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Biography of Edwin A. Abbott (excerpt)
Edwin Abbott Abbott FBA (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). Biography Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806–1882).
Biography of Blind Tom Wiggins (excerpt)
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins (May 25, 1849 – June 14, 1908) was an African American autistic savant and musical prodigy on the piano. He had numerous original compositions published and had a lengthy and largely successful performing career throughout the United States.
Biography of Arthur Coquard (excerpt)
Arthur Coquard (26 May 1846 – 20 August 1910) was a French composer and music critic. He studied composition with César Franck, and was a music critic for Le Monde and Echo de Paris. He served as director of the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles from 1891–99.
Biography of Henry Becque (excerpt)
enry François Becque (18 April 1837 – May 1899), French dramatist, was born in Lille. In 1867, he wrote, in imitation of Lord Byron, the libretto for Victorin de Joncières's opera Sardanapale, but his first important work, Michel Pauper, appeared in 1870.
Biography of Oscar Roty (excerpt)
Louis-Oscar Roty usually known as Oscar Roty (11 June 1846 – 23 March 1911) was one of the most celebrated medallists of the Art Nouveau period. Biography Louis-Oscar Roty was born on 11 June 1846 in Paris. He first studied painting and sculpture, working under Lecoq de Boisboudran, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and François-Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme.
Biography of Randal Cremer (excerpt)
Sir William Randal Cremer (18 March 1828 – 22 July 1908) usually known by his middle name "Randal", was an English Liberal Member of Parliament and pacifist. Cremer was elected as the Secretary of the International Workingmen's Association in 1865, but resigned two years later.
Biography of Albert Robida (excerpt)
Albert Robida (March 14, 1848, Compiègne, Oise – October 11, 1926) was an illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, journalist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels.
Biography of Charles Wolf (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Étienne Wolf (November 9, 1827 in Vorges – July 4, 1918) was a French astronomer. In 1862, Urbain Le Verrier offered him a post as assistant at the Paris Observatory. In 1867 he and Georges Rayet discovered Wolf-Rayet stars. Note however that the nearby red dwarf Wolf 359 was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf and not by him.
Biography of Robert Bridges (excerpt)
Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. Life Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and intended to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry.
Biography of Carl Wilhelm Siemens (excerpt)
Carl Wilhelm Siemens (en: Charles William Siemens, known as Sir William Siemens) (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883) was a German engineer. He was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Hanover, Germany, where his father, Christian Ferdinand Siemens (July 31, 1787-January 16, 1840), a tenant farmer, farmed an estate belonging to the Crown.
Biography of Albert Bierstadt (excerpt)
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lush, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.
Biography of Émile Waldteufel (excerpt)
Émile Waldteufel (9 December 1837 – 12 February 1915) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of dance music. Life Émile Waldteufel (German for forest devil) was born in Strasbourg to a Jewish Alsatian family of musicians. The original surname of the family was Lévy.
Biography of Francis Charmes (excerpt)
Marie François, known as Francis Charmes (21 April 1848, château de Baradel, Aurillac - 4 January 1916, Paris) was a French journalist, diplomat, civil servant, politician, author and academician. He was an Officer of the Légion d'honneur.
Biography of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (excerpt)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (October 11, 1825 – November 28, 1898) was a poet and, as he was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a fellow-townsman of Gottfried Keller. Meyer is a master of the novella, but in all other respects there is a most striking difference.
Biography of Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (excerpt)
Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (December 31, 1827, Marseille - July 10, 1895, Château-Puys, near Dieppe) was a famed French operatic soprano, particularly associated with light lyric and coloratura roles. Born Marie Caroline Félix-Miolan, she studied first with her father, François Félix-Miolan, an oboist, and later at the Paris Conservatory with Gilbert Duprez.
Biography of Sidney Sonnino (excerpt)
Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino (March 11, 1847 – November 24, 1922) was an Italian politician. Sonnino was born in Pisa to an Italian father of Jewish heritage (Giorgio Sonnino, who converted himself to Anglicanism) and a Welsh mother. He was raised as a Protestant.
Biography of Cecco Bravo (excerpt)
Cecco Bravo (15 November 1601 – 1661) was an Italian painter of the Florentine Baroque school. His true name is Francesco Montelatici. Biography He trained with Giovanni Biliverti and was also close to Sigismondo Coccapani. In the early 1620s he worked in the studio of Matteo Rosselli.
