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Biography of George Harris (barrister) (excerpt)
George Harris (1809-1890) was an English barrister and judge, known as a biographer and legal writer. His time of birth comes from his autobiography "The Autobiography of George Harris" (London, 1888). Born in Rugby on May 6, 1809, he briefly considered a naval career before becoming a lawyer, being called to the bar in 1843.
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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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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 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. ![]()
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 Thomas Ewing Sherman (excerpt)
Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. (October 12, 1856 – April 29, 1933) was an American lawyer, educator, and Catholic priest. His time of birth comes from his mother, in "Ellen Ewing, Wife of General Sherman" by Anna (Shannon) McAllister (Benziger Brothers, 1936).
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Biography of Christian Ernst Stahl (excerpt)
Christian Ernst Stahl, born on June 21, 1848, in Schiltigheim, Alsace, and died on December 3, 1919, in Jena, was a German botanist. He studied in Strasbourg and Halle, earning his doctorate in 1874. He worked with Julius von Sachs in Würzburg, developing his theory on lichens.
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Biography of Armand Sabatier (excerpt)
Armand Sabatier, born on January 14, 1834, and died on December 22, 1910, was a French zoologist known for his studies in comparative animal anatomy and his discovery of the Sabattier effect in photography in 1860. Wikipedia has 13 January in error.
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Biography of Constantin Oddo (excerpt)
Paul Marie Constantin Oddo, born on June 6, 1860, and died on June 21, 1926, in Marseille, was a French physician and professor at the Marseille School of Medicine, and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine. The son of a broker and grandson of Auguste Laforêt, he spent his career at the Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille, where he became an intern in 1881.
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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 Louis Mouillard (excerpt)
Louis Pierre Mouillard (September 30, 1834 – September 20, 1897) was a French artist and pioneer in mechanical flight, inspired by studying birds in Algeria and Cairo. He is known for his 1881 work "L'Empire de l'Air," proposing fixed-wing gliders, later translated by the Smithsonian in 1892.
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Biography of James Dwight Dana (excerpt)
James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world. His zoological author abbreviation is Dana.
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Biography of Allegra Byron (excerpt)
Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont. Born in Bath, England, she was initially named Alba, meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother. At first she lived with her mother, her mother's stepsister, Mary Shelley, and Mary's husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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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 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. ![]()
Biography of David Friedrich Strauss (excerpt)
David Friedrich Strauss (27 January 1808 – 8 February 1874) was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he explored via myth. Strauss conceived of myths as expressions of Truths, as opposed to the modern shorthand of myth for "falsity"- Strauss did not deny Jesus' divine nature.
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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 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 Émilie d'Oultremont (excerpt)
Blessed Émilie d'Oultremont de Warfusée (and, through her marriage, Baroness d’Hooghvorst), known in religion as Mother Mary of Jesus, was a Belgian nun born on October 11, 1818, at Wégimont Castle (Belgium) and who died on February 22, 1878, in Florence (Italy).
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Biography of Adolphe Clément-Bayard (excerpt)
Gustave Adolphe Clément, known from 1909 Clément-Bayard (22 September 1855 – 10 March 1928), was a French entrepreneur. Despite being orphaned, he became a blacksmith and a Compagnon du Tour de France. He later ventured into racing and manufacturing bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships.
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Biography of Jan Heemskerk (excerpt)
Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon (30 July 1818 – 9 October 1897) was a prominent Dutch politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, a role akin to Prime Minister, from 1874 to 1877 and again from 1883 to 1888. Originally a liberal, he shifted to conservatism in 1866.
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Biography of Arthur de La Borderie (excerpt)
Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (October 5, 1827 in Vitré – February 17, 1901 in Vitré) was a French historian and politician. Considered the father of Breton historiography, he was also a politician, serving as a general councilor and later as a deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine (Vitré constituency).
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Biography of Eleuterio Maisonnave (excerpt)
Eleuterio Maisonnave i Cutayar, born on September 6, 1840, in Alicante and died on May 5, 1890, in Madrid, was a Spanish politician. A member of the Posibilista Republican Party, he served as a deputy, Minister of the Interior during the First Spanish Republic, and Mayor of Alicante.
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Biography of Carlos, Duke of Madrid (excerpt)
Don Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este (Spanish: Carlos María de los Dolores Juan Isidro José Francisco Quirico Antonio Miguel Gabriel Rafael; French: Charles Marie des Douleurs Jean Isidore Joseph François Cyr Antoine Michel Gabriel Raphaël; 30 March 1848 – 18 July 1909) was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain as Carlos VII from 1868 (his father's Spanish renunciation), and holder of the Legitimist claim to the throne of France under the name Charles XI after the death of his father in 1887. ![]()
Biography of Gipsy Smith (excerpt)
Rodney "Gipsy" Smith MBE (31 March 1860 – 4 August 1947) was a British evangelist who conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Great Britain for over 70 years. He was an early member of The Salvation Army and a contemporary of Fanny Crosby and acquaintance of G.
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Biography of Laura Marx (excerpt)
Jenny Laura Marx, born on September 26, 1845, in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Belgium), and died on November 25, 1911, in Draveil (France), was a socialist activist. The second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen, she was the wife of Paul Lafargue. The couple dedicated their lives to popularizing and spreading Marxist thought in France.
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Biography of Charles Deburau (excerpt)
Jean Charles Deburau, born on February 15, 1829, in Paris (formerly the 6th arrondissement) and died on December 18, 1873, in Bordeaux, was a French mime. He was the son and successor of the legendary Jean-Gaspard Deburau, immortalized under the name "Baptiste" in Marcel Carné's film Les Enfants du paradis (1945).
