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Biography of Zulma Bouffar (excerpt)
Zulma Madeleine Boufflar, known as Zulma Bouffar, born Nérac 23 May 1843, died Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames 20 January 1909, was a French actress and soprano singer, associated with the opéra-bouffe of Paris in the second half of the 19th century who enjoyed a successful career around Europe. ![]()
Biography of Karl von Piloty (excerpt)
Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 – 21 July 1886) was a German painter. Von Piloty was born in Munich. His father, Ferdinand Piloty (d. 1844), enjoyed a great reputation as a lithographer. In 1840 he was admitted as a student of the Munich Academy, under the artists Schorn and Schnorr.
Biography of Jacques Charles Bresse (excerpt)
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (Vienne, France, October 9, 1822 – May 22, 1883) was a French civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of hydraulic motors. His name, along with 72 others, is engraved underneath the first balcony on the Eiffel Tower for his contributions to the field of civil engineering. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Drumont (excerpt)
Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer. He founded the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder and editor of the newspaper La Libre Parole. Early life Drumont was born in Paris on 3 May 1844 to a family of porcelain-painters from Lille.
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Biography of Auguste Beernaert (excerpt)
Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the 14th Prime Minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894. Born in Ostend, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1873, and became Minister of Public Works under Jules Malou, greatly improving the rail, canal and road systems.
Biography of Sri Sumangala (excerpt)
Sri Sumangala, born on January 20, 1827 in Hikkaduwa, Galle, Ceylon, died on April 29, 1911, was an Indonesian high priest. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Belgrand (excerpt)
Eugène Belgrand (23 April 1810 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 8 April 1878) was a French engineer who made significant contributions to the modernization of the Parisian sewer system during the 19th century rebuilding of Paris. Much of Belgrand's work remains in use today.
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Biography of Hippolyte Langlois (excerpt)
Hippolyte Langlois (3 August 1839 - 12 February 1912) was a French general noted for his writings on military science. He was born at Besançon, Doubs, and, after passing through the École polytechnique, was appointed to the artillery as sub-lieutenant in 1858, attaining the rank of captain in 1866. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (excerpt)
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (b. Mechelen, Belgium, December 19, 1809; d. Leuven January 8, 1894) was a zoologist and paleontologist. He studied medicine at the University of Louvain, and studied zoology in Paris under Georges Cuvier (1769–1832). In 1831 he became curator at the natural history museum in Leuven, and from 1836 until 1894 was a professor of zoology at the Catholic University in that city.
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Biography of Louis Veuillot (excerpt)
Louis Veuillot (October 11, 1813–March 7, 1883) was a French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. He was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret). When he was five, his parents moved to Paris. ![]()
Biography of Georges Darboy (excerpt)
Georges Darboy (16 January 1813 - 27 May 1871) was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown.
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Biography of Francisque Sarcey (excerpt)
Francisque Sarcey (October 8, 1827 – May 16, 1899) was a French journalist and dramatic critic. He was born in Dourdan, Seine-et-Oise. After some years as schoolmaster, a job for which his temperament was ill-fitted, he entered journalism in 1858. He contributed to Le Figaro, L'Illustration, Le Gaulois, Le XIX' Siècle and other periodicals; but his main interest was dramatic criticism, of which he had his first experience in L'Opinion nationale in 1859. ![]()
Biography of Ouida (excerpt)
Ouida (January 1, 1839 – January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). Biography Ramé was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, to a French father and an English mother.
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Biography of Jules Champfleury (excerpt)
Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Setepmber 17, 1820 Laon - 1889 Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris. He met Charles Baudelaire and the next year started writing art criticism under the pen-name "Champfleury" for the journal L’Artiste.
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Biography of Emile Augier (excerpt)
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme, the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in spirit as well as by birth. ![]()
Biography of Karl Alfred von Zittel (excerpt)
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (September 25, 1839 - January 5, 1904), German palaeontologist, was born at Bahlingen in Baden. He was educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna. ![]()
Biography of Louis Martin (excerpt)
Louis and Zélie Martin are the parents of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun who was canonized a saint and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church, one of only three women to receive that honor. She is also known as The Little Flower of Jesus. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Vaillant (excerpt)
Marie Édouard Vaillant (29 January 1840–18 December 1915) was a French politician. Born in in Vierzon, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then law at the Sorbonne. In Paris he knew Charles Longuet, Louis-Auguste Rogeard, and Jules Vallès.
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Biography of Ned Buntline (excerpt)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886), known by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer. Later work and death Buntline continued to write dime novels, but none was as successful as his earlier work. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Charles Cazin (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Cazin (May 25, 1841 – March 17, 1901), French landscape painter and ceramicist, son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788-1864), was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art After studying in France, he went to England, where he was strongly influenced by the pre-Raphaelite movement.
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Biography of Isaac Pitman (excerpt)
Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 12 January 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge.
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Biography of Constantin Meunier (excerpt)
Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905), Belgian painter and sculptor, was born in Etterbeek, Brussels. His first exhibit was a plaster sketch, "The Garland," shown at the Brussels Salon in 1851. Soon afterwards, on the advice of the painter Charles de Groux, he abandoned the chisel for the brush.
