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Biography of Wilhelm von Bismarck (excerpt)
Count Wilhelm von Bismarck-Schönhausen, born on August 1, 1852, and died on May 30, 1901, was a German civil servant and politician. The youngest son of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, he served briefly in the Reichstag (1880–1881) and later as president of the Hanover regency (1889–1890).
Biography of Jules Joseph Lefebvre (excerpt)
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, born on 14 March 1836 in Tournan-en-Brie and died on 24 February 1911 in Paris, was a French painter, teacher, and art theorist.He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and studied under Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861 with The Death of Priam and regularly exhibited at the Paris Salon, gaining recognition for his portraits and idealized female figures.
Biography of Hermann Kümmell (excerpt)
Hermann Kümmell (22 May 1852, Korbach, Waldeck-Pyrmont – 19 February 1937) was a German surgeon. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate at Berlin, later working as an assistant physician to Max Schede (1833-1902) at the municipal hospital in Friedrichshain.In 1883 he became chief physician of the surgical department at the "Marienkrankenhaus" in Hamburg, and in 1895 was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the Allgemeinen Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Biography of Mariano Fortuny (painter) (excerpt)
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, born on June 11, 1838, in Reus and died on November 21, 1874, in Rome, was a Spanish painter known for Orientalist, historical, and military scenes. Orphaned young, he was raised by his grandfather who introduced him to art.
Biography of Taco Mesdag (excerpt)
Taco Mesdag, born September 21, 1829 in Groningen and died August 4, 1902 in The Hague, was a Dutch banker and painter.He worked in the family banking business with his younger brother Henry. Like his brother Hendrik Mesdag, Taco eventually turned to painting.
Biography of Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt (excerpt)
Maria Alexandrovna, born Princess Maximiliane Wilhelmine Auguste Sophie Marie of Hesse and by Rhine on August 8, 1824, was Empress of Russia as the first wife of Emperor Alexander II. The daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, she was well educated and raised in simplicity and piety.
Biography of Léo Testut (excerpt)
Leo Testut, born on 8 June 1849 in Saint-Avit-Sénieur and died on 16 January 1925 in Bordeaux, was a renowned French physician and anatomist. He studied medicine in Bordeaux, though his education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. He resumed his studies in 1878, earning distinctions for his thesis and later became Professor of Anatomy at the Bordeaux School of Medicine, while also engaging in anthropological research.
Biography of Louis Pierre Gratiolet (excerpt)
Louis Pierre Gratiolet, born July 10, 1815, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande and died February 16, 1865, in Paris, was a French anatomist, anthropologist, and zoologist.A founding member of the Société d’Anthropologie, he became professor of zoology at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris in 1863.
Biography of Jacob Moleschott (excerpt)
Jacob Moleschott (August 9, 1822 – May 20, 1893) was a Dutch physiologist and writer on nutrition and dietetics. A proponent of scientific materialism and opponent of vitalism, he believed scientists should take part in political thought. Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1884, he was born in the Netherlands but studied in Germany and later wrote extensively in Italian, particularly on scienza positiva.
Biography of Gustav Pressel (excerpt)
Gustav Pressel, born on 11 June 1827 in Tübingen and died on 30 July 1890 in Berlin, was a German composer. Raised in a cultured family, he was musically encouraged by Friedrich Silcher, but initially studied theology at his father's request.
Biography of Wilhelm Waiblinger (excerpt)
Wilhelm Waiblinger (born 21 November 1804, died 17 or 30 January 1830) was a German Romantic poet, chiefly remembered for his association with Friedrich Hölderlin. As a theology student in Tübingen in the 1820s, he visited the reclusive and mentally ill Hölderlin and often took him on walks.
Biography of Hermann Epenstein (excerpt)
Hermann Epenstein (January 8, 1850 – June 5, 1934) was a German-Austrian physician and merchant, best known as the owner and restorer of Mauterndorf Castle and as the godfather, later stepfather, to Albert and Hermann Göring. He maintained a long-standing intimate relationship with their mother, Franziska.
