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Biography of Rui Barbosa (excerpt)
Rui Barbosa de Oliveira (November 5, 1849 – March 1, 1923) was a Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician. Born in Salvador da Bahia, he was a federal representative, senator, Minister of Finance and diplomat. For his distinguished participation in the 2nd Hague Conference, he earned the nickname "Eagle of the Hague".
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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 Johanna Spyri (excerpt)
Johanna Spyri (German pronunciation: ) (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
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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).
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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. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Labelle (excerpt)
François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle (November 24, 1833 – January 4, 1891) was a Roman Catholic priest and the person principally responsible for the settlement (or "colonization") of the Laurentians. He is also referred to as "Curé Labelle" and sometimes, the "King of the North".
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Biography of Agostino Richelmy (excerpt)
Agostino Richelmy (November 29, 1850—August 10, 1923) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Turin from 1897 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1899. Biography Early life and education Born in Turin, Agostino Richelmy received his Confirmation on August 13], 1857, and later joined the Garibaldian Volunteers in the War of 1866, wearing his red shirt under his cassock for years afterwards. ![]()
Biography of Gratian (excerpt)
Gratian (Latin: Flavius Gratianus Augustus; 18 April/23 May 359 – 25 August 383), was Roman Emperor from 375 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, during his youth Gratian accompanied his father on several campaigns along the Rhine and Danube frontiers.
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Biography of Charles Richet (excerpt)
Charles Robert Richet (August 26, 1850 (birth time source: birth certificate, Gauquelin) – December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" in 1913. ![]()
Biography of Jim Younger (excerpt)
James Hardin "Jim" Younger (January 15, 1848 - October 19, 1902) was a notable American outlaw and member of the James-Younger gang. He was the brother of Cole, John and Bob Younger. Life Born in Missouri on January 15, 1848. He was the ninth of fourteen children born to Henry Washington Younger and Bersheba Leighton Fristoe.
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Biography of Marie-Adolphe Carnot (excerpt)
Marie Adolphe Carnot (27 January 1839 – 20 June 1920) was a French chemist, mining engineer and politician. He came from a distinguished family: his father, Hippolyte Carnot, and brother, Marie François Sadi Carnot, were politicians, the latter becoming President of the third French Republic. ![]()
Biography of Constans II (excerpt)
Constans II (Greek: Κώνστας Β', Kōnstas II), also called Constantine the Bearded (Kōnstantinos Pogonatos), (November 7, 630 – September 15, 668) was Byzantine emperor from 641 to 668. He also was the last emperor to become consul in 642, becoming the last Roman consul in history. ![]()
Biography of Philippe Dautzenberg (excerpt)
Philippe Dautzenberg (Ixelles, Brussels, 20 December 1849 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 466, André Dekoster) - Paris, 9 May 1935) was a Belgian malacologist, in other words, he was a biologist who specialized in the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with mollusks.
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Biography of George, King of Saxony (excerpt)
George (German: Friedrich August Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Maximilian Karl Maria Nepomuk Baptist Xaver Cyriacus Romanus; 8 August 1832 – 15 October 1904) was a King of Saxony of the House of Wettin. Life George was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He was the second son of King John of Saxony (1801–1873) and his wife Princess Amelia of Bavaria (1801–1877), daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825).
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Biography of Luigi Borro (sculptor) (excerpt)
Luigi Borro, born July 29, 1826 in Ceneda, died January 6, 1880, was an Italian sculptor.
Biography of Emil Frey (homme politician) (excerpt)
Emil Johann Rudolf Frey (October 24, 1838 – December 24, 1922) was a Swiss politician, soldier in the American Civil War and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1890–1897). Early life Frey was born in Arlesheim, Switzerland, as the son of Emil Remigius Frey.
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Biography of Richard Theodore Greener (excerpt)
Richard Theodore Greener (30 January 1844 – 2 May 1922) was the first African-American graduate of Harvard College and dean of the Howard University School of Law. Early life and education Richard Greener was born in Philadelphia in 1844 and moved with his mother to Boston when he was approximately nine years old. ![]()
Biography of Heinrich Schütz (excerpt)
Heinrich Schütz (German: ; 18 October 1585 – 6 November 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century. ![]()
Biography of Devil Anse Hatfield (excerpt)
William Anderson Hatfield (September 9, 1839 – January 6, 1921) — known as Devil Anse Hatfield — was the patriarch of the Hatfield clan during the infamous Hatfield–McCoy feud which has since formed a part of American folklore. Devil Anse himself survived the feud and agreed to end it in 1891. ![]()
Biography of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (excerpt)
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, KG (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was a member of the House of Plantagenet, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He was called "John of Gaunt" because he was born in Ghent, then rendered in English as Gaunt.
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Biography of Frantz Jourdain (excerpt)
Frantz Jourdain, born on October 3, 1847 in Antwerp, died in August 1935 in Paris, was a Fre,ch architect, art critic, and writer, the father of painter Francis Jourdain, and the grandfather of writer and spiritual master Stephen Jourdain.
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Biography of Frédéric Desmons (excerpt)
Frédéric Desmons (October 14, 1832 in Brignon, Gard (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 4, 1910) was a French Calvinist priest and freemason who persuaded the Grand Orient de France in a vote to remove the term of the Great Architect of the Universe from their Constitution.
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Biography of Joanna of Bourbon (excerpt)
Joanna of Bourbon (3 February 1338 in Vincennes – 6 February 1378 in Paris) was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles V. Early life Born in the Château de Vincennes, Joanna was a daughter of Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, and Isabella of Valois, a half-sister of Philip VI of France. ![]()
Biography of Charles Bourseul (excerpt)
Charles Bourseul (28 April 1829 – 23 November 1912) was a pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. Bourseul was born in Brussels, Belgium, and grew up in Douai, France. His father was a French army officer.
