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Biography of Azzone Visconti (excerpt)
Azzone Visconti (7 December 1302 – 16 August 1339) was lord of Milan from 1329 until his death. He is considered the founder of the state of Milan, which later became a duchy. Biography Born in Ferrara, he was the sole legitimate son of Galeazzo I Visconti and Beatrice d'Este.
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Biography of Albert Goblet d'Alviella (excerpt)
Albert Joseph, Count Goblet d'Alviella (26 May 1790–5 May 1873) was an officer in the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Later, he became a Belgian politician. Born in Tournai, Goblet first became an officer in the French army but in 1814, he came in service of the United Kingdom of The Netherlands.
Biography of Charles Brifaut (excerpt)
Charles Brifaut (15 February 1781, Dijon - 5 June 1857, Paris) was a French poet, journalist, publicist and playwright. Life A liberal royalist, he edited the Gazette de France and attended the salon of Madame Vigée-Lebrun. He also worked as a censor and it was he who the interior minister entrusted with controlling Hernani and with warning Victor Hugo that Marion Delorme had been stopped (that play would not be put on until two years later). ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Soumet (excerpt)
Alexandre Soumet (February 8, 1788 - March 30, 1845), French poet, was born at Castelnaudary, département of Aude. His father wished him to enter the army, but an early-developed love of poetry turned the boy's ambition in other directions. He was an admirer of Klopstock and Schiller, then little known in France, and reproached Madame de Staël with lack of enthusiasm for her subject in De l'Allemagne. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charles Bélanger (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger (4 April 1790 – 8 May 1874) was a French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He was a professor at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in France. ![]()
Biography of Delphine LaLaurie (excerpt)
Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans Creole socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household.
Biography of Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (excerpt)
Raymond-Jean-Baptiste de Verninac Saint-Maur, born on June 11, 1794 in Souillac (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on February 11, 1873 in Souillac, was a French Naval Minister . ![]()
Biography of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (excerpt)
Carlos, Prince of Asturias, also known as Don Carlos (8 July 1545 – 24 July 1568), was the eldest son and heir-apparent of King Philip II of Spain. His mother was Maria Manuela of Portugal, daughter of John III of Portugal.
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Biography of Rainer Joseph of Austria (excerpt)
Rainer Joseph of Austria (30 September 1783 – 16 January 1853) was a Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia from 1818 to 1848. He was also an Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia. Biography Rainer was a son of Emperor Leopold II and Empress Maria Luisa, and was thus a younger brother of Emperor Franz I. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand I of Austria (excerpt)
Ferdinand I (19 April 1793 – 29 June 1875) was Emperor of Austria, President of the German Confederation, King of Hungary and Bohemia (as Ferdinand V), as well as associated dominions from the death of his father, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, until his abdication after the Revolutions of 1848. ![]()
Biography of Eugène de Beauharnais (excerpt)
Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was the first child and only son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, first wife of Napoleon I. He was born in Paris, France, and became the stepson and adopted child (but not the heir to the imperial throne) of Napoleon I. ![]()
Biography of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Henry IV (German: Heinrich IV; 11 November 1050 – 7 August 1106) ascended to King of the Germans in 1056. From 1084 until his forced abdication in 1105, he was also referred to as the King of the Romans and Holy Roman Emperor.
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Biography of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (excerpt)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, KG (10 March 1536 – 2 June 1572) was an English nobleman. Norfolk was the son of the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He was taught as a child by John Foxe, the Protestant martyrologist, who remained a lifelong recipient of Norfolk's patronage.
Biography of Caroline Aupick (excerpt)
Caroline Aupick, née Dufaÿs, born on September 27, 1797 in London, died on August 16, 1871 in Honfleur, is the mother of French poet Baudelaire. Bibliography Auguste Auzas, Lettres de Madame Veuve Aupick à Charles Asselineau, t. XCIX, Mercure de France, 16 septembre 1912, p. ![]()
Biography of Augustin-Louis Cauchy (excerpt)
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy FRS FRSE (French: ; 21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician reputed as a pioneer of analysis. He was one of the first to state and prove theorems of calculus rigorously, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors.
