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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Jules Janssen (excerpt)
Pierre Jules César Janssen (February 22, 1824 – December 23, 1907) was a French astronomer who, along with the English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gas helium. Life, work, and interests Janssen was born in Paris and studied mathematics and physics at the faculty of sciences. ![]()
Biography of Nikolaus Lenau (excerpt)
Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (August 13 (August 25, Gregorian calendar), 1802, Schadat, near Temesvár, Hungary - August 22, 1850, Oberdöbling, near Vienna), a Hungarian-Austrian poet. He was born at Schadat (Hungarian: Csatád) near Temesvár in Hungary, now is "Lenauheim" in Romania. ![]()
Biography of Hippolyte Flandrin (excerpt)
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (March 23, 1809 – March 21, 1864) was a 19th-century French painter. His celebrated 1836 work Jeune Biography Early life From an early age, Flandrin showed interest in the arts and a career as a painter. However, his parents pressured him to become a businessman, and having very little training, he was forced to instead become a miniature painter. ![]()
Biography of Amos Bronson Alcott (excerpt)
Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands", and for his association with Transcendentalism.
Biography of Charles Testut (excerpt)
Charles Testut, born June 4, 1818 in Paris and died in 1892, was a French writer, poet and novelist of Louisiana. Bibliography (extract) * Saint-Denis, 1849, novel * Les Échos, 1849, poetry * Fleurs d’été, 1851, poetry ![]()
Biography of Antoine Chintreuil (excerpt)
Antoine Chintreuil (May 15, 1814 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut, Gauquelin) – August 8, 1873) was a French landscape painter. He was born in Pont-de-Vaux, Ain and grew up in Bresse. In 1838 he moved to Paris, where he began studying under Paul Delaroche in 1842. ![]()
Biography of John C. Calhoun (excerpt)
John Caldwell Calhoun (pronounced /kćlˈhuːn/; March 18, 1782 in Abbeville, South Carolina – March 31, 1850) was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. A powerful intellect, Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions.
Biography of Edmond Lescarbault (excerpt)
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault, born August 11, 1814 in Châteaudun, died in 1894, was a French astronomer and physician. ![]()
Biography of Claude Bernard (excerpt)
Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878) was a French physiologist. He was called by I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University, "one of the greatest of all men of science" in his Foreword to the Dover edition (1957) of Bernard's classic on scientific method, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (originally published in 1865). ![]()
Biography of Edgar Quinet (excerpt)
Edgar Quinet (February 17, 1803–March 27, 1875) was a French historian and intellectual. Early years Born at Bourg-en-Bresse, in the département of Ain. His father, Jérôme Quinet, had been a commissary in the army, but being a strong republican and disgusted with Napoleon's 18 Brumaire coup, he gave up his post and devoted himself to scientific and mathematical study.
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Biography of Eduard Zeller (excerpt)
Eduard Gottlob Zeller (22 January 1814 – 19 March 1908), was a German philosopher and theologian of the Tübingen School of theology. Life Eduard Zeller was born at Kleinbottwar in Württemberg, and educated at the University of Tübingen and under the influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Mariette (excerpt)
The French scholar and archaeologist François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (February 11, 1821 – January 19, 1881) was the foremost Egyptologist of his generation, and the founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Life Early career Born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Mariette proved to be a talented draftsman and designer, and he supplemented his salary as a teacher at Douai by giving private lessons and writing on historical and archaeological subjects for local periodicals. ![]()
Biography of Ford Madox Brown (excerpt)
Ford Madox Brown (April 16, 1821 – October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. While he was closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was never actually a member.
Biography of Pierre Boileau (scientist) (excerpt)
Pierre Boileau, born February 19, 1811 in Metz, died September 11, 1891 in Versailles, was a French mathematician, inventor and scientist. ![]()
Biography of Henri Lacordaire (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (12 May 1802 in Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or) – 21 November 1861 in Sorčze (Tarn)), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France and is considered one of the founders of modern Roman Catholicism. ![]()
Biography of Victor Cousin (excerpt)
Victor Cousin (28 November 1792 – 13 January 1867) was a French philosopher. Early life The son of a watchmaker, he was born in Paris, in the Quartier Saint-Antoine. At the age of ten he was sent to the local grammar school, the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied until he was eighteen.
