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Biography of André Hubert Dumont (excerpt)
André Hubert Dumont (February 15, 1809–February 28, 1857) was a Belgian geologist. Dumont was born at Liège. His first work was a masterly Mémoire on the geology of the province of Liege published in 1832. A few years later he became professor of mineralogy and geology and afterwards rector in the University of Liege.
Biography of Frans de Cort (excerpt)
Frans Jozef de Cort (Antwerp, 21 June 1834- Elsene, 18 January 1878) was a Flemish writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Dumas Fils (excerpt)
Alexandre Dumas, fils (French for son, similar to Junior in English) (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his father's footsteps becoming a celebrated writer, author and playwright. Alexandre Dumas, fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794 – 1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. ![]()
Biography of Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel (excerpt)
Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel, born on April 2, 1831 in Paris, died on January 2010 in Paris, was a French artist, painter, and lithographer. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Azam (excerpt)
Étienne Eugène Azam (1822 (source not archived – 1899) was a French surgeon from Bordeaux who is chiefly remembered for his work in psychology, particularly a case involving a female patient he named "Félida X" who seemed to have "alternating personalities", or what Azam referred to as doublement de la vie. ![]()
Biography of Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau (excerpt)
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (February 10, 1810 - January 12, 1892) was a French naturalist. He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue (Gard), the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied medicine at Strasbourg, where he took the double degree of M. ![]()
Biography of Jenny Lind (excerpt)
Johanna Maria Lind (October 6, 1820 – November 2, 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish-born opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". She is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and Europe, as well as for an extraordinarily popular tour of America beginning in 1850, and for her philanthropic work. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Chamberlain (excerpt)
Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was an influential British businessman, politician, and statesman. In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later became a Liberal Unionist in alliance with the Conservative Party and was appointed Colonial Secretary. ![]()
Biography of Charles Hermite (excerpt)
Charles Hermite (pronounced ) (December 24, 1822 – January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. Hermite polynomials, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. ![]()
Biography of Henri Fantin-Latour (excerpt)
Henri Fantin-Latour (January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) was a French painter and lithographer. Born Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, France, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers. ![]()
Biography of Henri Maréchal (excerpt)
Henri Maréchal, born January 22, 1842 in Paris, died May 12, 1924 in Paris, was a French musician, composer and poet. ![]()
Biography of Ernst Haeckel (excerpt)
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 (birth time source: Thomas Ring, vol 3) – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, phylogeny, ecology and the kingdom Protista.
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Biography of Algernon Charles Swinburne (excerpt)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion. Swinburne was born in London, and raised on the Isle of Wight, and at Capheaton Hall, near Wallington, Northumberland. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Grévin (excerpt)
Alfred Grévin (28 January 1827 – 1892) was a 19th century caricaturist, best known during his lifetime for his caricature silhouettes of contemporary Parisian women. He was also a sculptor, cartoonist, and designed costumes and sets for popular theater. He founded with journalist Arthur Meyer the Musée Grévin, a waxwork museum. ![]()
Biography of Émile Paladilhe (excerpt)
Émile Paladilhe (3 June 1844 (birth time source: Lescaut) - 6 January 1926) was a French composer of the late romantic period. Biography Émile Paladilhe was born in Montpellier. He was a musical child prodigy, and moved from his home in the south of France to Paris to begin his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris at age 10. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Doudart de Lagrée (excerpt)
Ernest Marc Louis de Gonzague Doudart de Lagrée (March 31, 1823 - March 12, 1868) was the leader of the French Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868. He was born in Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze near Grenoble, France, and graduated from the École Polytechnique. He joined the navy and served in the Crimean War, then took up a post in Indochina in the hope that the climate would help his chronically ulcerated throat. ![]()
Biography of Oswald Achenbach (excerpt)
Oswald Achenbach (2 February 1827 - 1 February 1905) was a German landscape painter. Born in Düsseldorf, he received his art education from his brother, Andreas Achenbach. His landscapes generally dwell on the rich and glowing effects of color which drew him to the Bay of Naples and the neighborhood of Rome.
