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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827(birth time source: Didier Geslain) – October 12, 1875) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude.Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio.
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Bloemfontein, also known as Bloem, is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.
Biography of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (excerpt)
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, born October 1, 1856 in Perth, died in 1930, was a Scottish musician, composer and author. Biography on http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/records/nineteen1/kennedyfr.html Marjory Kennedy was the daughter of the well-known singer David Kennedy who died in while on tour in Ontario, Canada in 1886.
Biography of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (excerpt)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. He was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to a farmer, John Wilson, and his mother Annie Clerk Harper.
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.
Biography of Emile Gaboriau (excerpt)
Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction. Life Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime.He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866).
Biography of Oskar Hertwig (excerpt)
Oscar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hesse - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850-1937).
Biography of Paul Elie Ranson (excerpt)
Paul Ranson (March 29 1861 – February 20, 1909) was a French painter and writer. Paul-Elie Ranson was born in Limoges and studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs there before moving to Paris and transferring to the Académie Julian in 1886.
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 Alfred Espinas (excerpt)
Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche. He was a student of Comte and Spencer. Although initially an adherent of positivism, he later became a committed realist.
Biography of Luisa Tetrazzini (excerpt)
Luisa Tetrazzini (June 28, 1871 - April 28, 1940) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano. Tetrazzini's voice was remarkable for its phenomenal flexibility, thrust and thrilling tone.She enjoyed a tremendously successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s.
Biography of Ivo of Kermartin (excerpt)
Saint Ivo of Kermartin (17 October 1253 at Kermartin, a manor near Minihy-Tréguier (Tréguier), Brittany, France - 19 May 1303 at Louannec, Brittany), also known as Erwann (in Breton) and Yves (in French), Yvo, Ives, or Ivo.He is a saint and patron of lawyers and abandoned children.
Biography of James Rolph (excerpt)
James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Jr.(August 23, 1869 (birth time source: Nolle) – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party.He was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height of the Great Depression.
Biography of Alexandre Chatrian (excerpt)
Alexandre Chatrian (17 December 1826 (Wikipedia gives 18 December by mistake) – 3 September 1890) was a French writer, associated with the region of Alsace-Lorraine.Almost all of his works were written jointly with Émile Erckmann under the name Erckmann-Chatrian. Success Recognition came in 1859 and they became well known as fantasy writers under the pseudonym of Émile Erckmann-Chatrian.
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 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.
Biography of Junius Massau (excerpt)
Belgian engineer Junius Massau (April 9, 1852–1909) is considered to be the creator of graphical integration.He worked out careful techniques of geometrical calculation accurately to construct the integral curves of differential equations y = f(x) and, more generally, y = f(x, y).
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.
Biography of Charles Evans Hughes (excerpt)
Charles Evans Hughes Sr.(April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York.He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907-1910), United States Secretary of State (1921-1925), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910-1916) and Chief Justice of the United States (1930-1941).
Biography of Jane Walker (excerpt)
Jane Walker, born October 24, 1859 in Dewsbury, was a British physician and specialist in tuberculosis.
Biography of Chauncey Depew (excerpt)
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. Biography He was born on April 23, 1834.
Biography of Marthe Mellot (excerpt)
Marthe Mellot (February 16, 1870 in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (Nièvre)- August 13, 1947 in Paris) was a French film actress. Selected filmography Les Misérables (1934) The Last Billionaire (1934) Justin de Marseille (1935) Land Without Stars (1946)
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Rochester is a city founded in 1854 in the U.S.state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County located on the Zumbro River's south fork in Southeast Minnesota.It is Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest city located outside the Minneapolis-St.
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 Louis-Antoine Ranvier (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (b.Lyon, France, October 2, 1835; d.Vendranges, France, March 22, 1922, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of the myelin sheath and the nodes of Ranvier, subcellular structure which covers the axons of neurons. Ranvier studied medicine at Lyon, graduating in 1865.
Biography of Joseph Gurney Cannon (excerpt)
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.
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 George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (excerpt)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.
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 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 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. Later he was director of the Toulouse Observatory from 1878 to 1907, during much of this time serving as Dean of the University of Toulouse Faculty of Science.
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.
Biography of Emile Vandervelde (excerpt)
Emile Vandervelde (1866 in Ixelles – 1938) was a Belgian statesman, born at Ixelles. He studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and became doctor of laws in 1885 and doctor of social science in 1888.
Biography of Henri La Fontaine (excerpt)
Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
Biography of Edward Westermarck (excerpt)
Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 (source not archived) – 3 September 1939) was a Swedish speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults, regardless of their genetic relationship.
Biography of Paul Kruger (excerpt)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899-1902).
Biography of Adolphe Monticelli (excerpt)
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14, 1824 – June 29, 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists. Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances.He attended the École Municipale de Dessin in Marseille from 1842 to 1846, followed by study in Paris under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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.
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 Charles Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier, born March 4, 1865 in Orléans, died November 15, 1937 in Paris, was a French zoologist. Selected publications 1901 — Méthode de récolte, de fixation et de conservation des invertébrés (arthropodes exceptés) (Paris : Impr.nationale). 1904 — Rapport sur une mission scientifique à la Côte française des Somalis (Paris : Impr.
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 Charles de Freycinet (excerpt)
Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (French pronunciation: ; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman and Prime Minister during the Third Republic; he belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteen member to occupy seat the Académie française.
Biography of Louis Vivin (excerpt)
Louis Vivin, born July 27, 1861 in Hadol, died in 1936, was a French painter.
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 Carrie Jacobs-Bond (excerpt)
Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 (birth time source: original source unknown) – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s. She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song "I Love You Truly", becoming the first woman to sell one million copies of a song.
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 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 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 Édouard Buguet (excerpt)
Édouard Isidore Buguet, born on July 13, 1840 in Saint-Mard-de-Réno (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on October 30, 1890 in Paris (source: Didier Geslain), was a French spirit-photographer.
Biography of Harry Lauder (excerpt)
Sir Henry Lauder (4 August 1870 - 26 February 1950), known professionally as Harry Lauder, was a notable Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!" Early life Henry Lauder was born at Portobello, Edinburgh in the home of his maternal grandfather, Henry McLennan. |
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