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Biography of Jules Antoine Lissajous (excerpt)
Jules Antoine Lissajous (March 4, 1822 - June 24, 1880) was a French mathematician, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device which creates the figures that bear his name. In it a light is shone (or laser beam) off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, which is then reflected off another mirror attached to another, perpendicular vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), then onto a wall, which resulted in a Lissajous figure. ![]()
Biography of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (excerpt)
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (born December 8, 1832, died April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. ![]()
Biography of Mathilde Bonaparte (excerpt)
Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française (May 27, 1820 – January 2, 1904), was a French princess and Salon holder. She was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg. Biography Born in Trieste, Mathilde Bonaparte was raised in Florence and Rome. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Vacquerie (excerpt)
Auguste Vacquerie (November 19, 1819 in Villequier - February 19, 1895 in Paris), French journalist and man of letters, was born at Villequier (Seine Inferieure) on 19 November 1819. He was from his earliest days an admirer of Victor Hugo, with whom he was connected by the marriage of his brother Charles with Léopoldine Hugo. ![]()
Biography of Guido Verbeck (excerpt)
Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (or Verbeek) (23 January 1830 – 10 May 1898) was a Dutch political advisor, educator, and missionary active in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan. He was one of the most important o-yatoi gaikokujin (foreign advisors) serving the Meiji government and contributed to many major government decisions during the early years of the reign of Emperor Meiji. ![]()
Biography of Anton Rubinstein (excerpt)
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos. He also founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which, together with Moscow Conservatory founded by his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, helped establish a reputation for musical skill among the subjects of the czar of Russia. ![]()
Biography of Lydia Pinkham (excerpt)
Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains. Lydia Pinkham was born in the manufacturing city of Lynn, Massachusetts, the tenth of the twelve children of William and Rebecca Estes. ![]()
Biography of William Worrall Mayo (excerpt)
William Worrall Mayo (May 31, 1819 – March 6, 1911) was an English born medical doctor and chemist, best known for establishing the private medical practice that later evolved into the Mayo Clinic. His sons, William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, joined the private practice in Rochester in the U.
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Biography of Charles Philippe Robin (excerpt)
Charles-Philippe Robin (4 June 1821–5 October 1885) was a French anatomist, biologist, and histologist who was born in Jasseron, département Ain. He studied medicine in Paris, and while still a student took a scientific journey with Hermann Lebert to Normandy and the Channel Islands, where they collected specimens for the Musée Orfila.
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Biography of John Wesley Powell (excerpt)
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon.
Biography of Edouard Alexandre Sain (excerpt)
Edouard Alexandre Sain, born on May 13, 1830 in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1910, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Charles XV of Sweden (excerpt)
Karl XV (Karl Ludvig Eugen) (May 3, 1826 – September 18, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Karl IV) from 1859 until his death. He was born in Stockholm Palace and dubbed Duke of Skåne at birth.
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Biography of Charles Floquet (excerpt)
Charles Thomas Floquet (October 2, 1828 - January 18, 1896) was a French statesman. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Basses-Pyrénées). He studied law in Paris, and was called to the bar in 1851. The coup d'état of that year aroused the strenuous opposition of Floquet, who had, while yet a student, given proof of his republican sympathies by taking part in the fighting of 1848. ![]()
Biography of Albert Anker (excerpt)
Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. Life Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845–48. ![]()
Biography of Valentin Joseph Boussinesq (excerpt)
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (13 March 1842 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at Faculty of Sciences of Lille, lecturing differential and integral calculus at Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille). ![]()
Biography of Victor Coste (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste, born on May 10, 1807 in Castries (birth time source: Lescaut), died on September 19, 1873 in Résenlieu, was a French naturalist. Publications Cours d'embryogénie comparée (Paris, 1837) Ovologie du kangourou (Paris, 1838) ![]()
Biography of Louis Janmot (excerpt)
Anne-François-Louis Janmot (May 21, 1814–June 1, 1892) was a French painter and poet. He was born in Lyon and studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, beginning in 1831. In 1833 he went to Paris. There, and later in Rome, he studied under Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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Biography of Eugène Le Roy (excerpt)
Eugène Le Roy, born on November 29, 1836 in Hautefort (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on May 6, 1907 in Montignac, was a French writer. Publications Le Moulin de Frau (1891), paru en feuilleton dans L'Avenir de la Dordogne du 2 avril au 21 août 1891 puis chez Fasquelle en 1905. ![]()
Biography of Henri Philippoteaux (excerpt)
Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, born April 3, 1815 in Paris, died in 1884, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Edmond de Goncourt (excerpt)
Edmond de Goncourt (May 26, 1822 – July 16, 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. He was born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt in Nancy. Biography He bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. ![]()
Biography of George Frederic Watts (excerpt)
George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904; sometimes spelled "George Frederick Watts") was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope (see image) and Love and Life. ![]()
Biography of James Tissot (excerpt)
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. Tissot was born at Nantes. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three.
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Biography of Jean Mounet-Sully (excerpt)
Mounet-Sully (July 27, 1841 (Wikipedia gives February) - 1916), a French actor, was born at Bergerac. His birth name was Jean-Sully Mounet: "Mounet-Sully" (without the "Jean") was a stage name. He entered the Conservatoire at the age of twenty-one, where he took first prize for tragedy.
