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Biography of François Ernest Fournier (excerpt)
François Ernest Fournier, born on May 23, 1842, in Toulouse and died on November 6, 1934, in Paris, was a French vice admiral, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and a military medalist. He joined the Navy in 1859. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he commanded a company of sailors and took part in the battles of Villiers and the Fort of Rosny, getting wounded at the Battle of Le Bourget.
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.
Biography of Augustin Mouchot (excerpt)
Augustin-Bernard Mouchot, born April 7, 1825, in Semur-en-Auxois and died October 4, 1912, in Paris, was a French inventor and teacher renowned for his work in solar energy, creating early conversion tools. Coming from a humble family, he studied in Dijon and became a mathematics and physics teacher.
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 Alphonse Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, NDS, (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest and missionary. He later was a co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, a religious congregation dedicated to the conversion of Jews to the Christian faith.
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 Daniel Oehlert (excerpt)
Daniel Victor Œhlert, also known as Oehlert (born November 1, 1849, in Laval and died September 17, 1920, in the same city) was a French scientist. His roles as a librarian and later as a curator of the archaeology and natural history museums of Laval allowed him to devote himself to paleontology and geology.
Biography of Alcide Railliet (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet (also known as Alcide Railliet, born 11 March 1852 at La Neuville-lès-Wasigny in the Ardennes – died 25 December 1930) was a French veterinarian and helminthologist. Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern parasitology and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology.
Biography of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (excerpt)
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years.
Biography of Nikolai Fyodorov (philosopher) (excerpt)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Фёдоров; surname also Anglicized as "Fedorov", June 7, 1829, Elatomsk District, Tambov Province – December 28, 1903), known in his family as Nikolai Pavlovich Gagarin, was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, religious thinker and futurologist, library science figure and an innovative educator.
Biography of Georges Balagny (excerpt)
George or Georges Balagny, born in Batignolles on February 16, 1837, and died in Paris XVIIe on December 17, 1919, was a French photographer. Son of Auguste Balagny, a notary who later became the mayor of Batignolles-Monceau, then of the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris, and finally of Maule, and Adélaïde Léopoldine Genet.
Biography of Oscar Pletsch (excerpt)
Oscar Pletsch (March 26, 1830 - January 12, 1888) was a German illustrator. Born in Berlin to a poor family, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts under Ludwig Richter and Eduard Bendemann. Pletsch worked in Dresden and then Berlin, specializing in genre paintings and illustrations, mainly depicting children.
Biography of Eugène Mage (excerpt)
Eugène Abdon Mage, born July 30, 1837, in Paris, was a French naval officer and explorer who disappeared at sea off the coast of Brittany on the night of December 18-19, 1869. Joining the Naval School at 13, he embarked on extensive cruises across the Americas and the Pacific, ascending to ensign by September 1855.
Biography of Otto Wallach (excerpt)
Otto Wallach, born March 27, 1847 and died February 26, 1931, was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds. Born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia) to a Prussian official of Jewish descent who had converted to Lutheranism, Wallach grew up in Stettin and Potsdam, developing an interest in literature and art history.
Biography of Charlotte Wolter (excerpt)
Charlotte Wolter (March 1, 1834, in Cologne - June 14, 1897, in Hietzing) was an Austrian actress who began her artistic career in Budapest in 1857. She is buried in an honorary grave at the Central Cemetery in Vienna (group 32 A, number 20), as per her wish, in the costume of Iphigenia from Goethe's play of the same name, her most famous role.
Biography of Padre Cruz (excerpt)
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ (29 July 1859 – 1 October 1948), known as Father Cruz, was a Portuguese Catholic priest celebrated for his apostolic zeal and charity. He visited prisons and hospitals, helped the poor, and ministered to many, earning a reputation for sanctity during his lifetime.
Biography of Eberhard Nestle (excerpt)
Eberhard Nestle (May 1, 1851, Stuttgart - March 9, 1913, Stuttgart) was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, and orientalist. He edited the Novum Testamentum Graece and was the father of Erwin Nestle. He studied at the University of Tübingen, focusing on Hebrew and Greek texts of the Book of Ezekiel, and later worked in orientalism and textual criticism of the New Testament.
Biography of Félix Thyes (excerpt)
Félix Thyes (19 January 1830 – 8 May 1855) was a Luxembourg writer. He is recognized as the first Luxembourg author to write a novel in French. Marc Bruno, profil d'artiste was published shortly after his death in 1855. He was also the first literary historian to discuss literature written in Luxembourgish.
Biography of Godefroy Cavaignac (politician) (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (21 May 1853 - 25 September 1905) was a French politician known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair. Born in Paris, he demonstrated early republican convictions. A veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, he later entered the École Polytechnique and served as a civil engineer before becoming a republican deputy.
