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Biography of Auguste Mariette (excerpt)
The French scholar and archaeologist François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (February 11, 1821 – January 19, 1881) was the foremost Egyptologist of his generation, and the founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Life Early career Born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Mariette proved to be a talented draftsman and designer, and he supplemented his salary as a teacher at Douai by giving private lessons and writing on historical and archaeological subjects for local periodicals.
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 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 Jean Casimir-Perier (excerpt)
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier (8 November 1847 - 11 March 1907) was a French politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic. He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe.
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 Alfred Edward Housman (excerpt)
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A.E.Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900.
Biography of Amos Bronson Alcott (excerpt)
Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands", and for his association with Transcendentalism. He was the father of the novelist Louisa May Alcott.
Biography of Gustave Jacquet (excerpt)
Gustave Jean Jacquet, born May 25, 1846 in Paris and died in 1909 was a French painter, a student of Bouguereau.
Biography of Karl May (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 – March 30, 1912) was one of the best selling German writers of all time, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Alfonso XII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
Biography of Frederick III, German Emperor (excerpt)
Frederick III (Frederick William Nicholas Charles, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; October 18, 1831 – June 15, 1888), (German: Friedrich III., Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen) was German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling for 99 days until his death in 1888.
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Rochester is a city in the U.S.state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the state after New York City and Buffalo with a population of 211,328 in 2020.The city of Rochester forms the core of a larger metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties, which in turn is part of the larger Western New York region that has a population of roughly two million.
Biography of Edgar Quinet (excerpt)
Edgar Quinet (February 17, 1803–March 27, 1875) was a French historian and intellectual. Early years Born at Bourg-en-Bresse, in the département of Ain.His father, Jérôme Quinet, had been a commissary in the army, but being a strong republican and disgusted with Napoleon's 18 Brumaire coup, he gave up his post and devoted himself to scientific and mathematical study.
Biography of Emile Roux (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Emile Roux (b. December 17, 1853, Confolens (Charente), France, d. November 3, 1933, Paris) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute and discoverer of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease.
Biography of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (excerpt)
Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 25, 1852 - September 14, 1905), was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized Frenchman.With the backing of the Société de Géographique de Paris, he opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo that eventually led to French colonies in Central Africa.
Biography of Paul Durand-Ruel (excerpt)
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He was one of the first modern art dealers who provided support to his painters with stipends and solo exhibitions.
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 Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Helena (Helena Augusta Victoria: Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein by marriage; 25 May 1846 – 9 June 1923) was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Biography of Carl Zeiss (excerpt)
Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 (birth time source: Taeger cites Arno Müler who quotes evangelisches Pfarramt (church registry)) – 3 December 1888) was an was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman who founded the workshop of Carl Zeiss in 1846, which is still in business today as Carl Zeiss AG.
Biography of Ford Madox Brown (excerpt)
Ford Madox Brown (April 16, 1821 – October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.While he was closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was never actually a member.
Biography of Carry Nation (excerpt)
Carry Nation, born November 25, 1846 in Little Hickman, Kentucky and died June 9, 1911, was an American social activist.
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 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 Ferdinand Mannlicher (excerpt)
Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher (January 30, 1848 in Mainz, Germany – January 20, 1904 in Vienna, Austria) was an engineer and small armaments designer. He was famous for inventing the en-bloc clip loading system, and later for patenting the Mannlicher-Schönauer rotary magazine rifle with his protégé Otto Schönauer.
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 Kate Chase (excerpt)
Katherine Jane ("Kate") Chase (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899), was the daughter of famous Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, the Treasury Secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and later Chief Justice of the United States. She is best known as a society hostess during the American Civil War, and a strong supporter of her widowed father's presidential ambitions that would have made her First Lady.
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 Alfred Vulpian (excerpt)
Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian (January 5, 1826 – May 18, 1887) was a French physician and neurologist.He was the co-discoverer of Vulpian-Bernard spinal muscular atrophy and the Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon. Vulpian was born in Paris, France, in 1826.Among other noted discoveries and experiments, Vulpian discovered adrenaline in the adrenal medulla.
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.
Biography of Pierre Boileau (scientist) (excerpt)
Pierre Boileau, born February 19, 1811 in Metz, died September 11, 1891 in Versailles, was a French mathematician, inventor and scientist.
Biography of Jozef Israels (excerpt)
Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824, Groningen – 12 August 1911, Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter, and "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century". Youth He was born in Groningen, of Jewish parents.His father intended for him to be a man of business, and it was only after a determined struggle that he was allowed to enter on an artistic career.
Biography of Kenneth Grahame (excerpt)
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film.
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 Paul Alexis (excerpt)
Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist.He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola. Life Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence.He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a graduate.
Biography of Alexandre Emile Taskin (excerpt)
Émile-Alexandre Taskin, born in Paris on March 18 1853, was a French singer at the Opera-Comique.
Biography of Henri Lacordaire (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (12 May 1802 in Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or) – 21 November 1861 in Sorèze (Tarn)), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France and is considered one of the founders of modern Roman Catholicism.
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 Jacques Doucet (excerpt)
Jacques Doucet (19 February 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - 30 October 19291929) was a French fashion designer, known for his elegant dresses, made with flimy translucent materials in superimposing pastel colors. He was born in Paris in 1853 to a prosperous family whose lingerie and fine linens business, Doucet Lingerie, had flourished in the Rue de la Paix since 1816.
Biography of Eduard Zeller (excerpt)
Eduard Gottlob Zeller (22 January 1814 – 19 March 1908), was a German philosopher and theologian of the Tübingen School of theology. Life Eduard Zeller was born at Kleinbottwar in Württemberg, and educated at the University of Tübingen and under the influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Biography of Paul Gachet (excerpt)
Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate - 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise.Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement.
Biography of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (excerpt)
Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges (French) or Filips Eugeen Ferdinand Marie Clemens Boudewijn Leopold Joris (Dutch); 24 March 1837-17 November 1905) was the third born (but second surviving) son of King Leopold I of the Belgians and his wife Louise Marie d'Orleans (1812-1850).
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 Oliver Lodge (excerpt)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph.Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term "coherer." He gained the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent from the United States Patent Office in 1898.
Biography of Edwin Booth (excerpt)
Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893), was a famous 19th century American actor.He was born near Bel Air, Maryland into the English American theatrical Booth family.Booth toured throughout America and to the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespeare; in 1869 he founded Booth's Theatre in New York, a spectacular theatre that was quite modern for its time. |
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