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Biography of Hippolyte Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801, Saint-Omer (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 16, 1888) was a French statesman. Early life Hippolyte was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon. ![]()
Biography of Maria Anna of Savoy (excerpt)
Maria Anna of Savoy (Maria Anna Carolina Pia; 19 September 1803 – 4 May 1884) was the wife of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. She was Empress of Austria; Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy and Venetia. Biography Maria Anna was born in Palazzo Colonna in Rome, the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and of his wife, Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria-Este. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Dumont (excerpt)
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (January 28, 1801 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives de Paris) – 1884 Paris) was a French sculptor. He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc.
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Biography of Rudolf von Alt (excerpt)
Rudolf Ritter von Alt (28 August 1812 in Vienna – 12 March 1905 in Vienna) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and bear the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1882. ![]()
Biography of Adolf Anderssen (excerpt)
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879) was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world's leading chess player for much of the 1850s and 1860s. He was quite soundly defeated by Paul Morphy who toured Europe in 1858, but Morphy retired from chess soon after and Anderssen was again considered the leading player. ![]()
Biography of Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Matthias of Austria (24 February 1557 – 20 March 1619) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1612, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 (as Matthias II) and King of Bohemia from 1611. He was a member of the House of Habsburg.
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Biography of Lope de Vega (excerpt)
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (Spanish pronunciation: ; 25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, novelist and marine. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century of Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled, making him one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature.
Biography of Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (excerpt)
Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (13 April 1573 in Kiel – 8 December 1625 at Gripsholm Castle) was a Queen Consort of Sweden as consort of king Charles IX of Sweden, mother of king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and a Regent of Sweden.
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Biography of Maria Brignole Sale De Ferrari (excerpt)
Marie Brignole-Sale De Ferrari, born on April 5, 1811 in Genoa, died on December 9, 1888 in Paris, was an Italian philanthropist, the wife of Raffaele de Ferrari, Prince of Lucedio, Duke of Galliera, an Italian philanthropist and politician.
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Biography of Hélène Jégado (excerpt)
Hélène Jégado (17 June 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Morbihan archives) – 26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people (it could be 80, with many children (source: French Wikipedia)) with arsenic over a period of 18 years.
Biography of Claude Gueux (excerpt)
Claude Gueux, born on May 18, 1804 in Chassagne-Montrachet (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de la Côte d’Or,) was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction (Claude Gueux is a real person), and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Misérables.
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Biography of Hippolyte de Villemessant (excerpt)
Jean Hippolyte Auguste Delaunay de Villemessant (22 April 1810, Rouen (birth time source: Didier Geslain) 12 April 1879, Monte-Carlo) was a conservative French journalist. Life The son of colonel Pierre Cartier and of Augustine Louise Renée Françoise de Launay de Villemessant, Hippolyte de Villemessant began his career trading in ribbons.
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Biography of Brian Houghton Hodgson (excerpt)
Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1800 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident. He described numerous species of birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth. ![]()
Biography of Luis de Góngora (excerpt)
Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora) (Spanish pronunciation: ; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time.
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Biography of Alexander Parkes (excerpt)
Alexander Parkes (29 December 1813 – 29 June 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. He created Parkesine, the first man-made plastic. Biography The son of a brass lock manufacturer, Parkes was apprenticed to Messenger and Sons, brass founders of Birmingham, before going to work for George and Henry Elkington, who patented the electroplating process. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was an American explorer, guide, fur trapper trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in Northern California.
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Biography of Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (excerpt)
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste; 21 December 1800 (birth time source: the Wikipedia bio of her mother: Duchess_Louise_Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin) – 30 August 1831) was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. ![]()
Biography of Multatuli (excerpt)
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 (birth time source: Koppejans, birth certificate) – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). ![]()
Biography of Nikolay Nekrasov (excerpt)
Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов; IPA: ( listen), 10 December 1821 – 8 January 1878 ) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about peasant Russia made him the hero of liberal and radical circles of Russian intelligentsia, as represented by Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Biography of Henri Tresca (excerpt)
Henri Édouard Tresca (12 October 1814 – 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations, which he explored in an extensive series of experiments begun in 1864. ![]()
Biography of Louis Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815, Paris – 10 November 1873, Paris) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. The method was later superseded by the Aniket's process. His son was the well known chemist Henri Louis Le Chatelier. ![]()
Biography of William Adams (sailor) (excerpt)
William Adams (24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), known in Japanese as Miura Anjin (三浦按針: "the pilot of Miura"), was an English navigator who, in 1600, was the first of his nation to reach Japan during a five-ship expedition for the Dutch East India Company. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Béchamp (excerpt)
Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 (birth time source: Roger Fix, birth certificate) – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur. Béchamp developed the Béchamp reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Perdonnet (excerpt)
Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet (12 March 1801, Paris – 27 September 1867, Cannes) was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. He also worked to investigate and remove the causes of railroad accidents. ![]()
Biography of Jules Jamin (excerpt)
Jules Célestin Jamin (30 May 1818, Termes, Ardennes - 12 February 1886) was a French physicist. He was professor of physics at École Polytechnique from 1852 to 1881 and received the Rumford Medal in 1858 for his work on light. He improved Brewster's inclined interference plates with the development of the Jamin interferometer. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Devéria (excerpt)
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, Paris (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings. He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time. ![]()
Biography of Pauline Leroux (excerpt)
Adèle-Louise-Pauline Leroux, born on August 19, 1809 in Paris (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Lescaut, original source unknown), died on February 5, 1891 in Paris, was a French famous dancer in the Paris Opera Ballet and in London. On July 12, 1848, she married the French comedian Pierre-Chéri Lafont (1797-1873). ![]()
Biography of Matthew Arnold (excerpt)
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
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Biography of Joseph Lanner (excerpt)
Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer. He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake. ![]()
Biography of John Edward Gray (excerpt)
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). Gray was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the Natural History holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Triger (excerpt)
Jacques Triger (March 10, 1801–1867) was a French geologist who invented the 'Triger process' for digging through water logged ground. Triger was also Deputy Director of coal mining operations in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire). Biography Triger was born in Mamers, a town in the Sarthe French county, on 10 March 1801.
