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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 Charles Lenepveu (excerpt)
Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu (4 October 1840 – 16 August 1910), was a French composer and teacher. Destined for a career as a lawyer, he defied his family and followed a musical career. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and won France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome in 1867.
Biography of Eloísa Díaz (excerpt)
Eloísa Díaz Inzunza (June 25, 1866 – November 1, 1950) was a Chilean medical doctor and the first woman to obtain a medical degree in South America. Born in Santiago, Chile, Díaz attended several schools before enrolling in the University of Chile's School of Medicine in 1880, following a law allowing women to study at the university.
Biography of Ernst Troeltsch (excerpt)
Ernst Troeltsch, born on February 17, 1865, in the Haunstetten district of Augsburg, and died on February 1, 1923, in Berlin, was a German philosopher, Protestant theologian, and sociologist. A representative of the German historicist movement, he was closely aligned with Max Weber's perspectives on the sociology (and history) of religions.
Biography of Jan Schaper (excerpt)
Johan Hendrik Andries (Jan) Schaper (12 February 1868 – 31 August 1934) was a Dutch publicist, poet, and politician, known for his pioneering role in the socialist movement. Originally a house painter, he joined the Sociaal-Democratische Bond (SDB) after an accident and began publishing under the names Arago and Een Arbeider.
Biography of Antonio Paoli (excerpt)
Antonio Paoli, full name Antonio Emilio Paoli y Marcano (born April 14, 1871, in Ponce; died August 24, 1946, in San Juan), was a Puerto Rican tenor. Nicknamed "the king of tenors," he was the first Puerto Rican to achieve international fame in the arts.
Biography of Roberto Menini (excerpt)
Roberto Menini (October 18, 1837 – 1916) was a Catholic archbishop and apostolic vicar of the Sofia-Plovdiv vicariate. Born in Split, Dalmatia, he mastered South Slavic languages.After studying law, he graduated in theology from the University of Graz.Ordained a Capuchin priest on July 5, 1863, he was elected titular bishop of Metelopol and coadjutor of Sofia-Plovdiv in 1880.
Biography of Jeb Stuart (excerpt)
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was a Confederate general famed for his cavalry operations during the American Civil War. Known for his flamboyant style and daring tactics, he served as Robert E. Lee’s key scout and morale booster.
Biography of Désiré Dihau (excerpt)
Désiré Hippolyte Dihau (August 2, 1833, Lille – August 19, 1909, Paris) was a French bassoonist and composer, famously immortalized by Edgar Degas in the painting L'Orchestre de l'Opéra. Career Trained at the conservatories of Lille and Paris, he won first prize for bassoon in 1857.
Biography of Félicien Chapuis (excerpt)
Félicien Chapuis, born on April 21, 1824 in Verviers and died on September 30, 1879 in Heusy, was a Belgian physician and amateur entomologist with a lifelong passion for natural sciences. Wikipedia has April 29 in error. He studied in Bonn and then at the University of Liège, where he became close friends with Ernest Candèze and conducted research on beetle larvae under zoologist Théodore Lacordaire.
Biography of Jakob Christian Heusser (excerpt)
Jakob Christian Heusser (March 28, 1826 – April 21, 1909) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and geologist. Born in Hirzel, Canton of Zurich, he was the son of physician Johann Jakob Heusser and poet Meta Heusser-Schweizer.After studying medicine in Zurich, he specialized in natural sciences in Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1851.
Biography of François Rivoire (excerpt)
François Rivoire, born on April 16, 1842, in Lyon and deceased on August 7, 1919, in Villers-en-Arthies, was a French painter. He was the son of Auguste Rivoire, a fabric manufacturer, and Antoinette Musy. In 1868, he worked as a designer and married Marie Bertrand in Lyon.
Biography of Philipp Franck (painter) (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860 – 13 March 1944) was a German Impressionist painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Encouraged by his father, Franck initially studied architecture but shifted to art after his father’s death.At 17, he enrolled at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, specializing in landscapes and fairy tale illustrations under Eduard Jakob von Steinle.
