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Biography of Samuel Pozzi (excerpt)
Samuel-Jean Pozzi (3 October 1846 – 13 June 1918) was a French surgeon, professor, author, and gynecologist. He was also interested in anthropology and neurology. Medical career Members of the Paris Medical Faculty (1904) In 1864, Pozzi began to study medicine in Paris. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, he volunteered and became a medic.
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.
Biography of Karl Vollmöller (philologist) (excerpt)
Karl Vollmöller (16 October 1848, in Ilsfeld, Württemberg – 8 July 1922, in Dresden) was a German philologist. He was educated in Tübingen, Bonn, Munich, Berlin, and Paris. He traveled in Spain in 1874-75 and became a lecturer in Strassburg in 1875.
Biography of François-Théodore Legras (excerpt)
François-Théodore Legras, born December 27, 1839 in Claudon (Vosges) and died August 2, 1916 in Paris, is a French master glassmaker. He participates in numerous national and international exhibitions where he is very often rewarded. He was also responsible for the glass and crystal section of the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
Biography of Constance Gordon-Cumming (excerpt)
Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming (26 May 1837 – 4 September 1924) was a noted Scottish travel writer and painter. Born in a wealthy family, she travelled around the world and painted described scenes and life as she saw them. She was a friend and influencer of the travel writers and artists Marianne North and Isabella Bird.
Biography of Chung Ling Soo (excerpt)
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo. He is mostly remembered today for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick. Soo's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called "Condemned to Death by the Boxers".
Biography of Charles Legras (excerpt)
Charles Legras (1859-1922), was a chemist and then director of the Legras et Cie glassworks company, nephew of François-Théodore Legras. He was a discoverer of ruby crystals or crystallizations.
Biography of Anna Brassey (excerpt)
Anna "Annie" Brassey (née Allnutt), Baroness Brassey (7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887) was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878) describes a voyage around the world.
Biography of Émile Amagat (excerpt)
Émile Hilaire Amagat (2 January 1841, Saint-Satur – 15 February 1915) was a French physicist. His doctoral thesis, published in 1872, expanded on the work of Thomas Andrews, and included plots of the isotherms of carbon dioxide at high pressures. Amagat published a paper in 1877 that contradicted the current understanding at the time, concluding that the coefficient of compressibility of fluids decreased with increasing pressure.
Biography of Gilbert Ballet (excerpt)
Gilbert Ballet (March 29, 1853 – March 17, 1916) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist and historian who was a native of Ambazac in the department of Haute-Vienne. He studied medicine in Limoges and Paris, and subsequently became Chef de clinique under Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) at the Salpêtrière.
Biography of Madeleine Brès (excerpt)
Madeleine Alexandrine Brès (born on 26 November 1842 at Bouillargues (birth certificate n° 79) – 30 November 1921 in Montrouge), born Gebelin, was the first French woman to obtain a medical degree in 1875 after her thesis presentation on the topic of breastfeeding and towards a career focused to pediatric care.
Biography of Krisjanis Barons (excerpt)
Krišjānis Barons (October 31, 1835 – March 8, 1923) was a Latvian writer who is known as the "father of the dainas" (Latvian: "Dainu tēvs") thanks largely to his systematization of the Latvian folk songs and his labour in preparing their texts for publication in Latvju dainas.
Biography of Georges Bouton (excerpt)
Georges Bouton (1847–1938) was a French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company in 1883. The pair first worked together in 1882 to produce a self-propelled steam vehicle. The result gave birth to the company which, at the time, went under the name de Dion.
Biography of Paul Natorp (excerpt)
Paul Gerhard Natorp (24 January 1854 – 17 August 1924) was a German philosopher and educationalist, considered one of the co-founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He was known as an authority on Plato. Paul Natorp was born in Düsseldorf, the son of the Protestant minister Adelbert Natorp and his wife Emilie Keller.
Biography of Robert Smalls (excerpt)
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.
Biography of Méry Laurent (excerpt)
Méry Laurent, born Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot (born 29 April 1849, Nancy- d. 26 November 1900), was a demi-mondaine (courtesan) and the muse of several Parisian artists. She used to run her own “salon” where she hosted many French (and even American) writers and painters of her time: Stéphane Mallarmé, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, François Coppée, Henri Gervex, James Whistler and Édouard Manet.
