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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.
Biography of John Boyd Dunlop (excerpt)
John Boyd Dunlop (February 5, 1840 – October 23, 1921), born in Scotland, was the inventor who was one of the founders of the rubber company that bore his name, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company. He was born on a farm in Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, and studied to be a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet, University of Edinburgh, a profession he pursued for nearly ten years at home, moving to Belfast, Ireland, in 1867.
Biography of Edouard Detaille (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille (October 5, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - December 23, 1912), was a French Academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. Detaille was a student of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. He served in the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and became the official painter of the battles.
Biography of G. Stanley Hall (excerpt)
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 - April 24, 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University.
Biography of Edmond Gondinet (excerpt)
Edmond Gondinet (March 7, 1828; Laurière – November 19, 1888; Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French playwright and librettist. This author, nearly forgotten today, produced forty plays of which several were successful. He collaborated with Alphonse Daudet and Eugène Labiche, among others. Plays (extract)
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Faure (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Faure, born January 15, 1830 in Moulins, died in 1914, was a French baritone.
Biography of Amable de Bourzeys (excerpt)
Amable de Bourzeis (6 April 1606, Volvic - 2 August 1672, Paris) was a French churchman, writer, hellenist, and Academician. A founding member of the Académie française, in 1663 Jean-Baptiste Colbert also made him one of the five founding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Biography of François Crépin (excerpt)
François Crépin (30 October 1830 in Rochefort, Belgium – 30 April 1903 in Brussels) was an important botanist of the 19th century and director of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. The genus Crepinella (Araliaceae) is named after him.
Biography of Henri Filhol (excerpt)
Henri Filhol (May 11, 1843 in Toulouse (source: Lescaut) – April 28, 1902 in Paris) was a French medical doctor, malacologist and naturalist. He served as the expedition doctor and naturalist on the French 1874 Transit of Venus expedition to Campbell Island, New Zealand, with a peak on the island, Filhol Peak, being named after him.
Biography of Alexandre Chatrian (excerpt)
Alexandre Chatrian (17 December 1826 (Wikipedia gives 18 December by mistake) – 3 September 1890) was a French writer, associated with the region of Alsace-Lorraine. Almost all of his works were written jointly with Émile Erckmann under the name Erckmann-Chatrian. Success Recognition came in 1859 and they became well known as fantasy writers under the pseudonym of Émile Erckmann-Chatrian.
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 Jules Garnier (excerpt)
Jules Garnier, born January 22, 1847, died in 1889, was a French impressionist painter.
Biography of Jules Vandenpeereboom (excerpt)
Jules Henri Pierre François Vandenpeereboom (18 March 1843–6 March 1917) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Vandenpeereboom was born in Kortrijk and educated as a lawyer. He represented Kortrijk in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1878 to 1900. He held several ministerial posts, beginning with Railways, Posts and Telegraphs, from 1884 to 1899.
Biography of John Ambrose Fleming (excerpt)
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (November 29, 1849 - April 18, 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He also invented the right hand rule, used in mathematics and electronics.
Biography of Gustavo Aldolfo Becquer (excerpt)
Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, (Seville February 17, 1836; Madrid (December 22, 1870) was an Andalusian post-romanticist writer of poetry and short stories, now considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier.
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Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein and also the seat of the national parliament. The city, which is located along the Rhine River, has 5,696 residents. The most prominent landmark of Vaduz is Vaduz Castle, being perched atop a steep hill in the middle of the city.
Biography of Oskar Hertwig (excerpt)
Oscar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hesse - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850-1937).
Biography of Louis-Antoine Ranvier (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (b. Lyon, France, October 2, 1835; d. Vendranges, France, March 22, 1922, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of the myelin sheath and the nodes of Ranvier, subcellular structure which covers the axons of neurons. Ranvier studied medicine at Lyon, graduating in 1865.
Biography of James Hamilton (excerpt)
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (June 17 (June 27, Gregorian calendar), 1606 – March 9, 1649), Scottish nobleman and Civil war General. Young Arran The son of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton, and of the Lady Anne Cunningham, daughter of James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn, was born on 19 June 1606 in Coalburn, Scotland.
Biography of Elme-Marie Caro (excerpt)
Elme Marie Caro (March 4, 1826, Poitiers, Vienne – July 13, 1887, Paris), was a French philosopher. His father, a professor of philosophy, gave him an excellent education at the Stanislas College and the École Normale, where he graduated in 1848. After being professor of philosophy at several provincial universities, he received the degree of doctor, and came to Paris in 1858 as master of conferences at the École Normale.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827(birth time source: Didier Geslain) – October 12, 1875) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio.
Biography of Giuseppe Zanardelli (excerpt)
Giuseppe Zanardelli (October 29, 1826 – December 26, 1903) was an Italian jurisconsult, nationalist and political figure. He was prime minister of Italy from February 15, 1901 to November 3, 1903. Biography Giuseppe Zanardelli was born at Concesio (Lombardy). A combatant in the volunteer corps during the war of 1848, he returned to Brescia after the defeat of Novara, and for a time earned a livelihood by teaching law, but was molested by the Austrian police and forbidden to teach in consequence of his refusal to contribute pro-Austrian articles to the press.
Biography of Emile Pouvillon (excerpt)
Emile Pouvillon (1840 - 1906), French novelist, was born at Montauban (Tarn et Garonne). He published in 1878 a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles réalistes. Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy, he painted its scenery and its life with great clearness of outline and without exaggeration.
Biography of Luther Burbank (excerpt)
Luther Burbank (7 March 1849 – 11 April 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables.
Biography of Louis Comfort Tiffany (excerpt)
Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements.
Biography of Louis Emile Bertin (excerpt)
Louis-Émile Bertin (March 23,1840-1924) was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships. Early life Bertin was born in Nancy, France in 1840.
