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Biography of Arthur Pillans Laurie (excerpt)
Arthur Pillans Laurie,, born November 6, 1861 in Edinburgh and died in 1949, was a Scottish chemist.
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.
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.
Biography of Jean-Joseph Weerts (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Weerts, born May 1st, 1947 in Roubaix, is a French painter.
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.
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.
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 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 Jacques-Joseph Grancher (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Grancher (September 29, 1843- July 13, 1907) was a French pediatrician who was born in Felletin. In 1865 he earned his medical degree, and afterwards was director of a pathological anatomy laboratory in Clamart (1868-1878). From 1885 until his death in 1907 he was director of Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
Biography of John Hazelrigg (excerpt)
John Hazelrigg, born June 20, 1860 in Hazelrigg, Indiana, died in October 1941, was an American astrologer and author.
Biography of Matthijs Maris (excerpt)
Matthijs Maris, born August 17, 1839 in The Hague and died August 22, 1917 in London, was a Dutch artist and painter.
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.
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.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Marchand (excerpt)
Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (November 22, 1863 – January 13, 1934) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand was born in Thoissey, Ain and attended l’Ecole militaire de Saint-Maixent. He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French.
Biography of Thomas Callender (excerpt)
Thomas Callender, born April 9, 1855 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman and entrepreneur.
Biography of Jean Georges Vibert (excerpt)
French painter.
Biography of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (excerpt)
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 – 1929) was one of the leading French artists of the academic school. He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather’s name, Bouveret, to his own.
Biography of Jules Barbier (poet) (excerpt)
Paul Jules Barbier (9 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters . His libretti for extant operas include:
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.
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 .
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 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 Isabella Augusta Gregory (excerpt)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
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 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 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.
Biography of Edouard Pailleron (excerpt)
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (September 17, 1829 (French Wikipedia) - April 19, 1899) was a French poet and dramatist. Born in Paris, he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years.
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 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 Jean-Antoine Villemin (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 -October 6, 1892) was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853.
Biography of Jean Massart (excerpt)
Jean Massart, born March 7, 1865 in Etterbeek, Brussels, and died August 16, 1925 in Houx, was a Belgian botanist and author. Publications (extract) * Parasitisme organique et parasitisme social (Paris, 1893), avec Émile Vandervelde (1866-1938). * La Récapitulation et l'innovation en embryologie (Gand, 1894).
Biography of Henri Duveyrier (excerpt)
Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. In 1857 and 1858, he spent some months in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan.
Biography of Louis Le Cardonnel (excerpt)
Louis Le Cardonnel, also called Brother Anselme, born on February 25, 1862 in Valence (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on May 28, 1936 in Avignon, was a French priest and poet. Works: Poèmes (1904) Carmina Sacra (1912) Du Rhône à l'Arno (1920)
Biography of William Rufus Shaftner (excerpt)
William Rufus Shaftner, born in Galesburg, Michigan, on October 16, 1835, was an American military man, he commanded the land operations during the Spanish-American war. He received a Medal of Honor.
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. |
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