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Biography of Marie Laurent (actress) (excerpt)
Marie Laurent was a French actress born on June 22, 1825, in Tulle (Corrèze) and died on July 5, 1904, in Villiers-le-Bel (Seine-et-Oise). Her real name was Marie-Thérèse-Désirée Alliouz-Luguet, and she belonged to a dynasty of actors who gained fame in Paris since the early 19th century.
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Biography of Auguste Cain (excerpt)
Auguste Nicolas Cain (November 10, 1821 - August 6, 1894) was a French animal sculptor known for his realistic depictions of animals. After training with sculptor François Rude and studying under Antoine-Louis Barye, Cain created his first animal models at the Jardin des Plantes and designed pieces for goldsmiths in the 1840s.
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Biography of Antoine Bouchacourt (excerpt)
Antoine Bouchacourt, born January 3, 1812, in Lyon and died October 6, 1898, in the same city, was a renowned French doctor. Son of Gabriel Bouchacourt and Suzanne Geneviève Duclaux, he studied at the Royal College of Lyon and became an intern at the Antiquaille Hospital in Lyon at 19.
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Biography of Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (excerpt)
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (9 January 1818 – 28 April 1881) was a French sculptor and photographer.Born to a French Jewish family in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, his father intended him to become a merchant. After working as a modeler, he received a scholarship to study sculpture in Paris and traveled to Switzerland and England. ![]()
Biography of Sister Dora (1832) (excerpt)
Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora, was born on 16 January 1832 in Hauxwell, North Riding of Yorkshire.Her time of birth comes from the biography Sister Dora: The Life of Dorothy Pattison by Jo Manton (Methuen, 1971). She was the eleventh of twelve children of Reverend Mark James Pattison and his wife Jane.
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Biography of Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez (excerpt)
Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez, born on September 12, 1854 in Jaén and died on June 16, 1934 in Madrid, was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Affiliated with the Liberal Party, he began his political career as a deputy for Jaén in the 1881 elections.
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Biography of François de Chabaud-Latour (excerpt)
François-Henri-Ernest, Baron de Chabaud-Latour (January 25, 1804 – June 10, 1885) was a distinguished French general and politician. Born in Nîmes, he excelled at the École polytechnique and the École d'application du génie. As a military engineer, he served notably in Algeria and along the Danube, earning a reputation for strategic prowess in campaigns and fortification projects, including the Paris fortifications.
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Biography of Mina Kruseman (excerpt)
Wilhelmina Jacoba Pauline Rudolphine "Mina" Kruseman (25 September 1839 – 1922) was a 19th-century Dutch feminist, actress, and author known for her outspoken social critiques and literary works. Born in Velp, she spent her early years in the Dutch East Indies, a period that would later influence her writings.
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Biography of Johann Ludwig Krapf (excerpt)
Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 – 26 November 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler.Krapf played an important role in exploring East Africa with Johannes Rebmann. They were the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya with the help of Akamba who dwelled at its slopes and Kilimanjaro.
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Biography of Hugh Grosvenor (1825) (excerpt)
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, KG, PC, JP (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845, Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869, and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.
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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.
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Biography of Yan' Dargent (excerpt)
Yan' Dargent, pseudonym of Jean-Édouard Dargent (born October 15, 1824, in Saint-Servais, Finistère (not Saint-Servan), and died November 19, 1899, in Paris), was a French painter and illustrator primarily focused on Brittany. Initially working as a draftsman and construction inspector, he later devoted himself to art, becoming a prolific illustrator.
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Biography of Pierre Cuypers (architect) (excerpt)
Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers (May 16, 1827 – March 3, 1921) was a Dutch architect best known for Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–1885).He designed over 100 churches and restored numerous monuments. Born in Roermond, he studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in Antwerp, earning the Prix d'Excellence in 1849.
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Biography of Gerrit de Vries (politician) (excerpt)
Gerrit Abrahamszoon de Vries, born in Haarlem on February 22, 1818, and died in The Hague on March 4, 1900, was a Dutch statesman. De Vries was a disciple of Thorbecke and succeeded him as head of the De Vries/Fransen van de Putte government after Thorbecke's death in 1872.
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Biography of Draga Ljocic (excerpt)
Draga Ljočić Milošević (22 February 1855 – 5 November 1926) was a Serbian physician, socialist, and feminist. In 1872, she became the first Serbian woman to be accepted at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. During the war between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, she worked as a medical assistant in the army and received the grade of a Lieutenant.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Hermann Seeger (excerpt)
Hermann Seeger (15 October 1857 – 23 February 1945) was a German genre and landscape painter.Seeger was also known as a talented engraver. Hermann Seeger was born at Halberstadt.At the age of 18, he moved to Halle to study philosophy, but eventually, Seeger turned to art and enrolled at the Berlin Academy.