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Biography of Félix Buhot (excerpt)
Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot.
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Biography of Simon Bradstreet (excerpt)
Simon Bradstreet (baptized March 18, 1603/4 – March 27, 1697) was a colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was almost constantly involved in the politics of the colony, but only became its governor in 1679. ![]()
Biography of Wilkie Collins (excerpt)
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868). Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in Westminster. ![]()
Biography of Maria Feodorovna (excerpt)
Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, rectified from approx. time) – 13 October 1928), christened Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Tsar Alexander III (reigned 1881–1894). She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel; her siblings included Alexandra (Queen Consort of the United Kingdom), King Frederick VIII of Denmark and King George I of Greece.
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Biography of Charles Zidler (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Zidler, born on December 29, 1831 in Saint-Cloud (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 10, 1897 in Paris 9e, was a French artist manager, one of the founders of Moulin Rouge, a famous cabaret in Paris, France. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. ![]()
Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner (excerpt)
Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was a leading American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Isabella Stewart Gardner had a zest for life, an energetic intellectual curiosity and a love of travel. ![]()
Biography of Mary Eliza Mahoney (excerpt)
Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879. Mahoney was one of the first African Americans to graduate from a nursing school, and she prospered in a predominantly white society. ![]()
Biography of Josef Strauss (excerpt)
Josef Strauss (20 August 1827 – 22 July 1870) was an Austrian composer. He was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim, and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss. His father wanted him to choose a career in the Austrian Habsburg military.
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Biography of Franz Brentano (excerpt)
Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 (birth time source: Arno Müller, Vol. 2., BC) – March 17, 1917) was an influential German philosopher and psychologist whose work strongly influenced not only students Sigmund Freud (whose doctoral dissertation he helped supervise), Kazimierz Twardowski, Alexius Meinong, and Thomas Masaryk (as well as Masaryk's student, Edmund Husserl), but countless others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts.
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Biography of Ethelbert Talbot (excerpt)
Ethelbert Talbot (October 9, 1848–February 27, 1928) was the fifteenth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. He is credited with inspiring Pierre de Coubertin to coin the phrase, "The important thing in the Olympic Games is not so much the winning but taking part, for the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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Biography of John S. Mosby (excerpt)
John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), nicknamed "The Gray Ghost", was a Confederate cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, 1st Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Dick or Mosby's Raiders, was a partisan ranger unit noted for its lightning quick raids and its ability to elude Union Army pursuers and disappear, blending in with local farmers and townsmen. ![]()
Biography of Paul Broca (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Broca (/broʊˈkɑː/ or /ˈbroʊkə/; 28 June 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that has been named after him. ![]()
Biography of Philipp Mainländer (excerpt)
Philipp Mainländer (October 5, 1841 – April 1, 1876) was a German poet and philosopher. Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main. In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption) – according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" – Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality." ![]()
Biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (excerpt)
Theodore "Thee" Roosevelt, Sr. (September 22, 1831 – February 9, 1878) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was also the father of President Theodore Roosevelt and the paternal grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. He was a fourth-generation Dutch New Yorker and participant in the Roosevelt family business of plate-glass importing, Roosevelt & Son.
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Biography of Axel Oxenstierna (excerpt)
Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre (Swedish: ( listen); June 16, 1583 in Fånö – August 28, 1654), Count of Södermöre, was a Swedish statesman. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609 and served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death. ![]()
Biography of Henri Giffard (excerpt)
Henri Giffard (8 February 1825 – 14 April 1882) was a French engineer. In 1852, he invented the steam injector and the powered airship. Career The steam powered airship was made by Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard who was born in Paris in 1825. ![]()
Biography of Jens Peter Jacobsen (excerpt)
Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen" (and pronounced "I. P. Jacobsen"). He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Breakthrough. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Solvay (excerpt)
Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (French: ; 16 April 1838 (birth time source: André Dekoster) – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born at Rebecq, he was prevented by acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of 21. ![]()
Biography of Friedrich Weyerhäuser (excerpt)
Friedrich (Frederick) Weyerhäuser (November 21, 1834 in Nieder-Saulheim, Rhenish Hesse – April 4, 1914 in Pasadena, California), also spelt Weyerhaeuser, was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns saw mills, paper factories, and other business enterprises, and large areas of forested land.
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Biography of Franz Schrader (geographer) (excerpt)
Jean Daniel François Schrader, better known as Franz Schrader, was a French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer and landscape painter, born January 11, 1844 in Bordeaux, died October 18, 1924 in Paris. He made an important contribution to the mapping of the Pyrenees. ![]()
Biography of Walter Pater (excerpt)
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction. Early life Born in Stepney in London's East End, Walter Pater was the second son of Richard Glode Pater, a physician who had moved to London in the early 19th century to practice medicine among the poor.
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Biography of John Burroughs (excerpt)
John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world.
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Biography of Charles Lamoureux (excerpt)
Charles Lamoureux (pronounced: ; 28 September 1834 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 21 December 1899) was a French conductor and violinist. Life He was born in Bordeaux, where his father owned a café. He studied the violin with Narcisse Girard at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1854.
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Biography of Randolph McCoy (excerpt)
Randolph "Randall" or "Ole Ran'l" McCoy (October 30, 1825 – March 28, 1914) was the patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the infamous American Hatfield–McCoy feud. He was born the fourth of thirteen children to Daniel McCoy (1790–1885) and Margaret Taylor McCoy (1800–1868) and lived mostly on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River. ![]()
Biography of Gaston Maspero (excerpt)
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 – June 30, 1916) was a French Egyptologist. He popularised the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. His son, Henri Maspero, became a notable sinologist and scholar of East Asia. Life Gaston Maspero was born in Paris to parents of Italian origin. |
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