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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 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.
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.
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.
Biography of Auguste Préault (excerpt)
Antoine-Augustin Préault (8 October 1809 – 11 January 1879) was a French sculptor of the "Romantic" movement. Born in the Marais district of Paris, he was better known during his lifetime as Auguste Préault. Biography A student of David d'Angers, Préault first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1833.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Johannes Schmidt (linguist) (excerpt)
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt (July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901) was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie ('wave theory') of language development. Schmidt was born in Prenzlau, Province of Brandenburg. He was educated at Bonn and at Jena where he studied philology (historical linguistics) with August Schleicher and specialized in Indo-European, especially Slavic, languages.
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.
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.
Biography of Septime Le Pippre (excerpt)
Septime Le Pippre born February 13, 1833 in Montfort-l'Amaury died January 2, 1871 was a French painter and junior officer. Septime Le Pippre was mortally wounded on January 12, 1871, during the Battle of Le Mans. He died ten days later. His remains were brought back to Villers-le-Sec, where a large ceremony took place.
Biography of Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (excerpt)
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Jan Van Beers (excerpt)
Jan van Beers (22 February 1821 – 14 November 1888) was a Belgian poet born in Antwerp. He is usually referred to as "van Beers the elder" to distinguish him from his son, Jan van Beers (1852–1927), the painter. Background Van Beers was essentially a Netherlander, though politically a Belgian, expressing his thoughts in the same language as any North Netherland writer.
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.
Biography of Eliza Frances Andrews (excerpt)
Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 - January 21, 1931) was a novelist, essayist, historian, journalist, local press correspondent, botanist, environmentalist, diarist, and American teacher. She was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age. Her shorter works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the New York World and Godey's Lady's Book.
Biography of Adolphe Maillart (excerpt)
Adolphe Maillart is a French actor born in Metz on December 9, 1810 and died in Paris on March 7, 1891.
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.
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.
Biography of Ilia Chavchavadze (excerpt)
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze, a prominent Georgian public figure, journalist, writer, and poet, played a key role in the revival of Georgian nationalism in the late 19th century. He founded two influential newspapers, Sakartvelos Moambe and Iveria, and was instrumental in establishing the Land Bank of Tbilisi.
Biography of Louis Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Louis Gustave Fortuné Ratisbonne (29 July 1827 – 24 September 1900) was a French man of letters, journalist, and critic. He was born at Strasbourg. He was the son of the banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim (daughter of Salomon Oppenheim), and the nephew of the priests Marie Theodor Ratisbonne and Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne.
Biography of Gustav Nachtigal (excerpt)
Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa. He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West Africa. His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire.
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.
Biography of Johanna Mestorf (excerpt)
Johanna Mestorf (17 April 1828, Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein – 20 July 1909, Kiel) was a German prehistoric archaeologist, the first female museum director in the Kingdom of Prussia and usually said to be the first female professor in Germany.
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.
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.
Biography of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (excerpt)
Louis IV (German: Ludwig IV. Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein; 12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family.
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.
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.
Biography of Théophile Labat (excerpt)
Henri Jean Théophile Labat, born March 20, 1834, in Lormont, and died September 10, 1896, in Bordeaux, was a French military engineer, economist, and Polytechnique graduate. He specialized in naval construction, pioneering in hauling techniques, and was recognized for his innovations. Politically, he served as a deputy of the Gironde from 1893 to 1896, focusing on economic and tax issues.
Biography of Louis Toussaint Doutrelaine (excerpt)
Louis Toussaint Simon Doutrelaine, born on July 9, 1820, and died on May 1, 1881, was a French general in the engineering corps. Educated at the École Polytechnique and the military engineering school in Metz, he held various military positions, including during the siege of Rome and the Italian campaign.
Biography of Alexis Damour (excerpt)
Augustin Alexis Damour was a French mineralogist born in the former 11th arrondissement of Paris on July 19, 1808, and died in the same city in the 9th arrondissement on September 22, 1902. After completing a legal education, he pursued an administrative career, notably at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until 1853.
Biography of August Thyssen (excerpt)
August Thyssen (17 May 1842 – 4 April 1926) was a German industrialist, founder and controlling shareholder of Thyssen & Co (presently ThyssenKrupp). He was a prominent member of the Thyssen family. Born in 1842 in Prussia, August Thyssen, heir to a banking family, studied engineering and economics before joining his father's bank.
Biography of Blanche d'Antigny (excerpt)
Marie-Ernestine Antigny, known as Blanche d'Antigny, born in Martizay in the Indre on May 9, 1840, and died in Paris on June 27, 1874, was a French actress and courtesan. Considered a mediocre performer, she was a famous figure in the demi-monde during the Second Empire and inspired, among others, Émile Zola for his character Nana in the novel of the same name.
Biography of Alphonse Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, NDS, (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest and missionary. He later was a co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, a religious congregation dedicated to the conversion of Jews to the Christian faith.
Biography of Augustin Mouchot (excerpt)
Augustin-Bernard Mouchot, born April 7, 1825, in Semur-en-Auxois and died October 4, 1912, in Paris, was a French inventor and teacher renowned for his work in solar energy, creating early conversion tools. Coming from a humble family, he studied in Dijon and became a mathematics and physics teacher.
Biography of Euphrosine Beernaert (excerpt)
Euphrosine Beernaert (11 April 1831 – 7 July 1901) was a Belgian landscape painter. Life Beernaerts was born at Ostend in 1831, and studied under Pierre-Louis Kuhnen in Brussels. She travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and exhibited landscapes at Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris, her favorite subjects being Dutch.
Biography of François Ernest Fournier (excerpt)
François Ernest Fournier, born on May 23, 1842, in Toulouse and died on November 6, 1934, in Paris, was a French vice admiral, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and a military medalist. He joined the Navy in 1859. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he commanded a company of sailors and took part in the battles of Villiers and the Fort of Rosny, getting wounded at the Battle of Le Bourget.
Biography of Oscar Pletsch (excerpt)
Oscar Pletsch (March 26, 1830 - January 12, 1888) was a German illustrator. Born in Berlin to a poor family, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts under Ludwig Richter and Eduard Bendemann. Pletsch worked in Dresden and then Berlin, specializing in genre paintings and illustrations, mainly depicting children.
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.
Biography of Georges Balagny (excerpt)
George or Georges Balagny, born in Batignolles on February 16, 1837, and died in Paris XVIIe on December 17, 1919, was a French photographer. Son of Auguste Balagny, a notary who later became the mayor of Batignolles-Monceau, then of the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris, and finally of Maule, and Adélaïde Léopoldine Genet.
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.
Biography of Nikolai Fyodorov (philosopher) (excerpt)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Фёдоров; surname also Anglicized as "Fedorov", June 7, 1829, Elatomsk District, Tambov Province – December 28, 1903), known in his family as Nikolai Pavlovich Gagarin, was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, religious thinker and futurologist, library science figure and an innovative educator.
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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