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Biography of Antoni Patek (excerpt)
Antoni Norbert Patek (French: Antoine Norbert de Patek; 14 June 1812 – 1 March 1877) was a Polish pioneer in watchmaking and a creator (in 1839) of the Patek Philippe & Co., one of the most famous Swiss watchmaker companies. Patek Philippe is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious watch manufacturers in the world. ![]()
Biography of Paule Mink (excerpt)
Paule Mink (born Adèle Paulina Mekarska; 1839 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 801) – 1901) was a journalist, author, French feminist and socialist revolutionary of Polish descent. She participated in the Paris Commune and in the First International. Her pseudonym is also sometimes spelled Minck.
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Biography of Alphonse Hasselmans (excerpt)
Alphonse Hasselmans (5 March 1845 – 19 May 1912) was a Belgian-born French harpist, composer, and pedagogue. Hasselmans' daughter, Marguerite Hasselmans (1876–1947), was a concert pianist; she was also the mistress of Gabriel Fauré for many years. His son, Louis Hasselmans (1878–1957), was a conductor, especially of opera, whose career took him to the United States, working at the Chicago Civic Opera and the Metropolitan Opera before becoming Professor of Music at Louisiana State University.
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Biography of Valentin Magnan (excerpt)
Valentin Magnan (16 March 1835 – 27 September 1916) was a French psychiatrist who was a native of Perpignan. Magnan was an influential figure in French psychiatry in the latter half of the 19th century. He is remembered for expanding the concept of degeneration that was first introduced into psychiatry by Bénédict Augustin Morel (1809–1873).
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Biography of John Dalberg-Acton (excerpt)
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.
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Biography of Antoine Renard (excerpt)
Antoine-Aimé Renard, born February 14, 1825 in Lille (Nord) (source for his date and time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate, Wikipedia indicates February 15), rue Saint-Sauveur, and died on May 9 1872 in Paris, is a tenor of French opera, best known for having composed in 1867 the music of Temps des cerises, the famous song of Jean-Baptiste Clément. ![]()
Biography of Anselme Bellegarrigue (excerpt)
Anselme Bellegarrigue was a French individualist anarchist, born on March 23, 2813 in Monfort (Gers) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) and presumed dead around the end of the 19th century in Central America. He participated in the French Revolution of 1848, was author and editor of Anarchie, Journal de l'Ordre and Au fait ! Au fait ! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique. ![]()
Biography of Charles Bataille (excerpt)
Charles Bataille, born in Pontgouin (Eure-et-Loir) on January 27, 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Paris on December 10, 1868, is a French journalist, singer, poet, novelist and playwright. From 1854, he collaborated in various newspapers including Le Gaulois, The Diogenes, Le Charivari and Le Figaro (1854-1866) where he held the literary critics, author sometimes under the pseudonyms of Paul Dyas or Antonio, he is famous for being the author of the obituary of Charles Baudelaire published in Le Charivari on September 8, 1867.
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Biography of Octavia Hill (excerpt)
Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912 (cancer)) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing to the financial failure of her father's businesses. ![]()
Biography of Osman Hamdi Bey (excerpt)
Osman Hamdi Bey (Constantinople 30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey. ![]()
Biography of Delphine Delamare (excerpt)
Veronique Delphine Delamare (17 February 1822 – 8 March 1848), born Couturier, was a French housewife who took numerous lovers and later committed suicide. She was said to have been the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. Delamare was the daughter of a wealthy land owner.
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Biography of Anna of Prussia (excerpt)
Princess Maria Anna Friederike (17 May 1836 – 12 June 1918) was a Princess of Prussia. She was usually called Anna. Anna was the youngest of the three children of Prince Charles of Prussia and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. As a beautiful young princess, she was the object of much attention at court.
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Biography of Bertha Beckmann (excerpt)
Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (25 January 1815 – 6 December 1901) was a German photographer. She appears to have been Germany's first professional female photographer, and was possibly also the first professional female photographer in the world, being active a few years prior to Brita Sofia Hesselius and Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri.
Biography of Jean-Romain Lefèvre (excerpt)
Jean-Romain Lefèvre, born April 7, 1819 in Varennes-en-Argonne (Meuse)(birth certificate n° 19 AD55, Janine Tissot), died in 1882, was a French pastry chef. In Nantes, he makes "Reims biscuits" and confectionery. His biscuit quickly acquired a reputation in the region. Following his death, his son, Louis Lefèvre-Utile, took over the biscuit factory and created the famous "Petit Beurre", which became the reference product, and in 1887, he founded the company LU with his brother-in-law Ernest Lefièvre.