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Biography of Nicolas Changarnier (excerpt)
Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier (April 26, 1793 – February 14, 1877), French general, was born at Autun, Saône-et-Loire. Educated at St Cyr, he served for a short time in the bodyguard of Louis XVIII, and entered the line as a lieutenant in January 1815.
Biography of Jean Marie Jacquemier (excerpt)
Jean Marie Jacquemier, born January 16, 1804 in Cessy (Gex), died in 1879, was a French researcher, psysician and obstetrician. ![]()
Biography of Gaspare Spontini (excerpt)
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. Born in Maiolati in the province of Ancona, now Maiolati Spontini, he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life. ![]()
Biography of Carl Zeiss (excerpt)
Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 (birth time source: Taeger cites Arno Müler who quotes evangelisches Pfarramt (church registry)) – 3 December 1888) was an was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman who founded the workshop of Carl Zeiss in 1846, which is still in business today as Carl Zeiss AG.
Biography of Jean-Anne-Henri Depaul (excerpt)
Jean-Anne-Henri Depaul, born July 26, 1811 in Morlaŕs (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), died in 1883, was a French physician, surgeon and author.
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Biography of James Manby Gully (excerpt)
Dr James Manby Gully (14 March 1808 – 1883), was a Victorian medical doctor, well known for practising hydrotherapy, or the "water cure". Along with his partner James Wilson, he founded a very successful "hydropathy" (as it was then called) clinic in Malvern, Worcestershire, which had many notable Victorians, including such figures as Charles Darwin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as clients. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Godin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (January 26, 1817-1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne). The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman.
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Biography of John Augustus Sutter (excerpt)
Johann Augustus Sutter (February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.
Biography of Karl Zacharia (excerpt)
Karl Zacharia, born December 21, 1812 in Heidelberg, died June 3, 1894, was a German writer and researcher. Bibliography William Fischer: Zachariae von Lingenthal, Karl Eduard. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, S. 653–657.
Biography of Paul Lacuria (excerpt)
French priest Paul Lacurian, born January 6, 1806 in Lyon, died in 1890, was a theosopher, occulist, and writer. ![]()
Biography of Armand Trousseau (excerpt)
Armand Trousseau (October 14, 1801 — June 27, 1867) was a notable French internist. His contributions to medicine include Trousseau sign of malignancy, Trousseau sign of latent tetany, Trousseau-Lallemand bodies (an archaic synonym for Bence Jones cylinders), and the truism, "use new drugs quickly, while they still work. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Albert Roche (excerpt)
Édouard Albert Roche (October 17, 1820-April 18, 1883) was a French scientist, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. He gave his name to the concepts of the Roche sphere, Roche limit and Roche lobe. ![]()
Biography of Justus von Liebig (excerpt)
Justus von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. As a professor, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time. ![]()
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Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, of which it was traditionally the county town. Derby gained city status in 1977, and by the 2011 census its population was 248,700. ![]()
Biography of Ambroise Thomas (excerpt)
(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas (Metz August 5, 1811 - Paris, February 12, 1896) was a French opera composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871-1896. Early life and studies ![]()
Biography of Edward Lear (excerpt)
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularised. Edward Lear was born into a middle class family in Highgate, the 20th child of Ann and Jeremiah Lear.
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Biography of Patrice de Mac-Mahon (excerpt)
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France (13 June 1808 - 17 October 1893) was a French general and politician. He served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic, from 1875 to 1879. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Conscience (excerpt)
Henri "Hendrik" Conscience (December 3, 1812 Antwerp (Anvers) - September 10, 1883 Elsene) was a Flemish writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. He was the son of a Frenchman, Pierre Conscience, from Besançon, who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte, and who was appointed under-harbourmaster at Antwerp in 1811, when that city formed part of France.
