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Biography of Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray (excerpt)
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray was a French composer and teacher. He was born at Nantes on 2 February 1840 and died at Vernouillet, near Paris, on 4 July 1910. He studied law before switching to music at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1862.
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Biography of Maurice Des Ombiaux (excerpt)
Maurice Des Ombiaux, born Maurice Desombiaux, March 16, 1868 in Beauraing, died September 21, 1943 in Paris, was a Belgian writer and gastronomer. Selected publications * 1888 : Chants des Jours lointains - proses - édition Veuve Monnon. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Ranc (excerpt)
Arthur Ranc (20 December 1831 – 10 August 1908) was a French leftwing politician, journalist, and writer. Born in Poitiers, Vienne, he was educated for the law. Implicated in a plot against Napoleon III in 1853, he was acquitted, but shortly afterwards was imprisoned for belonging to a secret society; for his share in anti-imperialist conspiracies in 1855 he was arrested and deported to Algeria without a trial.
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Biography of Gustave Vanzype (excerpt)
Gustave Vanzype, born on June 10, 1869 in Brussels (birth time source: Lescaut, Gauquelin), died on September 12, 1955 in Brussels, was a Belgian writer. Selected publications Histoires bourgeoises (contes) Romanesque (nouvelle) Claire Fantin (Roman) ![]()
Biography of Herman Gorter (excerpt)
Herman Gorter (November 26, 1864, Wormerveer - September 15, 1927, Brussels) was a Dutch poet and socialist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly influential group of Dutch writers who worked together in Amsterdam in the 1880s, centered around De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide).
Biography of Alfred J. Pearce (excerpt)
Alfred J. Pearce, born on November 10, 1840 (source: his Textbook of Astrology), died on April 25, 1923, was a British physician, editor, and astrologer.
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Biography of Pierre Roques (excerpt)
Pierre Auguste Roques (28 December 1856 in Marseillan (Hérault) – 1920 in Saint-Cloud) was a French general and creator of the French air force. Born to a modest family, his lively intelligence earned him a study grant that allowed him to prepare for the entrance examinations to the École Polytechnique, where he became a friend of Joseph Joffre.
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Biography of Simon Debré (excerpt)
Simon Debré, born on January 23, 1854 in Westhoffen (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 15, 1939, was a French rabbi and author. He is also the father of Robert Debré (1882-1978), Jacques Debré, (1885-1969), Claire Debré-Schwartz (1888-1972), and Germain Debré (1890-1948).
Biography of Louis Alexandre Cabie (excerpt)
Louis Alexandre Cabié, born in Dol November 15, 1853 and died in 1939, was a French artist and landscape painter.
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Biography of Johannes Schlaf (excerpt)
Johannes Schlaf (June 21, 1862 in Querfurt (birth time source: Lescaut) – February 2, 1941 Id.) was a German playwright, author, and translator and an important exponent of Naturalism. As a translator he was important for exposing the German-speaking world to the works of Walt Whitman, Émile Verhaeren and Émile Zola and is known as a founder of the "Whitman Cult" in Germany.
Biography of John Henry Muirhead (excerpt)
John Henry Muirhead (April 28, 1855 - May 24, 1940) was a British philosopher best known for having initiated the Muirhead Library of Philosophy in 1890. He became the first Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in 1900. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at the Glasgow Academy (1866–70), and proceeded to Glasgow University, where he was deeply influenced by the Hegelianism of Edward Caird, professor of moral philosophy.
Biography of Gaspard Edouard Five (excerpt)
Gaspard Edouard Five, born on January 1, 1849 in Bruxelles, was a Belgian military general (source: Gauquelin). ![]()
Biography of Nicholas Murray Butler (excerpt)
Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 (birth time source: AFA) – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Biography of Robert Lorimer (excerpt)
Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer (November 4, 1864 – September 13, 1929) was a prolific Scottish architect noted for his restoration work on historic houses and castles, and for promotion of the Arts and Crafts style. Early life Lorimer was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Lorimer, who was Regius Professor of Public Law at Edinburgh University from 1862 to 1890.
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Biography of Oscar Roty (excerpt)
Louis-Oscar Roty usually known as Oscar Roty (11 June 1846 – 23 March 1911) was one of the most celebrated medallists of the Art Nouveau period. Biography Louis-Oscar Roty was born on 11 June 1846 in Paris. He first studied painting and sculpture, working under Lecoq de Boisboudran, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and François-Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme.
Biography of Charles Lecocq (excerpt)
Alexandre Charles Lecocq (June 3, 1832, Paris (birth time source: Lescaut) – October 24, 1918, Paris) was a French musical composer. He was admitted into the Conservatoire in 1849, being already an accomplished pianist. He studied under François Bazin, François Benoist, and Fromental Halévy, winning the first prize for harmony in 1850, and the second prize for fugue in 1852.
