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Biography of James Coats (excerpt)
James Coats, born September 5, 1843 in Belfast, was an Irish mesmerist, magnetizer and author. ![]()
Biography of Edward Lear (excerpt)
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularised. Edward Lear was born into a middle class family in Highgate, the 20th child of Ann and Jeremiah Lear.
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Biography of Patrice de Mac-Mahon (excerpt)
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France (13 June 1808 - 17 October 1893) was a French general and politician. He served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic, from 1875 to 1879. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Gondinet (excerpt)
Edmond Gondinet (March 7, 1828; Laurière – November 19, 1888; Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French playwright and librettist. This author, nearly forgotten today, produced forty plays of which several were successful. He collaborated with Alphonse Daudet and Eugène Labiche, among others. Plays (extract) ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Dilthey (excerpt)
Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833 – October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Naquet (excerpt)
Alfred Naquet, born October 6, 1834 in Carpentras, died November 10, 1916 in Paris, was a French chimist, physician and politician. ![]()
Biography of Eleuthere Mascart (excerpt)
Eleuthère Elie Nicolas Mascart, born February 20, 1837 in Quarouble and died August 24, 1908 in Paris, was a French physicist and researcher. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Conscience (excerpt)
Henri "Hendrik" Conscience (December 3, 1812 Antwerp (Anvers) - September 10, 1883 Elsene) was a Flemish writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. He was the son of a Frenchman, Pierre Conscience, from Besançon, who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte, and who was appointed under-harbourmaster at Antwerp in 1811, when that city formed part of France.
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Biography of Giuseppe Zanardelli (excerpt)
Giuseppe Zanardelli (October 29, 1826 – December 26, 1903) was an Italian jurisconsult, nationalist and political figure. He was prime minister of Italy from February 15, 1901 to November 3, 1903. Biography Giuseppe Zanardelli was born at Concesio (Lombardy). A combatant in the volunteer corps during the war of 1848, he returned to Brescia after the defeat of Novara, and for a time earned a livelihood by teaching law, but was molested by the Austrian police and forbidden to teach in consequence of his refusal to contribute pro-Austrian articles to the press.
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Biography of Moïse Millaud (excerpt)
Moses Polydore Millaud, Moïse Polydore Millaud, (27 August 1813 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 13 October 1871) was a journalist, banker and entrepreneur who founded Le Petit Journal, at one time the leading newspaper in France. Family life Millaud was born in Bordeaux, to Felicity (née Bellon) and Jassuda Millaud 1 (born 1769, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue – died 1865, Paris), Jewish merchants originally from the Papal States who originally sold horses. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Paul Cailletet (excerpt)
Louis-Paul Cailletet (21 September 1832 – 5 January 1913) was a French physicist and inventor. Life and work Cailletet was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d'Or. Educated in Paris, Cailletet returned to Chatillon to manage his father's ironworks. In an effort to determine the cause of accidents that occurred while tempering incompletely forged iron, Cailletet found that heating the iron put it in a highly unstable state, with gases dissolved in it. ![]()
Biography of Henri Filhol (excerpt)
Henri Filhol (May 11, 1843 in Toulouse (source: Lescaut) – April 28, 1902 in Paris) was a French medical doctor, malacologist and naturalist. He served as the expedition doctor and naturalist on the French 1874 Transit of Venus expedition to Campbell Island, New Zealand, with a peak on the island, Filhol Peak, being named after him. ![]()
Biography of Louis Lacombe (excerpt)
Louis Lacombe (Trouillon-Lacombe) (November 26, 1818, Bourges (Cher)– September 30, 1884, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, (Marne) was a French pianist and composer. Biography Louis Lacombe showed unusual musical abilities at very young age and was soon hailed as a child prodigy. He studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire from 1829 to 1832 with Pierre Zimmermann and won first prize in piano performance at only age 12 in 1831. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Antoine Ranvier (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (b. Lyon, France, October 2, 1835; d. Vendranges, France, March 22, 1922, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of the myelin sheath and the nodes of Ranvier, subcellular structure which covers the axons of neurons. Ranvier studied medicine at Lyon, graduating in 1865.
