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Biography of Johannes van der Waals (excerpt)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids. Early years Van der Waals was born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
Biography of Ernest Lavisse (excerpt)
Ernest Lavisse (December 17, 1842 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - August 18, 1922) was a French historian. He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence (1876) at the école normale supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888), in the place of Henri Wallon.
Biography of Jules Perrot (excerpt)
Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 in Lyon, France – 29 August 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including Pas de Quatre, La Esmeralda, Ondine, and Giselle with Jean Coralli.
Biography of Edouard Lalo (excerpt)
Édouard Victor Antoine Lalo (January 27, 1823 – April 22, 1892) was a French composer of Spanish descent. Born in Lille, he studied first at that city's conservatoire, and then at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck. For years, he worked as a viola player (specializing in chamber music) and teacher in Paris before gaining fame as a composer, which eventually arrived when he was in his late forties.
Biography of Joseph Plateau (excerpt)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. Born in Brussels, he studied at the University of Liège (Liège), where he graduated as a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1829. In 1835, he was appointed Professor of experimental physics in Ghent University.
Biography of Jean-Jacques Henner (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Henner (March 5, 1829 - 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato in painting religious subjects and nudes. Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). At first a pupil of Drolling and Picot, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1848, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of "Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel" (1858).
Biography of Eugène Tisserand (agronomist) (excerpt)
Eugène Tisserand, born on May 26, 1830 in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, died in 1925 in Paris, was a French agronomist and author.
Biography of Charles Wagner (excerpt)
Charles Wagner (4 January 1852 Château-Salins (source: Lescaut) – 12 May 1918) was a French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping reformed theology. Biography At the age of 14, he was sent to Paris to school; was graduated at the Sorbonne in 1869; and studied theology at Strassburg and Göttingen.
Biography of Prince Arthur of Connaught (excerpt)
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria. Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916.
Biography of Jules Léotard (excerpt)
Jules Léotard (French: ; 1 August 1838 (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain) – 17 August 1870) was a revolutionary French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze. He also popularised the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name and inspired the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" sung by George Leybourne.
Biography of Jean Albert Gaudry (excerpt)
Jean Albert Gaudry (September 16, 1827 - November 27, 1908), French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas. At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece, residing in the latter country from 1855 to 1860.
Biography of Joseph Babinski (excerpt)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (November 17, 1857, Paris – October 29, 1932, Paris) was a French neurologist of Polish ethnicity. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.
Biography of Henry Morton Stanley (excerpt)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (June 10, 1840 – May 10, 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr.
Biography of Luigi Cadorna (excerpt)
Luigi Cadorna (September 4, 1850–December 21, 1928) was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian army during the first part of World War I. Born to General Raffaele Cadorna in Verbania Pallanza, Piedmont, after joining the Italian Army in 1868 Cadorna was offered the post of chief of staff for the first time in 1908, which he rejected due to the issue of political control during wartime.
Biography of Jean Gaston Darboux (excerpt)
Jean-Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. Life Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier.
Biography of Paul Doumer (excerpt)
Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905.
Biography of Emil Kirdorf (excerpt)
Emil Kirdorf (8 April 1847 (source not archived) - 13 July 1938) was a German industrialist, one of the first important employers in the Ruhr industrial sectors. He was personally awarded by Adolf Hitler the Order of the German Eagle, Nazi Germany's highest distinctions, on his 90th birthday in 1937, for his support to the Nazi Party in the late 1920s.
Biography of Paul Gavarni (excerpt)
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (January 13, 1804 in Paris – November 24, 1866), a French caricaturist, born in Paris. He began life as an engineer's draughtsman, but soon turned his attention to his proper vocation as a cartoonist.
Biography of George Robert Sims (excerpt)
George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 (source not archived) - 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums.
Biography of Pierre Laffitte (excerpt)
Pierre Laffitte (February 21, 1823 - January 4, 1903) was a French positivist. Laffitte was born at Béguey (Gironde). Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor. On the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death, he was recognized as head of the section which accepted the full Comtian doctrine; the other section adhered to Émile Littré, who rejected the religion of humanity as inconsistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier period.
Biography of Edmond About (excerpt)
Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 January 1885), was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Life He was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the École Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came first.
Biography of Ernest Bichat (excerpt)
Ernest Bichat, born September 17,1845 in Luneville, died in 1905 in Nancy, was a French physicist, teacher and researcher.
Biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (excerpt)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, psychologist, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he was considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time.
Biography of Nikolaus Lenau (excerpt)
Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (August 13 (August 25, Gregorian calendar), 1802, Schadat, near Temesvár, Hungary - August 22, 1850, Oberdöbling, near Vienna), a Hungarian-Austrian poet. He was born at Schadat (Hungarian: Csatád) near Temesvár in Hungary, now is "Lenauheim" in Romania.
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Biography of Joseph Pulitzer (excerpt)
Joseph Pulitzer (English pronunciation: /ˈpʊlɨtsɚ/ PULL-itser; April 10, 1847–October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, the son of Jewish parents Philip Pulitzer, a grain merchant, and Elize Berger.
Biography of Johan Jongkind (excerpt)
Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 (birth time source: Lescaut, Gauquelin) – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism who influenced Eugene Boudin, whom later was mentor to Claude Monet. Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany.
Biography of William Quan Judge (excerpt)
William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. When he was 13 years old, his family emigrated to the United States.
