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Biography of Alcide Railliet (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet (also known as Alcide Railliet, born 11 March 1852 at La Neuville-lès-Wasigny in the Ardennes – died 25 December 1930) was a French veterinarian and helminthologist. Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern parasitology and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology.
Biography of Telesforo Aranzadi (excerpt)
Telesforo Aranzadi Unamuno (Vergara, 1860 - Barcelona, February 12, 1945) was a Spanish scientist, specializing in anthropology, botany, and zoology. A Doctor in Pharmacy and Natural Sciences, scientific illustrator, he was a professor of Mineralogy and Zoology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Granada, professor of Descriptive Botany at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Barcelona, and professor of Anthropology at the University of Barcelona.
Biography of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (excerpt)
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years.
Biography of Aleksander Kakowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Kakowski (5 February 1862 – 30 December 1938) was a Polish politician, diplomat, a member of the Regency Council and, as Cardinal and Archbishop of Warsaw, the last titular Primate of the Kingdom of Poland before Poland fully regained its independence in 1918.
Biography of Georges Balagny (excerpt)
George or Georges Balagny, born in Batignolles on February 16, 1837, and died in Paris XVIIe on December 17, 1919, was a French photographer. Son of Auguste Balagny, a notary who later became the mayor of Batignolles-Monceau, then of the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris, and finally of Maule, and Adélaïde Léopoldine Genet.
Biography of Mary Church Terrell (excerpt)
Mary Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School (now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School)—the first African American public high school in the nation—in Washington, DC.
Biography of Eugène Mage (excerpt)
Eugène Abdon Mage, born July 30, 1837, in Paris, was a French naval officer and explorer who disappeared at sea off the coast of Brittany on the night of December 18-19, 1869. Joining the Naval School at 13, he embarked on extensive cruises across the Americas and the Pacific, ascending to ensign by September 1855.
Biography of Otto Wallach (excerpt)
Otto Wallach, born March 27, 1847 and died February 26, 1931, was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds. Born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia) to a Prussian official of Jewish descent who had converted to Lutheranism, Wallach grew up in Stettin and Potsdam, developing an interest in literature and art history.
Biography of Padre Cruz (excerpt)
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ (29 July 1859 – 1 October 1948), known as Father Cruz, was a Portuguese Catholic priest celebrated for his apostolic zeal and charity. He visited prisons and hospitals, helped the poor, and ministered to many, earning a reputation for sanctity during his lifetime.
Biography of Charlotte Wolter (excerpt)
Charlotte Wolter (March 1, 1834, in Cologne - June 14, 1897, in Hietzing) was an Austrian actress who began her artistic career in Budapest in 1857. She is buried in an honorary grave at the Central Cemetery in Vienna (group 32 A, number 20), as per her wish, in the costume of Iphigenia from Goethe's play of the same name, her most famous role.
Biography of Eberhard Nestle (excerpt)
Eberhard Nestle (May 1, 1851, Stuttgart - March 9, 1913, Stuttgart) was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, and orientalist. He edited the Novum Testamentum Graece and was the father of Erwin Nestle. He studied at the University of Tübingen, focusing on Hebrew and Greek texts of the Book of Ezekiel, and later worked in orientalism and textual criticism of the New Testament.
Biography of Godefroy Cavaignac (politician) (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (21 May 1853 - 25 September 1905) was a French politician known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair. Born in Paris, he demonstrated early republican convictions. A veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, he later entered the École Polytechnique and served as a civil engineer before becoming a republican deputy.
Biography of Edmond Loutil (excerpt)
Eugène Edmond Loutil, known as Pierre the Hermit, born November 17, 1863 in Mohon (Ardennes) and died April 16, 1959 in Paris, is a parish priest who became honorary canon of the Paris chapter and apostolic protonotary. He was also a journalist, editor at La Croix from 1891 and a writer under the pseudonym Pierre L'Ermite.
Biography of Édouard Dupont (excerpt)
Édouard François Dupont, born in 1841 in Dinant, Belgium, and died in 1911 in Cannes, was a Belgian geologist, a precursor in paleontology and prehistory. Trained by Jean-Baptiste d'Omalius, he earned his doctorate in natural sciences at the age of 22. From 1864 to 1868, he explored Belgian caves, uncovering fossils and prehistoric tools.
Biography of Salvatore Farina (excerpt)
Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 – 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Life Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso, he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
Biography of Melchior Treub (excerpt)
Melchior Treub (1851–1910) was a Dutch botanist renowned for his work on tropical flora at the Bogor Botanical Gardens, Java, and founder of the Bogor Agricultural Institute. A 1873 biology graduate from Leiden University, he remained a botanical assistant in Leiden before moving to the Dutch East Indies in 1880.
Biography of Domingo de Orueta y Duarte (excerpt)
Domingo de Orueta y Duarte, born January 21, 1862 in Málaga and died January 16, 1926 in Madrid, was a renowned Spanish geologist and scientist. Orphaned at a young age, he nonetheless pursued his studies with excellence, obtaining a degree in chemistry in Málaga and furthering his education in England.
