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Biography of Luise Büchner (excerpt)
Elisabeth Emma Louise ("Luise") Büchner (12 June 1821, Darmstadt – 28 November 1877) was a German women's rights activist and writer of essays, novels, travelogues and poetry. She published her influential Die Frauen und ihr Beruf (Woman and Their Vocation) anonymously in 1855, in which she campaigned for equality of education for girls, with the opportunity for productive vocations as adult women, but also to better prepare young women for motherhood.
Biography of Joseph-Antoine Boullan (excerpt)
Abbé Joseph-Antoine Boullan (Saint-Porquier, Tarn-et-Garonne, 18 February 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 January 1893, Lyon) was a French Roman Catholic priest and later a laicized priest, who is often accused of being a Satanist although he continued to defend his status as a Christian.
Biography of Pauline Roland (excerpt)
Pauline Roland (1805, Falaise, Calvados (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) — 15 December 1852) was a French feminist and socialist. Roland was a close associate of Pierre Leroux and George Sand and she joined Leroux's community at Boussac (Indre) in 1847, where she worked in the school and wrote for l'Eclaireur de l'Indre.
Biography of Mary Seacole (excerpt)
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.
Biography of Stamford Raffles (excerpt)
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, FRS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies (1811–1816) and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen (1818–1824), best known for his founding of modern Singapore and British Malaya. He was heavily involved in the conquest of the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire.
Biography of Jacques-François Gallay (excerpt)
Jacques-François Gallay (8 December 1795 – 18 October 1864) was a French horn player, academic and composer of music for the instrument. His Méthode for the natural horn was published in 1845. Gallay was born in Perpignan, in the south of France, in 1795; his father was an amateur horn player.
Biography of Victor Masson (editor) (excerpt)
Victor Masson, born on February 2, 1807 in Beaune (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 3, 1879 in Fleurey-sur-Ouche, was a French editor and book seller.
Biography of Anselme Bellegarrigue (excerpt)
Anselme Bellegarrigue was a French individualist anarchist, born on March 23, 2813 in Monfort (Gers) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) and presumed dead around the end of the 19th century in Central America. He participated in the French Revolution of 1848, was author and editor of Anarchie, Journal de l'Ordre and Au fait ! Au fait ! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique.
Biography of Antoni Patek (excerpt)
Antoni Norbert Patek (French: Antoine Norbert de Patek; 14 June 1812 – 1 March 1877) was a Polish pioneer in watchmaking and a creator (in 1839) of the Patek Philippe & Co., one of the most famous Swiss watchmaker companies. Patek Philippe is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious watch manufacturers in the world.
Biography of Afanasy Fet (excerpt)
Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, later known as Shenshin, born 5 December (O.S. 23 November) 1820 – 3 December (O.S. 21 November) 1892), was a renowned Russian poet regarded as the finest master of lyric verse in Russian literature.
Biography of Delphine Delamare (excerpt)
Veronique Delphine Delamare (17 February 1822 – 8 March 1848), born Couturier, was a French housewife who took numerous lovers and later committed suicide. She was said to have been the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. Delamare was the daughter of a wealthy land owner.
Biography of Fyodor Tyutchev (excerpt)
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (December 5 1803 – July 27 1873) was a Russian poet and statesman. Tyutchev was born into a Russian noble family in the Ovstug family estate near Bryansk (modern-day Zhukovsky District, Bryansk Oblast of Russia). His father Ivan Nikolaevich Tyutchev (1768—1846) was a court councillor who served in the Kremlin Expedition that managed all building and restoration works of Moscow palaces.
Biography of Zulma Carraud (excerpt)
Zulma Carraud (24 March 1796 – 24 April 1889) was a French author. She is best known for her children's books and textbooks particularly La Petite Jeanne ou le devoir and Maurice ou le travail. After moving to Nohant, Carraud volunteered as a country doctor and as a teacher at a rural school from 1852 until 1868.
Biography of Gesche Gottfried (excerpt)
Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, born Gesche Margarethe Timm (6 March 1785 - 21 April 1831), was a serial killer who murdered 15 people by arsenic poisoning in Bremen and Hanover, Germany, between 1813 and 1827. She was the last person to be publicly executed in the city of Bremen.
Biography of Jean-Romain Lefèvre (excerpt)
Jean-Romain Lefèvre, born April 7, 1819 in Varennes-en-Argonne (Meuse)(birth certificate n° 19 AD55, Janine Tissot), died in 1882, was a French pastry chef. In Nantes, he makes "Reims biscuits" and confectionery. His biscuit quickly acquired a reputation in the region. Following his death, his son, Louis Lefèvre-Utile, took over the biscuit factory and created the famous "Petit Beurre", which became the reference product, and in 1887, he founded the company LU with his brother-in-law Ernest Lefièvre.
