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Biography of Ernest Courtot de Cissey (excerpt)
Ernest Courtot de Cissey, born on December 23, 1810, in Paris, and died on June 15, 1882, in Paris, was a French general and statesman, decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Military Medal. He commanded the 2nd Army Corps during the suppression of the Paris Commune and served as Minister of War from 1871 to 1873 and again from 1874 to 1876.
Biography of Franz Schwechten (excerpt)
Franz Heinrich Schwechten (August 12, 1841 – August 11, 1924) was a prominent German architect of the Wilhelmine era, known for his contributions to historicist architecture. Born in Cologne, he studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin under Karl Bötticher and Friedrich Adler, and worked with Friedrich August Stüler and Martin Gropius.
Biography of Betsy Repelius (excerpt)
Johanna Elisabeth Repelius, known as Betsy (31 January 1848 – 23 January 1921), was a Dutch painter and watercolorist specializing in simple, one-figure genre scenes. Born into a wealthy merchant family, she pursued art against her father's wishes, studying under several notable artists, including Petrus Franciscus Greive and August Allebé.
Biography of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (excerpt)
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (born August 3, 1823, and died February 19, 1894) was a well-known composer of zarzuela, a popular Spanish opera form. His famous works include El barberillo de Lavapiés, Jugar con fuego, Pan y toros, and Los diamantes de la corona.
Biography of Louis Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Louis Gustave Fortuné Ratisbonne (29 July 1827 – 24 September 1900) was a French man of letters, journalist, and critic. He was born at Strasbourg.He was the son of the banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim (daughter of Salomon Oppenheim), and the nephew of the priests Marie Theodor Ratisbonne and Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne.
Biography of Émile Vallin (excerpt)
Émile Arthur Vallin, born November 27, 1833, in Nantes and died in February 1924 in Montpellier, was a French military physician considered a precursor of public health in France. The son of a physician, Vallin completed secondary education in Nantes and earned his medical degree in Paris in 1858.
Biography of Angelo Inganni (excerpt)
Angelo Inganni (November 24, 1807 – December 2, 1880) was an Italian painter. Born in Brescia, he learned the basics of art from his father Giovanni and elder brother Francesco. Noticed during his military service for his skills as a draftsman, he was admitted to the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1833 thanks to Marshal Radetzky.
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.
Biography of Elizabeth Harrison (educator) (excerpt)
Elizabeth Harrison (September 1, 1849 – October 31, 1927) was an American educator from Kentucky. She was the founder and first president of what is today National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. Harrison was a pioneer in creating professional standards for early childhood teachers and in promoting early childhood education.
Biography of Léopold Manen (excerpt)
Eugène Hyppolyte Léopold Marie Manen, born on July 30, 1829, in Toulouse and passed away on May 21, 1897, in Paris, was a distinguished French hydrographic engineer and the Chief Engineer of the Navy's general hydrography service. He was also a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences.
Biography of Karl von Basedow (excerpt)
Karl Adolph von Basedow (28 March 1799 – 11 April 1854) was a German physician most famous for reporting the symptoms of what could later be dubbed Graves-Basedow disease, now technically known as exophthalmic goiter. Basedow was born in Dessau.He graduated from Halle University.
Biography of Mary Slessor (excerpt)
Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women's rights and protecting native children.
Biography of Léon Gastinel (excerpt)
Léon Gustave Cyprien Gastinel, born on August 15, 1823, in Villers-les-Pots, Côte-d'Or, and died on October 18, 1906, in Fresnes, was a French violinist and composer. He began his musical journey in Burgundy, composing a symphonic overture at fourteen. In 1840, he joined the Paris Conservatory, studying under Guérin and Alard, and played in the Opéra-Comique orchestra.
Biography of Maurice Sand (excerpt)
Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld, Baron Dudevant, known as Maurice Sand (born June 30, 1823, in Paris and died September 4, 1889, in Nohant-Vic), was a French writer, entomologist, and painter. The son of George Sand, he lived his entire life close to her.He married Lina Calamatta in 1862 and had two daughters.
Biography of Casimir Lefaucheux (excerpt)
Casimir Lefaucheux (January 26, 1802 – August 9, 1852) was a French gunsmith and engineer born in Bonnétable, France, and died in Paris. He obtained his first patent in 1827 and, in 1832, developed a drop-barrel sporting gun with paper-cased cartridges. Lefaucheux is credited with creating one of the first efficient self-contained cartridge systems in 1835, featuring a pinfire mechanism.
Biography of Hermann Julius Grüneberg (excerpt)
Hermann Julius Grüneberg (11 April 1827 – 7 June 1894) was a German chemist and inventor, and together with Julius Vorster the founder of the Chemische Fabrik Kalk. Grüneberg was born in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Prussia, now Szczecin, the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.
