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Biography of Wilhelm Ostwald (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (Latvian: Vilhelms Ostvalds; 2 September 1853 (birth time source: Ebertin, birth certificate) – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.
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Biography of Gilles de la Tourette (excerpt)
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (30 October 1857 – 26 May 1904) was a French physician and the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition. He was born in "the small town of Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, in the district of Châtellerault near the city of Loudun, France", and died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Biography of Félix Buhot (excerpt)
Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot. ![]()
Biography of Maria Feodorovna (excerpt)
Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, rectified from approx. time) – 13 October 1928), christened Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Tsar Alexander III (reigned 1881–1894). She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel; her siblings included Alexandra (Queen Consort of the United Kingdom), King Frederick VIII of Denmark and King George I of Greece.
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Biography of Franz Brentano (excerpt)
Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 (birth time source: Arno Müller, Vol. 2., BC) – March 17, 1917) was an influential German philosopher and psychologist whose work strongly influenced not only students Sigmund Freud (whose doctoral dissertation he helped supervise), Kazimierz Twardowski, Alexius Meinong, and Thomas Masaryk (as well as Masaryk's student, Edmund Husserl), but countless others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Solvay (excerpt)
Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (French: ; 16 April 1838 (birth time source: André Dekoster) – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born at Rebecq, he was prevented by acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of 21.
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Biography of Charles Debierre (excerpt)
Charles Debierre, born on October 31, 1853 in Ételfay (Somme) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 8), died on March 8, 1932 in Lillie (Nord), was a French politician, and also the Grand Maître of Grand Orient de France, the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe.
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Biography of Gustave Lanson (excerpt)
Gustave Lanson (August 5, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 15, 1934) was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. Biography Lanson was a major figure in the reformation of the French university system at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a dominant force in French literary criticism until well after his death. ![]()
Biography of Emilio Salgari (excerpt)
Emilio Salgari (Italian pronunciation: , but often erroneously pronounced ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. For over a century, his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures. ![]()
Biography of Pietro Mascagni (excerpt)
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (Italian: ; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. ![]()
Biography of Emma Calvé (excerpt)
Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 (birth time source: birth certificate), was a French operatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London.
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Biography of Georges Corneau (excerpt)
Georges Corneau, born on March 3, 1855 in Charleville-Mézières (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 41), died in 1934, was a French journalist and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1910-1912, 1913, 1918 and 1919.
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Biography of Arthur Groussier (excerpt)
Arthur Groussier (16 August 1863, Orléans (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 741) - 6 February 1957) was a French politician. At first he joined the Federation of the Socialist Workers of France (FTSF). In 1890 he joined the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (POSR). ![]()
Biography of Auguste Delpech (excerpt)
Noël Antoine Gabriel Auguste Delpech, born on December 22, 1846 in Bonnac, Ariège (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 11, 1935 in Toulouse, was a French professor, politician, and author. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1902 and 1903.
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Biography of Louis Lafferre (excerpt)
Louis Lafferre (10 May 1861 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 28 February 1929) was a French politician. He belonged to the Radical Party. Lafferre was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and began his political career as a local councillor in Narbonne.
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Biography of Louis Lucipia (excerpt)
Louis Adrien Lucipia, born on November 18, 1843 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 459), died on May 21, 1904, was a French journalist, writer, and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1895-1896) and (1898-1900).
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Biography of Henri Boutet (excerpt)
Henri Boutet (March 24, 1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée (birth date and time source: Didier Geslain) - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depicted women ranging from ordinary shop assistants to elegant ladies, managing to portray their common qualities of coquettishness and femininity.
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Biography of Marie-François Goron (excerpt)
Marie-François Goron, born on March 2, 1847 in Rennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on February 4, 1933 in Sannois, is a French policeman and writer. Selected bibliography Les Mémoires de Goron, ancien chef de la Sûreté, Paris, Flammarion, 1897, 4 tomes, disponible sur Gallica.
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Biography of Charles Delagrave (publisher) (excerpt)
Charles Marie Eugène Delagrave, born May 12, 1842 in Paris where he died March 17, 1934, is a French bookseller-publisher, founder of Éditions Delagrave. ![]()
Biography of Clara Zetkin (excerpt)
Clara Zetkin (née Eißner, 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Mille (excerpt)
Arthur Mille, born on July 30, 1854 in Beaupréau (Maine-et-Loire) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n°47), died on November 15, 1942 in Lyon, was a French politician and businessman. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1922-1925). ![]()
Biography of Édouard Redont (excerpt)
Édouard Redont, born on February 13, 1862 in Champigny, Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on February 13, 1862 in Reims, was a French landscape architect.
Biography of Marcel Deslignières (excerpt)
Marcel Deslignières, born on May 15, 1847 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on July 29, 1914 in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumôn, is a French architect, painter, and watercolourist.
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Biography of Frans Van Leemputten (excerpt)
Frans Van Leemputten or Frans van Leemputten (Leuven, 29 December 1850 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Vol. 4, acte de naissance) – Antwerp, 26 November 1914) was a Belgian Realist painter who specialized in landscape paintings of the Campine and Brabantine regions in Belgium as well as scenes with villagers and animals. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Flammarion (excerpt)
Ernest Flammarion, born on May 30, 1846 in Montigny-le-Roi (Haute-Marne)(now Val-de-Meuse)(birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1936, was a French editor, the founder of Groupe Flammarion, the fourth-largest publishing group in France, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center). ![]()
Biography of Pierre Janet (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (30 May 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology. ![]()
Biography of Benito Pérez Galdós (excerpt)
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain. Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (August 1, 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departemental archives)-1911) was a French politician. He served as the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand from 1884 to 1889, and as a member of the National Assembly for Puy-de-Dôme from 1885 to 1889. ![]()
Biography of Victor Prévost (excerpt)
Victor Joseph Prévost (born December 11, 1836 in Mormant, Seine-et-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 19, 1880 in Paris), also known as The La Chapelle Butcher and The Handsome Man, was a French former butcher, cuirassier, cent-gardes, policeman, murderer and possible serial killer.
