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Biography of Victor de Laprade (excerpt)
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (January 13, 1812 - December 13, 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. He was born at Montbrison, in the département of the Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine.
Biography of Hippolyte Blot (excerpt)
Hippolyte Blot, born June 14, 1822 in Paris and died March 13, 1888, was a French physician and obstetrician. ![]()
Biography of Achille Etna Michallon (excerpt)
Achille-Etna Michallon (October 22, 1796-1822) was a French painter, the son of French sculptor Claude Michallon (1751-1799). He won Prix de Rome in 1817. ![]()
Biography of George Baxter (excerpt)
George Baxter (1804–1867) was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. Though colour printing had been developed in China centuries before, it was not commercially viable. However, in early years of the 19th century the process of colour printing had been revived by George Savage, a Yorkshireman in London. ![]()
Biography of Louis Jules Trochu (excerpt)
Louis Jules Trochu (12 March 1815 - 7 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense - being France's de facto head of state - from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871). ![]()
Biography of Benjamin Haydon (excerpt)
Benjamin Robert Haydon (26 January 1786 – 22 June 1846) was an English historical painter and writer. Biography Haydon was born in Plymouth. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Cobley, rector of Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge, Devon. Her brother, General Sir Thomas Cobley, was renowned for his part in the siege of Ismail.
Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Moquin-Tandon (excerpt)
Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (May 7, 1804 (time birth source: Lescaut) - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse.
Biography of Hans-Christian Oeser (excerpt)
Hans-Christian Oeser, born on June 14, 1791 in Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia), died in 1850, was a German writer and teacher.
Biography of Lorenzo N. Fowler (excerpt)
Lorenzo Niles Fowler, born June 23, 1811 in Coshocton, New York, died in 1896, was an Amercian famous author and phrenologist. He is the brother of phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler. Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a defunct field of study, once considered a science, by which the personality traits of a person were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull. ![]()
Biography of Armand Carrel (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel (May 10, 1800 – July 25, 1836) was a French writer. He was born at Rouen. His father was a wealthy merchant, and he received a liberal education at the college of Rouen, afterwards attending the military school at St Cyr. ![]()
Biography of William H. Seward (excerpt)
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 (birth time source: Penfield) – October 10, 1872) was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was widely regarded as the leading contender for the party's presidential nomination in 1860 – yet his very outspokenness may have cost him the nomination.
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Biography of Alfred Rethel (excerpt)
Alfred Rethel (1816 - December 1, 1859) was a German history painter. Rethel was born in Aachen in 1816. He showed an interest in art in his early life, and at the age of thirteen he executed a drawing which procured his admission to the academy of Düsseldorf. ![]()
Biography of Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (excerpt)
Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, born April 2, 1804 in Nantes, died March 24, 1865 in Paris, was a French painter and sculptor. ![]()
Biography of Bettino Ricasoli (excerpt)
Bettino Ricàsoli, Barone Ricàsoli, Conte di Brolio (March 9, 1809 – October 23, 1880; Italian pronunciation: ) was an Italian statesman. Ricasoli was born in Broglio, in the province of Siena. Left an orphan at eighteen, with an estate heavily encumbered, he was by special decree of the grand duke of Tuscany declared of age and entrusted with the guardianship of his younger brothers.
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Biography of Paul Huet (excerpt)
Paul Huet (October 3, 1803, Paris - 1869, Paris) was a French painter. Works (selection) Intérieur de forêt Le bois de la Haye Matinée de printemps, (1834) Soirée d'automne dans le parc de St Cloud, (1835) Brisants à la pointe de Granville ![]()
Biography of Eugène Belgrand (excerpt)
Eugène Belgrand (23 April 1810 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 8 April 1878) was a French engineer who made significant contributions to the modernization of the Parisian sewer system during the 19th century rebuilding of Paris. Much of Belgrand's work remains in use today.
Biography of Heinrich Matthias Zopfl (excerpt)
Heinrich Matthias Zopfl, born April 6, 1807 in Bamberg and died July 4, 1877, was a German writer, professor of constitutional law and politician. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (excerpt)
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (b. Mechelen, Belgium, December 19, 1809; d. Leuven January 8, 1894) was a zoologist and paleontologist. He studied medicine at the University of Louvain, and studied zoology in Paris under Georges Cuvier (1769–1832). In 1831 he became curator at the natural history museum in Leuven, and from 1836 until 1894 was a professor of zoology at the Catholic University in that city.
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Biography of Louis Veuillot (excerpt)
Louis Veuillot (October 11, 1813–March 7, 1883) was a French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. He was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret). When he was five, his parents moved to Paris.
Biography of Henri Delafond (excerpt)
Henri Delafond, born on February 13, 1805 in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Bourgogne (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin), died on November 15, 1861, was a French veterinary physician and pathologist. ![]()
Biography of Georges Darboy (excerpt)
Georges Darboy (16 January 1813 - 27 May 1871) was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown.
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Biography of Jules Champfleury (excerpt)
Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Setepmber 17, 1820 Laon - 1889 Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris. He met Charles Baudelaire and the next year started writing art criticism under the pen-name "Champfleury" for the journal L’Artiste.
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Biography of Emile Augier (excerpt)
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme, the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in spirit as well as by birth.
