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Biography of Alfred Weber (économist) (excerpt)
Carl David Alfred Weber (July 30, 1868 – May 2, 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist whose work significantly influenced the development of modern economic geography. The younger brother of sociologist Max Weber, he was born in Erfurt and raised in Charlottenburg.
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Biography of Mario Tiberini (excerpt)
Mario Tiberini (8 September 1826 – 16 October 1880) was an Italian tenor who performed leading roles in opera houses across Europe and the Americas during a 25-year career. Renowned for his advanced vocal technique and dramatic talent, he created the role of Alvaro in the revised version of Verdi’s La forza del destino and originated several roles in operas by lesser-known composers, including the title role in Faccio’s Amleto.
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Biography of William Arbuthnot Lane (excerpt)
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane (July 4, 1856 – January 16, 1943) was a British surgeon and physician, specializing in orthopaedic, abdominal, and ENT surgery. He designed new surgical instruments to ensure maximal asepsis and introduced the "no-touch technique", which remains in use today.
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Biography of Henri Abraham (excerpt)
Henri Azariah Abraham (12 July 1868 – 22 December 1943) was a French physicist and a pioneer in the field of radioelectricity. He taught at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris, shaping French scientific education. After becoming an agrégé in physics in 1889, he earned his doctorate in 1892 and taught at top Parisian schools before joining the ENS, where he succeeded Jules Violle as head of the physics lab.
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Biography of Louis Welden Hawkins (excerpt)
Louis Welden Hawkins, a British painter who became a naturalized French citizen, was born in Esslingen, Germany. The son of a British naval officer and an Austrian baroness, he broke ties with his family in 1873 and settled in France, becoming a French citizen in 1895.
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Biography of Paul Tannery (excerpt)
Paul Tannery (born December 20, 1843, in Mantes-la-Jolie, and died November 27, 1904, in Pantin) was a French historian of science.A polytechnic engineer, he specialized in ancient science and the study of Byzantine, medieval, and 17th-century mathematics. He edited the works of the mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria, and with Charles Henry, the works of Fermat.
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Biography of Augusto B. Leguía (excerpt)
Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo (19 February 1863 – 6 February 1932) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930, the latter term known as the "Oncenio" after its eleven-year length.
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Biography of Charlotte Yhlen (excerpt)
Charlotte Yhlen (19 November 1839 – 14 January 1920) was the first female Swedish physician. Born to a shoemaker in Helsingborg, she received only primary education, as Swedish universities were still closed to women. In 1868, she emigrated to the United States and studied medicine at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1873.
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Biography of André Lalande (philosopher) (excerpt)
Pierre André Lalande (July 19, 1867 – November 15, 1963) was a French philosopher known for his work in logic and methodology of science. He ranked first in the philosophy agrégation in 1888 and taught at several prestigious high schools before becoming a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1906.
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Biography of Henry Van de Velde (excerpt)
Henry Van de Velde (born April 3, 1863, in Antwerp, Belgium; died October 15, 1957, in Oberägeri, Switzerland) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and teacher. At the end of the 19th century, alongside Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he was one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium and became a key figure in Belgian modernism.
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Biography of Philipp Scheidemann (excerpt)
Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann (born July 26, 1865, in Cassel, died November 29, 1939, in Copenhagen) was a German statesman and SPD member.He served as the second chancellor of the Weimar Republic after Friedrich Ebert. Trained as a typesetter, he joined the SPD in 1883 and became a journalist for social-democratic newspapers.
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Biography of Hermann Kümmell (excerpt)
Hermann Kümmell (22 May 1852, Korbach, Waldeck-Pyrmont – 19 February 1937) was a German surgeon. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate at Berlin, later working as an assistant physician to Max Schede (1833-1902) at the municipal hospital in Friedrichshain.In 1883 he became chief physician of the surgical department at the "Marienkrankenhaus" in Hamburg, and in 1895 was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the Allgemeinen Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf.
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Biography of Octavia Ritchie (excerpt)
Octavia Grace Ritchie England (January 16, 1868 – February 1, 1948) was a Canadian physician and suffragist.In 1891, she became the first woman to earn a medical degree in Québec. Born in Montreal, she was the daughter of lawyer Thomas Weston Ritchie.
