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Biography of Marco da Gagliano (excerpt)
Marco da Gagliano (1 May 1582 – 25 February 1643) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal. Life He was born in Florence and lived most of his life there. ![]()
Biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (excerpt)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams.
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Biography of Bernhard von Gudden (excerpt)
Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden (June 7, 1824 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - June 13, 1886) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist born in Kleve. In 1848 he earned his doctorate from the University of Halle, and became an intern at the asylum in Siegburg under Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi (1775–1858). ![]()
Biography of Carl Schurz (excerpt)
Carl Christian Schurz (German: ; March 2, 1829 in Libla (now Erftstadt) –May 14, 1906 in New York) was a German revolutionary, journalist, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army General in the American Civil War. He was also an accomplished journalist, newspaper editor and orator, who in 1869 became the first German-born American elected to the United States Senate.
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Biography of Zulma Bouffar (excerpt)
Zulma Madeleine Boufflar, known as Zulma Bouffar, born Nérac 23 May 1843, died Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames 20 January 1909, was a French actress and soprano singer, associated with the opéra-bouffe of Paris in the second half of the 19th century who enjoyed a successful career around Europe. ![]()
Biography of Karl von Piloty (excerpt)
Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 – 21 July 1886) was a German painter. Von Piloty was born in Munich. His father, Ferdinand Piloty (d. 1844), enjoyed a great reputation as a lithographer. In 1840 he was admitted as a student of the Munich Academy, under the artists Schorn and Schnorr.
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Biography of Auguste Beernaert (excerpt)
Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the 14th Prime Minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894. Born in Ostend, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1873, and became Minister of Public Works under Jules Malou, greatly improving the rail, canal and road systems. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Drumont (excerpt)
Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer. He founded the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder and editor of the newspaper La Libre Parole. Early life Drumont was born in Paris on 3 May 1844 to a family of porcelain-painters from Lille.
Biography of Sri Sumangala (excerpt)
Sri Sumangala, born on January 20, 1827 in Hikkaduwa, Galle, Ceylon, died on April 29, 1911, was an Indonesian high priest.
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Biography of Hippolyte Langlois (excerpt)
Hippolyte Langlois (3 August 1839 - 12 February 1912) was a French general noted for his writings on military science. He was born at Besançon, Doubs, and, after passing through the École polytechnique, was appointed to the artillery as sub-lieutenant in 1858, attaining the rank of captain in 1866.
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Biography of Francisque Sarcey (excerpt)
Francisque Sarcey (October 8, 1827 – May 16, 1899) was a French journalist and dramatic critic. He was born in Dourdan, Seine-et-Oise. After some years as schoolmaster, a job for which his temperament was ill-fitted, he entered journalism in 1858. He contributed to Le Figaro, L'Illustration, Le Gaulois, Le XIX' Siècle and other periodicals; but his main interest was dramatic criticism, of which he had his first experience in L'Opinion nationale in 1859.
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Biography of Ferdinand Brunetiere (excerpt)
Ferdinand Brunetière (18 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic. Biography Early years Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the outbreak of war in 1870 prevented him trying again. ![]()
Biography of Fernand Foureau (excerpt)
Fernand Foureau, born October 17, 1950 in Saint-Barbant (Haute-Vienne) and died in 1914, was a French engineer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions across the Sahara. ![]()
Biography of Ouida (excerpt)
Ouida (January 1, 1839 – January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). Biography Ramé was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, to a French father and an English mother.
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Biography of Raoul Ponchon (excerpt)
Raoul Ponchon, born December 30, 1848 in Napoléon-Vendée (now La Roche-sur-Yon), died December 3, 1937 in Paris, was a French writer, poet, and painter. Selected works * La Muse au cabaret, Fasquelle 1920, publié de son vivant. Réédition chez Cyral en 1925 (600 ex. ![]()
Biography of Pertinax (excerpt)
Pertinax (Latin: Publius Helvius Pertinax Augustus; 1 August 126 – 28 March 193), was Roman Emperor for three months in 193. He is known as the first emperor of the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors. A high ranking military and Senatorial figure, he tried to restore discipline in the Praetorian Guards, whereupon they rebelled and killed him. ![]()
Biography of Emile Boutroux (excerpt)
Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (July 28, 1845 - November 22, 1921) was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of Science and Religion, and an historian of Philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritual philosopher who defended the idea that religion and science are compatible at a time when the power of science was rising inexorably. ![]()
Biography of Karl Alfred von Zittel (excerpt)
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (September 25, 1839 - January 5, 1904), German palaeontologist, was born at Bahlingen in Baden. He was educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna.
