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Biography of Mariano José de Larra (excerpt)
Mariano José de Larra (24 March 1809 - 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romanticist writer noted for satire and perhaps the best prose writer of 19th-century Spain. He was born in Madrid; his father served as a regimental doctor in the French army, and, as an afrancesado, was compelled to leave the Peninsula with his family in 1812.
Biography of Pierre Larousse (excerpt)
Pierre Athanase Larousse (October 23, 1817 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - January 3, 1875) was a French grammarian and lexicographer born in Toucy. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the teaching school in Versailles. Four years later, he returned to Toucy to teach in a primary school, but became frustrated by the archaic and rigid teaching methods.
Biography of Catherine-Joséphine Duchesnois (excerpt)
Catherine-Joséphine Duchesnois, born Catherine-Joséphine Rafin June 5, 1777 in Saint-Saulve and died February 8, 1835 in Paris, was a French comedian.
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Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north; Georgia to the east; Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south; and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.
Biography of Alfred Tennyson (excerpt)
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, although In Memoriam was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and classmate at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married.
Biography of James Buchanan (excerpt)
James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century. To date he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania and the only to remain a lifelong bachelor.
Biography of Ivan Turgenev (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев IPA: ) (November 9 1818 – September 3 1883) was a Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Life Turgenev was born into a wealthy landed family in Oryol, Russia, on October 28, 1818.
Biography of Napoléon Reber (excerpt)
Napoléon Henri Reber (October 21, 1807, Mulhouse, Alsace – November 24, 1880, Paris) was a French composer. He studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote chamber music, and set to music the new poems of the best French poets. He became professor of harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1851 and succeeded Fromental Halévy as professor of composition in 1862, was inspector of the branch conservatories from 1871, and was elected to George Onslow's chair in the Academie Française in 1853.
Biography of Théophile Roussel (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Victor Théophile Roussel or Théophile Roussel, born July 28, 1816 in Albaret-Sainte-Marie, Lozère, died September 27, 1903 in Albaret-Sainte-Marie, Lozère, was a French psysician, author and politician.
Biography of Louis Léopold Robert (excerpt)
Louis Léopold Robert (13 May 1794 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 20 March 1835), Swiss painter, was born at La Chaux-de-Fonds (Neuchâtel) in Switzerland, but left his native place with the engraver Girardet at the age of sixteen for Paris. He was on the eve of obtaining the grand prix for engraving when the events of 1815 blasted his hopes, for Neuchâtel was restored to Prussia, and Robert was struck off the list of competitors as a foreigner.
Biography of Théodore Ballu (excerpt)
Théodore Ballu (born in Paris on 8 June 1817 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in Paris on 22 May 1885) was a French architect. He entered the École royale des beaux-arts de Paris in 1835 and was the pupil of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas.
Biography of Émile Erckmann (excerpt)
Émile Erckmann, born on May 21, 1822 (source: birth certificate)) in Phalsbourg (Meurthe, Moselle), died on March 14, 1899, was a French writer.
Biography of Jules Dupré (excerpt)
Jules Dupré (April 5, 1811 - October 6, 1889), French painter, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of her tragic and dramatic aspects.
Biography of Eugène Sue (excerpt)
Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (January 20, 1804 – August 3, 1857) was a French novelist He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino (1828).
Biography of Francis Galton (excerpt)
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime.
Biography of William Hamilton (excerpt)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. Hamilton's work was also significant in the later development of quantum mechanics.
Biography of John Ruskin (excerpt)
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, sage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
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Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Upland South region of the United States, bordered by Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to the east; Tennessee to the south; and Missouri to the west.
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San Jose, officially San José (/ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ, -ˈseɪ/; Spanish: ; Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley, and the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With an estimated 2019 population of 1,021,795, it is the third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego) and the tenth-most populous in the United States.
Biography of Charles Goodyear (excerpt)
Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844. Although Goodyear is often credited with its invention, modern evidence has proven that the Mesoamericans used stabilized rubber for balls and other objects as early as 1600 BC.
Biography of René Caillié (excerpt)
Auguste René Caillié (19 November 1799 – 17 May 1838) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city.
Biography of Rosa Bonheur (excerpt)
Rosa Bonheur, née Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (b. Bordeaux, France, March 16, 1822 – d. Thomery (By), France, May 25, 1899) was a French animalière and realist artist. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais (in French Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and, The Horse Fair (in French Le marché aux chevaux ), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
Biography of Léon Riesener (excerpt)
Léon Riesener, born Louis Antoine Léon Riesener January 21, 1808 in Paris, died May 25, 1878 in Paris, is a French romantic painter.
Biography of Isaac Rodrigue Péreire (excerpt)
The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. Like the Rothschilds, they were Jews, but unlike them the Péreire brothers were Sephardi Jews of Portuguese origin. Émile (1800–1875) and his brother Isaac Péreire (1806–1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank.
Biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (excerpt)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 15 September 1859) (pronounced /ˈɪzəmbɑrd ˈkɪŋdəm brʊˈnɛl/), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first with a propeller, and numerous important bridges and tunnels.
Biography of Auguste Clésinger (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger or August Clésinger, born October 22, 1814 in Besançon, died in 1883 in Paris, was a French sculptor and painter. He wasthe husband of the daugther of French writer George Sand. Some works 1847 : Femme piquée par un serpent marbre Musée d'Orsay de Paris
Biography of Heinrich von Kleist (excerpt)
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him. Kleist was born into the von Kleist family in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Biography of Brigham Young (excerpt)
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death. He was also the founder of Salt Lake City and the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.
Biography of Victor Considérant (excerpt)
Victor Prosper Considérant (October 12, 1808 – December 27, 1893) was a French utopian Socialist and disciple of Fourier. Considérant was born in Salins and studied engineering at the École Polytechnique (1826 diploma). Subsequently working as an engineer, he collaborated with Fourier on newspapers.
Biography of Thomas Moore (poet) (excerpt)
Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25, 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer. Born on the corner of Aungier Street in Dublin, Ireland over his father's grocery shop, his father being from an Irish speaking Gaeltacht in Kerry and his mother, Anastasia Codd, from Wexford.
Biography of Félix Pyat (excerpt)
Félix Pyat (4 October 1810 - 3 August 1889) was a French Socialist journalist and politician. He was born at Vierzon (Cher), the son of a Legitimist lawyer. Called to the bar in Paris in 1831, he threw his whole energies into journalism.
Biography of Washington Irving (excerpt)
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Biography of Adolphe Adam (excerpt)
Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847).
Biography of Heinrich Heine (excerpt)
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by German composers.
Biography of François-Vincent Raspail (excerpt)
François-Vincent Raspail (January 25, 1794 - January 7, 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physiologist, and socialist politician. Biography Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the republican Carbonari society, Raspail was imprisoned during Louis Philippe's reign (1830-1848) and was a candidate for presidency of the Second Republic in December 1848.
Biography of Félicité de Lamennais (excerpt)
Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, also known as Frédéric de La Mennais (June 19, 1782 - February 27, 1854), was a French priest, and philosophical and political writer. Youth Felicité de Lamennais was born at Saint-Malo in Brittany, the son of Pierre Robert de Lamennais (or La Mennais), a ship-owner ennobled by King Louis XVI for public services, and Gratienne Lorin.
Biography of Giovanni Belzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni; sometimes known as The Great Belzoni (November 5, 1778 (birth time source: no original source) – December 3, 1823) was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities. Belzoni was born in Padua as the son of a barber. His family was from Rome and when Belzoni was 16 he went to work there, claiming that he 'studied hydraulics'.
Biography of Francis Scott Key (excerpt)
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Life Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Louis Penn Dagworthy (Charlton) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County and is now Carroll County, Maryland.
Biography of Samuel F. B. Morse (excerpt)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code. Birth and education Samuel F.B. Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of geographer and pastor Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann loose Morse.
Biography of Eugénie de Guérin (excerpt)
Eugénie de Guérin (January 29, 1805 – May 31, 1848), French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her Journals (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her Lettres (1864, Eng. trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind.
Biography of Phineas Quimby (excerpt)
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866), was a New England philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, and scientist, who resided in Belfast, Maine, and had an office in Portland, Maine. Family The son of blacksmith John Quimby (1765-1827) and Susannah Quimby (1768-1827) née White, Quimby was the sixth of seven children.
Biography of Ferdinand de Lesseps (excerpt)
Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805–December 7, 1894) was the maker of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas for the first time in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.
Biography of Christophe Louis Léon Juchault de Lamoricière (excerpt)
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière (5 September 1806 – 11 September 1865) was a French general. Life He was born at Nantes, and entered the Engineers in 1828. He served in the Algerian campaigns from 1830 onwards, and by 1840 he had risen to the grade of maréchal-de-camp (major-general).
Biography of Charles-Eugène Delaunay (excerpt)
Charles-Eugène Delaunay (April 9, 1816 – August 5, 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics. Life Born in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, Delaunay studied under Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Sorbonne.
Biography of Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (excerpt)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (French pronunciation: ; 15 October 1802 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 October 1857), French general, second son of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Éléonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris. Military career After going through the usual course of study for the military profession, he entered the army as an engineer officer in 1824, and served in the Morea (Peloponnesus) in 1828, becoming captain in the following year.
Biography of Wilhelm Grimm (excerpt)
Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist, and the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm. Life and work Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel.
Biography of Zadkiel (astrologer) (excerpt)
Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology, and in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology, subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac.
Biography of Hervé Faye (excerpt)
Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye (October 1, 1814 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – July 4, 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M.
Biography of William M. Thackeray (excerpt)
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Biography Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company.
Biography of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (excerpt)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 - July 23, 1859) was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore. She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819. |
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