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Biography of Edward Burne-Jones (excerpt)
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (28 August 1833–17 June 1898) was an English artist and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and largely responsible for bringing the Pre-Raphaelites into the mainstream of the British art world, while at the same time executing some of the most exquisite and beautiful artwork of the time.
Biography of George I of Greece (excerpt)
George I, King of the Hellenes (Greek: Γεώργιος A', Βασιλεύς των Ελλήνων, Geōrgios A', Vasileús tōn Ellēnōn; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was King of Greece from 1863 to 1913. Originally a Danish prince, George was only 17 years old when he was elected King by the Greek National Assembly, which had deposed the former King Otto.
Biography of Alfred Grévin (excerpt)
Alfred Grévin (28 January 1827 – 1892) was a 19th century caricaturist, best known during his lifetime for his caricature silhouettes of contemporary Parisian women. He was also a sculptor, cartoonist, and designed costumes and sets for popular theater. He founded with journalist Arthur Meyer the Musée Grévin, a waxwork museum.
Biography of Philibert Léon Couturier (excerpt)
Philibert Léon Couturier, born on May 26, 1823 in Chalon-sur-Saône (source for his tim of birth: Jacques de Lescaut), was a French animal painter and portrait painter.
Biography of Friedrich Spee (excerpt)
Friedrich Spee (Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld) (Kaiserswerth, February 25, 1591 - Trier, August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit and poet, most noted as an opponent of trials for witchcraft. Spee was the first person in his time who spoke strongly and with arguments against torture in general.
Biography of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (excerpt)
The Princess Louise (born Louise Caroline Alberta, also known as Marchioness of Lorne and Duchess of Argyll by marriage; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Biography of Georges Boulanger (excerpt)
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891) was a French general and reactionary politician. Early life and career Born in Rennes, Boulanger graduated from Saint-Cyr and entered regular service in the French Army in 1856. He fought in the Austro-Sardinian War (he was wounded at Robecchetto, where he received the Légion d'honneur), and in the occupation of Cochin China, after which he became a captain and instructor at Saint-Cyr.
Biography of James Whitcomb Riley (excerpt)
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet", "National Poet" and the "Children's Poet," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal.
Biography of Herculine Barbin (excerpt)
Herculine Barbin (1838-1868) was a French hermaphrodite who was treated as a female at birth but was later redesignated a male after an affair and physical examination. Most of what we know about Barbin comes from her later memoirs. Herculine Adélaîde Barbin was born in Saint-Jean-d'Angély in France in 1838.
Biography of Gerard Hopkins (excerpt)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889), was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.
Biography of Léopold Stapleaux (excerpt)
Léopold Guillaume Stapleaux, born October 16, 1831 in Brussels and died November 1891 in Paris, was a Belgian author and novelist. Selected works Romans La Chasse aux blancs (1861) Cent francs du dompteur (1863) Fabio (1864) Les Drames du grand monde.
Biography of Wilfrid Laurier (excerpt)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier (November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from July 11, 1896, to October 5, 1911. Canada's first francophone prime minister, Laurier is often considered one of the country's greatest statesmen.
Biography of Alfred von Tirpitz (excerpt)
Alfred von Tirpitz (March 19, 1849–March 6, 1930) was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916. Born in Küstrin in Brandenburg, the son of a senior civil servant, he grew up in Frankfurt (Oder).
Biography of Adèle Hugo (excerpt)
Adèle Hugo (24 August 1830 – 21 April 1915) was the fifth and youngest child of French writer Victor Hugo. She is remembered for developing schizophrenia as a young woman, which led to a romantic obsession with an Irish military officer who rejected her.
Biography of Henri Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (excerpt)
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (30 January 1831 (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut) – 30 June 1913), French politician and journalist, was born in Paris. Life His father was a Legitimist noble who, as Edmond Rochefort, was well known as a writer of vaudevilles; his mother's views were republican.
Biography of Jean-Henri Fabre (excerpt)
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 21, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author. Life Fabre was born in Saint-Léons, Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras.
