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Biography of Henri Desgrange (excerpt)
Henri Antoine Desgrange, born on January 31, 1865, in Paris 10th district and died on August 16, 1940, in Grimaud, was a French cyclist, sports executive, and journalist. He is not only known for setting twelve world records in track cycling, but, perhaps more enduringly, for organizing the first Tour de France in 1903.
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Biography of Lucien Millevoye (excerpt)
Lucien Millevoye, born on August 1, 1850 in Grenoble and died on March 25, 1918 in Paris, was a French journalist and politician. Initially a lawyer then a magistrate, he resigned in 1880 to protest the expulsion of religious congregations and then pursued a career in political journalism.
Biography of Berthe Jalabert (excerpt)
Berthe Jalabert, born Marie Berthe Augusta Péricaud on October 31, 1858, in Rennes, France, was a distinguished actress in theatre and early silent films. Raised in a family of performers, her career began early under her father's guidance, despite his initial opposition.
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Biography of André Spire (excerpt)
André Spire (28 July 1868 – 29 July 1966) was a French writer, poet, and Zionist activist.Born into a Jewish middle-class family, he pursued literature and law, then entered the Council of State in 1894. He became involved in Dreyfus Affair politics and social welfare, founding a society to aid workers.
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Biography of Georges Henri Roger (excerpt)
Georges Eugène Henri Roger (born June 4, 1860, in Paris and died April 19, 1946, in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt) was a French physician known for co-authoring a significant medical treatise with Pierre Joseph Teissier and Fernand Widal. He was the son of Jean Alfred Roger and Françoise Louise Papavoine, dramatic artists, and a descendant of composer Jean-Pierre Solié.
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Biography of Georgina Weldon (excerpt)
Georgina Weldon (née Thomas; 24 May 1837 – 11 January 1914) was a British amateur soprano and legal activist during the Victorian era. Her time of birth comes form the biography "The disastrous Mrs. Weldon: the life, loves, and lawsuits of a legendary Victorian" by Brian Thompson (Doubleday, 2001).
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Biography of Georges Grand (excerpt)
Georges Grand, born Valentin Pierre Louis MacLeod (August 11, 1864 – March 30, 1921 in Paris), was an actor and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. The son of an English commercial representative and a writer mother known as "George Grand," he studied at Lycée Henri IV and the Faculty of Law before pursuing a theater career.
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Biography of Gustav von Schmoller (excerpt)
Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838–1917) was a prominent figure in the "younger" German historical school of economics and a leading figure in social policy. As the long-standing chairman of the Verein für Socialpolitik, he influenced economic and social reform in Germany. Dubbed a "Kathedersozialist" (Socialist of the Chair) by opponents, Schmoller's work was rooted in a heterodox liberalism influenced by several European thinkers and aimed to integrate liberal state principles with monarchy and effective parliamentarism for social improvement.
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Biography of Thekla Resvoll (excerpt)
Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll (22 May 1871 – 14 June 1948) was a Norwegian botanist and educator.A pioneer in Norwegian natural history education and nature conservation, she worked closely with her sister, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen. Resvoll was born in Vågå, Oppland, Norway.She initially worked as a nurse in Stockholm before studying natural history at the Royal Frederick University in Kristiania in 1894.
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Biography of Elena Vacarescu (excerpt)
Elena Văcărescu, also known as Hélène Vacaresco (September 21, 1864 (October 3, Gregorian calendar) – February 17, 1947), was a Romanian-French aristocrat and twice a laureate of the Académie française. Descending from the noble Văcărescu family, she grew up on the family estate near Târgoviște.
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Biography of Erazm Jerzmanowski (excerpt)
Erazm Józef Jerzmanowski (2 June 1844 – 7 February 1909) was an industrialist, philanthropist, and soldier who fought in the January Uprising of 1863-1865. After the uprising, he was interned but later released, moving to Paris to continue his education. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War before moving to the United States in 1873, where he gained citizenship.