Biography of Louis Welden Hawkins (excerpt)
Louis Welden Hawkins, a British painter who became a naturalized French citizen, was born in Esslingen, Germany. The son of a British naval officer and an Austrian baroness, he broke ties with his family in 1873 and settled in France, becoming a French citizen in 1895.
Biography of Eulalia of Spain (excerpt)
Infanta Eulalia of Spain, born on February 12, 1864 in Madrid and died on March 8, 1958 in Irun, was the youngest daughter of Queen Isabella II and sister of King Alfonso XII. She married her cousin, the Duke of Galliera, with whom she had two sons before living independently.
Biography of William Arbuthnot Lane (excerpt)
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane (July 4, 1856 – January 16, 1943) was a British surgeon and physician, specializing in orthopaedic, abdominal, and ENT surgery. He designed new surgical instruments to ensure maximal asepsis and introduced the "no-touch technique", which remains in use today.
Biography of Otto Reiniger (excerpt)
Otto Reiniger, born February 27, 1863, in Stuttgart and died July 24, 1909, near Weilimdorf, was a German landscape painter in the Impressionist style, best known for his depictions of flowing water. He studied under Grünenwald and Kappis in Stuttgart, then with Joseph Wenglein in Munich.
Biography of Sofía Casanova (excerpt)
Sofía Casanova (September 30, 1861 – January 16, 1958) was a Spanish poet, novelist, and journalist, the first woman from Spain to become a permanent foreign correspondent and war reporter. A respected figure in literary circles, she wrote for ABC, portraying the human side of civilian suffering in Poland and Russia.
Biography of Gaston Schnegg (excerpt)
Gaston Jacques Schnegg (September 4, 1866 – November 25, 1953) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Bordeaux, he won two sculpture prizes before moving to Paris in 1887, where he joined his older brother Lucien in Alexandre Falguière’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (excerpt)
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American children's author best known under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, into the affluent Dwight family, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1852. She was the aunt of writer and poet Gamel Woolsey.
Biography of Pieter Jelles Troelstra (excerpt)
Pieter Jelles Troelstra (born 20 April 1860 in Leeuwarden, died 12 May 1930 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician, remembered as a key figure in the labor movement. He was married from 1888 to 1904 to writer Sjoukje Bokma de Boer, better known as Nynke van Hichtum.
Biography of Jaume Ferran i Clua (excerpt)
Jaime Ferran y Clua (Corbera d'Ebre, Febraury 1, 1851 – Barcelona November 22, 1929) was a Spanish-French bacteriologist and sanitarian , contemporary of Robert Koch, and said by his fellows to have made some of the discoveries attributed to Koch. As early as 1885, he wrote on immunization against cholera.
Biography of Léo Taxil (excerpt)
Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, known as Léo Taxil (21 March 1854 – 31 March 1907), was a French writer infamous for his anti-clerical publications and a later hoax targeting Freemasonry. Born into a Catholic, royalist family, he broke from religion in his teens and became a radical republican and satirical journalist, attacking the Church with provocative writings.
Biography of Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (excerpt)
Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (December 2, 1833 – February 28, 1886) was a Belgian botanist who served as a professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Liège (1857–1886).His particular field of study was the Bromeliaceae family, for which he was recognized as an authority.
Biography of Dietrich Nasse (excerpt)
Dietrich Nasse, born on November 5, 1860, in Bonn and died on September 1, 1898, near Pontresina, was a German surgeon. He was the son of economist and politician Erwin Nasse and Hermine von Hogendorp, and the grandson of physician Christian Friedrich Nasse.
Biography of Gabriele Possanner (excerpt)
Gabriele Possanner (27 January 1860 – 14 March 1940) was the first woman medical doctor to practice medicine in Austria. She was the daughter of the Austrian jurist Benjamin Possanner, and lived in six different cities until the age of twenty due to him moving often for his work.
Biography of Marie Bilders-van Bosse (excerpt)
Maria Philippina (Marie) Bilders-van Bosse (Amsterdam, 21 February 1837 – Wiesbaden, 11 July 1900) was a painter, famous for her landscape paintings in an early Dutch-impressionist style. Marie van Bosse was a daughter of Pieter Philip van Bosse (1809–1879) and Maria Johanna Reynvaan (1809–1864).
