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Biography of John Henning (excerpt)
John Henning (2 May 1771 – 8 April 1851) was a Scottish sculptor who began his career as a carpenter. His masterpieces were the one-twentieth-scale models he created of the Parthenon and Bassae friezes. These took him twelve years to complete. Many others then copied this idea but he could not copyright the work of a long-dead artist, and could do nothing to prevent this.
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Biography of Maria Quitéria (excerpt)
Maria Quitéria (27 July 1792 – 21 August 1853) was a Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine. She served in the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822–23 dressed as a man. She was promoted to cadet and Lieutenant and decorated with the Imperial order.
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Biography of Achille Devéria (excerpt)
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (6 February 1800 – 23 December 1857) was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six children were Théodule Devéria and Gabriel Devéria.
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Biography of Catharine Sedgwick (excerpt)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28, 1789 – July 31, 1867) was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". With her work much in demand, from the 1820s to the 1850s, Sedgwick made a good living writing short stories for a variety of periodicals.
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Biography of George Grote (excerpt)
George Grote (17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece. He is said, in some estimations, to have been a man of strong character and self-control, unfailing courtesy and unswerving devotion to what he considered the best interests of the nation.
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Biography of Emanuel Schikaneder (excerpt)
Emanuel Schikaneder (born Johann Joseph Schickeneder; 1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812) was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien.
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Biography of Charlotte Vanhove (excerpt)
Charlotte Vanhove (known as “Caroline”), better known as Madame Talma, born in The Hague on September 10, 1771 and died in Paris 15th, rue de Vaugirard, on April 10, 18601, is a French actress. Caroline Vanhove, daughter of actors, debuted at the Comédie-Française in 1785 at age 14 in Racine's "Iphigenia.
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Biography of Friedrich Schleiermacher (excerpt)
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (German: ; 21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. He also became influential in the evolution of higher criticism, and his work forms part of the foundation of the modern field of hermeneutics.
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Biography of Caroline von Wolzogen (excerpt)
Caroline von Wolzogen (née von Lengefeld) (3 February 1763, Rudolstadt – 11 January 1847, Jena), was a German writer in the Weimar Classicism circle. Her best-known works are a novel, Agnes von Lilien, and a biography of Friedrich Schiller, her brother-in-law. ![]()
Biography of Mary Moser (excerpt)
Mary Moser RA (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated female artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 (along with Angelica Kauffman), Moser painted portraits but is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers.
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Biography of George Catlin (excerpt)
George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians.
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Biography of Therese Albertine Luise Robinson (excerpt)
Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson (26 January 1797 – 13 April 1870) was a German-American author, linguist and translator, and second wife of biblical scholar Edward Robinson. She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derived from the initials of her birth name.
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Biography of Gaspard Théodore Mollien (excerpt)
Gaspard Théodore Mollien (29 August 1796, Paris – 28 June 1872, Nice) was a French diplomat and explorer. In July 1816, as a passenger aboard the Medusa en route to Saint-Louis, Senegal, he became shipwrecked to the south of Cap Blanc. He survived the ordeal, and eventually made his way to Gorée Island, where he worked as a hospital manager.
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Biography of Matthew C. Perry (excerpt)
Matthew Calbraith Perry, born April 10, 1794, in Newport, Rhode Island, and died March 4, 1858, in New York, was a U.S. Navy officer best known for leading a military expedition to Japan in 1853-1854 to open diplomatic and trade relations.
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Biography of Sarah Josepha Hale (excerpt)
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
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Biography of Christiane Vulpius (excerpt)
Johanna Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe (1 June 1765 – 6 June 1816) was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Christiane Vulpius spent her childhood in Luthergasse, one of the oldest parts of Weimar. Her paternal ancestors were academics, while her maternal side came from a family of craftsmen. ![]()
Biography of Angelica Kauffman (excerpt)
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter.
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Biography of Anne Lister (excerpt)
Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian". Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire. She had several lesbian love affairs from her schooldays onwards, often on long trips abroad; muscular and androgynous in appearance, always dressed in black and highly educated, she was later known—generally unkindly—as "Gentleman Jack".
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Biography of Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (excerpt)
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807) was the first Empress of Austria and last Holy Roman Empress as the spouse of Francis II. She was born a Princess of Naples as the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Queen Maria Carolina.
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Biography of Marie-Angélique Duchemin (excerpt)
Marie-Angélique Josèphe Brûlon, née Duchemin (January 20, 1772 – July 13, 1859), was a French soldier. Born in Dinan into a soldier family, Duchemin married a soldier named Brûlon and served from 1792 to 1799 in the defence of Corsica. She initially fought disguised as a man along with her husband, but was eventually discovered to be a woman.
