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Biography of Paul Ehrlich (excerpt)
Paul Ehrlich (14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus". He coined the term "chemotherapy" and popularized the concept of a "magic bullet".
Biography of Ferdinand Bac (excerpt)
Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, born August 15, 1859 in Stuttgart, Germany, died November 18, 1952 in Compiègne, France, was a French writer, artist, caricaturist, humorist, illustrator, painter, designer, and lithographer. Works * Les Maîtresses, comprenant 100 dessins en couleurs (1897) * La Comédie féminine, contenant 100 dessins inédits (1899)
Biography of Joseph von Mering (excerpt)
Josef, Baron von Mering (born February 28, 1849, in Cologne - died January 5, 1908, at Halle an der Saale, Germany) was a German physician. Working at the University of Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover (in conjunction with Oskar Minkowski) that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin, a hormone which controls blood sugar levels.
Biography of Gustav Falke (excerpt)
Gustav Falke (January 11, 1853 – February 8, 1916) was a German writer. Life Falke was born in Lübeck to merchant Johann Friedrich Christian Falke and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Hoyer. The historians Johannes and Jacob von Falke were his uncles, translator Otto Falke his cousin.
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Rochester is a city founded in 1854 in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County located on the Zumbro River's south fork in Southeast Minnesota. It is Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest city located outside the Minneapolis-St.
Biography of Emma Lazarus (excerpt)
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American Jewish poet born in New York City. She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903.
Biography of Francesco Geminiani (excerpt)
Francesco Saverio Geminiani (5 December 1687 – 17 September 1762) was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. Geminiani was born at Lucca. He received lessons in music from Alessandro Scarlatti, and studied the violin under Carlo Ambrogio Lonati in Milan and afterwards under Arcangelo Corelli.
Biography of Georges Eekhoud (excerpt)
Georges Eekhoud (May 27, 1854, Antwerp, Belgium – May 29, 1927, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life. He tended to portray the dark side of human desire and write about social outcasts and the working classes.
Biography of John Hazelrigg (excerpt)
John Hazelrigg, born June 20, 1860 in Hazelrigg, Indiana, died in October 1941, was an American astrologer and author.
Biography of Thomas Callender (excerpt)
Thomas Callender, born April 9, 1855 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman and entrepreneur.
Biography of Edouard Estaunie (excerpt)
Édouard Estaunié (Dijon, France, February 4, 1862 - Paris, February 1, 1942) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
Biography of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (excerpt)
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 – 1929) was one of the leading French artists of the academic school. He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather’s name, Bouveret, to his own.
Biography of Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne (excerpt)
Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne (8 May 1694 à Orléans - 26 September 1779 à Paris) was a French churchman and scholar. Biogaraphy An Oratorian and professor, he was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1722 and to the Académie française in 1736.
Biography of Gustave Delory (excerpt)
Gustave Delory, born September 10, 1957 in Lille and died August 17, 1925 in Lille, was a French socialist politician. he was the first Mayor of Lille in 1896.
Biography of Isabella Augusta Gregory (excerpt)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Biography of Charles Chamberland (excerpt)
Charles Chamberland (March 12, 1851 – May 2, 1908) was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, consisting of an unglazed porcelain bar.
Biography of Marguerite Rachilde (excerpt)
Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Château-l'Évêque near Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died on April 4, 1953. She is considered to be a pioneer of anti-realistic drama and a participant in the Decadent movement.
Biography of James Mark Baldwin (excerpt)
James Mark Baldwin (January 12, 1861 – November 8, 1934) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university.
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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 Benjamin Godard (excerpt)
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (August 18, 1849, Paris – January 10, 1895, Cannes) was a French violinist and Romantic composer. Biography Benjamin Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps (violin) and Henri Reber (harmony) and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany.
Biography of Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff (excerpt)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (August 30, 1852 – March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the winner of the inaugural Nobel Prize in chemistry. His research on chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure and crystallography is credited to be his major work.
Biography of Ludwig Pastor (excerpt)
Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes.
Biography of Pope Clement XIII (excerpt)
Pope Clement XIII ( He became pope on 6 July 1758. In the same year the Rezzonico family were celebrating Ludovico Rezzonico's marriage into the powerful Savorgnan family. The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal (now Ca' Rezzonico) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.
Biography of John French (excerpt)
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (28 September 1852 - 22 May 1925) was a British officer serving as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I.
Biography of Klara Hitler (excerpt)
Klara Hitler (née Pölzl; 12 August 1860 – 21 December 1907) was the mother of German politician and leader of the Nazi Party Adolf Hitler. Family background and marriage Born in the Austrian village of Spital, Weitra, Waldviertel, her father was Johann Baptist Pölzl and her mother was Johanna Hiedler.
Biography of Francis Hutcheson (excerpt)
Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694 – August 8, 1746) was a philosopher born in Ireland to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Beginnings He is thought to have been born at Drumalig, in the parish of Saintfield, County Down, Ireland.