Biography of Rebecca Latimer Felton (excerpt)
Rebecca Ann Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, reformer, and politician. A member of Georgia’s upper class, she became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate—though for only one day, on November 21, 1922—entering office at age 87 as the oldest freshman senator in American history.
Biography of Alice Robertson (excerpt)
Alice Mary Robertson, born on January 2, 1854 and died on July 1, 1931, was an American educator, social worker, Native Americans’ rights activist, government official, and politician.She became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress and the first elected from Oklahoma, remaining the only woman elected from that state until 2006.
Biography of Juana Manuela Gorriti (excerpt)
Born on June 15, 1818, in Rosario de la Frontera, Juana Manuela Gorriti was an Argentine novelist regarded as the first major writer of the fantastic genre in her country.Coming from a liberal and educated family, she spent her early years in Salta before political turmoil forced her family into exile in Bolivia in 1831.
Biography of Giovanni Agamennone (excerpt)
Giovanni Agamennone, born June 25, 1858 in Rieti and died October 3, 1949 in Rome, was an Italian geologist and seismologist.He earned his physics degree from the University of Rome in 1884. He worked at the geodynamic observatory in Ischia and later at the Central Office of Meteorology and Geophysics in Rome.
Biography of Fernand Khnopff (excerpt)
Fernand Khnopff, born on 12 September 1858 in Dendermonde and died on 12 November 1921 in Brussels, was a Belgian Symbolist painter, engraver, photographer, and art critic. Deeply influenced by his youth in Bruges, his art evokes melancholy, silence, and dreamlike mystery.
Biography of Jules Allix (excerpt)
Jules Allix, born September 9, 1818, in Fontenay-le-Comte and died September 1, 1903, in Paris, was a French political figure, a fervent republican, militant socialist, and committed feminist. Trained in law, he entered politics in 1848, took part in the June Days uprising, and was repeatedly arrested for revolutionary plots, leading to his exile in 1853.
Biography of Ferdinand Marinus (excerpt)
Ferdinand Marinus (August 20, 1808 – July 6, 1890) was a Belgian painter known for his depictions of the Meuse River landscapes.Born in Antwerp, he studied under Ommeganck and Van Bree at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. He refined his style during travels through the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy, drawing inspiration from Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
Biography of Manuel Atanasio Fuentes (excerpt)
Manuel Atanasio Fuentes Delgado (May 2, 1820 – January 2, 1889) was a Peruvian writer, jurist, journalist, and professor, best known for his political satire and historical essays. His sharp wit earned him the nickname “El Murciélago.” A versatile intellectual, he also worked in statistics, legal medicine, law, and public hygiene.
Biography of Jules Duprato (excerpt)
Jules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato, born on 20 August 1827 and died on 20 May 1892, was a 19th-century French composer. A student of Aimé Leborne at the Paris Conservatoire, he won the prestigious Premier Grand Prix de Rome for composition in 1848.
Biography of Dominique Clos (excerpt)
Dominique Clos (May 25, 1821 – August 19, 1908) was a French physician and botanist.He studied medicine and science in Toulouse and Paris, earning his medical degree in 1845 and a PhD in natural sciences in 1848. In 1853, he succeeded Alfred Moquin-Tandon as professor of botany at the University of Toulouse, a post he held until his retirement in 1889.
Biography of Zéphirin Gerbe (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe was a French naturalist born on December 21, 1810, in Bras (Var), where he also died on June 26, 1890. A science graduate and assistant at the Collège de France, he led a modest yet prolific career, often working for publishers to supplement his income.
Biography of Wallace Lindsay (excerpt)
Wallace Martin Lindsay (February 12, 1858 – February 21, 1937) was a Scottish classical scholar and palaeographer. He held the Latin chair, then called Professor of Humanity, at the University of St Andrews. Born in Pittenweem, he studied at Edinburgh Academy, the University of Glasgow, and Oxford, where he was a fellow of Jesus College before joining St Andrews in 1899.
Biography of Jeanne Marni (excerpt)
Jeanne Marnière, born Marie Françoise Jeanne Barousse on August 18, 1851, in Toulouse and who died on March 4, 1910, in Cannes, was a French writer better known under the pen name Jeanne Marni.Over her career, she also used other pseudonyms.
