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Biography of David Brewster (excerpt)
Sir David Brewster, FRS (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. He was born at Jedburgh, where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar school. At the age of twelve, he was sent to the University of Edinburgh, being intended for the clergy.
Biography of Winfield Scott (excerpt)
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 (birth time source: Lescaut, Penfield) – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and many historians rate him the best American commander of his time.
Biography of Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune (excerpt)
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Comte Brune (13 March 1763 (Lescaut gives 15 March, Wikipedia 13 March) – 2 August 1815) was a French soldier and political figure who rose to Marshal of France. The son of a lawyer, he was born at Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze.
Biography of Laure Junot d'Abrantes (excerpt)
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantès (November 6, 1784–1838) was the wife of French general Jean-Andoche Junot. She was born Laure (Laurette) Martin de Permond at Montpellier. She was the daughter of Charles Martin de Permond and his wife Panoria, to whom during her widowhood the young Napoleon Bonaparte made an offer of marriage - such at least is the version presented by the daughter in her celebrated Memoirs.
Biography of Stephen Decatur (excerpt)
Stephen Decatur, Jr. /dɪˈkeɪtər/, (5 January 1779 – 22 March 1820) was an American naval officer notable for his many naval victories in the early 19th century. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, Worcester county, the son of a U.
Biography of Jean-Antoine Chaptal (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Claude, comte Chaptal de Chanteloup (June 5, 1756 – July 30, 1832) was a French chemist and statesman. Early life Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Nogaret, Lozère, as the son of an apothecary, he studied chemistry at the University of Montpellier, obtaining his doctorate in 1777, when he settled in Paris.
Biography of Augustin Thierry (excerpt)
Augustin Thierry (or Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry, 10 May 1795 - 22 May 1856) was a French historian. He was born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, the elder brother of Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry. He had no advantages of birth or fortune, but was distinguished at the Blois Grammar School, and entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1811.
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Cumberland is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland. It is the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 19,076. Located on the Potomac River, Cumberland is a regional business and commercial center for Western Maryland and the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.
Biography of Wilhelm Pfaff (excerpt)
Wilhelm Pfaff, born on December 5, 1774 in Stuttgart, died in 1835, was a German astrologer, philosopher, and author (source: Heinz Specht).
Biography of Heinrich Steinway (excerpt)
Henry E. Steinway (February 22, 1797 – February 7, 1871) was a German piano manufacturer and the founder of Steinway & Sons. Steinway was born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg in Wolfshagen im Harz, Germany, and had a hard and poor childhood, because by the age of 15, his mother, father, and all of his siblings were dead from disease and tragedy.
Biography of George Crabbe (excerpt)
George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet and naturalist. Biography He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge.
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Binghamton is a city in, and the county seat of, Broome County, New York, United States. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers.
Biography of Clemens Brentano (excerpt)
Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano (September 9, 1778 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, BC) – July 28, 1842) was a German poet and novelist. He was born at Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz, Germany. His sister was Bettina von Arnim, Goethe's correspondent. His father's family was of Italian descent.
Biography of Willem Bilderdijk (excerpt)
Willem Bilderdijk (Amsterdam, September 7, 1756 - Haarlem, December 31, 1831), Dutch poet, the son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous and concentrated study.
Biography of Gabriel Lamé (excerpt)
Gabriel Léon Jean Baptiste Lamé (22 July 1795 – 1 May 1870) was a French mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity. Lamé was born in Tours, in today's département of Indre-et-Loire.
Biography of Horace Vernet (excerpt)
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1 July 1789 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 17 January 1863) was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. Biography Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet.
Biography of Rose Bertin (excerpt)
Marie-Jeanne Rose Bertin (2 July 1747, Abbeville, Picardy, France – 22 September 1813, Épinay-sur-Seine) was a French milliner (Marchande de modes), known as the dressmaker to Queen Marie Antoinette. She was the first celebrated French fashion designer and is widely credited with having brought fashion and haute couture to the forefront of popular culture.
Biography of Vuk Stefanović Karadzic (excerpt)
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Стефановић Караџић) (November 8, 1787 - February 7, 1864) was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language. Early life Karadžić was born to parents Stefan and Jegda (maiden Zrnić) in the village of Tršić, near Loznica in Serbia, which was then still a part of the Ottoman Empire.
Biography of Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (excerpt)
Raymond-Jean-Baptiste de Verninac Saint-Maur, born on June 11, 1794 in Souillac (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on February 11, 1873 in Souillac, was a French Naval Minister .
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charles Bélanger (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger (4 April 1790 – 8 May 1874) was a French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He was a professor at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in France.
Biography of Delphine LaLaurie (excerpt)
Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans Creole socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household.
Biography of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (excerpt)
Konstantin Pavlovich 27 April 1779 (8 May 1779 Gregorian Calendar) – 27 June 1831) was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the Tsesarevich of Russia throughout the reign of his elder brother Alexander I, but had secretly renounced his claim to the throne in 1823.
Biography of William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (excerpt)
William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire KG, PC (21 May 1790 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire" by Brian Masters (Hamish Hamilton, 1981), p. 185) – 18 January 1858), styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was a British peer, courtier and Whig politician.
Biography of Alessandro Manzoni (excerpt)
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (Italian: ; 7 March 1785 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I Promessi Sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.
Biography of Jean-Victor Poncelet (excerpt)
Jean-Victor Poncelet (July 1, 1788 – December 22, 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the commandant general of the École polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century.
Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (excerpt)
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing.
Biography of Michel Chasles (excerpt)
Michel Floréal Chasles (15 November 1793 – 18 December 1880) was a French mathematician. He was born at Épernon in France and studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris under Siméon Denis Poisson. In the War of the Sixth Coalition he was drafted to fight in the defence of Paris in 1814.
