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Biography of Marie Lafarge (excerpt)
Marie-Fortunée Lafarge, née Capelle (January 15, 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 7, 1852) was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable, because it was one of the first trials to be followed by the public through daily newspaper reports, and because she was the first person convicted largely on direct forensic toxicological evidence.
Biography of Paul Schützenberger (excerpt)
Paul Schützenberger (23 December 1829 - 26 June 1897), French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger (1779-1859) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger (1809-1881) professor of chemical medicine. He was intended for a medical career and graduated MD from the University of Strasbourg in 1855, but his interests lay in physical and chemical science.
Biography of Eugène Thirion (excerpt)
Eugène Thirion, born on May 19, 1839 in Paris, died on January 19, 1910 in Montigny-sur-Loing, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Heinrich Hertz (excerpt)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF or UHF radio waves.
Biography of Johann Karl Zahn (excerpt)
Johann Zahn, born August 21, 1631, died August 22, 1707, was a German architect, critif, author, painter and Professor in the Academy of Arts of Berlin in 1829.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Clément (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Clément, born May 31, 1836 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died February 26, 1903 in Paris, was a French singer, author and activist, a member of The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris).
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.
Biography of Otto Walkhoff (excerpt)
Friedrich Otto Walkhoff, born April 23, 1860 in Braunschweig, died June 8, 1934 in Berlin, was a German dental therapist.
Biography of Octave Gréard (excerpt)
Octave Gréard (April 18, 1828 (birth time source: Choisnard, birth certificate) - April 25, 1904) was a noted French educator. Gréard was born in Vire, educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and had a long career in education. He was largely responsible for the establishment of schools for girls and played a significant role in reforming the baccalauréat.
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.
Biography of Gustaf V of Sweden (excerpt)
Gustav V (Oscar Gustav Adolf) (16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 1907 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
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.
Biography of Théophile Delcassé (excerpt)
Théophile Pierre Delcassé, born on March 1, 1852 in Pamiers (Ariège) (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut), died on February 21, 1923 in Nice, was a French politician and journalist.
Biography of Adelina Patti (excerpt)
Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 - September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. Considered, along with fellow contemporaries; Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, to be one of the most famous 19th Century sopranos; Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard.
Biography of Johann Gottfried Galle (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at (23 September 1846).
Biography of Alphonse Allais (excerpt)
Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854 - October 28, 1905) was a French writer, journalist and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. A poet as much as a humorist, he in particular cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.
Biography of Hilaire de Chardonnet (excerpt)
Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet, best known as Hilaire de Chardonnet, born May 1, 1839 in Besançon, died March 11, in Paris, was a French engeener, businessman and inventor of artificial silk.
Biography of Jules Massenet (excerpt)
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, his style fell out of favor not long after his death; and, except Manon, his works were rarely performed.
Biography of Jay Gould (excerpt)
Jason "Jay" Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. Although he was long vilified as an archetypal robber baron, modern historians have discounted various myths about him and evaluated his career more positively.
Biography of Pierre-Désiré Lamy (excerpt)
Pierre-Désiré Lamy, born on May 12, 1855 in Clermont-Ferrand (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1919 in Paris, was a FQrench artist and painter.
Biography of Félicien David (excerpt)
Félicien-César David, b. April 13, 1810 in Caudenet (Vaucluse – d. August 29, 1876 in La Pecq (now: Saint-Germain-en-Laye), was a French composer. Biography Félicien David wrote a prodigious number of highly original musical compositions in many forms, including symphonies, tone poems, opéras comiques, choruses, religious music, piano compositions, chamber music, and vocal works.
Biography of André Antoine (excerpt)
André Antoine (31 January 1858, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)(birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) - 19 October 1943, Le Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the inventor of modern mise en scène in France.
Biography of Cosima Wagner (excerpt)
Cosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner (née de Flavigny, since 1844 Liszt; December 24, 1837 – April 1, 1930) was the daughter of composer Franz Liszt. She became famous as the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner and, after his death, as director of the Bayreuth Festival for 31 years.
Biography of Frédéric Kuhlmann (excerpt)
Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann (22 May 1803 – 27 January 1881) is a French chemist who patented the reaction later used in the Ostwald process. He was both a research scientist and a professor at Université Lille Nord de France. He promoted chemical engineering education for science graduates in Lille and supported the developpement of École centrale de Lille (IDN).
Biography of Frans de Cort (excerpt)
Frans Jozef de Cort (Antwerp, 21 June 1834- Elsene, 18 January 1878) was a Flemish writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857.
Biography of François Fabié (excerpt)
François Fabié, born November 3, 1846 in Durenque, died July 18, 1928, is a French poet.