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Biography of Emile Bayard (excerpt)
Émile-Antoine Bayard (1837-1891) was born November 2, 1837, in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France. A student of Léon Cogniet, he is best known by many for his illustration of Cosette from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He died in Cairo in December 1891.
Biography of Thomas W. Mitchell (excerpt)
Thomas W. Mitchell, born January 18, 1869 in Fortrose, Scotland, died in 1944, was a Scottish psychologist, author, psychic researcher and physician. ![]()
Biography of Hugo Stinnes (excerpt)
Hugo Stinnes (12 February 1870 – 10 April 1924) was a German industrialist and politician. Life and career Stinnes was born in Mülheim, in the Ruhr Valley, North German Confederation. His father was also named Hugo, and his grandfather Matthias Stinnes had founded a modest enterprise in Mülheim.
Biography of Charles Trippe (excerpt)
Charles Trippe, born on July 6, 1855 in Woodstock, New Brunswick (source: Raphael's Almanac), died on January 26, 1939 (penumonia), was a Canadian artist born without arms. ![]()
Biography of William Didier-Pouget (excerpt)
William Didier-Pouget, born November 14, 1864 in Toulouse, died in 1959, was a French landscape painter. He began his formal art training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in his birth city, Toulouse. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français.
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Biography of Giuseppe Borgatti (excerpt)
Giuseppe Borgatti (born Cento, March 17, 1871—died Reno di Leggiuno, October 18, 1950) was an Italian dramatic tenor with an outstanding voice. (See Michael Scott, cited below, for a laudatory appraisal of his singing.) The creator of the title role in Umberto Giordano's verismo opera Andrea Chénier, he subsequently earned renown for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner, becoming in 1904 the first Italian tenor to appear at the Bayreuth Festival.
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Biography of Arthur Coquard (excerpt)
Arthur Coquard (26 May 1846 – 20 August 1910) was a French composer and music critic. He studied composition with César Franck, and was a music critic for Le Monde and Echo de Paris. He served as director of the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles from 1891–99. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Missa (excerpt)
Edmond Missa, born June 12, 1861 in Reims, died in 1910, was a French musician, composer, and teacher. He is the father of politician Francis Missa. ![]()
Biography of Paul-Gabriel d'Haussonville (excerpt)
Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (September 21, 1843 - September 1, 1924) was a French politician and author. Born at Gurcy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne), he was the son of Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville and Louise née Louise Albertine, princesse de Broglie; in 1865 he married Mlle Pauline d'Harcourt. ![]()
Biography of Simon Wolf (excerpt)
Simon Wolf, born October 28, 1836 in Wolfstein and died in 1923, was a German politician. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Deprez (excerpt)
Marcel Deprez (December 29, 1843 - October 13, 1918) was a French electrical engineer. He was born in Chatillon-sur-Loing. He died in Vincennes. At Creil, from 1876 to 1886, Deprez conducted the first experiments to transmit electrical power over long distances. At the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris in 1881, Deprez undertook the task of presenting an electricity distribution system based on the long-distance transport of direct current. ![]()
Biography of Josef Pilsudski (excerpt)
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman; Chief of State (1918–22), "First Marshal of Poland" (from 1920), and de facto dictator (1926–35) of the Second Polish Republic, Minister of Military Affairs. From mid-World War I he had a major influence in Poland's politics, and was an important figure on the European political scene.
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Biography of Georges Grente (excerpt)
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (5 May 1872 – 5 May 1959) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Le Mans from 1918 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
Biography of Albert Schrenk-Notzing (excerpt)
Albert Schrenk-Notzing, born May 18, 1862 in Oldenburg, died February 12, 1929 in Munich, was a German psychiatrist.
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Biography of Ferdinand Poise (excerpt)
Jean-Alexandre-Ferdinand Poise, born on June 3, 1828 in Nîmes, died on May 13, 1892 in Paris, was a French composer, musician, and author. Works Bonsoir voisin, mis en scène le 18 septembre 1853 au Théâtre Lyrique de Paris Les Charmeurs, mis en scène le 17 mars 1855 au Théâtre Lyrique de Paris
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Biography of Gaston Roullet (excerpt)
Gaston Roullet, born November 15, 1847 in Ars, died in 1925, was a French artist and lanscape painter.
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Biography of Arthur P. Gorman (excerpt)
Arthur Pue Gorman (March 11, 1839 (birth time source: Alan Leo) – June 4, 1906) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1881 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1906. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1869 to 1875.
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Biography of Albéric Magnard (excerpt)
Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard (French pronunciation: ; 9 June 1865 – 3 September 1914) was a French composer, sometimes referred to as a "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers. Magnard became a national hero in 1914 when he refused to surrender his property to German invaders and died defending it.