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Biography of Rosier Faassen (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus (Rosier) Faassen (The Hague, September 9, 1833 – Rotterdam, February 2, 1907) was a Dutch actor and playwright. Born into a family connected to the theater, his father directed the French Opera and a theater in The Hague, immersing Faassen in the theatrical world from an early age.
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Biography of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (excerpt)
Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (born November 3, 1856, in Santander – died May 19, 1912, in Santander) was a Spanish writer. He worked as a philologist, literary critic, historian of ideas, and politician. His time of birth comes from a biography by Benito Madariaga de la Campa, Ciriaco Morón Arroyo, Adolfo Bonilla et San Martín en 2008.
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Biography of Clément Étienne Challier (excerpt)
Clément Étienne Challier was born on August 10, 1851, in Toulon, Var, and died on October 2, 1884, in Tonkin, aboard the gunboat "Massue". He was the son of Michel Magloire Challier, a chief mechanic and Knight of the Legion of Honor, born in La Roche-Guyon (now in Val d'Oise) and who died in Toulon in 1887.
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Biography of Hans Poelzig (excerpt)
Hans Poelzig (born April 30, 1869, in Berlin, died June 14, 1936, in Berlin) was a German architect, designer, painter, and stage designer. A member of the Deutscher Werkbund, he contributed to the Expressionist architecture movement and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in the 1920s.
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Biography of Herbert Myrick (excerpt)
Herbert Myrick, born on 20 August 1860 in Arlington, Massachusetts, was an American writer, editor, and businessman known for his influential work in agricultural publishing.He was the owner of the Phelps Publishing Company and served as editor-in-chief of the New England Homestead.
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Biography of Karolina Widerström (excerpt)
Karolina Olivia Widerström (December 10, 1856 – March 4, 1949) was a Swedish medical doctor and gynecologist, the first woman in Sweden to earn a medical degree. A strong advocate for women's rights, she fought for sexual education and female suffrage. She served as chairwoman of the National Association for Women's Suffrage and was a member of Stockholm’s city council.
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Biography of Philipp Franck (painter) (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860 – 13 March 1944) was a German Impressionist painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Encouraged by his father, Franck initially studied architecture but shifted to art after his father’s death.At 17, he enrolled at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, specializing in landscapes and fairy tale illustrations under Eduard Jakob von Steinle.
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Biography of Lucien Schnegg (excerpt)
Lucien Schnegg (19 March 1864 – 22 December 1909) was a French sculptor, close to Auguste Rodin, though he distanced himself from Rodin’s expressive style to promote a classical aesthetic. Born in Bordeaux into a family of Bavarian cabinetmakers, Schnegg began his training as an ornamental sculptor.
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Biography of Gabriele Possanner (excerpt)
Gabriele Possanner (27 January 1860 – 14 March 1940) was the first woman medical doctor to practice medicine in Austria. She was the daughter of the Austrian jurist Benjamin Possanner, and lived in six different cities until the age of twenty due to him moving often for his work.
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Biography of Léo Taxil (excerpt)
Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, known as Léo Taxil (21 March 1854 – 31 March 1907), was a French writer infamous for his anti-clerical publications and a later hoax targeting Freemasonry. Born into a Catholic, royalist family, he broke from religion in his teens and became a radical republican and satirical journalist, attacking the Church with provocative writings.
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Biography of Julius Richard Petri (excerpt)
Julius Richard Petri (born 31 May 1852 in Barmen, Germany – died 20 December 1921) was a German microbiologist, best known for inventing the Petri dish. He studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians and earned his doctorate from Charité Hospital in Berlin in 1876.
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Biography of Paul Flechsig (excerpt)
Paul Emil Flechsig was born on June 29, 1847, and died on July 22, 1929.He was a German neuroanatomist and neuropathologist affiliated with the University of Leipzig.He is notably known as the physician of jurist Daniel Paul Schreber. After studying medicine in Leipzig, he became an assistant in pathology and later led the histology department in 1873.