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Biography of Isaac Parker (judge) (excerpt)
Isaac Charles Parker (October 15, 1838 – November 17, 1896) served as a U.S. District Judge, presiding over the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for 21 years. He served in this capacity during the western expansion of the United States—one of the most dangerous eras for U. ![]()
Biography of Louis Martin (excerpt)
Louis and Zélie Martin are the parents of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun who was canonized a saint and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church, one of only three women to receive that honor. She is also known as The Little Flower of Jesus. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Vaillant (excerpt)
Marie Édouard Vaillant (29 January 1840–18 December 1915) was a French politician. Born in in Vierzon, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then law at the Sorbonne. In Paris he knew Charles Longuet, Louis-Auguste Rogeard, and Jules Vallès.
Biography of Philip Bourke Marston (excerpt)
Philip Bourke Marston (13 August 1850 – 13 February 1887) was an English poet. He was born in London. His father, John Westland Marston (1819-1890), wrote verse dramas, and was a friend of Dickens, Macready and Charles Kean. Philip's godparents were Philip James Bailey and Dinah Mulock. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Charles Cazin (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Cazin (May 25, 1841 – March 17, 1901), French landscape painter and ceramicist, son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788-1864), was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art After studying in France, he went to England, where he was strongly influenced by the pre-Raphaelite movement.
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Biography of Louis Lepine (excerpt)
Louis Jean-Baptiste Lépine, born August 6, 1846 in Lyon and died November 10, 1933 in Paris, was an eminent lawyer, politician and inventor who was Prefect of Police (Préfet de Police) for Paris from 1893 to 1897 and again from 1899 to 1913. ![]()
Biography of Lucius Verus (excerpt)
Lucius Verus (Latin: Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus; 15 December 130 – 169), was Roman co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius, from 161 until his death. Early life and career Lucius Verus was the first born son to Avidia Plautia and Lucius Aelius Verus Caesar, the first adopted son and heir of Roman Emperor Hadrian (76–138).
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Biography of Constantin Meunier (excerpt)
Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905), Belgian painter and sculptor, was born in Etterbeek, Brussels. His first exhibit was a plaster sketch, "The Garland," shown at the Brussels Salon in 1851. Soon afterwards, on the advice of the painter Charles de Groux, he abandoned the chisel for the brush. ![]()
Biography of Simon Vouet (excerpt)
Simon Vouet (9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. Life His father Laurent was a painter in Paris and taught him the rudiments of art - Simon's brother Aubin Vouet (1595-1641) was also a painter. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (excerpt)
French politician, mayor of the second district of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Alexander Smith (poet) (excerpt)
Alexander Smith (31 December 1829 (source: Lescaut)- 5 January 1867, 8 January according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School. Life and works He was born in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the Scottish Lowlands south-west of Glasgow, the first of several children.
Biography of Paul-Louis Grolleron (excerpt)
Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron, born on June 14, 1848 in Seignelay, died in 1901, was a French artist and painter.
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Biography of Charles Paul Renouard (excerpt)
Charles Paul Renouard, born in Cour-Cheverny November 5, 1845 (source not archived), died in Paris January 2, 1924, was a French engravor, artist, painter and drawer. He was a member of Société des artistes Français and Société Nationale des Beaux-arts. Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions.
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Biography of George Dewey (excerpt)
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 – January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of heat stroke) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
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Biography of Charles Costa de Beauregard (excerpt)
Charles-Albert Costa de Beauregard (La Motte-Servolex, 24 May 1835 - Paris, 15 February 1909) was a French historian, author and politician. He also fought in the Franco-Prussian War. His works include a trilogy on Charles Albert of Sardinia. Works Un homme d'autrefois, souvenirs recueillis par son arrière-petit-fils (1878) Texte en ligne Mémoires historiques sur la maison royale de Savoie et sur les pays soumis à sa domination, depuis le commencement du XIe siècle jusqu'à l'année 1800 (1888) Un héritier présomptif. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Mallard (excerpt)
Ernest-François Mallard (February 4, 1833 in Châteauneuf-sur-Cher - July 6, 1894 in Paris) was a French mineralogist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Biography of David Younger (excerpt)
David Younger, born October 21, 1828 in Ecclefechan, died in 1905, was a Scottish botanist, physician and writer.