Biography of Montague Guest (excerpt)
Montague John Guest (29 March 1839 – 9 November 1909) was a British Liberal politician.His time of birth comes from his mother, in the book "Lady Charlotte Guest; extracts from her journal", 1833-1852 (London: Murray, 1950). A member of the prominent Guest family, he was the third son of Sir John Josiah Guest and Lady Charlotte, daughter of the 9th Earl of Lindsey.
Biography of Séverin (mime artist) (excerpt)
Séverin Cafferra, known as Séverin or mime Séverin (19 May 1863 - 10 June 1930), was one of the best-known French Pierrots or mime artists around the turn of the twentieth century. Life Caffera was born in Ajaccio, Corsica.He studied under the Marseille mime Louis Rouffe (1849-1885), who in turn had studied under Charles Deburau.
Biography of Richard Thoma (physician) (excerpt)
Richard Andreas Thoma (December 11, 1847, in Bonndorf im Schwarzwald – November 26, 1923, in Heidelberg) was a German pathologist. Family His parents were Andreas Thoma, a lawyer, and Maria Friedericke Alwine Siegel.In 1881, he married Elisabeth Schmidt, the daughter of a lawyer.
Biography of Jan Veth (excerpt)
Jan Pieter Veth (born 18 May 1864 in Dordrecht – died 1 July 1925 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic, and university lecturer, best known for his portrait work featuring notable contemporaries. He came from a family of merchants and painters, and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, where he co-founded the St.
Biography of Clelia Mosher (excerpt)
Clelia Duel Mosher (born December 16, 1863, in Albany, died December 21, 1940, in Palo Alto) was a physician, hygienist, and women's health advocate who opposed Victorian stereotypes about women's physical limitations. She studied at Wellesley College, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University, earning a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1893 and a master’s degree in 1894.
Biography of Paul Flechsig (excerpt)
Paul Emil Flechsig was born on June 29, 1847, and died on July 22, 1929.He was a German neuroanatomist and neuropathologist affiliated with the University of Leipzig.He is notably known as the physician of jurist Daniel Paul Schreber. After studying medicine in Leipzig, he became an assistant in pathology and later led the histology department in 1873.
Biography of Georges Demenÿ (excerpt)
Georges Emile Joseph Demenÿ, born on June 12, 1850, in Douai and passed away on October 26, 1917, in Paris, was a pioneer in film technology, photographer, inventor, cinema pioneer, and gymnast. As an assistant to physiologist Etienne Jules Marey, he developed the chronophotograph, a device for recording moving images.
Biography of Gustave Courtois (excerpt)
Gustave Claude Étienne Courtois, born on May 18, 1852, in Pusey and died on November 25, 1923, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French painter known for portraits and genre scenes. A student of Jean-Léon Gérôme, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1869 and made his Salon debut in 1875.
Biography of Otto von Faber du Faur (excerpt)
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur, born June 3, 1828, in Ludwigsburg and died August 10, 1901, in Munich, was a German officer and painter known for his large-scale battle scenes. He first trained under his father, battle painter Wilhelm von Faber du Faur, then studied in Munich, Paris, and Stuttgart with notable artists like Adolphe Yvon and Carl von Piloty.
Biography of Paul Avril (excerpt)
Édouard-Henri Avril, born May 21, 1849, in Algiers and died July 28, 1928, in Le Raincy, was a French painter and illustrator, best known under the pseudonym Paul-Avril for his erotic illustrations. He was the brother of engraver and photographer Paul Victor Avril, with whom he collaborated.
Biography of Ludwig Schames (excerpt)
Ludwig Schames (born August 11, 1852, in Frankfurt am Main; died July 3, 1922, in the same city) was a German art dealer who supported German expressionists, notably Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, becoming his principal gallerist. Coming from a long-established Jewish family in Frankfurt, he initially worked as a banker in Paris, where he became fascinated by the emerging art scene.
