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Biography of Frances Harper (excerpt)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.
Biography of Edmond Bouty (excerpt)
Edmond Marie Léopold Bouty, born in Nant on January 12, 1846 and died in Paris on November 5, 1922, is a French physicist, professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris for 37 years. His scientific work focuses mainly on magnetism and electricity.
Biography of Krisjanis Barons (excerpt)
Krišjānis Barons (October 31, 1835 – March 8, 1923) was a Latvian writer who is known as the "father of the dainas" (Latvian: "Dainu tēvs") thanks largely to his systematization of the Latvian folk songs and his labour in preparing their texts for publication in Latvju dainas.
Biography of Lilla Hansen (excerpt)
Lilla Georgine Hansen (1 April 1872 - 11 June 1962) was Norway's first female architect. Background Georgine Marie Hansen was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.She was the daughter of Georg Martin Hansen (1828-1915) and Maren Paulowna Victoria Bülow (1838-1898).She studied at the Royal Drafting School (now Oslo National Academy of the Arts) under Herman Major Schirmer, graduating in 1894.
Biography of Charles Amet (excerpt)
Charles Victor Eugène Amet, born November 11, 1824 in Besançon, son of Pierre-Théodore Alphonse Amet, merchant and Marie Anne Stéphanie Bletry (originally from Belfort)1. Died February 5, 1902 in Paris, was a French naval officer of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Biography of Achille Paroche (excerpt)
Nicolas Achille Paroche (born March 1, 1868, in Sery, Ardennes, and died May 27, 1933, in Signy-l'Abbaye) was a French sport shooter who won Olympic medals and world championships in rifle and pistol shooting. Initially a soldier, he excelled at the 1900 Paris Olympics, winning four medals.
Biography of Temple Bailey (excerpt)
Irene Temple Bailey (February 24, 1869 – July 6, 1953) was a popular American novelist and short story writer. Beginning around 1902, Temple Bailey was contributing stories to national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and others.
Biography of Léonie La Fontaine (excerpt)
Léonie La Fontaine (October 2, 1857 – February 26, 1949) was a Belgian pioneering feminist and pacifist. Active in the international feminism struggle, she was a member of the Belgian League for the Rights of Women, the National Belgian Women Council and the Belgian’s Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Biography of Marie Surcouf (excerpt)
Marie Surcouf (19 May 1863 – 11 March 1928) was a French balloonist and feminist. In 1906, she was the first French woman to earn an aeronautical balloon pilot's license and later that year she became the first French woman to pilot a balloon flight with an all-woman crew.
Biography of Gertrude Atherton (excerpt)
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author and journalist.Many of her novels are set in her home state of California.Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name.
Biography of Charles Boycott (excerpt)
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb "to boycott".He had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland.
Biography of Henri Gustave Jossot (excerpt)
Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, 16 April 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 7 April 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. Life and career Jossot started his career under the guidance of Jean Paul Laurens and Eugène Carrière.
Biography of Ermete Zacconi (excerpt)
Ermete Zacconi (14 September 1857, Montecchio Emilia, Province of Reggio Emilia – 14 October 1948 in Viareggio) was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina and Paola Pezzaglia.
Biography of Candace Wheeler (excerpt)
Candace Wheeler (née Thurber; March 24, 1827 – August 5, 1923), often credited as the mother of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers.She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to women, supporting craftswomen, and for encouraging a new style of American design.
Biography of Kate Jordan (excerpt)
Kate Jordan (23 December 1862 – 20 June 1926) was an Irish-American novelist and playwright. Early life and education Kate Jordan was born in Dublin on 23 December 1862.She was the daughter of the academic, Michael James Jordan, and Catherine Jordan (née Mulvey).
Biography of Eugène Ogé (excerpt)
Eugène Ogé (5 May 1861, Paris – 24 March 1936, Paris) was a French poster artist and illustrator. He began as an apprentice to Charles Verneau (1850-1950), a printer who specialized in posters, and became a lithographer.During this period he made the acquaintance of several notable poster artists, including Adolphe Léon Willette, Jean-Louis Forain and Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
Biography of Jan Verkade (excerpt)
Johannes Sixtus Gerhardus (Jan) Verkade (18 September 1868 - 19 July 1946), afterwards Willibrord Verkade O.S.B., was a Dutch Post-Impressionist and Christian Symbolist painter. A disciple of Paul Gauguin and friend of Paul Sérusier, he belonged to the circle of artists known as 'Les Nabis.'
