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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.
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Biography of Felix Schadow (excerpt)
Felix Schadow, born on June 21, 1819, in Berlin and died on June 25, 1861, in the same city, was a German painter. He was the son of Johann Gottfried Schadow and the half-brother of Wilhelm von Schadow and Rudolf Schadow.
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Biography of Jules de La Gournerie (excerpt)
Viscount Jules Maillard de La Gournerie was a French engineer and mathematician, born on December 20, 1814, in Nantes, and died on June 25, 1883, in Paris. His studies mainly focused on the geometry of skew curves and their application to stereotomy.
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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}.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Paul Vidal de La Blache (excerpt)
Paul Vidal de La Blache (French pronunciation: , Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 – Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics.
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Biography of Armand Guillaumin (excerpt)
Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Biography Early years Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861.
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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 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.
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Biography of Giovanni Prati (excerpt)
Giovanni Prati (27 January 1815 – 9 May 1884) was an Italian poet and politician. Prati was born in Comano Terme, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was educated in law at Padua. Adopting a literary career, he was inspired by anti-Austrian feeling and devotion to the royal house of Savoy, and in early life his combination of a sympathy for national independence with monarchical sentiments brought him into trouble in both quarters, to the point that Guerrazzi expelled him from Tuscany in 1849 for his praise of Carlo Alberto.
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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 Anita Garibaldi (excerpt)
Anita Garibaldi (born Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro; 30 August 1821 – 4 August 1849) was a Brazilian republican revolutionary. Her time of birth comes from the biography Anthony Valerio, "Anita Garibaldi: A Biography" (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001). She was the wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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Biography of Félix Thyes (excerpt)
Félix Thyes (19 January 1830 – 8 May 1855) was a Luxembourg writer. He is recognized as the first Luxembourg author to write a novel in French. Marc Bruno, profil d'artiste was published shortly after his death in 1855. He was also the first literary historian to discuss literature written in Luxembourgish.
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Biography of Carl Offterdinger (excerpt)
Carl Offterdinger (January 8, 1829 in Stuttgart – January 12, 1889 in Stuttgart) was a German figure and genre painter and illustrator. Book illustrations Offterdinger was a student of Heinrich von Rustige. In the second half of the 19th century, Offterdinger illustrated numerous children's books, fairy tales, adventure stories, and broadsheets.
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Biography of Augusta of Württemberg (excerpt)
Princess Augusta of Württemberg (4 October 1826 in Stuttgart – 3 December 1898, ibid.) was a daughter of King William I of Württemberg and his wife, Pauline of Württemberg. Life Augusta was the third and last child of her parents' marriage. She was described as unattractive, but cheerful and wise.
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Biography of Isabella II of Spain (excerpt)
Isabella II (Spanish: Isabel II, María Isabel Luisa de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904) was Queen of Spain from 1833 until her deposition in 1868. She is the only queen regnant in the history of unified Spain.
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Biography of Henry Taunt (excerpt)
Henry William Taunt (June 14, 1842 – November 4, 1922) was a professional photographer, author, publisher and entertainer based in Oxford, England. His birth time is sourced from the biography "Henry Taunt of Oxford: a Victorian photographer" by Malcolm Graham in 1883.
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Biography of Esther Hobart Morris (excerpt)
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902) was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly 9 months.
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Biography of Paul Cabet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Paul Cabet (1 February 1815, Nuits, Yonne – 1876, Paris), was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of François Rude, his stepfather. Having achieved his own fame, he was the author of the statue known under the name of Résistance as a witness to the heroic fightings in Dijon during the 1870 war and other statues located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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Biography of Johann Georg Fischer (excerpt)
Johann Georg Fischer (25 October 1816 – 4 May 1897) was a German poet and playwright. Biography Fischer was born in Dettenhausen. His father was a carpenter, who died early. After Johann finished his studies in Tübingen between 1831 and 1833, he began to work as a teacher assistant at different places, including Langenau and Ulm.
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Biography of Eugène Mage (excerpt)
Eugène Abdon Mage, born July 30, 1837, in Paris, was a French naval officer and explorer who disappeared at sea off the coast of Brittany on the night of December 18-19, 1869. Joining the Naval School at 13, he embarked on extensive cruises across the Americas and the Pacific, ascending to ensign by September 1855.
