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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 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.
Biography of Jennie Bollenbacher (excerpt)
Jennie Bollenbacher, born September 7, 1864 in Peoria, Illinois, was an American professional astrologer and theosophist. ![]()
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 Louis Barthou (excerpt)
Jean Louis Barthou (25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Early years He was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and served as Deputy from that constituency. He was an authority on trade union history and law. Barthou was Prime Minister in 1913, and held ministerial office 13 other times.
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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 Charles Chamberland (excerpt)
Charles Chamberland (March 12, 1851 – May 2, 1908) was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, consisting of an unglazed porcelain bar. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Bourdelle (excerpt)
Antoine Bourdelle (October 30, 1861, Montauban (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 1, 1929), originally Émile Antoine Bourdelle, was a French sculptor and teacher. Career Antoine Bourdelle (pronounceed an-twahn boor-dell) was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne.He left school at the age of 13 to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet making shop.
Biography of Victor-Pierre Huguet (excerpt)
Victor Pierre Huguet, born May 1, 1835 in Le Lude and died on 1902, was a French famous landscape painter. ![]()
Biography of John Wanamaker (excerpt)
John (Nelson) Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising.Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Background He opened his first store in 1861, called "Oak Hall", at Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia, on the site of George Washington's Presidential home.
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Biography of George Arliss (excerpt)
George Arliss (April 10, 1868 - February 5, 1946) was an English Academy Award-winning actor, author, playwright and film maker who found success in America.He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award. Born George Augustus Andrews in London, England, he began his acting career on the stage in the English provinces in 1887. ![]()
Biography of Charles Le Goffic (excerpt)
Charles Le Goffic (July 14, 1863 in Lannion (birth time source: email and http://sallevirtuelle.cotesdarmor.fr/EC/ecx/consult.aspx.image=090025478950888) - February 12, 1932 in Lannion) was a French poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany. He was a member of the Académie française.
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Biography of Alfred Deakin (excerpt)
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 in Melbourne, Australia – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia.In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the protection of rights at work. ![]()
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).
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Biography of Francis Parkman (excerpt)
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America.These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism.
Biography of Horatio Bottomley (excerpt)
Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was a British financier, swindler, journalist, newspaper proprietor, populist politician and Member of Parliament (MP). Early life Horatio Bottomley was born in Birmingham on 23 March 1860.He was orphaned at the age of 4 and spent 14 years growing up in an orphanage. ![]()
Biography of Georges Eekhoud (excerpt)
Georges Eekhoud (May 27, 1854, Antwerp, Belgium – May 29, 1927, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life. He tended to portray the dark side of human desire and write about social outcasts and the working classes.
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Biography of Jean-Joseph Weerts (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Weerts, born May 1st, 1947 in Roubaix, is a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Georges Lafenestre (excerpt)
Georges Lafenestre, born on May 5, 1837 in Orléans (birth time source: Lescaut), died on May 19, 1919 in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French poet and art critic. Works (extract) Les Espérances, 1864. Le Parnasse contemporain II (recueil collectif), 1869-1871. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Estaunie (excerpt)
Édouard Estaunié (Dijon, France, February 4, 1862 - Paris, February 1, 1942) was a French novelist.Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891.In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication".He was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
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Biography of Joseph von Mering (excerpt)
Josef, Baron von Mering (born February 28, 1849, in Cologne - died January 5, 1908, at Halle an der Saale, Germany) was a German physician. Working at the University of Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover (in conjunction with Oskar Minkowski) that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin, a hormone which controls blood sugar levels.
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Biography of Louis de Rougemont (excerpt)
Louis de Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a would-be explorer who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. "De Rougemont" was born Henri Louis Grin in 1847 in Suchy, Switzerland.He left home at the age of sixteen.He became a footman to the actress Fanny Kemble, servant to a Swiss banker de Mieville in 1870 and a butler for the governor of Western Australia Sir William Robinson. ![]()
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 Hermene Bustos (excerpt)
Hermenilgo Bustos - or Hermene Bustos -, born April 13, 1832 near Mexico, died in 1907, was a Mexican-Indian artist. ![]()
Biography of Georges Dumas (excerpt)
Georges Dumas (6 March 1866—12 February 1946) was French doctor and psychologist. His main work is the The Treatise of Psychology (1923-1924, Le Traité de Psychologie).He wrote many articles and leaded the publication in two volumes of the treaty in which the main French psychologists of the time participate. ![]()
Biography of Siegfried Wagner (excerpt)
Siegfried Wagner (Tribschen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, 6 June 1869 - 4 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was a very productive opera composer and was the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. ![]()
Biography of Tony Garnier (excerpt)
Tony Garnier (August 13, 1869 Lyon – January 19, 1948, Roquefort-la-Bédoule, France) was a noted architect and city planner.He was most active in his hometown of Lyon. Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects.In 1901, after extensive study of sociological and architectural problems, he began to formulate an elaborate solution to the perceived issues concerning urban design.