Biography of Leo Delibes (excerpt)
(Clément Philibert) Léo Delibes (February 21, 1836 – January 16, 1891) was a French composer of Romantic music. He was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, France. Delibes was born in 1836, the son of a mailman and a musical mother, but also the grandson of an opera singer. ![]()
Biography of François-Louis Français (excerpt)
François Louis Français (November 17, 1814 - 1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller. After a few years of hard struggle, during which he made a precarious living by drawing on stone and designing woodcut vignettes for book illustration, he studied painting under Gigoux, and subsequently under Corot, whose influence remained decisive upon Français's style of landscape painting. ![]()
Biography of Stephen Foster (excerpt)
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century. His songs, such as "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("S(u)wanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer" remain popular over 150 years after their composition. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Guillaume (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (4 July 1822 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 1 March 1905) was a French sculptor, professor, and art critic. Biography He was born at Montbard, Côte-d'Or. He studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the École des Beaux-Arts, which he entered in 1841, and where he gained the prix de Rome in 1845 with "Theseus finding on a rock his Father's Sword.
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Biography of Franz Hartmann (excerpt)
Franz Hartmann (November 22, 1838 - August 7, 1912) was a German physician, theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, and author of esoteric works. He wrote esoteric studies and a biography of Jakob Böhme and of Paracelsus. He translated the Bhagavad Gita into German and was the editor of the journal Lotusblüten. ![]()
Biography of Maximilian I of Mexico (excerpt)
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (Emperador Maximiliano I de México) (July 6, 1832 – June 19, 1867) (born Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg-Lorraine family. With the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican monarchists, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on April 10, 1864. ![]()
Biography of Sebastian Kneipp (excerpt)
Sebastian Kneipp (May 17, 1821, Stephansried, Germany – June 17, 1897 in Wörishofen) was a Bavarian priest and one of the founders of the Naturopathic medicine movement. He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy, a system of healing involving the application of water through various methods, temperatures and pressures. ![]()
Biography of Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale (excerpt)
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (January 16, 1822 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Duc d'Aumale: le prince, le soldat, l'historien" by Léonce Grandin (Haton, 1897), p. 15: ". trois des organes les plus importants de l'époque, enregistraient ainsi la naissance du duc d'Aumale : « S. ![]()
Biography of William Booth (excerpt)
William Booth (April 10, 1829 – August 20, 1912) was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became the first General (1878-1912). The Christian movement, with a quasi-military structure and government - but with no physical weaponry, founded in 1865 has spread from London, England, to many parts of the world and is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid. ![]()
Biography of Casimir Davaine (excerpt)
Casimir Davaine (1812-1882) was a French physician known for his work in the field of microbiology. In 1850, Davaine along with French dermalogist Pierre François Olive Rayer (1793-1867) discovered a certain microorganism in the blood of diseased and dying sheep. In the diseased blood, Rayer and Davaine isolated the bacillus which is known as anthrax.
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Biography of Adolphe Chéruel (excerpt)
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (January 17, 1809 – May 1, 1891) was a French historian. He was born at Rouen and educated at the École Normale Supérieure, becoming a fellow (agregé) in 1830. His early studies were concerned with local history. His Histoire de Rouen sous la domination anglaise au XVe siècle (1840) and Histoire de Rouen pendant l'époque communale, 1550-1382 (Rouen, 1843-1844), are major productions for a time when the archives were neither catalogued nor classified, and contain useful documents previously unpublished. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Henri Fabre (excerpt)
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 21, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author. Life Fabre was born in Saint-Léons, Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras. ![]()
Biography of Liliuokalani (excerpt)
Liliʻuokalani (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917), born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. She was also known as Lydia Kamakaʻeha Pākī, with the chosen royal name of Liliʻuokalani, and she was later named Kaolupoloni K.
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Biography of Philibert Léon Couturier (excerpt)
Philibert Léon Couturier, born on May 26, 1823 in Chalon-sur-Saône (source for his tim of birth: Jacques de Lescaut), was a French animal painter and portrait painter.
