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Biography of Franz Brentano (excerpt)
Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 (birth time source: Arno Müller, Vol. 2., BC) – March 17, 1917) was an influential German philosopher and psychologist whose work strongly influenced not only students Sigmund Freud (whose doctoral dissertation he helped supervise), Kazimierz Twardowski, Alexius Meinong, and Thomas Masaryk (as well as Masaryk's student, Edmund Husserl), but countless others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts.
Biography of Hélène Jégado (excerpt)
Hélène Jégado (17 June 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Morbihan archives) – 26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people (it could be 80, with many children (source: French Wikipedia)) with arsenic over a period of 18 years.
Biography of Paul Broca (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Broca (/broʊˈkɑː/ or /ˈbroʊkə/; 28 June 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that has been named after him.
Biography of Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (excerpt)
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste; 21 December 1800 (birth time source: the Wikipedia bio of her mother: Duchess_Louise_Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin) – 30 August 1831) was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
Biography of Maria Feodorovna (excerpt)
Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, rectified from approx. time) – 13 October 1928), christened Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Tsar Alexander III (reigned 1881–1894). She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel; her siblings included Alexandra (Queen Consort of the United Kingdom), King Frederick VIII of Denmark and King George I of Greece.
Biography of Multatuli (excerpt)
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 (birth time source: Koppejans, birth certificate) – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
Biography of Charles Debierre (excerpt)
Charles Debierre, born on October 31, 1853 in Ételfay (Somme) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 8), died on March 8, 1932 in Lillie (Nord), was a French politician, and also the Grand Maître of Grand Orient de France, the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe.
Biography of Gustave Lanson (excerpt)
Gustave Lanson (August 5, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 15, 1934) was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. Biography Lanson was a major figure in the reformation of the French university system at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a dominant force in French literary criticism until well after his death.
Biography of Emma Calvé (excerpt)
Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 (birth time source: birth certificate), was a French operatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London.
Biography of Charles Lamoureux (excerpt)
Charles Lamoureux (pronounced: ; 28 September 1834 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 21 December 1899) was a French conductor and violinist. Life He was born in Bordeaux, where his father owned a café. He studied the violin with Narcisse Girard at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1854.
Biography of Louis Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815, Paris – 10 November 1873, Paris) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. The method was later superseded by the Aniket's process. His son was the well known chemist Henri Louis Le Chatelier.
Biography of Henri Tresca (excerpt)
Henri Édouard Tresca (12 October 1814 – 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations, which he explored in an extensive series of experiments begun in 1864.
Biography of Georges Corneau (excerpt)
Georges Corneau, born on March 3, 1855 in Charleville-Mézières (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 41), died in 1934, was a French journalist and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1910-1912, 1913, 1918 and 1919.
Biography of Eugène Devéria (excerpt)
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, Paris (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings. He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time.
Biography of Pauline Leroux (excerpt)
Adèle-Louise-Pauline Leroux, born on August 19, 1809 in Paris (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Lescaut, original source unknown), died on February 5, 1891 in Paris, was a French famous dancer in the Paris Opera Ballet and in London. On July 12, 1848, she married the French comedian Pierre-Chéri Lafont (1797-1873).
Biography of Auguste Arnaud (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Arnaud (22 August 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 6 September 1883), known as Auguste Arnaud was a French sculptor. Life Arnaud was born at La Rochelle. A student of the École des Beaux-Arts at Angers, he first came to Paris thanks to a scholarship for his département, joining the workshop of François Rude.
Biography of Henri de Dion (excerpt)
Earl Henri de Dion (born near Montfort-l'Amaury on 18 December 1828, died in Paris on 13 April 1878) was a French engineer who contributed to the construction of the Eiffel Tower. He was an alumnus of the École Centrale Paris and specialised in metallic constructions, such as those of the Exposition Universelle (1878).
Biography of Camille Polonceau (excerpt)
Jean-Barthélémy Camille Polonceau (29 October 1813 – 21 September 1859) was a French railway systems engineer. He was born in Chambery, France, and died in the French commune Viry-Chatillon. In 1839 he invented the Polonceau truss, a method of roof construction considered "one of the most successful roof designs of the nineteenth century".
Biography of Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (10 July 1814 – 31 March 1852) was a French chemist. Ebelmen was the son of Claude Louis Ebelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume. Thereafter he grew interested in the Sciences and attended the elementary mathematics classes in Paris at Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, and applied mathematics at the Lycée de Besançon.
Biography of Antoine Béchamp (excerpt)
Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 (birth time source: Roger Fix, birth certificate) – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur. Béchamp developed the Béchamp reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry.
Biography of Auguste Delpech (excerpt)
Noël Antoine Gabriel Auguste Delpech, born on December 22, 1846 in Bonnac, Ariège (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 11, 1935 in Toulouse, was a French professor, politician, and author. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1902 and 1903.
Biography of Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (excerpt)
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (19 February 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives départementale de l’Orne) – 5 April 1889) was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869. Early life Perreaux was born in the village of Almenêches, in Normandy, France, on 19 February 1816.
Biography of Jean-Claude Colfavru (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Colfavru, born on December 1, 1820 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on May 18, 1891 in Paris, was a French politician and lawyer. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1885-1887).
Biography of Louis Lucipia (excerpt)
Louis Adrien Lucipia, born on November 18, 1843 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 459), died on May 21, 1904, was a French journalist, writer, and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1895-1896) and (1898-1900).
