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Horoscopes with Apollon in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Apollon in Gemini. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Simon Saint-Jean (excerpt)
Simon Saint-Jean is a French painter, born in Lyon on October 14, 1808 and died in Écully on July 3, 1860. Simon Saint-Jean, born to Antoinette Potin and Jean-Marguerite Saint-Jean, a cooper, lost his father early. He joined the École de Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 1822, studying under Pierre Révoil and Augustin Alexandre Thierriat, winning top flower drawing prizes and a gold medal in 1826.
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Biography of Susan Warner (excerpt)
Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885), was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World. Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town.
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Biography of Alphonse Devergie (excerpt)
Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse Devergie (Paris, February 15, 1798 – October 2, 1879) was a French physician and dermatologist. He was one of the pioneers of forensic medicine in France. Alphonse was the brother of Dr. Marie-Nicolas Devergie. He began his career as an intern at the Hospitals of Paris in 1816, before becoming a physician there in 1834.
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Biography of C. I. Defontenay (excerpt)
Charlemagne Ischir Defontenay, writing as C.I. Defontenay (15 Februray 1819 – 14 November 1856), was a French science fiction writer and surgeon. His Star, ou Psi Cassiopea of 1854 is seen by some as an example of proto-space opera. Others see Defontenay as a predecessor of Olaf Stapledon.
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Biography of Théodore-Augustin Forcade (excerpt)
Théodore-Augustin Forcade, born in Versailles on March 2, 1816, and died in Aix-en-Provence on September 12, 1885, was a French priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Considered a great traveler, he served as the Apostolic Vicar of Tokyo (Japan) from 1846 to 1852, then as Bishop of Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) from 1853 to 1860, Bishop of Nevers from 1860 to 1873, and finally Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence from 1873 to 1885.
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Biography of Ferdinand Carré (excerpt)
Ferdinand Philippe Edouard Carré was a French engineer, born in Moislains, in the Somme department, on March 10, 1824, and died on January 11, 1900, in Pommeuse in the Seine-et-Marne department. He became known for inventing refrigeration devices designed to produce ice for breweries.
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Biography of Titus Salt (excerpt)
Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876) was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
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Biography of Josephine Lang (excerpt)
Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a gifted German composer, born to musician parents. She was taught piano by her mother and began composing at a young age. Mentored by prominent artists like Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller, and with support from Robert Schumann, her music gained recognition.
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Biography of Émilie de Villeneuve (excerpt)
Jeanne-Émilie de Villeneuve, best known as Émilie de Villeneuve (9 March 1811 – 2 October 1854), was a French Catholic nun and the founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres. After she died her cause of canonization was opened.
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Biography of Januária of Brazil (excerpt)
Princess Januária of Brazil (Januária Maria Joana Carlota Leopoldina Cândida Francisca Xavier de Paula Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga; 11 March 1822 – 13 March 1901) was a Brazilian princess and Portuguese infanta (princess). Her time of birth comes from the biography "História do Brasil-reino e do Brasil-império, Volumes 1-2" (Editora Itatiaia, 1982).
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Biography of Therese Brunswick (excerpt)
Countess Therese (von) Brunsvik (Hungarian: Teréz Brunszvik; July 27, 1775 in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary – September 23, 1861 in Pest, Kingdom of Hungary), sometimes referred to in English as Therese, Countess von Brunsvik or Brunswick, was a member of the Hungarian nobility, pedagoge and a follower of the Swiss Pestalozzi.
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Biography of Anna Eliza Bray (excerpt)
Anna Eliza Bray (25 December 1790 – 21 January 1883) was an English historical novelist and non-fiction writer. Her time of birth comes from her, in her autobiography (London Chapman & Hall, 1884). Born in Surrey, she married Charles Alfred Stothard in 1818, who died in 1821.