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Biography of Marie-Antoinette Rivière (excerpt)
Antoinette de Beaucaire or Marie-Antoinette Rivière (21 January 1840, in Nîmes, France – 27 January 1865 (age 25)) was an Occitan language writer. Her works include Li Velugo or "The Sparklets." ![]()
Biography of Carolus-Duran (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (Lille 4 July 1837 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 17 February 1917 Paris), was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.
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Biography of Jean Mouliérat (excerpt)
Jean Mouliérat (13 November 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 April 1932) was a French tenor. He spent most of his career at the Opéra comique in Paris. At the Opéra-Comique in Paris who hired him, Mouliérat was entrusted with the main roles of the repertoire: Wilhelm Meister in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon, Tybalt in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata.
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Biography of Victoria Welby (excerpt)
Victoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated English philosopher of language, musician and watercolour artist. By the late 19th century, she was publishing articles in the leading English language academic journals of the day, such as Mind and The Monist. ![]()
Biography of Eugene V. Debs (excerpt)
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. ![]()
Biography of Edgar Demange (excerpt)
Edgar Demange (April 22, 1841 in Versailles (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 1925 in Paris) was a French jurist. He was, with Fernand Labori, the lawyer of Alfred Dreyfus during his trials in 1894 and 1899. Biography Demange was a winner of the national eloquence competition. ![]()
Biography of Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher) (excerpt)
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (January 28 (O.S. January 16) 1853 – August 13 (O.S. July 31) 1900), a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early-20th century.
Biography of Jean-Georges Hachette (excerpt)
Jean-Georges Hachette, born on February 28, 1838 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1892, was a French editor, the director of Librairie L. Hachette et Cie, a publishing house founded by Louis Hachette.
Biography of Herminie Cadolle (excerpt)
Herminie Cadolle August 17, 1842 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 1924) was the French inventor of the modern bra and founder of the Cadolle lingerie house. Cadolle was a close friend of the French insurrectionist Louise Michel, and it was this connection that led her to leave for the safety of Buenos Aires.
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Biography of Louis Diémer (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Diémer (14 February 1843 – 21 December 1919) was a French pianist and composer. He was the founder of the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s, and gave recitals on the harpsichord. His output as a composer was extensive, including a piano concerto and a quantity of salon pieces, all more or less forgotten these days. ![]()
Biography of Hubertine Auclert (excerpt)
Hubertine Auclert (April 10, 1848 in Saint-Priest-en-Murat – August 4, 1914 in Paris) was a journalist, author, leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage.
Biography of Armand Colin (excerpt)
Armand Colin, born on August 31, 1842 in Tonnerre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1900, was a French editor, the founder or Armand Colin, a historically important French publishing house. It quickly became the principal publisher in the world of education, including higher education, with works for students and faculty in the human sciences, economics and education. ![]()
Biography of Charles Girault (excerpt)
Charles-Louis Girault (27 December 1851 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 26 December 1932) was a French architect. Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honoré Daumet at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He received the first Prix de Rome, awarded him in 1880 on the basis of a design for a hospital for sick children along the Mediterranean Sea. ![]()
Biography of Leopoldo Alas (excerpt)
Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice.
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Biography of Jean Camille Formigé (excerpt)
Jean-Camille Formigé (July 24, 1845 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 1926) was a French architect during the French Third Republic. He served as the chief architect of historic monuments of France, and also as the chief architect of buildings, promenades and gardens of the city of Paris.
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Biography of Albert Pel (excerpt)
Félix-Albert Pel (born June 12, 1849 in Aigueblanche, Savoie Department (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - June 9, 1924 in the prison of New Caledonia) was a French criminal and serial killer. He was nicknamed the "Watchmaker of Montreuil". ![]()
Biography of Ilya Repin (excerpt)
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August (O.S. 24 July) 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian and Ukrainian realist painter. He was the most renowned Ukrainian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. ![]()
Biography of Vernon Lee (excerpt)
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. ![]()
Biography of Millicent Fawcett (excerpt)
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political leader, activist, writer and feminist icon. Known as a campaigner for women's suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until 1919 she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). ![]()
Biography of Paule Mink (excerpt)
Paule Mink (born Adèle Paulina Mekarska; 1839 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 801) – 1901) was a journalist, author, French feminist and socialist revolutionary of Polish descent. She participated in the Paris Commune and in the First International. Her pseudonym is also sometimes spelled Minck.
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Biography of Alphonse Hasselmans (excerpt)
Alphonse Hasselmans (5 March 1845 – 19 May 1912) was a Belgian-born French harpist, composer, and pedagogue. Hasselmans' daughter, Marguerite Hasselmans (1876–1947), was a concert pianist; she was also the mistress of Gabriel Fauré for many years. His son, Louis Hasselmans (1878–1957), was a conductor, especially of opera, whose career took him to the United States, working at the Chicago Civic Opera and the Metropolitan Opera before becoming Professor of Music at Louisiana State University. |
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