Biography of Maria Konopnicka (excerpt)
Maria Konopnicka, a significant Polish poet, novelist, and women's rights activist, was born in Suwałki on May 23, 1842. Educated at home and in Warsaw, she debuted as a writer in 1870. Konopnicka's marriage to Jarosław Konopnicki was strained due to her literary pursuits, leading to their separation in 1878.
Biography of Césaire Phisalix (excerpt)
Césaire Phisalix, born on October 8, 1852, in Mouthier-Haute-Pierre (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region) and died in Paris on March 15, 1906, was a French herpetologist known for developing a serum against the bites of certain vipers. The son of winemakers, he studied in Besançon and Paris, earning a doctorate in medicine in 1877.
Biography of Louis Capazza (excerpt)
Louis Henri Capazza, born January 17, 1862, in Bastia and died December 28, 1928, in Paris, was a French aeronaut. After high school in Bastia, he joined the administration of Bridges and Roads. He co-developed a precision instrument for railway curve calculations, which won a gold medal at the Work Exhibition in Paris.
Biography of Alix Joffroy (excerpt)
Alix Joffroy, born on December 16, 1844, in Stainville (Meuse) and died on November 24, 1908, in Paris, was a French neurologist, neuropathologist, and psychiatrist, a student of Charcot, and the second holder of the chair of clinical mental illnesses and the brain at Sainte-Anne.
Biography of Noël Ballay (excerpt)
Dr. Noël Eugène Ballay, born on July 14, 1847, in Fontenay-sur-Eure, Eure-et-Loir, and died on January 27, 1902, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, was a French explorer and colonial administrator, serving as the second Governor-General of French West Africa (AOF). After completing his education in medicine, Ballay participated in exploratory missions alongside Savorgnan de Brazza in the Ogooué region during the 1870s and represented France at the Berlin Conference in 1885.
Biography of Witold Zglenicki (excerpt)
Witold Zglenicki (6 January 1850 - 6 July 1904), a Polish inventor, geologist, metallurgist, oil worker, and philanthropist, is known as the "father of Baku kerosene" and the "Polish Nobel." He studied in Płock, Warsaw, and St. Petersburg under Dmitry Mendeleev. Initially focusing on mining and metallurgy, Zglenicki later dedicated himself to the oil industry, pioneering techniques in oil extraction, including undersea drilling.
Biography of Paul Vidal de La Blache (excerpt)
Paul Vidal de La Blache (French pronunciation: , Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 – Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics.
Biography of Eduard Kaufmann (excerpt)
Eduard Kaufmann (24 March 1860, Bonn – 15 December 1931, Göttingen) was a German physician. The disease Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome is named for him. Career Kaufmann studied in Bonn and Berlin, and earned his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1884. He was appointed Privatdozent for anatomical pathology in Breslau three years later, and assisted at Emil Ponfick’s institute.
Biography of Ludwik Krzywicki (excerpt)
Ludwik Joachim Franciszek Krzywicki (1859-1941) was a Polish Marxist anthropologist, economist, and sociologist, and an early proponent of sociology in Poland. Born into an aristocratic family in Płock, he developed early interests in psychology, philosophy, and natural sciences, influenced by Darwin and others.
Biography of Wilhelm Camerer (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Camerer (17 October 1842 – 25 March 1910) was a German physician born in Stuttgart. Camerer was a pioneer in the field of pediatric medicine. He studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen and Vienna. At Tübingen he was a student of physiologist Karl von Vierordt (1818–1884).
Biography of Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (excerpt)
Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, born on July 2, 1834, in Saumur and died on July 25, 1923, in Vitrai-sous-Laigle, was a French magistrate, journalist, and writer. As a prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal, he prepared the indictment against General Boulanger.
Biography of Léon Dehon (excerpt)
Léon-Gustave Dehon, SCJ (14 March 1843 – 12 August 1925), also known as Jean of the Sacred Heart, was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the Dehonians). Dehon's focus in his ecclesial life was to express his closeness with workers but he especially promoted a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Biography of Armand du Paty de Clam (excerpt)
Charles Armand Auguste Ferdinand Mercier du Paty de Clam (21 February 1853 - 3 September 1916) was a French army officer and amateur graphologist, central to the Dreyfus affair. He pinpointed Dreyfus as a suspect based on graphology, leading to Dreyfus's arrest and conviction without substantial evidence.
Biography of Arthur Nikisch (excerpt)
Arthur Nikisch (12 October 1855 – 23 January 1922) was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch's performance of his Fourth Symphony as "quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better."
Biography of Jacques-Augustin Normand (excerpt)
Jacques-Augustin Normand (October 4, 1839 – December 11, 1906) was a French naval engineer and shipbuilder from Le Havre, stemming from a family entrenched in shipbuilding since the 18th century. Inheriting the family yard in 1871, he significantly advanced its operations over 35 years, developing high-performance machines and vessels, including the revolutionary yacht "Vélox" in 1875, capable of exceeding 17 knots.
