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Biography of Olry Terquem (excerpt)
Olry Terquem (16 June 1782 in Metz – 6 May 1862) was a French mathematician. He is known for his works in geometry and for founding two scientific journals, one of which was the first journal about the history of mathematics. ![]()
Biography of Ignaz Venetz (excerpt)
Ignaz (Ignace) Venetz (March 21, 1788 — 1859) was a Swiss engineer, naturalist, and glaciologist; as one of the first scientists to recognize glaciers as a major force in shaping the earth, he played a leading role in the foundation of glaciology. ![]()
Biography of Ansgar (excerpt)
Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, (September 8, 801 in Amiens (source: Wikipedia in French) – February 3, 865*, in Bremen) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. The see of Hamburg was designated a "Mission to bring Christianity to the North", and Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North".
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Biography of Ferdinand Raimund (excerpt)
Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; June 1, 1790, Vienna – September 5, 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist. Life and work He was born in Vienna as a son of Bohemian woodturning master craftsman Jakob Raimann. In 1811, he acted at the Theater in der Josefstadt, and, in 1817 at the Leopoldstädter Theater.
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Biography of María Isabella of Spain (excerpt)
María Isabella of Spain (6 July 1789 – 13 September 1848) was an Infanta of Spain and the Queen of the Two Sicilies. She was the second wife of Francis I and the youngest surviving daughter of the Spanish king Charles IV and his consort Maria Luisa of Parma. ![]()
Biography of David Brewster (excerpt)
Sir David Brewster, FRS (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. He was born at Jedburgh, where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar school. At the age of twelve, he was sent to the University of Edinburgh, being intended for the clergy. ![]()
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La Paz is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur and an important regional commercial center. The city had a 2020 census population of 250,141 inhabitants, making it the most populous city in the state. Its metropolitan population is somewhat larger because of the surrounding towns, such as El Centenario, Chametla and San Pedro. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Babinet (excerpt)
Jacques Babinet (5 March 1794 in Lusignan (Vienne), France – 21 October 1872 in Paris, France) was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics. Babinet started his studies at the Lycée Napoléon, but was persuaded to abandon a legal education for the pursuit of science. ![]()
Biography of Antoine-Louis Barye (excerpt)
Antoine-Louis Barye (September 24, 1795 – June 25, 1875) was a French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. Biography Born in Paris, Barye began his career as a goldsmith, like many sculptors of the Romantic Period. ![]()
Biography of Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis (excerpt)
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis (21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the Coriolis Effect. Coriolis was the first to coin the term "work" for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance. ![]()
Biography of Winfield Scott (excerpt)
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 (birth time source: Lescaut, Penfield) – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and many historians rate him the best American commander of his time. ![]()
Biography of Lucrezia de' Medici (1545-1561) (excerpt)
Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was the daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Eleanor of Toledo. Born in Florence, she was the first wife of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara, whom she married on 3 July 1558.
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Biography of Laure Junot d'Abrantes (excerpt)
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantès (November 6, 1784–1838) was the wife of French general Jean-Andoche Junot. She was born Laure (Laurette) Martin de Permond at Montpellier. She was the daughter of Charles Martin de Permond and his wife Panoria, to whom during her widowhood the young Napoleon Bonaparte made an offer of marriage - such at least is the version presented by the daughter in her celebrated Memoirs. ![]()
Biography of Joanna of Austria (excerpt)
Joanna of Austria (German Johanna von Österreich, Italian Giovanna d'Austria) (24 January 1547 – 11 April 1578) was born an Archduchess of Austria as the youngest daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. By marriage, she was the Grand Princess of Tuscany and later the Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
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Biography of Jacques Boucher de Perthes (excerpt)
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (10 September 1788–5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French geologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley.
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Biography of Anselme Payen (excerpt)
Anselme Payen (January 6, 1795 - May 12, 1878) was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Payen was born in Paris. He began studying science with his father when he was 13-year-old, and later studied Chemistry at the École Polytechnique under the chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and Michel Eugène Chevreul.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville (3 March 1782, Abbeville , France - 22 January 1870, Paris) was a French a man of letters and poet. He was elected the tenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1830. ![]()
Biography of Stephen Decatur (excerpt)
Stephen Decatur, Jr. /dɪˈkeɪtər/, (5 January 1779 – 22 March 1820) was an American naval officer notable for his many naval victories in the early 19th century. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, Worcester county, the son of a U.
