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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 Hester Dowden (excerpt)
Hester Dowden, born May 3, 1868 in Dublin, died in 1949, was a professional medium whose psychic development was marked by the successive appearance of five spirit personalities: "Peter," "Eyen," "Astor," "Shamar," and "Johannes." She was later known for her experiments in automatic writing.
Biography of Rudolf Eucken (excerpt)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. Early life He was born in Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover (now Lower Saxony). His father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his mother.
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 Alfred Bruneau (excerpt)
Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. As a youth, Bruneau studied the cello at the Paris Conservatory, and played in the Pasdeloup orchestra.
Biography of Louis Valtat (excerpt)
Louis Valtat, born in Dieppe August 8, 1869 and died January 2, 1952, was a French painter and artist.
Biography of Henri Lavedan (excerpt)
Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 - 30 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholicand liberal journalist. As a writer, Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form.
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 Ernest Monis (excerpt)
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis (French pronunciation: ; 23 May 1846 Châteauneuf-sur-Charente (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)– 25 May 1929 Mondouzil) was a French politician of the Third Republic, deputy of Gironde from 1885 to 1889 and then senator of the same department from 1891 to 1920.
Biography of Alfred Capus (excerpt)
Alfred Capus (November 25, 1858 in Aix-en-Provence - November 1, 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence and deceased in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Son to a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist.
Biography of Edwin Markham (excerpt)
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Life Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, an area northeast of San Francisco; there, he lived with his sister and mother.
Biography of Pierre Magnier (excerpt)
Pierre Magnier was a French actor and director, who began on the stage in the 1890s and became a prominent silent film actor in France. He was the second actor to portray Cyrano de Bergerac in any film in 1925. He continued acting until the 1950s.
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 Octave Callandreau (excerpt)
Pierre Jean Octave Callandreau, born September 18, 1852 in Angoulême (source not archived), died February 13, 1904, was a French astronomer, a former student of Polytechnique (X1872).
Biography of Charles Dana Gibson (excerpt)
Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867–December 23, 1944) was an American graphic artist, noted for his creation of the "Gibson Girl", an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
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 Max Elskamp (excerpt)
Max Elskamp, born on May 5, 1862 in Antwerp, died on December 10, 1931 in Antwerp, was a Belgian symbolic poet (Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century style of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire.
Biography of Alexandre Bisson (excerpt)
Alexandre Bisson, born April 9, 1848 in Briouze and died January 27, 1912 in Paris, was a French author and screenwriter. Works (extract) Madame X (1981) (TV) (play) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1980) - Feu Toupinel (1980) TV episode (play)
Biography of Pierre Gauthiez (excerpt)
Pierre-Michel Gautiez, born March 28, 1862 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, was a French poet and author.
Biography of Jean Varney (excerpt)
French singer and songwriter.
Biography of Maurice Rollinat (excerpt)
Maurice Rollinat (born December 29, 1846 in Châteauroux, France; died October 26, 1903 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French poet. Early works His father represented Indre in the National Assembly of 1848, and was a friend of George Sand, whose influence is very marked in young Rollinat's first volume, Dans les brandes (1877), and to whom it was dedicated.
Biography of Lucien Descaves (excerpt)
Lucien Descaves (18 March 1861, Paris - 6 September 1949) was a French novelist and journalist. A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate (1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement.
Biography of David Belasco (excerpt)
David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer. Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs such as call boy and script copier.
Biography of Maurice Barrymore (excerpt)
Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe (September 21, 1849 – March 26, 1905) —stage name Maurice Barrymore — was the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore. Early life Born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe in the Sikh holy city, Amritsar, Punjab or more precisely Fort Agra, India, he was the son of William Edward Blythe, a surveyor for the British East India Company and his wife Matilda Chamberlayne.
Biography of Henri Bremond (excerpt)
Henri Bremond (31 July 1865 – 17 August 1933) was a French literary scholar, sometime Jesuit, and Catholic philosopher, one of the theological modernists. Biography He was born and educated in Aix-en-Provence. He served his novitiate in England, and took orders in 1892.
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Biography of Ferdinand Fabre (excerpt)
Ferdinand Fabre, born June 9, 1827 in Bédarieux and died February 11, in Paris, was a French novelist. Works (extract) * Feuilles de lierre (1853) * Les Courbezon, scènes de la vie cléricale (1861), ouvrage distingué par l'Académie Française
Biography of Theobald Ziegler (excerpt)
Theobald Ziegler (February 9, 1846 – September 1, 1918) was a German philosopher and educator who was a native of Göppingen, Württemberg. Career Ziegler studied theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and later was a secondary school teacher in Heilbronn, Winterthur and Baden-Baden.
