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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 Charles Philipon (excerpt)
Charles Philipon (8 September 1800 (civil registrar, Didier Geslain. Wikipedia gives another date) – 25 January 1861) was a French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist. He was the founder and director of the satirical political journals La Caricature and of Le Charivari.
Biography of Amédée de Noé (excerpt)
Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (26 January 1818 – 6 September 1879), was a French caricaturist and lithographer. He was born in Paris and raised by a family who wished for him to attend a polytechnic school.He instead attended painting workshops hosted by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist.
Biography of Jules de La Gournerie (excerpt)
Viscount Jules Maillard de La Gournerie was a French engineer and mathematician, born on December 20, 1814, in Nantes, and died on June 25, 1883, in Paris. His studies mainly focused on the geometry of skew curves and their application to stereotomy.
Biography of Louisa Anne Meredith (excerpt)
Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer, illustrator and possibly one of Australia's earliest photographers. Emigration to Australia Meredith and her husband sailed for New South Wales in June 1839, and arrived at Sydney on 27 September 1839.
Biography of Paul Vidal de La Blache (excerpt)
Paul Vidal de La Blache (French pronunciation: , Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 – Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics.
Biography of Henri Demare (excerpt)
Henri Demare, born May 3, 1846 in Paris and died November 11, 1888 in Vincennes, was a cartoonist and caricaturist who collaborated in many newspapers between the end of the Second Empire and the first decades of the Third Republic.
Biography of Alexandre Lacassagne (excerpt)
Alexandre Lacassagne (August 17, 1843 – September 24, 1924) was a French physician and criminologist who was a native of Cahors. He was the founder of the Lacassagne school of criminology, based in Lyon and influential from 1885 to 1914, and the main rival to Lombroso's Italian school.
Biography of Lydia Maria Child (excerpt)
Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s.
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 Mite Kremnitz (excerpt)
Mite Kremnitz (4 January 1852, Greifswald – 18 July 1916 in Berlin), born Marie von Bardeleben (pen names George Allan, Ditto and Idem), was a German writer. Kremnitz was the daughter of the famous surgeon Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben.She grew in Greifswald, London and, starting with 1868, in Berlin.
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 Alice Cary (excerpt)
Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Works Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849) A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary With Some of Their Later Poems, compiled and edited by Mary Clemmer Ames (1873)
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 Marie Nathusius (excerpt)
Marie Nathusius, née Scheele (March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg – December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt) was a German novelist and composer. Life Her father was the Calvinist parson Friedrich August Scheele.Marie Nathusius grew up in Calbe (Saale).1841 she married the publisher Philipp von Nathusius (1815–1872).
Biography of Oscar I of Sweden (excerpt)
Oscar I (born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859) was King of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 until his death.He was the second monarch of the House of Bernadotte. The only child of King Charles XIV John, Oscar inherited the thrones upon the death of his father.
Biography of Louise von François (excerpt)
Marie-Louise von François (June 27, 1817 – September 25, 1893) was a German writer best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871).She corresponded with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Born in Herzberg, she lost her father young and was raised in Potsdam by her uncle, where she discovered writings about the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography of Edmond Bouty (excerpt)
Edmond Marie Léopold Bouty, born in Nant on January 12, 1846 and died in Paris on November 5, 1922, is a French physicist, professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris for 37 years. His scientific work focuses mainly on magnetism and electricity.
Biography of Charles Amet (excerpt)
Charles Victor Eugène Amet, born November 11, 1824 in Besançon, son of Pierre-Théodore Alphonse Amet, merchant and Marie Anne Stéphanie Bletry (originally from Belfort)1. Died February 5, 1902 in Paris, was a French naval officer of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Biography of Krisjanis Barons (excerpt)
Krišjānis Barons (October 31, 1835 – March 8, 1923) was a Latvian writer who is known as the "father of the dainas" (Latvian: "Dainu tēvs") thanks largely to his systematization of the Latvian folk songs and his labour in preparing their texts for publication in Latvju dainas.
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 Candace Wheeler (excerpt)
Candace Wheeler (née Thurber; March 24, 1827 – August 5, 1923), often credited as the mother of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers.She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to women, supporting craftswomen, and for encouraging a new style of American design.
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 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 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 Jan Van Beers (excerpt)
Jan van Beers (22 February 1821 – 14 November 1888) was a Belgian poet born in Antwerp.He is usually referred to as "van Beers the elder" to distinguish him from his son, Jan van Beers (1852–1927), the painter. Background Van Beers was essentially a Netherlander, though politically a Belgian, expressing his thoughts in the same language as any North Netherland writer.