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Biography of Vera Zhelikhovskaya (excerpt)
Vera Zhelikhovsky, Russian: Ве́ра Петро́вна Желихо́вская (April 29, 1835 - May 17, 1896), sometimes transliterated as Vera Jelihovsky, was a Russian writer, mostly of children's stories. She was Madame Blavatsky's sister. Vera Zhelikhovsky wrote also fantastic stories with heroes having secret knowledge like Cornelius Agrippa, shamans, and Oriental magicians. ![]()
Biography of Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician) (excerpt)
Cassius Marcellus Clay (October 19, 1810 – July 22, 1903), nicknamed the "Lion of White Hall", was a Kentucky planter, politician and emancipationist who worked for the abolition of slavery. A founding member of the Republican Party in Kentucky, he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the U.
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Biography of Isabella Bird (excerpt)
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Biography of Apollon Maykov (excerpt)
Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (Russian: Аполло́н Никола́евич Ма́йков, June 4 (O.S. May 23) 1821, Moscow – March 20 (O.S. March 8) 1897, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history.
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Biography of Charles-Olivier de Penne (excerpt)
Charles-Olivier de Penne, born January 11, 1831 in Paris (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died April 18, 1897 in Marlotte, is a French painter and illustrator, attached to "the school of Barbizon ". Painter of history, but he is mainly known for his hunting scenes and his animal representations.
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Biography of François-Xavier Garneau (excerpt)
François-Xavier Garneau (June 15, 1809 – February 2 or February 3, 1866) was a nineteenth-century French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant and liberal who wrote a three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada between 1845 and 1848.
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Biography of Jules Beaujoint (excerpt)
Jules Beaujoint, born July 12, 1830 in Grandpré (Ardennes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 22, 1892 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, is a French journalist and popular novelist. He also uses the pseudonym of Jules de Grandpré. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse de Neuville (excerpt)
Alphonse de Neuville (31 May 1835 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 18 May 1885) was a French Academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War and portraits of soldiers.
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Biography of Eugène Lepoittevin (excerpt)
Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870) was a French artist who achieved an early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic caricatures to massive battle scenes. His works are in the collections of many museums throughout France.
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Biography of Juan Serrano Oteiza (excerpt)
Juan Serrano Oteiza, or Juan Serrano y Oteyza (6 May 1837, Madrid - 26 March 1886, Madrid) was a Spanish jurist, writer, journalist, and politician; one of the most prominent anarchists in 19th century Spain. In 1881, the "Federación de Trabajadores de la Región Española " (FTRE), a legal organization, was established.
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Biography of Alexander Herzen (excerpt)
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (6 April (O.S. 25 March) 1812 – 21 January (O.S. 9 January) 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party).
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Biography of William Edward Hartpole Lecky (excerpt)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky OM PC FBA (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century. Lecky concentrated on his major work, A History of England during the Eighteenth Century, Vols. ![]()
Biography of Taras Shevchenko (excerpt)
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (9 March (O.S. 25 February) 1814 – 10 March (O.S. 26 February) 1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
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Biography of Lucretia Garfield (excerpt)
Lucretia Garfield (née Rudolph; April 19, 1832 – March 13, 1918) was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, Garfield first met her husband in 1849 at Geauga Seminary.
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Biography of Julia Kavanagh (excerpt)
Julia Kavanagh (7 January 1824 – 28 October 1877) was an Irish novelist, born at Thurles in Tipperary, Ireland—then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her numerous contributions to literature have classified her as one of the non-canonical minor novelist of the Victorian period (1837–1901).
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Biography of Suzanne Manet (excerpt)
Suzanne Manet, born Suzanne Leenhoff; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled. An excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers.
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Biography of Zacharie Astruc (excerpt)
Zacharie Astruc (20 February (not 23 February, a mistake from Wikipedia) 1833 in Angers – 24 May 1907 in Paris) was a French sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century, and participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
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Biography of Antonin Proust (excerpt)
Antonin Proust (10 March 1832 – 20 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician. Antonin Proust was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. In the 1840s, Proust attended the Collège Rollin where he met lifelong friend Édouard Manet. In September 1850, Proust and Manet joined the studio of Thomas Couture for artistic training.