Biography of Alfred Bruneau (excerpt)
Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. As a youth, Bruneau studied the cello at the Paris Conservatory, and played in the Pasdeloup orchestra.
Biography of Henri Lavedan (excerpt)
Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 - 30 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholicand liberal journalist. As a writer, Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form.
Biography of Henrik Pontoppidan (excerpt)
Henrik Pontoppidan (July 24, 1857–August 21, 1943) was a realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization — present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch.
Biography of Alfred Capus (excerpt)
Alfred Capus (November 25, 1858 in Aix-en-Provence - November 1, 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence and deceased in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Son to a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist.
Biography of Edwin Markham (excerpt)
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Life Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, an area northeast of San Francisco; there, he lived with his sister and mother.
Biography of Henri La Fontaine (excerpt)
Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
Biography of Octave Callandreau (excerpt)
Pierre Jean Octave Callandreau, born September 18, 1852 in Angoulême (source not archived), died February 13, 1904, was a French astronomer, a former student of Polytechnique (X1872).
Biography of Alexandre Bisson (excerpt)
Alexandre Bisson, born April 9, 1848 in Briouze and died January 27, 1912 in Paris, was a French author and screenwriter. Works (extract) Madame X (1981) (TV) (play) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1980) - Feu Toupinel (1980) TV episode (play)
Biography of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (excerpt)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.
Biography of Maurice Barrymore (excerpt)
Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe (September 21, 1849 – March 26, 1905) —stage name Maurice Barrymore — was the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore. Early life Born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe in the Sikh holy city, Amritsar, Punjab or more precisely Fort Agra, India, he was the son of William Edward Blythe, a surveyor for the British East India Company and his wife Matilda Chamberlayne.
Biography of August Bier (excerpt)
August Karl Gustav Bier (24 November 1861 – 12 March 1949) was German surgeon and the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. After professorships in Greifswald and Bonn, Bier became a professor at the Charité in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made in 1898 when he performed the first planned spinal anaesthetic on a series of 6 patients for lower extremity surgery.
Biography of Éphrem-A. Brisebois (excerpt)
Inspector Éphrem-A. Brisebois (7 March 1850 – 13 February 1890) was a politician, soldier, and police officer with the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) of Canada. He was born 7 March 1850 at South Durham, Canada East, now Durham-Sud, Quebec. Early career Brisebois showed himself to be an excellent student and was fluently bilingual in English and French.
Biography of David Belasco (excerpt)
David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer. Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs such as call boy and script copier.
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On the evening of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire upon the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. From his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay Hotel he fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding 411, with the ensuing panic bringing the number of injured to 867.
Biography of Lucien Descaves (excerpt)
Lucien Descaves (18 March 1861, Paris - 6 September 1949) was a French novelist and journalist. A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate (1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement.
Biography of Lucien Hillemacher (excerpt)
Lucien Hillemacher, born on June 10, 1860 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died on June 2, 1909 in Paris, was a French musician and composer, the brother of pianist and composer Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933). Awards: Prix de Rome (1880)
Biography of Robert Planquette (excerpt)
Jean Robert Planquette (31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas. Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, including Les cloches de Corneville (1878), the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time, and Rip Van Winkle (1882), which earned international fame.
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Ponce is both a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government. Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, was founded on 12 August 1692 and is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León.
Biography of Diamond Jim Brady (excerpt)
James Buchanan Brady (12 August 1856 – 13 April 1917), also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. Born in New York City to a modest household, Brady worked his way up from bellboy and messenger.
Biography of Jeanne Dujardin Péchalat (excerpt)
Jeanne Dujardin Péchalat, born on December 5, 2015 in Paris (birth time source: http://www.purepeople.com/article/jean-dujardin-papa-d-une-fille-je-suis-tres-heureux-et-meme-plus-que-ca_a169242/1), is the daughter of French actor Jean Dujardin and the French former ice dancer Nathalie Péchalat.
Biography of Andrew Forsyth (excerpt)
Andrew Russell Forsyth (18 June 1858, Glasgow – 2 June 1942, South Kensington) was a Scottish mathematician. Andrew Forsyth studied at Liverpool College and was tutored by Richard Pendlebury before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1881. He was elected a fellow of Trinity and then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24.
Biography of Emil Berliner (excerpt)
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) was a German naturalized American inventor. He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English). He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904).
Biography of Jean-Marc Nattier (excerpt)
Jean-Marc Nattier (March 17, 1685 - 1766), French painter, was born in Paris, the son of Marc Nattier, a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois, a miniaturist. He received his first instruction from his father, and having applied himself to copying pictures at the Luxembourg Gallery, he refused to proceed to the French Academy in Rome, though he had taken the first prize at the Paris Academy at the age of fifteen.
Biography of Bramwell Booth (excerpt)
Bramwell Booth, CH (8 March 1856 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – 16 June 1929) was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth. Biography Born as William Bramwell Booth in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the oldest child born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, he had two brothers and five sisters, including Evangeline Booth, Catherine Booth-Clibborn, Emma Booth and Ballington Booth. |
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