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Biography of Henri Milne-Edwards (excerpt)
Henri Milne-Edwards (23 octobre 1800 – 29 juillet 1885) était un zoologiste français.Né à Bruges, il était le 27e enfant de William Edwards, planteur anglais, et d'Elisabeth Vaux, une Française. Élevé à Paris, il s'est d'abord orienté vers la médecine et a obtenu un doctorat en 1823, mais s'est ensuite consacré à l'histoire naturelle.
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Biography of Antonio Giannoni (excerpt)
Antonio Giannoni (March 29, 1814 – September 6, 1883) was the first Italian to settle in South Australia. Born in Rimini, he gained seamanship experience before fleeing to England in 1838 to avoid arrest for his involvement in the Young Italy movement.
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Biography of Hermann Julius Grüneberg (excerpt)
Hermann Julius Grüneberg (11 April 1827 – 7 June 1894) was a German chemist and inventor, and together with Julius Vorster the founder of the Chemische Fabrik Kalk. Grüneberg was born in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Prussia, now Szczecin, the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.
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Biography of Maurice Rouvier (excerpt)
Maurice Pierre Rouvier, born on April 17, 1842, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), and died on June 7, 1911, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), was a French banker, journalist, and statesman. An opportunistic republican, he served as a deputy, several times as a minister, and twice as President of the Council of Ministers.
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Biography of Benjamin Fillon (excerpt)
Benjamin Fillon, born March 15, 1819, in Grues and died May 23, 1881, in Saint-Cyr-en-Talmondais, was a Republican judge, numismatist, archaeologist, and Poitevin scholar. He amassed the largest collection of Poitevin curiosities of the 19th century; his passion for the Renaissance made him one of the early specialists on François Viète.
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Biography of Leonard Springer (excerpt)
Leonard Antony Springer (Amsterdam, January 24, 1855 – Haarlem, September 28, 1940) was a Dutch garden and landscape architect. He was the son of painter Cornelis Springer and initially trained as a nurseryman before making a name as a garden architect.
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Biography of Abel Bergasse Du Petit Thouars (excerpt)
Abel-Nicolas-Georges-Henri Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, also known as Dupetit-Thouars, was born on March 23, 1832, in Bordeaux-en-Gâtinais, France, and died on May 14, 1890, in Toulon. A French naval officer, he is celebrated as the savior of Lima during the Pacific War (1879-1884), where he is hailed as a hero in Peru.
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Biography of Edmond Duquesne (excerpt)
Edmond Duquesne, born February 25, 1849 in Angers, died November 24, 1918, was a French silent film actor, known in particular for Le Chiffonnier de Paris (1913), La Légende de l'Aigle (1911) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1911).
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Biography of Mathias-Marie Duval (excerpt)
Mathias-Marie Duval, born on February 7, 1844, in Grasse and died on February 28, 1907, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, was a French professor of anatomy and histology.He was the son of the botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810-1883). Mathias-Marie Duval studied medicine in Paris.
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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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Biography of Juan Escutia (excerpt)
Juan Bautista Pascasio Escutia y Martínez (born February 22, 1827, in Tepic, died September 13, 1847, in Mexico City) was one of the fighters who died during the Battle of Chapultepec. Little is known about his status, and it is uncertain if he was part of the Military College.
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Biography of Joseph Teissier (excerpt)
Joseph Teissier, also known as Louis Anne Marie Joseph Teissier, was born in Lyon on October 1, 1851, and died there on June 13, 1926. He was a French doctor noted for co-authoring an extensive "Treatise on Internal Pathology" with Alphonse Laveran. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Mary Slessor (excerpt)
Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women's rights and protecting native children.
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Biography of Nielsine Nielsen (excerpt)
Nielsine Nielsen (June 10, 1850 – October 8, 1916) was Denmark’s first female academic and physician. Graduating in 1885, she opened her own practice in 1889 and worked as a general practitioner. She was active in the gender equality movement within the Danish Women's Society.
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Biography of Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie (excerpt)
Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie (born May 2, 1827, in Tulle and died April 10, 1901, in Paris) was a publisher who succeeded Allan Kardec as the leader of the French Spiritist movement in the late 19th century. After spending his early years in Corrèze, Leymarie moved to Paris where he became involved in political activism.
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Biography of Li Shanlan (excerpt)
Li Shanlan (2 January 1811 – 9 December 1882) was a Chinese mathematician of the Qing Dynasty.His date and time of birth come from the biography "Li Shanlan: Forerunner of Modern Science in China" by Wang Yusheng, in "Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology" by Fan Dainian and Robert S.