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Biography of Jules Janin (excerpt)
Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 - 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Biography Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He involved himself in journalism from an early date, and worked on the Figaro and the Quotidienne, among others, until in 1830 he became dramatic critic of the Journal des Débats.
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Biography of Ned Buntline (excerpt)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886), known by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer. Later work and death Buntline continued to write dime novels, but none was as successful as his earlier work.
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Biography of Ferdinand Raimund (excerpt)
Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; June 1, 1790, Vienna – September 5, 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist. Life and work He was born in Vienna as a son of Bohemian woodturning master craftsman Jakob Raimann. In 1811, he acted at the Theater in der Josefstadt, and, in 1817 at the Leopoldstädter Theater.
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Biography of Isaac Pitman (excerpt)
Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 12 January 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge.
Biography of Raphael V (excerpt)
Raphael V, born Sparks on July 17, 1820 in London, was a British professional astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Adolph Kolping (excerpt)
Adolph Kolping (December 8, 1813 in Kerpen — December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest. Life Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest. ![]()
Biography of Jacob Burckhardt (excerpt)
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland – August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. ![]()
Biography of Emile Blanche (excerpt)
(Antoine) Émile Blanche born in Paris on October 1, 1820 and died in Paris on August 15, 1893, is a French alienist (a doctor specializing in the treatment of the insane). He was born in the nursing home that his father Esprit Blanche (1796-1852), himself an alienist, directed. ![]()
Biography of David Brewster (excerpt)
Sir David Brewster, FRS (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. He was born at Jedburgh, where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar school. At the age of twelve, he was sent to the University of Edinburgh, being intended for the clergy. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, born November 9, 1821 in Guebwiller, died May 20, 1910 in Trottberg bei Gebweiler, was a French musician, composer and editor. ![]()
Biography of Victor Puiseux (excerpt)
Victor Alexandre Puiseux (April 16, 1820 in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) – September 9, 1883 in Frontenay (Jura)) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Life He was born in 1820 in Argenteuil, France.
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Biography of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (excerpt)
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
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Biography of Edouard Chassaignac (excerpt)
Edouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac, sometimes Pierre Chassaignac, born December 22, 1804 in Nantes and died in 1879 in Versailles, was a French surgeon and physician. ![]()
Biography of Winfield Scott (excerpt)
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 (birth time source: Lescaut, Penfield) – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and many historians rate him the best American commander of his time. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Dumas (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste André Dumas (16 July 1800 – 10 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities.
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Biography of Charles Delescluze (excerpt)
Louis Charles Delescluze (October 2, 1809 (birth time source: birth certificate, page 138, archives online) – May 25, 1871) was a French journalist. He was born at Dreux, Eure-et-Loir. Having studied law in Paris, he early developed a strong democratic bent, and played a part in the July revolution of 1830.
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Biography of Laure Junot d'Abrantes (excerpt)
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantès (November 6, 1784–1838) was the wife of French general Jean-Andoche Junot. She was born Laure (Laurette) Martin de Permond at Montpellier. She was the daughter of Charles Martin de Permond and his wife Panoria, to whom during her widowhood the young Napoleon Bonaparte made an offer of marriage - such at least is the version presented by the daughter in her celebrated Memoirs. ![]()
Biography of August Belmont (excerpt)
August Belmont, Sr. (December 8, 1813 – November 24, 1890) was born in Alzey, Hesse, to a Jewish family. He emigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Raffet (excerpt)
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (March 2, 1804 – February 16, 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. Biography Raffet was born in Paris. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes.
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Biography of Jules Simon (excerpt)
Jules François Simon (27 December 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction. Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton. ![]()
Biography of Franciscus Donders (excerpt)
Franciscus Cornelis Donders (Tilburg, May 27, 1818 - Utrecht, March 24, 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist who did pioneering work on animal and vegetable heat, among many other things. He was a professor in Physiology in Utrecht from 1847 and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients.
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Biography of Louis Bouilhet (excerpt)
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1821 (birth time source: Lescaut, Geslain) – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus.
Biography of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (excerpt)
Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (Westerlo, Belgium, January 3, 1823 - Zemst, near Mechelen, Belgium, January 30, 1881) was an organist and a organ composer. He was a student of François-Joseph Fétis, who wanted to make him into a musician capable of renewing the organ-player's art in Belgium. ![]()
Biography of Henri Alexis Brialmont (excerpt)
Henri Alexis Brialmont (Venlo 25 May 1821 (birth time source: Lescaut) – Brussels 21 July 1903) was a Dutch-born Belgian military engineer. He was one of the leading fortifications engineers in the 19th century. He was born in Dutch Limburg, the son of the French-born Laurent Mathieu Brialmont (1789–1885), who was in 1821 lieutenant in the Dutch army, but would later become a Belgian general (1849) and minister of war (1850–51).
Biography of Raphael IV (excerpt)
Raphael IV, born R. W. Wakeley, May 10, 1814 in London, died in 1852, was a British professional astrologer, author, and publisher. ![]()
Biography of Stephen Decatur (excerpt)
Stephen Decatur, Jr. /dɪˈkeɪtər/, (5 January 1779 – 22 March 1820) was an American naval officer notable for his many naval victories in the early 19th century. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, Worcester county, the son of a U. |
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