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birth charts with Apollon in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Apollon in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Maurice Koechlin (excerpt)
Maurice Koechlin (8 March 1856 – 14 January 1946) was a Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the Koechlin family. Life A member of the renowned Alsatian Koechlin family, he was born in Buhl, Haut-Rhin, the son of Jean Koechlin and his wife Anne Marie (Anaïs), née Beuck.
Biography of Josephine White Bates (excerpt)
Josephine White Bates (8 July 1862 – 20 October 1934) was a Canadian-American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of several works including A Blind Lead (1886), Bunch-Grass Stories (1892), and Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity (1912).
Biography of Richard Dedekind (excerpt)
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His best known contribution is the definition of real numbers through the notion of Dedekind cut.
Biography of Felix Dahn (excerpt)
Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (February 9, 1834 – January 3, 1912) was a German law professor, nationalist author, poet, and historian. Born in Hamburg, he studied law and philosophy in Munich and Berlin, becoming a professor of German Law. Dahn wrote extensively, influencing German historiography of the European Migration Period with works like "Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples."
Biography of Georges Ancey (excerpt)
Georges Ancey, whose real name was Georges-Marie-Edmond Mathevon de Curnieu, was a French playwright born on December 9, 1860, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, where he also died on November 18, 1917. Fairly wealthy and not reliant on income from the theater, he was unafraid of displeasing audiences.
Biography of Eugénie of Sweden (excerpt)
Eugénie of Sweden and Norway (24 April 1830 - 23 April 1889) was a Swedish-Norwegian princess, the only daughter of King Oscar I and Joséphine of Leuchtenberg. Frail in health, she never married but was recognized as an amateur artist.She founded the Animal Rights Association in 1882.
Biography of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (excerpt)
Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (née Maynard; 10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938) was a British socialite and philanthropist. Although embedded in late-Victorian British high society, she was also a campaigning socialist, supporting many schemes to aid the less well-off in education, housing, employment, and pay, and was often known as the "Red Countess".
Biography of Albert Neuhuys (excerpt)
Johannes Albert Neuhuys (June 10, 1844 – February 6, 1914) was one of the best-known painters of the Laren School and a friend of many Hague School painters. Neuhuys was born in Utrecht and attended the Municipal Drawing School from 1858 to 1860.
Biography of Hudson Taylor (excerpt)
James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Baptist Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 54 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who started 125 schools and directly resulted in 20,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 499 local helpers in all 18 provinces.
Biography of Marcus Samuel (excerpt)
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, JP (5 November 1853 – 17 January 1927), known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Netherlands-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.
Biography of Peter Hille (excerpt)
Peter Hille, born on September 11, 1854, in Nieheim and passed away on May 7, 1904, in Groß-Lichterfelde, was a German writer associated with late Romanticism and Naturalism. After leaving school without a diploma, he began publishing poems and literary critiques.
Biography of Théophile Moreux (excerpt)
Théophile Moreux, known as Abbé Moreux, born on November 20, 1867, in Argent-sur-Sauldre and died on July 13, 1954, in Bourges, was a French priest, astronomer, and meteorologist. He is famous for his numerous popular science publications in the early 20th century.
Biography of Arnold Sommerfeld (excerpt)
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, ForMemRS (5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics. He served as doctoral supervisor and postdoc supervisor to seven Nobel Prize winners and supervised at least 30 other famous physicists and chemists.
Biography of Louis-Gustave Richelot (excerpt)
Louis-Gustave Richelot, born on November 14, 1844, in Paris and died on August 9, 1924, in La Bernerie-en-Retz, was a French surgeon and gynecologist. Louis-Gustave Richelot was the son of physician Gustave-Antoine Richelot (1806-1893). A former student of the Lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he studied medicine and obtained his medical doctorate in 1873 with the thesis "De la péritonite herniaire et de ses rapports avec l'étranglement" ("On Hernial Peritonitis and its Relationship with Strangulation").
Biography of Korbinian Brodmann (excerpt)
Korbinian Brodmann (17 November 1868 – 22 August 1918) was a pioneering German neuropsychiatrist renowned for mapping the cerebral cortex and identifying 52 distinct regions, known as Brodmann areas, based on their histological characteristics. Born in Hohenfels, Germany, Brodmann studied medicine across various universities, receiving his medical diploma in Freiburg in 1895 and his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1898.
Biography of Anna Heer (excerpt)
Anna Heer (22 March 1863 – 9 December 1918) was a Swiss physician. She played a major role in the founding of Switzerland's first professional nursing school. She was one the founders of the first women’s hospital in Zurich.: 746 In 1897 she became the chief physician at the hospital.
Biography of Louis Carrière (excerpt)
Louis Norbert Carrière (7 December 1833 - 31 December 1919) was a French military justice officer.His military career began at Saint-Cyr in 1853, serving in various roles, including in the war against Prussia and in the Versailles army. Promoted within the gendarmerie, he was recognized for his intelligence and competence.
