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Biography of William Edward Hartpole Lecky (excerpt)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky OM PC FBA (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities.His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century. Lecky concentrated on his major work, A History of England during the Eighteenth Century, Vols.
Biography of Suzanne Manet (excerpt)
Suzanne Manet, born Suzanne Leenhoff; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled. An excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers.
Biography of Gabriel Lippmann (excerpt)
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. His parents were French Jews. Academic affiliations
Biography of Mary Church Terrell (excerpt)
Mary Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School (now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School)—the first African American public high school in the nation—in Washington, DC.
Biography of Eduards Veidenbaums (excerpt)
Eduards Veidenbaums (Glāznieki, Priekuļi parish, 3 October 1867 — Kalāči, Mūrmuiža parish, 24 May 1892) was a Latvian poet and translator. Eduards Veidenbaums was born at the Glāznieki farmstead in the Priekuļi parish (now territory of Cēsis).In 1872 his family moved to Kālāči in the Mūrmuiža parish.
Biography of Henri Vever (excerpt)
Henri Vever (1854–1942) was one of the most preeminent European jewelers of the early 20th century, operating the family business, Maison Vever, started by his grandfather.Henri was also a collector of a broad range of fine art, including prints, paintings, and books of both European and Asian origin.
Biography of Clara Viebig (excerpt)
Clara Emma Amalia Viebig (17 July 1860 (for her time of birth, two sources exist, 10:00 pm and 9:00 pm) – 31 July 1952) was a German author. Life Viebig was born in the German city of Trier, the daughter of a Prussian civil servant.
Biography of Samuel Pozzi (excerpt)
Samuel-Jean Pozzi (3 October 1846 – 13 June 1918) was a French surgeon, professor, author, and gynecologist.He was also interested in anthropology and neurology. Medical career Members of the Paris Medical Faculty (1904) In 1864, Pozzi began to study medicine in Paris.When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, he volunteered and became a medic.
Biography of Anatole Deibler (excerpt)
Anatole Deibler (29 November 1863 (Rennes) - 2 February 1939 (Paris)) was a French executioner.Succeeding his father, Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler, and grandfather as the lead French executioner, he participated in the execution of 395 criminals during his 54-year career.During his 40 years as lead executioner he was responsible for 299 beheadings.
Biography of Henry Gauthier-Villars (excerpt)
Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931), known by the pen name Willy , was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l’Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, L’Ouvreuse, L’Ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy, Boris Zichine.
Biography of Paul Hillemacher (excerpt)
Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (25 November 1852 – 13 August 1933) was a French composer and classical pianist. Born in Paris, Hillemacher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in François Bazin's class.Second prize for harmony in 1870, first runaway in fugue two years later, he won, in 1873 a Second Prix de Rome then, in 1876, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Judith.
Biography of Zacharie Astruc (excerpt)
Zacharie Astruc (20 February (not 23 February, a mistake from Wikipedia) 1833 in Angers – 24 May 1907 in Paris) was a French sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century, and participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
Biography of Alfred Michaux (excerpt)
Alfred Michaux, born July 5, 1859 in Clenleu in Pas-de-Calais and died March 26, 1937 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is a French lawyer and Esperantist. Passionate about linguistics, he studies the artificial language at the base of the development of constructed languages.He first turned to the neo-Latin language of E.
Biography of Julia Kavanagh (excerpt)
Julia Kavanagh (7 January 1824 – 28 October 1877) was an Irish novelist, born at Thurles in Tipperary, Ireland—then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her numerous contributions to literature have classified her as one of the non-canonical minor novelist of the Victorian period (1837–1901).
Biography of Auguste Daum (excerpt)
Jean Louis Auguste Daum (1853 in Bitche – 1909 in Nancy) was a French ceramist, in glass. He was one of the founder members of École de Nancy and the director of Daum studio. He was the son of Jean Daum, brother of Antonin Daum and father of Léon Daum.
Biography of Paul Natorp (excerpt)
Paul Gerhard Natorp (24 January 1854 – 17 August 1924) was a German philosopher and educationalist, considered one of the co-founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism.He was known as an authority on Plato. Paul Natorp was born in Düsseldorf, the son of the Protestant minister Adelbert Natorp and his wife Emilie Keller.
Biography of Annette Kolb (excerpt)
Annette Kolb (pseudonym of Anna Mathilde Kolb; born February 3, 1870 in Munich; died December 3, 1967 in Munich) was a German author and pacifist. She became active in pacifist causes during World War I and this caused her political difficulties from then on.
Biography of Eugenie Marlitt (excerpt)
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 1825 – 1887), a popular German novelist. She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to study music for three years on account of her fine voice.
Biography of Chung Ling Soo (excerpt)
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo.He is mostly remembered today for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick. Soo's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called "Condemned to Death by the Boxers".
