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Biography of Frederick William II of Prussia (excerpt)
Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II; September 25, 1744–November 16, 1797) was the fourth King of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death. Frederick William was son of Prince Augustus William of Prussia (the second son of King Frederick William I of Prussia) and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Boccherini (excerpt)
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is mostly known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op.
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Biography of Giovanni Pergolesi (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Iesi, near Ancona, January 3, 1710 – Pozzuoli, March 16/17, 1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist. Pergolesi studied music at Iesi under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others. ![]()
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Bordeaux is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 257,804 (2019). Bordeaux is the centre of Bordeaux Métropole that has a population of 796,273 (2019), the fifth-largest in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille with its immediate suburbs and closest satellite towns. ![]()
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Swansea is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales. The county area includes Swansea Bay (Welsh: Bae Abertawe) and the Gower Peninsula. Swansea's position on the southwest coast of Wales is within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Adams (excerpt)
Samuel Adams (September 27 1722 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. ![]()
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Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately 55 miles (89 km) north of London. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, the population of the Cambridge built-up area (which is larger than the remit of Cambridge City Council) was 158,434 including 29,327 students. ![]()
Biography of Charles Edward Stuart (excerpt)
Charles Edward Stuart (31 December 1720 – 31 January 1788), known in Scots Gaelic as Teàrlach Eideard Stiùbhairt, was the exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and is now commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. Charles was the son of James Francis Edward Stuart who was in turn the son of James II and VII, who had been deposed in the Revolution of 1688. ![]()
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Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking microstate situated in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland in Central Europe. The principality is a semi-constitutional monarchy headed by the Prince of Liechtenstein; the Prince's extensive powers are equivalent to those of a President in a semi-presidential system. ![]()
Biography of Tiradentes (excerpt)
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes (November 12, 1746–-April 21, 1792), was a leading member of the Brazilian seditious movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira whose aim was to shake of the Portuguese colonial power and create an independent Brazilian republic. ![]()
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Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, following Berlin and Leipzig. ![]()
Biography of Anthony Wayne (excerpt)
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony". ![]()
Biography of Robert Adam (excerpt)
Robert Adam (14 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death. ![]()
Biography of Joshua Reynolds (excerpt)
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 (27 July, Gregorian calendar) – 23 February 1792) was the most important and influential of 18th century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect.
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Biography of Jacques Aliamet (excerpt)
Jacques Aliamet, born in Abbeville on November 30, 1726 and died in Paris in 1788, is a French engraver. His/her brother François-Germain Aliamet was also an engraver. ![]()
Biography of Jérôme Lalande (excerpt)
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer and writer. Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse (now in the département of Ain) to Pierre Lefrançois and Marie‐Anne‐Gabrielle Monchinet. His parents sent him to Paris to study law, but as a result of lodging in the Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, he was drawn to astronomy, and became the zealous and favoured pupil of both Delisle and Pierre Charles Le Monnier. ![]()
Biography of Oliver Goldsmith (excerpt)
Oliver Goldsmith (21 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). ![]()
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Lancaster is a city in South Central Pennsylvania, that serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and is one of the oldest inland towns in the United States. With a population at the 2010 census of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities. ![]()
Biography of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (excerpt)
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (15 November 1708 (26 November, Gregorian calendar) – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War, as known in Great Britain and Canada (known as the French and Indian War in the U. ![]()
Biography of Louis, Count of Clermont (excerpt)
Louis de Bourbon, Count of Clermont (15 June 1709 – 16 June 1771) was a member of the cadet Bourbon-Condé branch of the French royal house. He is known for leading French forces in Germany during the Seven Years War where he took command in 1758 following the failed French Invasion of Hanover. ![]()
Biography of Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (excerpt)
Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti, « Mademoiselle de Conti » (Paris June 20, 1726 (source not archived for her time of birth) - Paris February 9, 1759), was by marriage Duchess of Chartres (1743-1752) and Duchess of Orléans (1752-1759). She was a daughter of Louis Armand II de Bourbon, prince de Conti and Louise Élisabeth of Bourbon-Condé. ![]()
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Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, of which it was traditionally the county town. Derby gained city status in 1977, and by the 2011 census its population was 248,700. ![]()
Biography of Johann Gottfried Herder (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried von Herder (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. Biography Born in Mohrungen (Morąg) in the Kingdom of Prussia, grew up in a poor household, educating himself from his father's Bible and songbook. ![]()
Biography of Nicolas Chamfort (excerpt)
Nicolas Chamfort (6 April 1740 - 13 April 1794) was a French writer and journalist, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary of Louis XIV's sister, and of the Jacobin club. Life He was born Nicolas-Sébastien Roch, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, according to a baptismal certificate found among his papers, to a grocer named Nicolas.
