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Biography of John William Polidori (excerpt)
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician.He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story. ![]()
Biography of François-Xavier Garneau (excerpt)
François-Xavier Garneau (June 15, 1809 – February 2 or February 3, 1866) was a nineteenth-century French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant and liberal who wrote a three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada between 1845 and 1848.
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Biography of Jules Beaujoint (excerpt)
Jules Beaujoint, born July 12, 1830 in Grandpré (Ardennes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 22, 1892 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, is a French journalist and popular novelist. He also uses the pseudonym of Jules de Grandpré. ![]()
Biography of Lydia Sigourney (excerpt)
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet during the early and mid 19th century.She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford".Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs.
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Biography of Eugène Lepoittevin (excerpt)
Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870) was a French artist who achieved an early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic caricatures to massive battle scenes. His works are in the collections of many museums throughout France. He made many paintings set in and around the fishing village of Étretat, and in 2020 he was the subject of an exhibition and book, L'invention d'Étretat: Eugène Le Poittevin, un peintre et ses amis à l'aube de l'impressionnisme (The invention of Étretat: Eugène Le Poittevin, a painter and his friends at the dawn of Impressionism).
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Biography of Suzanne Voilquin (excerpt)
Suzanne Monnier Voilquin (December 17, 1801 – October 24, 1876) was a French feminist, journalist, midwife, traveler and author, best known as editor of Tribune des femmes (French Wikipedia Article), the first working-class feminist periodical, and her memoirs, Souvenirs d’une fille du peuple: ou, La saint-simonienne en Égypt. ![]()
Biography of Adalbert Stifter (excerpt)
Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while remaining almost entirely unknown to English readers. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelmine Reichard (excerpt)
Johanne Wilhelmine Siegmundine Reichard (née Schmidt) (2 April 1788, Braunschweig, Germany – 23 February 1848, Döhlen, Germany) was the first German female balloonist. On 16 April 1811 Wilhelmine Reichard made her first solo flight, starting in Berlin.She reached a height of over 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) and landed safely in Genshagen, 33.5 kilometres (20.8 mi) from her starting point. ![]()
Biography of Taras Shevchenko (excerpt)
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (9 March (O.S.25 February) 1814 – 10 March (O.S.26 February) 1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
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Biography of Alexander Herzen (excerpt)
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (6 April (O.S. 25 March) 1812 – 21 January (O.S. 9 January) 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party).
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Biography of Adèle Schopenhauer (excerpt)
Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer, known as Adele Schopenhauer (12 July 1797 – 25 August 1849), was a German author. She was the sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and daughter of author Johanna Schopenhauer. Henriette Sommer and Adrian van der Venne were pseudonyms used by her.
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Biography of Yevgeny Baratynsky (excerpt)
Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (Russian: Евге́ний Абра́мович Бараты́нский; 2 March (O.S. 19 February) 1800 – 11 July 1844) was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Russian Symbolism poets as a supreme poet of thought.
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Biography of Julia Kavanagh (excerpt)
Julia Kavanagh (7 January 1824 – 28 October 1877) was an Irish novelist, born at Thurles in Tipperary, Ireland—then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her numerous contributions to literature have classified her as one of the non-canonical minor novelist of the Victorian period (1837–1901).
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Biography of Adolphe Alphand (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (born in 1817 and died in 1891, interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 66), was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. Born in Grenoble, Alphand entered the École polytechnique in 1835 and continued his engineering studies at the prestigious École des ponts et chaussées in 1837.
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Biography of Suzanne Manet (excerpt)
Suzanne Manet, born Suzanne Leenhoff; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled. An excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers.
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Biography of Dorothea de Ficquelmont (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dolly" de Ficquelmont (Russian: Да́рья Фёдоровна Фикельмо́н; Daria Fyodorovna Fikelmon; 14 October (26 October, Gregorian calendar) 1804, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 10 April 1863, Venice, Austrian Empire), born Countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen, was a Russian writer and salonist. A granddaughter of the Russian war hero General Prince Kutuzov (who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars), she was a Russian aristocrat of German Baltic origin, and later a member of the Austrian nobility as the wife of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont.
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Biography of Eugenie Marlitt (excerpt)
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 1825 – 1887), a popular German novelist. She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to study music for three years on account of her fine voice.
