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Biography of William Hamilton (excerpt)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra.His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation.Hamilton's work was also significant in the later development of quantum mechanics. ![]()
Biography of Léon Riesener (excerpt)
Léon Riesener, born Louis Antoine Léon Riesener January 21, 1808 in Paris, died May 25, 1878 in Paris, is a French romantic painter.
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Biography of José Zorilla y Moral (excerpt)
José Zorrilla y Moral (February 21, 1817 - January 23, 1893), was a Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist. He was born in Valladolid to a magistrate in whom Ferdinand VII placed special confidence,. He was educated by the Jesuits at the Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid, wrote verses when he was twelve, became an enthusiastic admirer of Walter Scott and Chateaubriand, and took part in the school performances of plays by Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Clésinger (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger or August Clésinger, born October 22, 1814 in Besançon, died in 1883 in Paris, was a French sculptor and painter. He wasthe husband of the daugther of French writer George Sand. Some works 1847 : Femme piquée par un serpent marbre Musée d'Orsay de Paris
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Biography of Victor Considérant (excerpt)
Victor Prosper Considérant (October 12, 1808 – December 27, 1893) was a French utopian Socialist and disciple of Fourier. Considérant was born in Salins and studied engineering at the École Polytechnique (1826 diploma).Subsequently working as an engineer, he collaborated with Fourier on newspapers.
Biography of Bab Jdid Abdelkader (excerpt)
Abd El-Kader, Abdelkader , And al-Qadir or Abd al-Qader (6 September 1808 - 26 May 1883) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-nineteenth century, for which he is seen by the Algerians as their national hero.
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Biography of Félix Ziem (excerpt)
Félix Ziem (February 26, 1821 – November 10, 1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School. Born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte d'Or département of the Burgundy région of France, his mother was a native of Burgundy who married a Croatian immigrant.
Biography of Isaac Rodrigue Péreire (excerpt)
The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds.Like the Rothschilds, they were Jews, but unlike them the Péreire brothers were Sephardi Jews of Portuguese origin. Émile (1800–1875) and his brother Isaac Péreire (1806–1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank.
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Biography of Félix Pyat (excerpt)
Félix Pyat (4 October 1810 - 3 August 1889) was a French Socialist journalist and politician. He was born at Vierzon (Cher), the son of a Legitimist lawyer.Called to the bar in Paris in 1831, he threw his whole energies into journalism. ![]()
Biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (excerpt)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 15 September 1859) (pronounced /ˈɪzəmbɑrd ˈkɪŋdəm brʊˈnɛl/), was a British engineer.He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first with a propeller, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. ![]()
Biography of Christophe Louis Léon Juchault de Lamoricière (excerpt)
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière (5 September 1806 – 11 September 1865) was a French general. Life He was born at Nantes, and entered the Engineers in 1828.He served in the Algerian campaigns from 1830 onwards, and by 1840 he had risen to the grade of maréchal-de-camp (major-general). ![]()
Biography of Phineas Quimby (excerpt)
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866), was a New England philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, and scientist, who resided in Belfast, Maine, and had an office in Portland, Maine. Family The son of blacksmith John Quimby (1765-1827) and Susannah Quimby (1768-1827) née White, Quimby was the sixth of seven children.
