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Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro.
Biography of Alexandre Millerand (excerpt)
Alexandre Millerand (February 10, 1859 - April 7, 1943) was a French socialist politician. He was President of France from September 23, 1920 to June 11, 1924 and Prime Minister of France January 20 to September 23, 1920. His participation in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the turn of the century, alongside the marquis de Galliffet who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, sparked a debate in the French socialist movement and in the Second International about the participation of socialists in "bourgeois governments".
Biography of Louis Lepine (excerpt)
Louis Jean-Baptiste Lépine, born August 6, 1846 in Lyon and died November 10, 1933 in Paris, was an eminent lawyer, politician and inventor who was Prefect of Police (Préfet de Police) for Paris from 1893 to 1897 and again from 1899 to 1913.
Biography of Bettino Ricasoli (excerpt)
Bettino Ricàsoli, Barone Ricàsoli, Conte di Brolio (March 9, 1809 – October 23, 1880; Italian pronunciation: ) was an Italian statesman. Ricasoli was born in Broglio, in the province of Siena.Left an orphan at eighteen, with an estate heavily encumbered, he was by special decree of the grand duke of Tuscany declared of age and entrusted with the guardianship of his younger brothers.
Biography of Isaac Pitman (excerpt)
Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 12 January 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837.Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge.
Biography of Edmond Audran (excerpt)
Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890), and La poupée (1896).
Biography of Hans Makart (excerpt)
Hans Makart (Salzburg, May 28, 1840 - October 3, 1884) was a 19th century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and was a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-liked adulation.
Biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (excerpt)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams.
Biography of Ferdinand Brunetiere (excerpt)
Ferdinand Brunetière (18 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic. Biography Early years Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence.After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the outbreak of war in 1870 prevented him trying again.
Biography of Katherine Tingley (excerpt)
Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (July 6, 1847 - July 11, 1929) was a social worker and prominent Theosophist. She led the American Section of the Theosophical Society after W. Q. Judge. She founded and led the Theosophical community Lomaland in Point Loma, California.
Biography of Bramwell Booth (excerpt)
Bramwell Booth, CH (8 March 1856 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – 16 June 1929) was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth. Biography Born as William Bramwell Booth in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the oldest child born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, he had two brothers and five sisters, including Evangeline Booth, Catherine Booth-Clibborn, Emma Booth and Ballington Booth.
Biography of Gustave Boulanger (excerpt)
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (April 25, 1824 - 88) was a French figure painter.He was born at Paris, studied with Delaroche and Jollivet, and in 1849 took the Prix de Rome.All his paintings show a refined taste and imagination, but are cold and academic in execution.
Biography of Francisque Sarcey (excerpt)
Francisque Sarcey (October 8, 1827 – May 16, 1899) was a French journalist and dramatic critic. He was born in Dourdan, Seine-et-Oise.After some years as schoolmaster, a job for which his temperament was ill-fitted, he entered journalism in 1858.He contributed to Le Figaro, L'Illustration, Le Gaulois, Le XIX' Siècle and other periodicals; but his main interest was dramatic criticism, of which he had his first experience in L'Opinion nationale in 1859.
Biography of Bernhard von Gudden (excerpt)
Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden (June 7, 1824 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - June 13, 1886) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist born in Kleve. In 1848 he earned his doctorate from the University of Halle, and became an intern at the asylum in Siegburg under Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi (1775–1858).
Biography of Albert Rochas d'Aiglun (excerpt)
Eugène Auguste Albert de Rochas d'Aiglun, born in Saint Firmin-en-Valgaudemar (Hautes-Alpes) May 20, 1837, died in Grenoble, September 2, 1914, was a French military, civil servant and author. He was interested in paranormal phenomena. Works (in French) Les Vallées vaudoises, étude de topographie et d'histoire militaires, Tanera, Paris, 1880
Biography of Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (excerpt)
Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, born April 2, 1804 in Nantes, died March 24, 1865 in Paris, was a French painter and sculptor.
