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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 Liliuokalani (excerpt)
Liliʻuokalani (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917), born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. She was also known as Lydia Kamakaʻeha Pākī, with the chosen royal name of Liliʻuokalani, and she was later named Kaolupoloni K.
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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.
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Biography of Pierre de Ségur (excerpt)
Pierre, marquis de Ségur (Paris, 13 February 1853 — Poissy, 13 August 1916) was a French writer and historian, elected a member of the Académie française in 1907. The eldest son of Anatole, marquis de Ségur, and of Cécile Cuvelier, he was thus the grandson of Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur.
Biography of Aimé-Henry Resal (excerpt)
Aimé Henry Resal, born January 27, 1828 in Plombières-les-Bains in les Vosges, died August 22, 1896 in Annemasse, was a French engineer, professor and mathematician. He is the father of French engineer Jean Résal. He was a member of French Academy of Sciences.
Biography of William Livingstone Alden (excerpt)
William Livingstone Alden, born October 9, 1937 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, mort le 14 janvier 1908 à Buffalo, New York, was an American journalist and writer. ![]()
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 Frances Willard (excerpt)
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. She was born to a schoolteacher in Churchville, New York, near Rochester, New York but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin.
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 Camille Jordan (excerpt)
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (January 5, 1838 – January 22, 1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse. He was born in Lyon and educated at the École polytechnique.
Biography of François Grison (excerpt)
François Adolphe Grison, born on June 17, 1845 in Bordeaux, died in 1914, was a French painter. ![]()
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Durban, nicknamed Durbs, is the third most populous city in South Africa after Johannesburg and Cape Town and the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which includes neighboring towns and has a population of about 3. ![]()
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 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. ![]()
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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.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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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.
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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 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 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 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.
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Biography of Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (excerpt)
Don Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel Ribera y Velasco de Tovar, Count of Olivares and Duke of San Lúcar la Mayor (Spanish: Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, conde-duque de Olivares, also known as Conde de Olivares y duque de Sanlúcar la Mayor) (January 6, 1587 – July 22, 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister.
Biography of Hippolyte Laroche (excerpt)
Hippolyte Laroche, born January 26, 1848, was a French politician, writer and governor of Madagascar in 1896. ![]()
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 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 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 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 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. ![]()
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 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 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 Saint André of Montreal (excerpt)
Saint André Bessette, C.S.C., (French: Frère André; 9 August 1845 – 6 January 1937), born Alfred Bessette and since his canonization sometimes known as Saint André of Montreal, was a lay Brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported miraculous healings. ![]()
Biography of George McClellan (excerpt)
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. ![]()
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 ![]()
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 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 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 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 Johannes van der Waals (excerpt)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids. Early years Van der Waals was born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
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Biography of Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (excerpt)
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, born April 5, 1606 in Châlons-sur-Marne, died November 17, 1664, was a French translator and author. ![]()
Biography of Charles Garnier (excerpt)
Charles Garnier (6 November 1825 in Paris 5e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 3 August 1898) was a French architect, designer of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Education Student of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas at the École royale des Beaux-Arts de Paris beginning in 1842, he obtained the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1848.
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. |
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