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Biography of Frances Power Cobbe (excerpt)
Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, and suffragist. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.
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Aguascalientes, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and with an average altitude of 1,950 m (6,400 ft) above sea level it is predominantly of semi-arid climate (Bhs and Bhk), and it is located in the northern part of the Bajío region, in north-central Mexico, bordered by Zacatecas to the north, east and west, and by Jalisco to the south.
Biography of Louis-Auguste Blanqui (excerpt)
Louis Auguste Blanqui (February 8, 1805 in Puget-Théniers, France – January 1, 1881) was a French political activist, notable for the revolutionary theory of Blanquism, attributed to him. Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805-1848) Blanqui was born in Puget-Théniers, Alpes-Maritimes, where his father, Jean Dominique Blanqui, was subprefect.
Biography of Xavier Forneret (excerpt)
Xavier Forneret (September 16, 1809, Beaune, Côte-d'Or - August 7, 1884) was a French writer; poet, playwright and journalist. Life Born in Beaune in a rich bourgeois family, he was one of the few members of the Romantic movement who never experienced poverty and could afford to publish his books himself.
Biography of George Frederic Watts (excerpt)
George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904; sometimes spelled "George Frederick Watts") was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope (see image) and Love and Life.
Biography of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (excerpt)
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (William Alexander Frederick Constantine Nicholas Michael, Dutch: Willem Alexander Frederik Constantijn Nicolaas Michiel, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau; 2 August 1818 – 20 February 1848) was born at Soestdijk Palace, the second son to King William II of The Netherlands and Queen Anna Paulowna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
Biography of George Borrow (excerpt)
George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 - 26 July 1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, and they figure prominently in his work.
Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis (excerpt)
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865) was a Hungarian physician now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "savior of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics.
Biography of Ernest Meissonier (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a leading French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille.
Biography of Charlemagne Oscar Guet (excerpt)
Charlemagne-Oscar Guet, born in Meaux February 24, 1801 (source not archived) and died November 29, 1871 in Paris, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Henri Joseph Harpignies (excerpt)
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (July 24, 1819 - August 28, 1916), French landscape painter, was born at Valenciennes. He was intended by his parents for a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Achard's atelier in Paris.
Biography of Adolphe Niel (excerpt)
Adolphe Niel (4 October 1802-13 August 1869) was a French General and Statesman, also Marshal of France. He was born at Muret and entered the École Polytechnique in 1821. Niel entered the engineer school at Metz, became lieutenant in the Engineers Corps in 1827, and captain in 1833.
Biography of Annibale Carracci (excerpt)
Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter. Early career Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino, and his cousin Ludovico Carracci opened a painters' studio, initially called by some the Academy of the Desiderosi (desirous of fame and learning) and subsequently the Incamminati (progressives; literally "of those opening a new way").
Biography of George Baxter (excerpt)
George Baxter (1804–1867) was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. Though colour printing had been developed in China centuries before, it was not commercially viable. However, in early years of the 19th century the process of colour printing had been revived by George Savage, a Yorkshireman in London.
Biography of Charles Asselineau (excerpt)
Charles Asselineau, born March 13, 1820 in Paris, died July 25, 1874 in Châtelguyon, was a French writer and art critic. He was a friend of Baudelaire.
Biography of William Herndon (excerpt)
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818, Kentucky - March 18, 1891, Springfield, Illinois) was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon's biography Herndon's family moved from Kentucky to Springfield when he was five. Herndon attended Illinois College from 1836-1837. Following college, he returned to Springfield, where he clerked until 1841, when he went into law practice with Lincoln.
Biography of Alexander Bain (excerpt)
Alexander Bain (11 June 1818 – 18 September 1903) was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist. Early life He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland to George Bain and Margaret Paul. At age eleven he left school to work as a weaver hence the description of him as Weevir, rex philosophorum.
