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Biography of Emile Gaboriau (excerpt)
Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction. Life Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866).
Biography of Bret Harte (excerpt)
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Life and career He was born in Albany, New York, as Francis Brett Hart. He was named after his great-grandfather Francis Brett, and his family name was Hart.
Biography of Valentin Joseph Boussinesq (excerpt)
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (13 March 1842 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at Faculty of Sciences of Lille, lecturing differential and integral calculus at Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille).
Biography of Alfred Espinas (excerpt)
Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche. He was a student of Comte and Spencer. Although initially an adherent of positivism, he later became a committed realist.
Biography of Jules Violle (excerpt)
Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (November 16, 1841, Langres - September 12, 1923, Fixin) was a French physicist and inventor. He is notable for having determined the solar constant at Mont Blanc in 1875, and, in 1881, for proposing a standard for luminous intensity, called the Violle, equal to the light emitted by 1 cm² of platinum at its melting point.
Biography of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (excerpt)
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (born December 8, 1832, died April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland.
Biography of Albert Anker (excerpt)
Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. Life Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845–48.
Biography of Victor-Pierre Huguet (excerpt)
Victor Pierre Huguet, born May 1, 1835 in Le Lude and died on 1902, was a French famous landscape painter.
Biography of Charles Barlet (excerpt)
Albert Fauch, best known as Charles Barlet or sometimes François Charles Barlet or F.-Ch. Barlet, born October 12, 1838 in Paris, died October 29, 1909 in Paris, was a French occulist and theosopher. His work is close to Papus and Max Théon.
Biography of Paul Durand-Ruel (excerpt)
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He was one of the first modern art dealers who provided support to his painters with stipends and solo exhibitions.
Biography of David Fabricius (excerpt)
David Fabricius (March 9, 1564 – May 7, 1617), was a German theologian who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615). David Fabricius (Latinization of his proper name David Faber or David Goldschmidt) was born at Esens, Lower Saxony, and served as pastor for small towns near his birthplace in Frisia (now northwest Germany and northeast Netherlands), at Resterhafe near Dornum in 1584 and at Osteel in 1603.
Biography of Adolphe Monticelli (excerpt)
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14, 1824 – June 29, 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists. Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances. He attended the École Municipale de Dessin in Marseille from 1842 to 1846, followed by study in Paris under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography of Jean Mounet-Sully (excerpt)
Mounet-Sully (July 27, 1841 (Wikipedia gives February) - 1916), a French actor, was born at Bergerac. His birth name was Jean-Sully Mounet: "Mounet-Sully" (without the "Jean") was a stage name. He entered the Conservatoire at the age of twenty-one, where he took first prize for tragedy.
Biography of Anton Rubinstein (excerpt)
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos. He also founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which, together with Moscow Conservatory founded by his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, helped establish a reputation for musical skill among the subjects of the czar of Russia.
Biography of John Wesley Powell (excerpt)
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon.
Biography of Emile Reynaud (excerpt)
Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris.
Biography of Hendrik Willem Mesdag (excerpt)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter. He was born in Groningen, the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art.
Biography of James Tissot (excerpt)
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. Tissot was born at Nantes. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three.
Biography of Eugène Le Roy (excerpt)
Eugène Le Roy, born on November 29, 1836 in Hautefort (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on May 6, 1907 in Montignac, was a French writer. Publications Le Moulin de Frau (1891), paru en feuilleton dans L'Avenir de la Dordogne du 2 avril au 21 août 1891 puis chez Fasquelle en 1905.
Biography of Ludwig Boltzmann (excerpt)
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 (birth time source: Starkman quotes Ruth Lewin Sime's biography "Lise Meitner, A Life in Physics" and rectified his time of birth) – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion).
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Aguascalientes, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and with an average altitude of 1,950 m (6,400 ft) above sea level it is predominantly of semi-arid climate (Bhs and Bhk), and it is located in the northern part of the Bajío region, in north-central Mexico, bordered by Zacatecas to the north, east and west, and by Jalisco to the south.
Biography of Jacques-Joseph Grancher (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Grancher (September 29, 1843- July 13, 1907) was a French pediatrician who was born in Felletin. In 1865 he earned his medical degree, and afterwards was director of a pathological anatomy laboratory in Clamart (1868-1878). From 1885 until his death in 1907 he was director of Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris.
Biography of Hermene Bustos (excerpt)
Hermenilgo Bustos - or Hermene Bustos -, born April 13, 1832 near Mexico, died in 1907, was a Mexican-Indian artist.
Biography of Ernest Constans (excerpt)
Jean Antoine Ernest Constans (May 3, 1833 (birth time source: Lescaut)–April 7, 1913) was a French politician and colonial administrator. Biography Born in Béziers, Hérault, he began his career as professor of law. In 1876 he was elected deputy for Toulouse to the French Third Republic's Chamber, and sat in the Left Centre as one of the 363 of May 16, 1877.
Biography of John Wanamaker (excerpt)
John (Nelson) Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising. Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Background He opened his first store in 1861, called "Oak Hall", at Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia, on the site of George Washington's Presidential home.
