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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.
Biography of Candace Wheeler (excerpt)
Candace Wheeler (née Thurber; March 24, 1827 – August 5, 1923), often credited as the mother of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers. She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to women, supporting craftswomen, and for encouraging a new style of American design.
Biography of Louisa Anne Meredith (excerpt)
Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer, illustrator and possibly one of Australia's earliest photographers. Emigration to Australia Meredith and her husband sailed for New South Wales in June 1839, and arrived at Sydney on 27 September 1839.
Biography of Charles Amet (excerpt)
Charles Victor Eugène Amet, born November 11, 1824 in Besançon, son of Pierre-Théodore Alphonse Amet, merchant and Marie Anne Stéphanie Bletry (originally from Belfort)1. Died February 5, 1902 in Paris, was a French naval officer of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Biography of Marie Nathusius (excerpt)
Marie Nathusius, née Scheele (March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg – December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt) was a German novelist and composer. Life Her father was the Calvinist parson Friedrich August Scheele. Marie Nathusius grew up in Calbe (Saale). 1841 she married the publisher Philipp von Nathusius (1815–1872).
Biography of Adrien Proust (excerpt)
Adrien Achille Proust (18 March 1834 – 26 November 1903) was a French epidemiologist and hygienist. He was the father of novelist Marcel Proust and doctor Robert Proust. He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1862 he obtained his medical doctorate. Beginning in 1863 he worked as chef de clinique, and in 1866 earned his agrégation with the thesis Des différentes formes de ramollissement du cerveau (On different forms of softening of the brain).
Biography of Matilda Betham-Edwards (excerpt)
Matilda Betham-Edwards (4 March 1836, in Westerfield, Ipswich – 4 January 1919, in Hastings) was an English novelist, travel writer and Francophile, and a prolific poet, who corresponded with several well-known English male poets of the day. In addition, she wrote a number of children's books.
Biography of Eliza Archard Conner (excerpt)
Eliza Archard Conner (née, Archard; pen names, Zig; E. A.; January 4, 1838 – June 4, 1912) was an American writer, journalist, novelist, lecturer, teacher, and feminist of the long nineteenth century. Hailing from Ohio, Conner began writing for newspapers at the age of 13.
Biography of Roger Boussinot (excerpt)
Roger Boussinot, alias Emmanuel Le Lauraguais and Roger Mijema, is a French writer, critic, film historian and director, born May 2, 1921 in Tunis and died May 14, 2001 in Bassanne, in his recognizable house with blue shutters. A scholar historian close to the libertarian movement, he published in 1967 an Encyclopedia of Cinema followed by a Dictionary of synonyms, analogies and antonyms and, in 1982, an alphabet book, The Words of Anarchy.
Biography of Ernest Boulanger (composer) (excerpt)
Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer of comic operas and a conductor. He was more known, however, for being a choral music composer, choral group director, voice teacher, and vocal contest jury member.
Biography of Félix Arvers (excerpt)
élix Arvers (July 23, 1806 – November 7, 1850) was a French poet and dramatist, most famous for his poem Un secret. Born in Paris, Arvers abandoned his law career aged 30 to concentrate on theatre. His plays gained moderate success in their own time, but none were as notorious as Un Secret, dedicated to Marie, the daughter of writer Charles Nodier.
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.
Biography of Félix Hippolyte Larrey (excerpt)
Félix Hippolyte Larrey, born September 18, 1808 in Paris, died October 8, 1895 in the same city, 2nd Baron Larrey, was a French military doctor and politician. Chief doctor of the army, he was the doctor of Napoleon III, deputy of the Hautes-Pyrénées between 1877 and 1881 and member of the Institut de France (Academy of Sciences, free member, December 9, 1867).
Biography of Alice Cary (excerpt)
Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Works Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849) A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary With Some of Their Later Poems, compiled and edited by Mary Clemmer Ames (1873)
Biography of Amédée de Noé (excerpt)
Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (26 January 1818 – 6 September 1879), was a French caricaturist and lithographer. He was born in Paris and raised by a family who wished for him to attend a polytechnic school. He instead attended painting workshops hosted by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist.
