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Horoscopes with Admetos in SagittariusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Admetos in Sagittarius. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Jérôme Lalande (excerpt)
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer and writer. Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse (now in the département of Ain) to Pierre Lefrançois and Marie‐Anne‐Gabrielle Monchinet. His parents sent him to Paris to study law, but as a result of lodging in the Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, he was drawn to astronomy, and became the zealous and favoured pupil of both Delisle and Pierre Charles Le Monnier. ![]()
Biography of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He was born on 12 January 1746 in Zürich, Switzerland. His father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother. ![]()
Biography of Dietrich Tiedemann (excerpt)
Dietrich Tiedemann (April 3, 1748-1803) was a German philosopher who was a native of Bremervörde. He was a student at the University of Göttingen, and later a professor at Collegium Carolinum in Kassel (from 1776) and at the University of Marburg (from 1786). ![]()
Biography of Oliver Goldsmith (excerpt)
Oliver Goldsmith (21 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).
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Biography of Christian VII of Denmark (excerpt)
Christian VII (Danish: Christian den Syvende 29 January 1749 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 13 March 1808) was an Oldenburg monarch who ruled as King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death. ![]()
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Lancaster is a city in South Central Pennsylvania, that serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and is one of the oldest inland towns in the United States. With a population at the 2010 census of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities. ![]()
Biography of George Rogers Clark (excerpt)
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war. ![]()
Biography of Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (excerpt)
Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti, « Mademoiselle de Conti » (Paris June 20, 1726 (source not archived for her time of birth) - Paris February 9, 1759), was by marriage Duchess of Chartres (1743-1752) and Duchess of Orléans (1752-1759). She was a daughter of Louis Armand II de Bourbon, prince de Conti and Louise Élisabeth of Bourbon-Condé. ![]()
Biography of Johann Elert Bode (excerpt)
Johann Elert Bode (January 19, 1747 – November 23, 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law as well as his works to determine the orbit of Uranus, for which he also suggested the name. ![]()
Biography of Johann Gottfried Herder (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried von Herder (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. Biography Born in Mohrungen (Morąg) in the Kingdom of Prussia, grew up in a poor household, educating himself from his father's Bible and songbook. ![]()
Biography of Nicolas Chamfort (excerpt)
Nicolas Chamfort (6 April 1740 - 13 April 1794) was a French writer and journalist, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary of Louis XIV's sister, and of the Jacobin club. Life He was born Nicolas-Sébastien Roch, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, according to a baptismal certificate found among his papers, to a grocer named Nicolas. ![]()
Biography of Gouverneur Morris (excerpt)
Gouverneur Morris (January 30, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its "signers".
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Biography of Juniper Serra (excerpt)
Fray Junípero Serra (known as Fra Juníper Serra, in Catalan, his mother tongue) (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California. Fr. Serra was beatified by John Paul II on September 25, 1988. ![]()
Biography of William Bligh (excerpt)
Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's launch. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Taylor (excerpt)
Thomas Taylor (15 May 1758 - 1 November 1835) was an English translator and Neoplatonist, the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments. Biography Born in London, Taylor was educated at St. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Delille (excerpt)
Jacques Delille (June 22, 1738 – May 1, 1813) was a French poet and translator. He was born at Aigueperse in Auvergne. Life He was an illegitimate child, and was descended by his mother from the chancellor De l'Hôpital. He was educated at the College of Lisieux in Paris and became an elementary teacher. ![]()
Biography of Christoph Martin Wieland (excerpt)
Christoph Martin Wieland (September 5, 1733 – January 20, 1813) was a German poet and writer. He was born at Oberholzheim (now part of the village of Achstetten), which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg. ![]()
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Portsmouth is an independent city in Virginia southwest and across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk. As of the 2010 census, the population was 95,535. It is part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth are historic and active U. ![]()
Biography of Arnaud Berquin (excerpt)
Arnaud Berquin (25 September 1747 in Bordeaux — 21 December 1791 in Paris) was a French children's author and playwright. His most famous work was L'Ami des Enfans (1782-3) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London in 1783-4 by Mary's father John Stockdale. ![]()
Biography of William Cowper (excerpt)
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. ![]()
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Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. The population is 15,764, as of the 2010 US Census. Bennington is the most populous town in southern Vermont, the third-largest town in Vermont (after Essex and Colchester) and the sixth-largest municipality in the state including the cities of Burlington, Rutland, and South Burlington. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Paisiello (excerpt)
Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello) (May 10, 1740 – June 5, 1816), was an Italian composer of the Classical era. Life Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. ![]()
Biography of William Falconer (excerpt)
William Falconer (Edinburgh, UK, February 21 1732–1769) was a Scottish poet. Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, The Shipwreck (1762), a work of genuine, though unequal, talent. ![]()
Biography of Jean Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (13 May 1754 – 14 February 1807) was a French cavalry general of the Napoleonic wars. He came from an old noble family of France whose military tradition extended for several centuries. Efforts by the French Revolutionary government to remove him from his command failed when his soldiers refused to give him up. ![]()
Biography of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (excerpt)
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (January 19, 1737 Le Havre – January 21, 1814 Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1787 novel Paul et Virginie. In 1795 he was elected to the Institut de France, and in 1803 to the Académie Française.
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Biography of Friedrich Klopstock (excerpt)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (IPA: ) (2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. Biography Klopstock was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer. Both in his birthplace and on the estate of Friedeburg on the Saale, which his father later rented, young Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more attention having been given to his physical than to his mental development he grew up a strong healthy boy and was an excellent horseman.
