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Biography of Ernest Candeze (excerpt)
Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze was a Belgian doctor and entomologist born 22 February 1827 at Liège and dying in Glain , 30 June , 1898. He studied in Liege under Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801-1870), then studied medicine in Paris and Liège.
Biography of Matthijs Maris (excerpt)
Matthijs Maris, born August 17, 1839 in The Hague and died August 22, 1917 in London, was a Dutch artist and painter.
Biography of Louis de Rougemont (excerpt)
Louis de Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a would-be explorer who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. "De Rougemont" was born Henri Louis Grin in 1847 in Suchy, Switzerland. He left home at the age of sixteen.
Biography of George Frederic Watts (excerpt)
George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904; sometimes spelled "George Frederick Watts") was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope (see image) and Love and Life.
Biography of Jean Georges Vibert (excerpt)
French painter.
Biography of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (excerpt)
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (William Alexander Frederick Constantine Nicholas Michael, Dutch: Willem Alexander Frederik Constantijn Nicolaas Michiel, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau; 2 August 1818 – 20 February 1848) was born at Soestdijk Palace, the second son to King William II of The Netherlands and Queen Anna Paulowna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
Biography of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (excerpt)
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 – 1929) was one of the leading French artists of the academic school. He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather’s name, Bouveret, to his own.
Biography of Jules Barbier (poet) (excerpt)
Paul Jules Barbier (9 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters . His libretti for extant operas include:
Biography of Jules Breton (excerpt)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (May 1, 1827 – July 5, 1906) was a 19th century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
Biography of Hans Thoma (excerpt)
Hans Thoma (October 2, 1839 – November 7, 1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.
Biography of George Borrow (excerpt)
George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 - 26 July 1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, and they figure prominently in his work.
Biography of Isabel Burton (excerpt)
Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell) (London, March 20, 1831 - March 21, 1896) was the wife of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Her father was Henry Raymond Arundell, nephew of James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour .
Biography of Ernest Meissonier (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a leading French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille.
Biography of Charlemagne Oscar Guet (excerpt)
Charlemagne-Oscar Guet, born in Meaux February 24, 1801 (source not archived) and died November 29, 1871 in Paris, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Charles Chamberland (excerpt)
Charles Chamberland (March 12, 1851 – May 2, 1908) was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, consisting of an unglazed porcelain bar.
Biography of Isabella Augusta Gregory (excerpt)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Biography of Henri Joseph Harpignies (excerpt)
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (July 24, 1819 - August 28, 1916), French landscape painter, was born at Valenciennes. He was intended by his parents for a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Achard's atelier in Paris.
Biography of Edouard Pailleron (excerpt)
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (September 17, 1829 (French Wikipedia) - April 19, 1899) was a French poet and dramatist. Born in Paris, he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years.
Biography of Benjamin Godard (excerpt)
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (August 18, 1849, Paris – January 10, 1895, Cannes) was a French violinist and Romantic composer. Biography Benjamin Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps (violin) and Henri Reber (harmony) and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany.
Biography of Adolphe Niel (excerpt)
Adolphe Niel (4 October 1802-13 August 1869) was a French General and Statesman, also Marshal of France. He was born at Muret and entered the École Polytechnique in 1821. Niel entered the engineer school at Metz, became lieutenant in the Engineers Corps in 1827, and captain in 1833.
Biography of Jean-Antoine Villemin (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 -October 6, 1892) was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853.
Biography of Henri Duveyrier (excerpt)
Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. In 1857 and 1858, he spent some months in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan.
Biography of William Herndon (excerpt)
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818, Kentucky - March 18, 1891, Springfield, Illinois) was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon's biography Herndon's family moved from Kentucky to Springfield when he was five. Herndon attended Illinois College from 1836-1837. Following college, he returned to Springfield, where he clerked until 1841, when he went into law practice with Lincoln.
Biography of George Baxter (excerpt)
George Baxter (1804–1867) was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. Though colour printing had been developed in China centuries before, it was not commercially viable. However, in early years of the 19th century the process of colour printing had been revived by George Savage, a Yorkshireman in London.
Biography of William Rufus Shaftner (excerpt)
William Rufus Shaftner, born in Galesburg, Michigan, on October 16, 1835, was an American military man, he commanded the land operations during the Spanish-American war. He received a Medal of Honor.
Biography of Alfred Moquin-Tandon (excerpt)
Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (May 7, 1804 (time birth source: Lescaut) - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse.
Biography of Georges Lafenestre (excerpt)
Georges Lafenestre, born on May 5, 1837 in Orléans (birth time source: Lescaut), died on May 19, 1919 in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French poet and art critic. Works (extract) Les Espérances, 1864. Le Parnasse contemporain II (recueil collectif), 1869-1871.
Biography of Alexandre Becquerel (excerpt)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (March 24, 1820 - May 11, 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He discovered the photovoltaic effect, which is the physics behind the solar cell, in 1839.
Biography of Rudolf Eucken (excerpt)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. Early life He was born in Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover (now Lower Saxony). His father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his mother.
