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Biography of Albert Jurardus van Prooijen (excerpt)
Albert Jurardus van Prooijen (7 September 1834 – 31 October 1898) was a Dutch painter known for cityscapes, landscapes (often with animals), and genre scenes. Born in Groningen, he studied at the Academie Minerva under Jacob Bruggink and Jan Ensing. He won the "Grote Koninklijke Medaille" in 1853 and later worked on watercolors and cityscape drawings.
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Biography of Maurice Letulle (excerpt)
Maurice Éléonor Joseph Lucien Letulle, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in the Orne on March 19, 1853, and died in Paris on January 1, 1929, was a physician specializing in pathological anatomy and an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.
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Biography of Natalie Zahle (excerpt)
Ida Charlotte Natalie Zahle (June 11, 1827 – August 11, 1913) was a Danish educational reformer and a pioneer in women's education. After the early death of her parents, she was raised by her grandparents and later by the family of zoologist Daniel Frederik Eschricht.
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Biography of Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (German: Elisabeth Maria Maximiliana; 28 May 1860 – 7 February 1881) was the Duchess of Braganza and wife of Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza. Life Elisabeth was a Princess of Thurn and Taxis by birth and an Infanta of Portugal, Princess of Braganza, and titular Queen consort of Portugal through her marriage to Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza, Miguelist claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1866 to 1920.
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.
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Biography of Pierre Termier (excerpt)
Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859, and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, was a prominent French geologist, specializing in tectonics and the structural synthesis of the Alps. Graduating top of his class from Polytechnique, he joined the prestigious Corps des mines and quickly developed a passion for studying the Alps.
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Biography of Bonar Law (excerpt)
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from October 1922 to May 1923. Born in New Brunswick, he moved to Scotland in 1870 and became wealthy in the iron industry. Elected to the House of Commons in 1900, he served in various roles including Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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Biography of Kanō Jigorō (excerpt)
Kanō Jigorō (10 December 1860 – 4 May 1938) was a Japanese judoka, educator, and the founder of judo.Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain international recognition and the first to become an Olympic sport. Kanō introduced the use of black and white belts and the dan ranking system.
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Biography of George Hendrik Breitner (excerpt)
George Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.
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Biography of Hugo Heermann (excerpt)
Hugo Heermann (3 March 1844, in Heilbronn – 6 November 1935, in Meran, Italy) was a German violinist.He studied the violin with Lambert Joseph Meerts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels, and later with Joseph Joachim. From 1864 he lived in Frankfurt am Main, where he taught violin from 1878 to 1904 at the Hoch Conservatory.
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Biography of Hudson Taylor (excerpt)
James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Baptist Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 54 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who started 125 schools and directly resulted in 20,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 499 local helpers in all 18 provinces.
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Biography of Carlo Bonacini (excerpt)
Carlo Bonacini (born August 15, 1867, in Modena, Italy, and died January 1, 1944, in Modena) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. After graduating in 1888 in Pisa, he started his teaching career in middle schools, the Technical Institute, and Muratori Classical Lyceum in Modena.
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Biography of Neil Munro (writer) (excerpt)
Neil Munro (April 2, 1864 (Wikipedia has a mistake) – December 22, 1930) was a Scottish journalist, editor, author, and critic. Initially recognized for serious literature, Munro is best known today for humorous stories about characters like Captain Para Handy of the Vital Spark.
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Biography of Erich Ludendorff (excerpt)
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (April 9, 1865 – December 20, 1937) was a German military officer and politician who played a major role in the Nazis' rise to power.He gained fame during World War I for his key role in Germany’s victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914.
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Biography of Hans Huber (composer) (excerpt)
Hans Huber (28 June 1852 – 25 December 1921) was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys.
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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.
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Biography of Diederik Korteweg (excerpt)
Diederik Johannes Korteweg (31 March 1848 – 10 May 1941) was a Dutch mathematician best known for the Korteweg–de Vries equation, developed with Gustav de Vries. Initially studying at a military academy, he switched to the Polytechnical School of Delft for engineering but ultimately pursued mathematics. ![]()
Biography of Gaston La Touche (excerpt)
Gaston de La Touche, born on October 22, 1854, in Saint-Cloud, was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. He began taking drawing lessons in 1864, but his studies were interrupted by the 1870 war. In 1875, he exhibited his first bas-relief medallion at the Salon, later befriending Édouard Manet and admiring Émile Zola, whose works he illustrated.
Biography of Henri Michel (politician, born 1857) (excerpt)
Henri Michel, a French politician, was born on January 27, 1857, in Lambesc and died on June 19, 1930, in Charenton-le-Pont. Initially a high school teacher in Avignon and later a journalist and lawyer in Paris, Michel entered politics as a deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône in 1898, aligning with the radical-socialist group.