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Biography of Elme-Marie Caro (excerpt)
Elme Marie Caro (March 4, 1826, Poitiers, Vienne – July 13, 1887, Paris), was a French philosopher. His father, a professor of philosophy, gave him an excellent education at the Stanislas College and the École Normale, where he graduated in 1848. After being professor of philosophy at several provincial universities, he received the degree of doctor, and came to Paris in 1858 as master of conferences at the École Normale.
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Biography of Wilhelm Raabe (excerpt)
Wilhelm Raabe (September 8, 1831 – November 15, 1910), German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born at Eschershausen (then in the Duchy of Brunswick, now in the Holzminden District). He served apprenticeship at a bookseller's in Magdeburg for four years (1849-1854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied philosophy at Berlin (1855-1857). ![]()
Biography of Emile Pouvillon (excerpt)
Emile Pouvillon (1840 - 1906), French novelist, was born at Montauban (Tarn et Garonne). He published in 1878 a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles réalistes. Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy, he painted its scenery and its life with great clearness of outline and without exaggeration. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Boltzmann (excerpt)
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 (birth time source: Starkman quotes Ruth Lewin Sime's biography "Lise Meitner, A Life in Physics" and rectified his time of birth) – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion). ![]()
Biography of Maxime Du Camp (excerpt)
Maxime Du Camp (French: Maxime du Camp) (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer. Life Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets.
Biography of Louis Emile Bertin (excerpt)
Louis-Émile Bertin (March 23,1840-1924) was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships. Early life Bertin was born in Nancy, France in 1840. ![]()
Biography of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (excerpt)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /ˈælmə ˈtædɪmə/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. ![]()
Biography of Alois Hitler (excerpt)
Alois Hitler, Sr. (born Alois Schicklgruber; 7 June 1837 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – 3 January 1903) was an Austrian civil servant and the father of dictator Adolf Hitler. Early life Alois Schicklgruber was born in the hamlet of Strones, parish of Döllersheim, in the Waldviertel, an area in northwest Lower Austria, to a 42-year-old unmarried peasant, Maria Schicklgruber, whose family had lived in the area for generations.
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Biography of August Weismann (excerpt)
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann (Birth. January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main; Death. November 5, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau, ) was a German biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. ![]()
Biography of Jules Vandenpeereboom (excerpt)
Jules Henri Pierre François Vandenpeereboom (18 March 1843–6 March 1917) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Vandenpeereboom was born in Kortrijk and educated as a lawyer. He represented Kortrijk in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1878 to 1900. He held several ministerial posts, beginning with Railways, Posts and Telegraphs, from 1884 to 1899.
Biography of Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (excerpt)
Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria (26 August 1826 – 21 September 1875) was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and devoted her life to literature. Early life Alexandra was born in Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg, the eighth child and fifth daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and of his wife Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
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Biography of Leland Stanford (excerpt)
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician and founder of Stanford University. Biography Early years Stanford was born in 1824 in what was then Watervliet, New York (in what is now the town of Colonie). ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Chatrian (excerpt)
Alexandre Chatrian (17 December 1826 (Wikipedia gives 18 December by mistake) – 3 September 1890) was a French writer, associated with the region of Alsace-Lorraine. Almost all of his works were written jointly with Émile Erckmann under the name Erckmann-Chatrian. Success Recognition came in 1859 and they became well known as fantasy writers under the pseudonym of Émile Erckmann-Chatrian. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827(birth time source: Didier Geslain) – October 12, 1875) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. ![]()
Biography of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (excerpt)
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German sexologist and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous series of cases studies of sexual perversity. The book remains well-known for his coinage of the term masochism using the name of a contemporary writer, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose partially autobiographical novel Venus in Furs tells of the protagonist's desire to be whipped and enslaved by a beautiful woman.
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Biography of Paul Durand-Ruel (excerpt)
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He was one of the first modern art dealers who provided support to his painters with stipends and solo exhibitions. ![]()
Biography of Mathilde Blind (excerpt)
Mathilde Blind (21 March 1841 - 1896) (born Mathilde Cohen), was a poet. She was born at Mannheim, Germany, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind. She published several books of poetry, including The Prophecy of St. ![]()
Biography of John Charles Fremont (excerpt)
John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery.
