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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.
Biography of John William Polidori (excerpt)
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story.
Biography of Adam Weishaupt (excerpt)
Johann Adam Weishaupt (6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830) was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Illuminati. Foundation of the Illuminati At a time, however, when there was no end of making game of and abusing secret societies, I planned to make use of this human foible for a real and worthy goal, for the benefit of people.
Biography of Charlotte von Schiller (excerpt)
Charlotte Luise Antoinette von Schiller (née von Lengefeld; 22 November 1766 – 9 July 1826) was the wife of German poet Friedrich Schiller. Marriage to Schiller Lengefeld first met Schiller, then a little-known and impoverished poet, in 1785, through her older sister Caroline and her cousin Wilhelm von Wolzogen, who later became Caroline's second husband.
Biography of Maria Quitéria (excerpt)
Maria Quitéria (27 July 1792 – 21 August 1853) was a Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine. She served in the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822–23 dressed as a man. She was promoted to cadet and Lieutenant and decorated with the Imperial order.
Biography of Emanuel Schikaneder (excerpt)
Emanuel Schikaneder (born Johann Joseph Schickeneder; 1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812) was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien.
Biography of Henri Savigny (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, born April 10, 1793, died January 27, 1843, was a surgeon and doctor aboard La Méduse. When the ship sank (July 2, 1816), he was one of the 3 officers who volunteered to take their place on the raft among 152 castaways.
Biography of George Grote (excerpt)
George Grote (17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece. He is said, in some estimations, to have been a man of strong character and self-control, unfailing courtesy and unswerving devotion to what he considered the best interests of the nation.
Biography of John Henning (excerpt)
John Henning (2 May 1771 – 8 April 1851) was a Scottish sculptor who began his career as a carpenter. His masterpieces were the one-twentieth-scale models he created of the Parthenon and Bassae friezes. These took him twelve years to complete. Many others then copied this idea but he could not copyright the work of a long-dead artist, and could do nothing to prevent this.
Biography of Gaspard Théodore Mollien (excerpt)
Gaspard Théodore Mollien (29 August 1796, Paris – 28 June 1872, Nice) was a French diplomat and explorer. In July 1816, as a passenger aboard the Medusa en route to Saint-Louis, Senegal, he became shipwrecked to the south of Cap Blanc. He survived the ordeal, and eventually made his way to Gorée Island, where he worked as a hospital manager.
Biography of Sarah Josepha Hale (excerpt)
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
Biography of Catharine Sedgwick (excerpt)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28, 1789 – July 31, 1867) was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". With her work much in demand, from the 1820s to the 1850s, Sedgwick made a good living writing short stories for a variety of periodicals.
Biography of Caroline von Wolzogen (excerpt)
Caroline von Wolzogen (née von Lengefeld) (3 February 1763, Rudolstadt – 11 January 1847, Jena), was a German writer in the Weimar Classicism circle. Her best-known works are a novel, Agnes von Lilien, and a biography of Friedrich Schiller, her brother-in-law.
Biography of Therese Albertine Luise Robinson (excerpt)
Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson (26 January 1797 – 13 April 1870) was a German-American author, linguist and translator, and second wife of biblical scholar Edward Robinson. She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derived from the initials of her birth name.
Biography of Marie-Angélique Duchemin (excerpt)
Marie-Angélique Josèphe Brûlon, née Duchemin (January 20, 1772 – July 13, 1859), was a French soldier. Born in Dinan into a soldier family, Duchemin married a soldier named Brûlon and served from 1792 to 1799 in the defence of Corsica. She initially fought disguised as a man along with her husband, but was eventually discovered to be a woman.
Biography of Nathanael Greene (excerpt)
Major-General Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1748 - June 19, 1786) was an American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He emerged from the war with a reputation as one of George Washington's most talented and dependable officers, and is known for his successful command in the Southern theater of the conflict.
Biography of Constanze Mozart (excerpt)
Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart (née Weber; 5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a trained Austrian singer. She was married twice, first to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; then to Georg Nikolaus von Nissen. She and Mozart had six children: Karl Thomas Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, and four others who died in infancy.
