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Biography of Susan Warner (excerpt)
Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885), was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World. Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town.
Biography of Giovanni Prati (excerpt)
Giovanni Prati (27 January 1815 – 9 May 1884) was an Italian poet and politician. Prati was born in Comano Terme, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was educated in law at Padua. Adopting a literary career, he was inspired by anti-Austrian feeling and devotion to the royal house of Savoy, and in early life his combination of a sympathy for national independence with monarchical sentiments brought him into trouble in both quarters, to the point that Guerrazzi expelled him from Tuscany in 1849 for his praise of Carlo Alberto.
Biography of Simon Saint-Jean (excerpt)
Simon Saint-Jean is a French painter, born in Lyon on October 14, 1808 and died in Écully on July 3, 1860. Simon Saint-Jean, born to Antoinette Potin and Jean-Marguerite Saint-Jean, a cooper, lost his father early. He joined the École de Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 1822, studying under Pierre Révoil and Augustin Alexandre Thierriat, winning top flower drawing prizes and a gold medal in 1826.
Biography of Titus Salt (excerpt)
Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876) was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Biography of Oscar I of Sweden (excerpt)
Oscar I (born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859) was King of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 until his death. He was the second monarch of the House of Bernadotte. The only child of King Charles XIV John, Oscar inherited the thrones upon the death of his father.
Biography of Countess Dash (excerpt)
La Comtesse Dash, born Gabrielle de Cisternes de Courtiras, was a French novelist, known for her writings on high society and the complexities of love. Born in Poitiers, she led a worldly and tumultuous life, marrying Viscount Eugène Jules de Poilloüe de Saint-Mars.
Biography of Jules de La Gournerie (excerpt)
Viscount Jules Maillard de La Gournerie was a French engineer and mathematician, born on December 20, 1814, in Nantes, and died on June 25, 1883, in Paris. His studies mainly focused on the geometry of skew curves and their application to stereotomy.
Biography of Abbé Crozes (excerpt)
Abraham Sébastien Crozes, known as Abbé Crozes, was born on March 16, 1806, in Albi (Tarn) and died on October 25, 1888, in Paris. He was the chaplain of the condemned prisoners' depot at the La Roquette prison. He was also one of the founders of the Saint-François-Xavier Workers' Societies.
Biography of Jan Van Beers (excerpt)
Jan van Beers (22 February 1821 – 14 November 1888) was a Belgian poet born in Antwerp. He is usually referred to as "van Beers the elder" to distinguish him from his son, Jan van Beers (1852–1927), the painter. Background Van Beers was essentially a Netherlander, though politically a Belgian, expressing his thoughts in the same language as any North Netherland writer.
Biography of Adolphe Maillart (excerpt)
Adolphe Maillart is a French actor born in Metz on December 9, 1810 and died in Paris on March 7, 1891.
Biography of Paul Cabet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Paul Cabet (1 February 1815, Nuits, Yonne – 1876, Paris), was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of François Rude, his stepfather. Having achieved his own fame, he was the author of the statue known under the name of Résistance as a witness to the heroic fightings in Dijon during the 1870 war and other statues located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Biography of Josephine Lang (excerpt)
Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a gifted German composer, born to musician parents. She was taught piano by her mother and began composing at a young age. Mentored by prominent artists like Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller, and with support from Robert Schumann, her music gained recognition.
Biography of François Clément Sauvage (excerpt)
François Clément Sauvage, born in Sedan on April 4, 1814 and died in Paris on November 11, 1872, was a French mining engineer and geologist. After a career as a geologist engineer, from 1846 he participated in the work of the railway from Metz to Sarrebrück.
Biography of Alexis Damour (excerpt)
Augustin Alexis Damour was a French mineralogist born in the former 11th arrondissement of Paris on July 19, 1808, and died in the same city in the 9th arrondissement on September 22, 1902. After completing a legal education, he pursued an administrative career, notably at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until 1853.
Biography of George Sandys (excerpt)
George Sandys (2 March 1578 (12 March, gregorian calendar) – March 1644) was an English traveller, colonist, poet, and translator. He was known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Passion of Jesus, as well as his travel narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean region, which formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology.