Biography of Louise von François (excerpt)
Marie Louise von François (27 June 1817 in Herzberg (Elster) – 25 September 1893 in Weißenfels) was a German writer, best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She was a friend and correspondent of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.
Biography of Henri Rouart (excerpt)
Stanislas-Henri Rouart (2 October 1833, Paris - 2 January 1912, Paris) was a French engineer, industrialist, art collector and painter. Biography His father was a wealthy manufacturer of military uniforms. He was a student at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas.
Biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (excerpt)
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education.
Biography of Alexandre Lacassagne (excerpt)
Alexandre Lacassagne (August 17, 1843 – September 24, 1924) was a French physician and criminologist who was a native of Cahors. He was the founder of the Lacassagne school of criminology, based in Lyon and influential from 1885 to 1914, and the main rival to Lombroso's Italian school.
Biography of Charles Todd (pioneer) (excerpt)
Sir Charles Todd KCMG FRS FRAS FRMS FIEE (7 July 1826 – 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables until engaged by the government of South Australia as astronomical and meteorological observer, and head of the electric telegraph department.
Biography of Valérie de Gasparin (excerpt)
Valérie Boissier, comtesse de Gasparin (13 September 1813 – 1894) was a Swiss woman of letters. She was a spokeswoman in topics such as freedom, equality and creativity. She was born at Geneva. She was the wife of Agénor de Gasparin. She lived a great part of her life in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and was a prolific writer on religion, social topics and travel.
Biography of Julien Tanguy (art dealer) (excerpt)
Julien François Tanguy, called Père Tanguy (June 28, 1825, Plédran, Brittany - February 6, 1894, Paris) was a French art dealer, gallery owner, art collector, and patron who was one of the first buyers of Impressionist paintings. He played an important role in promoting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Biography of Eliza Farnham (excerpt)
Eliza Farnham (November 17, 1815 – December 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform. She was born in Rensselaerville, New York. She moved to Illinois in 1835, and there married Thomas J. Farnham in 1836, but returned to New York in 1841.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bornet is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888.
Biography of Helen Hunt Jackson (excerpt)
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881).
Biography of Charles Boycott (excerpt)
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb "to boycott". He had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland.
Biography of Jean-Louis Verger (priest) (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Verger (20 August 1826 – 30 January 1857) was a French Catholic priest who assassinated Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, the Archbishop of Paris, in January 1857, after the archbishop ordered him to desist from publishing pamphlets against clerical celibacy and the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Biography of André Gill (excerpt)
André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray.
Biography of Gabriel Jugan (excerpt)
Gabriel Auguste Jugan, born September 7, 1807 in Rochefort, died February 15, 1855 in the Strait of Bonifacio, was a French captain. His name is especially linked to the sinking of the Sémillante, which he commanded, a 19th century French navy frigate.
Biography of John McDouall Stuart (excerpt)
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 1815 – 5 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the first successful expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north and return, through the centre of the continent.
Biography of Nicolas Lebel (excerpt)
Colonel Nicolas Lebel (18 August 1838 – 6 May 1891), after whom the French military's Lebel rifle was named. Biography Nicolas Lebel was born in Saint-Mihiel (Meuse) near Verdun. Interested by the prospects of a military career he enrolled in the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1855.
Biography of Rebecca Harding Davis (excerpt)
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (June 24, 1831 – September 29, 1910) was an American author and journalist. She was a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the short story "Life in the Iron-Mills," published in the April 1861 edition of The Atlantic Monthly which quickly made her an established female writer.
Biography of Mary Mapes Dodge (excerpt)
Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.
Biography of Michel Eyraud (excerpt)
Gouffé Case The Gouffé Case, also known as the Gouffé trunk, Miller's bloody trunk or the Eyraud-Bompard affair was an 1889 murder case which unfolded in France. On 26 July 1889, bailiff Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé of Montmartre, Paris, was reported missing. Two weeks later, Gouffé's corpse was found 300 miles (480km) away, near Millery village, a suburb of Lyon.