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Biography of Isala Van Diest (excerpt)
Isala Van Diest, born on May 7, 1842, in Louvain and passed away on February 9, 1916, in Knokke, was the first female doctor and the first female university graduate in Belgium. Daughter of a progressive surgeon, she went to study in Switzerland due to limited opportunities in Belgium.
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Biography of Emily Blackwell (excerpt)
Emily Blackwell (October 8, 1826 – September 7, 1910) was a trailblazer in the 19th century, making numerous contributions in the field of medicine and women's rights. Emily was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University, after Nancy Talbot Clark.
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Biography of José Canalejas (excerpt)
José Canalejas Méndez, born on July 31, 1854, in Ferrol and died on November 12, 1912, in Madrid, was a Spanish lawyer and regenerationist statesman.His time of his birth comes from a biography that is no longer available online. He served as Minister of Public Works, Justice, Economy and Budget, and Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, and Public Works during the regency of Queen Maria Christina.
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Biography of Adam Asnyk (excerpt)
Adam Asnyk (11 September 1838 – 2 August 1897), was a Polish poet and dramatist of the Positivist era. Life and work Born in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated to become an heir of his family's estate.As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw. ![]()
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The Orsini affair comprised the diplomatic, political and legal consequences of the "Orsini attempt" (French: attentat d'Orsini): the attempt made on 14 January 1858 by Felice Orsini, with other Italian nationalists and backed by English radicals, to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris.
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Biography of Luís Cruls (excerpt)
Luíz Cruls or Luís Cruls or Louis Ferdinand Cruls (21 January 1848 – 21 June 1908) was a Belgian-Brazilian astronomer and geodesist. He was Director of the Brazilian National Observatory from 1881 to 1908, led the commission charged with the survey and selection of a future site for the capital of Brazil in the Central Plateau, and was co-discoverer of the Great Comet of 1882.
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Biography of Georg Luz (writer) (excerpt)
Georg Luz (born February 25, 1818, in Ofterdingen, died April 11, 1884, in Biberach an der Riß) was a German teacher and writer. After attending the Latin school in Ebingen, he joined the Esslingen teacher's seminary in 1833. Luz began his teaching career in 1835 in Bernhausen, later moving to Esslingen as a teacher and supervisor at the seminary in 1837.
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Biography of Max Jähns (excerpt)
Max Jähns (April 18, 1837 – September 19, 1900) was a German military writer and Prussian officer.Born in Berlin, he was the son of composer Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns. He joined the Prussian Army in 1854, served in various roles, and was appointed professor of military history in 1872.
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Biography of Maurice Sand (excerpt)
Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld, Baron Dudevant, known as Maurice Sand (born June 30, 1823, in Paris and died September 4, 1889, in Nohant-Vic), was a French writer, entomologist, and painter. The son of George Sand, he lived his entire life close to her.He married Lina Calamatta in 1862 and had two daughters.
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Biography of Louis Rouffe (excerpt)
Louis Rouffe, born on April 10, 1849, in La Tour-d'Aigues and died on December 21, 1885, in Marseille, was a French mime who succeeded Charles Deburau. He spent most of his career at the Alcazar in Marseille, where pantomime was highly popular.
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Biography of Viktor von Sprösser (excerpt)
Viktor Felix Sprößer, born January 15, 1853, in Heilbronn and died December 26, 1925, in Stuttgart, was a Württemberg lieutenant general during World War I. The son of a merchant, he married Amalie Pfann.After completing his studies, he joined the Württemberg army in 1871 and advanced through the ranks.
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Biography of Anatole Chauffard (excerpt)
Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard (* 22 August 1855 in Avignon; † 1 November 1932 in Paris) was an internationally renowned French physician, professor of clinical medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Biography of Louis Laussedat (excerpt)
Louis Laussedat, born on July 30, 1809, in Moulins and died on July 27, 1878, in the same city, was a French physician and politician. After studying medicine in Paris, he settled in Moulins and became a staunch opponent of the July Monarchy.
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Biography of Marie Heim-Vögtlin (excerpt)
Marie Heim-Vögtlin (7 October 1845 in Bözen – 7 November 1916 in Zürich) was the first female Swiss physician and a co-founder of the first Swiss gynaecological hospital. She received a private education in the Romandie and Zürich. After her fiancé left her, she decided to study medicine at the University of Zürich, which caused a national scandal.
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Biography of Johann Salvator of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (25 November 1852 - presumed dead, July 1890; declared dead in absentia 2 February 1911) was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. After renouncing his titles, he was known as Johann (John) Orth. |
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