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Biography of Edward William Bok (excerpt)
Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, The Netherlands. At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, USA, and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876.
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Biography of Louis Henry (excerpt)
Louis Henry (December 26, 1834-1913) was a Belgian organic chemist. ![]()
Biography of Frank Wedekind (excerpt)
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (Hannover July 24, 1864 – Munich March 9, 1918), usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism, and he was a major influence on the development of epic theatre. ![]()
Biography of Christopher Nicholson Johnston (excerpt)
Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (October 18, 1857–1934) was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency) between two by-elections in 1916 and 1917. He stood down as an MP when he became a Senator of the College of Justice, a senior judicial post. ![]()
Biography of Hans Pfitzner (excerpt)
Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Biography Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer.
Biography of Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet (excerpt)
Sir John Traill Cargill, 1st Baronet (10 January 1867 – 24 January 1954) was a Scottish oil magnate. Cargill was born in Glasgow, the second son of David Sime Cargill, founder of the Burmah Oil Company. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and in 1890 went to Burma to work in the Rangoon office of his father's company, returning to Glasgow three years later.
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Biography of Ferdinand Mannlicher (excerpt)
Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher (January 30, 1848 in Mainz, Germany – January 20, 1904 in Vienna, Austria) was an engineer and small armaments designer. He was famous for inventing the en-bloc clip loading system, and later for patenting the Mannlicher-Schönauer rotary magazine rifle with his protégé Otto Schönauer.
Biography of Heinrich Daath (excerpt)
Heinrich Daath, born September 19, 1872 in Peterborough, was a British author and astrologer, author of Medical Astrology.
Biography of Herschell (astrologer) (excerpt)
Herschell, born October 22, 1863 in Froma, England, was an American astrologer. Herscell is a pseudonym. His identity was either J.W. Long or William Sharp Cross, depending of the sources. ![]()
Biography of Margot Asquith (excerpt)
Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She married Herbert Henry Asquith, who would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908-1916). ![]()
Biography of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (excerpt)
Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 25, 1852 - September 14, 1905), was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized Frenchman. With the backing of the Société de Géographique de Paris, he opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo that eventually led to French colonies in Central Africa. ![]()
Biography of Francis Jammes (excerpt)
Francis Jammes (Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées December 2, 1868 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) November 1, 1938) was a French poet, from an ancient family. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life (donkeys, maidens).
Biography of Elie-Joseph Cartan (excerpt)
Élie Joseph Cartan (9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, and group theory. ![]()
Biography of Andrew W. Mellon (excerpt)
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 (birth time sources: Lescaut, Penfield) – August 26, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. Early life Mellon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U. ![]()
Biography of Artemus Ward (excerpt)
Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was a United States humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. At birth, his surname was "Brown." He added the "e" after he became famous. Biography Browne was born in Waterford, Maine.
Biography of Luigi Borro (body-builder) (excerpt)
Luigi Borro, born January 12, 1869 in Milan, was an Italian body-builder who exhibited in the circus.
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Biography of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (excerpt)
Henri Alexandre Deslandres (July 24, 1853 – January 15, 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories. Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career.
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Biography of Gaston Doumergue (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue (Aigues-Vives, Gard, 1 August 1863 – 18 June 1937 in Aigues-Vives) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age. ![]()
Biography of Alfonso XII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
Biography of Alexandre Emile Taskin (excerpt)
Émile-Alexandre Taskin, born in Paris on March 18 1853, was a French singer at the Opera-Comique. ![]()
Biography of Kenneth Grahame (excerpt)
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film.
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Biography of Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Grasset (excerpt)
Joseph Grasset (18 March 1849 – July 1918), was a French neurologist and parapsychological investigator, born in Montpellier. He received his medical degree (1873) in Montpellier, where in 1881 he became a professor of therapy. In 1886 he attained the chair of clinical medicine, and in 1909 was appointed chair of general pathology.