Biography of Alfred Moquin-Tandon (excerpt)
Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (May 7, 1804 (time birth source: Lescaut) - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse.
Biography of Antoine-Augustin Cournot (excerpt)
Antoine Augustin Cournot (28 August 1801‑ 31 March 1877) was a French economist, philosopher and mathematician. Augustin Cournot was born in the small town of Gray (Haute-Saône). He was educated in the schools of Gray until he was fifteen. Subsequently, for the next four years, he worked haphazardly as a clerk in a lawyer's office.
Biography of Alexandre Becquerel (excerpt)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (March 24, 1820 - May 11, 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He discovered the photovoltaic effect, which is the physics behind the solar cell, in 1839.
Biography of Xavier Marmier (excerpt)
Xavier Marmier (22 June 1808 - 12 October 1892) was a French author born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature. After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the Recherche; and after a couple of years at Rennes as professor of foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845) Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848–1849) North America and South America, and numerous volumes from his pen were the result.
Biography of Peter Frans Van Kerckhoven (excerpt)
Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven (Antwerp, 10 November 1818 - Antwerp, 1 August 1857) was a Flemish writer and one of the leaders of the early Flemish movement. He was the son of a broker, and his well-off birth allowed him a decent education.
Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro.
Biography of William Laud (excerpt)
Archbishop William Laud (7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. He pursued a High Church course and opposed radical forms of Puritanism. This and his support for King Charles I resulted in his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War.
Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (excerpt)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States.
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Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the state after New York City and Buffalo with a population of 211,328 in 2020. The city of Rochester forms the core of a larger metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties, which in turn is part of the larger Western New York region that has a population of roughly two million.
Biography of Pierre-Julien Eymard (excerpt)
Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868) was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious orders, and a canonized saint. Eymard was born 4 February 1811 at La Mure, Isère, France. His first attempt as a seminarian ended when he departed because of poor health.
Biography of Louis Jules Trochu (excerpt)
Louis Jules Trochu (12 March 1815 - 7 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense - being France's de facto head of state - from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871).
Biography of Alphonse Karr (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (November 24, 1808 – September 29, 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his aunt Carme Karr was a writer, journalist and suffragist in La Roche-Mabile. He was born in Paris, and after being educated at the Collège Bourbon, became a teacher there.
Biography of Charles Brown-Sequard (excerpt)
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (variant Charles Edward), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, was born at Port Louis, Mauritius, on the April 17, 1817. His father was an American and his mother a Frenchwoman, but he himself always desired to be looked upon as a British subject.
Biography of Jules Sandeau (excerpt)
Leonard Sylvain Julien (Jules) Sandeau (February 19, 1811 – April 24, 1883) was a French novelist. He was born at Aubusson (Creuse), and was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time in unruly behaviour with other students.
Biography of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Charles IV (Czech: Karel IV., German: Karl IV, Latin: Carolus IV) (14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus (Václav), was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and Holy Roman Emperor. He was the eldest son and heir of John the Blind, who died (in the Battle of Crécy) on 26 August 1346.
Biography of Ludovic Vitet (excerpt)
Ludovic Vitet (October 18, 1802 - 1873) was a French dramatist and politician. He was born in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole Normale. His politics were liberal, and he was a member of the society "Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.
Biography of Louis-Antoine Bonduelle (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine Bonduelle (or Louis Bonduelle-Dalle), born October 23, 1802 in Bousbecque, died in 1880, was a French businessman and industrialist. He started producing Korn and Jenever in Marquette-lez-Lille. Later was created the French company Bonduelle, producing processed vegetables.
Biography of Lorenzo N. Fowler (excerpt)
Lorenzo Niles Fowler, born June 23, 1811 in Coshocton, New York, died in 1896, was an Amercian famous author and phrenologist. He is the brother of phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler. Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a defunct field of study, once considered a science, by which the personality traits of a person were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull.