Biography of Gabriel Biessy (excerpt)
Gabriel Biessy, born Marie-Gabriel Biessy on March 25, 1854, in Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes) and died on September 9, 1935, in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French painter best known for his portraits, genre scenes, and views of Paris. After a period in Bordeaux, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon under Félix Clément, then entered the Paris studios of Carolus Duran and Luc-Olivier Merson in 1879.
Biography of Theodor Reuss (excerpt)
Albert Karl Theodor Reuss, born June 28, 1855, in Augsburg and deceased October 28, 1923, was a German occultist, freemason, illuminatus, martinist, rosicrucian, theosophist, journalist, and singer. Best known as the founder of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), he played a key role in shaping early 20th-century esotericism.
Biography of Francisco Domingo Marqués (excerpt)
Francisco José Domingo y Marqués, born March 1, 1842, in Valencia and died July 22, 1920, in Madrid, was a Spanish painter in the Eclectic style. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, later studying in Madrid with Federico de Madrazo and in Rome under Eduardo Rosales, where he won awards for his Baroque-inspired works.
Biography of Gustav Pfizer (excerpt)
Born on July 29, 1807, in Stuttgart, Gustav Pfizer came from a family of jurists and pursued classical education that led him to the theological seminary at Blaubeuren and to studies in theology and philosophy at Tübingen (1825–1830). A member of the Burschenschaft Germania Tübingen from 1825, he began his career as a tutor at the Tübinger Stift and became a literature teacher at a Stuttgart gymnasium, a position he held until 1872.
Biography of Friedrich Theodor Vischer (excerpt)
Friedrich Theodor Vischer (born 30 June 1807, died 14 September 1887) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher of art. He is best remembered for Auch Einer, a novel in which he introduced the humorous concept of Die Tücke des Objekts—the spitefulness of objects toward humans.
Biography of Manoël de Grandfort (excerpt)
Manoël de Grandfort, born Marie Antoinette Barsalou on May 6, 1829, in Casteljaloux and who died on June 28, 1904, in Ville-d’Avray, was a French writer.She published under several pseudonyms, including Manoël de Grandfort, Mme de Grandfort, Marie Fontenay, and Ryno.
Biography of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (excerpt)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch experimental physicist, best known as the first to liquefy helium in 1908, reaching the record temperature of 1.5 kelvin.His groundbreaking work earned him the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Biography of William Strang (excerpt)
William Strang, born February 13, 1859 in Dumbarton, Scotland, and died April 12, 1921 in Bournemouth, England, was a Scottish painter and printmaker who also produced book illustrations. He was a member of several prestigious institutions, including the Royal Academy in London.
Biography of Jules Férat (excerpt)
Jules-Descartes Férat, born on 28 November 1829 in Ham and died on 6 June 1906 in Paris, was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator. Alongside Léon Benett and Édouard Riou, he ranks among the most prominent illustrators of Jules Verne, contributing to nine of his novels.
Biography of Edmond Got (excerpt)
François Jules Edmond Got (October 1, 1822 – March 20, 1901) was a French actor and librettist born in Paris. From a family originally from Le Perche, he excelled at the Collège Charlemagne before giving up law for the stage. Entering the Conservatoire in 1841, he won two comedy prizes and made his debut at the Comédie-Française in 1844 after a year of military service.
Biography of Theodor Fontane (excerpt)
Theodor Fontane (born December 30, 1819, in Neuruppin – died September 20, 1898, in Berlin) was a German novelist and poet, widely regarded as the foremost German-language realist author of the 19th century.After a long career in journalism, he published his first novel at the age of 58.
Biography of Krisjanis Valdemars (excerpt)
Krišjānis Valdemārs, born on December 2, 1825, in Vecjunkuri, Courland, and died on December 7, 1891, in Moscow, was a writer, editor, educator, politician, lexicographer, folklorist and economist. He is regarded as the spiritual leader of the First Latvian National Awakening and the most prominent member of the Young Latvians movement.
