Paul Morphy 1837–1884 Source: Wikimedia Commons About Paul Morphy US chess player (1837–1884) People from the Same Era Edward Lucas Jenks Ridsdale 1833–1901 Georg Baumgarten 1837–1884 inventor Johanngeorgenstadt Paul du Bois-Reymond 1831–1889 mathematician, university teacher Berlin Konstantinos Karatheodoris 1841–1922 diplomat Istanbul Antoinette de Beaucaire 1840–1865 writer Nîmes Ernest Roze 1833–1900 botanist, civil servant, horticulturist, poet Paris