Biography of Aimé-Henry Resal (excerpt)
Aimé Henry Resal, born January 27, 1828 in Plombières-les-Bains in les Vosges, died August 22, 1896 in Annemasse, was a French engineer, professor and mathematician. He is the father of French engineer Jean Résal. He was a member of French Academy of Sciences.
Biography of William Livingstone Alden (excerpt)
William Livingstone Alden, born October 9, 1937 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, mort le 14 janvier 1908 à Buffalo, New York, was an American journalist and writer. ![]()
Biography of Frances Willard (excerpt)
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. She was born to a schoolteacher in Churchville, New York, near Rochester, New York but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin. ![]()
Biography of Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (excerpt)
Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (October 23, 1813–May 18, 1900) was a French philosopher and archaeologist. He was born at Namur. After a successful course of study at the College Rollin, he went to Munich, where he attended the lectures of Schelling, and took his degree in philosophy in 1836.
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Biography of Victor Massé (excerpt)
Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé; 7 March 1822 – 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Massé was born in Lorient (Morbihan) and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le Rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera. ![]()
Biography of Amédée Bonnet (excerpt)
Amédée Bonnet, born March 20, 1809 (source: Gauquelin) in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain, died in 1858, was a French orthopedic surgeon, and a Member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Biography of Léopold Stapleaux (excerpt)
Léopold Guillaume Stapleaux, born October 16, 1831 in Brussels and died November 1891 in Paris, was a Belgian author and novelist. Selected works Romans La Chasse aux blancs (1861) Cent francs du dompteur (1863) Fabio (1864) Les Drames du grand monde. ![]()
Biography of Camille Jordan (excerpt)
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (January 5, 1838 – January 22, 1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse. He was born in Lyon and educated at the École polytechnique. ![]()
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Durban, nicknamed Durbs, is the third most populous city in South Africa after Johannesburg and Cape Town and the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which includes neighboring towns and has a population of about 3.
Biography of Charles Gounod (excerpt)
Charles-François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father. ![]()
Biography of Georges Boulanger (excerpt)
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891) was a French general and reactionary politician. Early life and career Born in Rennes, Boulanger graduated from Saint-Cyr and entered regular service in the French Army in 1856. He fought in the Austro-Sardinian War (he was wounded at Robecchetto, where he received the Légion d'honneur), and in the occupation of Cochin China, after which he became a captain and instructor at Saint-Cyr.
Biography of Edmond Billaudot (excerpt)
Jules Charles Ernest Billaudot, known as Mage Edmont Billaudot , born August 17, 1829 in Poilly-sur-Serein, Yonne (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain), died in 1881 in La Chapelle-Vieille-Forêt, was a French man who claimed psychic abilities and made predictions, for example for Victor Hugo, Napoléon III and Louis Bonaparte. ![]()
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Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. ![]()
Biography of Dominique Savio (excerpt)
Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; April 2, 1842 – March 9, 1857)) was an Italian adolescent student of John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died, possibly from pleurisy. His teacher, Saint John Bosco had very high regard for his student, and wrote a biography of his young student, The Life of Dominic Savio.
Biography of Herculine Barbin (excerpt)
Herculine Barbin (1838-1868) was a French hermaphrodite who was treated as a female at birth but was later redesignated a male after an affair and physical examination. Most of what we know about Barbin comes from her later memoirs. Herculine Adélaîde Barbin was born in Saint-Jean-d'Angély in France in 1838. ![]()
Biography of Ivan Turgenev (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев) (November 9 1818 – September 3 1883) was a Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. His birth time comes from the biography of Avram Yarmolinsky, "Turgenev," 1959.
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Biography of Henry Steele Olcott (excerpt)
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. ![]()
Biography of Charles Valentin Alkan (excerpt)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813–March 29, 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso and teacher. ![]()
Biography of François Achille Longet (excerpt)
François Achille Longet (May 25, 1811 (birth time source: Lescaut) - 1871) was a French anatomist and physiologist who was a native of Saint Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He was a student of François Magendie (1783-1855), and a pioneer in the field of experimental physiology. |
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