Biography of Arthur Morin (excerpt)
Arthur Jules Morin (17 October 1795 – 7 February 1880) was a French physicist. He conducted experiments in mechanics and invented the Morin dynamometer. In 1850, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Eugénie Niboyet (excerpt)
Eugénie Mouchon-Niboyet (September 9, 1796 (birth time and date source: FDAF, birth certificate) – January 6, 1883) was a French author, journalist and early feminist. She is best known for founding La Voix des Femmes (The Women's Voice), the first feminist daily newspaper in France.
Biography of John André (excerpt)
John André (2 May 1750 – 2 October 1780) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.
Biography of William Godwin (excerpt)
William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, an attack on political institutions, and Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, an early mystery novel which attacks aristocratic privilege.
Biography of Henriette d'Angeville (excerpt)
Henriette d'Angeville (10 March 1794 in Semur-en-Auxois (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 13 January 1871 in Lausanne) was the second woman to climb Mont Blanc.
Biography of Thomas Jefferson Hogg (excerpt)
Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hogg was raised in County Durham, but spent most of his life in London.
Biography of Stamford Raffles (excerpt)
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, FRS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies (1811–1816) and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen (1818–1824), best known for his founding of modern Singapore and British Malaya. He was heavily involved in the conquest of the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire.
Biography of Jacques-François Gallay (excerpt)
Jacques-François Gallay (8 December 1795 – 18 October 1864) was a French horn player, academic and composer of music for the instrument. His Méthode for the natural horn was published in 1845. Gallay was born in Perpignan, in the south of France, in 1795; his father was an amateur horn player.
Biography of Adèle Romany (excerpt)
Adèle Romany or Marie Jeanne Romanée (7 December 1769 – 6 June 1846) was a French painter. She was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and is known for miniatures and portraits. In 1790 she married the miniature painter François Antoine Romany. She exhibited her works from 1793 to 1808 under the name Romany in the Paris Salon, but from 1808 to 1833 under the name Romanée.
Biography of Manon Roland (excerpt)
Marie-Jeanne 'Manon' Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland, was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer. Initially she led a quiet and unremarkable life as a provincial intellectual with her husband, the economist Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière.
Biography of Zulma Carraud (excerpt)
Zulma Carraud (24 March 1796 – 24 April 1889) was a French author. She is best known for her children's books and textbooks particularly La Petite Jeanne ou le devoir and Maurice ou le travail. After moving to Nohant, Carraud volunteered as a country doctor and as a teacher at a rural school from 1852 until 1868.
Biography of Garlieb Merkel (excerpt)
Garlieb Helwig Merkel (1 November 1769 in Lēdurga, Volmar County – 9 May 1850 in Riga) was a Baltic German writer and activist and an early Estophile and Lettophile. Merkel was born into the family of a rural priest in what is today Latvia.
Biography of Gesche Gottfried (excerpt)
Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, born Gesche Margarethe Timm (6 March 1785 - 21 April 1831), was a serial killer who murdered 15 people by arsenic poisoning in Bremen and Hanover, Germany, between 1813 and 1827. She was the last person to be publicly executed in the city of Bremen.
Biography of Anne Heinel (excerpt)
Anna Friedrike Heinel (1753–1808) was a German ballerina who trained in Stuttgart. She enjoyed a highly successful career both in Paris and London. Born in Bayreuth, Heinel studied under Jean-Georges Noverre in Stuttgart where she made her début in 1767. The following year, she performed La Vénitienne in Paris where she was known as "La Reine de la danse" (Queen of the Dance).
Biography of Vincenzo Monti (excerpt)
Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar. In 1775 he is admitted to membership in the Arcadia Academy and the next year his first book is published: "La visione di Ezechiello" ("Ezechiello's vision").
Biography of Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (excerpt)
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (21 September 1788; baptized 23 September 1788 – 3 February 1899) was a Dutch supercentenarian. He is generally accepted by scholars as the first validated supercentenarian case on record (as of 21 September, 1898) Since there is evidence that he served as a soldier in Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grande Armée", in the 33rd Light Infantry Division, Boomgaard might in fact have been the oldest military veteran ever for several decades.
Biography of Adalbert Gyrowetz (excerpt)
Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (20 February 1763 – 19 March 1850) was a Bohemian composer. He mainly wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies; his operas and singspiele numbered more than 30, including Semiramide (1791), Der Augenarzt (1811), and Robert, oder Die Prüfung (1815).
Biography of Lydia Sigourney (excerpt)
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs.
Biography of Wilhelmine Reichard (excerpt)
Johanne Wilhelmine Siegmundine Reichard (née Schmidt) (2 April 1788, Braunschweig, Germany – 23 February 1848, Döhlen, Germany) was the first German female balloonist. On 16 April 1811 Wilhelmine Reichard made her first solo flight, starting in Berlin. She reached a height of over 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) and landed safely in Genshagen, 33.
Biography of François de Fossa (excerpt)
François de Fossa (full name: François de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa) (31 August 1775 – 3 June 1849) was a French classical guitarist and composer. De Fossa was born in Perpignan, the capital of Pyrénées-Orientales in southern France along the border with Spain.
Biography of Charles Brockden Brown (excerpt)
Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period. He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the U.
Biography of Françoise Éléonore Dejean de Manville (excerpt)
Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville (3 March 1749 – 27 February 1827), Countess of Sabran and then Marquise of Boufflers, was a French socialite and letter writer whose life extended from the Ancien Régime through the French Revolution and First French Empire to the Bourbon Restoration.
Biography of Maria Luisa of Spain (excerpt)
Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain (Spanish: María Luisa, German: Maria Ludovika; 24 November 1745 – 15 May 1792) was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the spouse of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. |
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