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Biography of Karl Pearson (excerpt)
Karl Pearson FRS (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton.
Biography of Jules Lemaître (excerpt)
François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 August 1914), was a French critic and dramatist. He was born at Vennecy (Loiret). He became a professor at the university of Grenoble, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature.
Biography of François Girardon (excerpt)
François Girardon (March 10, 1628 (source: Wikipedia in French) – September 1, 1715) was a French sculptor. He was born at Troyes. As a boy he had for master a joiner and wood-carver of his native town, named Baudesson, under whom he is said to have worked at the chateau of Liebault, where he attracted the notice of Chancellor Séguier.
Biography of François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (excerpt)
François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (4 October 1620, Bordeaux - 2 March 1670, Bordeaux) was a French lawyer. He was elected the third occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1644.
Biography of Ravachol (excerpt)
François Claudius Koeningstein, known as Ravachol, (1859-1892), was a French anarchist best known for terrorism. He was born 14 October 1859 at Saint-Chamond (Loire) and died guillotined 11 July 1892 at Montbrison. Son of a Dutch father (Jean Adam Koeningstein) and a French mother (Marie Ravachol), he adopted his mother's maiden name after the father abandoned the family when he was only 8 years old.
Biography of Frédéric Mariotti (excerpt)
Frédéric Mariotti, born on April 1, 1884 in Marseille, died on February 22, 1971 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1917 : La Bonne Hôtesse de Georges Monca 1919 : Barrabas de Louis Feuillade - Film tourné en 12 épisodes -
Biography of Germain Nouveau (excerpt)
Germain Nouveau born and died in Pourrières, Var, in France (31 July 1851 - 4 April 1920), was a French poet, associated with the symbolist movement. He was a friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine. In 1874 he traveled to London with Rimbaud.
Biography of Florence Foster Jenkins (excerpt)
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868–November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur operatic soprano who was known and ridiculed for her lack of rhythm, pitch, and tone; her aberrant pronunciation; and her generally poor singing ability. Personal life Born Narcissa Florence Foster in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Mary Jane (née Hoagland 1851–1930) and Charles Dorrance Foster (1836–1909).
Biography of Augustus John (excerpt)
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching.
Biography of Constant Rémy (excerpt)
Constant Rémy, born May 20, 1882 in Paris and died August 16, 1958 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1909 : Benvenuto Cellini de Camille de Morlhon * 1909 : Le Bon Voisin
Biography of André Chevrillon (excerpt)
André Chevrillon (May 3, 1864 (birth time source: Lescaut)–July 9, 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of Taine, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study. Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris.
Biography of Emily Post (excerpt)
Emily Post (October 27, 1873 - September 25, 1960) was a United States author who promoted what she considered "proper etiquette". She wrote books surrounding the topic of etiquette. Background Post was born as Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, and was born into privilege as the only daughter of famous architect Bruce Price and his wife Josephine Lee Price.
Biography of Nellie Melba (excerpt)
Dame Nellie Melba, GBE (19 May 1861 – 23 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, legendary Australian opera soprano and probably the most famous of all sopranos, was the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form. She and Dame May Whitty both became the first entertainers to become a DBE in 1918.
Biography of Septimius Severus (excerpt)
Septimius Severus (Latin: Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus; 11 April 146 – 4 February 211), also known as Severus, was Roman Emperor from 193 to 211. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.
Biography of Ettore Bugatti (excerpt)
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (September 15, 1881, Milan, died on August 21, 1947) was an Italian automobile designer and manufacturer. He came from a notably artistic family with its roots in Milan. He was the elder son of Teresa Lorioli and her husband Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), an important Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer.
Biography of Paul Choisnard (excerpt)
Paul Choisnard, born February 13, 1867 in Tours, was a French astrologer and author. He was one of the pioneers of statistical astrology.
Biography of Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (17 December 1879, Réalmont (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- 19 December 1962, Dourgne) was a French Admiral and Minister of Marine of France. He fought in both World Wars, and was known mostly for his activity at Dunkirk in 1940.
Biography of Paul Adam (excerpt)
Paul Adam (December 7, 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – January 2, 1920) was a French novelist. Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, La Force, appeared in 1899.
Biography of Edmond Jaloux (excerpt)
Edmond Jaloux (born in Marseille on June 19, 1878; died in Lutry on August 22, 1949) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic. His works tended to be set in Paris or his native Provence. He was interested in German Romanticism and English writers.
Biography of Gerhart Hauptmann (excerpt)
Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862—June 6, 1946) was a German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. He was the son of a hotel-keeper. From the village school of his native place he passed to the Realschule in Breslau, and was then sent to learn agriculture on his uncle's farm at Jauer.
Biography of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (excerpt)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868–December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design.
Biography of Emile Male (excerpt)
Émile Mâle (June 2, 1862 - October 6, 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie Française, and a director of the Académie de France à Rome.
Biography of Syngman Rhee (excerpt)
Syngman Rhee or Yi Seungman (March 26, 1875 – July 19, 1965; Korean pronunciation: ) was the first president of South Korea. His presidency, from August 1948 to April 1960, remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere.
Biography of Louis Noguères (excerpt)
Louis Noguères (4 October 1881–5 May 1956) was a French politician and member of the French Resistance. Son of a magistrate, Louis Noguères was born at Laval. His family moved frequently and Louis attended schools in Laval, Angers, Chambéry, and Le Havre.
