Biography

Monday, 22 June 2026

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Frederic Chopin
He was born in the outbuilding of the manor house belonging to the Skarbeks, where his father served as tutor.
Nicolas Chopin was a polonised Frenchman. He was a French teacher and a tutor. Among other things, h ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Among the reforms to improve the functioning of the state were some very innovative ventures.
Napoleon introduced in France, for the first time in the world, compulsory free education in public ...
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John Sutter
He wanted to build a town named Sutterville.
His son, John Augustus Sutter Jr., proposed the name Sacramento, derived from the Sacramento River. ...
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s name appears in the surviving books of Queen Elizabeth I’s treasurer as one of three so-called “Lord Chamberlain’s servants” who got paid to perform a play before the Queen at Greenwich Palace on December 26 and 28, 1594.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Soon Beethoven began working with Neefe as assistant organist in the court chapel.
First, he did it free of charge (1782), and later he received remuneration (1784).His first three pi ...
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Ada Lovelace
Ada was often sick during her childhood.
At the age of eight, she suffered from severe headaches that rendered her unable to see. In June 182 ...
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Nikola Tesla
In 1879, Nikola Tesla suffered a nervous breakdown.
His father came to Maribor and begged his son to return home, but he refused. He was soon detained b ...
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born in 1746 in Mereczowszczyzna near Kosovo in Polesia.
In the first half of the 18th century, the Mereczowszczyzna manor was owned by the Sapieh family. In ...
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Charles Darwin
Darwin's last child was Charles Waring Darwin, who never learned to walk or talk.
He is believed to have suffered from Down syndrome, which at that time had not yet been medically described.
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare invented many words and phraseological compounds that entered everyday usage.
The list of words he introduced into the English language counts about 600 items. For example, Shake ...
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