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Biography of Xavier Leroux (excerpt)
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory. He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867-1942). Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader.
Biography of Charles Depéret (excerpt)
Charles Jean Julien Depéret (25 June 1854 – 18 May 1929) was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the Société géologique de France and dean of the Science faculty of Lyon. Charles Depéret was born in Perpignan.
Biography of Marie-Anne de Bovet (excerpt)
Marie-Anne de Bovet (February 12, 1855 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1128) - .) was a French writer. From 1893 to 1930, she published 35 novels, in addition to other works. Though she traveled widely, she wrote mainly on Ireland (three books) and Algeria; she also visited Scotland, Greece and Poland.
Biography of Anna of Prussia (excerpt)
Princess Maria Anna Friederike (17 May 1836 – 12 June 1918) was a Princess of Prussia. She was usually called Anna. Anna was the youngest of the three children of Prince Charles of Prussia and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. As a beautiful young princess, she was the object of much attention at court.
Biography of Marie-Georges Picquart (excerpt)
Marie-Georges Picquart (6 September 1854 – 19 January 1914) was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair. Picquart was then appointed to the General Staff in Paris. As a staff officer he acted as reporter of the debates in the first Dreyfus Court-martial for the then Minister of War and the Chief of the General Staff.
Biography of Michel Joseph Maunoury (excerpt)
Michel-Joseph Maunoury (17 December 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 March 1923) was a commander of French forces in the early days of World War I. Initially commanding in Lorraine, as the success of the German thrust through Belgium became clear he was sent to take command of the new Sixth Army which was assembling near Amiens and then fell back on Paris.
Biography of Osman Hamdi Bey (excerpt)
Osman Hamdi Bey (Constantinople 30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey.
Biography of Howard Pyle (excerpt)
Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University).
Biography of Sébastien Faure (excerpt)
Sébastien Faure (born 6 January 1858 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France; died 14 July 1942 in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France) was a French anarchist, freethought and secularist activist, author, and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism. Before becoming a free-thinker, Faure was a seminarist.
Biography of Sylvio Lazzari (excerpt)
Sylvio Lazzari (born Josef Fortunat Silvester Lazzari) (30 December 1857 – 10 June 1944) was a French composer of Austrian origin. Born in Bolzano – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – , Lazzari came to Paris in 1882 after studying law in Austria.
Biography of Paul Rougnon (excerpt)
Paul-Louis Rougnon (24 August 1846 (birth certificate n° 529, Astrotheme) – 11 December 1934) was a French composer, pianist and music educator. As a prolific composer and writer, he composed more than 300 musical works in addition to literary and pedagogical volumes.
Biography of Henri-Edmond Cross (excerpt)
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement.
Biography of Joaquín Bartrina (excerpt)
Joaquim Maria Bartrina i de Aixemús (26 April 1850 in Reus – 4 August 1880) was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Reus, Spain, whose work is linked to the Realist movement. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the Catalan literary avant-garde.
Biography of Tom Mann (excerpt)
Thomas Mann (1856–1941) was an English trade unionist. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the labour movement. Mann was born on 15 April 1856 in Grange Road, Longford, now a suburb of Coventry, the son of a clerk who worked at a colliery.
Biography of Théodore Lack (excerpt)
Théodore Lack (3 September 1846 – 25 November 1921) was a French pianist and composer. Born in Quimper, he studied under Antoine François Marmontel (pianoforte), Lefébure-Wély (composition) and François Bazin (harmony). He started teaching piano in Paris in 1863 and achieved acclaim as a piano pedagogue.
Biography of Jules-Auguste Lemire (excerpt)
Jules Auguste Lemire (April 23, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – March 7, 1928), French priest and social reformer, was born at Vieux-Berquin (Nord). He organized a society called La Ligue française du coin de terre et du foyer, the object of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of land for every French family desirous of possessing one.
Biography of Fernand de La Tombelle (excerpt)
Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fernand Fouant de La Tombelle (Paris, 3 August 1854 - Dordogne, 13 August 1928) was a French organist and composer. Discography Sonate pour violon et piano, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, pièces diverses, Detroit Chamber Ensemble, collection du Festival international Albert-Roussel, Azur Classical, AZC 2012
Biography of Vilfredo Pareto (excerpt)
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian civil engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices.
Biography of Étienne Bazeries (excerpt)
Étienne Bazeries (21 August 1846 Port Vendres – 7 November 1931 Noyon) was a French military cryptanalyst active between 1890 and the First World War. He is best known for developing the "Bazeries Cylinder", an improved version of Thomas Jefferson's cipher cylinder.