Biography of Henri Boudet (excerpt)
Henri Boudet, born November 17, 1837 in Quillan, Aude (source not archived), died March 30, 1915 in Axat (bowel cancer), was a French Catholic priest and writer. Bibliography Du Nom de Narbonne (Circa 1880) La Vraie Langue Celtique ou le Cromleck de Rennes-Les-Bains (1886)
Biography of Henry Dupray (excerpt)
Henry Dupray, born November 3, 1831 in Sedan, died in 1909 in Paris, was one of the "Masters" of twentieth century Painter of portraits and military subjects.
Biography of Hasan al-Askari (excerpt)
Hasan al-‘Askarī (Arabic: الإمام الحسن بن علي العسكري) (Eighth of Rabi' al-thani 232 AH – Eighth of Rabi' al-awwal 260 AH; approximately: 1 December 846 – 1 January 874) was the eleventh of the Twelve Imams. His given name was Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Muhammad.
Biography of Clay Allison (excerpt)
Robert Clay Allison (September 2, 1840 – July 3, 1887) was a Texas cattle rancher and gunfighter. He is one of the best known historic figures of the American Old West. Early life Born Robert Clay Allison, he was the fourth of the nine children of Jeremiah Scotland Allison and his wife Mariah R.
Biography of Anton Seidl (excerpt)
Anton Seidl (7 May 1850 – 28 March 1898) was a Hungarian conductor. Biography He was born at Pest, Hungary. He began the study of music at a very early age, and when only seven years old could pick out at the piano melodies which he had heard at the theatre.
Biography of Guido Cagnacci (excerpt)
Guido Cagnacci (January 19, 1601 – 1663) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, belonging to the Forlì painting school and to the Bolognese School. Born in Santarcangelo di Romagna near Rimini, he died in Vienna in 1663. He worked in Rimini from 1627 to 1642.
Biography of Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden (excerpt)
Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, (born at Örebro Castle March 10, 1596 – died at Bråborg palace August 7, 1618), was a Swedish princess, daughter of king Charles IX of Sweden and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, and by marriage duchess of Ostrogothia.
Biography of Jules Claretie (excerpt)
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (3 December 1840 – 23 December 1913) was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français. He was born at Limoges. After studying at the lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he became a journalist, achieving great success as dramatic critic to Le Figaro and to the Opinion nationale.
Biography of Marcel Deprez (excerpt)
Marcel Deprez (December 29, 1843 - October 13, 1918) was a French electrical engineer. He was born in Chatillon-sur-Loing. He died in Vincennes. At Creil, from 1876 to 1886, Deprez conducted the first experiments to transmit electrical power over long distances. At the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris in 1881, Deprez undertook the task of presenting an electricity distribution system based on the long-distance transport of direct current.
Biography of Charles Meray (excerpt)
Hugues Charles Robert Méray (born November 12, 1835 in Chalon-sur-Saône; died February 2, 1911 in Dijon) was a French mathematician. He is noted as the first to publish an arithmetical theory of irrational numbers. His work did not have much of a role in the history of mathematics because France, at that time, was less interested in such matters than Germany.
Biography of Wilhelm Leibl (excerpt)
Wilhelm Leibl (October 23, 1844 – December 4, 1900) was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life. Leibl was born in Cologne and in 1861 began his first training with Hermann Becker, a local painter. He entered the Munich Academy in 1864, subsequently studying with several artists including Carl Theodor von Piloty.
Biography of Carl Spitteler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919. His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems. Spitteler was born in Liestal, and from 1863 he studied law at the University of Zurich.
Biography of Willem Maris (excerpt)
Willem Maris (February 18, 1844, The Hague - October 10, 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. He got his first lessons in drawing from his brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris. For a while he followed evening classes at the Hague Academy and later continued his studies with the cattle painter Stortenbeker.
Biography of Charles Taze Russell (excerpt)
Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an American early 20th century Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement. After his death, Jehovah's Witnesses and numerous independent Bible Student groups developed from this base.
Biography of William Osler (excerpt)
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (/ˈɒz.lə/, July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training.