Biography of Hans Richter (excerpt)
Hans Richter (János Richter) (4 April 1843 – 5 December 1916) was an Austrian orchestral and operatic conductor. Richter was born in Raab (now Győr), Hungary, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He had a particular interest in the horn, and developed his conducting career at several different opera houses in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ![]()
Biography of Charles Francis Adams Jr. (excerpt)
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27, 1835 – May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war.
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Biography of Henri de Bornier (excerpt)
Henri, vicomte de Bornier (24 December 1825 in Lunel (source: Gauquelin Vol. 6/122) – January 1901) was a French poet and dramatist, born in Lunel (Hérault). He came to Paris in 1845 with the object of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comédie-Française accepted a play of his entitled Le Manage de Luther. ![]()
Biography of Paul-Albert Besnard (excerpt)
Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He won the Prix de Rome in 1874 with the painting Death of Timophanes ![]()
Biography of Edouard Colonne (excerpt)
Édouard Juda Colonne (23 July 1838 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 28 March 1910) was a French conductor and violinist. Born in Bordeaux, Colonne studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, where he won first prizes in both harmony and violin. For almost a decade (1858-67) he was first violinist at the Opéra in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Felipe Pedrell (excerpt)
Felip Pedrell (Spanish: Felipe)(19 February 1841, Tortosa – 19 August 1922, Barcelona), was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain.
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Biography of Benedetto Cairoli (excerpt)
Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian statesman. Biography Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament.
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Biography of Pierre de la Gorce (excerpt)
Pierre de La Gorce (29 June 1846, Vannes - 2 January 1934) was a French magistrate, lawyer and historian, as well as a member of the Académie française.
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Biography of Woldemar Bargiel (excerpt)
Woldemar Bargiel (October 3, 1828 – February 23, 1897) was a German composer of classical music. He was born in Berlin, and was the half brother of Clara Schumann. Bargiel’s father Adolph was a well-known piano and voice teacher while his mother Mariane had been unhappily married to Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck.
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Biography of Paolo Boselli (excerpt)
Paolo Boselli (June 8, 1838 (birth time source: Lescaut) – March 10, 1932) was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I. Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria. In June 1916 he was a relatively undistinguished center-right politician and one the oldest members of the Italian parliament, when he was appointed Prime Minister, following the collapse of the Salandra government as a result of military defeats.
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Biography of Guillaume Fouace (excerpt)
Guillaume Fouace, born May 22, 1837 in Réville (Manche), and died January 7, 1895 in Paris, was a French painter.
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Biography of Gustave Droz (excerpt)
Antoine Gustave Droz (June 9, 1832, Paris – October 22, 1895), French man of letters, son of the sculptor J. A. Droz (1807-1872), was born in Paris. He was a painter and a novelist. He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857.
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Biography of Jules Bastien-Lepage (excerpt)
Jules Bastien-Lepage (November 1, 1848 - December 10, 1884), French painter, was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse and spent his childhood there. He first studied at Verdun, and prompted by a love of art went in 1867 to Paris, where he was admitted to the École des Beaux-arts, working under Cabanel.
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Biography of Albert de Mun (excerpt)
Adrien Albert Marie, Comte de Mun (French pronunciation: ; 28 February 1841 - 1914) was a French political figure and reformer. Early life and politics He was born at Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, Seine-et-Marne. He entered the French Army, saw much service in Algeria (1862), and took part in the fighting around Metz in 1870 (during the Franco-Prussian War). ![]()
Biography of Adolf von Hildebrand (excerpt)
Adolf von Hildebrand (October 6, 1847 Marburg an der Lahn - January 18, 1921 Munich) was a sculptor, the son of Marburg economics professor Bruno Hildebrand. He was the author of Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst ("The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture"). |
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