Biography of Raphael V (excerpt)
Raphael V, born Sparks on July 17, 1820 in London, was a British professional astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (excerpt)
French politician, mayor of the second district of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Alexander Smith (poet) (excerpt)
Alexander Smith (31 December 1829 (source: Lescaut)- 5 January 1867, 8 January according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School. Life and works He was born in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the Scottish Lowlands south-west of Glasgow, the first of several children. ![]()
Biography of Adolph Kolping (excerpt)
Adolph Kolping (December 8, 1813 in Kerpen — December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest. Life Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest. ![]()
Biography of Jacob Burckhardt (excerpt)
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland – August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. ![]()
Biography of Emile Blanche (excerpt)
(Antoine) Émile Blanche born in Paris on October 1, 1820 and died in Paris on August 15, 1893, is a French alienist (a doctor specializing in the treatment of the insane). He was born in the nursing home that his father Esprit Blanche (1796-1852), himself an alienist, directed.
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Biography of George Dewey (excerpt)
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 – January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of heat stroke) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Mallard (excerpt)
Ernest-François Mallard (February 4, 1833 in Châteauneuf-sur-Cher - July 6, 1894 in Paris) was a French mineralogist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Biography of David Younger (excerpt)
David Younger, born October 21, 1828 in Ecclefechan, died in 1905, was a Scottish botanist, physician and writer. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, born November 9, 1821 in Guebwiller, died May 20, 1910 in Trottberg bei Gebweiler, was a French musician, composer and editor. ![]()
Biography of Charles Francis Adams Jr. (excerpt)
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27, 1835 – May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war.
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Biography of Henri de Bornier (excerpt)
Henri, vicomte de Bornier (24 December 1825 in Lunel (source: Gauquelin Vol. 6/122) – January 1901) was a French poet and dramatist, born in Lunel (Hérault). He came to Paris in 1845 with the object of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comédie-Française accepted a play of his entitled Le Manage de Luther. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Colonne (excerpt)
Édouard Juda Colonne (23 July 1838 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 28 March 1910) was a French conductor and violinist. Born in Bordeaux, Colonne studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, where he won first prizes in both harmony and violin. For almost a decade (1858-67) he was first violinist at the Opéra in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Felipe Pedrell (excerpt)
Felip Pedrell (Spanish: Felipe)(19 February 1841, Tortosa – 19 August 1922, Barcelona), was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain.
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Biography of Benedetto Cairoli (excerpt)
Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian statesman. Biography Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament. ![]()
Biography of Victor Puiseux (excerpt)
Victor Alexandre Puiseux (April 16, 1820 in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) – September 9, 1883 in Frontenay (Jura)) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Life He was born in 1820 in Argenteuil, France.
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Biography of Paolo Boselli (excerpt)
Paolo Boselli (June 8, 1838 (birth time source: Lescaut) – March 10, 1932) was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I. Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria. In June 1916 he was a relatively undistinguished center-right politician and one the oldest members of the Italian parliament, when he was appointed Prime Minister, following the collapse of the Salandra government as a result of military defeats.
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Biography of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (excerpt)
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
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Biography of Guillaume Fouace (excerpt)
Guillaume Fouace, born May 22, 1837 in Réville (Manche), and died January 7, 1895 in Paris, was a French painter.
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Biography of Gustave Droz (excerpt)
Antoine Gustave Droz (June 9, 1832, Paris – October 22, 1895), French man of letters, son of the sculptor J. A. Droz (1807-1872), was born in Paris. He was a painter and a novelist. He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857.
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Biography of Charles Delescluze (excerpt)
Louis Charles Delescluze (October 2, 1809 (birth time source: birth certificate, page 138, archives online) – May 25, 1871) was a French journalist. He was born at Dreux, Eure-et-Loir. Having studied law in Paris, he early developed a strong democratic bent, and played a part in the July revolution of 1830. ![]()
Biography of August Belmont (excerpt)
August Belmont, Sr. (December 8, 1813 – November 24, 1890) was born in Alzey, Hesse, to a Jewish family. He emigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry.
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Biography of Ludovic Trarieux (excerpt)
Ludovic Trarieux (November 30. 1840, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, Charente (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 13 1904) was a French Republican statesman, prominent Dreyfusard, and pioneer of international human rights. Early life Ludovic Trarieux was born on November 30 1840, in Aubeterre (Charente). He was called to the Bar of Bordeaux in 1862 and practiced there until 1881.
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Biography of Jules Simon (excerpt)
Jules François Simon (27 December 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction. Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton. ![]()
Biography of Franciscus Donders (excerpt)
Franciscus Cornelis Donders (Tilburg, May 27, 1818 - Utrecht, March 24, 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist who did pioneering work on animal and vegetable heat, among many other things. He was a professor in Physiology in Utrecht from 1847 and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients.
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Biography of François Perrier (excerpt)
François Perrier (18 April 1835 – 20 February 1888) was a French soldier and geodesist. Perrier was born at Valleraugue (Gard), descended from a family of Protestants, of Cevennes. After finishing his studies at the Lyceum of Nimes and at St. Barbe College, he was admitted to the Polytechnic School in 1853, leaving in 1857 as a staff officer.
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Biography of Louis Bouilhet (excerpt)
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1821 (birth time source: Lescaut, Geslain) – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus.
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Biography of Ambrose Burnside (excerpt)
Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater. |
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