Biography of Charles Dancla (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charles Dancla, born on 19th December 1817 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre and died on 10th October 1907 in Tunis, was a French violinist and composer, considered the last representative of the classic French violin school. His early violin lessons were in his hometown, and at nine years old, he impressed the famous violinist Pierre Rode, who recommended him to the Conservatoire de Paris.
Biography of Léon Labbé (excerpt)
Léon Labbé, born September 29, 1832, and died March 21, 1916, was a French surgeon and politician. Known for his surgical expertise, particularly at the Beaujon Hospital in Paris, he was renowned for his innovative techniques, including the application of asepsis in abdominal surgery.
Biography of Ippolito Nievo (excerpt)
Ippolito Nievo, an Italian writer, journalist, and patriot, was born in Padua on 30 November 1831 during Austrian rule. A law graduate from the University of Padua, he rejected a legal career under Austrian governance, influenced by Giuseppe Mazzini's ideas. Nievo fought for Italian unification with Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 and witnessed Italy's unification in 1861, just before his tragic death in a shipwreck.
Biography of Marian Langiewicz (excerpt)
Marian Langiewicz (August 5, 1827 – May 11, 1887), was a key figure in the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863. Born in Krotoszyn, he was educated in Posen, Breslau, and Prague, and worked as a lecturer to earn a living.
Biography of Artur Zawisza (excerpt)
Artur Zawisza Czarny of Przerowa coat of arms, born on September 24, 1809, in Sobota, was a Polish independence activist. He played a significant role in the November Uprising (1830–1831), was a member of the Patriotic Society, and after 1831 lived in exile in France, joining the Polish Democratic Society.
Biography of Auguste Mercier (excerpt)
Auguste Mercier (born in Arras on December 8, 1833 and died in Paris on March 3, 1921) was a French general and polytechnician, Minister of War at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. In the summer of 1894, General Mercier, upon learning of the intercepted "Bordereau," saw a political opportunity in convicting the culprit, aiming to gain favor and control the far-right press.
Biography of René Ponsard (excerpt)
Alexandre René Ponsard, born December 20, 1826, in Arpajon and died June 22, 1894, in Paris, was a French poet, songwriter, and goguettier. Orphaned, raised by his grandparents, he joined the naval cadets in Brest at 13. Following a career as a sailor and boatman, he worked for a railway company, married, and started a family.
Biography of Édouard Dupont (excerpt)
Édouard François Dupont, born in 1841 in Dinant, Belgium, and died in 1911 in Cannes, was a Belgian geologist, a precursor in paleontology and prehistory. Trained by Jean-Baptiste d'Omalius, he earned his doctorate in natural sciences at the age of 22. From 1864 to 1868, he explored Belgian caves, uncovering fossils and prehistoric tools.
Biography of Salvatore Farina (excerpt)
Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 – 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Life Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso, he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
Biography of Melchior Treub (excerpt)
Melchior Treub (1851–1910) was a Dutch botanist renowned for his work on tropical flora at the Bogor Botanical Gardens, Java, and founder of the Bogor Agricultural Institute. A 1873 biology graduate from Leiden University, he remained a botanical assistant in Leiden before moving to the Dutch East Indies in 1880.
Biography of Dinah Craik (excerpt)
Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik; 20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel "John Halifax, Gentleman", which depicts mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Billot (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Billot (15 August 1828 - 31 May 1907) was a French general and politician. Educated at Saint-Cyr, he maintained republican beliefs while advancing his career under Napoleon III, receiving the Legion of Honor in 1859. He distinguished himself in the Mexican expedition and the Franco-Prussian War, achieving the rank of general and participating in key battles.
Biography of Maria Konopnicka (excerpt)
Maria Konopnicka, a significant Polish poet, novelist, and women's rights activist, was born in Suwałki on May 23, 1842. Educated at home and in Warsaw, she debuted as a writer in 1870. Konopnicka's marriage to Jarosław Konopnicki was strained due to her literary pursuits, leading to their separation in 1878.
Biography of Désiré van Monckhoven (excerpt)
Désiré Charles Emmanuel van Monckhoven, born and died in Ghent (1834-1882), was a Belgian chemist, physicist, optician, and photographer, a pioneer in astrophotography and photochemistry in Belgium. He earned a degree in sciences from the University of Ghent in 1862 and was renowned for his work in photographic optics.
Biography of Adelbert Lebarbier de Tinan (excerpt)
Marie Charles Adelbert Le Barbier de Tinan, born in Paris on May 2, 1803, and deceased there on December 18, 1876, was a prominent French vice-admiral. His notable contributions include playing a key role during the Crimean War in 1853, aiding troop landings and blockading Greek ports.
Biography of Césaire Phisalix (excerpt)
Césaire Phisalix, born on October 8, 1852, in Mouthier-Haute-Pierre (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region) and died in Paris on March 15, 1906, was a French herpetologist known for developing a serum against the bites of certain vipers. The son of winemakers, he studied in Besançon and Paris, earning a doctorate in medicine in 1877.
