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Biography of Théodore Tuffier (excerpt)
Théodore-Marin Tuffier, known as Théodore Tuffier (26 March 1857 – 27 October 1929) was a French surgeon. He was a pioneer of pulmonary and cardiovascular surgery and of spinal anaesthesia. Life He was born at Bellême in Orne in 1857 and was an intern from 1879 onwards.
Biography of Luigi Illica (excerpt)
Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretti are those for La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier.
Biography of Antonio Susillo (excerpt)
Antonio Susillo Fernández, born April 16, 1855 in Seville, was a renowned Spanish sculptor of the late 19th century. Educated at the Fine Arts School in Paris and in Rome, he won numerous awards, including medals at the Paris Universal Expositions.
Biography of Cura Santa Cruz (excerpt)
Manuel Ignacio Santa Cruz Loidi (1842–1926) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest. For some 35 years he served on apostolic mission in Colombia, where he was heading a parish in rural interior of the Pasto province; for some 15 years he held also various minor posts in Jamaica.
Biography of Karlis Baumanis (excerpt)
Kārlis Baumanis (11 May 1835 – 10 January 1905), better known as Baumaņu Kārlis, was an ethnic Latvian composer in the Russian Empire. He is the author of the lyrics and music of Dievs, svētī Latviju! (“God bless Latvia!”), the national anthem of Latvia.
Biography of Titus Salt (excerpt)
Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876) was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Biography of Jules de La Gournerie (excerpt)
Viscount Jules Maillard de La Gournerie was a French engineer and mathematician, born on December 20, 1814, in Nantes, and died on June 25, 1883, in Paris. His studies mainly focused on the geometry of skew curves and their application to stereotomy.
Biography of Aleksander Swietochowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Świętochowski (16 January 1849 – 25 April 1938) was a Polish writer, educator, and philosopher of the Positivist period that followed the January 1863 Uprising. He was widely regarded as the prophet of Polish Positivism, spreading in the Warsaw press the gospel of scientific inquiry, education, economic development, and equality of rights for all, without regard to sex, class, ethnic origin or beliefs.
Biography of Lucina Hagman (excerpt)
Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election. Life and career Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman, a police chief in rural Kälviä.
Biography of Adolphe Maillart (excerpt)
Adolphe Maillart is a French actor born in Metz on December 9, 1810 and died in Paris on March 7, 1891.
Biography of Gaston Salvayre (excerpt)
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre (24 June 1847 – 17 May 1916) was a French composer and music critic who won the Prix de Rome for composition in 1872. Born in Toulouse, Salvayre attended the Toulouse Conservatory and then the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano with Antoine François Marmontel, organ with François Benoist, harmony with François Bazin, and composition with Ambroise Thomas.
Biography of Abbé Crozes (excerpt)
Abraham Sébastien Crozes, known as Abbé Crozes, was born on March 16, 1806, in Albi (Tarn) and died on October 25, 1888, in Paris. He was the chaplain of the condemned prisoners' depot at the La Roquette prison. He was also one of the founders of the Saint-François-Xavier Workers' Societies.
Biography of Jan Van Beers (excerpt)
Jan van Beers (22 February 1821 – 14 November 1888) was a Belgian poet born in Antwerp. He is usually referred to as "van Beers the elder" to distinguish him from his son, Jan van Beers (1852–1927), the painter. Background Van Beers was essentially a Netherlander, though politically a Belgian, expressing his thoughts in the same language as any North Netherland writer.
Biography of Eliza Frances Andrews (excerpt)
Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 - January 21, 1931) was a novelist, essayist, historian, journalist, local press correspondent, botanist, environmentalist, diarist, and American teacher. She was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age. Her shorter works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the New York World and Godey's Lady's Book.
Biography of Georges Rayet (excerpt)
Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet (12 December 1839 – 14 June 1906) was a French astronomer. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy. He specialized in what was then the new field of spectroscopy.
Biography of Jan Van Beers (artist) (excerpt)
Jean Marie Constantin Joseph "Jan" Van Beers (27 March 1852 – 17 November 1927) was a Belgian painter and illustrator, the son of the poet Jan van Beers. They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger.
Biography of Elisabet Ney (excerpt)
Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney (26 January 1833 – 29 June 1907) was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover.
Biography of Fernand Labori (excerpt)
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori (April 18, 1860 – March 14, 1917) was a French attorney. He was born in Reims and educated at the Faculty of Law of Paris. In his professional life he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases of his day.
Biography of Peter Mackie (excerpt)
Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie, 1st Baronet, JP (26 November 1855 – 22 September 1924) was a Scottish whisky distiller and writer. Mackie was born at St Ninians, Stirling. His father, Alexander Mackie (died 1884), was a distiller. His mother was Jane Simpson Brown (died 1886).