Biography of Antoine-Augustin Cournot (excerpt)
Antoine Augustin Cournot (28 August 1801‑ 31 March 1877) was a French economist, philosopher and mathematician. Augustin Cournot was born in the small town of Gray (Haute-Saône). He was educated in the schools of Gray until he was fifteen. Subsequently, for the next four years, he worked haphazardly as a clerk in a lawyer's office.
Biography of Paul Kruger (excerpt)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899-1902).
Biography of Peter Frans Van Kerckhoven (excerpt)
Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven (Antwerp, 10 November 1818 - Antwerp, 1 August 1857) was a Flemish writer and one of the leaders of the early Flemish movement. He was the son of a broker, and his well-off birth allowed him a decent education.
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Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the state after New York City and Buffalo with a population of 211,328 in 2020. The city of Rochester forms the core of a larger metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties, which in turn is part of the larger Western New York region that has a population of roughly two million.
Biography of Ernest Monis (excerpt)
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis (French pronunciation: ; 23 May 1846 Châteauneuf-sur-Charente (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)– 25 May 1929 Mondouzil) was a French politician of the Third Republic, deputy of Gironde from 1885 to 1889 and then senator of the same department from 1891 to 1920.
Biography of Edwin Markham (excerpt)
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Life Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, an area northeast of San Francisco; there, he lived with his sister and mother.
Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro.
Biography of Pierre-Julien Eymard (excerpt)
Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868) was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious orders, and a canonized saint. Eymard was born 4 February 1811 at La Mure, Isère, France. His first attempt as a seminarian ended when he departed because of poor health.
Biography of Louis Jules Trochu (excerpt)
Louis Jules Trochu (12 March 1815 - 7 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense - being France's de facto head of state - from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871).
Biography of Alexandre Bisson (excerpt)
Alexandre Bisson, born April 9, 1848 in Briouze and died January 27, 1912 in Paris, was a French author and screenwriter. Works (extract) Madame X (1981) (TV) (play) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1980) - Feu Toupinel (1980) TV episode (play)
Biography of Maurice Rollinat (excerpt)
Maurice Rollinat (born December 29, 1846 in Châteauroux, France; died October 26, 1903 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French poet. Early works His father represented Indre in the National Assembly of 1848, and was a friend of George Sand, whose influence is very marked in young Rollinat's first volume, Dans les brandes (1877), and to whom it was dedicated.
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Bloemfontein, also known as Bloem, is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.
Biography of Maurice Barrymore (excerpt)
Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe (September 21, 1849 – March 26, 1905) —stage name Maurice Barrymore — was the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore. Early life Born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe in the Sikh holy city, Amritsar, Punjab or more precisely Fort Agra, India, he was the son of William Edward Blythe, a surveyor for the British East India Company and his wife Matilda Chamberlayne.
Biography of Theobald Ziegler (excerpt)
Theobald Ziegler (February 9, 1846 – September 1, 1918) was a German philosopher and educator who was a native of Göppingen, Württemberg. Career Ziegler studied theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and later was a secondary school teacher in Heilbronn, Winterthur and Baden-Baden.
Biography of Ferdinand Fabre (excerpt)
Ferdinand Fabre, born June 9, 1827 in Bédarieux and died February 11, in Paris, was a French novelist. Works (extract) * Feuilles de lierre (1853) * Les Courbezon, scènes de la vie cléricale (1861), ouvrage distingué par l'Académie Française
Biography of Charles Friedel (excerpt)
Charles Friedel (March 12, 1832 – April 20, 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. A native of Strasbourg, France, he was professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne. Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.
Biography of Paul de Smet de Naeyer (excerpt)
Paul Joseph, Count de Smet de Naeyer (13 May 1843 – 9 September 1913) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, son of a cotton industrialist, he was himself also an industrialist and a banker. He was head of the Société Générale de Belgique and the owner of several coal mines.
Biography of Umberto I of Italy (excerpt)
Umberto I, King of Italy or Humbert I of Italy (Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia), English: Humbert Ranier Charles Emmanuel John Mary Ferdinand Eugene of Savoy (14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900), nicknamed the Good (in Italian il Buono), was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death.
Biography of Ernest Hello (excerpt)
Ernest Hello (5 November 1828 in Lorient - 14 July 1885 in Kéroman) was a French critic and author. Life He was born at Lorient, in Brittany. He was the son of a lawyer who held posts of great importance at Rennes and in Paris, and was well educated at both places, but took to no profession and resided much, for a time, in his father's country-house in Brittany.
Biography of Edmond Audran (excerpt)
Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890), and La poupée (1896).
Biography of Henri Chapu (excerpt)
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (born Le Mée, 29 September 1833 - died, Paris, 21 April 1891) was a French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition who was known for his use of allegory in his works. Life and career Born into modest circumstances, Chapu moved to Paris with his family and in 1847 entered the Petit École with the intention of studying drawing and becoming an interior decorator. |
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