Biography of Eugène Silvain (excerpt)
Eugène Charles Joseph Silvain, born on June 17, 1851 in Bourg-en-Bresse (birth time source: Lescaut), died on August 21, 1930 in Marseille, was a French comedian, a member of la Comédie-Française (1878-1928). Filmography (extract) 1928 : La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc : l'évêque Cauchon
Biography of Edmond Billaudot (excerpt)
Jules Charles Ernest Billaudot, known as Mage Edmont Billaudot , born August 17, 1829 in Poilly-sur-Serein, Yonne (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain), died in 1881 in La Chapelle-Vieille-Forêt, was a French man who claimed psychic abilities and made predictions, for example for Victor Hugo, Napoléon III and Louis Bonaparte.
Biography of Aristide Bergès (excerpt)
Aristide Bergès, born on September 4, 1833 in Lorp, died on February 28, 1904 in Villard-Bonnot, was a French industrialist, engineer, and papermaker.
Biography of Julián Gayarre (excerpt)
Sebastián Julián Gayarre Garjón (January 9, 1844 in Roncal, Navarre – January 2, 1890 in Madrid), better known as Julián Gayarre, was a Spanish opera singer who created the role of Marcello in Donizetti's Il Duca d'Alba and Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
Biography of Édouard de Castelnau (excerpt)
Noël Marie Joseph Édouard, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French general in World War I, one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of attaque à outrance that dominated French military thinking in the early part of the war.
Biography of François Grison (excerpt)
François Adolphe Grison, born on June 17, 1845 in Bordeaux, died in 1914, was a French painter.
Biography of Eugène Ducretet (excerpt)
Eugène Ducretet, born on November 27, 1844 in Paris, died in 1915 in Paris, is a French industrialist and scientist. Bibliography Jean-Claude Montagné, Eugène Ducretet : Pionnier français de la Radio, auto-édité, 1998 (ISBN 2950525539)
Biography of Maximilian I of Mexico (excerpt)
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (Emperador Maximiliano I de México) (July 6, 1832 – June 19, 1867) (born Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg-Lorraine family. With the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican monarchists, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on April 10, 1864.
Biography of Hugo de Vries (excerpt)
Hugo Marie de Vries (Feb 16, 1848, Haarlem - May 21, 1935, Lunteren) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.
Biography of Julevno (astrologer) (excerpt)
Julevno, born March 16, 1845 in Vannes, died in 1915, was a French professional astrologer, author and translator. He had translated the works of Ptolémée and Thomas Burgoyne.
Biography of Louis-Philippe de Brabant (excerpt)
Louis-Philippe, born July 24, 1833 in Bruxelles and died May 4, 1834, was the first son of Leopold I. Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick (in German Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony) (16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians.
Biography of John William Waterhouse (excerpt)
John William Waterhouse (born 6 April 1849; died 10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heyday in the mid-nineteenth century, leading him to have gained the moniker of "the modern Pre-Raphaelite".
Biography of Athanasius Kircher (excerpt)
Athanasius Kircher (May 2, 1602 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, from a biography of P. Conor Reilly) - November 27, 1680) (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine.
Biography of William E. Henley (excerpt)
William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903) was an English poet, critic and editor. Henley was born at Gloucester and was the eldest of a family of six, five sons and a daughter. His father, William, was a bookseller and stationer who died in 1868 leaving young children and creditors.
Biography of Oscar II of Sweden (excerpt)
Oscar II (21 January 1829 - 8 December 1907), born Oscar Frederik was King of Norway from 1872 until 1905 and King of Sweden from 1872 until his death. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.
Biography of Marshall Field (excerpt)
Marshall Field (August 18, 1834 – January 16, 1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. Life and career Marshall Field was born on a farm in Conway, Massachusetts, the son of John Field IV and wife Fidelia Nash.
Biography of Dominique Savio (excerpt)
Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; April 2, 1842 – March 9, 1857)) was an Italian adolescent student of John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died, possibly from pleurisy. His teacher, Saint John Bosco had very high regard for his student, and wrote a biography of his young student, The Life of Dominic Savio.