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Biography of Christophe Thomas Walliser (excerpt)
Christophe Thomas Walliser, born on April 17, 1568 in Strabourg, died on April 26, 1648 in Strasbourg, was an Alsatian musicien, composer, professor, and conductor. Bibliography (de) August Bähre, « Festschrift zur 350 jährigen Jubelfeier des protestantischen Gymnasiums in Straßburg », s.
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Biography of Thomas Campbell Eyton (excerpt)
Thomas Campbell Eyton JP, DL (10 September 1809 – 25 October 1880) was an English naturalist whose fields were cattle, fishes and birds. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin though he opposed his theories. Eyton was born at Eyton Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire. ![]()
Biography of Éliphas Lévi (excerpt)
Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and author of more than 20 books on magic, Kabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism. He pursued an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church until, after great personal struggle, at the age of 26, he abandoned the Roman Catholic priesthood.
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Biography of Jean-Claude Colfavru (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Colfavru, born on December 1, 1820 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on May 18, 1891 in Paris, was a French politician and lawyer. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1885-1887).
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Biography of Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (10 July 1814 – 31 March 1852) was a French chemist. Ebelmen was the son of Claude Louis Ebelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume. Thereafter he grew interested in the Sciences and attended the elementary mathematics classes in Paris at Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, and applied mathematics at the Lycée de Besançon.
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Biography of Johann Georg Wagler (excerpt)
Johann Georg Wagler (28 March 1800 in Nuremberg - 23 August 1832) was a German herpetologist. Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and became Director of the Zoological Museum at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich after Spix's death in 1826.
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Biography of Camille Polonceau (excerpt)
Jean-Barthélémy Camille Polonceau (29 October 1813 – 21 September 1859) was a French railway systems engineer. He was born in Chambery, France, and died in the French commune Viry-Chatillon. In 1839 he invented the Polonceau truss, a method of roof construction considered "one of the most successful roof designs of the nineteenth century". ![]()
Biography of Johan August Wahlberg (excerpt)
Johan August Wahlberg (9 October 1810 Lagklarebäck, Sweden - 6 March 1856 Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer. Wahlberg started studying chemistry at the University of Uppsala in 1829, and later forestry, agronomy and natural science, graduating from the Swedish Forestry Institute in 1834. ![]()
Biography of George Robert Waterhouse (excerpt)
George Robert Waterhouse (6 March 1810 – 21 January 1888) was an English naturalist. He was a keeper at the department of geology and later curator of the Zoological Society of London's museum. Early life George was born in Somers Town to James Edward Waterhouse and Mary Newman.
Biography of Ivan Gontcharov (excerpt)
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (Goncharoff); 18 June 1812 – 27 September 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (excerpt)
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (19 February 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives départementale de l’Orne) – 5 April 1889) was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869. Early life Perreaux was born in the village of Almenêches, in Normandy, France, on 19 February 1816.
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Biography of Charles Combes (excerpt)
Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes (26 December 1801 – 1872) was a French engineer. He was Inspector-General of Mines and the Director of the School of Mines in Paris. His name is on the Eiffel Tower. Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes was born on 26 December 1801 in Cahors.
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Biography of Carl Jakob Sundevall (excerpt)
Carl Jakob Sundevall (22 October 1801, Högestad – 2 February 1875) was a Swedish zoologist. Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830.
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Biography of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (excerpt)
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton KG (6 October 1573 – 10 November 1624), (pronunciation uncertain: /ˈraɪzli/ "Rizely" (archaic), /ˈrɒtsli/ (present-day) and /ˈraɪəθsli/ have been suggested), was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu.
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Biography of Thomas Stevenson (excerpt)
Thomas Stevenson PRSE MInstCE FRSSA FSAScot (1818–1887) was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer and meteorologist, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a new era of lighthouse creation.
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Biography of Jean-Augustin Barral (excerpt)
Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist. Barral was born in Metz (Moselle). He studied at a polytechnic school and became a physicist as well as a professor of chemistry and agronomy. He wrote many works of popular science, especially concerning agriculture and irrigation, and became director of publication of scientific works. ![]()
Biography of Pierre François Lacenaire (excerpt)
Pierre François Lacenaire (20 December 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 January 1836) was a French murderer and would-be poet. To aid him in committing his crimes, Lacenaire recruited two henchmen, Pierre Victor Avril (whom he had met while in prison) and Hippolyte François. ![]()
Biography of Georges Diebolt (excerpt)
Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, (6 May 1816, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 November 1861, Paris) was a French sculptor best known for his publicly commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides.
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Biography of Jules Petiet (excerpt)
Jules Petiet (5 August 1813 in Florence, Italy – 29 January 1871 in Paris, France) was a French mechanical engineer who worked on the early development of the French railway network. He was the Chief Engineer of the Chemins de Fer du Nord from 1845, and became a locomotive engineer from 1848. |
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