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Biography of Washington Irving (excerpt)
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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Biography of Samuel F. B. Morse (excerpt)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code. Birth and education Samuel F.B. Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of geographer and pastor Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann loose Morse.
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Biography of François-Vincent Raspail (excerpt)
François-Vincent Raspail (January 25, 1794 - January 7, 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physiologist, and socialist politician. Biography Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the republican Carbonari society, Raspail was imprisoned during Louis Philippe's reign (1830-1848) and was a candidate for presidency of the Second Republic in December 1848. ![]()
Biography of Charles XIV John of Sweden (excerpt)
Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan), born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, later renamed Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and the King of Norway (where he was known in Norwegian as Karl III Johan) from 1818 until his death.
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Biography of Bernard of Clairvaux (excerpt)
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist (1090–August 21, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. "The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Catholic Church from 1125 to 1153", his authority helped to end the schism of 1130.
Biography of Zadkiel (astrologer) (excerpt)
Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology, and in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology, subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac.
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Biography of Pedro I of Brazil (excerpt)
Pedro I (English: Peter of Alcantara Francis Anthony John Charles Xavier of Paul Michael Raphael Joaquim Joseph Gonzaga Pascal Cyprian Seraphim of Braganza and Bourbon) (full name: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon), known as "Dom Pedro Primeiro" (October 12, 1798 – September 24, 1834), proclaimed Brazil independent from Portugal and became Brazil's first Emperor. ![]()
Biography of André Masséna (excerpt)
Jean-André Masséna, 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling (May 6, 1758–April 4, 1817) was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is considered by military historians as one of the greatest field commanders in history and is often ranked among generals of his generation second only to Napoleon himself. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Grimm (excerpt)
Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist, and the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm. Life and work Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. ![]()
Biography of François Broussais (excerpt)
François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (December 17, 1772, St Malo - November 17, 1838, Vitry-sur-Seine) was a French physician. From his father, who was also a physician, he received his first instructions in medicine, and he studied for some years at a college in Dinan. ![]()
Biography of Félicité de Lamennais (excerpt)
Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, also known as Frédéric de La Mennais (June 19, 1782 - February 27, 1854), was a French priest, and philosophical and political writer. Youth Felicité de Lamennais was born at Saint-Malo in Brittany, the son of Pierre Robert de Lamennais (or La Mennais), a ship-owner ennobled by King Louis XVI for public services, and Gratienne Lorin. ![]()
Biography of John Jacob Astor (excerpt)
John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob Astor) (July 17, 1763–March 29, 1848) was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur trading, real estate, and opium. ![]()
Biography of Frederick William II of Prussia (excerpt)
Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II; September 25, 1744–November 16, 1797) was the fourth King of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death. Frederick William was son of Prince Augustus William of Prussia (the second son of King Frederick William I of Prussia) and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. ![]()
Biography of Karl von Clausewitz (excerpt)
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz (July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War. Life and times Clausewitz, considered an author of contemporary military strategy, was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, to a poor but middle-class family. ![]()
Biography of Francis Scott Key (excerpt)
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Life Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Louis Penn Dagworthy (Charlton) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County and is now Carroll County, Maryland. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Belzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni; sometimes known as The Great Belzoni (November 5, 1778 (birth time source: no original source) – December 3, 1823) was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities. Belzoni was born in Padua as the son of a barber. His family was from Rome and when Belzoni was 16 he went to work there, claiming that he 'studied hydraulics'. ![]()
Biography of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (excerpt)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 - July 23, 1859) was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore. She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Agustín de Iturbide (excerpt)
Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824), also known as Augustine of Mexico, was a Mexican army general and politician. During the Mexican War of Independence, he built a successful political and military coalition that took control in Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively gaining independence for Mexico. ![]()
Biography of Ebenezer Sibly (excerpt)
Ebenezer Sibly (1751-1799) was an English physician, astrologer and prolific writer on the occult. He is celebrated for the natal horoscope he cast of the United States of America, published in 1787 and still cited. He joined the Freemasons in 1784. He published the New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences in four volumes, from 1784. ![]()
Biography of Nicholas I of Russia (excerpt)
Nicholas I (Russian: Николай I Павлович, Nikolaj I Pavlovič), July 6 (June 25, Old Style), 1796 – March 2 (18 February Old Style), 1855), was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Boccherini (excerpt)
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is mostly known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. ![]()
Biography of Henri Grégoire (excerpt)
Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (4 December 1750 – 28 May 1831), often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire, was a French Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent slavery abolitionist and supporter of universal suffrage. ![]()
Biography of John Constable (excerpt)
John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. ![]()
Biography of Marie Dorval (excerpt)
Marie Dorval (January 6, 1798 - May 20, 1849), was a talented French actress. Early life Born Marie Thomase Amélie Delauney; abandoned by her father when she was five years old, and losing her mother to tuberculosis while still a teenager, at age of 15 she married Alain Dorval, a much older actor, who died five years later. ![]()
Biography of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (excerpt)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (January 10, 1797 – May 25, 1848) was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets. She was born at the family seat of Hülshoff near Münster into an aristocratic, Catholic family in Westphalia. ![]()
Biography of Beau Brummell (excerpt)
Beau Brummell, né George Bryan Brummell (June 7, 1778, London, U.K.–March 30, 1840, Caen, France), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent. He established the mode of men wearing understated, but fitted, beautifully cut clothes, adorned with an elaborately-knotted cravat.