Biography of Théophile Ferré (excerpt)
Théophile Ferré, born on May 6, 1846, in Paris and executed on November 28, 1871, in Satory, was a notable figure of the Paris Commune. Formerly a notary clerk and a Blanquist militant, he was repeatedly condemned for his political views under the Second Empire.
Biography of Julien Barois (excerpt)
Julien Hippolyte Eugène Barois, born on March 3, 1849, in Chartres and died on December 25, 1937, in Paris, was a French civil engineer who served as the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Public Works in Egypt. His birth certificate comes from Wikimedia Commons.
Biography of Léon Labbé (excerpt)
Léon Labbé, born September 29, 1832, and died March 21, 1916, was a French surgeon and politician. Known for his surgical expertise, particularly at the Beaujon Hospital in Paris, he was renowned for his innovative techniques, including the application of asepsis in abdominal surgery.
Biography of Erazm Jerzmanowski (excerpt)
Erazm Józef Jerzmanowski (2 June 1844 – 7 February 1909) was an industrialist, philanthropist, and soldier who fought in the January Uprising of 1863-1865. After the uprising, he was interned but later released, moving to Paris to continue his education. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War before moving to the United States in 1873, where he gained citizenship.
Biography of Justo José de Urquiza (excerpt)
Justo José de Urquiza y García, born on October 18, 1801, in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Rios, in the province of Entre Ríos, and assassinated on April 11, 1870, in Concepción del Uruguay, was an Argentine military leader and politician, head of the Federalist Party and the first president of the Argentine Confederation.
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 Gabriel Guerlain (excerpt)
Gabriel Guerlain, born on July 6, 1841, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, and who died in 1933, was a French perfumer and business executive, one of the sons of Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, and the brother of Aimé Guerlain. In 1862, his brother Aimé Guerlain took over the family perfume business, having learned the art from their father.
Biography of Marie Popelin (excerpt)
Marie Popelin (10 September 1846 (birth certificate n° 180) – 5 June 1913) was a Belgian jurist and early feminist political campaigner. Popelin worked with Isabelle Gatti de Gamond in the development of women's education and, in 1888, became the first Belgian woman to receive a doctorate in law.
Biography of Francesco Crispi (excerpt)
Francesco Crispi (October 4, 1818 – August 11, 1901) was an Italian patriot and statesman.A key figure in the Risorgimento, he was a close ally of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi and played a central role in the Italian unification of 1860.
Biography of Ippolito Nievo (excerpt)
Ippolito Nievo, an Italian writer, journalist, and patriot, was born in Padua on 30 November 1831 during Austrian rule. A law graduate from the University of Padua, he rejected a legal career under Austrian governance, influenced by Giuseppe Mazzini's ideas. Nievo fought for Italian unification with Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 and witnessed Italy's unification in 1861, just before his tragic death in a shipwreck.
Biography of Édouard Brissaud (excerpt)
Édouard Brissaud, born April 15, 1852, in Besançon and died December 19, 1909, in Paris, was a renowned French physician specializing in neurology, anatomo-pathology, and medical history. A student of Charcot, Broca, and Lasègue, he later became a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and a hospital physician.
Biography of Sébastien Lespès (excerpt)
Sébastien Lespès (March 13, 1828 – August 24, 1897) was a French naval officer and vice-admiral.He played a significant role in the Sino-French War (1884–1885) as second-in-command of the Far East Squadron. Lespès began his career in 1844, participating in various missions, including the Crimean War and the Second Opium War.
Biography of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (excerpt)
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister three times, totaling over thirteen years. He was also Foreign Secretary for much of his tenure, maintaining a policy of "splendid isolation." Salisbury initially entered the House of Commons in 1854 and later served as Secretary of State for India and Foreign Secretary.
Biography of Ernst von Schiller (excerpt)
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von Schiller (born July 11, 1796, in Jena, died May 19, 1841, in Vilich, now a district of Bonn) was a German judge in the Rhine Province. His time of birth comes from "Der Briefwechsel Zwischen Schiller und Goethe: Briefe der Jahre 1798-1805" by Friedrich von Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Beck, 1984).
Biography of Charles Brun (engineer) (excerpt)
Charles Brun (22 November 1821, Toulon – 13 January 1897, Paris) was a 1st class engineer of the French Navy stationed at Rochefort, France. He was famously involved in building the submarine Plongeur, which had been designed by Simon Bourgeois, in 1862.