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Biography of Jean-Antoine Chaptal (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Claude, comte Chaptal de Chanteloup (June 5, 1756 – July 30, 1832) was a French chemist and statesman. Early life Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Nogaret, Lozère, as the son of an apothecary, he studied chemistry at the University of Montpellier, obtaining his doctorate in 1777, when he settled in Paris.
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Biography of Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (excerpt)
Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (b. 31 December 1715 at Darney in Lorraine; d. at Versailles, 9 April 1790) was a French Catholic theologian. He was a critic of the philosophes, accusing them in particular of distorting the facts on social life in China and Confucianism. ![]()
Biography of George Crabbe (excerpt)
George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet and naturalist. Biography He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge.
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Biography of Willem Bilderdijk (excerpt)
Willem Bilderdijk (Amsterdam, September 7, 1756 - Haarlem, December 31, 1831), Dutch poet, the son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous and concentrated study. ![]()
Biography of Rose Bertin (excerpt)
Marie-Jeanne Rose Bertin (2 July 1747, Abbeville, Picardy, France – 22 September 1813, Épinay-sur-Seine) was a French milliner (Marchande de modes), known as the dressmaker to Queen Marie Antoinette. She was the first celebrated French fashion designer and is widely credited with having brought fashion and haute couture to the forefront of popular culture.
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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (excerpt)
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing.
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Biography of William Godwin (excerpt)
William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, an attack on political institutions, and Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, an early mystery novel which attacks aristocratic privilege.
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Biography of John André (excerpt)
John André (2 May 1750 – 2 October 1780) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.
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Biography of Robert Clive (excerpt)
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He began as a writer for the East India Company (EIC) who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by securing a decisive victory in Bengal. ![]()
Biography of Johann Georg Hamann (excerpt)
Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as the “the Wizard of the North” who was one of the leader figures of post Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J. ![]()
Biography of Adam Weishaupt (excerpt)
Johann Adam Weishaupt (6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830) was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Illuminati. Foundation of the Illuminati At a time, however, when there was no end of making game of and abusing secret societies, I planned to make use of this human foible for a real and worthy goal, for the benefit of people. ![]()
Biography of Manon Roland (excerpt)
Marie-Jeanne 'Manon' Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland, was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer. Initially she led a quiet and unremarkable life as a provincial intellectual with her husband, the economist Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière.
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Biography of Julie de Lespinasse (excerpt)
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (9 November 1732 – 23 May 1776) was a French salon holder and letter writer. She held a prominent salon in Paris during the Enlightenment. She is best-known today, however, for her letters, first published in 1809, which offer compelling accounts of two tragic love affairs. ![]()
Biography of Louis, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis, Dauphin of France (Louis Ferdinand; 4 September 1729 – 20 December 1765) was the elder and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and his wife, Queen Marie Leszczyńska. He had a younger brother, Philippe, who died as a toddler.
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Biography of Anne Heinel (excerpt)
Anna Friedrike Heinel (1753–1808) was a German ballerina who trained in Stuttgart. She enjoyed a highly successful career both in Paris and London. Born in Bayreuth, Heinel studied under Jean-Georges Noverre in Stuttgart where she made her début in 1767. The following year, she performed La Vénitienne in Paris where she was known as "La Reine de la danse" (Queen of the Dance).
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Biography of Louise d'Épinay (excerpt)
Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (11 March 1726 – 17 April 1783), better known as Mme d'Épinay, was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment.
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Biography of Luise Gottsched (excerpt)
Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (born Kulmus, 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy. She was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal Prussia (Crown of Poland).
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Biography of Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle (excerpt)
Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress from 1742 until 1744.
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Biography of Anne-Marie du Boccage (excerpt)
Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage, née Le Page, (22 October 1710 – 8 August 1802) was an 18th-century French writer, poet, and playwright. In February 1748, she published a translation in six cantos of Milton's Paradise Lost, which she dedicated to the Rouen Academy.
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Biography of Vincenzo Monti (excerpt)
Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar. In 1775 he is admitted to membership in the Arcadia Academy and the next year his first book is published: "La visione di Ezechiello" ("Ezechiello's vision"). ![]()
Biography of Maria Luisa of Spain (excerpt)
Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain (Spanish: María Luisa, German: Maria Ludovika; 24 November 1745 – 15 May 1792) was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the spouse of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. ![]()
Biography of Hieronymus von Colloredo (excerpt)
Hieronymus Joseph Franz de Paula Graf Colloredo von Wallsee und Melz (Jérôme Joseph Franz de Paula, Count of Colloredo-Wallsee and Mels; 31 May 1732 – 20 May 1812) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 to 1772 and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1772 until 1803, when the prince-archbishopric was secularized. ![]()
Biography of Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius (excerpt)
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius (23 July 1722 – 12 August 1800), also Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d'Autricourt, nicknamed "Minette", maintained a renowned salon in France in the eighteenth century. One of the twenty-one children of Jean-Jacques de Ligniville and his wife Charlotte de Saureau, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, the niece of Madame de Graffigny, married the philosopher Helvétius in 1751.
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Biography of Marie-Louise Mignot (excerpt)
Marie Louise Mignot (1712–1790) was a French literary figure. She was the daughter of Voltaire's sister, Catherine Arouet (1686–1726) and her husband Pierre-François Mignot (d. 1737). After the death of her widowed father in 1737, Voltaire provided her with a dowry Madame Denis. |
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