Biography of Hubert-Joseph Henry (excerpt)
Hubert-Joseph Henry, born on June 2, 1846, in Pogny, Marne, and died on August 31, 1898, at the Mont-Valérien fortress, was a French officer who produced false documents aimed at accusing Captain Alfred Dreyfus and confirming his conviction. Confessions and Death The suicide of Lieutenant Colonel Henry in a cell of the Mont-Valérien fortress (Le Progrès Illustré, September 11, 1898).
Biography of Ferdinand Laulanié (excerpt)
Ferdinand Laulanié, a distinguished French veterinarian, was also a renowned professor of animal physiology and served as the director of the École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse. In honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth, Guy Bodin published an insightful biography in 2001, titled "Biography of Ferdinand Laulanié (1850-1906) on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary" in the Revue Médicale Vétérinaire.
Biography of Gustav von Schmoller (excerpt)
Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838–1917) was a prominent figure in the "younger" German historical school of economics and a leading figure in social policy. As the long-standing chairman of the Verein für Socialpolitik, he influenced economic and social reform in Germany. Dubbed a "Kathedersozialist" (Socialist of the Chair) by opponents, Schmoller's work was rooted in a heterodox liberalism influenced by several European thinkers and aimed to integrate liberal state principles with monarchy and effective parliamentarism for social improvement.
Biography of Wen Tingshi (excerpt)
Wen Tingshi was a Chinese political figure, poet, and scholar born to a family with a history in politics. He achieved the Jinshi status in 1890 and worked at the imperial court. A firm opponent of peace with Japan during the First Sino-Japanese War, he joined officials criticizing the government and submitted memorials.
Biography of Joseph Vallot (excerpt)
Joseph Vallot (Henry Marie Joseph Vallot) was a French astronomer, geographer, naturalist, alpinist, and patron, born on February 16, 1854, in Lodève (Hérault) and died on April 11, 1925, in Nice. Coming from a wealthy family, he never faced financial issues, and his fortune allowed him to fund most of the construction of his observatory.
Biography of Felix Dahn (excerpt)
Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (February 9, 1834 – January 3, 1912) was a German law professor, nationalist author, poet, and historian. Born in Hamburg, he studied law and philosophy in Munich and Berlin, becoming a professor of German Law. Dahn wrote extensively, influencing German historiography of the European Migration Period with works like "Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples."
Biography of Paul Oudin (excerpt)
Paul Oudin, a French physician born in Épinal on November 29, 1851, and died in Paris on November 10, 1923, is famous for inventing the Oudin coil, a pioneer in the use of high-frequency currents in medicine. In 1876, he became a hospital extern and obtained his medical degree in 1880.
Biography of Léon Stienon (excerpt)
Léon Stienon was a distinguished Belgian physician, having earned his MD in 1874. In 1876, he became an associate at the University of Brussels and a year later, he served as a substitute histology lecturer at the same university. His career progressed as he became a Professor of Medical Matters in 1880 and then took on the role of doctor at the civilian hospitals of Brussels in 1881, later becoming Chief in 1884.
Biography of Carl Peters (excerpt)
Carl Peters (27 September 1856 – 10 September 1918) was a German explorer and colonial administrator. He was a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa (part of the modern republic Tanzania) and one of the founders of the German East Africa Company.
Biography of Ernst Abbe (excerpt)
Ernst Karl Abbe HonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of scientific microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums, and other advanced optical systems.
Biography of Pierre Termier (excerpt)
Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859, and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, was a prominent French geologist, specializing in tectonics and the structural synthesis of the Alps. Graduating top of his class from Polytechnique, he joined the prestigious Corps des mines and quickly developed a passion for studying the Alps.
Biography of Edwin Klebs (excerpt)
Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss microbiologist known for his foundational work in bacteriology. He was the first to identify the bacterium causing diphtheria, known as Corynebacterium diphtheriae or Klebs–Loeffler bacterium. Klebs studied under Rudolf Virchow and later taught in various universities, including in Berlin, Bern, Prague, and Zürich.
Biography of Henri Beauclair (excerpt)
Henri Eugène Amédée Beauclair, born on December 21, 1860, in Lisieux and died on May 11, 1919, in Paris, was a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He often co-authored works with novelist Gabriel Vicaire under the collective pseudonym Adoré Floupette. Editor-in-chief of the daily "Le Petit Journal" from 1906 to 1914, Beauclair collaborated with numerous newspapers and magazines including Lutèce, Le Chat Noir, and Le Sagittaire.
Biography of Roger de Barbarin (excerpt)
Roger de Barbarin, full name Émile Roger Thomas de Barbarin, was born on June 2, 1860, in Paris 16th arrondissement, and died on March 4, 1925, in Paris 7th arrondissement. He was a sports shooter and the first Olympic champion in his category, and remains the only Frenchman to hold this title to this day.
Biography of Jacob Milich (excerpt)
Jacob (or Jakob) Milich (also Mühlich; February 20, 1501 – November 10, 1559) was a German mathematician, physician and astronomer. His birth time comes from Lynn Thorndike's biography "A history of magic and experimental science". His date of birth varies depending on the source. |
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