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Biography of Nathanael Greene (excerpt)
Major-General Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1748 - June 19, 1786) was an American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He emerged from the war with a reputation as one of George Washington's most talented and dependable officers, and is known for his successful command in the Southern theater of the conflict.
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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.
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Biography of Pierre Rayer (excerpt)
Pierre François Olive Rayer (8 March 1793 – 10 September 1867) was a French physician who was a native of Saint Sylvain. He made important contributions in the fields of pathological anatomy, physiology, comparative pathology and parasitology. He studied medicine at Caen, and afterwards in Paris at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and at the Hôtel-Dieu.
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Biography of Alphonse Devergie (excerpt)
Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse Devergie (Paris, February 15, 1798 – October 2, 1879) was a French physician and dermatologist. He was one of the pioneers of forensic medicine in France. Alphonse was the brother of Dr. Marie-Nicolas Devergie. He began his career as an intern at the Hospitals of Paris in 1816, before becoming a physician there in 1834.
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Biography of Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark (excerpt)
Louise Augusta of Denmark and Norway, born on July 7, 1771, and died on January 13, 1843, was reputedly fathered by Johann Friedrich Struensee, the royal physician, rather than King Christian VII. Her time of birth comes from "Madrid Gazette no. ![]()
Biography of Iolo Morganwg (excerpt)
Iolo Morganwg, the bardic name of Edward Williams, born in 1747 in Llancarfan, Glamorgan, Wales, and died in 1826, was a pioneer of modern Neo-Druidic philosophy and ritual. His time of birth comes from the biography "Iolo Morganwg, Volume 1" by Griffith John Williams (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1956).
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Biography of Charlotte, Princess Royal (excerpt)
Charlotte, Princess Royal (Charlotte Augusta Matilda; 29 September 1766 – 6 October 1828), was Queen of Württemberg as the wife of King Frederick I. She was the eldest daughter and fourth child of George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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Biography of Anna Eliza Bray (excerpt)
Anna Eliza Bray (25 December 1790 – 21 January 1883) was an English historical novelist and non-fiction writer. Her time of birth comes from her, in her autobiography (London Chapman & Hall, 1884). Born in Surrey, she married Charles Alfred Stothard in 1818, who died in 1821.
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Biography of Therese Brunswick (excerpt)
Countess Therese (von) Brunsvik (Hungarian: Teréz Brunszvik; July 27, 1775 in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary – September 23, 1861 in Pest, Kingdom of Hungary), sometimes referred to in English as Therese, Countess von Brunsvik or Brunswick, was a member of the Hungarian nobility, pedagoge and a follower of the Swiss Pestalozzi.
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Biography of Hester Stanhope (excerpt)
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists".
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Biography of Pierre-Jean Aniel (excerpt)
Pierre-Jean Aniel, born on November 25, 1797, in Paris, and died on January 4, 1865, in Lyon, was a French dancer and ballet master. He started dancing at the Paris Opera in 1814 and became the premier dancer in Bordeaux from 1818 to 1823.
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Biography of Charlotte Buff (excerpt)
Charlotte Buff (11 January 1753, Wetzlar – 16 January 1828, Hanover) was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her. She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner, vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court.
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Biography of François Antoine Lallemand (excerpt)
François Antoine "Charles" Lallemand (23 June 1774 – 9 March 1839) was a French general who served Napoleon I of France, tried to found a colony in what is now Texas, and finally returned to France to serve as governor of Corsica.
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Biography of Carl Arnold (composer) (excerpt)
Carl Arnold (6 May 1794 – 11 November 1873) was a German pianist, composer, conductor, teacher, and organist who significantly influenced the musical life of Christiania (now Oslo) from 1848. Born in Bad Mergentheim, he was musically trained by his father and Johann Anton André.
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Biography of Gaetano Filangieri (excerpt)
Gaetano Filangieri (1753–1788) was an Italian jurist and philosopher renowned for his work in reforming legislation. Born into nobility near Naples, he shifted from a military to a legal career, quickly gaining prominence. His seminal work, "La Scienza della Legislazione," began in 1780, advocating for legislative reform and economic liberalization.
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Biography of Adoniram Judson (excerpt)
Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary, who worked in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Judson was sent from North America to preach in Burma.
