|
Advertisements
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Planet in House
Planet in Sign
|
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 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 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 Adolphe Pinard (excerpt)
Adolphe Pinard (February 4, 1844, in Méry-sur-Seine, Aube – March 1, 1934) was a French obstetrician and politician, a member of the Academy of Medicine, and regarded as the father of childcare. He also served as a deputy during two legislatures in the Third Republic.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Albertus Antonie Nijland (excerpt)
Albertus (Albert) Antonie Nijland (born October 30, 1868 – died August 18, 1936) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a professor of astronomy at Utrecht University and served as director of the Sterrewacht Sonnenborgh observatory. Nijland was born in Utrecht and took part in a Dutch solar eclipse expedition to Karang Sago, Sumatra, in 1901.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Émile Mayrisch (excerpt)
Albert Jacob Émile Mayrisch (born 10 November 1862 in Eich, Luxembourg – died 5 March 1928 in Châlons-sur-Marne, France) was a Luxembourgish industrialist and businessman. He served as chairman of the board of Arbed. Wikipedia has 10 October in error. From a family of doctors and ironmasters, he was the son of Édouard Mayrisch, a court physician, and Mathilde Metz.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Albert Kappis (excerpt)
Albert Kappis, born August 20, 1836, in Wildberg and died September 18, 1914, in Stuttgart, was a German painter and draftsman best known for landscapes and rural genre scenes. Originally trained as a lithographer, he later studied at the academies in Stuttgart and Munich under teachers like Karl von Piloty.
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 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 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.
Biography of Ferdinand Zecca (excerpt)
Ferdinand Zecca was born on February 19, 1864, in Paris 10th and died on March 23, 1947, in Saint-Mandé.He was a French filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, and actor who played a key role in the early days of cinema. Coming from a family of performers, he started as a stage manager and actor before transitioning to film in 1899, making movies for Pathé and Gaumont.
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 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 Elisabeth Winterhalter (excerpt)
Elisabeth Hermine Winterhalter (17 December 1856 - 13 February 1952) was a German gynecologist, surgeon, feminist, and patron of the arts. She was one of Germany’s first female doctors and its first female surgeon. She shared her life with painter Ottilie Roederstein.
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 Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (excerpt)
Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (March 13, 1871 – February 27, 1956), born in Rotterdam to a Scottish father and a Polish mother, was a British publisher and photojournalist. He spent part of his youth in Wiesbaden and later travelled Europe as a photographer, contributing to the rise of illustrated magazines.
Biography of Joseph Léon Lignières (excerpt)
Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (March 26, 1868, Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – October 19, 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, the binomial authority for the Salmonella genus of bacteria. Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (born March 26, 1868, in Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – died October 19, 1933, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, known for describing the Salmonella genus.
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 Wally Moes (excerpt)
Wally Moes, born on 16 November 1856 in Amsterdam and died on 6 November 1918 in Laren, was a Dutch genre painter and author, known for her depictions of everyday life, especially scenes with children. She studied under August Allebé at the Rijksacademie but left in 1878 during a protest, returning in 1880 when he became director.
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 Hans Poelzig (excerpt)
Hans Poelzig (born April 30, 1869, in Berlin, died June 14, 1936, in Berlin) was a German architect, designer, painter, and stage designer. A member of the Deutscher Werkbund, he contributed to the Expressionist architecture movement and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in the 1920s.
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 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. |
House in Sign
Advanced Search
Other Search Tools
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To add this celebrity to your favourites, please create an account.
To get your compatibility ratings with this celebrity, please create an account.







in 