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Biography of Elisabet Ney (excerpt)
Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney (26 January 1833 – 29 June 1907) was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover.
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Biography of Emma Thursby (excerpt)
Emma Cecilia Thursby (February 21, 1845 – July 4, 1931) was an American singer popular in Europe and the United States. Her time of birth comes from the biography 'The Life of Emma Thursby, 1845-1931' (1940) by Richard McCandless Gipson. Emma Cecilia Thursby was a renowned American singer born to a rope manufacturer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Biography of Christian Wagner (writer) (excerpt)
Christian Friedrich Wagner (1835-1918) was a German writer and small-scale farmer. Born in Warmbronn, he spent his childhood and youth in humble circumstances. After his confirmation in 1849, he worked on the family farm and as a lumberjack in winter. A passionate butterfly collector and avid reader, he began writing poems in 1860.
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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.
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Biography of Karlis Baumanis (excerpt)
Kārlis Baumanis (11 May 1835 – 10 January 1905), better known as Baumaņu Kārlis, was an ethnic Latvian composer in the Russian Empire. He is the author of the lyrics and music of Dievs, svētī Latviju! (“God bless Latvia!”), the national anthem of Latvia.
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Biography of François Clément Sauvage (excerpt)
François Clément Sauvage, born in Sedan on April 4, 1814 and died in Paris on November 11, 1872, was a French mining engineer and geologist. After a career as a geologist engineer, from 1846 he participated in the work of the railway from Metz to Sarrebrück.
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Biography of Simon Saint-Jean (excerpt)
Simon Saint-Jean is a French painter, born in Lyon on October 14, 1808 and died in Écully on July 3, 1860. Simon Saint-Jean, born to Antoinette Potin and Jean-Marguerite Saint-Jean, a cooper, lost his father early. He joined the École de Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 1822, studying under Pierre Révoil and Augustin Alexandre Thierriat, winning top flower drawing prizes and a gold medal in 1826.
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Biography of Ernst Abbe (excerpt)
Ernst Karl Abbe HonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of scientific microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums, and other advanced optical systems.
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Biography of Susan Warner (excerpt)
Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885), was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World. Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town.
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Biography of Walerian Kalinka (excerpt)
Walerian Kalinka, sometimes Valerian Kalinka, a Polish priest and historian, was born in Kraków in 1826. His time of birth comes from the biography "Valerian Kalinka: life and activity" by Jerzy Mrówczyński (1972). He fled Poland in 1846 due to political involvement in the Krakow Uprising and founded the Polish branch of the Resurrectionist Order.
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Biography of Émile Duployé (excerpt)
Émile Duployé, born on September 10, 1833, in Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, and died on May 9, 1912, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (now in Val-de-Marne), was a French ecclesiastic. He is the author of the Duployé shorthand technique, which was widely used in France in the early 20th century.
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Biography of Alexine Tinne (excerpt)
Alexandrine "Alexine" Pieternella Françoise Tinne (17 October 1835 – 1 August 1869) was a Dutch explorer in Africa who was the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara. She was an early photographer. Tinne, a pioneering photographer from The Hague, worked with several renowned photographers and embarked on an African expedition in 1861.
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Biography of C. I. Defontenay (excerpt)
Charlemagne Ischir Defontenay, writing as C.I. Defontenay (15 Februray 1819 – 14 November 1856), was a French science fiction writer and surgeon. His Star, ou Psi Cassiopea of 1854 is seen by some as an example of proto-space opera. Others see Defontenay as a predecessor of Olaf Stapledon. ![]()
Biography of Charlotte Wolter (excerpt)
Charlotte Wolter (March 1, 1834, in Cologne - June 14, 1897, in Hietzing) was an Austrian actress who began her artistic career in Budapest in 1857. She is buried in an honorary grave at the Central Cemetery in Vienna (group 32 A, number 20), as per her wish, in the costume of Iphigenia from Goethe's play of the same name, her most famous role.
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Biography of Cura Santa Cruz (excerpt)
Manuel Ignacio Santa Cruz Loidi (1842–1926) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest. For some 35 years he served on apostolic mission in Colombia, where he was heading a parish in rural interior of the Pasto province; for some 15 years he held also various minor posts in Jamaica.
