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Biography of Paul Avril (excerpt)
Édouard-Henri Avril, born May 21, 1849, in Algiers and died July 28, 1928, in Le Raincy, was a French painter and illustrator, best known under the pseudonym Paul-Avril for his erotic illustrations. He was the brother of engraver and photographer Paul Victor Avril, with whom he collaborated.
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.
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.
Biography of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (excerpt)
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, born October 28, 1842, and died October 22, 1932, was an American orator, author, and activist for the abolition of slavery and women’s rights. She was the first woman to deliver a political speech before the U.S. Congress.
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.
Biography of Ferdinand Karsch (excerpt)
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch (born September 2, 1853, in Münster, died December 20, 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist, and anthropologist. From around 1905, he also published under the name Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, using his mother's maiden name for his work on human and animal sexual diversity.
Biography of Sina Mesdag-van Houten (excerpt)
Sina (Sientje) van Houten (born 23 December 1834 in Groningen – died 20 March 1909 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter and wife of marine artist Hendrik Willem Mesdag. She came from a notable family, being the sister of Minister Samuel van Houten.
Biography of August Allebé (excerpt)
August Allebé, born on 19 April 1838 in Amsterdam and died there on 10 January 1927, was a Northern Dutch painter and influential teacher.His early work was romantic, later evolving into realism and impressionism. A key figure in founding Amsterdam Impressionism – also called the “School of Allebé” – he offered a counterbalance to the dominant Hague School.
Biography of Gaston Calmette (excerpt)
Gaston Calmette (July 30, 1858, Montpellier – March 17, 1914, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French journalist and the director of Le Figaro. Career The elder brother of bacteriologist Albert Calmette, he joined Le Figaro at 27 and became its director in 1902. In January 1914, he led a fierce campaign against Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, publishing compromising personal letters.
Biography of Louis Fabry (excerpt)
Louis Fabry, born on April 20, 1862, in Marseille and deceased on January 26, 1939, in Les Lecques (Var), was a French astronomer and mathematician. Raised in a scholarly family, he studied at Lycée Thiers and then at École Polytechnique. He earned degrees in mathematics and physics, trained in Paris, and worked at the observatories of Nice and Marseille, where he became assistant astronomer in 1895 and retired in 1924.
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.
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.
Biography of Joseph Apoux (excerpt)
Jacques Apoux, born on November 5, 1846, in Le Blanc and died on November 11, 1910, in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, was a 19th-century French painter, illustrator, and engraver linked to the Decadent movement. He studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme and specialized in aquatint and drypoint techniques.
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.
Biography of Gerard Bilders (excerpt)
Born in Utrecht on 9 December 1838, Gerard Bilders was a Dutch landscape painter strongly influenced by his father, Johannes Warnardus Bilders. He spent part of his youth in Oosterbeek, later a center for plein-air painters, and moved to The Hague in 1857.
Biography of Samuel van Houten (excerpt)
Samuel van Houten, born February 17, 1837, in Groningen and died October 14, 1930, in The Hague, was a Dutch liberal politician best known for the Kinderwetje van Van Houten, the 1874 law banning certain forms of child labor. Son of a city councilman and brother to painter Sientje van Houten, he studied law and became a lawyer before entering politics in 1864.
Biography of Samuel Coucke (excerpt)
Samuel Coucke, born October 1, 1833, in Bruges and died November 7, 1899, was a Belgian stained glass artist and ceramic painter. He was one of the Belgian artists who embraced the neo-Gothic style, which flourished in Bruges in the late 19th century.
Biography of August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (excerpt)
August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (August 14, 1858 – December 14, 1940) was a German painter and illustrator.He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger. He debuted in 1888 with Verfolgt at the Academy’s jubilee exhibition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Charles Barrois (geologist) (excerpt)
Charles Barrois, born on April 21, 1851 in Lille and died on November 5, 1939 in Sainte-Geneviève-en-Caux, was a French geologist and professor at the University of Lille, from a prominent industrial family. Trained by Jules Gosselet, he published in 1876 groundbreaking research on the Upper Cretaceous of England and Ireland, laying the foundations of British chalk stratigraphy.