Biography of Henry Steele Olcott (excerpt)
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism.
Biography of Adolf von Baeyer (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: ; October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen.
Biography of Désiré-Joseph Mercier (excerpt)
Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Cardinal Mercier (November 21, 1851—January 23, 1926) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907. Mercier is noted for his staunch resistance to the German occupation of 1914, and is considered to have been the mentor of Leo Cardinal Suenens.
Biography of Georges Sorel (excerpt)
Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November, 1847 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 29 August, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered.
Biography of Eugène Cuvelier (excerpt)
Eugène Cuvelier, born on April 6, 1837 in Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, died on October 31, 1900 in Thomery, was a French photographer. Bibliographie Daniel Challe, Les photographes de Barbizon Daniel Challe, Ulrike Gauss, Henning Weidemann, Études photographiques, Stuttgart, Cantz, 1996
Biography of Holger Drachmann (excerpt)
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (October 9, 1846 – January 14, 1908), was a Danish poet and dramatist. He is an outstanding figure of the Modern Break-Through. The son of Dr AG Drachmann, whose family was of German extraction, he was born in Copenhagen.
Biography of Emmanuel Chabrier (excerpt)
Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer from the Auvergne region of central France and was born in Ambert in 1841. The region of France from whence he came was traditionally useful in providing Parisians with cheese, cabbage and men to mend the boiler.
Biography of Emile Levassor (excerpt)
Émile Levassor (21 January 1843, Marolles-en-Hurepoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 14 April 1897, Paris) was a French engineer and a pioneer of the automobile industry and car racing in France. Graduated at École Centrale Paris, he started his career in 1872 in a company that produced wood-working machines, where he met René Panhard.
Biography of Gilles de Roberval (excerpt)
Gilles Personne de Roberval (August 10, 1602 - October 27, 1675), French mathematician, was born at Roberval, near Beauvais, France. His name was originally Gilles Personne or Gilles Personier, that of Roberval, by which he is known, being taken from the place of his birth.
Biography of Étienne Lamy (excerpt)
Étienne Marie Victor Lamy (2 June 1845 - 9 January 1919) was a French author, born in Cize, Jura. He was educated at the College Stanislas and became a doctor of law in 1870. From 1871 to 1881 he was a deputy from his native department, Jura, and his earlier writings were political and historical.
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The French Second Republic (French: Deuxième République Française or La IIe République), officially the French Republic (République française), was the republican government of France that existed between 1848 and 1852. It was established in February 1848, with the Revolution that overthrew the July Monarchy, and ended in December 1852, after the 1851 coup d'état and when president Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III and initiated the Second French Empire.
Biography of Elisabeth of France (1602) (excerpt)
Élisabeth de Bourbon (November 22, 1602 - October 6, 1644), was the eldest daughter of King Henry IV of France and his second Queen Marie de' Medici. In 1615, Élisabeth was married to the future Philip IV of Spain. She was Queen of Spain from 1621 to 1644.
Biography of Albert Lebourg (excerpt)
Albert Lebourg, born February 1, 1849 in Montfort-sur-Risle and died January 6, 1928 in Rouen, was a French painter of Rouen's School. He was a member of Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts of Rouen. Bibliography (extract) Léonce Bénédite, Albert Lebourg, Georges Petit, Paris, 1923
Biography of Julie-Victoire Daubié (excerpt)
Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains (birth time source: Marc Brun, FDAF, birth certificate n° 32) – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she optained a bachelor degree in Lyon in 1861.
Biography of George du Maurier (excerpt)
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier.
Biography of Fulgence Bienvenue (excerpt)
Fulgence Bienvenüe (January 27, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – August 3, 1936) was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro. A native of Uzel in Brittany, he graduated as a civil engineer in 1872.
Biography of Simon Newcomb (excerpt)
Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics, statistics and authoring a science fiction novel. The life of Newcomb |
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