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Horoscopes with Admetos in CapricornYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Admetos in Capricorn. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Eugénie de Guérin (excerpt)
Eugénie de Guérin (January 29, 1805 – May 31, 1848), French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her Journals (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her Lettres (1864, Eng. trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind. ![]()
Biography of Désiré Nisard (excerpt)
Jean Marie Napoléon Désiré Nisard (March 20, 1806 - March 27, 1888) was a French author, journalist, and critic. He was born at Châtillon-sur-Seine. In 1826 he joined the staff of the Journal des Débats, but subsequently transferred his pen to the National. ![]()
Biography of Francis Scott Key (excerpt)
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Life Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Louis Penn Dagworthy (Charlton) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County and is now Carroll County, Maryland. ![]()
Biography of Karl von Clausewitz (excerpt)
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz (July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War. Life and times Clausewitz, considered an author of contemporary military strategy, was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, to a poor but middle-class family.
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Biography of William M. Thackeray (excerpt)
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Biography Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Belzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni; sometimes known as The Great Belzoni (November 5, 1778 (birth time source: no original source) – December 3, 1823) was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities. Belzoni was born in Padua as the son of a barber. His family was from Rome and when Belzoni was 16 he went to work there, claiming that he 'studied hydraulics'. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand de Lesseps (excerpt)
Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805–December 7, 1894) was the maker of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas for the first time in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East. ![]()
Biography of Antoine-Jérôme Balard (excerpt)
Antoine Jérôme Balard (September 30, 1802 - April 30, 1876) was a French chemist and the discoverer of bromine. Born at Montpellier, he started as an apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the faculty of sciences of his native town, and then became professor of chemistry at the royal college and school of pharmacy and at the faculty of sciences.
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Biography of Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (excerpt)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (French pronunciation: ; 15 October 1802 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 October 1857), French general, second son of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Éléonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris. Military career After going through the usual course of study for the military profession, he entered the army as an engineer officer in 1824, and served in the Morea (Peloponnesus) in 1828, becoming captain in the following year. ![]()
Biography of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (excerpt)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 - July 23, 1859) was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore. She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819.
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Biography of Pierre-Chéri Lafont (excerpt)
Pierre-Chéri Lafont, born on May 16, 1797 in Bordeaux (birth time source: Lescaut), died on April 19, 1873, was a French actor. He married dancer Pauline Leroux in 1848. ![]()
Biography of Agustín de Iturbide (excerpt)
Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824), also known as Augustine of Mexico, was a Mexican army general and politician. During the Mexican War of Independence, he built a successful political and military coalition that took control in Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively gaining independence for Mexico.
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Biography of Eugène Verboeckhoven (excerpt)
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (June 9, 1798 - January 19, 1881), Belgian painter, was born at Warneton in West Flanders, and received instruction in drawing and modelling from his father, the sculptor Barthélemy Verboeckhoven. Subsequently he settled in Brussels and devoted himself almost exclusively to animal subjects. ![]()
Biography of Nicholas I of Russia (excerpt)
Nicholas I (Russian: Николай I Павлович, Nikolaj I Pavlovič), July 6 (June 25, Old Style), 1796 – March 2 (18 February Old Style), 1855), was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs. ![]()
Biography of John Constable (excerpt)
John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. ![]()
Biography of Marie Dorval (excerpt)
Marie Dorval (January 6, 1798 - May 20, 1849), was a talented French actress. Early life Born Marie Thomase Amélie Delauney; abandoned by her father when she was five years old, and losing her mother to tuberculosis while still a teenager, at age of 15 she married Alain Dorval, a much older actor, who died five years later. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Ampère (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Ampère (August 12, 1800 – March 27, 1864) was a French philologist and man of letters. Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère. Jean-Jacques' mother died while he was an infant. He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe. ![]()
Biography of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (excerpt)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (January 10, 1797 – May 25, 1848) was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets. She was born at the family seat of Hülshoff near Münster into an aristocratic, Catholic family in Westphalia. ![]()
Biography of Charles de Bériot (excerpt)
Charles Auguste de Bériot (20 February 1802 - 8 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist. Born in Leuven (Louvain), where there is now a street named in his honour, he studied violin with Jean-Francois Tiby, a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti. He was later encouraged by Viotti himself and briefly worked with Baillot but did not embrace all their teachings and was also influenced by Paganini. ![]()
Biography of Beau Brummell (excerpt)
Beau Brummell, né George Bryan Brummell (June 7, 1778, London, U.K.–March 30, 1840, Caen, France), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent. He established the mode of men wearing understated, but fitted, beautifully cut clothes, adorned with an elaborately-knotted cravat. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (excerpt)
Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Gravière (November 19, 1812 – March 4, 1892) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Jurien, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe. He entered the navy in 1828, was made a commander in 1841, and captain in 1850.
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Biography of Félix Savary (excerpt)
Félix Savary, born October 4, 1797 in Paris, died July 15, 1841 in Estagel, was a French astronomer, member of Académie des Sciences, December 24, 1832. The discovery of the orbital motion of visual double stars by William Herschel aroused the interest of French astronomers for the observation of double stars and the computation of their orbits at the beginning of the XIX-th century. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Eugène-Marie Bautain (excerpt)
Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (February 17, 1796 – October 15, 1867), French philosopher and theologian, was born in Paris. At the École Normale he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of higher teaching, and was soon after called to the chair of philosophy in the university of Strasbourg.
Biography of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Xavier Francois, Dauphin of France (October 22, 1781–June 4, 1789) was the second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the Dauphin.
