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Biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteijn (excerpt)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteijn, born January 19, 1851 in Barneveld, died June 18, 1922 in Amsterdam, was a Dutch astronomer.
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Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in 1855. It was the site of the famous Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian and Maritime statesmen to discuss the proposed Maritime Union.
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 Alois Hitler (excerpt)
Alois Hitler, Sr. (born Alois Schicklgruber; 7 June 1837 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – 3 January 1903) was an Austrian civil servant and the father of dictator Adolf Hitler. Early life Alois Schicklgruber was born in the hamlet of Strones, parish of Döllersheim, in the Waldviertel, an area in northwest Lower Austria, to a 42-year-old unmarried peasant, Maria Schicklgruber, whose family had lived in the area for generations.
Biography of Franciscus Donders (excerpt)
Franciscus Cornelis Donders (Tilburg, May 27, 1818 - Utrecht, March 24, 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist who did pioneering work on animal and vegetable heat, among many other things. He was a professor in Physiology in Utrecht from 1847 and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients.
Biography of Adolph Kolping (excerpt)
Adolph Kolping (December 8, 1813 in Kerpen — December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest. Life Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest.
Biography of Arnold Dolmetsch (excerpt)
(Eugène) Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 - 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th century revival of interest in Early Music.
Biography of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (excerpt)
Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (Westerlo, Belgium, January 3, 1823 - Zemst, near Mechelen, Belgium, January 30, 1881) was an organist and a organ composer. He was a student of François-Joseph Fétis, who wanted to make him into a musician capable of renewing the organ-player's art in Belgium.
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 August Belmont (excerpt)
August Belmont, Sr. (December 8, 1813 – November 24, 1890) was born in Alzey, Hesse, to a Jewish family. He emigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry.
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 Auguste Raffet (excerpt)
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (March 2, 1804 – February 16, 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. Biography Raffet was born in Paris. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes.
Biography of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (excerpt)
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
Biography of Charles Delescluze (excerpt)
Louis Charles Delescluze (October 2, 1809 (birth time source: birth certificate, page 138, archives online) – May 25, 1871) was a French journalist. He was born at Dreux, Eure-et-Loir. Having studied law in Paris, he early developed a strong democratic bent, and played a part in the July revolution of 1830.
Biography of Bernard Zweers (excerpt)
Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (Amsterdam, May 18, 1854 - December 9, 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business.
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Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census the population was 67,314, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. The city is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the more populous of the two cities.
Biography of Louis Bouilhet (excerpt)
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1821 (birth time source: Lescaut, Geslain) – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus.
Biography of Andrew Pringle-Pattison (excerpt)
Andrew Seth (December 20, 1856, Edinburgh (source for his time of birth: Paul Wright) – 1931, The Haining, Selkirkshire), who changed his name to Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison to fulfill the terms of a bequest, was a Scottish philosopher. Seth's twin enemies were English Empiricism and the Anglo variant of Hegelianism.
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 Georges Colomb (excerpt)
Georges Colomb, best known as Christophe, born May 25, 1856 in Lure, (Haute-Saône)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died January 3, 1945 in Nyons, was a French comics artist and author.
Biography of Emile Blanche (excerpt)
(Antoine) Émile Blanche born in Paris on October 1, 1820 and died in Paris on August 15, 1893, is a French alienist (a doctor specializing in the treatment of the insane). He was born in the nursing home that his father Esprit Blanche (1796-1852), himself an alienist, directed.
Biography of Augustine Brohan (excerpt)
Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (December 2, 1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The soubrette part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in Tartuffe, and Lise in Rivaux deux-mêmes.
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 Ludovic Trarieux (excerpt)
Ludovic Trarieux (November 30. 1840, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, Charente (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 13 1904) was a French Republican statesman, prominent Dreyfusard, and pioneer of international human rights. Early life Ludovic Trarieux was born on November 30 1840, in Aubeterre (Charente). He was called to the Bar of Bordeaux in 1862 and practiced there until 1881.
Biography of Lucien Biart (excerpt)
Lucien Biart, born June 21, 1828 in Versailles and died March 18, 1897, was a French writer.
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 Albrecht Rodenbach (excerpt)
Albrecht Rodenbach (* 27 October 1856 in Tournai, Belgium; † 23 June 1880 in Roeselare) was a Flemish poet, and a leader in the revival of Flemish literature that occurred in the late 19th Century. He is more noteworthy as a symbol of the Flemish movement, than for his actual activities, since he died at the age of 23.
Biography of Jules Simon (excerpt)
Jules François Simon (27 December 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction. Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton.
Biography of Luke Broughton (excerpt)
Luke Broughton, born April 20, 1828 in Leeds, died September 22, 1899, was a British and American astrologer. He had predicted his own death.
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 Juliette Adam (excerpt)
Juliette Adam (4 October 1836, Verberie (Oise) (birth time source: Arno Müller, vol 3) – 23 August 1936, Callian (Var), also known by her maiden name Juliette Lambert, was a French author and feminist. Biography Juliette Adam gave an account of her childhood, rendered unhappy by the dissensions of her parents, in Le roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse (Eng.
