography of Albert Anker (excerpt)
Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. Life Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845–48. ![]()
Biography of Friedrich Ebert (excerpt)
Friedrich Ebert (4 February 1871 – 28 February 1925) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office. Before being elected President, he briefly served as Chancellor during the last months of the German Empire.
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Biography of Maarten Maartens (excerpt)
Maarten Maartens, pen name of Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz (Amsterdam, 15 August 1858 - Doorn, 3 August 1915), was a Dutch writer, who wrote in English. He was quite well known at the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in both the UK and the US, but he was soon forgotten after his death.
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Biography of Paul Emile Appell (excerpt)
French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Valentin Joseph Boussinesq (excerpt)
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (13 March 1842 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at Faculty of Sciences of Lille, lecturing differential and integral calculus at Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille).
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Biography of Florence Maybrick (excerpt)
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick (1862 - 1941) was a former American citizen who spent fourteen years in prison in England after being convicted of murdering her considerably older English husband. Early life Born Florence Elizabeth Chandler on September 3, 1862 in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of William George Chandler, a partner in the banking firm of St.
Biography of William Ker (excerpt)
William Ker, born August 30, 1855 in Glasgow and died July 17, 1932 (mountain accident), was a Scottis poet, writer and professor of poetry. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Chester French (excerpt)
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920) at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. French was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Henry Flagg French, a lawyer, Assistant US Treasury Secretary and author of a book that described the French drain.
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Biography of Eugène Le Roy (excerpt)
Eugène Le Roy, born on November 29, 1836 in Hautefort (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on May 6, 1907 in Montignac, was a French writer. Publications Le Moulin de Frau (1891), paru en feuilleton dans L'Avenir de la Dordogne du 2 avril au 21 août 1891 puis chez Fasquelle en 1905.
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Biography of Wladyslaw Reymont (excerpt)
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (May 7, 1867 in Kobiele Wielkie – December 5, 1925) was a Polish novelist and Nobel laureate. His best-known work is the novel Chłopi (Peasants). Surname Born Stanisław Władysław Rejment, Reymont's baptism certificate lists his original surname as "Rejment". He ordered the change himself during his published debut, as it was supposed to protect him in the Russian part of Poland from any trouble for having published in Galicia a work not allowed under the Tsar's censorship.
Biography of Gustav w und Halbach (excerpt)
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, "Taffi", (August 7, 1870 - January 16, 1950) ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941. He was indicted for prosecution at the 1945 Nuremberg trials, but the charges were dropped because of his failing health. ![]()
Biography of James Buchanan Duke (excerpt)
James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for his involvement with Duke University. Personal life James Buchanan Duke, known by the nickname "Buck", was born near Durham, North Carolina, on December 23, 1856 to Washington Duke and his second wife, Artelia Roney Duke. ![]()
Biography of James Tissot (excerpt)
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. Tissot was born at Nantes. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three. ![]()
Biography of Benjamin Baillaud (excerpt)
Édouard Benjamin Baillaud (14 February 1848 – 8 July 1934) was a French astronomer. Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Baillaud studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris. He worked as an assistant at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1872.
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Biography of Louis Vivin (excerpt)
Louis Vivin, born July 27, 1861 in Hadol, died in 1936, was a French painter.
Biography of Arthur Pillans Laurie (excerpt)
Arthur Pillans Laurie,, born November 6, 1861 in Edinburgh and died in 1949, was a Scottish chemist.
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Biography of Camille Erlanger (excerpt)
Camille Erlanger (May 25, 1863 – April 24, 1919) was a Parisian-born French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes and Émile Durand, and in 1888 won the Prix de Rome for his opera Velléda. His most famous opera, Le Juif polonais, was produced at the Opéra-comique in 1900.
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Biography of Jean Mounet-Sully (excerpt)
Mounet-Sully (July 27, 1841 (Wikipedia gives February) - 1916), a French actor, was born at Bergerac. His birth name was Jean-Sully Mounet: "Mounet-Sully" (without the "Jean") was a stage name. He entered the Conservatoire at the age of twenty-one, where he took first prize for tragedy.
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Biography of Emile Reynaud (excerpt)
Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris.
Biography of Herman Kooij (excerpt)
Herman Kooij, born on June 5, 1868 in Hengelo, died June 17, 1950, was a Dutch astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Pablo de Sarasate (excerpt)
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908) was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period. Career Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an artillery bandmaster. He began studying the violin with his father at the age of five and later took lessons from a local teacher but his musical talent became evident early on and he appeared in his first public concert in La Coruña at the age of eight. ![]()
Biography of Annie Horniman (excerpt)
Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH (3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937) was a member of the Horniman Tea family. She founded the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and the Gaeity Theatre in Manchester, which was the first repertory theatre in the country. ![]()
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Biography of Georges Adolphe Hue (excerpt)
Georges Adolphe Hüe (6 May 1858 – 7 June 1948) was a French composer of classical music. Georges Hüe was born in Versailles (Yvelines) into a noted family of architects. His musical education included studies with Charles Gounod and César Franck. In 1879, he won the Prix de Rome with his cantata Médée.
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Biography of Ludwig Pastor (excerpt)
Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Willem Mesdag (excerpt)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter. He was born in Groningen, the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. ![]()
Biography of Guy Ropartz (excerpt)
Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (June 15, 1864 – November 22, 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor), stage works, a number of choral works and other music including a Prélude, Marine et Chansons for flute, harp and string trio.
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Biography of James Connolly (excerpt)
James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was an Irish and Scottish socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. ![]()
Biography of William Thomas Stead (excerpt)
William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 - 15 April 1912) was an English journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational minister. Early journalism He attended Silcoates School in Wakefield, but was early apprenticed in a merchant's office at Newcastle-on-Tyne. ![]()
Biography of Jules Violle (excerpt)
Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (November 16, 1841, Langres - September 12, 1923, Fixin) was a French physicist and inventor. He is notable for having determined the solar constant at Mont Blanc in 1875, and, in 1881, for proposing a standard for luminous intensity, called the Violle, equal to the light emitted by 1 cm² of platinum at its melting point.
Biography of Jennie Bollenbacher (excerpt)
Jennie Bollenbacher, born September 7, 1864 in Peoria, Illinois, was an American professional astrologer and theosophist.
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Biography of Ernest Constans (excerpt)
Jean Antoine Ernest Constans (May 3, 1833 (birth time source: Lescaut)–April 7, 1913) was a French politician and colonial administrator. Biography Born in Béziers, Hérault, he began his career as professor of law. In 1876 he was elected deputy for Toulouse to the French Third Republic's Chamber, and sat in the Left Centre as one of the 363 of May 16, 1877. |
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