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Biography of Onno Klopp (excerpt)
Onno Klopp (9 October 1822 – 9 August 1903) was a German historian best known for his comprehensive work Der Fall des Hauses Stuart (The Fall of the House of Stuart). Educated at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Göttingen, Klopp worked as a teacher before settling in Hanover in 1858, where he became close to King George V, who appointed him Archivrat.
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Biography of Suzanne Lagier (excerpt)
uzanne Lagier (30 November 1833 — 1893) was a French theatre actress and opera singer. She often performed with Thérésa and made many appearances in Paris, France, and Saint Petersburg, Russia. Biography Lagier was born in Dunkirk on 30 November 1833, in the Rue du Magasin à Poudre, but grew up in a boarding school in Paris and her father was a musician.
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Biography of Théodore-Augustin Forcade (excerpt)
Théodore-Augustin Forcade, born in Versailles on March 2, 1816, and died in Aix-en-Provence on September 12, 1885, was a French priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Considered a great traveler, he served as the Apostolic Vicar of Tokyo (Japan) from 1846 to 1852, then as Bishop of Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) from 1853 to 1860, Bishop of Nevers from 1860 to 1873, and finally Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence from 1873 to 1885.
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Biography of Richard Dedekind (excerpt)
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His best known contribution is the definition of real numbers through the notion of Dedekind cut.
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Biography of Dióscoro Puebla (excerpt)
Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín (February 25, 1831 – October 24, 1901) was a Spanish painter known for his work in the Eclectic style, focusing on portraits, genre, and history painting. Born in Burgos, he first displayed his drawing talent in Carrión de los Condes, leading to his studies at the "Escuela Municipal de Dibujo de Palencia" and later at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
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Biography of Ferdinand Carré (excerpt)
Ferdinand Philippe Edouard Carré was a French engineer, born in Moislains, in the Somme department, on March 10, 1824, and died on January 11, 1900, in Pommeuse in the Seine-et-Marne department. He became known for inventing refrigeration devices designed to produce ice for breweries.
Biography of Félix Léon Edoux (excerpt)
Félix Léon Edoux born May 29, 1827 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) and died October 13, 1910 in Paris was a French engineer and industrialist. Edoux is best known for having designed a hydraulic lift he baptized "elevator" in 1867. In 1884, Eiffel ordered from Edoux the elevator which was to connect the second floor to the top of the future Eiffel Tower, and which would operate until 1983.
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Biography of Marcelo Spínola y Maestre (excerpt)
Marcelo Rafael José María de los Dolores Hilario Spínola y Maestre (14 January 1835 - 19 January 1906) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Seville. He established the Handmaids of the Divine Heart.
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Biography of Charles Pigeon (excerpt)
Charles Pigeon, born on March 29, 1838, in Le Mesnil-Lieubray (Seine-Maritime) and died on March 18, 1915, in Paris, was a French inventor and entrepreneur. While Charles Pigeon did not technically invent the kerosene lamp, he was the first to produce and market a portable kerosene lighting device that was patented, non-flammable, and non-explosive.
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Biography of Auguste Mercier (excerpt)
Auguste Mercier (born in Arras on December 8, 1833 and died in Paris on March 3, 1921) was a French general and polytechnician, Minister of War at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. In the summer of 1894, General Mercier, upon learning of the intercepted "Bordereau," saw a political opportunity in convicting the culprit, aiming to gain favor and control the far-right press.
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Biography of Georges Rayet (excerpt)
Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet (12 December 1839 – 14 June 1906) was a French astronomer. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy. He specialized in what was then the new field of spectroscopy.
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Biography of Josephine Lang (excerpt)
Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a gifted German composer, born to musician parents. She was taught piano by her mother and began composing at a young age. Mentored by prominent artists like Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller, and with support from Robert Schumann, her music gained recognition.
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Biography of Paul Brousse (excerpt)
Paul Louis Marie Brousse (23 January 1844 – 1 April 1912) was a French socialist, leader of the possibilistes group. He was active in the Jura Federation, a section of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA), from the northwestern part of Switzerland and the Alsace. |
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