Biography of John Batterson Stetson (excerpt)
John Batterson Stetson (May 5, 1830 - February 18, 1906) was a U.S. hatter, hat manufacturer, and, in the 1860s, the inventor of the cowboy hat. He founded the John B. Stetson Company as a manufacturer of headwear; the company's hats are now commonly referred to simply as Stetsons.
Biography of Gaston Paris (excerpt)
Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (August 9, 1839 – March 5, 1903), known as Gaston Paris, was a French writer and scholar. Biography Paris was born at Avenay (Marne). In his childhood, he learned to appreciate Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse for the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at Bonn (1856) and at the École des chartes.
Biography of Louis-Paul Cailletet (excerpt)
Louis-Paul Cailletet (21 September 1832 – 5 January 1913) was a French physicist and inventor. Life and work Cailletet was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d'Or. Educated in Paris, Cailletet returned to Chatillon to manage his father's ironworks. In an effort to determine the cause of accidents that occurred while tempering incompletely forged iron, Cailletet found that heating the iron put it in a highly unstable state, with gases dissolved in it.
Biography of Wilhelm Raabe (excerpt)
Wilhelm Raabe (September 8, 1831 – November 15, 1910), German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born at Eschershausen (then in the Duchy of Brunswick, now in the Holzminden District). He served apprenticeship at a bookseller's in Magdeburg for four years (1849-1854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied philosophy at Berlin (1855-1857).
Biography of Paul Mansion (excerpt)
Paul Mansion, born June 3, 1844 in Huy, died April 16, 1919 in Ghent, was a Belgian mathematician, the father of philosopher Augustin Mansion. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Biography of Wilhelm Dilthey (excerpt)
Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833 – October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
Biography of Antoine Godeau (excerpt)
Antoine Godeau (born in September 24 in Dreux, France, 1605; died in Vence, 21 April 1672) was a French bishop, poet and exegete. He is now known for his work of criticism Discours de la poésie chrétienne from 1633. Life His verse-writing early won the interest of a relative in Paris, Valentin Conrart, at whose house the literary world gathered.
Biography of Jean Béraud (excerpt)
ean Béraud (January 12, 1849 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives from the Quai d'Orsay) – October 4, 1935) was a French Impressionist painter and commercial artist noted for his paintings of Parisian life during the Belle Époque. Biography Béraud was born in Saint Petersburg.
Biography of Constantijn Huygens (excerpt)
Constantijn Huygens (September 4, 1596, The Hague - March 28, 1687, The Hague) was a Dutch poet and composer, Secretary to two Princes, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. He is often considered a member of what is known as the Muiderkring, a group of leading intellectuals gathered around Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, who met regularly at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam.
Biography of Mihai Eminescu (excerpt)
Mihai Eminescu (Romanian pronunciation: ( listen); born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and he worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"), the official newspaper of the Conservative Party (1880–1918).
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Springfield is the third largest city in the state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 159,498. As of 2019, the Census Bureau estimated its population at 167,882. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which has a population of 462,369 and includes the counties of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, and Webster.
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St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri. Small parts of St. Joseph extend into Andrew County. Located on the Missouri River, it is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas.
Biography of Alfred Naquet (excerpt)
Alfred Naquet, born October 6, 1834 in Carpentras, died November 10, 1916 in Paris, was a French chimist, physician and politician.
Biography of Louis Boussenard (excerpt)
Louis Henri Boussenard (4 October 1847 – 11 September 1911) was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed the French Rider Haggard during his lifetime but better known today in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries. As a measure of his popularity, forty volumes of his collected works were published in Imperial Russia in 1911.
Biography of Daniel Burnham (excerpt)
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.
Biography of Mathilde Blind (excerpt)
Mathilde Blind (21 March 1841 - 1896) (born Mathilde Cohen), was a poet. She was born at Mannheim, Germany, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind. She published several books of poetry, including The Prophecy of St.
Biography of August Weismann (excerpt)
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann (Birth. January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main; Death. November 5, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau, ) was a German biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.
Biography of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (excerpt)
Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges (French) or Filips Eugeen Ferdinand Marie Clemens Boudewijn Leopold Joris (Dutch); 24 March 1837-17 November 1905) was the third born (but second surviving) son of King Leopold I of the Belgians and his wife Louise Marie d'Orleans (1812-1850).
Biography of Albert Maignan (excerpt)
Albert Pierre René Maignan, born October 14, 1845 in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died September 29, 1908 in Saint-Prix, was a French painter and illustrator. Bibliography Dominique Mallet, Albert Maignan et son oeuvre. Conférence au Mans le 14 novembre 1912.
Biography of Otto of Bavaria (excerpt)
Otto (German: Otto Wilhelm Luitpold Adalbert Waldemar von Wittelsbach; 27 April 1848 – 11 October 1916), was King of Bavaria from 1886 to 1913. He was the son of Maximilian II and his wife, Marie of Prussia, and younger brother of Ludwig II.
Biography of Mily Balakirev (excerpt)
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев, pronounced (listen); 2 January 1837 – 29 May 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Biography of Carry Nation (excerpt)
Carry Nation, born November 25, 1846 in Little Hickman, Kentucky and died June 9, 1911, was an American social activist.
Biography of Charles de Freycinet (excerpt)
Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (French pronunciation: ; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman and Prime Minister during the Third Republic; he belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteen member to occupy seat the Académie française.
Biography of Carlos Finlay (excerpt)
Carlos Juan Finlay (born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barrés; December 3, 1833, Puerto Principe, Cuba – August 20, 1915, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban physician and scientist, recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research. Early life and education Finlay was born in Puerto Principe, Cuba, of French and Scottish descent. |
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