Biography of Charles Todd (pioneer) (excerpt)
Sir Charles Todd KCMG FRS FRAS FRMS FIEE (7 July 1826 – 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables until engaged by the government of South Australia as astronomical and meteorological observer, and head of the electric telegraph department.
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 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 Augusta of Württemberg (excerpt)
Princess Augusta of Württemberg (4 October 1826 in Stuttgart – 3 December 1898, ibid.) was a daughter of King William I of Württemberg and his wife, Pauline of Württemberg. Life Augusta was the third and last child of her parents' marriage.She was described as unattractive, but cheerful and wise.
Biography of Félix Thyes (excerpt)
Félix Thyes (19 January 1830 – 8 May 1855) was a Luxembourg writer. He is recognized as the first Luxembourg author to write a novel in French. Marc Bruno, profil d'artiste was published shortly after his death in 1855. He was also the first literary historian to discuss literature written in Luxembourgish.
Biography of Giovanni Prati (excerpt)
Giovanni Prati (27 January 1815 – 9 May 1884) was an Italian poet and politician. Prati was born in Comano Terme, then part of the Austrian Empire.He was educated in law at Padua.Adopting a literary career, he was inspired by anti-Austrian feeling and devotion to the royal house of Savoy, and in early life his combination of a sympathy for national independence with monarchical sentiments brought him into trouble in both quarters, to the point that Guerrazzi expelled him from Tuscany in 1849 for his praise of Carlo Alberto.
Biography of Charles Pigeon (excerpt)
Charles Pigeon, born on March 29, 1838, in Le Mesnil-Lieubray (Seine-Maritime) and died on March 18, 1915, in Paris, was a French inventor and entrepreneur. While Charles Pigeon did not technically invent the kerosene lamp, he was the first to produce and market a portable kerosene lighting device that was patented, non-flammable, and non-explosive.
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 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 Félix Arvers (excerpt)
élix Arvers (July 23, 1806 – November 7, 1850) was a French poet and dramatist, most famous for his poem Un secret. Born in Paris, Arvers abandoned his law career aged 30 to concentrate on theatre.His plays gained moderate success in their own time, but none were as notorious as Un Secret, dedicated to Marie, the daughter of writer Charles Nodier.
Biography of Louis-Félix Henneguy (excerpt)
Louis-Félix Henneguy (18 March 1850 – 16 January 1928) was a French physician, zoologist and embryologist born in Paris. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with a dissertation on the physiological action of poisons, Étude physiologique sur l'action des poisons.
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 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 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 Mary Putnam Jacobi (excerpt)
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education.
Biography of Aleksander Swietochowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Świętochowski (16 January 1849 – 25 April 1938) was a Polish writer, educator, and philosopher of the Positivist period that followed the January 1863 Uprising. He was widely regarded as the prophet of Polish Positivism, spreading in the Warsaw press the gospel of scientific inquiry, education, economic development, and equality of rights for all, without regard to sex, class, ethnic origin or beliefs.
Biography of Gustav Nachtigal (excerpt)
Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa.He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West Africa.His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire.
Biography of Johann Georg Fischer (excerpt)
Johann Georg Fischer (25 October 1816 – 4 May 1897) was a German poet and playwright. Biography Fischer was born in Dettenhausen.His father was a carpenter, who died early. After Johann finished his studies in Tübingen between 1831 and 1833, he began to work as a teacher assistant at different places, including Langenau and Ulm.
Biography of Johannes Schmidt (linguist) (excerpt)
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt (July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901) was a German linguist.He developed the Wellentheorie ('wave theory') of language development. Schmidt was born in Prenzlau, Province of Brandenburg.He was educated at Bonn and at Jena where he studied philology (historical linguistics) with August Schleicher and specialized in Indo-European, especially Slavic, languages.
Biography of Maximilian Oberst (excerpt)
Maximilian Oberst (October 6, 1849 – November 18, 1925) was a German physician and surgeon born in Regensburg. He studied medicine in Munich, and from 1874 to 1877 was an assistant in the surgical department at a hospital in Augsburg.From 1877 he worked as an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at Halle, obtaining his habilitation in 1881.
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 Alcide Railliet (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet (also known as Alcide Railliet, born 11 March 1852 at La Neuville-lès-Wasigny in the Ardennes – died 25 December 1930) was a French veterinarian and helminthologist. Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern parasitology and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology.
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.
Biography of Émile Duployé (excerpt)
Émile Duployé, born on September 10, 1833, in Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, and died on May 9, 1912, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (now in Val-de-Marne), was a French ecclesiastic. He is the author of the Duployé shorthand technique, which was widely used in France in the early 20th century. |
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