Biography of Paul Taffanel (excerpt)
Claude-Paul Taffanel (17 May 1844 (Wikipedia has 16 September) – 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century.
Biography of Henri Robin (excerpt)
Henri Robin (12 July 1811 – 24 February 1874), born Henrik Joseph Donckel, was a French illusionist, born in Hazebrouck. In the early 1850s, he performed at Windsor Castle, at the request of Queen Victoria. In 1861, he became the first illusionist to offer a full programme of magic at Egyptian Hall in London.
Biography of François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville (excerpt)
François d'Orléans, Prince de Joinville (14 August 1818 – 16 June 1900) was the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours.
Biography of Jean-Albert Gauthier-Villars (excerpt)
Jean-Albert Gauthier-Villars, born March 31, 1828 in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) and died February 5, 1898 in Paris, was a French engineer and editor. The son of a printer, he successfully passed the exams for the school of administration in 1848 and then took courses at the École polytechnique, from which he graduated in 1850 with the title of telegraph engineer.
Biography of Frances Harper (excerpt)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.
Biography of Rose Terry Cooke (excerpt)
Rose Terry Cooke (February 17, 1827 – July 18, 1892) was an American author and poet. Some of her earliest contributions were published in Putnam's Magazine; and the Atlantic Monthly, in which she wrote the leading story in the first number; then in the Galaxy, published in Philadelphia; and in Harper's.
Biography of Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (excerpt)
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (May 6, 1823 – August 1, 1902) was an American poet and novelist. Soon after her marriage to Richard Henry Stoddard, the author, she began to publish poems in all the leading magazines, and thereafter, she was a frequent contributor.
Biography of Alexander Mollinger (excerpt)
Godard Alexander Gerrit Philip Mollinger (8 March 1836, Utrecht - 14 September 1867, Utrecht) was a Dutch landscape and genre painter. Although he signed his paintings "A. Mollinger", some sources refer to him as Gerrit Mollinger. His father was an infantry officer.
Biography of François Hennebique (excerpt)
François Hennebique (25 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column and the beam, into a single monolithic element.
Biography of Henri Henrot (excerpt)
Henri Alfred Henrot (born in Reims on May 22, 1838 and died in Paris on February 25, 1919), brother of Alexandre Henrot, municipal councilor since 1870, was mayor of Reims from 1884 to 1896. He is the son of Jean-Baptiste Henrot (1791-1868) and Euphrosine Leclerc (1795-1873}.
Biography of Maria Susanna Cummins (excerpt)
Maria Susanna Cummins (April 9, 1827 – October 1, 1866) was an American novelist. She was the author of the widely popular novel The Lamplighter. Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1827. She was the daughter of Honorable David Cummins and Maria F.
Biography of Étienne Vacherot (excerpt)
Étienne Vacherot (29 July 1809 – 28 July 1897) was a French philosophical writer. Life Vacherot was born of peasant parentage at Torcenay, near Langres in the Haute-Marne département of France. He was educated at the École Normale, and returned there as director of studies in 1838, after some years spent in provincial schoolmasterships.
Biography of Jean Compagnon (carpenter) (excerpt)
Jean Compagnon, born January 20, 1837 in Reyrieux and died November 17, 1900 in Paris, was a carpenter who participated in the construction of several remarkable bridges and viaducts as well as the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Harriet E. Wilson (excerpt)
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
Biography of James Paget (excerpt)
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (/ˈpædʒət/, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology.
Biography of Marie Sasse (excerpt)
Marie Constance Sasse (18 October 1838 – 8 November 1907) was a Belgian operatic soprano. "Her voice was powerful, flexible, and appealing", and she was one of the leading sopranos at the Paris Opéra from 1860 to 1870. She created the roles of Elisabeth in the Paris premiere of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Sélika in the world premiere of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, and Elisabeth de Valois in the world premiere of Verdi's Don Carlos. |
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