Biography of Jeanne Weil Proust (excerpt)
Jeanne Clémence Weil Proust born in Paris on April 21, 1849 and died on September 26, 1905 in Paris (8th arrondissement) is the wife of the French doctor Adrien Proust and the mother of Marcel Proust and Robert Proust.
Biography of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (excerpt)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain.
Biography of Charles Angrand (excerpt)
Charles Théophile Angrand, born April 19, 1854 in Criquetot-sur-Ouville and died April 1, 1926 in Rouen, was a French neo-impressionist painter from the School of Rouen, of libertarian convictions.
Biography of Clara Viebig (excerpt)
Clara Emma Amalia Viebig (17 July 1860 (for her time of birth, two sources exist, 10:00 pm and 9:00 pm) – 31 July 1952) was a German author. Life Viebig was born in the German city of Trier, the daughter of a Prussian civil servant.
Biography of Cyriel Buysse (excerpt)
Cyrillus Gustave Emile "Cyriel" Buysse (20 September 1859 – 25 July 1932) was a Flemish naturalist author and playwright. He also wrote under the following pseudonyms: Louis Bonheyden, Prosper Van Hove and Robert Palmer. Buysse married the Dutch widow Nelly Dyserinck in 1896 and spent winters in The Hague in the Netherlands, where his son René Cyriel was born in 1897, while staying at his rural estate in Afsnee in Belgium during summer.
Biography of Edmond Aman-Jean (excerpt)
Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter and art critic, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923. His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln. He had his first art lessons with Henri Lehmann at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he shared a workshop with Georges Seurat.
Biography of Albert Londe (excerpt)
Albert Londe (26 November 1858 – 11 September 1917) was an influential French photographer, medical researcher and chronophotographer. He is remembered for his work as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, funded by the Parisian authorities, as well as being a pioneer in X-ray photography.
Biography of Philéas Gilbert (excerpt)
Philéas Gilbert, born September 11, 1857 in La Chapelle-sur-Oreuse and died in 1842, was a famous French cook. He wrote with Auguste Escoffier the preface to the first edition of the famous Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné from 1938.
Biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (excerpt)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, journalist, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.
Biography of Adrien Proust (excerpt)
Adrien Achille Proust (18 March 1834 – 26 November 1903) was a French epidemiologist and hygienist. He was the father of novelist Marcel Proust and doctor Robert Proust. He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1862 he obtained his medical doctorate. Beginning in 1863 he worked as chef de clinique, and in 1866 earned his agrégation with the thesis Des différentes formes de ramollissement du cerveau (On different forms of softening of the brain).
Biography of Gabriel Lippmann (excerpt)
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. His parents were French Jews. Academic affiliations
Biography of Henriette Poincaré (excerpt)
Henriette Poincaré (born Henriette Adeline Benucci, lived 1858–1943) was the wife of French statesman Raymond Poincaré. She was born in Passy, France. Her parents were a coachman of Italian origin, Raphael Benucci, and Louise Mossbauer, a young servant. She served for a time as a companion to old ladies of the bourgeoisie.
Biography of Henry Gauthier-Villars (excerpt)
Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931), known by the pen name Willy , was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l’Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, L’Ouvreuse, L’Ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy, Boris Zichine.
Biography of Matilda Betham-Edwards (excerpt)
Matilda Betham-Edwards (4 March 1836, in Westerfield, Ipswich – 4 January 1919, in Hastings) was an English novelist, travel writer and Francophile, and a prolific poet, who corresponded with several well-known English male poets of the day. In addition, she wrote a number of children's books.
Biography of Jean-François-Charles Amet (excerpt)
Jean-François-Charles Amet, born January 29, 1861 in Rivière du Rempart on Mauritius and died May 2, 1940 in La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz in Ille-et-Vilaine, is a French naval officer of the 19th and twentieth centuries. Vice-admiral, he ended the First World War as Senior Commander of the Allied naval forces in the Dardanelles.
Biography of Eliza Archard Conner (excerpt)
Eliza Archard Conner (née, Archard; pen names, Zig; E. A.; January 4, 1838 – June 4, 1912) was an American writer, journalist, novelist, lecturer, teacher, and feminist of the long nineteenth century. Hailing from Ohio, Conner began writing for newspapers at the age of 13.