Biography of Suzanne Voilquin (excerpt)
Suzanne Monnier Voilquin (December 17, 1801 – October 24, 1876) was a French feminist, journalist, midwife, traveler and author, best known as editor of Tribune des femmes (French Wikipedia Article), the first working-class feminist periodical, and her memoirs, Souvenirs d’une fille du peuple: ou, La saint-simonienne en Égypt.
Biography of Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (excerpt)
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (21 September 1788; baptized 23 September 1788 – 3 February 1899) was a Dutch supercentenarian. He is generally accepted by scholars as the first validated supercentenarian case on record (as of 21 September, 1898) Since there is evidence that he served as a soldier in Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grande Armée", in the 33rd Light Infantry Division, Boomgaard might in fact have been the oldest military veteran ever for several decades.
Biography of Bertha Beckmann (excerpt)
Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (25 January 1815 – 6 December 1901) was a German photographer. She appears to have been Germany's first professional female photographer, and was possibly also the first professional female photographer in the world, being active a few years prior to Brita Sofia Hesselius and Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri.
Biography of Wilhelmine Reichard (excerpt)
Johanne Wilhelmine Siegmundine Reichard (née Schmidt) (2 April 1788, Braunschweig, Germany – 23 February 1848, Döhlen, Germany) was the first German female balloonist. On 16 April 1811 Wilhelmine Reichard made her first solo flight, starting in Berlin. She reached a height of over 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) and landed safely in Genshagen, 33.
Biography of Lydia Sigourney (excerpt)
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs.
Biography of François de Fossa (excerpt)
François de Fossa (full name: François de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa) (31 August 1775 – 3 June 1849) was a French classical guitarist and composer. De Fossa was born in Perpignan, the capital of Pyrénées-Orientales in southern France along the border with Spain.
Biography of François-Xavier Garneau (excerpt)
François-Xavier Garneau (June 15, 1809 – February 2 or February 3, 1866) was a nineteenth-century French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant and liberal who wrote a three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada between 1845 and 1848.
Biography of Eugène Lepoittevin (excerpt)
Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870) was a French artist who achieved an early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic caricatures to massive battle scenes. His works are in the collections of many museums throughout France.
Biography of Apollon Maykov (excerpt)
Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (Russian: Аполло́н Никола́евич Ма́йков, June 4 (O.S. May 23) 1821, Moscow – March 20 (O.S. March 8) 1897, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history.
Biography of Dorothea de Ficquelmont (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dolly" de Ficquelmont (Russian: Да́рья Фёдоровна Фикельмо́н; Daria Fyodorovna Fikelmon; 14 October (26 October, Gregorian calendar) 1804, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 10 April 1863, Venice, Austrian Empire), born Countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen, was a Russian writer and salonist. A granddaughter of the Russian war hero General Prince Kutuzov (who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars), she was a Russian aristocrat of German Baltic origin, and later a member of the Austrian nobility as the wife of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont.
Biography of Yevgeny Baratynsky (excerpt)
Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (Russian: Евге́ний Абра́мович Бараты́нский; 2 March (O.S. 19 February) 1800 – 11 July 1844) was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Russian Symbolism poets as a supreme poet of thought.
Biography of Adalbert Stifter (excerpt)
Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while remaining almost entirely unknown to English readers.
Biography of Alexander Herzen (excerpt)
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (6 April (O.S. 25 March) 1812 – 21 January (O.S. 9 January) 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party).
Biography of Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician) (excerpt)
Cassius Marcellus Clay (October 19, 1810 – July 22, 1903), nicknamed the "Lion of White Hall", was a Kentucky planter, politician and emancipationist who worked for the abolition of slavery. A founding member of the Republican Party in Kentucky, he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the U.
Biography of John William Polidori (excerpt)
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story.
Biography of Isabella Braun (excerpt)
Isabella Braun (born 12 December 1815 in Jettingen, died 2 May 1886 in Munich) was a German writer. Braun was the daughter of Bernhard Maria Braun, and his wife Euphemia. After her father's death in 1827, the family moved to Augsburg, where Isabella Braun attended secondary school until 1834.
Biography of Ferdinand Barbedienne (excerpt)
Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder. Career The son of a small farmer from Calvados, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Paris.
Biography of Taras Shevchenko (excerpt)
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (9 March (O.S. 25 February) 1814 – 10 March (O.S. 26 February) 1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
Biography of Adolphe Alphand (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (born in 1817 and died in 1891, interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 66), was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. Born in Grenoble, Alphand entered the École polytechnique in 1835 and continued his engineering studies at the prestigious École des ponts et chaussées in 1837.