Biography of Friedrich Burgmuller (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (4 December 1806 – 13 February 1874) was a German pianist and composer. He was born in Regensburg, Germany. Both his father, August, and his brother, Norbert, were musicians. His father was a musical theatre director in Weimar and other Southern German centers.
Biography of Alfred Rethel (excerpt)
Alfred Rethel (1816 - December 1, 1859) was a German history painter. Rethel was born in Aachen in 1816. He showed an interest in art in his early life, and at the age of thirteen he executed a drawing which procured his admission to the academy of Düsseldorf.
Biography of Anne Juliana Gonzaga (excerpt)
Anne Catherine Gonzaga, O.S.M. (November 16, 1566 – August 3, 1621) was an Archduchess of Austria who went on to become a Servant of Mary upon the death of her husband, the Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. Biography Anne Juliana was born Anne Catherine in Mantua, Italy on November 16, 1566 to Duke William Gonzaga and his wife, Eleonora of Austria.
Biography of Thomas Davenport (excerpt)
Thomas Davenport (9 July 1802 – 6 July 1851) was a Vermont blacksmith who invented the first american D.C. electrical motor in 1834. He lived in Forest Dale, a village near the town of Brandon. As early as 1834, he developed a battery-powered electric motor.
Biography of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (excerpt)
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (b. Mechelen, Belgium, December 19, 1809; d. Leuven January 8, 1894) was a zoologist and paleontologist. He studied medicine at the University of Louvain, and studied zoology in Paris under Georges Cuvier (1769–1832). In 1831 he became curator at the natural history museum in Leuven, and from 1836 until 1894 was a professor of zoology at the Catholic University in that city.
Biography of Heinrich Matthias Zopfl (excerpt)
Heinrich Matthias Zopfl, born April 6, 1807 in Bamberg and died July 4, 1877, was a German writer, professor of constitutional law and politician.
Biography of Robert Stephenson (excerpt)
Robert Stephenson FRS (Willington Quay, UK, 16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.
Biography of Victor de Laprade (excerpt)
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (January 13, 1812 - December 13, 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. He was born at Montbrison, in the département of the Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine.
Biography of Jules Champfleury (excerpt)
Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Setepmber 17, 1820 Laon - 1889 Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris. He met Charles Baudelaire and the next year started writing art criticism under the pen-name "Champfleury" for the journal L’Artiste.
Biography of Jacques Charles Bresse (excerpt)
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (Vienne, France, October 9, 1822 – May 22, 1883) was a French civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of hydraulic motors. His name, along with 72 others, is engraved underneath the first balcony on the Eiffel Tower for his contributions to the field of civil engineering.
Biography of Georges Darboy (excerpt)
Georges Darboy (16 January 1813 - 27 May 1871) was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown.
Biography of Adolphe Nourrit (excerpt)
Adolphe Nourrit (3 March 1802 – 8 March 1839) was a French operatic tenor, librettist, and composer. One of the most esteemed opera singers of the 1820s and 1830s, he was particularly associated with the works of Gioachino Rossini. Birth, background and career Nourrit was born and raised in Montpellier, Hérault.
Biography of Beatrice Cenci (excerpt)
Beatrice Cenci (February 6, 1577 – September 11, 1599) was an Italian noblewoman. She is famous as the protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome. Beatrice was the daughter of Francesco Cenci, an aristocrat who, due to his violent temper and immoral behaviour, had found himself in trouble with papal justice more than once.
Biography of Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (excerpt)
Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, born April 2, 1804 in Nantes, died March 24, 1865 in Paris, was a French painter and sculptor.
Biography of Pauline Viardot (excerpt)
Pauline Viardot (July 18, 1821 – May 18, 1910) was a nineteenth century French mezzo-soprano and composer of Spanish descent. Her name Her name appears in various forms. When it is not simply "Pauline Viardot", it most commonly appears in association with her maiden name García or the unaccented form, Garcia. |
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