Biography of Louis Toussaint Doutrelaine (excerpt)
Louis Toussaint Simon Doutrelaine, born on July 9, 1820, and died on May 1, 1881, was a French general in the engineering corps. Educated at the École Polytechnique and the military engineering school in Metz, he held various military positions, including during the siege of Rome and the Italian campaign.
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Biography of Alexis Damour (excerpt)
Augustin Alexis Damour was a French mineralogist born in the former 11th arrondissement of Paris on July 19, 1808, and died in the same city in the 9th arrondissement on September 22, 1902. After completing a legal education, he pursued an administrative career, notably at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until 1853.
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Biography of Eugène Pelletan (excerpt)
Pierre Clément Eugène Pelletan, born on October 29, 1813, in Saint-Palais-sur-Mer and died on December 13, 1884, in Paris, was a French writer, journalist, and politician. He was heavily influenced by figures such as George Sand and Alphonse de Lamartine and was a fervent supporter of republican ideals.
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Biography of Paolina Leopardi (excerpt)
Paolina Leopardi, born in Recanati on October 5, 1800, and died in Pisa on March 13, 1869, was an accomplished Italian writer and translator, and sister to the renowned poet Giacomo Leopardi. Her time of birth comes from the biography Casa Leopardi: la vita quotidiana e le vicende familiari by Francesco Paolo Maulucci Vivolo (Bastogi, 2001).
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Biography of Louise Otto-Peters (excerpt)
Louise Otto-Peters (26 March 1819 – 13 March 1895) was a prominent German suffragist and activist for women's rights who engaged in writing novels, poetry, essays, and opera libretti. She contributed to several periodicals and founded the Frauen-Zeitung, Germany's first political women's newspaper.
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Biography of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (excerpt)
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (5 September 1807 in Jülich – 11 September 1863 in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Prussian Duchy of Jülich. Schirmer was started as a student of historical painting under Schadow at the academy of Düsseldorf.
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Biography of Artur Zawisza (excerpt)
Artur Zawisza Czarny of Przerowa coat of arms, born on September 24, 1809, in Sobota, was a Polish independence activist. He played a significant role in the November Uprising (1830–1831), was a member of the Patriotic Society, and after 1831 lived in exile in France, joining the Polish Democratic Society.
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Biography of Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot (excerpt)
Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot, born in Paris on September 18, 1804, and died in Sainte-Menehould on January 29, 1883, was a French military physician and surgeon, a precursor of surgical asepsis and a promoter of anesthesia using chloroform. He performed the first human gastrostomy in 1846.
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Biography of Louise of Hesse-Kassel (excerpt)
Louise of Hesse-Kassel (German: Luise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie, Danish: Louise Wilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Auguste Julie; 7 September 1817 – 29 September 1898) was Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Christian IX from 15 November 1863 until her death in 1898.
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Biography of Pierre-Jean Aniel (excerpt)
Pierre-Jean Aniel, born on November 25, 1797, in Paris, and died on January 4, 1865, in Lyon, was a French dancer and ballet master. He started dancing at the Paris Opera in 1814 and became the premier dancer in Bordeaux from 1818 to 1823.
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Biography of François Antoine Lallemand (excerpt)
François Antoine "Charles" Lallemand (23 June 1774 – 9 March 1839) was a French general who served Napoleon I of France, tried to found a colony in what is now Texas, and finally returned to France to serve as governor of Corsica.
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Biography of Adoniram Judson (excerpt)
Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary, who worked in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Judson was sent from North America to preach in Burma.
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Biography of Charles Laffitte (excerpt)
Charles Pierre Eugène Laffitte, born in Paris on November 19, 1803, and died there on December 26, 1875, was a French banker, horseman, and politician. Nephew of famed banker Jacques Laffitte, Charles was instrumental in constructing the Paris-Rouen railway between 1841 and 1843.
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Biography of Jacques-Paul Migne (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Migne, born on September 5, 1800 in Saint-Flour and died on October 24, 1875 in Paris, was a French Catholic priest, printer, journalist, and publisher of religious books. Migne is best known for his monumental editions of the Patrologia Latina and the Patrologia Graeca.