Biography of Louis Toussaint Doutrelaine (excerpt)
Louis Toussaint Simon Doutrelaine, born on July 9, 1820, and died on May 1, 1881, was a French general in the engineering corps. Educated at the École Polytechnique and the military engineering school in Metz, he held various military positions, including during the siege of Rome and the Italian campaign.
Biography of Charles Laffitte (excerpt)
Charles Pierre Eugène Laffitte, born in Paris on November 19, 1803, and died there on December 26, 1875, was a French banker, horseman, and politician. Nephew of famed banker Jacques Laffitte, Charles was instrumental in constructing the Paris-Rouen railway between 1841 and 1843.
Biography of Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot (excerpt)
Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot, born in Paris on September 18, 1804, and died in Sainte-Menehould on January 29, 1883, was a French military physician and surgeon, a precursor of surgical asepsis and a promoter of anesthesia using chloroform. He performed the first human gastrostomy in 1846.
Biography of Alphonse Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, NDS, (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest and missionary. He later was a co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, a religious congregation dedicated to the conversion of Jews to the Christian faith.
Biography of Blanka Teleki (excerpt)
Countess Blanka Teleki de Szék (5 July 1806 – 23 October 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman, educator and women's rights activist. She is regarded as an early feminist and pioneer in the education of females. Life Blanka Teleki was born on 5 July 1806 in Satulung in what is now Romania to Count Imre Teleki de Szék (1782-1848) and Countess Karoline Brunswick von Korompa (1782-1843).
Biography of Charles Dancla (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charles Dancla, born on 19th December 1817 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre and died on 10th October 1907 in Tunis, was a French violinist and composer, considered the last representative of the classic French violin school. His early violin lessons were in his hometown, and at nine years old, he impressed the famous violinist Pierre Rode, who recommended him to the Conservatoire de Paris.
Biography of Artur Zawisza (excerpt)
Artur Zawisza Czarny of Przerowa coat of arms, born on September 24, 1809, in Sobota, was a Polish independence activist. He played a significant role in the November Uprising (1830–1831), was a member of the Patriotic Society, and after 1831 lived in exile in France, joining the Polish Democratic Society.
Biography of Adelbert Lebarbier de Tinan (excerpt)
Marie Charles Adelbert Le Barbier de Tinan, born in Paris on May 2, 1803, and deceased there on December 18, 1876, was a prominent French vice-admiral. His notable contributions include playing a key role during the Crimean War in 1853, aiding troop landings and blockading Greek ports.
Biography of Anita Garibaldi (excerpt)
Anita Garibaldi (born Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro; 30 August 1821 – 4 August 1849) was a Brazilian republican revolutionary. Her time of birth comes from the biography Anthony Valerio, "Anita Garibaldi: A Biography" (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001). She was the wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Biography of Tommaso Campanella (excerpt)
Tommaso Campanella OP (5 September (15 September, Gregorian calendar) 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet. Campanella was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition for heresy in 1594 and was confined to house arrest for two years.
Biography of Juliusz Konstanty Ordon (excerpt)
Konstanty Juliusz Ordon, often known as Konstanty Julian Ordon, was born on October 15, 1810, in Warsaw and died on May 4, 1887, in Florence. He was a notable figure in the Polish November Uprising of 1830-1831, where he commanded artillery at Fort 54 in Wola during the Russian Army's storming of Warsaw on September 6, 1831.
Biography of Jacques-Paul Migne (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Migne, born on September 5, 1800 in Saint-Flour and died on October 24, 1875 in Paris, was a French Catholic priest, printer, journalist, and publisher of religious books. Migne is best known for his monumental editions of the Patrologia Latina and the Patrologia Graeca.
Biography of François de Chabaud-Latour (excerpt)
François-Henri-Ernest, Baron de Chabaud-Latour (January 25, 1804 – June 10, 1885) was a distinguished French general and politician. Born in Nîmes, he excelled at the École polytechnique and the École d'application du génie. As a military engineer, he served notably in Algeria and along the Danube, earning a reputation for strategic prowess in campaigns and fortification projects, including the Paris fortifications. |
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