Biography of Paul Cabet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Paul Cabet (1 February 1815, Nuits, Yonne – 1876, Paris), was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of François Rude, his stepfather. Having achieved his own fame, he was the author of the statue known under the name of Résistance as a witness to the heroic fightings in Dijon during the 1870 war and other statues located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Biography of Maximilian Oberst (excerpt)
Maximilian Oberst (October 6, 1849 – November 18, 1925) was a German physician and surgeon born in Regensburg. He studied medicine in Munich, and from 1874 to 1877 was an assistant in the surgical department at a hospital in Augsburg. From 1877 he worked as an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at Halle, obtaining his habilitation in 1881.
Biography of Jan Woltjer (classical scholar) (excerpt)
Jan Woltjer (4 February 1849, Groningen – 28 July 1917, Amsterdam) was a professor of Classical languages and literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He served as rector magnificus of that institution five times. Woltjer, the son of a baker, started his career as an assistant teacher at a high school in his hometown of Groningen in 1867.
Biography of Ilia Chavchavadze (excerpt)
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze, a prominent Georgian public figure, journalist, writer, and poet, played a key role in the revival of Georgian nationalism in the late 19th century. He founded two influential newspapers, Sakartvelos Moambe and Iveria, and was instrumental in establishing the Land Bank of Tbilisi.
Biography of Elizabeth Harrison (educator) (excerpt)
Elizabeth Harrison (September 1, 1849 – October 31, 1927) was an American educator from Kentucky. She was the founder and first president of what is today National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. Harrison was a pioneer in creating professional standards for early childhood teachers and in promoting early childhood education.
Biography of Julien Barois (excerpt)
Julien Hippolyte Eugène Barois, born on March 3, 1849, in Chartres and died on December 25, 1937, in Paris, was a French civil engineer who served as the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Public Works in Egypt. His birth certificate comes from Wikimedia Commons.
Biography of Josephine Lang (excerpt)
Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a gifted German composer, born to musician parents. She was taught piano by her mother and began composing at a young age. Mentored by prominent artists like Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller, and with support from Robert Schumann, her music gained recognition.
Biography of Louis Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Louis Gustave Fortuné Ratisbonne (29 July 1827 – 24 September 1900) was a French man of letters, journalist, and critic. He was born at Strasbourg. He was the son of the banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim (daughter of Salomon Oppenheim), and the nephew of the priests Marie Theodor Ratisbonne and Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne.
Biography of Charles Lamy (acteur) (excerpt)
Charles Lamy or M. Lamy (28 August 1857 – 15 June 1940) was the stage name of the French actor Charles Castarède. Lamy, born into a theatrical family in Lyon, began his stage career in 1874. After training at the Conservatoire de Lyon and performing in Italy and Brussels, he made his Paris debut in 1880.
Biography of Gustav Nachtigal (excerpt)
Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa. He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West Africa. His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire.
Biography of Johanna Mestorf (excerpt)
Johanna Mestorf (17 April 1828, Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein – 20 July 1909, Kiel) was a German prehistoric archaeologist, the first female museum director in the Kingdom of Prussia and usually said to be the first female professor in Germany.
Biography of Grace Cadell (excerpt)
Grace Ross Cadell (October 25, 1855 – February 19, 1918) was a Scottish medical doctor and suffragist, and one of the first group of women to study medicine in Scotland and qualify. She was, with Elsie Inglis, one of the initial entrants to the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, set up by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1886.
Biography of Cecilie Thoresen Krog (excerpt)
Ida Cecilie Thoresen Krog (March 7, 1858 - November 13, 1911) was the first female university student in Norway and a women's rights pioneer. Gaining fame in 1882 as the first Norwegian woman to pass the examen artium, she was integral in the women's rights movement, serving as the first president of Skuld and vice president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
Biography of Ida Straus (excerpt)
Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blun; February 6, 1849 – April 15, 1912) was a German-American homemaker and wife of Isidor Straus, U.S. Congressman and co-owner of the Macy's department store. She and her husband died during the sinking of the Titanic.
Biography of Emma Thursby (excerpt)
Emma Cecilia Thursby (February 21, 1845 – July 4, 1931) was an American singer popular in Europe and the United States. Her time of birth comes from the biography 'The Life of Emma Thursby, 1845-1931' (1940) by Richard McCandless Gipson. Emma Cecilia Thursby was a renowned American singer born to a rope manufacturer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Biography of François Clément Sauvage (excerpt)
François Clément Sauvage, born in Sedan on April 4, 1814 and died in Paris on November 11, 1872, was a French mining engineer and geologist. After a career as a geologist engineer, from 1846 he participated in the work of the railway from Metz to Sarrebrück.