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Biography of Édouard Marie Heckel (excerpt)
Édouard Marie Heckel was a French pharmacist, physician, and botanist, born on March 24, 1843, in Toulon and died on January 20, 1916, in Marseille. He dedicated his life to studying plants from French colonies, focusing on their economic and medical aspects.
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Biography of Wen Tingshi (excerpt)
Wen Tingshi was a Chinese political figure, poet, and scholar born to a family with a history in politics.He achieved the Jinshi status in 1890 and worked at the imperial court. A firm opponent of peace with Japan during the First Sino-Japanese War, he joined officials criticizing the government and submitted memorials.
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Biography of Helene Stöcker (excerpt)
Helene Stöcker (13 November 1869 – 24 February 1943) was a German feminist, pacifist, journalist, author, and gender activist.She successfully campaigned to keep same sex relationships between women legal, but she was unsuccessful in her campaign to legalise abortion.She was a pacifist in Germany and joined the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft.
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Biography of Hugh Grosvenor (1825) (excerpt)
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, KG, PC, JP (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845, Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869, and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.
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Biography of Ippolito Nievo (excerpt)
Ippolito Nievo, an Italian writer, journalist, and patriot, was born in Padua on 30 November 1831 during Austrian rule. A law graduate from the University of Padua, he rejected a legal career under Austrian governance, influenced by Giuseppe Mazzini's ideas. Nievo fought for Italian unification with Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 and witnessed Italy's unification in 1861, just before his tragic death in a shipwreck.
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Biography of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (excerpt)
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister three times, totaling over thirteen years. He was also Foreign Secretary for much of his tenure, maintaining a policy of "splendid isolation." Salisbury initially entered the House of Commons in 1854 and later served as Secretary of State for India and Foreign Secretary.
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Biography of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (excerpt)
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (born August 3, 1823, and died February 19, 1894) was a well-known composer of zarzuela, a popular Spanish opera form. His famous works include El barberillo de Lavapiés, Jugar con fuego, Pan y toros, and Los diamantes de la corona.
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Biography of Mina Kruseman (excerpt)
Wilhelmina Jacoba Pauline Rudolphine "Mina" Kruseman (25 September 1839 – 1922) was a 19th-century Dutch feminist, actress, and author known for her outspoken social critiques and literary works. Born in Velp, she spent her early years in the Dutch East Indies, a period that would later influence her writings.
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Biography of Johnston Forbes-Robertson (excerpt)
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (16 January 1853 – 6 November 1937) was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of actress Gertrude Elliot. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time, despite his dislike of the job and his lifelong belief that he was temperamentally unsuited to acting.
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Biography of Gerrit an Houten (excerpt)
Gerrit van Houten (also known as Gerry Wood; 29 August 1866, in Groningen – 18 January 1934, in Santpoort) was a Dutch painter and artist. The Van Houten family lived just outside the gates of the city of Groningen on the Damsterdiep canal.
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Biography of Herbert von Meister (excerpt)
Herbert Eugen Albert Meister, born on December 26, 1866, in Frankfurt am Main and died on January 2, 1919, in Sindlingen, was a businessman and chemist, the son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister, co-founder of Farbwerke Hoechst. He studied chemistry at the University of Bonn, then in Dresden and Jena, earning his doctorate in 1894.
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Biography of Jean Verdier (Cardinal) (excerpt)
Jean Verdier, PSS (February 19, 1864 – April 9, 1940), was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Archbishop of Paris from 1929 until his death and elevated to cardinalate in the same year. Born to a humble family in Lacroix-Barrez, Aveyron, Verdier studied at the seminary in Rodez before joining the Society of Saint-Sulpice in 1886.
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Biography of Jacques-Augustin Normand (excerpt)
Jacques-Augustin Normand (October 4, 1839 – December 11, 1906) was a French naval engineer and shipbuilder from Le Havre, stemming from a family entrenched in shipbuilding since the 18th century. Inheriting the family yard in 1871, he significantly advanced its operations over 35 years, developing high-performance machines and vessels, including the revolutionary yacht "Vélox" in 1875, capable of exceeding 17 knots.