Biography of Arthur Guest (excerpt)
Arthur Edward Guest (7 November 1841 – 17 July 1898) was a British Conservative politician. His time of birth comes from his mother, in the book "Lady Charlotte Guest; extracts from her journal", 1833-1852 (London: Murray, 1950). He was the fifth son of Sir Josiah Guest and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth, and the younger brother of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, and Montague Guest.
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.
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.
Biography of Titia van der Tuuk (excerpt)
Titia Klasina Elisabeth van der Tuuk, born on November 27, 1854, and died on May 7, 1939, was a Dutch feminist and socialist. The daughter of a preacher and a children’s author, she was born in ’t Zandt, Groningen. Initially a teacher, she was forced to give up her profession due to deafness and hostility toward her openly declared atheism.
Biography of Jacobus van Looy (excerpt)
Jacobus (Jac) van Looy (13 September 1855 – 24 February 1930) was a Dutch painter and writer. Orphaned at a young age, he grew up in the Haarlem municipal orphanage. Originally trained as a house painter, he entered the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 1877.
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.
Biography of Misia Sert (excerpt)
Born Maria Zofia Olga Zenajda Godebska on March 30, 1872, in Tsarskoye Selo, Misia Sert was a pianist and one of Paris’s most influential art patrons.Raised in Belgium in a musical family connected to Liszt, she studied piano from an early age and later trained under Gabriel Fauré.
Biography of Leonard Huxley (writer) (excerpt)
Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 – 3 May 1933) was a British schoolteacher, writer, and editor.He was the son of renowned zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley and studied in London, St Andrews, and at Oxford. Hist time of birth comes from the book "Huxley: The Devil's Disciple", by Adrian Desmond (London: M.
Biography of Franz von Lenbach (excerpt)
Franz von Lenbach, born December 13, 1836, in Schrobenhausen and died May 6, 1904, in Munich, was a German painter best known for his portraits of prominent figures in nobility, arts, and industry. His social stature earned him the nickname Malerfürst ("Painter Prince").
Biography of Gerard Heymans (excerpt)
Gerardus Heymans (17 April 1857 – 18 February 1930) was a Dutch philosopher and psychologist, widely considered the pioneer of experimental psychology in the Netherlands. He studied law and philosophy in Leiden and Freiburg, earning his doctorate in 1881. From 1890 to 1927, he taught at the University of Groningen, where he founded the country's first psychology lab and served as rector in 1908–1909.
Biography of Carl Legien (excerpt)
Carl Rudolf Legien (1 December 1861 – 26 December 1920) was a German trade unionist and moderate Social Democrat. Orphaned in childhood, he trained as a wood turner, joined the SPD in 1885, and quickly rose through union ranks, leading the German Turners' Association and the General Commission of German Trade Unions from 1891.
Biography of Alexis Didier (excerpt)
Alexis Didier (born March 30, 1826 in Paris – died October 9, 1886) was a famous 19th-century French medium. At his funeral, he was described as “the greatest clairvoyant of modern times.” His case represents a key moment in the clash between Mesmer’s animal magnetism and the 19th-century medical establishment, which stopped all official research into such phenomena in 1842.
Biography of Willem Witsen (excerpt)
Willem Arnoldus Witsen (born 13 August 1860 – died 13 April 1923 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and photographer associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. Influenced by James McNeill Whistler, he depicted tranquil cityscapes and rural scenes. He also created portraits and photographs of artists and cultural figures, including the French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.
Biography of Léo Testut (excerpt)
Leo Testut, born on 8 June 1849 in Saint-Avit-Sénieur and died on 16 January 1925 in Bordeaux, was a renowned French physician and anatomist. He studied medicine in Bordeaux, though his education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. He resumed his studies in 1878, earning distinctions for his thesis and later became Professor of Anatomy at the Bordeaux School of Medicine, while also engaging in anthropological research.