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Biography of Jules-Armand Dufaure (excerpt)
Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881) was a French statesman. Dufaure was born at Saujon, Charente-Maritime, and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratorical gifts. He abandoned law for politics, and in 1834 was elected deputy.
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Biography of Nicola Vaccai (excerpt)
Nicola Vaccai (15 March 1790 - 5 or 6 August 1848) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher. Life and career as a composer Born at Tolentino, he grew up in Pesaro, and studied music there until his parents sent him to Rome to study law. ![]()
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Cumberland is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland. It is the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 19,076. Located on the Potomac River, Cumberland is a regional business and commercial center for Western Maryland and the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. ![]()
Biography of Henri Braconnot (excerpt)
Henri Braconnot (May 29, 1780, Commercy, Meuse - January 15, 1855, Nancy) was a French chemist and pharmacist. He was born in Commercy, his father being a counsel at the local parliament. At the death of his father, in 1787, Henri began his instruction in an elementary school in Commercy and then with private teachers.
Biography of Louis de Beaupoil (excerpt)
Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire (9 April 1778, Baguer-Pican - 13 November 1854, Paris) was a French politician. Life After the École des ponts et chaussées and polytechnique (promotion X1794), he served as chamberlain to Napoleon I of France, then prefect of the Meuse in 1813 then of Haute-Garonne in 1814.
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Biography of Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (excerpt)
Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (11 June 1795 – 16 December 1856) was a French politician. He was born at Condom, Gers of a poor family of Irish extraction. He joined the army in 1813, and in the following year joined the household troops of Louis XVIII of France. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Bertin (excerpt)
Edouard Bertin, born October 7, 1797 in Paris, died in 1871, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Barbara of Austria (excerpt)
Barbara of Austria (30 April 1539 – 19 September 1572) was born in Innsbruck to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. From 1547, in Innsbruck with her sisters Magdalena, Margareta, Helena and Johanna, she received a deeply religious upbringing.
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Biography of Alexandre Guiraud (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Jeanne Alexandre Thérèse Guiraud better known as Alexandre Guiraud (24 December 1788; Limoux, Aude – 24 February 1847; Paris) was a French poet, dramatic author and novelist. Biography Son of a rich cloth merchant, he studied at the École de droit de Toulouse where he created a "Gymnase littéraire".
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Biography of Magnus, Duke of Östergötland (excerpt)
Magnus Vasa (July 25, 1542 – June 26, 1595), prince of Sweden, Duke of Östergötland from 1555. Magnus was the third son of king Gustav Vasa. His mother was queen Margareta Leijonhufvud. Biography Magnus was the only of Gustav Vasa's sons, except for Karl and Sten who died in infancy, that didn't become king of Sweden.
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Biography of Thomas Bugeaud (excerpt)
Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d'Isly (15 October 1784 – 10 June 1849) was a Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria. Early life He was born at Limoges, a member of a noble family of Périgord, the youngest of thirteen children. ![]()
Biography of Augustin Thierry (excerpt)
Augustin Thierry (or Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry, 10 May 1795 - 22 May 1856) was a French historian. He was born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, the elder brother of Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry. He had no advantages of birth or fortune, but was distinguished at the Blois Grammar School, and entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1811. ![]()
Biography of Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria (excerpt)
Maria Clementina of Austria (24 April 1777 – 15 November 1801) was an Austrian archduchess and the tenth child and third daughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Luisa of Spain. In 1797 she married her first cousin Hereditary Prince Francis of Naples, heir of Naples and Sicily. ![]()
Biography of Adolphe-Simonis Empis (excerpt)
Adolphe-Dominique Florent Joseph Simonis, known as Empis, b. 29 March 1795, Paris, d. 11 December 1868, Paris, was a French dramatist. Life and works After studying at the lycée Impérial, Empis became master clerk in a notary's office. It was in this capacity that he happened to be at the home of the composer Spontini, who lived in Paris at that time. ![]()
Biography of Sadi Carnot (physicist) (excerpt)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French: ; 1 June 1796 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics". In his only publication, the 1824 monograph Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, Carnot gave the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Antoine Berryer (excerpt)
Antoine Pierre Berryer (4 January 1790, Paris - 29 November 1868) was a French advocate and parliamentary orator. He was the twelfth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1852. Biography Early years Berryer was born in Paris, the son of an eminent advocate and counsellor to the parlement.