Biography of Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel (excerpt)
Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel, born on April 2, 1831 in Paris, died on January 2010 in Paris, was a French artist, painter, and lithographer.
Biography of Robert Browning (excerpt)
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Youth Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, on May 7, 1812, the first son of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning.
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 Frédérick Lemaitre (excerpt)
Frédérick Lemaître, (July 28, 1800 - January 26, 1876) was a French actor and playwright. The son of an architect, he was born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime but adopted the first name Frédérick as a stage name.
Biography of Léon Cladel (excerpt)
Léon Cladel (March 15, 1835 in Agen (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – July 21, 1892), was a French novelist. The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a reputation in a limited circle by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface.
Biography of Charles Leconte de Lisle (excerpt)
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle ( 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle. Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean.
Biography of André Hubert Dumont (excerpt)
André Hubert Dumont (February 15, 1809–February 28, 1857) was a Belgian geologist. Dumont was born at Liège. His first work was a masterly Mémoire on the geology of the province of Liege published in 1832. A few years later he became professor of mineralogy and geology and afterwards rector in the University of Liege.
Biography of Albert de Lapparent (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (30 December 1839 (birth time source: Christophe de Cène, birth certificate) - 5 May 1908) was a French geologist. He was born at Bourges. After studying at the École polytechnique from 1858 to 1860 he became ingénieur au corps des mines, and took part in drawing up the geological map of France; and in 1875 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic Institute in Paris.
Biography of Émile Guimet (excerpt)
Émile Étienne Guimet (2 June 1836 (birth time source: Cedra, birth certificate) - 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur. He was born at Lyon and succeeded his father in the direction of his "artificial ultramarine" factory. He also founded the Musée Guimet, which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885.
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Biography of Henry Rider Haggard (excerpt)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential to this day.
Biography of Herbert Spencer (excerpt)
Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) was an English philosopher; prominent classical liberal political theorist; and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies.
Biography of Eugène Azam (excerpt)
Étienne Eugène Azam (1822 (source not archived – 1899) was a French surgeon from Bordeaux who is chiefly remembered for his work in psychology, particularly a case involving a female patient he named "Félida X" who seemed to have "alternating personalities", or what Azam referred to as doublement de la vie.
Biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (excerpt)
Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Spanish author and scholar from Galicia. Life Pardo Bazán was born in A Coruña, a city in the region of Galicia, Spain, and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular novels, including Los pazos de Ulloa ("The Manors of Ulloa") and its sequel, La madre naturaleza ("Mother Nature").
Biography of Théodore Dubois (excerpt)
François-Clément Théodore Dubois (August 24, 1837 – June 11, 1924) was a French composer, organist and music teacher. Théodore Dubois was born in Bligny in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart (the choirmaster at Reims cathedral) and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas.
Biography of Joseph Chamberlain (excerpt)
Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was an influential British businessman, politician, and statesman. In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later became a Liberal Unionist in alliance with the Conservative Party and was appointed Colonial Secretary.
Biography of Charles-Marie Widor (excerpt)
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 (birth time source: birth certificate on-line) – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. Life Widor was born in Lyon, France to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889.
Biography of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Biography of Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau (excerpt)
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (February 10, 1810 - January 12, 1892) was a French naturalist. He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue (Gard), the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied medicine at Strasbourg, where he took the double degree of M.
Biography of Hector Malot (excerpt)
Hector Malot (May 20, 1830 - July 17, 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, close to Rouen. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
Biography of Adolphe Le Flô (excerpt)
Adolphe Le Flô, born November 2, 1804 (source not archived) and died in Néchéoat near Morlaix in 1887, was a French military, general, and politician.
Biography of Zénaïde Fleuriot (excerpt)
Zénaïde-Marie-Anne Fleuriot (born in Saint-Brieuc (source not archived), 28 October 1829; died in Paris, 18 December 1890) was a French novelist. Life She published her first novel, Les souvenirs d'une douairière, in 1859, and its success led her to adopt the literary profession.
Biography of Benoît-Constant Coquelin (excerpt)
Benoît-Constant Coquelin (23 January 1841 – 27 January 1909), known as Coquelin aîné, was a French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Biography Coquelin was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais. He was originally intended to follow his father's trade of baker (he was once called "un boulanger manqué" by a hostile critic), but his love of acting led him to the Conservatoire, where he entered Régnier's class in 1859.
Biography of Emile Claus (excerpt)
Emile Claus (September 27, 1849–June 14, 1924) was a Belgian painter. Emile Claus was born on September 27, 1849 inLendelede . Later he studied at the Academy of Antwerp. Under the influence of Claude Monet, he developed a style that has been characterized as luminism. |
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