Biography of Alexeï Pissemski (excerpt)
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (23 March (O.S. 11 March) 1821 – 2 February (O.S. 21 January) 1881) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with Sovremennik magazine in the early 1860s.
Biography of Luise Hensel (excerpt)
Luise Hensel (30 March 1798 to 18 December 1876) was a German teacher and religious poet, who influenced the romantic style of her friend and fellow poet, Clemens Brentano.
Biography of Louise Aston (excerpt)
Luise Aston, or Louise Aston (26 November 1814 – 21 December 1871), was a German author and feminist, who championed the rights of women, and was known for dressing in male attire. She was an advocate of democracy, free love, and sexuality.
Biography of François Blanc (excerpt)
François Blanc ( 12 December 1806 – 27 July 1877), nicknamed "The Magician of Homburg" and "The Magician of Monte Carlo", was a French entrepreneur and operator of casinos, including the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. His daughter, Marie-Félix, married Prince Roland Bonaparte and had issue.
Biography of Louise von Gall (excerpt)
Louise von Gall (15 September (according to her German Wikipedia page) 1815, Darmstadt – 16 March 1855, Augsburg) was a nineteenth-century German novelist and social critic. Johanna Udalrike Louise Gerhardine Freiin von Gall was the posthumous daughter of General Ludwig Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Philipp von Gall.
Biography of Agénor de Gasparin (excerpt)
Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 (his birth time comes from Orange's online archives) – 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author. He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping. He was born at Orange, Vaucluse, the son of Adrien de Gasparin.
Biography of Johannes Bilders (excerpt)
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter; he was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School because of his connections with H.W. Mesdag, Jozef Israëls, Willem Roelofs, his later wife Marie Bilders-van Bosse and others painters of The Hague.
Biography of Adèle Schopenhauer (excerpt)
Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer, known as Adele Schopenhauer (12 July 1797 – 25 August 1849), was a German author. She was the sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and daughter of author Johanna Schopenhauer. Henriette Sommer and Adrian van der Venne were pseudonyms used by her.
Biography of Pierre Jules Baroche (excerpt)
Pierre Jules Baroche (18 November 1802, Paris – 29 October 1870, Jersey) was a French statesman, who served as minister in several of Napoleon III's governments. He was Minister of the Interior from 15 March 1850 to 24 January 1851, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 April 1851 to 26 October 1851, President of the Conseil d'État from 30 December 1852, briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 4 January 1860 to 24 January 1860, Minister without portfolio from 3 December 1860, and Minister of Justice (and of Public Worship) from 23 June 1863 to 17 July 1869.
Biography of Louisa Anne Meredith (excerpt)
Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer, illustrator and possibly one of Australia's earliest photographers. Emigration to Australia Meredith and her husband sailed for New South Wales in June 1839, and arrived at Sydney on 27 September 1839.
Biography of Marie Nathusius (excerpt)
Marie Nathusius, née Scheele (March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg – December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt) was a German novelist and composer. Life Her father was the Calvinist parson Friedrich August Scheele. Marie Nathusius grew up in Calbe (Saale). 1841 she married the publisher Philipp von Nathusius (1815–1872).
Biography of Maria Quitéria (excerpt)
Maria Quitéria (27 July 1792 – 21 August 1853) was a Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine. She served in the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822–23 dressed as a man. She was promoted to cadet and Lieutenant and decorated with the Imperial order.
Biography of Roger Boussinot (excerpt)
Roger Boussinot, alias Emmanuel Le Lauraguais and Roger Mijema, is a French writer, critic, film historian and director, born May 2, 1921 in Tunis and died May 14, 2001 in Bassanne, in his recognizable house with blue shutters. A scholar historian close to the libertarian movement, he published in 1967 an Encyclopedia of Cinema followed by a Dictionary of synonyms, analogies and antonyms and, in 1982, an alphabet book, The Words of Anarchy.
Biography of Félix Arvers (excerpt)
élix Arvers (July 23, 1806 – November 7, 1850) was a French poet and dramatist, most famous for his poem Un secret. Born in Paris, Arvers abandoned his law career aged 30 to concentrate on theatre. His plays gained moderate success in their own time, but none were as notorious as Un Secret, dedicated to Marie, the daughter of writer Charles Nodier.
Biography of Henri Savigny (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, born April 10, 1793, died January 27, 1843, was a surgeon and doctor aboard La Méduse. When the ship sank (July 2, 1816), he was one of the 3 officers who volunteered to take their place on the raft among 152 castaways.
Biography of Ernest Boulanger (composer) (excerpt)
Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer of comic operas and a conductor. He was more known, however, for being a choral music composer, choral group director, voice teacher, and vocal contest jury member. |
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