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Biography of Joseph Vallot (excerpt)
Joseph Vallot (Henry Marie Joseph Vallot) was a French astronomer, geographer, naturalist, alpinist, and patron, born on February 16, 1854, in Lodève (Hérault) and died on April 11, 1925, in Nice. Coming from a wealthy family, he never faced financial issues, and his fortune allowed him to fund most of the construction of his observatory.
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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.
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Biography of Otto of Greece (excerpt)
Otto (German: Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Wittelsbach; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Hermann Goetz (excerpt)
Hermann Gustav Goetz (7 December 1840 – 3 December 1876) was a German composer primarily active in Switzerland, most noted for his opera "Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung" based on Shakespeare’s "The Taming of the Shrew." His time of birth comes from the biography Hermann Goetz: sein Leben und seine Werke by Eduard Kreuzhage (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1916).
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Biography of Charles Fechter (excerpt)
Charles Albert Fechter (23 October 1824 – 5 August 1879) was a notable Anglo-French actor renowned for his dramatic prowess in both France and England. Born in Paris to a multicultural family, Fechter initially ventured into sculpture before transitioning to acting. His early success in Berlin propelled him to further acclaim in Paris and London.
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Biography of Mieczyslaw Ledochowski (excerpt)
Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski (1822-1902) was a Polish prelate born in Górki, within Russian-controlled Congress Poland. Ordained a priest in 1845, he served in various Vatican diplomatic roles, including as a papal delegate in South America and papal nuncio to Belgium. He became Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań and opposed Prussia's anti-Catholic Kulturkampf policies, leading to his imprisonment in 1874. ![]()
Biography of Ambrosius Hubrecht (excerpt)
Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht (2 March 1853, in Rotterdam – 21 March 1915, in Utrecht) was a Dutch zoologist. Hubrecht studied zoology at Utrecht University with Harting and Donders, for periods joining Selenka in Leiden and later Erlangen, and Gegenbauer in Heidelberg.
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Biography of Philippe Comairas (excerpt)
Philippe Comairas, born on October 24, 1803, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and died on February 15, 1875, in Fontainebleau, was a French painter, second prize winner of the Prix de Rome in 1833. A student of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, he gained recognition with his painting "Moses and the Brazen Serpent".
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Biography of Benoît Rouquayrol (excerpt)
Benoît Rouquayrol (1826–1875) was a French inventor.Along with Auguste Denayrouze, Rouquayrol invented a diving suit and breathing apparatus. Benoît Rouquayrol was born on June 13, 1826, at Espalion, in the Aveyron department of Southern France.He became an engineer at the Saint-Étienne School of Mines.
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Biography of Peter Hille (excerpt)
Peter Hille, born on September 11, 1854, in Nieheim and passed away on May 7, 1904, in Groß-Lichterfelde, was a German writer associated with late Romanticism and Naturalism. After leaving school without a diploma, he began publishing poems and literary critiques.
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Biography of Max Schede (excerpt)
Max Schede (7 January 1844 – 31 December 1902) was a German surgeon born in Arnsberg. Schede studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Zurich, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1866.After serving as a doctor in the Austro-Prussian War, he became an assistant to Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) at Halle.
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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.
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Biography of Hudson Taylor (excerpt)
James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Baptist Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 54 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who started 125 schools and directly resulted in 20,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 499 local helpers in all 18 provinces.
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Biography of Albert Robin (professor of medicine) (excerpt)
Édouard Charles Albert Robin (1847-1928) was a professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, a pioneer in laboratory analysis, art collector, and patron. Born in Dijon, he studied at the Dijon Faculty of Sciences and later at the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
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Biography of Léon Gastinel (excerpt)
Léon Gustave Cyprien Gastinel, born on August 15, 1823, in Villers-les-Pots, Côte-d'Or, and died on October 18, 1906, in Fresnes, was a French violinist and composer. He began his musical journey in Burgundy, composing a symphonic overture at fourteen. In 1840, he joined the Paris Conservatory, studying under Guérin and Alard, and played in the Opéra-Comique orchestra.
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Biography of Clémentine of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Clémentine of Orléans (French: Marie Clémentine Léopoldine Caroline Clotilde d'Orléans) (3 June 1817 – 16 February 1907), princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and duchess in Saxony, was the sixth child and youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies.
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Biography of Ernest Courtot de Cissey (excerpt)
Ernest Courtot de Cissey, born on December 23, 1810, in Paris, and died on June 15, 1882, in Paris, was a French general and statesman, decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Military Medal. He commanded the 2nd Army Corps during the suppression of the Paris Commune and served as Minister of War from 1871 to 1873 and again from 1874 to 1876.
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Biography of Charles Beauquier (excerpt)
Charles Beauquier (born December 18, 1833, in Besançon (Wikipedia mistakenly states the 19th), died August 12, 1916) was a French politician and historian. He graduated from the École impériale des chartes in 1857 and became a general councilor of Besançon in 1871.
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Biography of Franz Schwechten (excerpt)
Franz Heinrich Schwechten (August 12, 1841 – August 11, 1924) was a prominent German architect of the Wilhelmine era, known for his contributions to historicist architecture. Born in Cologne, he studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin under Karl Bötticher and Friedrich Adler, and worked with Friedrich August Stüler and Martin Gropius.
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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.
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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 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.
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Biography of Maria Isabella of Austria (excerpt)
Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (21 May 1834 – 14 July 1901), was an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by birth and Countess of Trapani by marriage to her uncle Prince Francis, Count of Trapani. Her approximate time of birth comes from the publication "Lemberger Zeitung," 2 June 1834 (born in the evening).