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Biography of Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (excerpt)
Anna of Austria (1 November 1549 – 26 October 1580) was Queen of Spain by virtue of her marriage to her uncle, King Philip II of Spain. Family She was the youngest daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain. ![]()
Biography of Amy Robsart (excerpt)
Amy Dudley (née Robsart) (7 June 1532 – 8 September 1560) was the first wife of Lord Robert Dudley, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. She is primarily known for her death by falling down a flight of stairs, the circumstances of which have often been regarded as suspicious. ![]()
Biography of Lettice Knollys (excerpt)
Lettice Knollys (/ˈnoʊlz/ nohlz, sometimes called Laetitia, also known as Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester (8 November 1543 – 25 December 1634), was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Lady Penelope Rich, although via her marriage to Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, she incurred the Queen's unrelenting displeasure.
Biography of Saverio Mercadante (excerpt)
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (baptised 17 September 1795 – 17 December 1870) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique. ![]()
Biography of Alessandro Manzoni (excerpt)
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (Italian: ; 7 March 1785 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I Promessi Sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. ![]()
Biography of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (excerpt)
Konstantin Pavlovich 27 April 1779 (8 May 1779 Gregorian Calendar) – 27 June 1831) was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the Tsesarevich of Russia throughout the reign of his elder brother Alexander I, but had secretly renounced his claim to the throne in 1823.
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Biography of William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (excerpt)
William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire KG, PC (21 May 1790 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire" by Brian Masters (Hamish Hamilton, 1981), p. 185) – 18 January 1858), styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was a British peer, courtier and Whig politician. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Victor Poncelet (excerpt)
Jean-Victor Poncelet (July 1, 1788 – December 22, 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the commandant general of the École polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century. ![]()
Biography of Frederick William IV of Prussia (excerpt)
Frederick William IV (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV.; 15 October 1795 – 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861. Also referred to as the "romanticist on the throne", he is best remembered for the many buildings he had constructed in Berlin and Potsdam, as well as for the completion of the Gothic Cologne cathedral.
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Biography of Pierre Berthier (excerpt)
Pierre Berthier (3 July 1782, Nemours, Seine-et-Marne – 24 August 1861) was a French geologist and mining engineer. Pierre Berthier was born in Nemours. After studying at the École Polytechnique, he went to the École des Mines, where he became chief of the laboratory in 1816. ![]()
Biography of William Swainson (excerpt)
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist. Life Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of John Timothy Swainson, an original fellow of the Linnean Society.
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Biography of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (excerpt)
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (Dutch pronunciation: ; 31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director. Biography Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born on 31 March 1778 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. From his father, who was treasurer of the Dutch East India Company, he inherited a large collection of bird specimens. ![]()
Biography of William Hazlitt (excerpt)
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.
Biography of Eliza Courtney (excerpt)
Eliza Courtney (20 February 1792 – 2 May 1859) was the illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and the society beauty Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana was married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. ![]()
Biography of Andrew Smith (zoologist) (excerpt)
Sir Andrew Smith KCB (3 December 1797 – 11 August 1872) was a Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. ![]()
Biography of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (excerpt)
Roger de Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (25 April 1287 – 29 November 1330), was an English nobleman and powerful Marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville.
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Biography of Mirza Ghalib (excerpt)
Ghalib (Urdu: غاؔلب; Hindi: ग़ालिब) born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu: مرزا اسد اللہ بیگ خان; Hindi: मिर्ज़ा असदुल्लाह् बेग खiन), on 27 December 1797 – died 15 February 1869), was a prominent Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.
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Biography of Philippe de Vitry (excerpt)
Philippe de Vitry (31 October 1291 – 9 June 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, and may also have been the author of the Ars Nova treatise. He was widely acknowledged as the greatest musician of his day, with Petrarch writing a glowing tribute, calling him: ".
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Biography of Michel Bizot (excerpt)
Michel Brice Bizot, born on October 3, 1795 in Bitche, died on April 15, 1855, was a French divisional general.
