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Biography of Alfred von Tirpitz (excerpt)
Alfred von Tirpitz (March 19, 1849–March 6, 1930) was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916. Born in Küstrin in Brandenburg, the son of a senior civil servant, he grew up in Frankfurt (Oder).
Biography of Théophile Steinlen (excerpt)
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. Born in Lausanne, Steinlen studied at the University of Lausanne before taking a job as a designer trainee at a textile mill in Mulhouse in eastern France.
Biography of Robert Nivelle (excerpt)
Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War. He took command of one of the main French armies engaged in the Battle of Verdun, leading it during its successful counter-strokes against the Germans, but was accused of wasting French lives during some of his attacks.
Biography of Paul Villard (excerpt)
Paul Ulrich Villard (1860 – 13 January 1934) was a French chemist and physicist, born near Lyon, France. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying uranium. At this time he was working in the chemistry department of the École Normale in rue d'Ulm, Paris.
Biography of Eugène Silvain (excerpt)
Eugène Charles Joseph Silvain, born on June 17, 1851 in Bourg-en-Bresse (birth time source: Lescaut), died on August 21, 1930 in Marseille, was a French comedian, a member of la Comédie-Française (1878-1928). Filmography (extract) 1928 : La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc : l'évêque Cauchon
Biography of René Doumic (excerpt)
René Doumic (7 March 1860, Paris (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - 2 December 1937), French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the College Stanislas.
Biography of Charles-Frédéric Lauth (excerpt)
Charles-Frédéric Lauth,, born on January 17, 1865 in Paris, died in 1922, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Lillian Russell (excerpt)
Lillian Russell (December 4, 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. Born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa, Lillian Russell became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence.
Biography of Aristide Maillol (excerpt)
Aristide Maillol (December 8, 1861–September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter. Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art. After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel.
Biography of Édouard de Castelnau (excerpt)
Noël Marie Joseph Édouard, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French general in World War I, one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of attaque à outrance that dominated French military thinking in the early part of the war.
Biography of Frédéric Rauh (excerpt)
Frédéric Rauh, born on March 31, 1861 in Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, Isère, died in 1909 in Paris, was a French philospher, professor, and author. Publications (extract) Le Vers latin mourant, élégie, 1880. Essai sur le fondement métaphysique de la morale, 1890.
Biography of François Grison (excerpt)
François Adolphe Grison, born on June 17, 1845 in Bordeaux, died in 1914, was a French painter.
Biography of Marie Bashkirtseff (excerpt)
Marie Bashkirtseff (Мария Константиновна Башкирцева; November 12, 1858 (November 24, Gregorian calendar) — October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor. Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe.
Biography of Rama V (excerpt)
King Chulalongkorn the Great or Rama V (royal name: Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua; Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระจุลจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว) (September 20, 1853 – October 23, 1910) was the fifth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings of Siam.
Biography of Hugo de Vries (excerpt)
Hugo Marie de Vries (Feb 16, 1848, Haarlem - May 21, 1935, Lunteren) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.
Biography of Stanford White (excerpt)
Stanford White (November 9, 1853, New York – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to this day in places like Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
Biography of Athanasius Kircher (excerpt)
Athanasius Kircher (May 2, 1602 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, from a biography of P. Conor Reilly) - November 27, 1680) (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine.
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Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and the second largest city of Thurston County. It is located 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Seattle, the state's most populous city, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region.
Biography of Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (excerpt)
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann, born in Trieste, July 15, 1853 and died in 1883, was a German soprano opera singer, the daugther of German singer A. Kindermann.
Biography of William E. Henley (excerpt)
William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903) was an English poet, critic and editor. Henley was born at Gloucester and was the eldest of a family of six, five sons and a daughter. His father, William, was a bookseller and stationer who died in 1868 leaving young children and creditors.
Biography of MacGregor Mathers (excerpt)
MacGregor Mathers, born in Hackney, United-Kingdom, on January 8, 1854, was a British astrologer, occultist and author. He founded the mystical organization The Golden Dawn.
Biography of Henri Selva (excerpt)
Arthur Herrmann Vlès, best known as Henri Selva, born in Antony June 8, 1861 and died in Paris in July 1944, was a French astrologer, scientist and author. His main works is Traité théorique et pratique d'astrologie généthliaque (Paris, Chamuel, 1900).
Biography of Désiré-Joseph Mercier (excerpt)
Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Cardinal Mercier (November 21, 1851—January 23, 1926) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907. Mercier is noted for his staunch resistance to the German occupation of 1914, and is considered to have been the mentor of Leo Cardinal Suenens.
Biography of Emile Noirot (excerpt)
Émile Noirot, born June 5, 1853 in Roanne, died in 1924 in Le Bourzat, was a French painter.
Biography of William Gibbs McAdoo (excerpt)
William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941) was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA). By virtue of his position as Secretary of the Treasury, in August 1914, he also served as the first Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
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Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is 41 miles (66 km) east of the Oregon border and 110 miles (177 km) north of the Nevada border.
Biography of Franz von Stuck (excerpt)
Franz Stuck (February 23, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. He is considered by some to be one of the artistic inspirations to German Fascism. Life and Career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria.
Biography of Giovanni Segantini (excerpt)
Giovanni Segantini (January 15, 1858 - September 28, 1899) was an Italian painter. He was born at Arco in Trentino. His mother, who died in 1863, came from an old mountain family. His father, a commoner, left for Milan, to seek his fortune with another son, leaving Segantini behind.
Biography of Georges Sorel (excerpt)
Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November, 1847 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 29 August, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered.
Biography of Adolphe Appia (excerpt)
Adolphe Appia (* September 1, 1862 in Geneva; † February 29, 1928 in Nyon), son of Red Cross co-founder Louis Appia, was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor. Adolphe Appia was a Swiss theorist and pioneer of modern stage design.