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Biography of Jean Vatout (excerpt)
Jean Vatout (French pronunciation: ; 26 May 1791, Villefranche-sur-Saône – 3 November 1848, Claremont, England) was a French poet and historian. He was the tenth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in January 1848. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Achim von Arnim (excerpt)
Ludwig Achim (or Joachim) von Arnim (26 January 1781 – 21 January 1831) was a German poet and novelist born in Berlin. Life Arnim was descended from a Prussian noble family. His father was Joachim Erdmann von Arnim (1741–1804), associated with the Prussian court and, among other roles, active as the Director of the Berlin theater. ![]()
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Binghamton is a city in, and the county seat of, Broome County, New York, United States. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. ![]()
Biography of Heinrich Steinway (excerpt)
Henry E. Steinway (February 22, 1797 – February 7, 1871) was a German piano manufacturer and the founder of Steinway & Sons. Steinway was born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg in Wolfshagen im Harz, Germany, and had a hard and poor childhood, because by the age of 15, his mother, father, and all of his siblings were dead from disease and tragedy.
Biography of Princess Cecilia of Sweden (excerpt)
Cecilia of Sweden, (Swedish: Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa) (Stockholm, 16 November 1540 – Brussels, 27 January 1627), was Princess of Sweden as the daughter of King Gustav I and his second queen, Margareta Leijonhufvud, a Swedish noble and Margravine of Baden-Rodemachern through marriage with Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern.
Biography of William Thomas Moncrieff (excerpt)
William Thomas Moncrieff (August 24, 1794 – December 3, 1857) was an English dramatist. He was born in London, the son of a Strand tradesman named Thomas. The name Moncrieff he assumed for theatrical purposes. Moncrieff's first success was at Astley’s circus with The Dandy Family an equestrian drama, and in 1820 The Lear of Private Life, with Junius Brutus Booth as hero, enjoyed a long run.
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Biography of Gabriel Lamé (excerpt)
Gabriel Léon Jean Baptiste Lamé (22 July 1795 – 1 May 1870) was a French mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity. Lamé was born in Tours, in today's département of Indre-et-Loire. ![]()
Biography of Constantius II (excerpt)
Constantius II (Latin: Flavius Julius Constantius Augustus; August 7, 317 – November 3, 361), was Roman Emperor from 337 to 361. The second son of Constantine I and Fausta, he ascended to the throne with his brothers Constantine II and Constans upon their father's death.
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Biography of Jean-Pierre Cortot (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Cortot (August 20, 1787 – August 12, 1843) was a French sculptor. Life Cortot was born and died in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome in 1809, residing in the Villa Medici in Rome from 1810 to 1813.
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Biography of Horace Vernet (excerpt)
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1 July 1789 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 17 January 1863) was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. Biography Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. ![]()
Biography of William Prout (excerpt)
William Prout FRS (15 January 1785 – 9 April 1850) was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian. He is remembered today mainly for what is called Prout's hypothesis. Biography Prout was born in Horton, Gloucestershire in 1785 and educated at 17 years of age by a clergyman, followed by the Redland Academy at Bristol and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 1811. ![]()
Biography of Yi Sun-sin (excerpt)
Yi Sun-sin (Hangul: 이순신; hanja: 李舜臣; April 28, 1545 in Hanseong (then capital, present-day Inhyeon-dong, Jung-gu District, Seoul) – December 16, 1598) was a Korean naval commander, famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon Dynasty, and is well-respected for his exemplary conduct on and off the battlefield not only by Koreans, but by Japanese Admirals as well. ![]()
Biography of Lewis Cass (excerpt)
Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, a U.S. Senator representing Michigan, and co-founder as well as first Masonic Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Michigan. ![]()
Biography of Alfonso II d'Este (excerpt)
Alfonso II d'Este (November 22, 1533 – October 27, 1597) was duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. He was a member of the house of Este. Biography He was the elder son of Ercole II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany.
Biography of Vuk Stefanović Karadzic (excerpt)
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Стефановић Караџић) (November 8, 1787 - February 7, 1864) was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language. Early life Karadžić was born to parents Stefan and Jegda (maiden Zrnić) in the village of Tršić, near Loznica in Serbia, which was then still a part of the Ottoman Empire.
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Biography of William Cranch Bond (excerpt)
William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 – January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory. Upbringing William Cranch Bond was born in Falmouth, Maine (now Portland) on September 9, 1789. When he was young, his father, William Bond, established himself as a clockmaker after a failed business venture; trained by his father and aided by his penchant for engineering, W. |
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