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Biography of Félix Savary (excerpt)
Félix Savary, born October 4, 1797 in Paris, died July 15, 1841 in Estagel, was a French astronomer, member of Académie des Sciences, December 24, 1832. The discovery of the orbital motion of visual double stars by William Herschel aroused the interest of French astronomers for the observation of double stars and the computation of their orbits at the beginning of the XIX-th century. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Eugène-Marie Bautain (excerpt)
Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (February 17, 1796 – October 15, 1867), French philosopher and theologian, was born in Paris. At the École Normale he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of higher teaching, and was soon after called to the chair of philosophy in the university of Strasbourg. ![]()
Biography of Antonio José de Sucre (excerpt)
Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (February 3, 1795 – June 4, 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (English: "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan independence leader. Sucre was one of Simón Bolívar's closest friends, generals and statesmen.
Biography of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Xavier Francois, Dauphin of France (October 22, 1781–June 4, 1789) was the second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the Dauphin. ![]()
Biography of William IV of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. William, the third son of George III and younger brother and successor to George IV, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the House of Hanover. ![]()
Biography of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Leopold II (born Peter Leopold Joseph) (May 5, 1747 – March 1, 1792) was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792 and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Queen Maria Theresa. ![]()
Biography of Baron Georges Cuvier (excerpt)
Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. He was the elder brother of Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838), also a naturalist. He was a major figure in scientific circles in Paris during the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology by comparing living animals with fossils. ![]()
Biography of Jose Gervasio Artigas (excerpt)
José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) is a national hero of Uruguay, sometimes called "the father of Uruguayan independence". Life Born in Montevideo to a wealthy family, at age 12 he moved to the countryside and worked on his family's farms. ![]()
Biography of William I, German Emperor (excerpt)
Wilhelm I, also known as Wilhelm the Great (William Frederick Louis, German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig) (March 22, 1797 – March 9, 1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (January 2, 1861 – 9 March, 1888) and the first German Emperor (18 January 1871 – 9 March, 1888). ![]()
Biography of Jean Paul (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Life and work Jean Paul was born at Wunsiedel, in the Fichtelgebirge mountains (Bavaria). His father was an organist at Wunsiedel. ![]()
Biography of Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine of France, Dauphin of France and Duke of Angoulême (born Louis-Antoine of Artois; August 6, 1775 – June 3, 1844) was the eldest son of King Louis XVI of France's youngest brother, the Comte d'Artois, and his wife, Princess Marie Thérèse of Savoy. ![]()
Biography of Antonio Canova (excerpt)
Antonio Canova (Possagno, Italy, 1 November 1757 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, from a biography written by Pier Alessandro Paravia) – 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Chevreul (excerpt)
Michel Eugène Chevreul (August 31, 1786 (birth time source: Arno Müller, birth certificate) – April 9, 1889) was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with discovering margarine and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt.
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Biography of Fromental Halévy (excerpt)
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (pronounced ) (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive. Early career Halévy was born in Paris as Elias Levy, the son of a cantor, Élie Halfon Halévy, who was the secretary of the Jewish community of Paris, a writer and a teacher of Hebrew, and a French Jewish mother. ![]()
Biography of Francisco de Miranda (excerpt)
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez (Caracas, March 28, 1750 – in prison, El Arsenal de la Carraca, Cadiz, July 14, 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Venezuelan revolutionary. Although his own plans for the independence of the Spanish American colonies failed, he is regarded as a forerunner of Simón Bolívar, who during the Hispanic American wars of independence successfully liberated a vast portion of South America. ![]()
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Santa Cruz (Spanish for 'Holy Cross') is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 64,608. Situated on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, about 32 mi (51 km) south of San Jose and 75 mi (120 km) south of San Francisco, the city is part of the 12-county San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area. ![]()
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. It met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the British Navy instituted a blockade of Boston Harbor and Parliament passed the punitive Intolerable Acts in response to the December 1773 Boston Tea Party. ![]()
Biography of Karoline von Günderrode (excerpt)
Karoline von Günderrode (11 February 1780 - 26 July 1806) was a German Romantic poet who wrote under the male pseudonym Tian. Born into a noble but impoverished family, she left home at 17 to live in a residence for unmarried women in Frankfurt.
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Biography of Charles de Rémusat (excerpt)
Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat (14 March 1797 - 6 June 1875), was a French politician and writer. Biography He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, of a good family of Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute Garonne, and then of Nord. ![]()
Biography of Paul I of Russia (excerpt)
Pavel (Paul) I Petrovich of Russia (Russian: Па́вел I Петро́вич; Pavel Petrovich) (October 1 1754 – March 23 1801) was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801. Childhood Paul was born in the Palace of Empress Elizabeth In St Petersburg. ![]()
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Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of 2010, the population was 139,988, and in 2020, the population was estimated to be at 159,200. The city's estimated population has grown by 1% percent annually since 2010 on average. ![]()
Biography of William Pitt the Younger (excerpt)
William Pitt, the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783, aged 24. He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death. |
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