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Biography of Charles Van Lerberghe (excerpt)
Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 at Ghent, Belgium, died 26 October 1907 in Brussels) was a Flemish (Belgian) symbolist poet writing in French. ![]()
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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 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 Ernest Candeze (excerpt)
Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze was a Belgian doctor and entomologist born 22 February 1827 at Liège and dying in Glain , 30 June , 1898.He studied in Liege under Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801-1870), then studied medicine in Paris and Liège.
Biography of Marguerite Rachilde (excerpt)
Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Château-l'Évêque near Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died on April 4, 1953. She is considered to be a pioneer of anti-realistic drama and a participant in the Decadent movement. ![]()
Biography of Émilienne d'Alençon (excerpt)
Émilienne d’Alençon (July 17, 1870 –1946) was a French dancer, actress and courtesan. Born in Paris, d’Alençon made her début at the Cirque d'été in 1889 before appearing at the Casino de Paris, Menus-Plaisirs, Folies Bergère, Paris Scala and the Théâtre des Variétés.
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Biography of Jules Breton (excerpt)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (May 1, 1827 – July 5, 1906) was a 19th century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence. ![]()
Biography of Isabel Burton (excerpt)
Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell) (London, March 20, 1831 - March 21, 1896) was the wife of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Her father was Henry Raymond Arundell, nephew of James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour .
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Biography of Lieven Gevaert (excerpt)
Lieven Gevaert (Antwerp, 28 May 1868 – The Hague, 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist.His father died when he was only three years old.He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods. ![]()
Biography of Lucien Hillemacher (excerpt)
Lucien Hillemacher, born on June 10, 1860 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died on June 2, 1909 in Paris, was a French musician and composer, the brother of pianist and composer Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933). Awards: Prix de Rome (1880) ![]()
Biography of Bernard Lazare (excerpt)
Bernard Lazare (15 June 1865 — 1 September 1903) was a French Jewish literary critic, political journalist, polemicist, and anarchist.He was also among the first Dreyfusards. Youth He was born Lazare Marcus Manassé Bernard (he later switched his first name and last name) in Nîmes on 15 June 1865, the eldest of four sons of Jonas Bernard and Douce Noémie Rouget. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Achille Le Bel (excerpt)
Joseph Achille Le Bel (January 21, 1847 – August 6, 1930), was a French chemist, who was best known for his work in stereochemistry.He was born on January 21, 1847 in Pechelbronn and educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris.In 1874 he announced his theory outlining the relationship between molecular structure and optical activity, which laid the foundation of the science of Stereochemistry, dealing with the spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules. ![]()
Biography of Richard Harding Davis (excerpt)
Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa.
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Biography of Ulysse Butin (excerpt)
Ulysse Louis Auguste Butin, born on May 15, 1838 in Saint-Quentin, died on December 9, 1883 in Paris, was a French painter and draftsman.
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Biography of Jean Georges Vibert (excerpt)
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Biography of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (excerpt)
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, June 6, 1868 - Auschwitz, ca.February 11, 1944) was a graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War.His pupils included the now renowned Mauritis Cornelis Escher (1898-1972).In the postwar years, de Mequita was largely forgotten.
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Biography of Laurent Tailhade (excerpt)
Laurent Tailhade (16 April 1854, Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées - 2 November 1919, Combs-la-Ville) was a French satirical poet, anarchist polemicist, essayist, and translator, active in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s. His most well-known poetry collections, Au Pays du mufle (1891) and Imbéciles et gredins (1900) have retained their insulting wit and verve, which blends the street slang of the outer faubourgs (suburbs) of Paris with the rich language of a broad-ranging culture.
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Biography of Hans Thoma (excerpt)
Hans Thoma (October 2, 1839 – November 7, 1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.
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Biography of Frances Power Cobbe (excerpt)
Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, and suffragist. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.
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Biography of Benjamin Godard (excerpt)
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (August 18, 1849, Paris – January 10, 1895, Cannes) was a French violinist and Romantic composer. Biography Benjamin Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps.He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps (violin) and Henri Reber (harmony) and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany. ![]()
Biography of John French (excerpt)
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (28 September 1852 - 22 May 1925) was a British officer serving as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I. ![]()
Biography of Gustav Falke (excerpt)
Gustav Falke (January 11, 1853 – February 8, 1916) was a German writer. Life Falke was born in Lübeck to merchant Johann Friedrich Christian Falke and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Hoyer. The historians Johannes and Jacob von Falke were his uncles, translator Otto Falke his cousin. |
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