Biography of Frits Went (excerpt)
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went ForMemRS (June 18, 1863 – July 24, 1935) was a Dutch botanist. Went was born in Amsterdam. He was professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Utrecht. His eldest son was the Dutch botanist Frits Warmolt Went, who in 1927 as a graduate student worked on plant hormones, specifically the role of auxin in phototropism.
Biography of Martha van Vloten (excerpt)
Martha van Eeden-van Vloten (18 February 1857 – 4 June 1943) was a Dutch translator known for her translations of children's literature, including the Grimm brothers' fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen's stories. Born in Deventer, she was the eldest child of literary scholar Johannes van Vloten.
Biography of Charles Todd (pioneer) (excerpt)
Sir Charles Todd KCMG FRS FRAS FRMS FIEE (7 July 1826 – 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables until engaged by the government of South Australia as astronomical and meteorological observer, and head of the electric telegraph department.
Biography of Vladimir Vernadsky (excerpt)
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский, Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Вернадський; 12 March (O.S. 28 February) 1863 – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.
Biography of Félix Decori (excerpt)
Felix Decori, born on March 1, 1860, in Paris and died of a heart attack at the Élysée Palace on October 18, 1915, was a French lawyer and politician. Politics and the Élysée A friend of Raymond Poincaré, he appointed Decori at the very beginning of the war as the civil Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, where he dealt with political and diplomatic matters.
Biography of André Gill (excerpt)
André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) was a French caricaturist.Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray.
Biography of Sophia Hayden (excerpt)
Sophia Hayden (October 17, 1868 – February 3, 1953) was an American architect and first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career World's Columbian Exposition She is best known for designing The Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, when she was just 21.
Biography of Augusta of Württemberg (excerpt)
Princess Augusta of Württemberg (4 October 1826 in Stuttgart – 3 December 1898, ibid.) was a daughter of King William I of Württemberg and his wife, Pauline of Württemberg. Life Augusta was the third and last child of her parents' marriage.She was described as unattractive, but cheerful and wise.
Biography of Isabelle Rimbaud (excerpt)
Frédérique Marie Isabelle Rimbaud, born on June 1, 1860, in Charleville and died on June 20, 1917, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French writer and the younger sister of Arthur Rimbaud. She was the universal legatee of her brother and grew up with her three siblings under the stern guardianship of their conservative mother, following their father’s abandonment.
Biography of Félix Thyes (excerpt)
Félix Thyes (19 January 1830 – 8 May 1855) was a Luxembourg writer. He is recognized as the first Luxembourg author to write a novel in French. Marc Bruno, profil d'artiste was published shortly after his death in 1855. He was also the first literary historian to discuss literature written in Luxembourgish.
Biography of Dorothea Klumpke (excerpt)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (August 9, 1861 in San Francisco – October 5, 1942 in San Francisco) was an American astronomer. She was Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
Biography of E. Armand (excerpt)
Émile Armand (March 23 (March 26 for Wikipedia), 1872 – February 19, 1963), pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin Armand, was an influential French individualist anarchist at the beginning of the 20th century and also a dedicated free love/polyamory, intentional community, and pacifist/antimilitarist writer, propagandist and activist.
Biography of Paul Viardot (excerpt)
Paul Viardot (20 July 1857 – 1 December 1941) was a French violinist and composer who appeared with great success in Paris and London. His time of birth comes from Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I: The Years of Fame 1836-1863, Second Edition, by Barbara Kendall-Davies (Cambridge Scholars, 2014).
Biography of Enid Yandell (excerpt)
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1869 – June 12, 1934) was an American sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky, who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Philip Martiny in New York City, and Frederick William MacMonnies. Yandell specialized in portrait busts and monuments.She created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public monuments.
Biography of Elizabeth Robins (excerpt)
Elizabeth Robins (August 6, 1862 – May 8, 1952) was an actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette.She also wrote as C.E.Raimond. Personal life A beautiful woman, Robins was pursued by many men.She admitted to a deep attraction to her close friend, the highly respected literary critic and fellow Ibsen scholar, William Archer.