Biography of Jean Périer (excerpt)
Jean Périer was a French actor and singer born on February 2, 1869, in Paris and passed away on November 1, 1954, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was the first performer of the role of Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy in 1902.
Biography of François Hennebique (excerpt)
François Hennebique (25 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column and the beam, into a single monolithic element.
Biography of Georges Victor-Hugo (excerpt)
Georges Victor-Hugo, born Georges Charles Victor Léopold Hugo on August 16, 1868, in Brussels, was a French painter and skipper who died on February 5, 1925, in Paris. The son of Charles Hugo and grandson of Victor Hugo, he was raised by his grandfather after his father's death when he was 3 years old.
Biography of Godefroy Cavaignac (politician) (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (21 May 1853 - 25 September 1905) was a French politician known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair. Born in Paris, he demonstrated early republican convictions. A veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, he later entered the École Polytechnique and served as a civil engineer before becoming a republican deputy.
Biography of Henri Lebasque (excerpt)
Henri Lebasque, born on September 25, 1865 in Champigné and died on August 7, 1937 in Le Cannet, was a French painter and engraver. Coming from a humble background, he studied in Angers before moving to Paris and enrolling at the Académie Colarossi.
Biography of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa (excerpt)
Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo (Madrid, June 8, 1845 – Madrid, August 27, 1922) was a Spanish archaeologist, collector, and politician. A Grandee of Spain, he was the chief delegate of the Traditionalist Communion (the official political party of Carlism) from 1890 to 1898 and from 1913 to 1919.
Biography of Mabel Osgood Wright (excerpt)
Mabel Osgood Wright (January 26, 1859 – July 16, 1934) was an American ornithologist and writer.She was an early leader in the Audubon movement who wrote extensively about nature and birds. Early years and education Mabel Osgood was the daughter of Samuel and Ellen Haswell (Murdock) Osgood.
Biography of Xavier Privas (excerpt)
Antoine Paul Taravel, known as Xavier Privas (27 September 1863 – 6 February 1927) was a French singer, poet, goguettier and composer. Life Antoine Paul Taravel was born in Lyon on 27 September 1863.He made his debut in the goguette of the Caveau Lyonnais in 1888, where he obtained great success.
Biography of Anne Bosworth Focke (excerpt)
Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke (September 29, 1868 – May 15, 1907) was an American mathematician who became the first mathematics professor at what is now the University of Rhode Island, and later became the first female doctoral student of David Hilbert.
Biography of Johannes Orth (excerpt)
Johannes Orth (14 January 1847 – 13 January 1923 in Berlin) was a German pathologist born in Wallmerod. He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Bonn, receiving his habilitation in 1872 while an assistant to Eduard von Rindfleisch at Bonn.
Biography of Georges Fourest (excerpt)
Georges Fourest is a French writer and poet, born in Limoges on April 6, 1864, and died in Paris on January 25, 1945. Georges Fourest pursued law studies at the University of Toulouse, then in Paris, but did not practice as a lawyer, humorously declaring himself as a "lawyer..
Biography of John Scott Haldane (excerpt)
John Scott Haldane CH FRS (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J.
Biography of Oscar Pletsch (excerpt)
Oscar Pletsch (March 26, 1830 - January 12, 1888) was a German illustrator.Born in Berlin to a poor family, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts under Ludwig Richter and Eduard Bendemann. Pletsch worked in Dresden and then Berlin, specializing in genre paintings and illustrations, mainly depicting children.
Biography of Gabriele Reuter (excerpt)
Gabriele Reuter (8 February 1859 – 16 November 1941) was a German writer. Gabriele Reuter, who was widely read in her lifetime though now is almost forgotten, was known for her novel From a Good Family (Aus guter Familie, 1895), subtitled "the Passion of a Girl", which described a typical young woman of the Wilhelmine era.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bornet is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888.
Biography of Jeanne Bérangère (excerpt)
Jeanne Bérangère (born Françoise Marie Charlotte Béraud; 9 June 1864 – 19 November 1928) was a French stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly forty years on the stage and in films during the silent film era. Film career Following her appearance in La peur, Bérangère was placed under contract by brothers Emile and Charles Pathé for their film production company Pathé where she appeared in approximately twenty films between 1910 and 1913, including one of the first film portrayals of Cleopatra (Cléopâtre, 1910) and several films directed by Albert Capellani, before signing with the Éclair Film Company.
Biography of Max Schede (excerpt)
Max Schede (7 January 1844 – 31 December 1902) was a German surgeon born in Arnsberg. Schede studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Zurich, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1866.After serving as a doctor in the Austro-Prussian War, he became an assistant to Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) at Halle.
Biography of Noël Ballay (excerpt)
Dr. Noël Eugène Ballay, born on July 14, 1847, in Fontenay-sur-Eure, Eure-et-Loir, and died on January 27, 1902, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, was a French explorer and colonial administrator, serving as the second Governor-General of French West Africa (AOF). After completing his education in medicine, Ballay participated in exploratory missions alongside Savorgnan de Brazza in the Ogooué region during the 1870s and represented France at the Berlin Conference in 1885.