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Biography of Antonio Paoli (excerpt)
Antonio Paoli, full name Antonio Emilio Paoli y Marcano (born April 14, 1871, in Ponce; died August 24, 1946, in San Juan), was a Puerto Rican tenor. Nicknamed "the king of tenors," he was the first Puerto Rican to achieve international fame in the arts.
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Biography of Lugné-Poe (excerpt)
Aurélien-Marie Lugné, known as Lugné-Poe, was a French actor, director, and theater manager, born in Paris on December 27, 1869, and died in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon on June 19, 1940. Founder of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, he played a key role in revitalizing Parisian theater at the end of the 19th century, opposing the dominant naturalist movement.
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Biography of Charles IV of France (excerpt)
Charles IV of France, known as “the Fair,” was born on June 18, 1294, at the Château de Creil and died on February 1, 1328, in Vincennes. He ruled as King of France from 1322 until his death, and also as King of Navarre under the name Charles I.
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Biography of Ludwig Schames (excerpt)
Ludwig Schames (born August 11, 1852, in Frankfurt am Main; died July 3, 1922, in the same city) was a German art dealer who supported German expressionists, notably Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, becoming his principal gallerist. Coming from a long-established Jewish family in Frankfurt, he initially worked as a banker in Paris, where he became fascinated by the emerging art scene.
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Biography of Joe Cantillon (excerpt)
Joseph D. Cantillon (August 19, 1861 – January 31, 1930), nicknamed "Pongo Joe", was an American baseball manager and umpire in the early 20th century. Born in Janesville, Wisconsin, he also had a long career managing in the minor leagues. His time of birth comes from him, in the book "Joe and Mike Cantillon: Firebrands of Baseball" by Michael Bosanko (Dorrance, 2024).
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Biography of Emilio Sala Cortés (excerpt)
Emilio Sala Cortés, born February 22, 1841, in Barcelona and died June 7, 1921, in La Garriga, was a Spanish architect.In Catalan, his name is Emili Sala i Cortés. He studied at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, where he graduated in 1876 and later taught.
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Biography of Otto Reiniger (excerpt)
Otto Reiniger, born February 27, 1863, in Stuttgart and died July 24, 1909, near Weilimdorf, was a German landscape painter in the Impressionist style, best known for his depictions of flowing water. He studied under Grünenwald and Kappis in Stuttgart, then with Joseph Wenglein in Munich.
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Biography of Oscar Fetrás (excerpt)
Oscar Fetrás (16 February 1854 – 10 January 1931), born Otto Kaufmann Faster in Hamburg, was a German composer of light music, known for his waltzes and marches. His best-known piece is the waltz Mondnacht auf der Alster Op. 60, still widely loved today.
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Biography of Jan van Zutphen (excerpt)
Johannes Andries "Jan" van Zutphen (October 8, 1863 – June 7, 1958) was a Dutch trade unionist and co-founder of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium, known for defending workers' rights and fighting tuberculosis. Coming from a modest background, he first worked as a carpenter and diamond cutter before joining the socialist movement.
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Biography of Paul Bar (obstetrician) (excerpt)
Paul Bar (November 5, 1853 – November 26, 1945) was a French obstetrician, a student of Stéphane Tarnier, and the founder of clinical obstetrics, merging obstetrics and gynecology. He began his medical career in 1875 as an extern, later becoming an intern and earning his doctorate in 1881.
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Biography of Elbert A. Smith (excerpt)
Elbert Aoriul Smith (8 March 1871 – 15 May 1959) was a leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). He served in the church's First Presidency from 1909 to 1938 and as Presiding Patriarch from 1938 to 1958.
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Biography of Sofía Casanova (excerpt)
Sofía Casanova (September 30, 1861 – January 16, 1958) was a Spanish poet, novelist, and journalist, the first woman from Spain to become a permanent foreign correspondent and war reporter. A respected figure in literary circles, she wrote for ABC, portraying the human side of civilian suffering in Poland and Russia.
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Biography of Félix Galipaux (excerpt)
Félix Galipaux, born on December 12, 1860, in Bordeaux and died on December 7, 1931, in Paris, was a French playwright, novelist, actor, humorist, and violinist. Born Félix Martin to unknown parents, he was recognized by his mother in 1866. After winning first prize at the Conservatoire, he chose the Palais-Royal theater over the Comédie-Française.