Biography of Émile Péreire (excerpt)
The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds.Like the Rothschilds, they were Jews, but unlike them the Péreire brothers were Sephardi Jews of Portuguese origin. Émile (1800–1875) and his brother Isaac Péreire (1806–1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank. ![]()
Biography of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Rudolf II (July 18, 1552, Vienna, Austria - January 20, 1612, Prague, Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic) was King of Hungary (as Rudolf, 1572-1608), King of Bohemia (as Rudolf II, 1575-1608/1611), Archduke of Austria (as Rudolf V, 1576-1608), and Holy Roman Emperor (as Rudolf II, 1576-1612). ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Adam (excerpt)
Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic.A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847). ![]()
Biography of Désiré Nisard (excerpt)
Jean Marie Napoléon Désiré Nisard (March 20, 1806 - March 27, 1888) was a French author, journalist, and critic.He was born at Châtillon-sur-Seine. In 1826 he joined the staff of the Journal des Débats, but subsequently transferred his pen to the National. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Eugène Delaunay (excerpt)
Charles-Eugène Delaunay (April 9, 1816 – August 5, 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician.His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics. Life Born in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, Delaunay studied under Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Sorbonne. ![]()
Biography of Eugénie de Guérin (excerpt)
Eugénie de Guérin (January 29, 1805 – May 31, 1848), French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her Journals (1861, Eng.trans., 1865) and her Lettres (1864, Eng.trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind. ![]()
Biography of Hervé Faye (excerpt)
Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye (October 1, 1814 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – July 4, 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. ![]()
Biography of Charles-François Daubigny (excerpt)
Charles-François Daubigny (Paris, February 15, 1817 – February 19, 1878 in Paris) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism. Daubigny was born into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny.
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Biography of William M. Thackeray (excerpt)
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century.He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Biography Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand de Lesseps (excerpt)
Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805–December 7, 1894) was the maker of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas for the first time in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East. ![]()
Biography of Antoine-Jérôme Balard (excerpt)
Antoine Jérôme Balard (September 30, 1802 - April 30, 1876) was a French chemist and the discoverer of bromine. Born at Montpellier, he started as an apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the faculty of sciences of his native town, and then became professor of chemistry at the royal college and school of pharmacy and at the faculty of sciences.
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Biography of Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (excerpt)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (French pronunciation: ; 15 October 1802 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 October 1857), French general, second son of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Éléonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris. Military career After going through the usual course of study for the military profession, he entered the army as an engineer officer in 1824, and served in the Morea (Peloponnesus) in 1828, becoming captain in the following year.
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Biography of Alexander Petofi (excerpt)
Sándor Petőfi (born January 1, 1823, Kiskőrös, Hungary (his birth time comes from this online archive) – died most likely July 31, 1849, in Segesvár, Hungary) was a Hungarian national poet of Serb and Slovak descent and a key figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
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Biography of Pierre-Chéri Lafont (excerpt)
Pierre-Chéri Lafont, born on May 16, 1797 in Bordeaux (birth time source: Lescaut), died on April 19, 1873, was a French actor. He married dancer Pauline Leroux in 1848.
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Biography of Eugène Verboeckhoven (excerpt)
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (June 9, 1798 - January 19, 1881), Belgian painter, was born at Warneton in West Flanders, and received instruction in drawing and modelling from his father, the sculptor Barthélemy Verboeckhoven. Subsequently he settled in Brussels and devoted himself almost exclusively to animal subjects.
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Biography of Louis-Aimé Maillart (excerpt)
Louis-Aimé Maillart (March 24, 1817 – May 26, 1871) was a French composer, best known for his operas, particularly Les Dragons de Villars and Lara. Biography Maillart was born in Montpellier (Hérault).He studied at the Paris Conservatory from 1833, learning composition from Aimé-Ambroise-Simon Leborne and Fromental Halévy, and violin from Guérin, and winning the Prix de Rome in 1841.