Biography of Eugène Collache (excerpt)
Eugène Collache (29 January 1847 in Perpignan – 25 October 1883 in Paris) was French Navy officer who fought in Japan for the shōgun during the Boshin War. "It was the first time that a European had crossed Japan in this way, and everyone wanted to see it; but my hairless face, my tanned skin, and my Japanese clothes deceived the curious, who then thought that the European man was a kind of Japanese officer who wore a mustache and wore the uniform of a naval officer US.
Biography of Ricardo Mella (excerpt)
Ricardo Mella Cea (April 13, 1861 – August 7, 1925) was one of the first writers, intellectuals and anarchist activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Spain. He was characterized as an erudite in various subjects and versed in languages, mastering French, English and Italian.
Biography of James Huneker (excerpt)
James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic and journalist. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time.
Biography of Isidor Philipp (excerpt)
Isidor Edmond Philipp (first name sometimes spelled Isidore) (2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Jewish Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris. He left for the United States in 1941 and taught in New York and L'Alliance Francais in Louiseville, Quebec, Canada.
Biography of Vera Zhelikhovskaya (excerpt)
Vera Zhelikhovsky, Russian: Ве́ра Петро́вна Желихо́вская (April 29, 1835 - May 17, 1896), sometimes transliterated as Vera Jelihovsky, was a Russian writer, mostly of children's stories. She was Madame Blavatsky's sister. Vera Zhelikhovsky wrote also fantastic stories with heroes having secret knowledge like Cornelius Agrippa, shamans, and Oriental magicians.
Biography of Juan Serrano Oteiza (excerpt)
Juan Serrano Oteiza, or Juan Serrano y Oteyza (6 May 1837, Madrid - 26 March 1886, Madrid) was a Spanish jurist, writer, journalist, and politician; one of the most prominent anarchists in 19th century Spain. In 1881, the "Federación de Trabajadores de la Región Española " (FTRE), a legal organization, was established.
Biography of Théodule Meunier (excerpt)
Théodule Meunier (August 22, 1860 in Bournezeau, France – July 25, 1907 in Cayenne, French Guiana) was a French anarchist who, along with Emile Henry and Auguste Vaillant, was responsible for a series of bombings in Paris, France during early 1892.
Biography of Cécile Bruyère (excerpt)
Mère Cécile Bruyère (12 October 1845 – 18 March 1909) was the first abbess of St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes) and a follower of Dom Prosper Guéranger in the revival of Benedictine spirituality in 19th century France. Although St.
Biography of Georges Marty (excerpt)
Georges-Eugène Marty (Paris, 16 May 1860 – Paris, 11 October 1908) was a French conductor and composer associated with both major opera houses in Paris. Showing musical talent very early on, and entering the Paris Conservatoire aged 12, he won the first prize for solfege there in 1875.
Biography of Jane de La Vaudère (excerpt)
Jane de la Vaudère (April 15, 1857 – July 26, 1908) was the pen name of Jeanne Scrive, a French novelist, poet and playwright. Jane de la Vaudere was born April 15, 1857, in Paris. Her father was a famous doctor, Gaspard-Léonard Scrive, Surgeon-General of the French Army during the Crimean War.
Biography of Paul Hillemacher (excerpt)
Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (25 November 1852 – 13 August 1933) was a French composer and classical pianist. Born in Paris, Hillemacher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in François Bazin's class. Second prize for harmony in 1870, first runaway in fugue two years later, he won, in 1873 a Second Prix de Rome then, in 1876, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Judith.
Biography of Kintaro Hattori (excerpt)
Kintarō Hattori, born November 21, 1860 in Edo and died March 1, 1934 (aged 73), is a Japanese watchmaker and jeweler. In 1877, Kintarō Hattori opened a watch repair shop in Kyōbashi. With the success obtained, he founded in 1881 the watch firm Seiko, a Japanese high-end watchmaking company.
Biography of Alphonse de Neuville (excerpt)
Alphonse de Neuville (31 May 1835 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 18 May 1885) was a French Academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War and portraits of soldiers.
Biography of William Edward Hartpole Lecky (excerpt)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky OM PC FBA (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century. Lecky concentrated on his major work, A History of England during the Eighteenth Century, Vols.
Biography of Charles Léandre (excerpt)
Charles Lucien Léandre (22 July 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 May 1934), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Émile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. From 1887 Léandre figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures.
Biography of Florence Harding (excerpt)
Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the first lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as the wife of President Warren G. Harding. Florence first married Pete De Wolfe and had a son, Marshall.
Biography of Camille Doncieux (excerpt)
Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 – 5 September 1879) was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet, with whom she had two sons. She was the subject of a number of paintings by Monet, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet.