Biography of Krisjānis Valdemārs (excerpt)
Krišjānis Valdemārs (born December 2, 1825 (Gregorian calendar), in Ārlava Parish, Latvia – died December 7, 1891, in Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Latvian writer, editor, and folklorist. After studying law at the University of Tartu (1855-1858), Valdemārs moved to Saint Petersburg, where he worked for the Latvian magazines St.
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 Auguste Denayrouze (excerpt)
Auguste Denayrouze, born on January 20, 1837, in Montpeyroux (Aveyron), and died in Paris on November 14, 1883, was a French naval officer and inventor. He is renowned for co-inventing the first autonomous diving suit in 1864 with Benoît Rouquayrol. After his naval career was cut short by illness, Denayrouze focused on adapting Rouquayrol's inventions for underwater use.
Biography of Lovisa Åhrberg (excerpt)
Maria Lovisa Åhrberg or Årberg (17 May 1801 – 26 March 1881) was a Swedish surgeon and doctor. She was lawfully practicing surgeon long before it became formally permitted for women to study medicine at a university in 1870. Lovisa Åhrberg could be regarded as the first female physician in Sweden with formal permit from the authorities to practice medicine: however, she had no formal training, and the first woman physician with a university degree was to be Karolina Widerström.
Biography of Georges Balagny (excerpt)
George or Georges Balagny, born in Batignolles on February 16, 1837, and died in Paris XVIIe on December 17, 1919, was a French photographer. Son of Auguste Balagny, a notary who later became the mayor of Batignolles-Monceau, then of the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris, and finally of Maule, and Adélaïde Léopoldine Genet.
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.
Biography of Antoine Bouchacourt (excerpt)
Antoine Bouchacourt, born January 3, 1812, in Lyon and died October 6, 1898, in the same city, was a renowned French doctor. Son of Gabriel Bouchacourt and Suzanne Geneviève Duclaux, he studied at the Royal College of Lyon and became an intern at the Antiquaille Hospital in Lyon at 19.
Biography of Georg Luz (writer) (excerpt)
Georg Luz (born February 25, 1818, in Ofterdingen, died April 11, 1884, in Biberach an der Riß) was a German teacher and writer. After attending the Latin school in Ebingen, he joined the Esslingen teacher's seminary in 1833. Luz began his teaching career in 1835 in Bernhausen, later moving to Esslingen as a teacher and supervisor at the seminary in 1837.
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.
Biography of Antonio Giannoni (excerpt)
Antonio Giannoni (March 29, 1814 – September 6, 1883) was the first Italian to settle in South Australia. Born in Rimini, he gained seamanship experience before fleeing to England in 1838 to avoid arrest for his involvement in the Young Italy movement.
Biography of Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (excerpt)
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs.
Biography of Jacques-Augustin Normand (excerpt)
Jacques-Augustin Normand (October 4, 1839 – December 11, 1906) was a French naval engineer and shipbuilder from Le Havre, stemming from a family entrenched in shipbuilding since the 18th century. Inheriting the family yard in 1871, he significantly advanced its operations over 35 years, developing high-performance machines and vessels, including the revolutionary yacht "Vélox" in 1875, capable of exceeding 17 knots.
Biography of Maurice Lévy (mathematician) (excerpt)
Maurice Lévy, born on February 28, 1838, in Ribeauvillé and died on September 30, 1910, in Paris, was a French engineer known for his contributions to continuum mechanics. Education The son of Alsatian industrialists, he studied at the École Polytechnique in 1854 and the École des Ponts et Chaussées, where he developed a method to calculate forces in continuous beams.
Biography of Johann Salvator of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (25 November 1852 - presumed dead, July 1890; declared dead in absentia 2 February 1911) was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. After renouncing his titles, he was known as Johann (John) Orth.
Biography of Edgar Humann (excerpt)
Edgar Eugène Humann (born May 7, 1838, Paris – died May 9, 1914, Paris) was a French admiral who served as the Chief of Staff of the French Navy from 1894 to 1895. Born to diplomat Jules Emile Humann and Augustine Angélique Guilleminot, he was the grandson of Minister Georges Humann and General Armand Charles Guilleminot.
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.
Biography of Charles Laffitte (excerpt)
Charles Pierre Eugène Laffitte, born in Paris on November 19, 1803, and died there on December 26, 1875, was a French banker, horseman, and politician. Nephew of famed banker Jacques Laffitte, Charles was instrumental in constructing the Paris-Rouen railway between 1841 and 1843.
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.
Biography of Rodolphe Julian (excerpt)
Pierre Louis Rodolphe Julian (June 13, 1839 – February 11, 1907), born in Lapalud, was a French painter, engraver, and teacher, best known as the founder of the Académie Julian in Paris. He was legitimized at age eight following his parents’ marriage. |
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