Biography of Jean-Frédéric Van der Rit (excerpt)
Jean Frédéric Van Der Rit, born 25 March 1823 in Brussels and died 19 January 1882 in Molenbeek Saint Jean, was a Belgian architect and archaeologist active in the mid nineteenth century.Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he also pursued a political career as a municipal councillor in Molenbeek Saint Jean, where he served as captain of the Civic Guard.
Biography of Charles Kuwasseg (excerpt)
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (1838, Draveil, Essonne – 1904) was a French 19th-century painter, primarily specializing in landscape paintings, particularly coastal landscapes of Brittany and Normandy.His father, Karl Joseph Kuwasseg, was an Austrian painter born in Trieste on March 16, 1802, and a renowned artist in his own right.
Biography of Théophile Poilpot (excerpt)
Théophile François Henri Poilpot (March 20, 1848, Paris – February 6, 1915, Paris) was a French painter, engraver, poster artist, and art collector, born into a family of artists, his father also being a painter. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Gustave Boulanger, and began his artistic career at an early age.
Biography of Louisa Atkinson (excerpt)
Caroline Louisa Waring Calvert née Atkinson (25 February 1834 – 28 April 1872) was an Australian writer, botanist and illustrator.She was recognized for her fiction during her lifetime, although her lasting importance is tied mainly to her botanical work. She is regarded as a pioneer for Australian women in journalism and natural science.
Biography of Louis Désiré Besozzi (excerpt)
Louis-Désiré Besozzi (April 3, 1814 – November 11, 1879) was a French pianist, organist, and composer.A descendant of a distinguished family of Italian musicians, he represented the fourth generation of the Besozzis, whose members had served in the royal courts of Parma, Naples, and Versailles.
Biography of Charles Malato (excerpt)
Charles Malato, born September 7, 1857, in Foug and died November 7, 1938, in Paris, was a French journalist, writer, and libertarian activist. A key figure in European anarchism, he helped shape and connect the movement’s intellectual networks. During World War I, he joined the Union sacrée and signed the Manifesto of the Sixteen alongside Peter Kropotkin, supporting the Allies.
Biography of César Daly (excerpt)
César Denis Daly, born 17 July 1811 in Verdun and died 11 January 1894 in Wissous, was a French architect.The natural son of a British military commissary held prisoner in France and of Camille Augustine Bernard, he grew up in Douai.
Biography of Rosalía de Castro (excerpt)
María Rosalía Rita de Castro (24 February 1837 – 15 July 1885) was a Galician poet and novelist, regarded as one of the most important figures of 19th-century Spanish literature and modern lyricism. Her date and time of birth come from the biography "Rosalía de Castro, poeta incompreendido" by Alberto Machado da Ros, Revista Hispánica Moderna, 20.3 (July 1954), pp.
Biography of Harry Collingwood (excerpt)
Harry Collingwood, the pseudonym of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (23 May 1843 – 10 June 1922), was a British civil engineer and novelist who wrote more than 40 boys’ adventure books, most of them set in maritime environments. His extensive travels, including in South Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia, provided realistic backgrounds for his stories.
Biography of Anselme (actor) (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bert, known as Anselme Bert, born February 24, 1820, and died July 18, 1858, in Auteuil, was a 19th-century French actor. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1851 and became its 280th full member in 1856, reflecting his recognized status within the company.
Biography of Thomas Koschat (excerpt)
Thomas Koschat (8 August 1845 – 19 May 1914) was a composer and bass singer from Austria Hungary.He became widely known for popularizing Carinthian folk music, which he introduced to audiences throughout Europe and the Americas. He was born in the Viktring district of Klagenfurt and studied chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna from 1865 to 1867, without completing a degree.
Biography of Angela of the Cross (excerpt)
Angela of the Cross Guerrero y González, born María de los Ángeles Guerrero González (January 30, 1846 – March 2, 1932), was a Spanish religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross. This Catholic institute is dedicated to helping the abandoned poor and the sick who have no one to care for them.
Biography of Claus Spreckels (excerpt)
Claus Spreckels, born Adolph Claus J. Spreckels (July 9, 1828 – December 26, 1908), was a German-American industrialist who became a dominant economic figure in Hawaii and California. He is best known as the head of the Spreckels Sugar Company, one of the leading sugar enterprises of the period. |
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