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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 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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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 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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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 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.
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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 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 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Matthew C. Perry (excerpt)
Matthew Calbraith Perry, born April 10, 1794, in Newport, Rhode Island, and died March 4, 1858, in New York, was a U.S. Navy officer best known for leading a military expedition to Japan in 1853-1854 to open diplomatic and trade relations.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Anne Lister (excerpt)
Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian". Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire. She had several lesbian love affairs from her schooldays onwards, often on long trips abroad; muscular and androgynous in appearance, always dressed in black and highly educated, she was later known—generally unkindly—as "Gentleman Jack".
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Biography of Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (excerpt)
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807) was the first Empress of Austria and last Holy Roman Empress as the spouse of Francis II. She was born a Princess of Naples as the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Queen Maria Carolina.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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).
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Biography of Charlotte, Princess Royal (excerpt)
Charlotte, Princess Royal (Charlotte Augusta Matilda; 29 September 1766 – 6 October 1828), was Queen of Württemberg as the wife of King Frederick I. She was the eldest daughter and fourth child of George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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Biography of Anna Eliza Bray (excerpt)
Anna Eliza Bray (25 December 1790 – 21 January 1883) was an English historical novelist and non-fiction writer. Her time of birth comes from her, in her autobiography (London Chapman & Hall, 1884). Born in Surrey, she married Charles Alfred Stothard in 1818, who died in 1821.
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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.
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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".
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Biography of Pierre-Jean Aniel (excerpt)
Pierre-Jean Aniel, born on November 25, 1797, in Paris, and died on January 4, 1865, in Lyon, was a French dancer and ballet master. He started dancing at the Paris Opera in 1814 and became the premier dancer in Bordeaux from 1818 to 1823.
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Biography of Charlotte Buff (excerpt)
Charlotte Buff (11 January 1753, Wetzlar – 16 January 1828, Hanover) was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her. She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner, vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court.
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Biography of François Antoine Lallemand (excerpt)
François Antoine "Charles" Lallemand (23 June 1774 – 9 March 1839) was a French general who served Napoleon I of France, tried to found a colony in what is now Texas, and finally returned to France to serve as governor of Corsica.
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Biography of Carl Arnold (composer) (excerpt)
Carl Arnold (6 May 1794 – 11 November 1873) was a German pianist, composer, conductor, teacher, and organist who significantly influenced the musical life of Christiania (now Oslo) from 1848. Born in Bad Mergentheim, he was musically trained by his father and Johann Anton André.
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Biography of Gaetano Filangieri (excerpt)
Gaetano Filangieri (1753–1788) was an Italian jurist and philosopher renowned for his work in reforming legislation. Born into nobility near Naples, he shifted from a military to a legal career, quickly gaining prominence. His seminal work, "La Scienza della Legislazione," began in 1780, advocating for legislative reform and economic liberalization.
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Biography of Adoniram Judson (excerpt)
Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary, who worked in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Judson was sent from North America to preach in Burma.
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Biography of Théodore Constant Leray (excerpt)
Théodore Constant Leray (November 13, 1795 - April 23, 1849) was born in Brest and pursued a naval career like his father. He served in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, rising to the rank of rear admiral and becoming a member of the Admiralty Council.
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Biography of Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (excerpt)
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina; 7 August 1751 in Berlin – 9 June 1820 in Het Loo) was the consort of William V of Orange and the de facto leader of the dynastic party and counter-revolution in the Netherlands.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Gaye de Martignac (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gaye, Viscount of Martignac, born June 20, 1778, in Bordeaux and died April 3, 1832, in Paris, was a French poet, lawyer, and statesman. Initially known for his vaudevillian talents, he swiftly transitioned into a legal and political career.
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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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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. |
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