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Biography of Charles Chaplin (painter) (excerpt)
Charles Chaplin, born on June 8, 1825, in Les Andelys and died on January 20, 1891, in Paris, was a French painter and engraver associated with the academic style. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts under Michel Martin Drolling, he drew inspiration from rococo painter François Boucher, blending elegance with realism.
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Biography of Henri Polak (excerpt)
Henri Polak (born 22 February 1868 in Amsterdam, died 18 February 1943 in Laren) was a Dutch trade unionist and politician. The son of a Jewish diamond cutter, he began working young before moving to London, where he embraced Marxist ideas and learned about the British labor movement.
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Biography of Julia Addington (excerpt)
Julia C.Addington, born on June 13, 1829, and died on September 21, 1875, was a groundbreaking elected official.She was the first woman elected to public office in Iowa, and possibly the first in the United States. Born in New York State, she moved with her family from Wisconsin to Iowa in 1863.
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Biography of Albert Kappis (excerpt)
Albert Kappis, born August 20, 1836, in Wildberg and died September 18, 1914, in Stuttgart, was a German painter and draftsman best known for landscapes and rural genre scenes. Originally trained as a lithographer, he later studied at the academies in Stuttgart and Munich under teachers like Karl von Piloty.
Biography of Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (excerpt)
Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (March 13, 1871 – February 27, 1956), born in Rotterdam to a Scottish father and a Polish mother, was a British publisher and photojournalist. He spent part of his youth in Wiesbaden and later travelled Europe as a photographer, contributing to the rise of illustrated magazines.
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Biography of Joseph Naert (excerpt)
Joseph Jean Naert, born January 24, 1838, in Bruges and died unmarried in Brussels on November 16, 1910, was a Belgian architect.He was the brother of Sophie Naert, who married neo-Gothic stained glass artist Samuel Coucke. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bruges under Louis Delacenserie, then in Brussels with Suys and Payen.
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Biography of Theo Mann-Bouwmeester (excerpt)
Theo Mann-Bouwmeester (April 19, 1850 – April 18, 1939) was one of the most famous Dutch actresses of her time, coming from a renowned family of performers. She first appeared on stage at the age of seven and secured her first major engagement in 1866.
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Biography of Pieter Jelles Troelstra (excerpt)
Pieter Jelles Troelstra (born 20 April 1860 in Leeuwarden, died 12 May 1930 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician, remembered as a key figure in the labor movement. He was married from 1888 to 1904 to writer Sjoukje Bokma de Boer, better known as Nynke van Hichtum.
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Biography of Luís I of Portugal (excerpt)
Dom Luís I, born October 31, 1838, and died October 19, 1889, was King of Portugal from 1861 until his death.Nicknamed “the Popular,” he belonged to the House of Braganza and succeeded his elder brother, King Pedro V. His time of birth comes from the book "Contemporaneos illustres" by F.
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Biography of Félicien Chapuis (excerpt)
Félicien Chapuis, born on April 21, 1824 in Verviers and died on September 30, 1879 in Heusy, was a Belgian physician and amateur entomologist with a lifelong passion for natural sciences. Wikipedia has April 29 in error. He studied in Bonn and then at the University of Liège, where he became close friends with Ernest Candèze and conducted research on beetle larvae under zoologist Théodore Lacordaire.
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Biography of Otto von Faber du Faur (excerpt)
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur, born June 3, 1828, in Ludwigsburg and died August 10, 1901, in Munich, was a German officer and painter known for his large-scale battle scenes. He first trained under his father, battle painter Wilhelm von Faber du Faur, then studied in Munich, Paris, and Stuttgart with notable artists like Adolphe Yvon and Carl von Piloty.
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Biography of Montague Guest (excerpt)
Montague John Guest (29 March 1839 – 9 November 1909) was a British Liberal politician.His time of birth comes from his mother, in the book "Lady Charlotte Guest; extracts from her journal", 1833-1852 (London: Murray, 1950). A member of the prominent Guest family, he was the third son of Sir John Josiah Guest and Lady Charlotte, daughter of the 9th Earl of Lindsey. |
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