Biography of Frank van der Goes (excerpt)
Franc van der Goes (February 13, 1859 – June 5, 1939) was a Dutch journalist and Marxist theorist, co-founder of the SDAP and co-translator of Das Kapital into Dutch. Initially active in finance, he shifted to literature and politics, founding the literary journal De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, which he left over political disagreements.
Biography of George E. Ohr (excerpt)
George Edgar Ohr (July 12, 1857 – April 7, 1918) was an American ceramic artist known as the “Mad Potter of Biloxi” in Mississippi. A forerunner of American Abstract Expressionism, he became famous for his daring, experimental forms between 1880 and 1910.
Biography of Jules Joseph Lefebvre (excerpt)
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, born on 14 March 1836 in Tournan-en-Brie and died on 24 February 1911 in Paris, was a French painter, teacher, and art theorist.He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and studied under Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861 with The Death of Priam and regularly exhibited at the Paris Salon, gaining recognition for his portraits and idealized female figures.
Biography of Floris Verster (excerpt)
Floris Hendrik Verster was a Dutch painter, born on 9 June 1861 in Leiden and died there on 21 January 1927, best known for his still lifes and floral landscapes. Coming from an artistic family, he trained early in drawing and studied at The Hague Royal Academy of Art alongside artists like Breitner and Israëls.
Biography of Mariano Fortuny (painter) (excerpt)
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, born on June 11, 1838, in Reus and died on November 21, 1874, in Rome, was a Spanish painter known for Orientalist, historical, and military scenes. Orphaned young, he was raised by his grandfather who introduced him to art.
Biography of Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (excerpt)
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (8 April 1862 – 27 May 1950) was a Dutch painter born in Groningen.She studied at the École du Louvre in Paris and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under August Allebé. Her aunt, the painter Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, supported her artistic education.
Biography of Bertha Knight Landes (excerpt)
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, leading Seattle, Washington, from 1926 to 1928.A graduate in history and political science from Indiana University, she moved to Seattle in 1895 after marrying geologist Henry Landes.
Biography of Taco Mesdag (excerpt)
Taco Mesdag, born September 21, 1829 in Groningen and died August 4, 1902 in The Hague, was a Dutch banker and painter.He worked in the family banking business with his younger brother Henry. Like his brother Hendrik Mesdag, Taco eventually turned to painting.
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.
Biography of Maurice Lugeon (excerpt)
Maurice Lugeon (July 10, 1870 – October 23, 1953) was a prominent Swiss geologist, professor at the University of Lausanne, and director of the Cantonal Geological Museum. Born in Poissy and raised in Vaud, he developed a passion for geology early on and earned his doctorate in 1896 with a thesis on the Prealps and Chablais breccia.
Biography of Albert Verwey (excerpt)
Albert Verwey, born May 15, 1865, in Amsterdam and died March 8, 1937, in Noordwijk aan Zee, was a Dutch poet and essayist. A self-taught writer influenced by Spinoza, he published his first collection, Persephone, and co-founded the review De Nieuwe Gids in 1885 with Willem Kloos, leaving it in 1889.
Biography of Wladyslaw Barwicki (excerpt)
Władysław Barwicki, born on 11 June 1865 in Puławy and died on 12 February 1933 in Lublin, was a Polish painter, sculptor, and poet. He studied in Warsaw under Wandalin Strzałecki and Wojciech Gerson. He painted religious, patriotic, and landscape scenes, and made his debut in 1888 with portrait exhibitions in Lublin.
Biography of Gerrit Jäger (excerpt)
Gerrit Jäger (Amsterdam, 7 June 1863 – The Hague, 27 August 1894) was a Dutch journalist and playwright. A close friend of Louis Couperus, he adapted Noodlot for the stage in 1892 after Couperus dedicated the second edition of Eline Vere to him. |
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