Biography of Marie-Thérèse Joniaux (excerpt)
Marie-Thérèse Joniaux (née Maria Teresa Joséphe Ablaÿ; October 15, 1844 - 1923) was a Belgian poisoner who made headlines in 1894–1895 as part of the Joniaux Affair after the triple poisoning perpetrated against her sister, Léonie Ablaÿ, her uncle-by-marriage, Jacques Van de Kerkhove and her brother, Alfred Ablaÿ.
Biography of Vsevolod Garshin (excerpt)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (14 February 1855 (Gregorian calendar) — 5 April 1888) was a Russian author of short stories. His experiences as a soldier provide the basis for his first stories, including the very first, "Four Days" (Russian: "Четыре дня"), based on a real incident.
Biography of Anatole Deibler (excerpt)
Anatole Deibler (29 November 1863 (Rennes) - 2 February 1939 (Paris)) was a French executioner. Succeeding his father, Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler, and grandfather as the lead French executioner, he participated in the execution of 395 criminals during his 54-year career. During his 40 years as lead executioner he was responsible for 299 beheadings.
Biography of Auguste Daum (excerpt)
Jean Louis Auguste Daum (1853 in Bitche – 1909 in Nancy) was a French ceramist, in glass. He was one of the founder members of École de Nancy and the director of Daum studio. He was the son of Jean Daum, brother of Antonin Daum and father of Léon Daum.
Biography of Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (excerpt)
Duchess Sophie Charlotte Augustine in Bavaria (22 February 1847 – 4 May 1897) was a granddaughter-in-law of King Louis Philippe of France, the favourite sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and fiancée of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Issue Louise Victoire Marie Amélie Sophie d'Orléans (19 July 1869 – 4 February 1952) married Prince Alfons of Bavaria (1862–1933) and had issue; (the line ended in dynastical sense in 1990 in male line, with cognatic descendants still present).
Biography of Henri Vever (excerpt)
Henri Vever (1854–1942) was one of the most preeminent European jewelers of the early 20th century, operating the family business, Maison Vever, started by his grandfather. Henri was also a collector of a broad range of fine art, including prints, paintings, and books of both European and Asian origin.
Biography of Willem Kloos (excerpt)
Willem Johannes Theodorus Kloos (6 May 1859 – 31 March 1938) was a nineteenth-century Dutch poet and literary critic. He was one of the prominent figures of the Movement of Eighty and became editor in chief of De Nieuwe Gids after the editorial fracture in 1893.
Biography of Zacharie Astruc (excerpt)
Zacharie Astruc (20 February (not 23 February, a mistake from Wikipedia) 1833 in Angers – 24 May 1907 in Paris) was a French sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century, and participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
Biography of Amédée Bollée (excerpt)
Amédée-Ernest Bollée (11 January 1844 – 20 January 1917) was a French bellfounder and inventor who specialized in steam cars. After 1867 he was known as "Amédée père" to distinguish him from his similarly named son, Amédée-Ernest-Marie Bollée (1867–1926). Bollée was the eldest son of Ernest-Sylvain Bollée, a bellfounder and inventor who moved to Le Mans in 1842.
Biography of Philippe Barbier (excerpt)
Philippe Antoine Francoise Barbier (2 March 1848 – 18 September 1922) was a French organic chemist. He is best known for his two named reactions in organic synthesis, the Barbier reaction and the Barbier-Wieland degradation, as well as for his role in the creation of organomagnesium reagents with his student, Victor Grignard.
Biography of Alfred Michaux (excerpt)
Alfred Michaux, born July 5, 1859 in Clenleu in Pas-de-Calais and died March 26, 1937 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is a French lawyer and Esperantist. Passionate about linguistics, he studies the artificial language at the base of the development of constructed languages. He first turned to the neo-Latin language of E.
Biography of Alfred Binet (excerpt)
Alfred Binet (8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work.
Biography of Jules Tannery (excerpt)
Jules Tannery (24 March 1848 – 11 December 1910) was a French mathematician, who notably studied under Charles Hermite and was the PhD advisor of Jacques Hadamard. Tannery's theorem on interchange of limits and series is named after him. He was a brother of the mathematician and historian of science Paul Tannery.
Biography of Maria Elise Turner Lauder (excerpt)
Maria Elise Turner Lauder (pen name Toofie Lauder, also known as Maria Elise Turner de Touffe Lauder; 20 February 1833 – 1 June 1922) was a Canadian teacher, linguist, and author who travelled extensively in Europe. She published novels and poetry, but mostly was known for writing about her travels. |
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