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Biography of Henri Christine (excerpt)
Henri Marius Christiné (27 December 1867 – 25 November 1941) was a French composer of Swiss birth. The son of a French Savoyard watchmaker, Christiné was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He began by teaching at the lycée in Geneva, while pursuing his interest in music and playing organ in a local church. ![]()
Biography of Jacques de Crussol, 13th Duke of Uzès (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Géraud de Crussol, duc d'Uzès, born on November 19, 1868 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on June 20, 1893, was a French explorer. Publication Les Boubou du Congo, posthume, 1898 Bibliography (fr) Duchesse d'Uzès, Le voyage de mon fils au Congo, 1894 ![]()
Biography of Charles Wolf (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Étienne Wolf (November 9, 1827 in Vorges – July 4, 1918) was a French astronomer. In 1862, Urbain Le Verrier offered him a post as assistant at the Paris Observatory. In 1867 he and Georges Rayet discovered Wolf-Rayet stars. Note however that the nearby red dwarf Wolf 359 was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf and not by him. ![]()
Biography of Robert Bridges (excerpt)
Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. Life Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and intended to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry.
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Biography of Wilhelm Groener (excerpt)
Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener (November 22, 1867 - May 3, 1939) was a German soldier and politician. He was born in Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, the son of a regimental paymaster. He entered the Württemberg Army in 1884, and attended the War Academy from 1893 until 1897, whereupon he was appointed to the General Staff (1899).
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Biography of Maurice Leloir (excerpt)
Maurice Leloir, born November 1, 1853, died October 7, 1940, was a French artist, illustrator and painter. He is the son of painter Auguste Leloir (1809-1892) and aquarelist Héloïse Colin (1820-1874), and the brother of artist Alexandre-Louis Leloir. ![]()
Biography of Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (excerpt)
Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (December 31, 1827, Marseille - July 10, 1895, Château-Puys, near Dieppe) was a famed French operatic soprano, particularly associated with light lyric and coloratura roles. Born Marie Caroline Félix-Miolan, she studied first with her father, François Félix-Miolan, an oboist, and later at the Paris Conservatory with Gilbert Duprez.
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Biography of Albert Robida (excerpt)
Albert Robida (March 14, 1848, Compiègne, Oise – October 11, 1926) was an illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, journalist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels.
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Biography of Albert Mockel (excerpt)
Albert Mockel (December 27, 1866 - January 30, 1945) was a Belgian Symbolist poet. Born in Ougrée, he was the editor of La Wallonie, an influential journal of Belgian Symbolism. He died on January 1930 in Ixelles. Bibliography Chantefable un peu naïve (1891)
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Biography of Henry Becque (excerpt)
enry François Becque (18 April 1837 – May 1899), French dramatist, was born in Lille. In 1867, he wrote, in imitation of Lord Byron, the libretto for Victorin de Joncières's opera Sardanapale, but his first important work, Michel Pauper, appeared in 1870. ![]()
Biography of Henri Boudet (excerpt)
Henri Boudet, born November 17, 1837 in Quillan, Aude (source not archived), died March 30, 1915 in Axat (bowel cancer), was a French Catholic priest and writer. Bibliography Du Nom de Narbonne (Circa 1880) La Vraie Langue Celtique ou le Cromleck de Rennes-Les-Bains (1886) ![]()
Biography of Jules Claretie (excerpt)
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (3 December 1840 – 23 December 1913) was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français. He was born at Limoges. After studying at the lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he became a journalist, achieving great success as dramatic critic to Le Figaro and to the Opinion nationale. ![]()
Biography of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (excerpt)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (October 11, 1825 – November 28, 1898) was a poet and, as he was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a fellow-townsman of Gottfried Keller. Meyer is a master of the novella, but in all other respects there is a most striking difference. ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Max (excerpt)
Adolphe Eugène Jean Henri Max (Brussels, 30 December 1869–6 November 1939) was a Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death. He graduated in law at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and entered the legal profession, besides doing journalistic work.
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Biography of Willem de Zwart (excerpt)
Willem de Zwart (16 May 1862 's-Gravenhage - 11 December 1931 The Hague), A.K.A. Wilhelmus Hendrikus Petrus Johannes Zwart, was a Dutch Painter and a member of the Hague School. Wilhelmus (Willem) Hendrikus Petrus Johannes de Zwart 1862 - 1931 Lived and worked until 1894 in The Hague and in Amsterdam from 1900 to 1905. ![]()
Biography of William Bulloch (excerpt)
William Bulloch, born August 19, 1868 in Aberdeen, died in 1941, was a Scottish scientist and bacteriologist, a member of the Royal Society (The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence). |
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