Biography of Juliette Dodu (excerpt)
Juliette Dodu (Saint-Denis de la Réunion, June 15, 1848 – October 28, 1909) was a legendary heroine of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the first woman to be awarded the Legion of Honor. However, many doubts have been raised about her actions during the war, and her story remains controversial.
Biography of Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
Biography of Edmond Bouty (excerpt)
Edmond Marie Léopold Bouty, born in Nant on January 12, 1846 and died in Paris on November 5, 1922, is a French physicist, professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris for 37 years. His scientific work focuses mainly on magnetism and electricity.
Biography of Mite Kremnitz (excerpt)
Mite Kremnitz (4 January 1852, Greifswald – 18 July 1916 in Berlin), born Marie von Bardeleben (pen names George Allan, Ditto and Idem), was a German writer. Kremnitz was the daughter of the famous surgeon Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. She grew in Greifswald, London and, starting with 1868, in Berlin.
Biography of L. Frank Baum (excerpt)
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
Biography of Gertrude Atherton (excerpt)
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author and journalist. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name.
Biography of Marie-Justine Pesnel (excerpt)
Marie-Justine Pesnel, born March 22, 1862 in Paris 18th, known as Madame Cent-Kilos (Miss 220 Pounds), was a spy, false marquise and real French prostitute, known in the underworld of the Belle Époque. She set up a matrimonial agency scam, was married three times without divorcing, prosecuted for polyandry.
Biography of Alejandro Sawa (excerpt)
Alejandro Sawa Martínez, a Spanish bohemian novelist, poet, and journalist, was born on 15th March 1862 in Seville and died on 3rd March 1909. Of Greek descent, he initially pursued priesthood, then studied law in Granada, and later moved to Madrid in 1885, leading a life of poverty.
Biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (excerpt)
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education.
Biography of Henri Demare (excerpt)
Henri Demare, born May 3, 1846 in Paris and died November 11, 1888 in Vincennes, was a cartoonist and caricaturist who collaborated in many newspapers between the end of the Second Empire and the first decades of the Third Republic.
Biography of Alexandre Lacassagne (excerpt)
Alexandre Lacassagne (August 17, 1843 – September 24, 1924) was a French physician and criminologist who was a native of Cahors. He was the founder of the Lacassagne school of criminology, based in Lyon and influential from 1885 to 1914, and the main rival to Lombroso's Italian school.
Biography of Anna Brigadere (excerpt)
Anna Brigadere (October 1, 1861 (Gregorian calendar) in Tērvete – June 25, 1933 in Tērvete) was a writer, playwright and poet from Latvia. Her first story was published in 1896. In 1897, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlīna was published.
Biography of Gabriel Thomas (art lover) (excerpt)
Gabriel Thomas (1854-1932) was a wealthy financier who was one of the promoters of the Grévin museum and its reconfiguration in 1900, of the Eiffel Tower and the construction of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This man was also a great art lover who owned a very large collection of paintings: Berthe Morisot (his cousin), Manet, Vuillard, Flandrin, and no less than a hundred works by Maurice Denis, including the series of The Eternal Printemps which he had commissioned from the painter for the decoration of his dining room in Meudon.
Biography of Buatier de Kolta (excerpt)
Buatier de Kolta (né Joseph Buatier; Caluire-et-Cuire, 18 November 1845 – New Orleans, 7 October 1903) was a French magician who performed throughout the latter part of the 1800s in Europe and America. Joseph Buatier was born in Caluire-et-Cuire (Rhône, France). His parents were fabric merchants.
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.
Biography of Louis-Félix Henneguy (excerpt)
Louis-Félix Henneguy (18 March 1850 – 16 January 1928) was a French physician, zoologist and embryologist born in Paris. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with a dissertation on the physiological action of poisons, Étude physiologique sur l'action des poisons.
Biography of Signe Hornborg (excerpt)
Signe Ida Katarina Hornborg (8 November 1862, Turku – 6 December 1916, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect. Upon her reception of her architectural diploma in 1890, she became the first official female architect in the world. A bishop's daughter, she attended the Helsinki Polytechnic Institute from the spring of 1888.
Biography of Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (excerpt)
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (15 October 1859 – 5 November 1927) was an American-born French medical doctor known for her work in neuroanatomy. She was the first female intern to work in a hospital in Paris. From a young age, Klumpke's family was supportive of her medical ambitions, going as far as to move to Paris so she and her sisters Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Julia Klumpke, and Dorothea Klumpke could follow their pursuits. |
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