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Biography of Frédéric Soulié (author) (excerpt)
Frédéric Soulié, born in Foix December 23, 1800 and died in Bièvres in Essonne Septembre 23, 1847, was a French author, journalist and novelist. Selected bibliography Clothilde, théâtre, 1832 Les deux cadavres, roman, 1832 Le comte de Toulouse, roman, 1835 Le vicomte de Béziers, roman, 1835 ![]()
Biography of Giuseppe Mazzini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Mazzini (22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872), nicknamed "Soul of Italy," was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. ![]()
Biography of William IV of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. William, the third son of George III and younger brother and successor to George IV, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the House of Hanover. ![]()
Biography of Antonio José de Sucre (excerpt)
Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (February 3, 1795 – June 4, 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (English: "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan independence leader. Sucre was one of Simón Bolívar's closest friends, generals and statesmen. ![]()
Biography of Eduard Mörike (excerpt)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike (Ludwigsburg, 8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875 in Stuttgart) was a German romantic poet. He studied Theology at the Seminary of Tübingen, and followed the ecclesiastical career, becoming a Lutheran pastor. In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Cleversulzbach near Weinsberg, and, after his early retirement for reasons of health, in 1851 became professor of German literature at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart. ![]()
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Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Erie County. It is located at the eastern end of Lake Erie, adjacent to the Canadian border with Southern Ontario, and at the head of the Niagara River. ![]()
Biography of Baron Georges Cuvier (excerpt)
Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. He was the elder brother of Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838), also a naturalist. He was a major figure in scientific circles in Paris during the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology by comparing living animals with fossils. ![]()
Biography of William Gladstone (excerpt)
William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94). He was a champion of the Home Rule Bill which would have established self-government in Ireland. ![]()
Biography of Kit Carson (excerpt)
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. Carson left home at an early age and became a trapper. He gained notoriety for his role as John C. Fremont's guide in the American West. ![]()
Biography of François Bazaine (excerpt)
François Achille Bazaine (13 February 1811 – 23 September 1888) was a French General and from 1864, a Marshal of France, who surrended the last organized French army to the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war. He was the first Marshal who had started as a legionnaire and like the great Marshals of the First Empire, he had risen from the ranks. ![]()
Biography of Jose Gervasio Artigas (excerpt)
José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) is a national hero of Uruguay, sometimes called "the father of Uruguayan independence". Life Born in Montevideo to a wealthy family, at age 12 he moved to the countryside and worked on his family's farms. ![]()
Biography of Félicien David (excerpt)
Félicien-César David, b. April 13, 1810 in Caudenet (Vaucluse – d. August 29, 1876 in La Pecq (now: Saint-Germain-en-Laye), was a French composer. Biography Félicien David wrote a prodigious number of highly original musical compositions in many forms, including symphonies, tone poems, opéras comiques, choruses, religious music, piano compositions, chamber music, and vocal works. ![]()
Biography of William I, German Emperor (excerpt)
Wilhelm I, also known as Wilhelm the Great (William Frederick Louis, German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig) (March 22, 1797 – March 9, 1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (January 2, 1861 – 9 March, 1888) and the first German Emperor (18 January 1871 – 9 March, 1888). ![]()
Biography of Jean Paul (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Life and work Jean Paul was born at Wunsiedel, in the Fichtelgebirge mountains (Bavaria). His father was an organist at Wunsiedel. ![]()
Biography of Frédéric Kuhlmann (excerpt)
Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann (22 May 1803 – 27 January 1881) is a French chemist who patented the reaction later used in the Ostwald process. He was both a research scientist and a professor at Université Lille Nord de France. He promoted chemical engineering education for science graduates in Lille and supported the developpement of École centrale de Lille (IDN).
Biography of Johann Karl Zahn (excerpt)
Johann Zahn, born August 21, 1631, died August 22, 1707, was a German architect, critif, author, painter and Professor in the Academy of Arts of Berlin in 1829. ![]()
Biography of Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine of France, Dauphin of France and Duke of Angoulême (born Louis-Antoine of Artois; August 6, 1775 – June 3, 1844) was the eldest son of King Louis XVI of France's youngest brother, the Comte d'Artois, and his wife, Princess Marie Thérèse of Savoy.
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Biography of Frédérick Lemaitre (excerpt)
Frédérick Lemaître, (July 28, 1800 - January 26, 1876) was a French actor and playwright. The son of an architect, he was born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime but adopted the first name Frédérick as a stage name. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Chevreul (excerpt)
Michel Eugène Chevreul (August 31, 1786 (birth time source: Arno Müller, birth certificate) – April 9, 1889) was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with discovering margarine and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt.
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Biography of Fromental Halévy (excerpt)
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (pronounced ) (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive. Early career Halévy was born in Paris as Elias Levy, the son of a cantor, Élie Halfon Halévy, who was the secretary of the Jewish community of Paris, a writer and a teacher of Hebrew, and a French Jewish mother. ![]()
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 Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (excerpt)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (December 23, 1804 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – October 13, 1869 in Paris) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824-27).
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Biography of Adolphe Le Flô (excerpt)
Adolphe Le Flô, born November 2, 1804 (source not archived) and died in Néchéoat near Morlaix in 1887, was a French military, general, and politician. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Feuerbach (excerpt)
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. Education Feuerbach matriculated in the University of Heidelberg with the intention of pursuing a career in the Church. ![]()
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 Marie d'Agoult (excerpt)
Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny (December 31, 1805 - March 5, 1876), was a French author, known also by her married name and title, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and by her pen name, Daniel Stern. She was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny (1770-1819), a footloose emigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria-Elisabeth Bethmann (1772-1847), a Jewish German banker's daughter whose family had converted to Catholicism. |
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