Biography of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (excerpt)
Louis IV (German: Ludwig IV. Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein; 12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family.
Biography of Christian Wagner (writer) (excerpt)
Christian Friedrich Wagner (1835-1918) was a German writer and small-scale farmer. Born in Warmbronn, he spent his childhood and youth in humble circumstances. After his confirmation in 1849, he worked on the family farm and as a lumberjack in winter. A passionate butterfly collector and avid reader, he began writing poems in 1860.
Biography of Brooks Adams (excerpt)
Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 – February 13, 1927) was an American attorney, historian, and political scientist critical of capitalism. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Charles Francis Adams and Abigail Brown Brooks, he was part of a prominent family including Presidents John and John Quincy Adams.
Biography of Isabelle Rimbaud (excerpt)
Frédérique Marie Isabelle Rimbaud, born on June 1, 1860, in Charleville and died on June 20, 1917, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French writer and the younger sister of Arthur Rimbaud. She was the universal legatee of her brother and grew up with her three siblings under the stern guardianship of their conservative mother, following their father’s abandonment.
Biography of Charles Laffitte (excerpt)
Charles Pierre Eugène Laffitte, born in Paris on November 19, 1803, and died there on December 26, 1875, was a French banker, horseman, and politician. Nephew of famed banker Jacques Laffitte, Charles was instrumental in constructing the Paris-Rouen railway between 1841 and 1843.
Biography of Antoine Marfan (excerpt)
Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, known as Antoine Marfan, born in Castelnaudary, France, on June 23, 1858, and died in Paris on February 11, 1942, was a French pediatrician and a founding figure in the field of pediatrics in France. Despite initial reluctance from his father, also a doctor, Marfan pursued medical studies in Toulouse and then in Paris.
Biography of Alexis Damour (excerpt)
Augustin Alexis Damour was a French mineralogist born in the former 11th arrondissement of Paris on July 19, 1808, and died in the same city in the 9th arrondissement on September 22, 1902. After completing a legal education, he pursued an administrative career, notably at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until 1853.
Biography of Alexine Tinne (excerpt)
Alexandrine "Alexine" Pieternella Françoise Tinne (17 October 1835 – 1 August 1869) was a Dutch explorer in Africa who was the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara. She was an early photographer. Tinne, a pioneering photographer from The Hague, worked with several renowned photographers and embarked on an African expedition in 1861.
Biography of Théophile Labat (excerpt)
Henri Jean Théophile Labat, born March 20, 1834, in Lormont, and died September 10, 1896, in Bordeaux, was a French military engineer, economist, and Polytechnique graduate. He specialized in naval construction, pioneering in hauling techniques, and was recognized for his innovations. Politically, he served as a deputy of the Gironde from 1893 to 1896, focusing on economic and tax issues.
Biography of Johannes Orth (excerpt)
Johannes Orth (14 January 1847 – 13 January 1923 in Berlin) was a German pathologist born in Wallmerod. He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Bonn, receiving his habilitation in 1872 while an assistant to Eduard von Rindfleisch at Bonn.
Biography of Amadeo I of Spain (excerpt)
Amadeo I (Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia; 30 May 1845 – 18 January 1890), also known as Amadeus, was an Italian prince who reigned as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873. The only king of Spain to come from the House of Savoy, he was the second son of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and was known for most of his life as the Duke of Aosta, the usual title for a second son in the Savoyard dynasty.
Biography of Euphrosine Beernaert (excerpt)
Euphrosine Beernaert (11 April 1831 – 7 July 1901) was a Belgian landscape painter. Life Beernaerts was born at Ostend in 1831, and studied under Pierre-Louis Kuhnen in Brussels. She travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and exhibited landscapes at Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris, her favorite subjects being Dutch.
Biography of Louis Toussaint Doutrelaine (excerpt)
Louis Toussaint Simon Doutrelaine, born on July 9, 1820, and died on May 1, 1881, was a French general in the engineering corps. Educated at the École Polytechnique and the military engineering school in Metz, he held various military positions, including during the siege of Rome and the Italian campaign.
Biography of Josef Kainz (excerpt)
Josef Gottfried Ignaz Kainz (2 January 1858 – 20 September 1910) was a male actor from Austria-Hungary. He was highly active in theatres in Austria-Hungary and the German Empire from 1873 to 1910. The source for his birth time comes from Preuss (no.
Biography of Émile Guépratte (excerpt)
Paul Émile Aimable Guépratte, born on August 30, 1856, in Granville and died on November 21, 1939, in Brest, was a French vice-admiral. Grandson of Rear Admiral Jéhenne and mathematician Charles Guépratte, he had a distinguished career in the French Navy. |
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