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Otto Körner (excerpt)
Otto Körner (18 May 1858 in Frankfurt am Main – 9 October 1935 in Rostock) was a German otorhinolaryngologist. From 1878 to 1882 he studied medicine at the universities of Marburg, Freiburg and Strasbourg, where he was a student of internist Adolf Kussmaul.
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Biography of Albert Pitres (excerpt)
Albert Pitres, born on August 26, 1848, in Bordeaux and died on March 25, 1928, was a French neurologist. He received his training in Paris, where he was a student of Charcot and Dejerine. He later became the dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux.
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Biography of Oskar Kolberg (excerpt)
Henryk Oskar Kolberg (22 February 1814 – 3 June 1890) was a Polish ethnographer, folklorist, and composer active in Partitioned Poland. Life Kolberg was born in Przysucha, the son of the German Julius(z) Kolberg, a professor of the Warsaw University, and Fryderyka née Mercoeur, Warsaw-born while being of French descendance.
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Biography of Edgar Humann (excerpt)
Edgar Eugène Humann (born May 7, 1838, Paris – died May 9, 1914, Paris) was a French admiral who served as the Chief of Staff of the French Navy from 1894 to 1895. Born to diplomat Jules Emile Humann and Augustine Angélique Guilleminot, he was the grandson of Minister Georges Humann and General Armand Charles Guilleminot. ![]()
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.
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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.
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Biography of Julian Ochorowicz (excerpt)
Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (Radzymin, February 23, 1850 – Warsaw, May 1, 1917) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, inventor, poet, publicist, and leading exponent of Polish Positivism. The son of Julian and Jadwiga Ochorowicz, he studied natural sciences at Warsaw University and earned his doctorate at Leipzig in 1874 with a thesis on the conditions of consciousness.
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Biography of Charles de Chilly (excerpt)
Charles Marie de Chilly was a theater actor, born on December 2, 1803 in Stenay, and died on June 11, 1872, at his home in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. He was particularly successful in playing villainous roles and in theater management.
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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.
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Biography of Richard Barth (excerpt)
Richard Barth (5 June 1850 in Wanzleben – 25 December 1923 in Marburg) was a left-handed German violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher and composer in the circle of Johannes Brahms. His time of birth comes from the biography "Johannes Brahms in den Erinnerungen von Richard Barth" by Kurt Hofmann (Schuberth, 1979).
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Biography of Louise of Hesse-Kassel (excerpt)
Louise of Hesse-Kassel (German: Luise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie, Danish: Louise Wilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Auguste Julie; 7 September 1817 – 29 September 1898) was Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Christian IX from 15 November 1863 until her death in 1898.
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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.
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Biography of Roger de Barbarin (excerpt)
Roger de Barbarin, full name Émile Roger Thomas de Barbarin, was born on June 2, 1860, in Paris 16th arrondissement, and died on March 4, 1925, in Paris 7th arrondissement. He was a sports shooter and the first Olympic champion in his category, and remains the only Frenchman to hold this title to this day.
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Biography of Auguste Denayrouze (excerpt)
Auguste Denayrouze, born on January 20, 1837, in Montpeyroux (Aveyron), and died in Paris on November 14, 1883, was a French naval officer and inventor. He is renowned for co-inventing the first autonomous diving suit in 1864 with Benoît Rouquayrol. After his naval career was cut short by illness, Denayrouze focused on adapting Rouquayrol's inventions for underwater use.
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Biography of Casimir Lefaucheux (excerpt)
Casimir Lefaucheux (January 26, 1802 – August 9, 1852) was a French gunsmith and engineer born in Bonnétable, France, and died in Paris. He obtained his first patent in 1827 and, in 1832, developed a drop-barrel sporting gun with paper-cased cartridges. Lefaucheux is credited with creating one of the first efficient self-contained cartridge systems in 1835, featuring a pinfire mechanism.
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Biography of Betsy Repelius (excerpt)
Johanna Elisabeth Repelius, known as Betsy (31 January 1848 – 23 January 1921), was a Dutch painter and watercolorist specializing in simple, one-figure genre scenes. Born into a wealthy merchant family, she pursued art against her father's wishes, studying under several notable artists, including Petrus Franciscus Greive and August Allebé.
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Biography of Rosa Campbell Praed (excerpt)
Rosa Campbell Praed (née Murray-Prior; 27 March 1851 – 10 April 1935), often credited as Mrs. Campbell Praed (and also known as Rosa Caroline Praed), was an Australian novelist in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her approximate time of birth comes from the biography "Rosa! Rosa!: A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist" by Patricia Clarke (Melbourne UP, 1999), which indicates that she had an Aries Ascendant.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Bernhard von Lepel (excerpt)
Georg Friedrich Gustav Bernhard von Lepel (May 27, 1818 – May 17, 1885) was a Prussian officer and writer.Born in Meppen, he belonged to the Pomeranian and Mecklenburg nobility. He joined the Kaiser Franz Guard Grenadier Regiment No.2 at 18 and participated in the Danish campaign in 1848 before leaving the military.
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Biography of Jenneval (excerpt)
Hypolite Louis Alexandre Dechet, known as Jenneval, was a French actor and poet, born on January 29, 1801, in Lyon on Rue Peyrat, and died at the age of 29 on October 18, 1830, in battle near Lier during the Belgian Revolution of 1830. ![]()
Biography of Adolf Hölzel (excerpt)
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter known for transitioning from Realism to Modern styles, including Abstractionism.Born in Olmütz, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich. Hölzel co-founded the Dachauer Malschule, influencing European art students with his novel teaching methods.
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Biography of Matt Talbot (Irish ascetic) (excerpt)
Matthew Talbot (2 May 1856 – 7 June 1925) was an Irish ascetic revered by many Catholics for his piety, charity and mortification of the flesh. Talbot was a manual labourer.Though he lived alone for most of his life, Talbot did live with his mother for a time. |
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