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Biography of Ulysse Butin (excerpt)
Ulysse Louis Auguste Butin, born on May 15, 1838 in Saint-Quentin, died on December 9, 1883 in Paris, was a French painter and draftsman.
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Biography of Jacques-Joseph Grancher (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Grancher (September 29, 1843- July 13, 1907) was a French pediatrician who was born in Felletin. In 1865 he earned his medical degree, and afterwards was director of a pathological anatomy laboratory in Clamart (1868-1878). From 1885 until his death in 1907 he was director of Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris.
Biography of William Rufus Shaftner (excerpt)
William Rufus Shaftner, born in Galesburg, Michigan, on October 16, 1835, was an American military man, he commanded the land operations during the Spanish-American war. He received a Medal of Honor. ![]()
Biography of Matthijs Maris (excerpt)
Matthijs Maris, born August 17, 1839 in The Hague and died August 22, 1917 in London, was a Dutch artist and painter.
Biography of Alexandre Becquerel (excerpt)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (March 24, 1820 - May 11, 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He discovered the photovoltaic effect, which is the physics behind the solar cell, in 1839. ![]()
Biography of Paul Kruger (excerpt)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899-1902). ![]()
Biography of Ernest Meissonier (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a leading French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille. ![]()
Biography of Henri Joseph Harpignies (excerpt)
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (July 24, 1819 - August 28, 1916), French landscape painter, was born at Valenciennes. He was intended by his parents for a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Achard's atelier in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Hello (excerpt)
Ernest Hello (5 November 1828 in Lorient - 14 July 1885 in Kéroman) was a French critic and author. Life He was born at Lorient, in Brittany. He was the son of a lawyer who held posts of great importance at Rennes and in Paris, and was well educated at both places, but took to no profession and resided much, for a time, in his father's country-house in Brittany. ![]()
Biography of Édouard Buguet (excerpt)
Édouard Isidore Buguet, born on July 13, 1840 in Saint-Mard-de-Réno (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on October 30, 1890 in Paris (source: Didier Geslain), was a French spirit-photographer. ![]()
Biography of Henri Duveyrier (excerpt)
Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. In 1857 and 1858, he spent some months in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan.
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Biography of Jules Barbier (poet) (excerpt)
Paul Jules Barbier (9 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters . His libretti for extant operas include:
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Biography of Charles Brown-Sequard (excerpt)
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (variant Charles Edward), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, was born at Port Louis, Mauritius, on the April 17, 1817. His father was an American and his mother a Frenchwoman, but he himself always desired to be looked upon as a British subject. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Julien Eymard (excerpt)
Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868) was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious orders, and a canonized saint. Eymard was born 4 February 1811 at La Mure, Isère, France. His first attempt as a seminarian ended when he departed because of poor health.
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Biography of Edouard Pailleron (excerpt)
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (September 17, 1829 (French Wikipedia) - April 19, 1899) was a French poet and dramatist. Born in Paris, he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years. ![]()
Biography of Jules Sandeau (excerpt)
Leonard Sylvain Julien (Jules) Sandeau (February 19, 1811 – April 24, 1883) was a French novelist. He was born at Aubusson (Creuse), and was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time in unruly behaviour with other students.
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Biography of Peter Frans Van Kerckhoven (excerpt)
Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven (Antwerp, 10 November 1818 - Antwerp, 1 August 1857) was a Flemish writer and one of the leaders of the early Flemish movement. He was the son of a broker, and his well-off birth allowed him a decent education.
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Biography of Ferdinand Fabre (excerpt)
Ferdinand Fabre, born June 9, 1827 in Bédarieux and died February 11, in Paris, was a French novelist. Works (extract) * Feuilles de lierre (1853) * Les Courbezon, scènes de la vie cléricale (1861), ouvrage distingué par l'Académie Française ![]()
Biography of Henri Regnault (excerpt)
Alexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault (October 31, 1843 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut)) – January 19, 1871) was a French painter. Regnault was born in Paris, the son of Henri Victor Regnault. On leaving school he successively entered the studios of Montfort, Lamothe and Cabanel, was beaten for the Prix de Rome (1863) by Layraud and Montchablon, and in 1864 exhibited two portraits in no wise remarkable at the Paris Salon. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Assollant (excerpt)
Alfred Assollant (sometimes Assolant), born on March 20, 1827 in Aubusson (Creuse), died on March 3, 1896 in Paris, was a French novelist. Publications (extract) Scènes de la vie des États-Unis. Acacia. Les Butterfly. Une fantaisie américaine (1858) Deux amis en 1792 (1859)
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Biography of Victor de Laprade (excerpt)
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (January 13, 1812 - December 13, 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. He was born at Montbrison, in the département of the Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Antoine Villemin (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 -October 6, 1892) was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853.
Biography of Hippolyte Blot (excerpt)
Hippolyte Blot, born June 14, 1822 in Paris and died March 13, 1888, was a French physician and obstetrician. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Raynaud (excerpt)
Auguste Gabriel Maurice Raynaud (July 5, 1834 (birth time source: Gauquelin collection)–June 29, 1881), is the French doctor who discovered Raynaud's Disease, a rare vasospastic disorder which contracts blood vessels in extremities and is the "R" in the CREST syndrome acronym, in the late 19th century. ![]()
Biography of Paul de Smet de Naeyer (excerpt)
Paul Joseph, Count de Smet de Naeyer (13 May 1843 – 9 September 1913) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, son of a cotton industrialist, he was himself also an industrialist and a banker. He was head of the Société Générale de Belgique and the owner of several coal mines. ![]()
Biography of Louis Jules Trochu (excerpt)
Louis Jules Trochu (12 March 1815 - 7 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense - being France's de facto head of state - from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871). ![]()
Biography of Charles Friedel (excerpt)
Charles Friedel (March 12, 1832 – April 20, 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. A native of Strasbourg, France, he was professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne. Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.