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Biography of Charles Renouvier (excerpt)
Charles Bernard Renouvier (January 1, 1815 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 1, 1903) was a French philosopher. He considered himself a "Swedenborg of history" who sought to update the philosophy of Kantian liberalism and individualism for the socio-economic realities of the late nineteenth century, and influenced the sociological method of Émile Durkheim. ![]()
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Biography of Jean-Paul Laurens (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Laurens (1838 – 1921), was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Born in Fourquevaux (not Fourqueux), he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression.
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Biography of Joseph Gurney Cannon (excerpt)
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate. ![]()
Biography of Jules Lachelier (excerpt)
Jules Lachelier, born May 27, 1832 in Fontainebleau, died January 26, 1918 in Paris, was a French philosopher and author. Publications * Du fondement de l'induction suivi de Psychologie et Métaphysique et de Notes sur le pari de Pascal, Paris, Alcan, 1924.
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Biography of Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux (excerpt)
Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux (7 May 1811 – 16 January 1886) was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favorizing private Catholic teaching. Life He was born at Angers, Maine-et-Loire. His father had been ennobled by King Charles X of France, and Falloux began his career as a Legitimist and clerical journalist under the influence of Madame Swetchine. ![]()
Biography of Pauline Kergomard (excerpt)
Pauline Kergomard, born Marie Pauline Jeanne Reclus April 24, 1838 in Bordeaux (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in 1925 in Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), is a teacher and writer, and the founder of nursery classes in France. Works (extract) Galerie enfantine illustres (1879) ![]()
Biography of Charles Barlet (excerpt)
Albert Fauch, best known as Charles Barlet or sometimes François Charles Barlet or F.-Ch. Barlet, born October 12, 1838 in Paris, died October 29, 1909 in Paris, was a French occulist and theosopher. His work is close to Papus and Max Théon. ![]()
Biography of Bret Harte (excerpt)
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Life and career He was born in Albany, New York, as Francis Brett Hart. He was named after his great-grandfather Francis Brett, and his family name was Hart. ![]()
Biography of Louis Figuier (excerpt)
Louis Figuier (Montpellier, France, February 15, 1819-1894) was a French scientist and writer. He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. He became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of pharmacology, chemistry (1844-1853) and physics and gained his PhD in (1850). ![]()
Biography of Charles de Freycinet (excerpt)
Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (French pronunciation: ; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman and Prime Minister during the Third Republic; he belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteen member to occupy seat the Académie française.
Biography of William Chaney (excerpt)
William Henry Chaney, born January 13, 1821 in Chesterville, Massachusetts, died January 8, 1903, was an American astrologer and author, and, - maybe - the father of American writer Jack London (with Flora Wellman). ![]()
Biography of Paul Bert (excerpt)
Paul Bert (October 19, 1833 - November 11, 1886) was a French physiologist and politician. Life He was born at Auxerre (Yonne). He entered the École polytechnique at Paris with the intention of becoming an engineer; then changing his mind, he studied law; and finally, under the influence of the zoologist, Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865), he took up physiology, becoming one of Claude Bernard's most brilliant pupils. ![]()
Biography of Domingo Sarmiento (excerpt)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín (February 15, 1811 – September 11, 1888) was an Argentine political figure who is today considered "The Teacher" of Latin America. His fame is not only due to his political career, including a period as president, but his literary works, as well.
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Biography of Alfred Espinas (excerpt)
Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche. He was a student of Comte and Spencer. Although initially an adherent of positivism, he later became a committed realist. ![]()
Biography of Emile Gaboriau (excerpt)
Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction. Life Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866). ![]()
Biography of Chauncey Depew (excerpt)
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. Biography He was born on April 23, 1834.
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Biography of Charles de Morny (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Louis Joseph Demorny/de Morny, 1st Duc de Morny (September 15-16 1811 in Switzerland – March 10, 1865 in Paris) was a French statesman. He was the natural son of Hortense de Beauharnais (wife of Louis Bonaparte, and queen of Holland) and Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut, and therefore half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III. |
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