Biography of Zulma Bouffar (excerpt)
Zulma Madeleine Boufflar, known as Zulma Bouffar, born Nérac 23 May 1843, died Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames 20 January 1909, was a French actress and soprano singer, associated with the opéra-bouffe of Paris in the second half of the 19th century who enjoyed a successful career around Europe.
Biography of Gaston Boissier (excerpt)
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (15 August 1823 – 10 June 1908), French classical scholar, and secretary of the French Academy, was born at Nîmes. The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of ancient history.He made epigraphy his particular theme, and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at Angoulême, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition.
Biography of Carl Schurz (excerpt)
Carl Christian Schurz (German: ; March 2, 1829 in Libla (now Erftstadt) –May 14, 1906 in New York) was a German revolutionary, journalist, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army General in the American Civil War. He was also an accomplished journalist, newspaper editor and orator, who in 1869 became the first German-born American elected to the United States Senate.
Biography of Henri Delafond (excerpt)
Henri Delafond, born on February 13, 1805 in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Bourgogne (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin), died on November 15, 1861, was a French veterinary physician and pathologist.
Biography of Jacob Burckhardt (excerpt)
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland – August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field.He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today.
Biography of Auguste Beernaert (excerpt)
Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the 14th Prime Minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894. Born in Ostend, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1873, and became Minister of Public Works under Jules Malou, greatly improving the rail, canal and road systems.
Biography of George Dewey (excerpt)
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 – January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of heat stroke) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
Biography of Joseph Reinach (excerpt)
Joseph Reinach (September 30, 1856 – April 18, 1921) was a French author and politician. He was born in Paris.His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in the field of archaeology.After studying at the Lycée Condorcet he was called to the bar in 1887.
Biography of Jacques Charles Bresse (excerpt)
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (Vienne, France, October 9, 1822 – May 22, 1883) was a French civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of hydraulic motors.His name, along with 72 others, is engraved underneath the first balcony on the Eiffel Tower for his contributions to the field of civil engineering.
Biography of F.W. Lacey (excerpt)
F.W. Lacey, born March 26, 1854 in Berkhamsted, died December 11, 1932 in Arundel, was a British astrologer and auther.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, born November 9, 1821 in Guebwiller, died May 20, 1910 in Trottberg bei Gebweiler, was a French musician, composer and editor.
Biography of Alfred Rethel (excerpt)
Alfred Rethel (1816 - December 1, 1859) was a German history painter. Rethel was born in Aachen in 1816.He showed an interest in art in his early life, and at the age of thirteen he executed a drawing which procured his admission to the academy of Düsseldorf.
Biography of J. P. MacGillivray (excerpt)
J.P.MacGillivray, born May 30, 1856 in Kintore, Scotland, was a Scottish artist and sculptor.
Biography of Jules Bastien-Lepage (excerpt)
Jules Bastien-Lepage (November 1, 1848 - December 10, 1884), French painter, was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse and spent his childhood there. He first studied at Verdun, and prompted by a love of art went in 1867 to Paris, where he was admitted to the École des Beaux-arts, working under Cabanel.
Biography of Emile Augier (excerpt)
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist.He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme, the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in spirit as well as by birth.
Biography of François Perrier (excerpt)
François Perrier (18 April 1835 – 20 February 1888) was a French soldier and geodesist. Perrier was born at Valleraugue (Gard), descended from a family of Protestants, of Cevennes. After finishing his studies at the Lyceum of Nimes and at St. Barbe College, he was admitted to the Polytechnic School in 1853, leaving in 1857 as a staff officer.
Biography of Alexander Smith (poet) (excerpt)
Alexander Smith (31 December 1829 (source: Lescaut)- 5 January 1867, 8 January according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School. Life and works He was born in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the Scottish Lowlands south-west of Glasgow, the first of several children.
Biography of Ouida (excerpt)
Ouida (January 1, 1839 – January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). Biography Ramé was born in Bury St.Edmunds, England, to a French father and an English mother.She derived her pen name from her own childish pronunciation of her given name "Louise".