Biography of Charles Combes (excerpt)
Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes (26 December 1801 – 1872) was a French engineer. He was Inspector-General of Mines and the Director of the School of Mines in Paris. His name is on the Eiffel Tower. Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes was born on 26 December 1801 in Cahors.
Biography of Henri Boutet (excerpt)
Henri Boutet (March 24, 1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée (birth date and time source: Didier Geslain) - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depicted women ranging from ordinary shop assistants to elegant ladies, managing to portray their common qualities of coquettishness and femininity.
Biography of Georges Diebolt (excerpt)
Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, (6 May 1816, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 November 1861, Paris) was a French sculptor best known for his publicly commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides.
Biography of Jean-Augustin Barral (excerpt)
Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist. Barral was born in Metz (Moselle). He studied at a polytechnic school and became a physicist as well as a professor of chemistry and agronomy. He wrote many works of popular science, especially concerning agriculture and irrigation, and became director of publication of scientific works.
Biography of Marie-François Goron (excerpt)
Marie-François Goron, born on March 2, 1847 in Rennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on February 4, 1933 in Sannois, is a French policeman and writer. Selected bibliography Les Mémoires de Goron, ancien chef de la Sûreté, Paris, Flammarion, 1897, 4 tomes, disponible sur Gallica.
Biography of Louis Breguet (excerpt)
Louis François Clément Breguet (22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet.
Biography of Arthur Mille (excerpt)
Arthur Mille, born on July 30, 1854 in Beaupréau (Maine-et-Loire) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n°47), died on November 15, 1942 in Lyon, was a French politician and businessman. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1922-1925).
Biography of Charles Delagrave (publisher) (excerpt)
Charles Marie Eugène Delagrave, born May 12, 1842 in Paris where he died March 17, 1934, is a French bookseller-publisher, founder of Éditions Delagrave.
Biography of Martin Dumollard (excerpt)
Martin Dumollard (April 21, 1810 in Tramoyes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)) - March 8, 1862 in Montluel) was a French serial killer condemned to the guillotine after having been arrested and charged with the deaths of maids from 1855 to 1861.
Biography of Marcel Deslignières (excerpt)
Marcel Deslignières, born on May 15, 1847 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on July 29, 1914 in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumôn, is a French architect, painter, and watercolourist.
Biography of Pierre François Lacenaire (excerpt)
Pierre François Lacenaire (20 December 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 January 1836) was a French murderer and would-be poet. To aid him in committing his crimes, Lacenaire recruited two henchmen, Pierre Victor Avril (whom he had met while in prison) and Hippolyte François.
Biography of Frans Van Leemputten (excerpt)
Frans Van Leemputten or Frans van Leemputten (Leuven, 29 December 1850 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Vol. 4, acte de naissance) – Antwerp, 26 November 1914) was a Belgian Realist painter who specialized in landscape paintings of the Campine and Brabantine regions in Belgium as well as scenes with villagers and animals.
Biography of Clara Zetkin (excerpt)
Clara Zetkin (née Eißner, 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (August 1, 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departemental archives)-1911) was a French politician. He served as the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand from 1884 to 1889, and as a member of the National Assembly for Puy-de-Dôme from 1885 to 1889.
Biography of Fanny Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer. She composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs.
Biography of André Léo (excerpt)
Victoire Léodile Béra (18 August 1824 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 50 AD86) – 20 May 1900) was a French novelist, journalist and feminist. She took the name of André Léo, her two twin sons' names. In 1866 a feminist group called the Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes began to meet at the house of André Léo in Paris.
Biography of Ernest Flammarion (excerpt)
Ernest Flammarion, born on May 30, 1846 in Montigny-le-Roi (Haute-Marne)(now Val-de-Meuse)(birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1936, was a French editor, the founder of Groupe Flammarion, the fourth-largest publishing group in France, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center).
Biography of Pierre Janet (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (30 May 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology.
Biography of Victor Prévost (excerpt)
Victor Joseph Prévost (born December 11, 1836 in Mormant, Seine-et-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 19, 1880 in Paris), also known as The La Chapelle Butcher and The Handsome Man, was a French former butcher, cuirassier, cent-gardes, policeman, murderer and possible serial killer.
Biography of Marie Pape-Carpantier (excerpt)
Marie Pape-Carpantier (1815 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 1878) was a French educator born September 11, 1815 in Sarthe, France and died in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d'Oise) on July 31, 1878. She grew to play a major part in revolutionizing education in French schools.
Biography of Pierre-Jules Hetzel (excerpt)
Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today.
Biography of Alphonse Guépin (excerpt)
Alphonse Guépin (17 February 1808 in Uzel (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 8 December 1878 in Saint-Brieuc) was a French architect and building restorer. He was specialized in churches in Côtes-d'Armor. Saint-Pierre church in Plessala Saint-Gwénaël church in Lescouët-Gouarec Church in Plouézec
Biography of Benito Pérez Galdós (excerpt)
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain. Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings.
Biography of Auguste Poulet-Malassis (excerpt)
Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (March 16, 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 11, 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was also a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire.
Biography of Jean Mouliérat (excerpt)
Jean Mouliérat (13 November 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 April 1932) was a French tenor. He spent most of his career at the Opéra comique in Paris. At the Opéra-Comique in Paris who hired him, Mouliérat was entrusted with the main roles of the repertoire: Wilhelm Meister in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon, Tybalt in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata.
Biography of George Müller (excerpt)
George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split his group was labelled as the Open Brethren. |
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