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Biography of Susan B. Anthony (excerpt)
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Ampère (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Ampère (August 12, 1800 – March 27, 1864) was a French philologist and man of letters. Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère.Jean-Jacques' mother died while he was an infant. He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Frémy (excerpt)
Edmond Frémy (February 22, 1814 - February 3, 1894) was a French chemist. Frémy was born at Versailles, entered Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac's laboratory in 1831, and was employed at the École Polytechnique in 1834 and at the Collège de France in 1837. ![]()
Biography of Charles de Bériot (excerpt)
Charles Auguste de Bériot (20 February 1802 - 8 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist. Born in Leuven (Louvain), where there is now a street named in his honour, he studied violin with Jean-Francois Tiby, a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti.He was later encouraged by Viotti himself and briefly worked with Baillot but did not embrace all their teachings and was also influenced by Paganini. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (excerpt)
Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Gravière (November 19, 1812 – March 4, 1892) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Jurien, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe. He entered the navy in 1828, was made a commander in 1841, and captain in 1850. ![]()
Biography of Arsène Houssaye (excerpt)
Arsène Houssaye (March 28, 1814 - February 26, 1896), French novelist, poet and man of letters, was born at Bruyères (Aisne), near Laon.His real surname was Housset. In 1832 he found his way to Paris, and in 1836 he published two novels, La Couronne de bluets and La Pécheresse. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Fromentin (excerpt)
Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) was a French painter and writer. He was born in La Rochelle.After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter.Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. ![]()
Biography of Saint-René Taillandier (excerpt)
Saint-René Taillandier (16 December 1817 – 22 February 1879) was a French writer and critic. He was born René Gaspard Ernest Taillandier, in Paris.He completed his studies in Heidelberg, and then became professor of literature successively in Strasbourg, Montpellier and at the Sorbonne, where he was nominated to the chair of French eloquence in 1868. ![]()
Biography of Charles Nègre (excerpt)
Charles Nègre (1820 - 1880) was a French painter and photographer. ![]()
Biography of Sebastian of Portugal (excerpt)
Sebastian I, King of Portugal "the Desired" (in Portuguese, Sebastião I, pronounced , o Desejado; born in Lisbon, January 20, 1554; presumed to have died at Alcazarquivir, August 4, 1578) was the sixteenth king of Portugal and the Algarves.He was the son of Prince John of Portugal and his wife, Joan of Spain. ![]()
Biography of Théodore Rousseau (excerpt)
Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 - December 22, 1867), French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family which included one or two artists. At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting. ![]()
Biography of Giuseppe Mazzini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Mazzini (22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872), nicknamed "Soul of Italy," was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy.His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century.
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Biography of Frédéric Soulié (author) (excerpt)
Frédéric Soulié, born in Foix December 23, 1800 and died in Bièvres in Essonne Septembre 23, 1847, was a French author, journalist and novelist. Selected bibliography Clothilde, théâtre, 1832 Les deux cadavres, roman, 1832 Le comte de Toulouse, roman, 1835 Le vicomte de Béziers, roman, 1835 ![]()
Biography of Ernest Renan (excerpt)
Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, biblical scholar and critic, and historian of religion. He is best known for his influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of Early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity.
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Biography of Marie Laveau (excerpt)
Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801– June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827 — c. 1862) also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana or what is known today as New Orleans Voodoo. ![]()
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Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas).Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). ![]()
Biography of Eduard Mörike (excerpt)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike (Ludwigsburg, 8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875 in Stuttgart) was a German romantic poet. He studied Theology at the Seminary of Tübingen, and followed the ecclesiastical career, becoming a Lutheran pastor.In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Cleversulzbach near Weinsberg, and, after his early retirement for reasons of health, in 1851 became professor of German literature at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart. ![]()
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Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S.state of New York and the seat of Erie County.It is located at the eastern end of Lake Erie, adjacent to the Canadian border with Southern Ontario, and at the head of the Niagara River. ![]()
Biography of Gaëtan de Rochebouët (excerpt)
Gaëtan de Grimaudet de Rochebouët (French pronunciation: ; born 16 March 1813 in Angers, died 23 Ferbruary 1899 in Paris) was a French general who served as Prime Minister for less than a month in late 1877. On June 29, 1877, Patrice de MacMahon dissolved the House after being outvoted. ![]()
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Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: About this soundRepública de Nicaragua (help·info)), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. ![]()
Biography of William Gladstone (excerpt)
William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94). He was a champion of the Home Rule Bill which would have established self-government in Ireland. ![]()
Biography of Paul Féval (excerpt)
Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (29 September 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup Blanc (1843) and the perennial best-seller Le Bossu (1857). |
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