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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bornet is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888.
Biography of Julien Tanguy (art dealer) (excerpt)
Julien François Tanguy, called Père Tanguy (June 28, 1825, Plédran, Brittany - February 6, 1894, Paris) was a French art dealer, gallery owner, art collector, and patron who was one of the first buyers of Impressionist paintings. He played an important role in promoting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Biography of George Catlin (excerpt)
George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians.
Biography of Gabriel Jugan (excerpt)
Gabriel Auguste Jugan, born September 7, 1807 in Rochefort, died February 15, 1855 in the Strait of Bonifacio, was a French captain. His name is especially linked to the sinking of the Sémillante, which he commanded, a 19th century French navy frigate.
Biography of André Gill (excerpt)
André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray.
Biography of Jean-Louis Verger (priest) (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Verger (20 August 1826 – 30 January 1857) was a French Catholic priest who assassinated Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, the Archbishop of Paris, in January 1857, after the archbishop ordered him to desist from publishing pamphlets against clerical celibacy and the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Biography of Helen Hunt Jackson (excerpt)
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881).
Biography of Charles Boycott (excerpt)
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb "to boycott". He had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland.
Biography of John McDouall Stuart (excerpt)
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 1815 – 5 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the first successful expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north and return, through the centre of the continent.
Biography of Sahib (painter) (excerpt)
Louis Ernest Lesage, known under the pseudonym of Sahib or Ned (Paris, January 8, 1847 - May 31, 1919), was a French watercolor painter and caricaturist illustrator.
Biography of Eliza Orme (excerpt)
Eliza Orme, also called Elizabeth Orme (25 December 1848 – 22 June 1937) was the first woman to earn a law degree in England, from University College London in 1888. Career Although Orme did not receive her degree until 1888, she began working in legal practice in 1872 when Helen Taylor paid her fee to become a pupil at Lincoln's Inn.
Biography of Nicolas Lebel (excerpt)
Colonel Nicolas Lebel (18 August 1838 – 6 May 1891), after whom the French military's Lebel rifle was named. Biography Nicolas Lebel was born in Saint-Mihiel (Meuse) near Verdun. Interested by the prospects of a military career he enrolled in the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1855.
Biography of Rebecca Harding Davis (excerpt)
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (June 24, 1831 – September 29, 1910) was an American author and journalist. She was a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the short story "Life in the Iron-Mills," published in the April 1861 edition of The Atlantic Monthly which quickly made her an established female writer.
Biography of Michel Eyraud (excerpt)
Gouffé Case The Gouffé Case, also known as the Gouffé trunk, Miller's bloody trunk or the Eyraud-Bompard affair was an 1889 murder case which unfolded in France. On 26 July 1889, bailiff Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé of Montmartre, Paris, was reported missing. Two weeks later, Gouffé's corpse was found 300 miles (480km) away, near Millery village, a suburb of Lyon.
Biography of Mary Mapes Dodge (excerpt)
Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.
Biography of Henri Robin (excerpt)
Henri Robin (12 July 1811 – 24 February 1874), born Henrik Joseph Donckel, was a French illusionist, born in Hazebrouck. In the early 1850s, he performed at Windsor Castle, at the request of Queen Victoria. In 1861, he became the first illusionist to offer a full programme of magic at Egyptian Hall in London.
Biography of Paul Taffanel (excerpt)
Claude-Paul Taffanel (17 May 1844 (Wikipedia has 16 September) – 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century.
Biography of François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville (excerpt)
François d'Orléans, Prince de Joinville (14 August 1818 – 16 June 1900) was the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours.
Biography of Jean-Albert Gauthier-Villars (excerpt)
Jean-Albert Gauthier-Villars, born March 31, 1828 in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) and died February 5, 1898 in Paris, was a French engineer and editor. The son of a printer, he successfully passed the exams for the school of administration in 1848 and then took courses at the École polytechnique, from which he graduated in 1850 with the title of telegraph engineer.
Biography of Rose Terry Cooke (excerpt)
Rose Terry Cooke (February 17, 1827 – July 18, 1892) was an American author and poet. Some of her earliest contributions were published in Putnam's Magazine; and the Atlantic Monthly, in which she wrote the leading story in the first number; then in the Galaxy, published in Philadelphia; and in Harper's.
Biography of Frances Harper (excerpt)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.
Biography of Ida von Hahn-Hahn (excerpt)
Countess Ida von Hahn-Hahn (German: Ida Gräfin von Hahn-Hahn; 22 June 1805 – 12 January 1880) was a German author from a wealthy family who lost their fortune because of her father's eccentric spending. She defied convention by living with Adolf von Bystram unmarried for 21 years.
Biography of Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (excerpt)
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (May 6, 1823 – August 1, 1902) was an American poet and novelist. Soon after her marriage to Richard Henry Stoddard, the author, she began to publish poems in all the leading magazines, and thereafter, she was a frequent contributor.
Biography of Alexander Mollinger (excerpt)
Godard Alexander Gerrit Philip Mollinger (8 March 1836, Utrecht - 14 September 1867, Utrecht) was a Dutch landscape and genre painter. Although he signed his paintings "A. Mollinger", some sources refer to him as Gerrit Mollinger. His father was an infantry officer.
Biography of François Hennebique (excerpt)
François Hennebique (25 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column and the beam, into a single monolithic element.
Biography of Elizabeth Williams Champney (excerpt)
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Williams Champney (February 6, 1850 – October 13, 1922) was an American author of novels and juvenile literature, as well as travel writing, most of which featured foreign locations. Champney's observations and experiences during her European travels were published in Harper's Magazine, and also in The Century Magazine.