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Biography of Max von Schillings (excerpt)
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Biography of Benjamin Rabier (excerpt)
Benjamin Rabier (December 30, 1864, La Roche-sur-Yon - 1939, Faverolles) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator. He became famous for creating La vache qui rit, and is one of the precursors of animal comics. His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé and Edmond-François Calvo. ![]()
Biography of Jules Bordet (excerpt)
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (Soignies (Belgium) 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named for him. Ballin of Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, where, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, he described phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells. ![]()
Biography of Emile Loubet (excerpt)
Émile François Loubet (31 December 1838, Marsanne, France - 20 December 1929) was a French politician and the 8th President of France. Early life He was born the son of a peasant proprietor and mayor of Marsanne (Drôme). Admitted to the Parisian bar in 1862, he took his doctorate in law the next year. ![]()
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Biography of Saint-Pol-Roux (excerpt)
Paul-Pierre Roux, best known as Saint-Pol-Roux, born January 15, 1861 in Marseille, died October 18, 1940 in Brest, was a French symbolist poet. Works (extract) Sous le nom de Paul Roux Maman!, Ollendorff, 1883 Garçon d'honneur, Ollendorff, 1883 Le Poète, Ghio, 1883 ![]()
Biography of Kate Chase (excerpt)
Katherine Jane ("Kate") Chase (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899), was the daughter of famous Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, the Treasury Secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and later Chief Justice of the United States. She is best known as a society hostess during the American Civil War, and a strong supporter of her widowed father's presidential ambitions that would have made her First Lady.
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Biography of Johan Wagenaar (excerpt)
Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862, Utrecht – 17 June 1941, Den Haag) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar. Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins.
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Biography of Jules-Emile Verschaffelt (excerpt)
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (27 January 1870, Ghent – 22 December 1955) was a Belgian physicist. He worked at Kamerlingh Onnes’s laboratory in Leiden from 1894 to 1906 and once again from 1914 to 1923. From 1906 to 1914 he worked at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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Biography of Frederick Rolfe (excerpt)
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Life and work Rolfe was born in London, the son of a piano manufacturer; he left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher. ![]()
Biography of Karl May (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 – March 30, 1912) was one of the best selling German writers of all time, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East. ![]()
Biography of Henri Manguin (excerpt)
Henri Charles Manguin (Paris, March 23, 1874-1949) was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves. Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre. ![]()
Biography of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Helena (Helena Augusta Victoria: Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein by marriage; 25 May 1846 – 9 June 1923) was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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Biography of Édouard Debat-Ponsan (excerpt)
Édouard Debat-Ponsan (Toulouse, 25 April 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Paris, 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter. Biography A pupil of Cabanel, Debat-Ponson was famous for his portraits of wealthy citizens and politicians in Paris, paintings of ancient history and scenes of peasant life. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Sullivan (excerpt)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer, of Irish and Italian descent, best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert, including such continually-popular works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado.
Biography of Paul Alexis (excerpt)
Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola. Life Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a graduate. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Marx (excerpt)
Wilhelm Marx (January 15, 1863 (birth time source: Lescaut)– August 5, 1946) was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of the German Reich twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as minister president of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic.
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Biography of Albert Baertsoen (excerpt)
Albert Baertsoen, born in Gand January 9, 1866 in died in Ghent in 1922, was a Belgian painter. Works (extract) * Chalands sous la neige (Musée de Bruxelles) * Un canal à Termonde * La Tamise près de Londres ![]()
Biography of Oliver Lodge (excerpt)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term "coherer. ![]()
Biography of Francisco Madero (excerpt)
Francisco Indalecio Madero González (October 30, 1873 – February 22, 1913) was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce.
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Biography of Elsie Inglis (excerpt)
Elsie Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist. She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to a father who worked in the Indian civil service. She had the good fortune to have relatively enlightened parents for the time who considered the education of a daughter as important as that of the son.
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Biography of Jean de Reszke (excerpt)
Jean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw, (14 January 1850 – 3 April 1925) was a Polish operatic tenor. He was born in Warsaw in 1850. His parents were Poles; his father was a state official and his mother a capable amateur singer, their house being a recognized musical centre. ![]()
Biography of Paul Deussen (excerpt)
Paul Jakob Deussen (German pronunciation: ; January 7, 1845 – July 6, 1919) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft).
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Biography of Georges Gasté (excerpt)
Georges Gasté, born on August 30, 1869 in Paris (birth time source: Cedra), died in 1910 in India, was a French painter and photographer.
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Biography of Léon Delagrange (excerpt)
Ferdinand Léon Delagrange (13 March 1873 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 259, Fdaf) – 4 January 1910) was a French aviator and sculptor. Biography He was born in Orléans and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Louis Barrias and Charles Vital-Cornu. ![]()
Biography of Paul Georges Dieulafoy (excerpt)
Paul Georges Dieulafoy (November 18, 1839 – August 16, 1911) was a French physician and surgeon. He is best known for his study of acute appendicitis and his description of Dieulafoy's lesion, a rare cause of gastric bleeding. Life, studies, and career ![]()
Biography of Julien Benda (excerpt)
Julien Benda (December 26, 1867 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – June 7, 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist. Born into a Jewish family, Benda became a master of French belles-lettres. Yet he believed that science was superior to literature as a method of inquiry. |
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