Biography of Pierre Louis Dulong (excerpt)
Pierre Louis Dulong (13 February 1785 – 19 July 1838) was a French physicist and chemist, remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit. He worked on the specific heat capacity and the expansion and refractive indices of gases.
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Biography of Michel Chasles (excerpt)
Michel Floréal Chasles (15 November 1793 – 18 December 1880) was a French mathematician. He was born at Épernon in France and studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris under Siméon Denis Poisson. In the War of the Sixth Coalition he was drafted to fight in the defence of Paris in 1814.
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Biography of Archduke John of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke John of Austria (German: Erzherzog Johann Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian von Österreich; 20 January 1782 – 11 May 1859), a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, was an Austrian field marshal and Imperial regent (Reichsverweser) of the emerging German Empire during the Revolutions of 1848. ![]()
Biography of William Henry Sleeman (excerpt)
Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman KCB (8 August 1788 – 10 February 1856) was a British soldier and administrator in British India, best known for his work suppressing Thuggee activity. Early life and career Sleeman he was born in Stratton, Cornwall, the son of Philip Sleeman, a yeoman and supervisor of excise of St Tudy.
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Biography of John Conroy (excerpt)
Sir John Ponsonby Conroy, 1st Baronet KCH (Irish: Seán Ó Maolchonaire; 21 October 1786 – 2 March 1854) was a British army officer who served as comptroller to the Duchess of Kent and her young daughter, Princess Victoria, the future Queen of the United Kingdom. ![]()
Biography of George Onslow (composer) (excerpt)
André George Louis Onslow (27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853) was a French composer of English descent. His wealth, position and personal tastes allowed him to pursue a path unfamiliar to most of his French contemporaries, more similar to that of his contemporary German romantic composers; his music also had a strong following in Germany and in England.
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Biography of James Dunlop (excerpt)
James Dunlop FRSE FRS (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was a Scottish astronomer, noted for his work in Australia. He served as astronomer's assistant who was hired by Sir Thomas Brisbane to work at his private observatory, once located at Paramatta (now named Parramatta), New South Wales, about 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Sydney during the 1820s and 1830s. ![]()
Biography of Louis Spohr (excerpt)
Louis Spohr (5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859), born Ludwig Spohr, was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten symphonies, ten operas, eighteen violin concerti, four clarinet concerti, four oratorios and various works for small ensemble, chamber music and art songs.
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Biography of Arthur Morin (excerpt)
Arthur Jules Morin (17 October 1795 – 7 February 1880) was a French physicist. He conducted experiments in mechanics and invented the Morin dynamometer. In 1850, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
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Biography of Antoine Becquerel (excerpt)
Antoine César Becquerel (March 7, 1788 – January 18, 1878) was a French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena. Life He was born at Châtillon-sur-Loing (today Châtillon-Coligny). After passing through the École polytechnique he became engineer-officer in 1808, and saw active service with the imperial troops in Spain from 1810 to 1812, and again in France in 1814.
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Biography of Ludwig Uhland (excerpt)
Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862), was a German poet, philologist and literary historian. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry. ![]()
Biography of Eugénie Niboyet (excerpt)
Eugénie Mouchon-Niboyet (September 9, 1796 (birth time and date source: FDAF, birth certificate) – January 6, 1883) was a French author, journalist and early feminist. She is best known for founding La Voix des Femmes (The Women's Voice), the first feminist daily newspaper in France. ![]()
Biography of Charles Maturin (excerpt)
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1782 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Jefferson Hogg (excerpt)
Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hogg was raised in County Durham, but spent most of his life in London. ![]()
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Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States and the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for the 2024 presidential election, was shot in the right ear on July 13, 2024, at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooting is being investigated as an attempted assassination. ![]()
Biography of Henriette d'Angeville (excerpt)
Henriette d'Angeville (10 March 1794 in Semur-en-Auxois (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 13 January 1871 in Lausanne) was the second woman to climb Mont Blanc. |
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