Biography of Ernest Pinard (excerpt)
Pierre Ernest Pinard (10 October 1822 – 12 September 1909) was a French prosecutor and Minister of the Interior.He is known for his indictments against Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. Minister of the Interior Pinard was appointed to the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) in 1866, aged 44, seen as one of the new men who could rejuvenate the empire.
Biography of Charles Legras (excerpt)
Charles Legras (1859-1922), was a chemist and then director of the Legras et Cie glassworks company, nephew of François-Théodore Legras. He was a discoverer of ruby crystals or crystallizations.
Biography of Madeleine Brès (excerpt)
Madeleine Alexandrine Brès (born on 26 November 1842 at Bouillargues (birth certificate n° 79) – 30 November 1921 in Montrouge), born Gebelin, was the first French woman to obtain a medical degree in 1875 after her thesis presentation on the topic of breastfeeding and towards a career focused to pediatric care.
Biography of Philéas Gilbert (excerpt)
Philéas Gilbert, born September 11, 1857 in La Chapelle-sur-Oreuse and died in 1842, was a famous French cook. He wrote with Auguste Escoffier the preface to the first edition of the famous Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné from 1938.
Biography of Marie-Thérèse Joniaux (excerpt)
Marie-Thérèse Joniaux (née Maria Teresa Joséphe Ablaÿ; October 15, 1844 - 1923) was a Belgian poisoner who made headlines in 1894–1895 as part of the Joniaux Affair after the triple poisoning perpetrated against her sister, Léonie Ablaÿ, her uncle-by-marriage, Jacques Van de Kerkhove and her brother, Alfred Ablaÿ.
Biography of Gabrielle Bompard (excerpt)
The Gouffé Case, also known as the Gouffé trunk, Miller's bloody trunk or the Eyraud-Bompard affair was an 1889 murder case which unfolded in France.On 26 July 1889, bailiff Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé of Montmartre, Paris, was reported missing.Two weeks later, Gouffé's corpse was found 300 miles (480km) away, near Millery village, a suburb of Lyon.
Biography of Henriette Roland Holst (excerpt)
Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (24 December 1869 – 21 November 1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), nicknamed "the Dutch Prince of Poets", was the nephew of her husband.
Biography of Georges Cahuzac (excerpt)
Georges Séverin Cahuzac, born in Sénouillac (Tarn) on February 10, 1871 and died in Eaubonne (Seine-et-Oise) on February 26, 1956, is a French actor and comedian.
Biography of Philippe Barbier (excerpt)
Philippe Antoine Francoise Barbier (2 March 1848 – 18 September 1922) was a French organic chemist. He is best known for his two named reactions in organic synthesis, the Barbier reaction and the Barbier-Wieland degradation, as well as for his role in the creation of organomagnesium reagents with his student, Victor Grignard.
Biography of Hans Emmenegger (artist) (excerpt)
Hans Emmenegger, born August 19, 1866 in Küssnacht and died September 21, 1940 in Lucerne, is a Swiss painter, designer, engraver and philatelist. He studied at the Lucerne School of Fine Arts then in Paris where he was a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian then of Jean-Léon Gérôme before doing an internship in Munich with Karl Raupp and returning in Paris where he works with Benjamin Constant and Lucien Doucet.
Biography of Antonin Proust (excerpt)
Antonin Proust (10 March 1832 – 20 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician. Antonin Proust was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres.In the 1840s, Proust attended the Collège Rollin where he met lifelong friend Édouard Manet.In September 1850, Proust and Manet joined the studio of Thomas Couture for artistic training.
Biography of Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869-1926) (excerpt)
Philippe, Duke of Orléans (Prince Louis Philippe Robert d'Orléans; 6 February 1869 – 28 March 1926) was the Orléanist claimant to the throne of France from 1894 to 1926. Philippe was born at York House, Twickenham, Middlesex, the son of Philippe, Count of Paris, by his wife (and first cousin), Princess Isabelle of Orléans.
Biography of Henry Bazin (excerpt)
Henri-Émile Bazin (20 October 1829 – 7 February 1917) was a French engineer specializing in hydraulic engineering.
Biography of Jeanne Weil Proust (excerpt)
Jeanne Clémence Weil Proust born in Paris on April 21, 1849 and died on September 26, 1905 in Paris (8th arrondissement) is the wife of the French doctor Adrien Proust and the mother of Marcel Proust and Robert Proust.
Biography of Adolphe Chaillet (excerpt)
Adolphe Alexandre Chaillet (July 14, 1867, in Paris – after 1914) was a French inventor in the field of Electrical engineering. Chaillet created the Centennial Light, which has been illuminating a fire station in Livermore, California, for over a century. Chaillet was knowledgeable in chemistry and mineralogy.