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Biography of Emile Reynaud (excerpt)
Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Antoine Favre (excerpt)
Pierre-Antoine Favre, born February 20, 1813 in Lyon and died February 2, 1880 in Marseille, was a French chemist and physician, member of Academie des Sciences. ![]()
Biography of Pablo de Sarasate (excerpt)
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908) was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period. Career Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an artillery bandmaster. He began studying the violin with his father at the age of five and later took lessons from a local teacher but his musical talent became evident early on and he appeared in his first public concert in La Coruña at the age of eight. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Willem Mesdag (excerpt)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter. He was born in Groningen, the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. ![]()
Biography of Jules Violle (excerpt)
Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (November 16, 1841, Langres - September 12, 1923, Fixin) was a French physicist and inventor. He is notable for having determined the solar constant at Mont Blanc in 1875, and, in 1881, for proposing a standard for luminous intensity, called the Violle, equal to the light emitted by 1 cm² of platinum at its melting point. ![]()
Biography of Louis Deibler (excerpt)
Louis Antoine Stanislas Deibler, born February 12, 1823 in Dijon and died September 6, 1904 in Paris, was a French executioner. He killed famous people as Prévost, Campi, Pranzini, Eyraud, Ravachol, Vaillant, Henry and Caserio. He is the father of Anatole Deibler, also executionner after him.
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Biography of Umberto I of Italy (excerpt)
Umberto I, King of Italy or Humbert I of Italy (Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia), English: Humbert Ranier Charles Emmanuel John Mary Ferdinand Eugene of Savoy (14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900), nicknamed the Good (in Italian il Buono), was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death.
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Biography of Ernest Constans (excerpt)
Jean Antoine Ernest Constans (May 3, 1833 (birth time source: Lescaut)–April 7, 1913) was a French politician and colonial administrator. Biography Born in Béziers, Hérault, he began his career as professor of law. In 1876 he was elected deputy for Toulouse to the French Third Republic's Chamber, and sat in the Left Centre as one of the 363 of May 16, 1877.
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Biography of Adolphe Monticelli (excerpt)
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14, 1824 – June 29, 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists. Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances. He attended the École Municipale de Dessin in Marseille from 1842 to 1846, followed by study in Paris under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography of Victor-Pierre Huguet (excerpt)
Victor Pierre Huguet, born May 1, 1835 in Le Lude and died on 1902, was a French famous landscape painter. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Philippe Aristide Denfert-Rochereau, born in Saint-Maixent-l'École January 11, 1823 and died in Versailles May 11, 1878, was a French military commander during the Siege of Belfort in the Franco-Prussian War.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy (October 11, 1814 - February 13, 1888), was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and the first Archbishop of Santa Fe (New Mexico), United States. American writer Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career. ![]()
Biography of John Wanamaker (excerpt)
John (Nelson) Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising. Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Background He opened his first store in 1861, called "Oak Hall", at Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia, on the site of George Washington's Presidential home.
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Biography of Francis Parkman (excerpt)
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism.
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Biography of Octave Feuillet (excerpt)
Octave Feuillet (August 11, 1821–December 29, 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. Overview Octave Feuillet was born at Saint-Lô, Manche (Normandy). His father Jacques Feuillet was a prominent lawyer and Secretary-General of La Manche, but also a hypersensitive invalid. His mother died when he was an infant. ![]()
Biography of Charles Adolphe Wurtz (excerpt)
Adolphe Wurtz (November 26, 1817 - May 10, 1884) was a French chemist. He is perhaps best remembered by chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides with sodium, and for his discoveries of ethylamine and ethylene glycol.
Biography of Hermene Bustos (excerpt)
Hermenilgo Bustos - or Hermene Bustos -, born April 13, 1832 near Mexico, died in 1907, was a Mexican-Indian artist.
Biography of William Herndon (excerpt)
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818, Kentucky - March 18, 1891, Springfield, Illinois) was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon's biography Herndon's family moved from Kentucky to Springfield when he was five. Herndon attended Illinois College from 1836-1837. Following college, he returned to Springfield, where he clerked until 1841, when he went into law practice with Lincoln. ![]()
Biography of Georges Lafenestre (excerpt)
Georges Lafenestre, born on May 5, 1837 in Orléans (birth time source: Lescaut), died on May 19, 1919 in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French poet and art critic. Works (extract) Les Espérances, 1864. Le Parnasse contemporain II (recueil collectif), 1869-1871. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Candeze (excerpt)
Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze was a Belgian doctor and entomologist born 22 February 1827 at Liège and dying in Glain , 30 June , 1898. He studied in Liege under Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801-1870), then studied medicine in Paris and Liège. ![]()
Biography of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (excerpt)
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (William Alexander Frederick Constantine Nicholas Michael, Dutch: Willem Alexander Frederik Constantijn Nicolaas Michiel, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau; 2 August 1818 – 20 February 1848) was born at Soestdijk Palace, the second son to King William II of The Netherlands and Queen Anna Paulowna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
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Biography of Frances Power Cobbe (excerpt)
Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, and suffragist. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage. ![]()
Biography of Isabel Burton (excerpt)
Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell) (London, March 20, 1831 - March 21, 1896) was the wife of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Her father was Henry Raymond Arundell, nephew of James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour .
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Biography of Jean Georges Vibert (excerpt)
French painter.
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Biography of Philippe Rousseau (excerpt)
Philippe Rousseau, born February 22, 1816 in Paris, died in 1888, was a French painter.
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Biography of Hans Thoma (excerpt)
Hans Thoma (October 2, 1839 – November 7, 1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.
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Biography of Jules Breton (excerpt)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (May 1, 1827 – July 5, 1906) was a 19th century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence. |
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