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Biography of Jules Moy (excerpt)
Jules Moy (1862–1938) was a French stage and film actor. Selected filmography The Vein (1928) Cagliostro (1929) Mistigri (1931) The Man at Midnight (1931) Let's Touch Wood (1933) Bach the Detective (1936) The Marriages of Mademoiselle Levy (1936)
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Biography of Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez (excerpt)
Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez, born on September 12, 1854 in Jaén and died on June 16, 1934 in Madrid, was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Affiliated with the Liberal Party, he began his political career as a deputy for Jaén in the 1881 elections.
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Biography of Rainer Ferdinand of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Rainer Ferdinand Maria Johann Evangelist Franz Ignaz of Austria (11 January 1827 – 27 January 1913) was an Austrian prince and politician who served as Minister-President of Austria from 1861 to 1865. Later in his life, he took up the collection of preserved papyri, largely from Egypt, and served as a benefactor and patron while working with the Oriental studies department of the University of Vienna.
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Biography of Theodate Pope Riddle (excerpt)
Theodate Pope Riddle (February 2, 1867 – August 30, 1946) was an American architect and philanthropist, one of the first women architects in the United States and a survivor of the RMS Lusitania sinking. Her time of birth coems from her mother, in "Dearest of Geniuses: A Life of Theodate Pope Riddle" by Sandra L. ![]()
Biography of Sister Dora (1832) (excerpt)
Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora, was born on 16 January 1832 in Hauxwell, North Riding of Yorkshire.Her time of birth comes from the biography Sister Dora: The Life of Dorothy Pattison by Jo Manton (Methuen, 1971). She was the eleventh of twelve children of Reverend Mark James Pattison and his wife Jane.
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Biography of Jean Coquelin (excerpt)
Camille Léon Jean Coquelin (Paris, December 1, 1865 - Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, October 1, 1944) was a French actor, son of Coquelin aîné. He was a student of Mme Arnould Plessy and Coquelin aîné, his father.He followed the latter on a major tour in Europe, then joined the Comédie-Française.
Biography of Léon Stienon (excerpt)
Léon Stienon was a distinguished Belgian physician, having earned his MD in 1874.In 1876, he became an associate at the University of Brussels and a year later, he served as a substitute histology lecturer at the same university. His career progressed as he became a Professor of Medical Matters in 1880 and then took on the role of doctor at the civilian hospitals of Brussels in 1881, later becoming Chief in 1884.
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Biography of Marie Popelin (excerpt)
Marie Popelin (10 September 1846 (birth certificate n° 180) – 5 June 1913) was a Belgian jurist and early feminist political campaigner. Popelin worked with Isabelle Gatti de Gamond in the development of women's education and, in 1888, became the first Belgian woman to receive a doctorate in law.
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Biography of Telesforo Aranzadi (excerpt)
Telesforo Aranzadi Unamuno (Vergara, 1860 - Barcelona, February 12, 1945) was a Spanish scientist, specializing in anthropology, botany, and zoology. A Doctor in Pharmacy and Natural Sciences, scientific illustrator, he was a professor of Mineralogy and Zoology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Granada, professor of Descriptive Botany at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Barcelona, and professor of Anthropology at the University of Barcelona.
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Biography of Émile Vallin (excerpt)
Émile Arthur Vallin, born November 27, 1833, in Nantes and died in February 1924 in Montpellier, was a French military physician considered a precursor of public health in France. The son of a physician, Vallin completed secondary education in Nantes and earned his medical degree in Paris in 1858.
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Biography of Käthe Schirmacher (excerpt)
Käthe Schirmacher, born on August 6, 1865, in Danzig (now Gdańsk), was a German writer, journalist, and political activist, notable as a leading advocate for women's rights in the 1890s. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Schirmacher lost her family fortune early and became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in Romance studies.
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Biography of Albrecht Penck (excerpt)
Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist, known as the father of Walther Penck. Born in Leipzig, he became a university professor in Vienna from 1885 to 1906, then in Berlin until 1927. He contributed to geomorphology and climatology, raising the international standing of the Vienna school of physical geography. ![]()
Biography of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (excerpt)
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar.He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years.