Biography of Henri Henrot (excerpt)
Henri Alfred Henrot (born in Reims on May 22, 1838 and died in Paris on February 25, 1919), brother of Alexandre Henrot, municipal councilor since 1870, was mayor of Reims from 1884 to 1896. He is the son of Jean-Baptiste Henrot (1791-1868) and Euphrosine Leclerc (1795-1873}.
Biography of Maria Susanna Cummins (excerpt)
Maria Susanna Cummins (April 9, 1827 – October 1, 1866) was an American novelist. She was the author of the widely popular novel The Lamplighter. Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1827. She was the daughter of Honorable David Cummins and Maria F.
Biography of William Mills (surveyor) (excerpt)
William Whitfield Mills (19 November 1844 – 18 August 1916), usually referred to as "W. Whitfield Mills" or "W. W. Mills", was an English surveyor of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line who is best known for naming a waterhole in Central Australia Alice Spring, from which the town of Alice Springs now takes its name.
Biography of Max Liebermann (excerpt)
Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important collection of French Impressionist works.
Biography of Caroline Kirkland (excerpt)
Caroline Mathilda Stansbury Kirkland (January 11, 1801 – April 6, 1864) was an American writer. Biography She was born into a middle-class family in New York City, the oldest of eleven children. Her mother was a writer of fiction and poetry. Her father died when she was 21 and the family followed her to upstate New York, where she taught and had met her future husband, William Kirkland.
Biography of Blanche Willis Howard (excerpt)
Blanche Willis Howard (July 20, 1847 – October 7, 1898) (married name: Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel) was an American writer whose novels developed out of the genre of Sentimentalism to Realism to the New Woman. Her first novel, One Summer, and subsequent novels received critical praise.
Biography of Anna Katharine Green (excerpt)
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".
Biography of Étienne Vacherot (excerpt)
Étienne Vacherot (29 July 1809 – 28 July 1897) was a French philosophical writer. Life Vacherot was born of peasant parentage at Torcenay, near Langres in the Haute-Marne département of France. He was educated at the École Normale, and returned there as director of studies in 1838, after some years spent in provincial schoolmasterships.
Biography of Harriet E. Wilson (excerpt)
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
Biography of Jean Compagnon (carpenter) (excerpt)
Jean Compagnon, born January 20, 1837 in Reyrieux and died November 17, 1900 in Paris, was a carpenter who participated in the construction of several remarkable bridges and viaducts as well as the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of James Paget (excerpt)
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (/ˈpædʒət/, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology.
Biography of Marie Sasse (excerpt)
Marie Constance Sasse (18 October 1838 – 8 November 1907) was a Belgian operatic soprano. "Her voice was powerful, flexible, and appealing", and she was one of the leading sopranos at the Paris Opéra from 1860 to 1870. She created the roles of Elisabeth in the Paris premiere of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Sélika in the world premiere of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, and Elisabeth de Valois in the world premiere of Verdi's Don Carlos.
Biography of C. I. Defontenay (excerpt)
Charlemagne Ischir Defontenay, writing as C.I. Defontenay (15 Februray 1819 – 14 November 1856), was a French science fiction writer and surgeon. His Star, ou Psi Cassiopea of 1854 is seen by some as an example of proto-space opera. Others see Defontenay as a predecessor of Olaf Stapledon.
Biography of Stéphen Sauvestre (excerpt)
Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre (26 December 1847 – 18 June 1919) was a French architect. He is notable for being one of the architects contributing to the design of the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France.
Biography of Felix Schadow (excerpt)
Felix Schadow, born on June 21, 1819, in Berlin and died on June 25, 1861, in the same city, was a German painter. He was the son of Johann Gottfried Schadow and the half-brother of Wilhelm von Schadow and Rudolf Schadow.
Biography of Armand Guillaumin (excerpt)
Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Biography Early years Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861.
Biography of Clément Duval (excerpt)
Clément Duval (1850–1935) was a famous French anarchist and criminal. His ideas concerning individual reclamation were greatly influential in later shaping illegalism. According to Paul Albert, "The story of Clement Duval was lifted and, shorn of all politics, turned into the bestseller Papillon.
Biography of Henry Taunt (excerpt)
Henry William Taunt (June 14, 1842 – November 4, 1922) was a professional photographer, author, publisher and entertainer based in Oxford, England. His birth time is sourced from the biography "Henry Taunt of Oxford: a Victorian photographer" by Malcolm Graham in 1883.
Biography of Félix Léon Edoux (excerpt)
Félix Léon Edoux born May 29, 1827 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) and died October 13, 1910 in Paris was a French engineer and industrialist. Edoux is best known for having designed a hydraulic lift he baptized "elevator" in 1867. In 1884, Eiffel ordered from Edoux the elevator which was to connect the second floor to the top of the future Eiffel Tower, and which would operate until 1983.
Biography of Auguste Préault (excerpt)
Antoine-Augustin Préault (8 October 1809 – 11 January 1879) was a French sculptor of the "Romantic" movement. Born in the Marais district of Paris, he was better known during his lifetime as Auguste Préault. Biography A student of David d'Angers, Préault first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1833.
Biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay (excerpt)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
Biography of Esther Hobart Morris (excerpt)
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902) was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly 9 months.
Biography of Suzanne Lagier (excerpt)
uzanne Lagier (30 November 1833 — 1893) was a French theatre actress and opera singer. She often performed with Thérésa and made many appearances in Paris, France, and Saint Petersburg, Russia. Biography Lagier was born in Dunkirk on 30 November 1833, in the Rue du Magasin à Poudre, but grew up in a boarding school in Paris and her father was a musician.
Biography of Susan Warner (excerpt)
Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885), was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World. Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town. |
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