Biography of Louis Duchesne (excerpt)
Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (13 September 1843 – 21 April 1922) was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions. Descended from a family of Breton sailors, he was born in 1843 in Saint-Servan, Roulais place, now part of Saint-Malo on the Breton coast, and was orphaned at a young age, in 1849, after the death of his father Jacques Duchesne.
Biography of Adolf von Hildebrand (excerpt)
Adolf von Hildebrand (October 6, 1847 Marburg an der Lahn - January 18, 1921 Munich) was a sculptor, the son of Marburg economics professor Bruno Hildebrand. He was the author of Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst ("The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture").
Biography of Auguste Snieders (excerpt)
August Snieders (Bladel, 8 May 1825-Brussels (birth time source: Lescaut), 19 November 1904) was a Flemish journalist and writer. He started his career in 's-Hertogenbosch, but later moved to Antwerp. In 1845, he became editor of the newspaper Het Handelsblad, of which he was head editor from 1849 until 1899.
Biography of Camille Jullian (excerpt)
Camille Jullian (March 15, 1859 - December 12, 1933) was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of French literature, student of Fustel de Coulanges, whose posthumous work he published. Biography Jullian was born in Marseille. Specialising in Gaul and the Roman epoch, he was notably a student of the École Normale Supérieure, member of the École française de Rome and professor of national antiquities at the Collège de France.
Biography of Marie Favart (excerpt)
Pierrette Pingaud, best known as Marie Favart, born on February 16, 1833 in Beaune, died in 1908, was a French comedian.
Biography of Francis Burnand (excerpt)
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), often credited as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and dramatist. Burnand was a contributor to Punch for 45 years and its editor from 1880 until 1906. He was also a prolific humorist and writer, creating almost 200 burlesques, farces, pantomimes and other works.
Biography of Louis Martin (excerpt)
Louis and Zélie Martin are the parents of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun who was canonized a saint and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church, one of only three women to receive that honor. She is also known as The Little Flower of Jesus.
Biography of Yves Delage (excerpt)
Yves Delage (13 May 1854 – 7 October 1920) was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud, arguing in favour of its authenticity.
Biography of Madeleine Lemaire (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire, born May 24, 1845 in Les Arcs, Var, died in 1928, was a French painter and watercolor painter.
Biography of Paul Hervieu (excerpt)
Paul Hervieu, full name Paul-Ernest Hervieu (2 November 1857 - 25 October 1915), French dramatist and novelist, was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography He was called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified for the diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French legation in Mexico.
Biography of Henri Alexis Brialmont (excerpt)
Henri Alexis Brialmont (Venlo 25 May 1821 (birth time source: Lescaut) – Brussels 21 July 1903) was a Dutch-born Belgian military engineer. He was one of the leading fortifications engineers in the 19th century. He was born in Dutch Limburg, the son of the French-born Laurent Mathieu Brialmont (1789–1885), who was in 1821 lieutenant in the Dutch army, but would later become a Belgian general (1849) and minister of war (1850–51).
Biography of Paul Brouardel (excerpt)
Paul Camille Hippolyte Brouardel (13 February 1837 – 23 July 1906) was a French pathologist who was born in Saint Quentin. In 1858 he became an externe at the Hôpital Cochin in Paris, and in 1865 earned his medical doctorate. In 1873 he became director of medical services at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine and la Pitié.
Biography of Louis Brocq (excerpt)
Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (February 1, 1856 – December 18, 1928) was a French dermatologist who was born in Laroque-Timbaut, a village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He practiced medicine in Paris at the Hospice la Rochefoucauld, the Hôpital Broca, and from 1906 to 1921, the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Biography of Jules Emmanuel Valadon (excerpt)
Jules Emmanuel Valadon, born in Paris, October 10, 1826, died in 1900, was a French painter.
Biography of Luc-Olivier Merson (excerpt)
Luc-Olivier Merson (21 May 1846 – 13 November 1920) was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs. Born Nicolas Luc-Olivier Merson in Paris, France, he grew up in an artistic household, the son of Charles-Olivier Merson, a painter and art critic.
Biography of Albert Glatigny (excerpt)
Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny (May 21, 1839 - April 16, 1873), was a French poet, writer, comedian and playwright, born at Lillebonne (Seine Inférieure). His father, who was a carpenter and afterwards a gendarme, removed in 1844 to Bernay, where Albert received an elementary education.
Biography of Ambrose Burnside (excerpt)
Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater.
Biography of Sylvain Van de Weyer (excerpt)
Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer (19 January 1802–23 May 1874) was a Belgian politician, and then the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's, effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom. Born in Louvain or Leuven, Van de Weyer's family moved to Amsterdam in 1811.
Biography of Paul Baudry (excerpt)
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (November 7, 1828, La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) - January 17, 1886, Paris) was a French painter. He studied under Michel Martin Drolling, a sound but second-rate artist, and carried off the Prix de Rome in 1850 by his picture of Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes. |
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