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Biography of Moďse Millaud (excerpt)
Moses Polydore Millaud, Moďse Polydore Millaud, (27 August 1813 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 13 October 1871) was a journalist, banker and entrepreneur who founded Le Petit Journal, at one time the leading newspaper in France. Family life Millaud was born in Bordeaux, to Felicity (née Bellon) and Jassuda Millaud 1 (born 1769, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue – died 1865, Paris), Jewish merchants originally from the Papal States who originally sold horses. ![]()
Biography of Louis Lacombe (excerpt)
Louis Lacombe (Trouillon-Lacombe) (November 26, 1818, Bourges (Cher)– September 30, 1884, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, (Marne) was a French pianist and composer. Biography Louis Lacombe showed unusual musical abilities at very young age and was soon hailed as a child prodigy. He studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire from 1829 to 1832 with Pierre Zimmermann and won first prize in piano performance at only age 12 in 1831.
Biography of Julien Brizeaux (excerpt)
Julien Brizeaux, born September 12, 1803 in Lorient (source not archived), died in 1858, was a French author, poet and translator.
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Biography of Aimable Pelissier (excerpt)
Aimable Jean Jacques Pélissier, 1st Duc de Malakoff (November 6, 1794 - May 22, 1864), was a marshal of France. He was born at Maromme (Seine Inférieure), of a family of prosperous artisans, his father being employed in a powder-magazine. After attending the military college of La Flčche and the special school of St Cyr, he entered the army in 1815 as sub-lieutenant in an artillery regiment. ![]()
Biography of Maxime Du Camp (excerpt)
Maxime Du Camp (French: Maxime du Camp) (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer. Life Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets. ![]()
Biography of Joseph von Eichendorff (excerpt)
Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff (March 10, 1788 – November 26, 1857) was a German poet and novelist. Life Eichendorff was born in Racibórz, Poland in 1788. His parents were the Prussian officer Adolf Freiherr von Eichendorff and his wife, Karoline Freiin von Kloche, who came from an aristocratic Roman Catholic family.
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Biography of Leland Stanford (excerpt)
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician and founder of Stanford University. Biography Early years Stanford was born in 1824 in what was then Watervliet, New York (in what is now the town of Colonie). ![]()
Biography of William Cullen Bryant (excerpt)
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Life Youth and education Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque.
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Biography of Anton Diabelli (excerpt)
Anton Diabelli (September 5, 1781 – April 7, 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.
Biography of Richard James Morrison (excerpt)
Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology, and in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology, subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac. ![]()
Biography of Charles Albert of Sardinia (excerpt)
Charles Albert (Italian: Carlo Alberto) (October 2, 1798 (source not archived) – July 28, 1849) was the King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849. He succeeded his distant cousin Charles Felix, and his name is bound with the first Italian statute and the First War of Independence (1848–1849). ![]()
Biography of John Charles Fremont (excerpt)
John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery.
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Biography of Charles Renouvier (excerpt)
Charles Bernard Renouvier (January 1, 1815 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 1, 1903) was a French philosopher. He considered himself a "Swedenborg of history" who sought to update the philosophy of Kantian liberalism and individualism for the socio-economic realities of the late nineteenth century, and influenced the sociological method of Émile Durkheim. ![]()
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Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the state after New York City and Buffalo with a population of 211,328 in 2020. The city of Rochester forms the core of a larger metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties, which in turn is part of the larger Western New York region that has a population of roughly two million. ![]()
Biography of Caroline Bonaparte (excerpt)
Maria Annunziata Carolina (Marie Annonciade Caroline) Murat (née Bonaparte) (25 March 1782 (birth time source: André Barbault, on his website) – 18 May 1839), better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was the seventh surviving child and third surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France.
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Biography of Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux (excerpt)
Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux (7 May 1811 – 16 January 1886) was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favorizing private Catholic teaching. Life He was born at Angers, Maine-et-Loire. His father had been ennobled by King Charles X of France, and Falloux began his career as a Legitimist and clerical journalist under the influence of Madame Swetchine. |
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