Biography of Ernest Candeze (excerpt)
Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze was a Belgian doctor and entomologist born 22 February 1827 at Liège and dying in Glain , 30 June , 1898. He studied in Liege under Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801-1870), then studied medicine in Paris and Liège.
Biography of Pablo de Sarasate (excerpt)
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908) was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period. Career Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an artillery bandmaster. He began studying the violin with his father at the age of five and later took lessons from a local teacher but his musical talent became evident early on and he appeared in his first public concert in La Coruña at the age of eight.
Biography of Matthijs Maris (excerpt)
Matthijs Maris, born August 17, 1839 in The Hague and died August 22, 1917 in London, was a Dutch artist and painter.
Biography of Jules Barbier (poet) (excerpt)
Paul Jules Barbier (9 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters . His libretti for extant operas include:
Biography of Jean Georges Vibert (excerpt)
French painter.
Biography of Hans Thoma (excerpt)
Hans Thoma (October 2, 1839 – November 7, 1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.
Biography of Jules Breton (excerpt)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (May 1, 1827 – July 5, 1906) was a 19th century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
Biography of Isabel Burton (excerpt)
Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell) (London, March 20, 1831 - March 21, 1896) was the wife of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Her father was Henry Raymond Arundell, nephew of James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour .
Biography of Edouard Pailleron (excerpt)
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (September 17, 1829 (French Wikipedia) - April 19, 1899) was a French poet and dramatist. Born in Paris, he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years.
Biography of Jean-Antoine Villemin (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 -October 6, 1892) was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853.
Biography of Henri Duveyrier (excerpt)
Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. In 1857 and 1858, he spent some months in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan.
Biography of Rudolf Eucken (excerpt)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. Early life He was born in Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover (now Lower Saxony). His father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his mother.
Biography of Georges Lafenestre (excerpt)
Georges Lafenestre, born on May 5, 1837 in Orléans (birth time source: Lescaut), died on May 19, 1919 in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French poet and art critic. Works (extract) Les Espérances, 1864. Le Parnasse contemporain II (recueil collectif), 1869-1871.
Biography of William Rufus Shaftner (excerpt)
William Rufus Shaftner, born in Galesburg, Michigan, on October 16, 1835, was an American military man, he commanded the land operations during the Spanish-American war. He received a Medal of Honor.
Biography of Paul Kruger (excerpt)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899-1902).
Biography of William Laud (excerpt)
Archbishop William Laud (7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. He pursued a High Church course and opposed radical forms of Puritanism. This and his support for King Charles I resulted in his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War.
Biography of Theobald Ziegler (excerpt)
Theobald Ziegler (February 9, 1846 – September 1, 1918) was a German philosopher and educator who was a native of Göppingen, Württemberg. Career Ziegler studied theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and later was a secondary school teacher in Heilbronn, Winterthur and Baden-Baden.
Biography of Charles Friedel (excerpt)
Charles Friedel (March 12, 1832 – April 20, 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. A native of Strasbourg, France, he was professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne. Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.
Biography of Ferdinand Fabre (excerpt)
Ferdinand Fabre, born June 9, 1827 in Bédarieux and died February 11, in Paris, was a French novelist. Works (extract) * Feuilles de lierre (1853) * Les Courbezon, scènes de la vie cléricale (1861), ouvrage distingué par l'Académie Française
Biography of Paul de Smet de Naeyer (excerpt)
Paul Joseph, Count de Smet de Naeyer (13 May 1843 – 9 September 1913) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, son of a cotton industrialist, he was himself also an industrialist and a banker. He was head of the Société Générale de Belgique and the owner of several coal mines.
Biography of Ernest Hello (excerpt)
Ernest Hello (5 November 1828 in Lorient - 14 July 1885 in Kéroman) was a French critic and author. Life He was born at Lorient, in Brittany. He was the son of a lawyer who held posts of great importance at Rennes and in Paris, and was well educated at both places, but took to no profession and resided much, for a time, in his father's country-house in Brittany.
Biography of Henri Chapu (excerpt)
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (born Le Mée, 29 September 1833 - died, Paris, 21 April 1891) was a French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition who was known for his use of allegory in his works. Life and career Born into modest circumstances, Chapu moved to Paris with his family and in 1847 entered the Petit École with the intention of studying drawing and becoming an interior decorator.
Biography of Edmond Audran (excerpt)
Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890), and La poupée (1896).
Biography of Umberto I of Italy (excerpt)
Umberto I, King of Italy or Humbert I of Italy (Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia), English: Humbert Ranier Charles Emmanuel John Mary Ferdinand Eugene of Savoy (14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900), nicknamed the Good (in Italian il Buono), was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death.
Biography of Charles Beresford (excerpt)
Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO (10 February 1846 in Waterford – 6 September 1919), known as Lord Charles Beresford until 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament. Beresford was the second son of John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford, thus despite his honorary title, as second son was still eligible to enter the House of Commons. |
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