Biography of Adolphe Yvon (excerpt)
Adolphe Yvon (January 30, 1817 in Drulingen - September 11, 1893 in Paris) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars. Paintings (extract) The Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Reichshof Marshall Ney at Retreat in Russia
Biography of Edouard Schure (excerpt)
Eduard (Edouard) Schuré (Strasbourg, January 21, 1841 – April 7, 1929), French philosopher, poet, writer, musical critic and publicist of esoteric literature. He is known by being the author of "The Great Initiated" (1889) in which he describes the path followed by some of the ancient philosophers in search for profound esoteric knowledge, so often called the "initiation", as describing the process of becoming a mystic master or spiritual healer.
Biography of Josephin Peladan (excerpt)
Joséphin Péladan (March 28, 1858 – June 27, 1918) was a French novelist and Martinist. He claimed that a Babylonian King left the title of "Sâr" to his family. Péladan wrote a novel, Le vice suprème (1884), that was interwoven with Rosicrucian and occult themes.
Biography of Antoine Chintreuil (excerpt)
Antoine Chintreuil (May 15, 1814 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut, Gauquelin) – August 8, 1873) was a French landscape painter. He was born in Pont-de-Vaux, Ain and grew up in Bresse. In 1838 he moved to Paris, where he began studying under Paul Delaroche in 1842.
Biography of Jean-Marie Guyau (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Guyau (Laval, France, October 28, 1854 - March 31, 1888) was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by, amongst others, the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry/literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset, .
Biography of Edmond Lescarbault (excerpt)
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault, born August 11, 1814 in Châteaudun, died in 1894, was a French astronomer and physician.
Biography of Charles Martins (excerpt)
Charles Martins, born February 6, 1806 in Paris and died March 7, 1889, was a French scientist, physician, philosopher and writer, a member of Académie des Sciences.
Biography of Victor Jacquemont (excerpt)
Victor Jacquemont (August 8, 1801 in Paris - November 7, 1832 in Mumbai) was a French botanist and geologist. Born in Paris on August 8, 1801, Victor Jacquemont was the youngest of four sons of Venceslas Jacquemont and Rose Laisné. Jacquemont traveled to India in 1828, and remained there for the rest of his life.
Biography of Frederik van Eeden (excerpt)
Frederik Willem van Eeden (April 3, 1860 in Haarlem, Netherlands – June 16, 1932 in Bussum) was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885.
Biography of Giovanni Giolitti (excerpt)
Giovanni Giolitti (October 27, 1842 – July 17, 1928) was an Italian statesman. He was Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. Giolitti was born at Mondovì (Piedmont). After a rapid career in the financial administration he was, in 1882, appointed councillor of state and elected to the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Parliament).
Biography of Louis Henry (excerpt)
Louis Henry (December 26, 1834-1913) was a Belgian organic chemist.
Biography of Randolph Churchill (excerpt)
Lord Randolph Churchill, born February 13, 1849 in London, died January 24, 1895 in London, was a British politician (he is not the son of Winston Churchill, with the same name).
Biography of Adolphus Busch (excerpt)
Colonel Adolphus Busch (July 10, 1839 – October 10, 1913) was the co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. His great-great-grandson, August Busch IV is now president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch. He was born in 1839 in Kastel, Germany (now Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany).
Biography of Russell Sage (excerpt)
Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 22 July 1906) was a financier and politician from New York, United States. Sage was born at Verona in Oneida County, New York. He received a public school education and worked as a farm hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R.
Biography of Charles Testut (excerpt)
Charles Testut, born June 4, 1818 in Paris and died in 1892, was a French writer, poet and novelist of Louisiana. Bibliography (extract) * Saint-Denis, 1849, novel * Les Échos, 1849, poetry * Fleurs d’été, 1851, poetry
Biography of Hippolyte Flandrin (excerpt)
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (March 23, 1809 – March 21, 1864) was a 19th-century French painter. His celebrated 1836 work Jeune Biography Early life From an early age, Flandrin showed interest in the arts and a career as a painter. However, his parents pressured him to become a businessman, and having very little training, he was forced to instead become a miniature painter.
Biography of Jules Janssen (excerpt)
Pierre Jules César Janssen (February 22, 1824 – December 23, 1907) was a French astronomer who, along with the English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gas helium. Life, work, and interests Janssen was born in Paris and studied mathematics and physics at the faculty of sciences.
Biography of Rama IV of Siam (excerpt)
Phrabat Somdet Phra Pormen Maha Mongkut, Phra Chom Klao Chaoyouhua, or Rama IV (October 19, 1804 - October 1, 1868) was the fourth king of Siam (1851 - 1868) of the Chakri dynasty and one of the most revered monarchs of Siam.
Biography of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (excerpt)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850–October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone".
Biography of Emil Fischer (excerpt)
Hermann Emil Fischer (9 October 1852 - 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. Biography Early years Fischer was born in Euskirchen, near Cologne in Germany, the son of a businessman. After graduating he wished to study natural sciences, but his father compelled him to work in the family business until determining that his son was unsuitable.
Biography of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (excerpt)
Henri Alexandre Deslandres (July 24, 1853 – January 15, 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories. Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career.
Biography of Charles Cros (excerpt)
Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 - August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France. Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. He developed various improved methods of photography including an early color photo process. |
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