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Biography of Salvatore Farina (excerpt)
Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 – 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens.He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Life Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso, he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
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Biography of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (excerpt)
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (5 September 1807 in Jülich – 11 September 1863 in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Prussian Duchy of Jülich. Schirmer was started as a student of historical painting under Schadow at the academy of Düsseldorf.
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Biography of Hein Boeken (excerpt)
Hein Boeken, born on December 2, 1861, in Amsterdam, where he also died on October 19, 1933, was a Dutch writer and poet associated with the Tachtigers, a prominent literary movement. A close friend of Willem Kloos, he studied classics and earned his doctorate in 1899 with a thesis on Apuleius' Metamorphoses.
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Biography of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (excerpt)
Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (née Maynard; 10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938) was a British socialite and philanthropist. Although embedded in late-Victorian British high society, she was also a campaigning socialist, supporting many schemes to aid the less well-off in education, housing, employment, and pay, and was often known as the "Red Countess".
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Biography of Oscar Brefeld (excerpt)
Julius Oscar Brefeld (19 September 1839 – 12 January 1925), commonly known as Oscar Brefeld, was a German botanist and mycologist. Born in Telgte, he studied pharmacy and worked as an assistant to Anton de Bary.He became a botany lecturer at Eberswalde Forestry Academy in 1878 and a professor at the University of Münster in 1882, later succeeding Ferdinand Cohn at the University of Breslau in 1898.
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Biography of Victor Delbos (excerpt)
Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902.In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
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Biography of José Sánchez Marco (excerpt)
José Sánchez Marco (Tudela, February 13, 1865 – Pamplona, 1949) was a Spanish politician, initially integrist and later carlist. In 1905, he was elected deputy to the Cortes for the Liga Foral of Azpeitia, later serving for Pamplona from 1907 to 1914, and became senator for Navarre in 1914.
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Biography of Charles Fechter (excerpt)
Charles Albert Fechter (23 October 1824 – 5 August 1879) was a notable Anglo-French actor renowned for his dramatic prowess in both France and England. Born in Paris to a multicultural family, Fechter initially ventured into sculpture before transitioning to acting. His early success in Berlin propelled him to further acclaim in Paris and London.
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Biography of Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (excerpt)
Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, born on July 2, 1834, in Saumur and died on July 25, 1923, in Vitrai-sous-Laigle, was a French magistrate, journalist, and writer. As a prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal, he prepared the indictment against General Boulanger.
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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.
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Biography of Blanche d'Antigny (excerpt)
Marie-Ernestine Antigny, known as Blanche d'Antigny, born in Martizay in the Indre on May 9, 1840, and died in Paris on June 27, 1874, was a French actress and courtesan. Considered a mediocre performer, she was a famous figure in the demi-monde during the Second Empire and inspired, among others, Émile Zola for his character Nana in the novel of the same name.
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Biography of Francesco Saverio Nitti (excerpt)
Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti (19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) was an Italian economist and political figure, serving as Prime Minister of Italy from 1919 to 1920. A member of the Italian Radical Party, he opposed fascism and dictatorship throughout his career.
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Biography of Peter Mackie (excerpt)
Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie, 1st Baronet, JP (26 November 1855 – 22 September 1924) was a Scottish whisky distiller and writer. Mackie was born at St Ninians, Stirling. His father, Alexander Mackie (died 1884), was a distiller. His mother was Jane Simpson Brown (died 1886).
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Biography of Henri Beauclair (excerpt)
Henri Eugène Amédée Beauclair, born on December 21, 1860, in Lisieux and died on May 11, 1919, in Paris, was a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He often co-authored works with novelist Gabriel Vicaire under the collective pseudonym Adoré Floupette. Editor-in-chief of the daily "Le Petit Journal" from 1906 to 1914, Beauclair collaborated with numerous newspapers and magazines including Lutèce, Le Chat Noir, and Le Sagittaire.
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Biography of Léon Labbé (excerpt)
Léon Labbé, born September 29, 1832, and died March 21, 1916, was a French surgeon and politician. Known for his surgical expertise, particularly at the Beaujon Hospital in Paris, he was renowned for his innovative techniques, including the application of asepsis in abdominal surgery. ![]()
Biography of Eliza Frances Andrews (excerpt)
Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 - January 21, 1931) was a novelist, essayist, historian, journalist, local press correspondent, botanist, environmentalist, diarist, and American teacher. She was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age.Her shorter works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the New York World and Godey's Lady's Book.
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Biography of Gaston Cros (excerpt)
Gaston Cros, born on October 6, 1861, in Saverne, died on May 11, 1915, in the Berthonval woods (Mont-Saint-Éloi), was a French colonel who served during World War I. He was the son of Hippolyte Cros and Marie Pétronille Reine Schnerb. He entered the Saint-Cyr Special Military School in 1881, as part of the Egypt promotion, and graduated in 1883.