Biography of Joseph Rollet (excerpt)
Joseph Rollet, born November 12, 1824 in Lagnieu, died in 1894, was a French physician and researcher.
Biography of Paul Alexandre Protais (excerpt)
Paul Alexandre Protais, born October 17, 1826 in Paris, died in 1890, was a French painter.
Biography of Heinrich Albert (composer) (excerpt)
Heinrich Albert (8 July 1604 Bad Lobenstein – 6 October 1651 Königsberg) was a German composer and poet. He began studying music in 1622 with his cousin, the composer and musician Heinrich Schütz, in Dresden. He then went to study law in Leipzig; however, he continued to compose arias.
Biography of Agar (actress) (excerpt)
Marie Léonide Charvin, best known as Agar, born on September 18, 1832 in Sedan (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on August 15, 1891 in Mustapha, Algeria, was a French comedian, one of the most famous comedians with Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt.
Biography of Anna Leonowens (excerpt)
Anna Harriette Leonowens (5 November 1831 (sources: Wikipedia in German and French) – 19 January 1915) born Anna Harriett Emma Edwards, was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist. Her experiences in Siam (Thailand) were fictionalised in Margaret Landon's 1944 best-selling novel Anna and the King of Siam, as well as films and television series based on the book, most notably Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical The King and I.
Biography of Alexandre-Joseph Consil (excerpt)
Pierre-Alexandre-Joseph Consil, often called Kopierre or Giant Kopierre, born on May 25, 1834 in Auberchicourt, doed on December 28, 1909 in Aniche, was a French military and drum major.
Biography of Ferdinand Sarrien (excerpt)
Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien (1840-1915) was a French politician of the Third Republic. He headed a cabinet supported by the Bloc des gauches (Left-Wings Coalition) parliamentary majority. Sarrien's Ministry, 12 March - 25 October 1906 Ferdinand Sarrien - President of the Council and Minister of Justice
Biography of Girolamo Frescobaldi (excerpt)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (Italian pronunciation: ; September 9, 1583 – March 1, 1643) was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio Mayone, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, and Claudio Merulo.
Biography of Albert Abraham Michelson (excerpt)
Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Biography of Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (excerpt)
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (19 May 1827 – 26 October 1896) was a French statesman. Biography He was born in Avranches in the Manche département of northwestern France. After passing through the École Normale Supérieure he became professor of philosophy successively at Pau and at Limoges.
Biography of Cole Younger (excerpt)
Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger (January 15, 1844 - March 21, 1916) was an American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War and later an outlaw with the James-Younger gang. He was the eldest brother of Jim, John and Bob Younger. Early life
Biography of Eugène Simon (excerpt)
Eugène Simon (30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species.
Biography of Gustave Brion (excerpt)
Gustave Brion, born November 4, 1824 in Rothau, Alsace, died November 6, 1877, was a French realist painter. Bibliography Hélène Chew, « Gustave Brion, illustrateur d'archéologie, ou le "désigneux de l'Empereur" », Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire, n° 47, 2004 , p.
Biography of William M. Tweed (excerpt)
William Magear Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) – often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed (see below), and widely known as "Boss" Tweed – was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State.
Biography of Thomas Eakins (excerpt)
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia.
Biography of Olimpia Maidalchini (excerpt)
Olimpia Maidalchini (born on 26 May 1591 – died on 27 September 1657), also spelled Olympia and known as Donna Olimpia, was the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X (Pamphili) (1644–1655). Early life Maidalchini was born in Viterbo, daughter of Sforza Maidalchini, a condottiere, and Vittoria Gualterio, patrician of Orvieto and Rome, noble of Viterbo (illegitimate daughter of Sebastiano Gualterio, Bishop of Viterbo, Papal Nuncio to France and the Council of Trent).
Biography of John Pemberton (excerpt)
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola. Background Pemberton was born July 8, 1831, in Knoxville, Crawford County, Georgia. His father was James C. Pemberton. Pemberton was raised in Rome, Georgia.
Biography of Charles Monselet (excerpt)
Charles Monselet (30 April 1825, Nantes - 19 May 1888, Paris) was a French journalist, novelist, poet and playwright, nicknamed "the king of the gastronomes" by his contemporaries. He specialised in comedic and romantic novels and his total output was around 40 volumes. |
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