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Biography of Hermann Abert (excerpt)
Hermann Abert (25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the Hofkapellmeister of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical philology at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig.
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Biography of Louis Couperus (excerpt)
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus, born on June 10, 1863, in The Hague and died on July 16, 1923, in De Steeg, was a Dutch poet and writer, considered a prominent figure in Dutch literature. Born into a wealthy patrician family, he spent part of his youth in the Dutch East Indies.
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Biography of Marie Laurent (actress) (excerpt)
Marie Laurent was a French actress born on June 22, 1825, in Tulle (Corrèze) and died on July 5, 1904, in Villiers-le-Bel (Seine-et-Oise). Her real name was Marie-Thérèse-Désirée Alliouz-Luguet, and she belonged to a dynasty of actors who gained fame in Paris since the early 19th century.
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Biography of Marie Dihau (excerpt)
Marie Dihau (September 12, 1843, Lille – May 14, 1935, Paris) was a French soprano, pianist, and teacher of singing and piano. Biography She won first prize at the Lille Conservatory in 1862 and later performed as a pianist for the Concerts Colonne and a singer with the Société des concerts du Conservatoire.
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Biography of Charles Moureu (excerpt)
François Charles Léon Moureu (19 April 1863, in Mourenx – 13 June 1929, in Biarritz) was a French organic chemist and pharmacist. In 1902 Charles Moureu published Notions fondamentales de chimie organique, translated into English as Fundamental principles of organic chemistry (1921).
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Biography of Sébastien Lespès (excerpt)
Sébastien Lespès (March 13, 1828 – August 24, 1897) was a French naval officer and vice-admiral.He played a significant role in the Sino-French War (1884–1885) as second-in-command of the Far East Squadron. Lespès began his career in 1844, participating in various missions, including the Crimean War and the Second Opium War.
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Biography of Blanche Edwards-Pilliet (excerpt)
Blanche Edwards-Pilliet (24 November 1858 – 10 January 1941) was a French physician, medical teacher, and social reformer advocating for women.She was one of the first women to intern at a Parisian hospital. Educated at home by her father, she entered the Paris faculty of medicine at 19.
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Biography of Hermann Seeger (excerpt)
Hermann Seeger (15 October 1857 – 23 February 1945) was a German genre and landscape painter.Seeger was also known as a talented engraver. Hermann Seeger was born at Halberstadt.At the age of 18, he moved to Halle to study philosophy, but eventually, Seeger turned to art and enrolled at the Berlin Academy.
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Biography of Eduardo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Eduardo Scarpetta (March 13, 1853 – November 12, 1925) was an Italian actor and playwright from Naples. Although he did not come from a theatrical family, he was on stage by the age of four.He is best remembered as the creator of a character that became his stage alter-ego: Felice Sciosciammocca, a figure representing the quintessential Neapolitan spirit—joyful and wide-eyed with a charming gullibility.
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Biography of Abel Bergasse Du Petit Thouars (excerpt)
Abel-Nicolas-Georges-Henri Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, also known as Dupetit-Thouars, was born on March 23, 1832, in Bordeaux-en-Gâtinais, France, and died on May 14, 1890, in Toulon. A French naval officer, he is celebrated as the savior of Lima during the Pacific War (1879-1884), where he is hailed as a hero in Peru.
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Biography of Mary Slessor (excerpt)
Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women's rights and protecting native children.
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Biography of Emmanuel Leclainche (excerpt)
Auguste-Louis-Emmanuel Leclainche, born on August 29, 1861, in Piney (Aube) and died on November 26, 1953, in Paris, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, internationally renowned for his scientific achievements in veterinary medicine, as well as for his major role in organizing veterinary education and French veterinary services.
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Biography of Théodore Thalès (excerpt)
Théodore Marius Jammet, known as Théodore Thalès or simply Thalès, was born on February 25, 1857, in Marseille and died on October 13, 1935, in Paris's 10th arrondissement.He was a French mime and silent film actor. Mime Thalès performed in pantomimes at the Palais de Cristal, where he enjoyed great success with the audience. |
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