Biography of Edith Cavell (excerpt)
Edith Louisa Cavell (December 4, 1865–October 12, 1915) was a British World War I nurse and humanitarian. She is celebrated for helping hundreds of Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide. “Patriotism is not enough…” Her strong religious belief propelled Cavell to help all those who needed help - whether a member of the German forces or the Allied forces.
Biography of Hubert Lyautey (excerpt)
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (November 17, 1854 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 27, 1934) was a French general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France. Early life Lyautey was born at Nancy (Lorraine).
Biography of Holger Drachmann (excerpt)
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (October 9, 1846 – January 14, 1908), was a Danish poet and dramatist. He is an outstanding figure of the Modern Break-Through. The son of Dr AG Drachmann, whose family was of German extraction, he was born in Copenhagen.
Biography of John Martin-Harvey (excerpt)
John Martin Harvey (22 June 1863 – 14 May 1944), known after his knighthood in 1921 as Sir John Martin-Harvey, was a romantic actor of the English theatre. Born at Bath Street, Wivenhoe in the English county of Essex, he was the son of John Harvey, a yacht-designer and shipbuilder, and Margaret Diana Mary Goyder.
Biography of Jean Ajalbert (excerpt)
Jean Ajalbert, born on June 10, 1863 in Clichy-la-Garenne (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth time source), died in 1947 in Cahors, was a French writer, art critic, and lawyer. Publications: Sur le vif. Vers impressionnistes. Lettre-préface de Robert Caze.
Biography of Jean Grave (excerpt)
Jean Grave (October 16, 1854 - December 8, 1939) was an important activist in the French anarchist movement. He was involved with Élisée Reclus' Révolté. Initially a socialist, he became an anarchist after 1880 and a popularizer of Peter Kropotkin's ideas.
Biography of Flinders Petrie (excerpt)
Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis, Tanis, Abydos and Amarna.
Biography of Gordon Lang (excerpt)
Gordon Lang, born October 31, 1864 in Fyvie, Scotland, died December 5, 1945, was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1938-1942). He was also a writer.
Biography of Auguste Vaillant (excerpt)
Auguste Vaillant (December 27 1861 in Mézières, France (in Ardennes, not sur Seine) - February 3, 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies in 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates.
Biography of Elisabeth of France (1602) (excerpt)
Élisabeth de Bourbon (November 22, 1602 - October 6, 1644), was the eldest daughter of King Henry IV of France and his second Queen Marie de' Medici. In 1615, Élisabeth was married to the future Philip IV of Spain. She was Queen of Spain from 1621 to 1644.
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The French Second Republic (French: Deuxième République Française or La IIe République), officially the French Republic (République française), was the republican government of France that existed between 1848 and 1852. It was established in February 1848, with the Revolution that overthrew the July Monarchy, and ended in December 1852, after the 1851 coup d'état and when president Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III and initiated the Second French Empire.
Biography of Gilles de Roberval (excerpt)
Gilles Personne de Roberval (August 10, 1602 - October 27, 1675), French mathematician, was born at Roberval, near Beauvais, France. His name was originally Gilles Personne or Gilles Personier, that of Roberval, by which he is known, being taken from the place of his birth.
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Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 96.194 square miles (249.141 km2) with a population of 289,102 in 2019. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 68th-largest in the United States.
Biography of Albert Lebourg (excerpt)
Albert Lebourg, born February 1, 1849 in Montfort-sur-Risle and died January 6, 1928 in Rouen, was a French painter of Rouen's School. He was a member of Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts of Rouen. Bibliography (extract) Léonce Bénédite, Albert Lebourg, Georges Petit, Paris, 1923
Biography of Fulgence Bienvenue (excerpt)
Fulgence Bienvenüe (January 27, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – August 3, 1936) was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro. A native of Uzel in Brittany, he graduated as a civil engineer in 1872.
Biography of Eugen d'Albert (excerpt)
Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert (April 10, 1864 – March 3, 1932) was a German pianist and composer. Origins D'Albert was born in Glasgow to an English mother and a French/Italian father, Charles Louis Napoleon d'Albert, a dancer, pianist and music arranger who had formerly been ballet-master at the King's Theatre and at Covent Garden.
Biography of Édouard-Alfred Martel (excerpt)
Édouard-Alfred Martel (1 July 1859, Pontoise, Val-d'Oise (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate n° 69) – 3 June 1938, Montbrison), the 'father of modern speleology', was a world pioneer of cave exploration, study, and documentation. Martel explored thousands of caves in his native France and many other countries, popularised the pursuit of cave exploration, introduced the concept of speleology as a distinct area of study, maintained an extensive archive, and in 1895 founded Société de Spéléologie, the first organisation devoted to cave science in the world.
Biography of Jean Aicard (excerpt)
Jean François Victor Aicard (February 4, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - May 13, 1921) was a French poet, dramatist and novelist. He was born in Toulon. His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son early began his career in 1867 with Les Jeunes Croyances, followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at the Marseille theatre.
Biography of Félix Fénéon (excerpt)
Félix Fénéon (29 June 1861 at 4:00 AM (source : Joan U. Halperin, "Félix Fénéon, œuvres plus que complètes"), Turin, Italy – 29 February 1944, Châtenay-Malabry) was a Parisian anarchist, journalist and art critic during the late 1800s. He coined the term "Neo-impressionism" in 1886 to identify a group of artists led by Georges Seurat, and ardently promoted them.
Biography of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (excerpt)
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (Leopold George Duncan Albert; 7 April 1853 – 28 March 1884) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Leopold was later created the Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow. |
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