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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 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 Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (excerpt)
French politician, mayor of the second district of Paris.
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Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of the Great Lakes Bay Region, along with neighboring Bay City, Midland and Mount Pleasant.
Biography of Louis Renault (jurist) (excerpt)
Louis Renault (May 21, 1843 – February 8, 1918) was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. Renault was born at Autun. From 1868 to 1873 Renault was professor of Roman and commercial law at the University of Dijon.
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 Edouard Drumont (excerpt)
Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer. He founded the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder and editor of the newspaper La Libre Parole. Early life Drumont was born in Paris on 3 May 1844 to a family of porcelain-painters from Lille.
Biography of Coquelin cadet (excerpt)
Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (16 May 1848 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 8 February 1909) was a French actor and author. Also called Coquelin cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864.
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 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.
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Bradford is the second-largest city in West Yorkshire, England. It forms the core of the City of Bradford metropolitan borough, which also includes the towns of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley and Ilkley, and borders the City of Leeds and Calderdale to the east and south respectively as well as the counties of Lancashire and North Yorkshire.
Biography of Sri Sumangala (excerpt)
Sri Sumangala, born on January 20, 1827 in Hikkaduwa, Galle, Ceylon, died on April 29, 1911, was an Indonesian high priest.
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 J. P. MacGillivray (excerpt)
J. P. MacGillivray, born May 30, 1856 in Kintore, Scotland, was a Scottish artist and sculptor.
Biography of James Gibbons (excerpt)
James Gibbons (July 23, 1834—March 24, 1921) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921. Gibbons was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886, the second American to receive that distinction.
Biography of Wilhelm Busch (excerpt)
Wilhelm Busch (April 14, 1832 (Wiedensahl near Hannover) - January 9, 1908 (Mechtshausen)) was a German painter and poet who is known for his satirical picture stories. After studying first mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerpen and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures.
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 Aristide Bruant (excerpt)
Aristide Bruant (6 May 1851 – 10 February 1925) was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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 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 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 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 Edouard Colonne (excerpt)
Édouard Juda Colonne (23 July 1838 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 28 March 1910) was a French conductor and violinist. Born in Bordeaux, Colonne studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, where he won first prizes in both harmony and violin. For almost a decade (1858-67) he was first violinist at the Opéra in Paris.
Biography of Ludwig Ganghofer (excerpt)
Ludwig Ganghofer (July 7, 1855 - July 24, 1920) was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels. Biography Born in Kaufbeuren, he graduated from a gymnasium in 1873 and subsequently worked as a fitter in Augsburg engine works. In 1875, he entered Munich Polytechnic as a student of mechanical engineering, but eventually changed his major to history of literature and philosophy, which subjects he studied in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig.
Biography of David Younger (excerpt)
David Younger, born October 21, 1828 in Ecclefechan, died in 1905, was a Scottish botanist, physician and writer.
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
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 Guillaume Fouace (excerpt)
Guillaume Fouace, born May 22, 1837 in Réville (Manche), and died January 7, 1895 in Paris, was a French painter.
Biography of Edouard Vaillant (excerpt)
Marie Édouard Vaillant (29 January 1840–18 December 1915) was a French politician. Born in in Vierzon, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then law at the Sorbonne. In Paris he knew Charles Longuet, Louis-Auguste Rogeard, and Jules Vallès.
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 Charles Paul Renouard (excerpt)
Charles Paul Renouard, born in Cour-Cheverny November 5, 1845 (source not archived), died in Paris January 2, 1924, was a French engravor, artist, painter and drawer. He was a member of Société des artistes Français and Société Nationale des Beaux-arts. Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions.
Biography of Charles Francis Adams Jr. (excerpt)
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27, 1835 – May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war.
Biography of Raphael V (excerpt)
Raphael V, born Sparks on July 17, 1820 in London, was a British professional astrologer.
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 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 Edouard Chassaignac (excerpt)
Edouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac, sometimes Pierre Chassaignac, born December 22, 1804 in Nantes and died in 1879 in Versailles, was a French surgeon and physician.
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 Ned Buntline (excerpt)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886), known by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer. Later work and death Buntline continued to write dime novels, but none was as successful as his earlier work.
Biography of Auguste Dorchain (excerpt)
Auguste Dorchain, born March 19, 1857 in Cambrai and died February 8, 1930, was a French poet and writer. Works (extract) La Jeunesse pensive, préface de Sully Prudhomme (1881) Alexandre Dumas, à propos en vers (1882) Conte d'Avril, comédie en vers en 4 actes (1885)
Biography of Gustave Droz (excerpt)
Antoine Gustave Droz (June 9, 1832, Paris – October 22, 1895), French man of letters, son of the sculptor J. A. Droz (1807-1872), was born in Paris. He was a painter and a novelist. He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857.
Biography of Hermann Sudermann (excerpt)
Hermann Sudermann (30 September 1857 – 21 November 1928) was a German dramatist and novelist. Life Early career Sudermann was born at Matzicken, a village to the east of Heydekrug in the Province of Prussia (now Macikai and Šilutė, in southwestern Lithuania), close to the Russian frontier.
Biography of Louis Binger (excerpt)
Louis Gustave Binger (October 14, 1856 – November 10, 1936) was a French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France. Binger was born at Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin departement. In 1887 he travelled from Senegal up to the Niger River, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889.
Biography of Victor Puiseux (excerpt)
Victor Alexandre Puiseux (April 16, 1820 in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) – September 9, 1883 in Frontenay (Jura)) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Life He was born in 1820 in Argenteuil, France.
Biography of Paul Huet (excerpt)
Paul Huet (October 3, 1803, Paris - 1869, Paris) was a French painter. Works (selection) Intérieur de forêt Le bois de la Haye Matinée de printemps, (1834) Soirée d'automne dans le parc de St Cloud, (1835) Brisants à la pointe de Granville
Biography of Felipe Pedrell (excerpt)
Felip Pedrell (Spanish: Felipe)(19 February 1841, Tortosa – 19 August 1922, Barcelona), was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain.
Biography of Paolo Boselli (excerpt)
Paolo Boselli (June 8, 1838 (birth time source: Lescaut) – March 10, 1932) was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I. Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria. In June 1916 he was a relatively undistinguished center-right politician and one the oldest members of the Italian parliament, when he was appointed Prime Minister, following the collapse of the Salandra government as a result of military defeats.
Biography of Raoul Ponchon (excerpt)
Raoul Ponchon, born December 30, 1848 in Napoléon-Vendée (now La Roche-sur-Yon), died December 3, 1937 in Paris, was a French writer, poet, and painter. Selected works * La Muse au cabaret, Fasquelle 1920, publié de son vivant. Réédition chez Cyral en 1925 (600 ex.
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 Louis Veuillot (excerpt)
Louis Veuillot (October 11, 1813–March 7, 1883) was a French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. He was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret). When he was five, his parents moved to Paris.
Biography of Benedetto Cairoli (excerpt)
Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian statesman. Biography Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament. |
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