Biography of Adolf Hölzel (excerpt)
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter known for transitioning from Realism to Modern styles, including Abstractionism.Born in Olmütz, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich. Hölzel co-founded the Dachauer Malschule, influencing European art students with his novel teaching methods.
Biography of Diederik Korteweg (excerpt)
Diederik Johannes Korteweg (31 March 1848 – 10 May 1941) was a Dutch mathematician best known for the Korteweg–de Vries equation, developed with Gustav de Vries. Initially studying at a military academy, he switched to the Polytechnical School of Delft for engineering but ultimately pursued mathematics.
Biography of Jules Crépieux-Jamin (excerpt)
Jules Crépieux-Jamin, born in Arras on December 28, 1858, and died in Rouen on October 24, 1940, was a handwriting expert and one of the first French graphologists, who contributed to the development of this technique. He became famous for his books and his role in the Dreyfus Affair.
Biography of Grace Cadell (excerpt)
Grace Ross Cadell (October 25, 1855 – February 19, 1918) was a Scottish medical doctor and suffragist, and one of the first group of women to study medicine in Scotland and qualify. She was, with Elsie Inglis, one of the initial entrants to the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, set up by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1886.
Biography of Elisabet Ney (excerpt)
Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney (26 January 1833 – 29 June 1907) was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover.
Biography of Félix Léon Edoux (excerpt)
Félix Léon Edoux born May 29, 1827 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) and died October 13, 1910 in Paris was a French engineer and industrialist. Edoux is best known for having designed a hydraulic lift he baptized "elevator" in 1867. In 1884, Eiffel ordered from Edoux the elevator which was to connect the second floor to the top of the future Eiffel Tower, and which would operate until 1983.
Biography of Josef Kainz (excerpt)
Josef Gottfried Ignaz Kainz (2 January 1858 – 20 September 1910) was a male actor from Austria-Hungary.He was highly active in theatres in Austria-Hungary and the German Empire from 1873 to 1910.The source for his birth time comes from Preuss (no.
Biography of Gaston La Touche (excerpt)
Gaston de La Touche, born on October 22, 1854, in Saint-Cloud, was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. He began taking drawing lessons in 1864, but his studies were interrupted by the 1870 war. In 1875, he exhibited his first bas-relief medallion at the Salon, later befriending Édouard Manet and admiring Émile Zola, whose works he illustrated.
Biography of Dióscoro Puebla (excerpt)
Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín (February 25, 1831 – October 24, 1901) was a Spanish painter known for his work in the Eclectic style, focusing on portraits, genre, and history painting. Born in Burgos, he first displayed his drawing talent in Carrión de los Condes, leading to his studies at the "Escuela Municipal de Dibujo de Palencia" and later at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
Biography of Aeneas Mackay Jr. (excerpt)
Æneas, Baron Mackay (29 November 1838 – 13 November 1909) was a Dutch Anti-Revolutionary politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1888 to 1891. Born into a noble family from Gelderland, he studied law in Utrecht and worked as lawyer and a judge.
Biography of Charlotte Wolter (excerpt)
Charlotte Wolter (March 1, 1834, in Cologne - June 14, 1897, in Hietzing) was an Austrian actress who began her artistic career in Budapest in 1857. She is buried in an honorary grave at the Central Cemetery in Vienna (group 32 A, number 20), as per her wish, in the costume of Iphigenia from Goethe's play of the same name, her most famous role.
Biography of Félix Guyon (excerpt)
Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (21 July 1831 – 2 August 1920) was a French surgeon and urologist born in Saint-Denis, Ile-Bourbon (Réunion). He studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1858.He was appointed médecin des hôpitaux in 1864, and was later a professor of surgical pathology (from 1877) and genitourinary surgery (from 1890) at the University of Paris.
Biography of Miguel de los Santos Oliver (excerpt)
Miguel de los Santos Oliver y Tolráa (Campanet, May 4, 1864 - Barcelona, January 9, 1920) was a Spanish writer and journalist. His time of birth comes from the biography La literatura en Mallorca by Miquel dels Sants Oliver (L'Abadia de Montserrat, 1988).
Biography of Charles Lamy (acteur) (excerpt)
Charles Lamy or M.Lamy (28 August 1857 – 15 June 1940) was the stage name of the French actor Charles Castarède. Lamy, born into a theatrical family in Lyon, began his stage career in 1874.After training at the Conservatoire de Lyon and performing in Italy and Brussels, he made his Paris debut in 1880.
Biography of Hein Boeken (excerpt)
Hein Boeken, born on December 2, 1861, in Amsterdam, where he also died on October 19, 1933, was a Dutch writer and poet associated with the Tachtigers, a prominent literary movement. A close friend of Willem Kloos, he studied classics and earned his doctorate in 1899 with a thesis on Apuleius' Metamorphoses. |
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