Biography of August Bier (excerpt)
August Karl Gustav Bier (24 November 1861 – 12 March 1949) was German surgeon and the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. After professorships in Greifswald and Bonn, Bier became a professor at the Charité in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made in 1898 when he performed the first planned spinal anaesthetic on a series of 6 patients for lower extremity surgery.
Biography of Charles Friedel (excerpt)
Charles Friedel (March 12, 1832 – April 20, 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. A native of Strasbourg, France, he was professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne. Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.
Biography of Jacinto Benavente (excerpt)
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds.
Biography of Paul de Smet de Naeyer (excerpt)
Paul Joseph, Count de Smet de Naeyer (13 May 1843 – 9 September 1913) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, son of a cotton industrialist, he was himself also an industrialist and a banker. He was head of the Société Générale de Belgique and the owner of several coal mines.
Biography of Marcel Journet (excerpt)
Marcel Journet (July 25, 1868 – September 7, 1933), was a French bass. He enjoyed a prominent career in European and American opera houses in New York City and Chicago. Journet was born in Grasse, southern France, and reputedly studied at the Paris conservatory.
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 Karl Baisch (excerpt)
Karl Baisch, born January 28, 1869 in Gaildorf, died January 8, 1943 in Stuttgart, was a German physician, gynecologist, researcher, and author.
Biography of A. Alpheus (excerpt)
A. Alpheus, born November 30, 1868 near Iona, Michigan, died in 1914, was an American astrologer and author of astrology articles and books.
Biography of Umberto I of Italy (excerpt)
Umberto I, King of Italy or Humbert I of Italy (Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia), English: Humbert Ranier Charles Emmanuel John Mary Ferdinand Eugene of Savoy (14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900), nicknamed the Good (in Italian il Buono), was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death.
Biography of Ernest Hello (excerpt)
Ernest Hello (5 November 1828 in Lorient - 14 July 1885 in Kéroman) was a French critic and author. Life He was born at Lorient, in Brittany. He was the son of a lawyer who held posts of great importance at Rennes and in Paris, and was well educated at both places, but took to no profession and resided much, for a time, in his father's country-house in Brittany.
Biography of William Burrell (excerpt)
Sir William Burrell (July 9, 1861 (source for his time of birth: Paul Wright collection) - March 29, 1958) was a Glaswegian shipping merchant and philanthropist. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1861. He was the third of nine children in a family, which ran a shipping business.
Biography of Diamond Jim Brady (excerpt)
James Buchanan Brady (12 August 1856 – 13 April 1917), also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. Born in New York City to a modest household, Brady worked his way up from bellboy and messenger.
Biography of Edmond Audran (excerpt)
Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890), and La poupée (1896).
Biography of Henri Chapu (excerpt)
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (born Le Mée, 29 September 1833 - died, Paris, 21 April 1891) was a French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition who was known for his use of allegory in his works. Life and career Born into modest circumstances, Chapu moved to Paris with his family and in 1847 entered the Petit École with the intention of studying drawing and becoming an interior decorator.
Biography of Joseph Milburn (excerpt)
Joseph Milburn, born on February 6, 1870 in Marlborough (birth time source: Church of Light), died on February 9, 1958 in Berkeley, California, was a British and American astrologer and author.
Biography of Andrew Forsyth (excerpt)
Andrew Russell Forsyth (18 June 1858, Glasgow – 2 June 1942, South Kensington) was a Scottish mathematician. Andrew Forsyth studied at Liverpool College and was tutored by Richard Pendlebury before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1881. He was elected a fellow of Trinity and then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24.
Biography of Charles Beresford (excerpt)
Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO (10 February 1846 in Waterford – 6 September 1919), known as Lord Charles Beresford until 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament. Beresford was the second son of John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford, thus despite his honorary title, as second son was still eligible to enter the House of Commons.
Biography of Maurice Hamy (excerpt)
Maurice Théodore Adolphe Hamy, born October 31, 1861 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, died April 9, 1936, was a French astronomer. He was President of Bureau des Longitudes, a French scientific institution, founded by decree of June 25, 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation.
Biography of Bramwell Booth (excerpt)
Bramwell Booth, CH (8 March 1856 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – 16 June 1929) was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth. Biography Born as William Bramwell Booth in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the oldest child born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, he had two brothers and five sisters, including Evangeline Booth, Catherine Booth-Clibborn, Emma Booth and Ballington Booth.
Biography of Ethelbert Nevin (excerpt)
Ethelbert Nevin, born in November 25, 1862, in Edgeworth (PA) was an American musician and composer. He is best known for his song "The Rosary".
Biography of Remy de Gourmont (excerpt)
Remy de Gourmont (April 4, 1858, Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne (birth time source: birth certificate, remydegourmont.org/) - September 27, 1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars.
Biography of Walthere Spring (excerpt)
Walthere Spring, born March 6, 1848 in Liège and died in 1911, was a Belgian chemist. |
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