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Biography of Sophia Jex-Blake (excerpt)
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. ![]()
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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 Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (excerpt)
Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, born on February 8, 1856, in Rouen and died on February 17, 1901, at the Château de Montgrimont in Fontaine-le-Bourg (Seine-Inférieure), was a French industrialist and inventor, a pioneer of the automobile, and the founder of Automobile Delamare-Deboutteville.
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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 Eugène Le Bègue de Germiny (excerpt)
Charles-Eugène Le Bègue, Count of Germiny, born on July 11, 1841, in Melun and died in June 1898 in Buenos Aires, was a French lawyer and politician. A rising figure in Parisian Catholic right-wing circles, his career was ruined in 1876 by a moral scandal.
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Biography of Armando Palacio Valdés (excerpt)
Armando Palacio Valdés (Entralgo, October 4, 1853 – Madrid, January 29, 1938) was a Spanish writer and literary critic. His time of birth comes from the biography Cuadernos para investigación de la literatura hispánica, Issue 29 (Fundación Universitaria Española, Seminario "Menéndez Pelayo", 2004).
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Biography of Marie Dihau (excerpt)
Marie Dihau (September 12, 1843, Lille – May 14, 1935, Paris) was a French soprano, pianist, and teacher of singing and piano. Biography She won first prize at the Lille Conservatory in 1862 and later performed as a pianist for the Concerts Colonne and a singer with the Société des concerts du Conservatoire. ![]()
Biography of Eleanor Marx (excerpt)
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. Her time of birth comes from the biography "Eleanor Marx" (Lawrence & Wishart, 1972, Vol.
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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 Adolf Jensen (excerpt)
Adolf Jensen, born on January 12, 1837, in Königsberg, was a German pianist, composer, and music teacher. Mostly self-taught, he received some instruction from Louis Ehlert, Louis Köhler, and Friedrich Marpurg. In 1856, he moved to Russia to teach, hoping to study with Robert Schumann, but Schumann died before they could meet.
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Biography of Edmond Tulasne (excerpt)
Edmond Tulasne, born on September 12, 1815, in Azay-le-Rideau and died on December 22, 1885, in Hyères, was a French botanist and mycologist. Son of a clerk, he studied law and worked as a notary clerk while developing a passion for botany with Charles Delastre.
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Biography of Karl Salvator of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero; German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranier; Florence, 30 April 1839 – Vienna, 18 January 1892 (pneumonia)), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.
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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 Rosina Heikel (excerpt)
Emma Rosina Heikel (17 March 1842 – 13 December 1929) was a Finnish medical doctor and feminist. In 1878, she became the first female physician in Finland, and specialised in gynaecology and paediatrics.
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Biography of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (excerpt)
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American children's author best known under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, into the affluent Dwight family, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1852. She was the aunt of writer and poet Gamel Woolsey.
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Biography of Vilma Hugonnai (excerpt)
Countess Vilma Hugonnai de Szentgyörgy (30 September 1847 in Nagytétény, Hungary (today part of Budapest) – 25 March 1922 in Budapest) was the first Hungarian woman medical doctor. Life Countess Vilma Hugonnai was the fifth child of Count Kálmán Hugonnai and Riza Pánczély.
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Biography of Ferdinand Keller (painter) (excerpt)
Ferdinand Keller, or von Keller (5 August 1842 – 8 July 1922) was a German genre and history painter. Life He was born in Karlsruhe to the family of a civil engineer. In 1857, when he was fifteen, his father was awarded a contract to design bridges, roads and dams in Brazil.
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Biography of Charlotte Jacobs (excerpt)
Charlotte Jacobs (13 February 1847, Sappemeer - 31 October 1916, The Hague), was a Dutch feminist and pharmacist. She was the first of her gender in the Netherlands with a degree in pharmacology and also active within the women's movement. She was the sister of Aletta Jacobs.
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Biography of Georg Oeder (excerpt)
Georg Oeder (*April 12, 1846, Aachen; †July 4, 1931, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape painter associated with the Düsseldorf school. Life and Career Born to a banker and grandson of a wool merchant, Oeder began his education in Duisburg before shifting to painting.
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Biography of Maurice de Guérin (excerpt)
Georges-Pierre Maurice de Guérin, born on August 4, 1810, in Andillac, and died on July 19, 1839, was a French poet and writer. He is particularly known for his correspondence with his sister, Eugénie de Guérin. A contemporary of authors such as Victor Hugo and Lamartine, he wrote Le Centaure and La Bacchante, works that bridge the religious romanticism of Chateaubriand and the poetic modernity of Baudelaire.
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Biography of Marie Dauguet (excerpt)
Marie Dauguet, born Julie Marie Aubert on April 2, 1860, in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont, and died on September 10, 1942, in Ville-d'Avray, was a French poet. She grew up immersed in the Vosges nature, with a love for botany and the arts. Her first collection, À travers le voile (1902), was praised by Stuart Merrill, who compared her to Verlaine.
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Biography of Catharina van Rees (excerpt)
Catharina Felicia van Rees (22 August 1831 – 1 April 1915) was an author, editor, and composer. She wrote novels about the lives of composers and edited a collection of "Dutch Authoresses" to use the language of the time. She wrote her novels under the pseudonym Celéstine.
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Biography of Elias Nason (excerpt)
Elias Nason (April 21, 1811, in Wrentham, Massachusetts – June 17, 1887, in North Billerica, Massachusetts) was a Massachusetts Congregational clergyman, educator, editor, and author. He started working in a paper mill in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1826, while attending school. After five years, he studied at Amherst College for a year before entering Brown University, where he taught to finance his studies. |
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