Biography of Fernand Foureau (excerpt)
Fernand Foureau, born October 17, 1950 in Saint-Barbant (Haute-Vienne) and died in 1914, was a French engineer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions across the Sahara.
Biography of Raphael V (excerpt)
Raphael V, born Sparks on July 17, 1820 in London, was a British professional astrologer.
Biography of Ernest Daudet (excerpt)
Ernest Daudet, born on May 31, 1837 in Nîmes (time birth source: Lescaut, Gauquelin), died on August 21, 1921 in Les Petites-Dalles, was a French writer and journalist, the brother of Alphonse Daudet. Works (extract) Novels Thérèse (1859) Les Duperies de l’amour (1865)
Biography of Philip Bourke Marston (excerpt)
Philip Bourke Marston (13 August 1850 – 13 February 1887) was an English poet. He was born in London.His father, John Westland Marston (1819-1890), wrote verse dramas, and was a friend of Dickens, Macready and Charles Kean.Philip's godparents were Philip James Bailey and Dinah Mulock.
Biography of André Michelin (excerpt)
André Jules Michelin (16 January 1853, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 4 April 1931) was a French industrialist who, with his brother Édouard (1859–1940), founded the Michelin Tyre Company (Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) in 1888 in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand.
Biography of Karl von Piloty (excerpt)
Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 – 21 July 1886) was a German painter. Von Piloty was born in Munich.His father, Ferdinand Piloty (d.1844), enjoyed a great reputation as a lithographer.In 1840 he was admitted as a student of the Munich Academy, under the artists Schorn and Schnorr.
Biography of James Guthrie (excerpt)
Sir James Guthrie (June 10, 1859 – September 6, 1930) was a Scottish painter. He was best known in his own lifetime for his portraiture, although today he is more generally as a painter of Scottish Realism. Born in Greenock, Guthrie, the son of a clergyman, originally enrolled at Glasgow University to study law, but abandoned this in favour of painting in 1877.
Biography of Jean-Charles Cazin (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Cazin (May 25, 1841 – March 17, 1901), French landscape painter and ceramicist, son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788-1864), was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art After studying in France, he went to England, where he was strongly influenced by the pre-Raphaelite movement.
Biography of Heinrich Matthias Zopfl (excerpt)
Heinrich Matthias Zopfl, born April 6, 1807 in Bamberg and died July 4, 1877, was a German writer, professor of constitutional law and politician.
Biography of Jules Janin (excerpt)
Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 - 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Biography Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St.Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.He involved himself in journalism from an early date, and worked on the Figaro and the Quotidienne, among others, until in 1830 he became dramatic critic of the Journal des Débats.
Biography of Karl Alfred von Zittel (excerpt)
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (September 25, 1839 - January 5, 1904), German palaeontologist, was born at Bahlingen in Baden. He was educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna.For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna.
Biography of Constantin Meunier (excerpt)
Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905), Belgian painter and sculptor, was born in Etterbeek, Brussels. His first exhibit was a plaster sketch, "The Garland," shown at the Brussels Salon in 1851.Soon afterwards, on the advice of the painter Charles de Groux, he abandoned the chisel for the brush.
Biography of Emile Boutroux (excerpt)
Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (July 28, 1845 - November 22, 1921) was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of Science and Religion, and an historian of Philosophy.He was a firm opponent of materialism in science.He was a spiritual philosopher who defended the idea that religion and science are compatible at a time when the power of science was rising inexorably.
Biography of Henri de Bornier (excerpt)
Henri, vicomte de Bornier (24 December 1825 in Lunel (source: Gauquelin Vol. 6/122) – January 1901) was a French poet and dramatist, born in Lunel (Hérault). He came to Paris in 1845 with the object of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comédie-Française accepted a play of his entitled Le Manage de Luther.
Biography of Georges Darboy (excerpt)
Georges Darboy (16 January 1813 - 27 May 1871) was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown.
Biography of Paul-Albert Besnard (excerpt)
Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He won the Prix de Rome in 1874 with the painting Death of Timophanes |
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