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Biography of Lovisa Åhrberg (excerpt)
Maria Lovisa Åhrberg or Årberg (17 May 1801 – 26 March 1881) was a Swedish surgeon and doctor. She was lawfully practicing surgeon long before it became formally permitted for women to study medicine at a university in 1870. Lovisa Åhrberg could be regarded as the first female physician in Sweden with formal permit from the authorities to practice medicine: however, she had no formal training, and the first woman physician with a university degree was to be Karolina Widerström.
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Biography of Théodore Constant Leray (excerpt)
Théodore Constant Leray (November 13, 1795 - April 23, 1849) was born in Brest and pursued a naval career like his father. He served in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, rising to the rank of rear admiral and becoming a member of the Admiralty Council.
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Biography of Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (excerpt)
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina; 7 August 1751 in Berlin – 9 June 1820 in Het Loo) was the consort of William V of Orange and the de facto leader of the dynastic party and counter-revolution in the Netherlands.
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Biography of Karl von Basedow (excerpt)
Karl Adolph von Basedow (28 March 1799 – 11 April 1854) was a German physician most famous for reporting the symptoms of what could later be dubbed Graves-Basedow disease, now technically known as exophthalmic goiter. Basedow was born in Dessau. He graduated from Halle University.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Gaye de Martignac (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gaye, Viscount of Martignac, born June 20, 1778, in Bordeaux and died April 3, 1832, in Paris, was a French poet, lawyer, and statesman. Initially known for his vaudevillian talents, he swiftly transitioned into a legal and political career.
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Biography of Fausto Elhuyar (excerpt)
Fausto de Elhuyar (11 October 1755 – 6 February 1833) was a Spanish chemist, known for isolating tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783. He organized the School of Mines in Mexico City under a commission from the King of Spain, overseeing the construction of the "Palacio de Minería".
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Biography of Adolphe Crémieux (excerpt)
Isaac-Jacob Adolphe Crémieux (French: ; 30 April 1796 – 10 February 1880) was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice under the Second Republic (1848) and Government of National Defense (1870–1871). Raised Jewish, he served as president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1863–67; 1868–80), secured French citizenship for Algerian Jews under French rule through the Crémieux Decree (1870), and was a staunch defender of the rights of the Jews of France.
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Biography of Francesco Aglietti (excerpt)
Francesco Aglietti (1 November 1757 Brescia, Republic of Venice – 3 May 1836 Venezia) was an Italian physician and writer. His time of birth comes fropm the biography "Biografia degli Italiani illustri nelle scienze: lettere ed arti del secolo XVIII. e de'contemporanei compilata da letterati Italiani di ogni provincia, Volume 3" by Emilio de Tipaldo (1836).
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Biography of Joseph of Austria, Palatine of Hungary (excerpt)
Archduke Joseph Anton of Austria (German: Erzherzog Joseph Anton Johann Baptist von Österreich; Hungarian: Habsburg József Antal János Baptista főherceg, József nádor; 9 March 1776 – 13 January 1847) was the 103rd and penultimate palatine of Hungary who served for more than fifty years from 1796 to 1847, after he had been appointed governor in 1795.
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Biography of Pierre Prevost (physicist) (excerpt)
Pierre Prevost (March 3, 1751 – April 8, 1839) was a Genevan philosopher and physicist. In 1791, he theorized that all bodies radiate heat, regardless of their temperature, while explaining Pictet's experiment. The son of a Protestant clergyman in Geneva, Prevost initially pursued a career in law but shifted to education and travel.
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Biography of Johann David Schoepff (excerpt)
Johann David Schoepff, or Schoepf, or Schöpf, (8 March 1752 – 10 September 1800) was a German botanist, zoologist, and physician. His time of birth comes from the biography "Johann David Schoepf — Leben und Werk" by Armin Geus in "Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins für Mittelfranken, Volumes 84-85" (Der Verein, 1967/1968).
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Biography of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (excerpt)
Ferdinand III of Tuscany, also known as Ferdinand Joseph John Baptist of Habsburg-Lorraine (in German: Ferdinand Josef Johann Baptist; in Italian: Ferdinando Giuseppe Giovanni Baptista), born on May 6, 1769, in Florence where he died on June 18, 1824, was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the second son of Emperor Leopold II.
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Biography of Karl Immermann (excerpt)
Karl Leberecht Immermann (24 April 1796 – 25 August 1840) was a noteworthy German dramatist, novelist, and poet. His time of birth comes from the biography Karl Immermann: Sein Leben und seine Werke, aus Tagebüchern und Briefen an seine Familie zusammengestellt.
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Biography of Leopold, Prince of Salerno (excerpt)
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austria in 1816, and became the Prince of Salerno. |
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