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Christian August Friedrich Garcke
1819 births | 1904 deaths | german botanists | people from saxony-anhaltChristian August Friedrich Garcke (October 25, 1819 - January 10, 1904) was a German botanist who was a native of Bräunrode, Saxony-Anhalt.
In 1865 he was appointed curator at the Royal Botanical Museum in Berlin, and in 1871 became an associate professor specializing in pharmacognosy. He was author of the popular Illustrierte Flora von Deutschland (Illustrated Flora of Germany), which was published over several editions. From 1867 to 1882 he was editor of the journal Linnæa.
Adolf Waldinger
1843 births | 1904 deaths | croatian paintersLouisa Pyne
1832 births | 1904 deaths | english sopranos | women of the victorian eraLouisa Bodda-Pyne (1832-March 20, 1904) was an English soprano.
She was born Louisa Fanny Pyne in 1832, the youngest daughter of George Pyne"Marriages", The Times, October 20, 1868, pg. 1. She was manager, with the tenor William Harrison of the Pyne & Harrison Opera Company which toured the Americas in the 1850s and subsequently the English Opera Company, later known as the Royal English Opera based at what is now the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. She married the singer Frank H. Bodda on October 12, 1868"Marriages", The Times, October 20, 1868, pg. 1. Her husband died aged 69 on March 14, 1892"Deaths", The Times, March 15, 1892, pg. 1 and she died at her home Cambridge Gardens, North Kensington on March 20, 1904The Times, March 22, 1904.
Willem Bok
1846 births | 1904 deathsWillem Edmund Bok (1846 - 1904) was a South African Boer politician who served as first state secretary of Transvaal from 1880-1888.
He was born in the Netherlands and registered the gold claims in the Transvaal area as secretary.Keller, Bill. Boksburg's Goofy White Smiles. New York Times September 19, 1993.
Lyman G. Bloomingdale
1842 births | 1904 deaths | american art collectors | american businesspeople | american jews | american retail chief executives | jewish businesspeople | people from new yorkLyman G. Bloomingdale (1841 - 1905) was an American businessman who in April of 1872, with his brother Joseph, founded Bloomingdales Department Store on 56th Street in New York City.
The son of Bavarian-born Benjamin Bloomimgdale, Lyman and his brother Joseph and were trained in the retailing of ladies clothing at their father's store. Going into business for themselves, the Bloomingdale brothers new store sold a wide variety of European fashions, anchored through their own buying office in Paris, France. Their success resulted in the business outgrowing its premises and in 1886 they relocated operations to its famous present-day location at 59th Street and Third Avenue where Bloomingdale became one of the most widely recognized brand names in the world.
