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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.
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Biography of Paul Huet (excerpt)
Paul Huet (October 3, 1803, Paris - 1869, Paris) was a French painter. Works (selection) Intérieur de forêt Le bois de la Haye Matinée de printemps, (1834) Soirée d'automne dans le parc de St Cloud, (1835) Brisants à la pointe de Granville
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Biography of Allan Pinkerton (excerpt)
Allan Pinkerton (25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Early life, career and immigration Pinkerton was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, to William Pinkerton and his wife, Isobel McQueen, on August 25, 1819.
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Biography of Louis Blanc (excerpt)
Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc (29 October 1811 – 6 December 1882) was a French politician and historian. A socialist who favored reforms, he called for the creation of procedure cooperatives in order to guarantee employment for the city poor. Biography Early years
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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 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 Eugène Belgrand (excerpt)
Eugène Belgrand (23 April 1810 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 8 April 1878) was a French engineer who made significant contributions to the modernization of the Parisian sewer system during the 19th century rebuilding of Paris. Much of Belgrand's work remains in use today.
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 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.
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Biography of Louis Veuillot (excerpt)
Louis Veuillot (October 11, 1813–March 7, 1883) was a French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. He was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret). When he was five, his parents moved to Paris.
Biography of Henri Delafond (excerpt)
Henri Delafond, born on February 13, 1805 in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Bourgogne (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin), died on November 15, 1861, was a French veterinary physician and pathologist. ![]()
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 Otto Nicolai (excerpt)
Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and founder of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor).
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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 Sergius of Radonezh (excerpt)
Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (Russian: Се́ргий Ра́донежский, Sergii Radonezhsky), also transliterated as Sergey Radonezhsky or Serge of Radonezh, was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia. Together with Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most highly venerated saints.
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Biography of Charles de Montalembert (excerpt)
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (April 15, 1810 London - March 13, 1870 Paris), was a French publicist and historian. He belonged to a family of Angoumois, which could trace its descent back to the 13th century; charters carry the history of the house two centuries further.
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Biography of Emile Augier (excerpt)
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme, the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in spirit as well as by birth. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Jules Janin (excerpt)
Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 - 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Biography Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He involved himself in journalism from an early date, and worked on the Figaro and the Quotidienne, among others, until in 1830 he became dramatic critic of the Journal des Débats.
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Biography of Ned Buntline (excerpt)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886), known by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer. Later work and death Buntline continued to write dime novels, but none was as successful as his earlier work.
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Biography of Isaac Pitman (excerpt)
Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 12 January 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge.
Biography of Raphael V (excerpt)
Raphael V, born Sparks on July 17, 1820 in London, was a British professional astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Richard Robert Madden (excerpt)
Richard Robert Madden (born Dublin, Ireland 22 August 1798, died Dublin, 5 February 1886) was an Irish doctor, writer, abolitionist and historian of the United Irishmen. He was born at Wormwood Gate, Dublin to Edward Madden, a silk manufacturer. He was educated at private schools. ![]()
Biography of Alexis Guignard de Saint-Priest (excerpt)
Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (April 20, 1805 - September 29, 1851), was the son of an émigré French nobleman Armand Charles Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1782-1863) and his Russian wife, Princess Sophie Galitzine. His grandfather, François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, was one of Louis XVI's last ministers. ![]()
Biography of Adolph Kolping (excerpt)
Adolph Kolping (December 8, 1813 in Kerpen — December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest. Life Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest. ![]()
Biography of Jacob Burckhardt (excerpt)
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland – August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. ![]()
Biography of Emile Blanche (excerpt)
(Antoine) Émile Blanche born in Paris on October 1, 1820 and died in Paris on August 15, 1893, is a French alienist (a doctor specializing in the treatment of the insane). He was born in the nursing home that his father Esprit Blanche (1796-1852), himself an alienist, directed. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, born November 9, 1821 in Guebwiller, died May 20, 1910 in Trottberg bei Gebweiler, was a French musician, composer and editor. ![]()
Biography of Hong Xiuquan (excerpt)
Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Renkun, style name Huoxiu (火秀), was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the "Heavenly King" and self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ. ![]()
Biography of Feodor I of Russia (excerpt)
Fyodor I Ivanovich (Russian: Фёдор I Иванович or Feodor I Ioannovich Russian: Феодор I Иоаннович; 31 May 1557 – 16/17 January (NS) 1598) was the last Rurikid Tsar of Russia (1584–1598), son of Ivan IV (The Terrible) and Anastasia Romanovna. He was born in Moscow and crowned Tsar and Autocrat of all Russia at Assumption Cathedral, Moscow, on 31 May 1584. ![]()
Biography of Victor Puiseux (excerpt)
Victor Alexandre Puiseux (April 16, 1820 in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) – September 9, 1883 in Frontenay (Jura)) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Life He was born in 1820 in Argenteuil, France.