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Biography of Ernest Pinard (excerpt)
Pierre Ernest Pinard (10 October 1822 – 12 September 1909) was a French prosecutor and Minister of the Interior.He is known for his indictments against Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. Minister of the Interior Pinard was appointed to the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) in 1866, aged 44, seen as one of the new men who could rejuvenate the empire.
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Biography of Alexeï Pissemski (excerpt)
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (23 March (O.S.11 March) 1821 – 2 February (O.S.21 January) 1881) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with Sovremennik magazine in the early 1860s. ![]()
Biography of François Blanc (excerpt)
François Blanc ( 12 December 1806 – 27 July 1877), nicknamed "The Magician of Homburg" and "The Magician of Monte Carlo", was a French entrepreneur and operator of casinos, including the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. His daughter, Marie-Félix, married Prince Roland Bonaparte and had issue.
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Biography of Henry Bazin (excerpt)
Henri-Émile Bazin (20 October 1829 – 7 February 1917) was a French engineer specializing in hydraulic engineering.
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Biography of Fanny Fern (excerpt)
Fanny Fern (born Sara Payson Willis; July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers.
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Biography of Ferdinand Barbedienne (excerpt)
Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder. Career The son of a small farmer from Calvados, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Paris.
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Biography of Louise Aston (excerpt)
Luise Aston, or Louise Aston (26 November 1814 – 21 December 1871), was a German author and feminist, who championed the rights of women, and was known for dressing in male attire. She was an advocate of democracy, free love, and sexuality.
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Biography of Isabella Braun (excerpt)
Isabella Braun (born 12 December 1815 in Jettingen, died 2 May 1886 in Munich) was a German writer. Braun was the daughter of Bernhard Maria Braun, and his wife Euphemia.After her father's death in 1827, the family moved to Augsburg, where Isabella Braun attended secondary school until 1834.
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Biography of Marcellin Desboutin (excerpt)
Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin (Cérilly 26 August 1823 – 18 February 1902 Nice) was a French painter, printmaker, and writer. Desboutin always signed himself Baron de Rochefort. As a writer, Desboutin, besides Maurice of Saxony, is the author of a translation of Byron's Don Juan and of a drama performed in the late 1880s, Madame Roland.
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Biography of Agénor de Gasparin (excerpt)
Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 (his birth time comes from Orange's online archives) – 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author.He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping. He was born at Orange, Vaucluse, the son of Adrien de Gasparin.
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Biography of Louise von Gall (excerpt)
Louise von Gall (15 September (according to her German Wikipedia page) 1815, Darmstadt – 16 March 1855, Augsburg) was a nineteenth-century German novelist and social critic. Johanna Udalrike Louise Gerhardine Freiin von Gall was the posthumous daughter of General Ludwig Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Philipp von Gall. ![]()
Biography of Luise Hensel (excerpt)
Luise Hensel (30 March 1798 to 18 December 1876) was a German teacher and religious poet, who influenced the romantic style of her friend and fellow poet, Clemens Brentano.
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Biography of Pauline Denain (excerpt)
Pauline-Léontine-Elisabeth-Désirée Mesnage known as Mademoiselle Denain (born December 6, 1823 in Paris and died October 4, 1892 in Clichy) was a French actress. She lives in Clichy. She made her debut at the Comédie-Française in 1840. Associate 1846. Retired in 1856. Her daughter, Léontine Estelle Denain, will marry the composer Léo Delibes.
Biography of Henri Savigny (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, born April 10, 1793, died January 27, 1843, was a surgeon and doctor aboard La Méduse. When the ship sank (July 2, 1816), he was one of the 3 officers who volunteered to take their place on the raft among 152 castaways.
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Biography of Johannes Bilders (excerpt)
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter; he was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School because of his connections with H.W. Mesdag, Jozef Israëls, Willem Roelofs, his later wife Marie Bilders-van Bosse and others painters of The Hague.
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Biography of Helen Hunt Jackson (excerpt)
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 14, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. Her time of birth comes from her father, in the biography Helen (Hunt) Jackson and Her Literary Career by Catherine Hale Phillips (Harvard University, 1997).
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Biography of Maria Quitéria (excerpt)
Maria Quitéria (27 July 1792 – 21 August 1853) was a Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine.She served in the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822–23 dressed as a man.She was promoted to cadet and Lieutenant and decorated with the Imperial order.