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Biography of Eugenie Marlitt (excerpt)
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 1825 – 1887), a popular German novelist. She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to study music for three years on account of her fine voice.
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Biography of Adolphe Alphand (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (born in 1817 and died in 1891, interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 66), was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. Born in Grenoble, Alphand entered the École polytechnique in 1835 and continued his engineering studies at the prestigious École des ponts et chaussées in 1837.
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Biography of Constance Gordon-Cumming (excerpt)
Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming (26 May 1837 – 4 September 1924) was a noted Scottish travel writer and painter. Born in a wealthy family, she travelled around the world and painted described scenes and life as she saw them. She was a friend and influencer of the travel writers and artists Marianne North and Isabella Bird.
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Biography of Ernest Pinard (excerpt)
Pierre Ernest Pinard (10 October 1822 – 12 September 1909) was a French prosecutor and Minister of the Interior. He is known for his indictments against Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. Minister of the Interior Pinard was appointed to the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) in 1866, aged 44, seen as one of the new men who could rejuvenate the empire.
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Biography of Amédée Bollée (excerpt)
Amédée-Ernest Bollée (11 January 1844 – 20 January 1917) was a French bellfounder and inventor who specialized in steam cars. After 1867 he was known as "Amédée père" to distinguish him from his similarly named son, Amédée-Ernest-Marie Bollée (1867–1926). Bollée was the eldest son of Ernest-Sylvain Bollée, a bellfounder and inventor who moved to Le Mans in 1842.
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Biography of Alexeï Pissemski (excerpt)
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (23 March (O.S. 11 March) 1821 – 2 February (O.S. 21 January) 1881) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with Sovremennik magazine in the early 1860s.
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Biography of François-Théodore Legras (excerpt)
François-Théodore Legras, born December 27, 1839 in Claudon (Vosges) and died August 2, 1916 in Paris, is a French master glassmaker. He participates in numerous national and international exhibitions where he is very often rewarded. He was also responsible for the glass and crystal section of the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
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Biography of Madeleine Brès (excerpt)
Madeleine Alexandrine Brès (born on 26 November 1842 at Bouillargues (birth certificate n° 79) – 30 November 1921 in Montrouge), born Gebelin, was the first French woman to obtain a medical degree in 1875 after her thesis presentation on the topic of breastfeeding and towards a career focused to pediatric care.
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Biography of Anna Brassey (excerpt)
Anna "Annie" Brassey (née Allnutt), Baroness Brassey (7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887) was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878) describes a voyage around the world.
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Biography of Isabella Braun (excerpt)
Isabella Braun (born 12 December 1815 in Jettingen, died 2 May 1886 in Munich) was a German writer. Braun was the daughter of Bernhard Maria Braun, and his wife Euphemia. After her father's death in 1827, the family moved to Augsburg, where Isabella Braun attended secondary school until 1834.
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Biography of Louise Aston (excerpt)
Luise Aston, or Louise Aston (26 November 1814 – 21 December 1871), was a German author and feminist, who championed the rights of women, and was known for dressing in male attire. She was an advocate of democracy, free love, and sexuality.
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Biography of Ferdinand Barbedienne (excerpt)
Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder. Career The son of a small farmer from Calvados, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Paris.
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Biography of Fanny Fern (excerpt)
Fanny Fern (born Sara Payson Willis; July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers.
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Biography of Henry Bazin (excerpt)
Henri-Émile Bazin (20 October 1829 – 7 February 1917) was a French engineer specializing in hydraulic engineering.
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Biography of Maria Elise Turner Lauder (excerpt)
Maria Elise Turner Lauder (pen name Toofie Lauder, also known as Maria Elise Turner de Touffe Lauder; 20 February 1833 – 1 June 1922) was a Canadian teacher, linguist, and author who travelled extensively in Europe. She published novels and poetry, but mostly was known for writing about her travels.
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Biography of Marcellin Desboutin (excerpt)
Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin (Cérilly 26 August 1823 – 18 February 1902 Nice) was a French painter, printmaker, and writer. Desboutin always signed himself Baron de Rochefort. As a writer, Desboutin, besides Maurice of Saxony, is the author of a translation of Byron's Don Juan and of a drama performed in the late 1880s, Madame Roland.
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Biography of Agénor de Gasparin (excerpt)
Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 (his birth time comes from Orange's online archives) – 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author. He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping. He was born at Orange, Vaucluse, the son of Adrien de Gasparin.
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Biography of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (excerpt)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain. |
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