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Biography of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (excerpt)
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
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Biography of Frédéric Henri Le Normand de Lourmel (excerpt)
Frédéric Henry Le Normand de Lourmel, born on July 12, 1811 in Napoléonville (now Pontivy), died on November 7, 1854 during the Battle of Inkerman, was a French brigadier general.
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Biography of Edouard Chassaignac (excerpt)
Edouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac, sometimes Pierre Chassaignac, born December 22, 1804 in Nantes and died in 1879 in Versailles, was a French surgeon and physician. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Dumas (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste André Dumas (16 July 1800 – 10 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities.
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Biography of Charles Delescluze (excerpt)
Louis Charles Delescluze (October 2, 1809 (birth time source: birth certificate, page 138, archives online) – May 25, 1871) was a French journalist. He was born at Dreux, Eure-et-Loir. Having studied law in Paris, he early developed a strong democratic bent, and played a part in the July revolution of 1830. ![]()
Biography of August Belmont (excerpt)
August Belmont, Sr. (December 8, 1813 – November 24, 1890) was born in Alzey, Hesse, to a Jewish family. He emigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Raffet (excerpt)
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (March 2, 1804 – February 16, 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. Biography Raffet was born in Paris. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes.
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Biography of Joseph Autran (excerpt)
Joseph Autran (June 20, 1813 – March 6, 1877) was a French poet. Autran was born in Marseille. In 1832 he addressed an ode to Alphonse de Lamartine, who was then at Marseille on his way to the East. Lamartine persuaded the young man's father to allow him to follow his poetic instinct, and Autran became Lamartine's faithful disciple from then on.
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Biography of Auguste Barbier (excerpt)
Henri Auguste Barbier (April 28, 1805 – February 13, 1882) was a French dramatist and poet. Born in Paris, France, Barbier was inspired by the July Revolution and poured forth a series of eager, vigorous poems, denouncing the evils of the time.
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Biography of Jules Simon (excerpt)
Jules François Simon (27 December 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction. Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton. ![]()
Biography of Franciscus Donders (excerpt)
Franciscus Cornelis Donders (Tilburg, May 27, 1818 - Utrecht, March 24, 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist who did pioneering work on animal and vegetable heat, among many other things. He was a professor in Physiology in Utrecht from 1847 and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients.
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Biography of Stanisław Moniuszko (excerpt)
tanisław Moniuszko (May 5, 1819 in Ubiel, near Minsk – June 4, 1872 in Warsaw, Congress Poland) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (predominantly Polish and Belarusian).
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Biography of Louis Bouilhet (excerpt)
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1821 (birth time source: Lescaut, Geslain) – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus.
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Biography of Theodor Mommsen (excerpt)
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. ![]()
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Biography of Simon Marius (excerpt)
Simon Marius (Latinized from German Simon Mayr) (January 10, 1573 – December 26, 1624) was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but he spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach. In 1614 Marius published his work Mundus Iovialis describing the planet Jupiter and its moons.
Biography of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (excerpt)
Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (Westerlo, Belgium, January 3, 1823 - Zemst, near Mechelen, Belgium, January 30, 1881) was an organist and a organ composer. He was a student of François-Joseph Fétis, who wanted to make him into a musician capable of renewing the organ-player's art in Belgium.
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Biography of Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne (excerpt)
Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne (3 August 1798, Rouen - 20 May 1881, Herry) was a French journalist and politician.
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Biography of Victor Duruy (excerpt)
Jean Victor Duruy (11 September 1811 – 25 November 1894) was a French historian and statesman. He was born in Paris, the son of a factory worker, and at first intended for his father's trade. Having passed brilliantly through the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied under Jules Michelet, he accompanied Michelet as secretary in his travels through France, supplying for him at the École Normale in 1836, when only twenty-four. |
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