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Biography of Carl Arnold (composer) (excerpt)
Carl Arnold (6 May 1794 – 11 November 1873) was a German pianist, composer, conductor, teacher, and organist who significantly influenced the musical life of Christiania (now Oslo) from 1848. Born in Bad Mergentheim, he was musically trained by his father and Johann Anton André.
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Biography of Juliusz Konstanty Ordon (excerpt)
Konstanty Juliusz Ordon, often known as Konstanty Julian Ordon, was born on October 15, 1810, in Warsaw and died on May 4, 1887, in Florence. He was a notable figure in the Polish November Uprising of 1830-1831, where he commanded artillery at Fort 54 in Wola during the Russian Army's storming of Warsaw on September 6, 1831.
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Biography of Lovisa Åhrberg (excerpt)
Maria Lovisa Åhrberg or Årberg (17 May 1801 – 26 March 1881) was a Swedish surgeon and doctor. She was lawfully practicing surgeon long before it became formally permitted for women to study medicine at a university in 1870. Lovisa Åhrberg could be regarded as the first female physician in Sweden with formal permit from the authorities to practice medicine: however, she had no formal training, and the first woman physician with a university degree was to be Karolina Widerström.
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Biography of Théodore Constant Leray (excerpt)
Théodore Constant Leray (November 13, 1795 - April 23, 1849) was born in Brest and pursued a naval career like his father. He served in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, rising to the rank of rear admiral and becoming a member of the Admiralty Council. ![]()
Biography of Guillaume de La Landelle (excerpt)
Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle, born on March 5, 1812, in Montpellier and died (due to tuberculosis) on January 19, 1886, in Paris, was a French naval officer, journalist, and man of letters. He was a novelist of the sea and author of other maritime works.
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Biography of Charles Dancla (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charles Dancla, born on 19th December 1817 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre and died on 10th October 1907 in Tunis, was a French violinist and composer, considered the last representative of the classic French violin school. His early violin lessons were in his hometown, and at nine years old, he impressed the famous violinist Pierre Rode, who recommended him to the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Gaye de Martignac (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gaye, Viscount of Martignac, born June 20, 1778, in Bordeaux and died April 3, 1832, in Paris, was a French poet, lawyer, and statesman. Initially known for his vaudevillian talents, he swiftly transitioned into a legal and political career.
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Biography of Karl von Basedow (excerpt)
Karl Adolph von Basedow (28 March 1799 – 11 April 1854) was a German physician most famous for reporting the symptoms of what could later be dubbed Graves-Basedow disease, now technically known as exophthalmic goiter. Basedow was born in Dessau. He graduated from Halle University.
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Biography of Clémentine of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Clémentine of Orléans (French: Marie Clémentine Léopoldine Caroline Clotilde d'Orléans) (3 June 1817 – 16 February 1907), princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and duchess in Saxony, was the sixth child and youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies.
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Biography of Elizabeth of Clarence (excerpt)
Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (Elizabeth Georgiana Adelaide; 10 December 1820 – 4 March 1821) was a member of the British royal family. She was the second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Clarence and St Andrews, later King William IV and Queen Adelaide.
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Biography of Casimir Lefaucheux (excerpt)
Casimir Lefaucheux (January 26, 1802 – August 9, 1852) was a French gunsmith and engineer born in Bonnétable, France, and died in Paris. He obtained his first patent in 1827 and, in 1832, developed a drop-barrel sporting gun with paper-cased cartridges. Lefaucheux is credited with creating one of the first efficient self-contained cartridge systems in 1835, featuring a pinfire mechanism.
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Biography of Adelbert Lebarbier de Tinan (excerpt)
Marie Charles Adelbert Le Barbier de Tinan, born in Paris on May 2, 1803, and deceased there on December 18, 1876, was a prominent French vice-admiral. His notable contributions include playing a key role during the Crimean War in 1853, aiding troop landings and blockading Greek ports.