Biography of Sina Mesdag-van Houten (excerpt)
Sina (Sientje) van Houten (born 23 December 1834 in Groningen – died 20 March 1909 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter and wife of marine artist Hendrik Willem Mesdag. She came from a notable family, being the sister of Minister Samuel van Houten.
Biography of Jacques Perk (excerpt)
Jacques Perk, born June 10, 1859, and died November 1, 1881, was a pivotal Dutch poet of the 19th century. His sonnet cycle Mathilde, published by Willem Kloos, marked the beginning of modern Dutch poetry and was influenced by Shelley, Goethe, and Lamartine.
Biography of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (excerpt)
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, born October 28, 1842, and died October 22, 1932, was an American orator, author, and activist for the abolition of slavery and women’s rights. She was the first woman to deliver a political speech before the U.S. Congress.
Biography of Theo Mann-Bouwmeester (excerpt)
Theo Mann-Bouwmeester (April 19, 1850 – April 18, 1939) was one of the most famous Dutch actresses of her time, coming from a renowned family of performers. She first appeared on stage at the age of seven and secured her first major engagement in 1866.
Biography of Alexis Didier (excerpt)
Alexis Didier (born March 30, 1826 in Paris – died October 9, 1886) was a famous 19th-century French medium. At his funeral, he was described as “the greatest clairvoyant of modern times.” His case represents a key moment in the clash between Mesmer’s animal magnetism and the 19th-century medical establishment, which stopped all official research into such phenomena in 1842.
Biography of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (excerpt)
Ferdinand Jacobus Domela Nieuwenhuis (December 31, 1846 – November 18, 1919) was a Dutch Lutheran preacher who became a key figure in the country’s socialist movement.After losing his faith, he began a political struggle on behalf of workers’ rights. He was the first socialist elected to the Dutch parliament and later embraced social anarchism and strong anti-militarist views.
Biography of Carl Ernst von Stetten (excerpt)
Carl Ernst von Stetten (1857 – 1942) was a Bavarian-born German painter who spent much of his life in France.He came from a banking family in Augsburg and began studying art in Munich in 1876 before moving to Paris. There, he trained under Jean-Léon Gérôme and studied at the Académie Julian with Boulanger and Lefebvre.
Biography of August Allebé (excerpt)
August Allebé, born on 19 April 1838 in Amsterdam and died there on 10 January 1927, was a Northern Dutch painter and influential teacher.His early work was romantic, later evolving into realism and impressionism. A key figure in founding Amsterdam Impressionism – also called the “School of Allebé” – he offered a counterbalance to the dominant Hague School.
Biography of Félix Galipaux (excerpt)
Félix Galipaux, born on December 12, 1860, in Bordeaux and died on December 7, 1931, in Paris, was a French playwright, novelist, actor, humorist, and violinist. Born Félix Martin to unknown parents, he was recognized by his mother in 1866. After winning first prize at the Conservatoire, he chose the Palais-Royal theater over the Comédie-Française.
Biography of Carl von Linde (excerpt)
Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (June 11, 1842 – November 16, 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and industrialist.He discovered the refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial methods for air separation and gas liquefaction. In 1876, he created the first reliable compressed-ammonia refrigerator, a major breakthrough in cooling technology.
Biography of Gerard Bilders (excerpt)
Born in Utrecht on 9 December 1838, Gerard Bilders was a Dutch landscape painter strongly influenced by his father, Johannes Warnardus Bilders. He spent part of his youth in Oosterbeek, later a center for plein-air painters, and moved to The Hague in 1857.
Biography of Emilio Sala Cortés (excerpt)
Emilio Sala Cortés, born February 22, 1841, in Barcelona and died June 7, 1921, in La Garriga, was a Spanish architect.In Catalan, his name is Emili Sala i Cortés. He studied at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, where he graduated in 1876 and later taught.
Biography of Jennie Kidd Trout (excerpt)
Jennie Kidd Trout (née Gowanlock; April 21, 1841 – November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor, on March 11, 1875. She remained the only woman authorized to practice medicine until July 1880, when Emily Stowe completed her official qualifications. |
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