Biography of Louis Martin (blessed) (excerpt)
Blessed Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin (23 December 1823 - 28 August 1877) was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin, born on August 22, 1823 in Bordeaux, and died on July 29, 1894.
Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro. ![]()
Biography of John Addington Symonds (excerpt)
John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible. ![]()
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Biography of Edmond Audran (excerpt)
Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890), and La poupée (1896).
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Biography of Camille Lemonnier (excerpt)
Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (23 March 1844 – 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist La Jeune Belgique group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was Salon de Bruxelles (1863), a collection of art criticism.
Biography of Lorenzo N. Fowler (excerpt)
Lorenzo Niles Fowler, born June 23, 1811 in Coshocton, New York, died in 1896, was an Amercian famous author and phrenologist. He is the brother of phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler. Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a defunct field of study, once considered a science, by which the personality traits of a person were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull. ![]()
Biography of Armand Gautier (excerpt)
Armand Gautier, born September 23, 1837 in Narbonne, died in 1920 in Cannes, was a French chemist.
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Biography of Henri Chapu (excerpt)
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (born Le Mée, 29 September 1833 - died, Paris, 21 April 1891) was a French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition who was known for his use of allegory in his works. Life and career Born into modest circumstances, Chapu moved to Paris with his family and in 1847 entered the Petit École with the intention of studying drawing and becoming an interior decorator.
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Biography of Alexandre Ribot (excerpt)
Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (7 February 1842 – 13 January 1923) was a French politician, four times Prime Minister. Biography He was born in Saint-Omer, France. After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where he was lauréat of the faculty of law, he rapidly made his mark at the bar.
Biography of Jules-Adolphe Chauvet (excerpt)
French draughtsman and painter.
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Biography of Alfred Rethel (excerpt)
Alfred Rethel (1816 - December 1, 1859) was a German history painter. Rethel was born in Aachen in 1816. He showed an interest in art in his early life, and at the age of thirteen he executed a drawing which procured his admission to the academy of Düsseldorf. ![]()
Biography of Bettino Ricasoli (excerpt)
Bettino Ricàsoli, Barone Ricàsoli, Conte di Brolio (March 9, 1809 – October 23, 1880; Italian pronunciation: ) was an Italian statesman. Ricasoli was born in Broglio, in the province of Siena. Left an orphan at eighteen, with an estate heavily encumbered, he was by special decree of the grand duke of Tuscany declared of age and entrusted with the guardianship of his younger brothers.
Biography of Albert Rochas d'Aiglun (excerpt)
Eugène Auguste Albert de Rochas d'Aiglun, born in Saint Firmin-en-Valgaudemar (Hautes-Alpes) May 20, 1837, died in Grenoble, September 2, 1914, was a French military, civil servant and author. He was interested in paranormal phenomena. Works (in French) Les Vallées vaudoises, étude de topographie et d'histoire militaires, Tanera, Paris, 1880 ![]()
Biography of Louis Renault (jurist) (excerpt)
Louis Renault (May 21, 1843 – February 8, 1918) was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. Renault was born at Autun. From 1868 to 1873 Renault was professor of Roman and commercial law at the University of Dijon.
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Biography of Gustave Boulanger (excerpt)
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (April 25, 1824 - 88) was a French figure painter. He was born at Paris, studied with Delaroche and Jollivet, and in 1849 took the Prix de Rome. All his paintings show a refined taste and imagination, but are cold and academic in execution. ![]()
Biography of Gaston Boissier (excerpt)
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (15 August 1823 – 10 June 1908), French classical scholar, and secretary of the French Academy, was born at Nîmes. The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of ancient history. He made epigraphy his particular theme, and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at Angoulême, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Busch (excerpt)
Wilhelm Busch (April 14, 1832 (Wiedensahl near Hannover) - January 9, 1908 (Mechtshausen)) was a German painter and poet who is known for his satirical picture stories. After studying first mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerpen and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures. ![]()
Biography of James Gibbons (excerpt)
James Gibbons (July 23, 1834—March 24, 1921) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921. Gibbons was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886, the second American to receive that distinction. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Daudet (excerpt)
Ernest Daudet, born on May 31, 1837 in Nîmes (time birth source: Lescaut, Gauquelin), died on August 21, 1921 in Les Petites-Dalles, was a French writer and journalist, the brother of Alphonse Daudet. Works (extract) Novels Thérèse (1859) Les Duperies de l’amour (1865) ![]()
Biography of Hans Makart (excerpt)
Hans Makart (Salzburg, May 28, 1840 - October 3, 1884) was a 19th century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and was a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-liked adulation.
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Biography of Bernhard von Gudden (excerpt)
Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden (June 7, 1824 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - June 13, 1886) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist born in Kleve. In 1848 he earned his doctorate from the University of Halle, and became an intern at the asylum in Siegburg under Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi (1775–1858). ![]()
Biography of Carl Schurz (excerpt)
Carl Christian Schurz (German: ; March 2, 1829 in Libla (now Erftstadt) –May 14, 1906 in New York) was a German revolutionary, journalist, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army General in the American Civil War. He was also an accomplished journalist, newspaper editor and orator, who in 1869 became the first German-born American elected to the United States Senate. |
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