Biography of Émile Duployé (excerpt)
Émile Duployé, born on September 10, 1833, in Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, and died on May 9, 1912, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (now in Val-de-Marne), was a French ecclesiastic. He is the author of the Duployé shorthand technique, which was widely used in France in the early 20th century.
Biography of Alix Joffroy (excerpt)
Alix Joffroy, born on December 16, 1844, in Stainville (Meuse) and died on November 24, 1908, in Paris, was a French neurologist, neuropathologist, and psychiatrist, a student of Charcot, and the second holder of the chair of clinical mental illnesses and the brain at Sainte-Anne.
Biography of Natalie Zahle (excerpt)
Ida Charlotte Natalie Zahle (June 11, 1827 – August 11, 1913) was a Danish educational reformer and a pioneer in women's education. After the early death of her parents, she was raised by her grandparents and later by the family of zoologist Daniel Frederik Eschricht.
Biography of Paul Vidal de La Blache (excerpt)
Paul Vidal de La Blache (French pronunciation: , Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 – Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics.
Biography of Noël Ballay (excerpt)
Dr. Noël Eugène Ballay, born on July 14, 1847, in Fontenay-sur-Eure, Eure-et-Loir, and died on January 27, 1902, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, was a French explorer and colonial administrator, serving as the second Governor-General of French West Africa (AOF). After completing his education in medicine, Ballay participated in exploratory missions alongside Savorgnan de Brazza in the Ogooué region during the 1870s and represented France at the Berlin Conference in 1885.
Biography of Witold Zglenicki (excerpt)
Witold Zglenicki (6 January 1850 - 6 July 1904), a Polish inventor, geologist, metallurgist, oil worker, and philanthropist, is known as the "father of Baku kerosene" and the "Polish Nobel." He studied in Płock, Warsaw, and St. Petersburg under Dmitry Mendeleev. Initially focusing on mining and metallurgy, Zglenicki later dedicated himself to the oil industry, pioneering techniques in oil extraction, including undersea drilling.
Biography of Anita Garibaldi (excerpt)
Anita Garibaldi (born Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro; 30 August 1821 – 4 August 1849) was a Brazilian republican revolutionary. Her time of birth comes from the biography Anthony Valerio, "Anita Garibaldi: A Biography" (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001). She was the wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Biography of Walerian Kalinka (excerpt)
Walerian Kalinka, sometimes Valerian Kalinka, a Polish priest and historian, was born in Kraków in 1826. His time of birth comes from the biography "Valerian Kalinka: life and activity" by Jerzy Mrówczyński (1972). He fled Poland in 1846 due to political involvement in the Krakow Uprising and founded the Polish branch of the Resurrectionist Order.
Biography of Wilhelm Camerer (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Camerer (17 October 1842 – 25 March 1910) was a German physician born in Stuttgart. Camerer was a pioneer in the field of pediatric medicine. He studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen and Vienna. At Tübingen he was a student of physiologist Karl von Vierordt (1818–1884).
Biography of Émile Vallin (excerpt)
Émile Arthur Vallin, born November 27, 1833, in Nantes and died in February 1924 in Montpellier, was a French military physician considered a precursor of public health in France. The son of a physician, Vallin completed secondary education in Nantes and earned his medical degree in Paris in 1858.
Biography of Arthur Nikisch (excerpt)
Arthur Nikisch (12 October 1855 – 23 January 1922) was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch's performance of his Fourth Symphony as "quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better."
Biography of Armand du Paty de Clam (excerpt)
Charles Armand Auguste Ferdinand Mercier du Paty de Clam (21 February 1853 - 3 September 1916) was a French army officer and amateur graphologist, central to the Dreyfus affair. He pinpointed Dreyfus as a suspect based on graphology, leading to Dreyfus's arrest and conviction without substantial evidence.
Biography of Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (excerpt)
Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, born on July 2, 1834, in Saumur and died on July 25, 1923, in Vitrai-sous-Laigle, was a French magistrate, journalist, and writer. As a prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal, he prepared the indictment against General Boulanger.
Biography of Louis Carrière (excerpt)
Louis Norbert Carrière (7 December 1833 - 31 December 1919) was a French military justice officer. His military career began at Saint-Cyr in 1853, serving in various roles, including in the war against Prussia and in the Versailles army. Promoted within the gendarmerie, he was recognized for his intelligence and competence.
Biography of Léon Dehon (excerpt)
Léon-Gustave Dehon, SCJ (14 March 1843 – 12 August 1925), also known as Jean of the Sacred Heart, was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the Dehonians). Dehon's focus in his ecclesial life was to express his closeness with workers but he especially promoted a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. |
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