Biography of Antonin Daum (excerpt)
Born Jean Antonin Daum in Bitche on October 30, 1864 and died in Nancy on March 28, 1930, son of Jean Daum, Antonin Daum is a French master glassmaker, engineer and entrepreneur, founder with his brother Auguste of the Daum crystal factory.
Biography of Anna Brassey (excerpt)
Anna "Annie" Brassey (née Allnutt), Baroness Brassey (7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887) was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878) describes a voyage around the world.
Biography of Georges Bouton (excerpt)
Georges Bouton (1847–1938) was a French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company in 1883. The pair first worked together in 1882 to produce a self-propelled steam vehicle. The result gave birth to the company which, at the time, went under the name de Dion.
Biography of Helen Hunt Jackson (excerpt)
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 14, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. Her time of birth comes from her father, in the biography Helen (Hunt) Jackson and Her Literary Career by Catherine Hale Phillips (Harvard University, 1997).
Biography of Zo d'Axa (excerpt)
Alphonse Gallaud de la Pérouse (28 May 1864 – 30 August 1930 (suicide)), better known as Zo d'Axa), was a French adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist, journalist, and founder of two of the most legendary French magazines, L'EnDehors and La Feuille. A descendant of the famous French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, he was one of the most prominent French individualist anarchists at the turn of the 20th century.
Biography of Paul Klimsch (excerpt)
Hans Paul Klimsch (15 June 1868 in Frankfurt – 4 June 1917) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes and animals.He was one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style. Paul Klimschs family founded the engineering company Klimsch & Co, his parents were the artist Eugen Johann Georg Klimsch and Anna Helena Burkhard.
Biography of Princess Hélène of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta.
Biography of François-Théodore Legras (excerpt)
François-Théodore Legras, born December 27, 1839 in Claudon (Vosges) and died August 2, 1916 in Paris, is a French master glassmaker. He participates in numerous national and international exhibitions where he is very often rewarded. He was also responsible for the glass and crystal section of the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
Biography of Tajuddin Baba (excerpt)
Sayyed Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin (Arabic: ٱلسَّيِّد تَاجُ ٱلدِّيْن مُحَمَّد بَدْرُ ٱلدِّيْن, romanized: As-Sayyid Tajud-Dīn Muḥammad Badrud-Dīn; January 27, 1861 – August 17, 1925), also known as Tajuddin Baba (Arabic: تَاجُ ٱلدِّيْن بَابَا, romanized: Tajud-Dīn Bābā), was an Indian Sufi master who is considered as a Qutb.
Biography of Constance Gordon-Cumming (excerpt)
Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming (26 May 1837 – 4 September 1924) was a noted Scottish travel writer and painter. Born in a wealthy family, she travelled around the world and painted described scenes and life as she saw them. She was a friend and influencer of the travel writers and artists Marianne North and Isabella Bird.
Biography of Adrien Caillard (excerpt)
Charles Adrien Caillard born March 23, 1872 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died October 8, 1942 in Nice, is an actor and director of French theater and cinema, He directed around thirty films between 1909 and 1926 and starred in eight films between 1909 and 1941.
Biography of Maria Elise Turner Lauder (excerpt)
Maria Elise Turner Lauder (pen name Toofie Lauder, also known as Maria Elise Turner de Touffe Lauder; 20 February 1833 – 1 June 1922) was a Canadian teacher, linguist, and author who travelled extensively in Europe. She published novels and poetry, but mostly was known for writing about her travels.
Biography of Émile Amagat (excerpt)
Émile Hilaire Amagat (2 January 1841, Saint-Satur – 15 February 1915) was a French physicist.His doctoral thesis, published in 1872, expanded on the work of Thomas Andrews, and included plots of the isotherms of carbon dioxide at high pressures.Amagat published a paper in 1877 that contradicted the current understanding at the time, concluding that the coefficient of compressibility of fluids decreased with increasing pressure.
Biography of Pauline Denain (excerpt)
Pauline-Léontine-Elisabeth-Désirée Mesnage known as Mademoiselle Denain (born December 6, 1823 in Paris and died October 4, 1892 in Clichy) was a French actress. She lives in Clichy. She made her debut at the Comédie-Française in 1840. Associate 1846. Retired in 1856. Her daughter, Léontine Estelle Denain, will marry the composer Léo Delibes.
Biography of Jan Voerman (excerpt)
Jan Voerman (25 January 1857 – 25 March 1941), also known as Jan Voerman Sr., was a Dutch painter. Personal life Voerman was born in Kampen and died in Hattem. Voerman studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (English: State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp under Charles Verlat.
Biography of Ricarda Huch (excerpt)
Ricarda Huch (18 July 1864 – 17 November 1947) was a pioneering German intellectual.Trained as an historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play.Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour. |
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