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Biography of Marie Nathusius (excerpt)
Marie Nathusius, née Scheele (March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg – December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt) was a German novelist and composer. Life Her father was the Calvinist parson Friedrich August Scheele.Marie Nathusius grew up in Calbe (Saale).1841 she married the publisher Philipp von Nathusius (1815–1872).
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Biography of Étienne Vacherot (excerpt)
Étienne Vacherot (29 July 1809 – 28 July 1897) was a French philosophical writer. Life Vacherot was born of peasant parentage at Torcenay, near Langres in the Haute-Marne département of France.He was educated at the École Normale, and returned there as director of studies in 1838, after some years spent in provincial schoolmasterships. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Boulanger (composer) (excerpt)
Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer of comic operas and a conductor. He was more known, however, for being a choral music composer, choral group director, voice teacher, and vocal contest jury member.
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Biography of Pierre Jules Baroche (excerpt)
Pierre Jules Baroche (18 November 1802, Paris – 29 October 1870, Jersey) was a French statesman, who served as minister in several of Napoleon III's governments. He was Minister of the Interior from 15 March 1850 to 24 January 1851, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 April 1851 to 26 October 1851, President of the Conseil d'État from 30 December 1852, briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 4 January 1860 to 24 January 1860, Minister without portfolio from 3 December 1860, and Minister of Justice (and of Public Worship) from 23 June 1863 to 17 July 1869.
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Biography of Charles Philipon (excerpt)
Charles Philipon (8 September 1800 (civil registrar, Didier Geslain. Wikipedia gives another date) – 25 January 1861) was a French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist. He was the founder and director of the satirical political journals La Caricature and of Le Charivari.
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Biography of Amédée de Noé (excerpt)
Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (26 January 1818 – 6 September 1879), was a French caricaturist and lithographer. He was born in Paris and raised by a family who wished for him to attend a polytechnic school.He instead attended painting workshops hosted by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist. ![]()
Biography of Charles Amet (excerpt)
Charles Victor Eugène Amet, born November 11, 1824 in Besançon, son of Pierre-Théodore Alphonse Amet, merchant and Marie Anne Stéphanie Bletry (originally from Belfort)1. Died February 5, 1902 in Paris, was a French naval officer of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Biography of Charles Todd (pioneer) (excerpt)
Sir Charles Todd KCMG FRS FRAS FRMS FIEE (7 July 1826 – 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables until engaged by the government of South Australia as astronomical and meteorological observer, and head of the electric telegraph department.
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Biography of Achille Devéria (excerpt)
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (6 February 1800 – 23 December 1857) was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six children were Théodule Devéria and Gabriel Devéria. ![]()
Biography of Candace Wheeler (excerpt)
Candace Wheeler (née Thurber; March 24, 1827 – August 5, 1923), often credited as the mother of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers.She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to women, supporting craftswomen, and for encouraging a new style of American design.
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Biography of Louisa Anne Meredith (excerpt)
Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer, illustrator and possibly one of Australia's earliest photographers. Emigration to Australia Meredith and her husband sailed for New South Wales in June 1839, and arrived at Sydney on 27 September 1839.
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Biography of Julien Tanguy (art dealer) (excerpt)
Julien François Tanguy, called Père Tanguy (June 28, 1825, Plédran, Brittany - February 6, 1894, Paris) was a French art dealer, gallery owner, art collector, and patron who was one of the first buyers of Impressionist paintings. He played an important role in promoting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
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Biography of Louise von François (excerpt)
Marie-Louise von François (June 27, 1817 – September 25, 1893) was a German writer best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871).She corresponded with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Born in Herzberg, she lost her father young and was raised in Potsdam by her uncle, where she discovered writings about the Napoleonic Wars.
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Biography of Mary Mapes Dodge (excerpt)
Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.
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Biography of Alice Cary (excerpt)
Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Works Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849) A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary With Some of Their Later Poems, compiled and edited by Mary Clemmer Ames (1873) ![]()
Biography of Henri Robin (excerpt)
Henri Robin (12 July 1811 – 24 February 1874), born Henrik Joseph Donckel, was a French illusionist, born in Hazebrouck.In the early 1850s, he performed at Windsor Castle, at the request of Queen Victoria. In 1861, he became the first illusionist to offer a full programme of magic at Egyptian Hall in London. |
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