Biography of Célestin Bouglé (excerpt)
Célestin Bouglé (June 1, 1870 – 1940) was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the Annee Sociologique. Life Bouglé was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1890 and aggregated in philosophy in 1893.
Biography of Étienne Clémentel (excerpt)
Étienne Clémentel, born March 29, 1864 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)(source not archived), and died December 25, 1936 in Prompsat (Puy-de-Dôme), was a French politician of the third Republic of France.
Biography of Elinor Glyn (excerpt)
Elinor Glyn (October 17, 1864 - September 23, 1943), born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She coined the use of It as a euphemism for sex appeal. Elinor Glyn was born in Saint Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands.
Biography of Felix Adler (excerpt)
Felix Adler (August 13, 1851–April 24, 1933) was a Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Chronology He was born in Alzey, Germany, the son of a rabbi, Samuel Adler. The family immigrated to the United States from Germany when Felix was six years of age on the occasion of his father's receiving an appointment as head rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York.
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Tripoli is the capital city and the largest city of Libya, with a population of about three million people in 2019. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay.
Biography of Erik Axel Karlfeldt (excerpt)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20, 1864 — April 8, 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. He had been offered, but declined, the award already in 1919.
Biography of Adolphe Willette (excerpt)
Adolphe-Léon Willette (July 31, 1857– February 4, 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 19th arrondisement of Paris for the 1889 elections. Biography Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. He studied for four years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France.
Biography of Adolphe Retté (excerpt)
Adolphe Retté (born July, 25, 1863 in Paris, France, died December 8, 1930) was a French poet and writer.
Biography of Vincenzo Peruggia (excerpt)
Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8, 1881, Maccagno, Italy - 1925, Haute-Savoie, France) is the man who once stole the Mona Lisa. Theft In 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia perpetrated what has been described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century. The former Louvre worker walked into the museum one day and, noticing the room containing the Mona Lisa had no guards or visitors, took the painting off its pegs, removed it from the frame, and walked out of the Louvre with it under his arm.
Biography of Madame de la Fayette (excerpt)
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
Biography of Marcel Labey (excerpt)
Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet - 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French conductor and composer. Life He was born to a family of magistrates and studied law in Paris (gaining his doctorate in 1898) before turning to music. He learned piano under Elie-Myrima Delaborde and Louis Breitner, and harmony under René Lenormand.
Biography of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (excerpt)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; née Princess Alice of Albany; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She has the distinction of remaining the longest lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and the longest living member of the royal family to be a Princess of the blood.
Biography of Stanley Baldwin (excerpt)
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Early life He was born at Lower Park House, Lower Park, Bewdley in Worcestershire, England to Alfred Baldwin and Louisa Baldwin (née MacDonald) and through his mother was a first cousin of the writer and poet Rudyard Kipling.
Biography of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (excerpt)
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923) was an English aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in Valley of the Kings.
Biography of Mary Reid (excerpt)
Mary Reid aka Mary MacArthur (August 13, 1880-1921) was a Scottish suffragette and trades unionist. She was born in Glasgow and became politicised when she joined the shop assistant's union whilst working in her father draper's shop. In 1903 she became the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and in 1906 formed the National Federation of Women Workers and assisted in the creation of the National Anti-Sweating League.
Biography of Jacques Bainville (excerpt)
Jacques Bainville (February 9, 1879 in Vincennes-February 9, 1936 in Paris) was a French historian and journalist. A staunch monarchist, he was a leading figure in Action Française. A follower of Charles Maurras, Bainville was a founder of Action Française and soon became an important figure in the Institute d'Action Française, a college of sorts ran by the organisation (it had no permanent buildings but ran lectures and study groups where possible).
Biography of Bernard Baruch (excerpt)
Bernard Mannes Baruch (pronounced /bəˈɹuk/) (August 19, 1870–June 20, 1965) was a Jewish-American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters.
Biography of Jules Laforgue (excerpt)
Jules Laforgue (Montevideo, 16 August 1860 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Jany Bessière, birth certificate) – Paris, 20 August 1887) was a French symbolist poet. Life His parents, Charles-Benoît Laforgue and Pauline Lacollay, met in Uruguay where his father worked first as a teacher and then a bank employee.
Biography of Carl Sandburg (excerpt)
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat.
Biography of Ernest Rutherford (excerpt)
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. In early work he discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity involved the transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation, proving that the former was essentially helium ions.
Biography of Victor Grignard (excerpt)
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910.
Biography of Théophile Steinlen (excerpt)
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. Born in Lausanne, Steinlen studied at the University of Lausanne before taking a job as a designer trainee at a textile mill in Mulhouse in eastern France.
Biography of Polaire (actress) (excerpt)
Mlle Polaire was the stage name used by French singer and actress Emélie (not Emilie) Marie Bouchaud (May 14, 1874 – October 14, 1939). Born at Agha, Algiers, Algeria, she began her show-business career as a café singer, at age 15. At 17, she joined her older brother in Paris, France.
Biography of Robert Nivelle (excerpt)
Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War. He took command of one of the main French armies engaged in the Battle of Verdun, leading it during its successful counter-strokes against the Germans, but was accused of wasting French lives during some of his attacks.
Biography of Paul Villard (excerpt)
Paul Ulrich Villard (1860 – 13 January 1934) was a French chemist and physicist, born near Lyon, France. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying uranium. At this time he was working in the chemistry department of the École Normale in rue d'Ulm, Paris.
Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs (excerpt)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois (although he later lived for many years in the neighboring suburb of Oak Park), the son of a businessman. |
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