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Biography of Sadi Carnot (physicist) (excerpt)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French: ; 1 June 1796 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics". In his only publication, the 1824 monograph Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, Carnot gave the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines.
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Biography of Albert Lortzing (excerpt)
Gustav Albert Lortzing (October 23, 1801 - January 21, 1851) was a German composer, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French Opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel.
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). ![]()
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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 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 Alexandre Baudrimont (excerpt)
Alexandre Edouard Baudrimont, born on May 7, 1806 in Compiègne (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut), died in 1820, was a 19th-century French professor of chemistry who published various books connected to the sciences, languages and the Basque Country (in particular Erromintxela). ![]()
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 Henri Gatien Bertrand (excerpt)
Henri-Gatien, Comte Bertrand (28 March 1773 – 31 January 1844), French general, was born at Châteauroux, Indre as a member of a well-to-do bourgeois family. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, he had just finished his studies at the Prytanée National Militaire, and he entered the army as a volunteer.
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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.
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Biography of Émile Mellinet (excerpt)
Émile Henry Mellinet, born on June 1, 1798 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, city archives), died on January 20, 1894 in Nantes, was a French military (General in 1850). He was also the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France (1865, June 9-1870).
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Biography of Carlota Joaquina of Spain (excerpt)
Doña Carlota Joaquina of Spain (Carlota Joaquina Teresa Caetana; 25 April 1775 – 7 January 1830) was a Queen consort of Portugal as wife of John VI. She was the eldest daughter of King Charles IV of Spain and his wife Maria Luisa of Parma.
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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 Adolphe Brongniart (excerpt)
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (French pronunciation: ) (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany.
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.
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Biography of Eugène Schneider (excerpt)
Joseph Eugène Schneider (29 March 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 27 November 1875) was a French industrialist who in 1836 co-founded the Schneider company with his brother Adolphe Schneider. Biography Schneider was born on 29 March 1805 in Bidestroff, in the départment of Moselle, France. ![]()
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 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 .
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Biography of Hippolyte Bayard (excerpt)
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.
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Biography of Hippolyte Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801, Saint-Omer (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 16, 1888) was a French statesman. Early life Hippolyte was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Dumont (excerpt)
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (January 28, 1801 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives de Paris) – 1884 Paris) was a French sculptor. He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc.
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Biography of Hélène Jégado (excerpt)
Hélène Jégado (17 June 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Morbihan archives) – 26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people (it could be 80, with many children (source: French Wikipedia)) with arsenic over a period of 18 years.
Biography of Claude Gueux (excerpt)
Claude Gueux, born on May 18, 1804 in Chassagne-Montrachet (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de la Côte d’Or,) was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction (Claude Gueux is a real person), and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Misérables. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was an American explorer, guide, fur trapper trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in Northern California.
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Biography of Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (excerpt)
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste; 21 December 1800 (birth time source: the Wikipedia bio of her mother: Duchess_Louise_Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin) – 30 August 1831) was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. ![]()
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 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.
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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 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 Auguste Perdonnet (excerpt)
Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet (12 March 1801, Paris – 27 September 1867, Cannes) was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. He also worked to investigate and remove the causes of railroad accidents. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Devéria (excerpt)
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, Paris (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings. He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Triger (excerpt)
Jacques Triger (March 10, 1801–1867) was a French geologist who invented the 'Triger process' for digging through water logged ground. Triger was also Deputy Director of coal mining operations in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire). Biography Triger was born in Mamers, a town in the Sarthe French county, on 10 March 1801.
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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.
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Biography of Charles Combes (excerpt)
Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes (26 December 1801 – 1872) was a French engineer. He was Inspector-General of Mines and the Director of the School of Mines in Paris. His name is on the Eiffel Tower. Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes was born on 26 December 1801 in Cahors. ![]()
Biography of Pierre François Lacenaire (excerpt)
Pierre François Lacenaire (20 December 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 January 1836) was a French murderer and would-be poet. To aid him in committing his crimes, Lacenaire recruited two henchmen, Pierre Victor Avril (whom he had met while in prison) and Hippolyte François. ![]()
Biography of George Onslow (composer) (excerpt)
André George Louis Onslow (27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853) was a French composer of English descent. His wealth, position and personal tastes allowed him to pursue a path unfamiliar to most of his French contemporaries, more similar to that of his contemporary German romantic composers; his music also had a strong following in Germany and in England.
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Biography of Louis Breguet (excerpt)
Louis François Clément Breguet (22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet.
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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 Fanny Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer. She composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. ![]()
Biography of Henry Longfellow (excerpt)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Alphonse Guépin (excerpt)
Alphonse Guépin (17 February 1808 in Uzel (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 8 December 1878 in Saint-Brieuc) was a French architect and building restorer. He was specialized in churches in Côtes-d'Armor. Saint-Pierre church in Plessala Saint-Gwénaël church in Lescouët-Gouarec Church in Plouézec
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Biography of George Müller (excerpt)
George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split his group was labelled as the Open Brethren. ![]()
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 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 Victor Baltard (excerpt)
Victor Baltard (19 June 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 January 1874) was a French architect famed for work in Paris including designing Les Halles market and the Saint-Augustin church. From 1849 on, he was Architect of the City of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Élisa Lemonnier (excerpt)
Élisa Lemonnier (24 March 1805 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 48) – 5 June 1865) was a French educationist who is considered the founder of vocational education for women in France. After various attempts, Élisa Lemonnier managed to create the Société de protection maternelle ("League of maternal protection"), which on 9 May 1862 became the Société pour l'enseignement professionnel des femmes ("Society for Vocational Education of Women"). ![]()
Biography of Mary Seacole (excerpt)
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield. ![]()
Biography of Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (excerpt)
Napoléon-Louis Bonaparte, born on October 11, 1804, was briefly King of Holland in July 1810 as Louis II. He was the son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais and nephew of Napoleon I. After his older brother's death in 1807, he became the likely heir to Napoleon I until 1811 when a direct heir was born to Napoleon I.
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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. |
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