Biography of Charlotte Vanhove (excerpt)
Charlotte Vanhove (known as “Caroline”), better known as Madame Talma, born in The Hague on September 10, 1771 and died in Paris 15th, rue de Vaugirard, on April 10, 18601, is a French actress. Caroline Vanhove, daughter of actors, debuted at the Comédie-Française in 1785 at age 14 in Racine's "Iphigenia.
Biography of Friedrich Schleiermacher (excerpt)
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (German: ; 21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. He also became influential in the evolution of higher criticism, and his work forms part of the foundation of the modern field of hermeneutics.
Biography of Mary Moser (excerpt)
Mary Moser RA (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated female artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 (along with Angelica Kauffman), Moser painted portraits but is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers.
Biography of Christiane Vulpius (excerpt)
Johanna Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe (1 June 1765 – 6 June 1816) was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Christiane Vulpius spent her childhood in Luthergasse, one of the oldest parts of Weimar. Her paternal ancestors were academics, while her maternal side came from a family of craftsmen.
Biography of Pierre Rayer (excerpt)
Pierre François Olive Rayer (8 March 1793 – 10 September 1867) was a French physician who was a native of Saint Sylvain. He made important contributions in the fields of pathological anatomy, physiology, comparative pathology and parasitology. He studied medicine at Caen, and afterwards in Paris at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and at the Hôtel-Dieu.
Biography of Therese Brunswick (excerpt)
Countess Therese (von) Brunsvik (Hungarian: Teréz Brunszvik; July 27, 1775 in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary – September 23, 1861 in Pest, Kingdom of Hungary), sometimes referred to in English as Therese, Countess von Brunsvik or Brunswick, was a member of the Hungarian nobility, pedagoge and a follower of the Swiss Pestalozzi.
Biography of Iolo Morganwg (excerpt)
Iolo Morganwg, the bardic name of Edward Williams, born in 1747 in Llancarfan, Glamorgan, Wales, and died in 1826, was a pioneer of modern Neo-Druidic philosophy and ritual. His time of birth comes from the biography "Iolo Morganwg, Volume 1" by Griffith John Williams (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1956).
Biography of Adolphe Crémieux (excerpt)
Isaac-Jacob Adolphe Crémieux (French: ; 30 April 1796 – 10 February 1880) was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice under the Second Republic (1848) and Government of National Defense (1870–1871). Raised Jewish, he served as president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1863–67; 1868–80), secured French citizenship for Algerian Jews under French rule through the Crémieux Decree (1870), and was a staunch defender of the rights of the Jews of France.
Biography of Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark (excerpt)
Louise Augusta of Denmark and Norway, born on July 7, 1771, and died on January 13, 1843, was reputedly fathered by Johann Friedrich Struensee, the royal physician, rather than King Christian VII. Her time of birth comes from "Madrid Gazette no.
Biography of Karl Immermann (excerpt)
Karl Leberecht Immermann (24 April 1796 – 25 August 1840) was a noteworthy German dramatist, novelist, and poet. His time of birth comes from the biography Karl Immermann: Sein Leben und seine Werke, aus Tagebüchern und Briefen an seine Familie zusammengestellt.
Biography of Pierre Prevost (physicist) (excerpt)
Pierre Prevost (March 3, 1751 – April 8, 1839) was a Genevan philosopher and physicist. In 1791, he theorized that all bodies radiate heat, regardless of their temperature, while explaining Pictet's experiment. The son of a Protestant clergyman in Geneva, Prevost initially pursued a career in law but shifted to education and travel.
Biography of Hester Stanhope (excerpt)
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists".
Biography of Leopold, Prince of Salerno (excerpt)
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austria in 1816, and became the Prince of Salerno.
Biography of José de Palafox (excerpt)
José Rebolledo de Palafox y Melzi, 1st Duke of Zaragoza (October 28, 1775 - February 15, 1847), was a notable Spanish general during the Peninsular War. Born into an old Aragonese family, he became involved in military actions after attempting to assist King Ferdinand VII’s escape in 1808.
Biography of Fausto Elhuyar (excerpt)
Fausto de Elhuyar (11 October 1755 – 6 February 1833) was a Spanish chemist, known for isolating tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783. He organized the School of Mines in Mexico City under a commission from the King of Spain, overseeing the construction of the "Palacio de Minería". |
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