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Biography of Bernhard von Lepel (excerpt)
Georg Friedrich Gustav Bernhard von Lepel (May 27, 1818 – May 17, 1885) was a Prussian officer and writer. Born in Meppen, he belonged to the Pomeranian and Mecklenburg nobility. He joined the Kaiser Franz Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 2 at 18 and participated in the Danish campaign in 1848 before leaving the military.
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Biography of Adolphe Crémieux (excerpt)
Isaac-Jacob Adolphe Crémieux (French: ; 30 April 1796 – 10 February 1880) was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice under the Second Republic (1848) and Government of National Defense (1870–1871). Raised Jewish, he served as president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1863–67; 1868–80), secured French citizenship for Algerian Jews under French rule through the Crémieux Decree (1870), and was a staunch defender of the rights of the Jews of France.
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Biography of Ernest Courtot de Cissey (excerpt)
Ernest Courtot de Cissey, born on December 23, 1810, in Paris, and died on June 15, 1882, in Paris, was a French general and statesman, decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Military Medal. He commanded the 2nd Army Corps during the suppression of the Paris Commune and served as Minister of War from 1871 to 1873 and again from 1874 to 1876.
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Biography of Oskar Kolberg (excerpt)
Henryk Oskar Kolberg (22 February 1814 – 3 June 1890) was a Polish ethnographer, folklorist, and composer active in Partitioned Poland. Life Kolberg was born in Przysucha, the son of the German Julius(z) Kolberg, a professor of the Warsaw University, and Fryderyka née Mercoeur, Warsaw-born while being of French descendance.
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Biography of Leopold, Prince of Salerno (excerpt)
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austria in 1816, and became the Prince of Salerno.
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Biography of Karl Immermann (excerpt)
Karl Leberecht Immermann (24 April 1796 – 25 August 1840) was a noteworthy German dramatist, novelist, and poet. His time of birth comes from the biography Karl Immermann: Sein Leben und seine Werke, aus Tagebüchern und Briefen an seine Familie zusammengestellt.
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Biography of Alphonse Ratisbonne (excerpt)
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, NDS, (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest and missionary. He later was a co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, a religious congregation dedicated to the conversion of Jews to the Christian faith.
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Biography of Antoine Bouchacourt (excerpt)
Antoine Bouchacourt, born January 3, 1812, in Lyon and died October 6, 1898, in the same city, was a renowned French doctor. Son of Gabriel Bouchacourt and Suzanne Geneviève Duclaux, he studied at the Royal College of Lyon and became an intern at the Antiquaille Hospital in Lyon at 19.
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Biography of Ernst von Schiller (excerpt)
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von Schiller (born July 11, 1796, in Jena, died May 19, 1841, in Vilich, now a district of Bonn) was a German judge in the Rhine Province. His time of birth comes from "Der Briefwechsel Zwischen Schiller und Goethe: Briefe der Jahre 1798-1805" by Friedrich von Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Beck, 1984).
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Biography of Otto of Greece (excerpt)
Otto (German: Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Wittelsbach; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.
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Biography of François de Chabaud-Latour (excerpt)
François-Henri-Ernest, Baron de Chabaud-Latour (January 25, 1804 – June 10, 1885) was a distinguished French general and politician. Born in Nîmes, he excelled at the École polytechnique and the École d'application du génie. As a military engineer, he served notably in Algeria and along the Danube, earning a reputation for strategic prowess in campaigns and fortification projects, including the Paris fortifications.
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Biography of Philippe Comairas (excerpt)
Philippe Comairas, born on October 24, 1803, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and died on February 15, 1875, in Fontainebleau, was a French painter, second prize winner of the Prix de Rome in 1833. A student of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, he gained recognition with his painting "Moses and the Brazen Serpent". |
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