Biography of H. H. Asquith (excerpt)
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928), known as H. H. Asquith, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916. He was the last Liberal Prime Minister to lead a majority government and played a key role in passing liberal legislation and reducing the House of Lords' power.
Biography of Michel Eyraud (excerpt)
Gouffé Case 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 André Mornet (excerpt)
Constant Victor André Mornet, born January 5, 1870 in La Châtre and died July 22, 1955 in Nohant-Vic, is a French magistrate. Both collaborator and resistance from 1943, he was the prosecutor for the trials of Pierre Laval and Philippe Pétain at the time of his release, which led to their death sentences, that of Pétain being commuted to life imprisonment because of his age.
Biography of Charles Pigeon (excerpt)
Charles Pigeon, born on March 29, 1838, in Le Mesnil-Lieubray (Seine-Maritime) and died on March 18, 1915, in Paris, was a French inventor and entrepreneur. While Charles Pigeon did not technically invent the kerosene lamp, he was the first to produce and market a portable kerosene lighting device that was patented, non-flammable, and non-explosive.
Biography of Jean Compagnon (carpenter) (excerpt)
Jean Compagnon, born January 20, 1837 in Reyrieux and died November 17, 1900 in Paris, was a carpenter who participated in the construction of several remarkable bridges and viaducts as well as the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Maria Susanna Cummins (excerpt)
Maria Susanna Cummins (April 9, 1827 – October 1, 1866) was an American novelist.She was the author of the widely popular novel The Lamplighter. Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1827.She was the daughter of Honorable David Cummins and Maria F.
Biography of Louis-Félix Henneguy (excerpt)
Louis-Félix Henneguy (18 March 1850 – 16 January 1928) was a French physician, zoologist and embryologist born in Paris. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with a dissertation on the physiological action of poisons, Étude physiologique sur l'action des poisons.
Biography of Sahib (painter) (excerpt)
Louis Ernest Lesage, known under the pseudonym of Sahib or Ned (Paris, January 8, 1847 - May 31, 1919), was a French watercolor painter and caricaturist illustrator.
Biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (excerpt)
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education.
Biography of Gustav Nachtigal (excerpt)
Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa.He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West Africa.His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire.
Biography of Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
Biography of Maximilian Oberst (excerpt)
Maximilian Oberst (October 6, 1849 – November 18, 1925) was a German physician and surgeon born in Regensburg. He studied medicine in Munich, and from 1874 to 1877 was an assistant in the surgical department at a hospital in Augsburg.From 1877 he worked as an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at Halle, obtaining his habilitation in 1881.
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.
Biography of Johannes Schmidt (linguist) (excerpt)
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt (July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901) was a German linguist.He developed the Wellentheorie ('wave theory') of language development. Schmidt was born in Prenzlau, Province of Brandenburg.He was educated at Bonn and at Jena where he studied philology (historical linguistics) with August Schleicher and specialized in Indo-European, especially Slavic, languages.
Biography of Émile Guépratte (excerpt)
Paul Émile Aimable Guépratte, born on August 30, 1856, in Granville and died on November 21, 1939, in Brest, was a French vice-admiral. Grandson of Rear Admiral Jéhenne and mathematician Charles Guépratte, he had a distinguished career in the French Navy. He participated in the Tunisian campaign and held several commands, including the destroyer 23 and the armored cruiser Edgar Quinet.
Biography of Aleksander Swietochowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Świętochowski (16 January 1849 – 25 April 1938) was a Polish writer, educator, and philosopher of the Positivist period that followed the January 1863 Uprising. He was widely regarded as the prophet of Polish Positivism, spreading in the Warsaw press the gospel of scientific inquiry, education, economic development, and equality of rights for all, without regard to sex, class, ethnic origin or beliefs.
Biography of Alcide Railliet (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet (also known as Alcide Railliet, born 11 March 1852 at La Neuville-lès-Wasigny in the Ardennes – died 25 December 1930) was a French veterinarian and helminthologist. Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern parasitology and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology.
Biography of Émile Duployé (excerpt)
Émile Duployé, born on September 10, 1833, in Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, and died on May 9, 1912, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (now in Val-de-Marne), was a French ecclesiastic. He is the author of the Duployé shorthand technique, which was widely used in France in the early 20th century. |
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