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Biography of Théophile Labat (excerpt)
Henri Jean Théophile Labat, born March 20, 1834, in Lormont, and died September 10, 1896, in Bordeaux, was a French military engineer, economist, and Polytechnique graduate. He specialized in naval construction, pioneering in hauling techniques, and was recognized for his innovations. Politically, he served as a deputy of the Gironde from 1893 to 1896, focusing on economic and tax issues.
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Biography of William Rockefeller Jr. (excerpt)
William Avery Rockefeller Jr.(May 31, 1841 – June 24, 1922) was an American businessman and financier.Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller.He was also a part owner of Anaconda Copper, which was the fourth-largest company in the world by the late 1920s.
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Biography of Edwin Klebs (excerpt)
Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss microbiologist known for his foundational work in bacteriology. He was the first to identify the bacterium causing diphtheria, known as Corynebacterium diphtheriae or Klebs–Loeffler bacterium. Klebs studied under Rudolf Virchow and later taught in various universities, including in Berlin, Bern, Prague, and Zürich.
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Biography of Gustave Trouvé (excerpt)
Gustave Pierre Trouvé, born on January 2, 1839, in La Haye-Descartes (Indre-et-Loire) and died on July 27, 1902, in Paris, was a French electrical engineer and inventor of the 19th century. In 1902, Gustave Trouvé was working on his latest innovation, a small portable device that uses ultraviolet light to treat skin diseases, the prototype of PUVA therapy, when he accidentally cut his thumb and index finger.
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Biography of Franz von Hipper (excerpt)
Admiral Franz von Hipper, born on September 13, 1863, in Weilheim, Bavaria, and died on May 25, 1932, in Hamburg, was a notable German admiral known for commanding battleships during the Battle of Jutland. Joining the Imperial Navy at 18, Hipper's naval career advanced rapidly.
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Biography of Johan d'Aulnis de Bourouill (excerpt)
Johan Baron d'Aulnis de Bourouill (1850-1930), a Dutch jurist and professor of economics at the University of Utrecht, began his career in academia after practicing law in Amsterdam. His scholarly work included a dissertation on societal income and he served as a professor from 1878 until his retirement in 1917.
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Biography of Louis Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Louis Gustave Fortuné Ratisbonne (29 July 1827 – 24 September 1900) was a French man of letters, journalist, and critic. He was born at Strasbourg.He was the son of the banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim (daughter of Salomon Oppenheim), and the nephew of the priests Marie Theodor Ratisbonne and Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne.
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Biography of Félix Guyon (excerpt)
Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (21 July 1831 – 2 August 1920) was a French surgeon and urologist born in Saint-Denis, Ile-Bourbon (Réunion). He studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1858.He was appointed médecin des hôpitaux in 1864, and was later a professor of surgical pathology (from 1877) and genitourinary surgery (from 1890) at the University of Paris.
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Biography of Richard Haldane (excerpt)
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, PC, FRS, FSA, FBA (30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928) was a British lawyer and philosopher and an influential Liberal and later Labour politician.He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented.
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Biography of Henri Martin (painter) (excerpt)
Henri Martin, born on August 5, 1860, in Toulouse, was a post-impressionist painter known for his divisionist style featuring short, parallel strokes, exploring symbolist themes and poetic landscapes. Educated at the Fine Arts School of Toulouse and then in Paris, he traveled to Italy where he was inspired by the primitives, evolving towards a style influenced by the neo-impressionists.
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Biography of Mieczyslaw Ledochowski (excerpt)
Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski (1822-1902) was a Polish prelate born in Górki, within Russian-controlled Congress Poland. Ordained a priest in 1845, he served in various Vatican diplomatic roles, including as a papal delegate in South America and papal nuncio to Belgium. He became Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań and opposed Prussia's anti-Catholic Kulturkampf policies, leading to his imprisonment in 1874.
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Biography of Grace Cadell (excerpt)
Grace Ross Cadell (October 25, 1855 – February 19, 1918) was a Scottish medical doctor and suffragist, and one of the first group of women to study medicine in Scotland and qualify. She was, with Elsie Inglis, one of the initial entrants to the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, set up by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1886.
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Biography of Elizabeth Harrison (educator) (excerpt)
Elizabeth Harrison (September 1, 1849 – October 31, 1927) was an American educator from Kentucky. She was the founder and first president of what is today National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. Harrison was a pioneer in creating professional standards for early childhood teachers and in promoting early childhood education.
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Biography of Dinah Félix (excerpt)
Mélanie, known as Dinah Félix, was a French actress born on March 11, 1836, in Paris and died on November 1, 1909. She was one of the three Félix sisters, all members of the Comédie-Française, along with Rachel Félix and Rébecca Félix. |
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