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Biography of Juniper Serra (excerpt)
Fray Junípero Serra (known as Fra Juníper Serra, in Catalan, his mother tongue) (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California. Fr. Serra was beatified by John Paul II on September 25, 1988. ![]()
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Norwich is a city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum about 100 miles (160 km) north-east of London, 40 miles (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 miles (105 km) east of Peterborough. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Delille (excerpt)
Jacques Delille (June 22, 1738 – May 1, 1813) was a French poet and translator. He was born at Aigueperse in Auvergne. Life He was an illegitimate child, and was descended by his mother from the chancellor De l'Hôpital. He was educated at the College of Lisieux in Paris and became an elementary teacher. ![]()
Biography of Christoph Martin Wieland (excerpt)
Christoph Martin Wieland (September 5, 1733 – January 20, 1813) was a German poet and writer. He was born at Oberholzheim (now part of the village of Achstetten), which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg. ![]()
Biography of William Cowper (excerpt)
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Paisiello (excerpt)
Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello) (May 10, 1740 – June 5, 1816), was an Italian composer of the Classical era. Life Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. ![]()
Biography of William Falconer (excerpt)
William Falconer (Edinburgh, UK, February 21 1732–1769) was a Scottish poet. Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, The Shipwreck (1762), a work of genuine, though unequal, talent. ![]()
Biography of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (excerpt)
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (January 19, 1737 Le Havre – January 21, 1814 Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1787 novel Paul et Virginie. In 1795 he was elected to the Institut de France, and in 1803 to the Académie Française.
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Biography of Friedrich Klopstock (excerpt)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (IPA: ) (2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. Biography Klopstock was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer. Both in his birthplace and on the estate of Friedeburg on the Saale, which his father later rented, young Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more attention having been given to his physical than to his mental development he grew up a strong healthy boy and was an excellent horseman.
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Biography of Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (excerpt)
Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (b. 31 December 1715 at Darney in Lorraine; d. at Versailles, 9 April 1790) was a French Catholic theologian. He was a critic of the philosophes, accusing them in particular of distorting the facts on social life in China and Confucianism. ![]()
Biography of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (excerpt)
Richard (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272), second son of John, King of England, was the nominal Count of Poitou (1225-1243), Earl of Cornwall (from 1225) and King of the Romans (from 1257). Birth time source: Taeger Vol 4, p.
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Biography of Robert Clive (excerpt)
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He began as a writer for the East India Company (EIC) who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by securing a decisive victory in Bengal.
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Biography of Henry Fielding (excerpt)
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the comic novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. ![]()
Biography of Johann Georg Hamann (excerpt)
Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as the “the Wizard of the North” who was one of the leader figures of post Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J.
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Biography of Julie de Lespinasse (excerpt)
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (9 November 1732 – 23 May 1776) was a French salon holder and letter writer. She held a prominent salon in Paris during the Enlightenment. She is best-known today, however, for her letters, first published in 1809, which offer compelling accounts of two tragic love affairs. ![]()
Biography of Louis, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis, Dauphin of France (Louis Ferdinand; 4 September 1729 – 20 December 1765) was the elder and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and his wife, Queen Marie Leszczyńska. He had a younger brother, Philippe, who died as a toddler.
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Biography of Louise d'Épinay (excerpt)
Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (11 March 1726 – 17 April 1783), better known as Mme d'Épinay, was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment.
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Biography of Luise Gottsched (excerpt)
Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (born Kulmus, 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy. She was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal Prussia (Crown of Poland).
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Biography of Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle (excerpt)
Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress from 1742 until 1744.
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Biography of Anne-Marie du Boccage (excerpt)
Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage, née Le Page, (22 October 1710 – 8 August 1802) was an 18th-century French writer, poet, and playwright. In February 1748, she published a translation in six cantos of Milton's Paradise Lost, which she dedicated to the Rouen Academy. ![]()
Biography of Maria Luisa of Spain (excerpt)
Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain (Spanish: María Luisa, German: Maria Ludovika; 24 November 1745 – 15 May 1792) was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the spouse of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. ![]()
Biography of Hieronymus von Colloredo (excerpt)
Hieronymus Joseph Franz de Paula Graf Colloredo von Wallsee und Melz (Jérôme Joseph Franz de Paula, Count of Colloredo-Wallsee and Mels; 31 May 1732 – 20 May 1812) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 to 1772 and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1772 until 1803, when the prince-archbishopric was secularized. ![]()
Biography of Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius (excerpt)
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius (23 July 1722 – 12 August 1800), also Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d'Autricourt, nicknamed "Minette", maintained a renowned salon in France in the eighteenth century. One of the twenty-one children of Jean-Jacques de Ligniville and his wife Charlotte de Saureau, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, the niece of Madame de Graffigny, married the philosopher Helvétius in 1751.
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Biography of Marie-Louise Mignot (excerpt)
Marie Louise Mignot (1712–1790) was a French literary figure. She was the daughter of Voltaire's sister, Catherine Arouet (1686–1726) and her husband Pierre-François Mignot (d. 1737). After the death of her widowed father in 1737, Voltaire provided her with a dowry Madame Denis.
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Biography of Gabriela Silang (excerpt)
María Josefa Gabriela Cariño de Silang (19 March 1731 – 20 September 1763) was a Filipina military leader best known for her role as the female leader of the Ilocano independence movement from Spain. She took over from her second husband Diego Silang after his assassination in 1763, leading her people for four months before she was captured and executed by the colonial government of the Captaincy General of the Philippines. ![]()
Biography of Mary Moser (excerpt)
Mary Moser RA (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated female artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 (along with Angelica Kauffman), Moser painted portraits but is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers. |
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