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Horoscopes with Pluto in PiscesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Pluto in Pisces. 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 Apollon Maykov (excerpt)
Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (Russian: Аполло́н Никола́евич Ма́йков, June 4 (O.S. May 23) 1821, Moscow – March 20 (O.S. March 8) 1897, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history.
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Biography of François-Xavier Garneau (excerpt)
François-Xavier Garneau (June 15, 1809 – February 2 or February 3, 1866) was a nineteenth-century French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant and liberal who wrote a three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada between 1845 and 1848.
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Biography of Suzanne Voilquin (excerpt)
Suzanne Monnier Voilquin (December 17, 1801 – October 24, 1876) was a French feminist, journalist, midwife, traveler and author, best known as editor of Tribune des femmes (French Wikipedia Article), the first working-class feminist periodical, and her memoirs, Souvenirs d’une fille du peuple: ou, La saint-simonienne en Égypt. ![]()
Biography of Adalbert Stifter (excerpt)
Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while remaining almost entirely unknown to English readers.
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Biography of Eugène Lepoittevin (excerpt)
Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870) was a French artist who achieved an early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic caricatures to massive battle scenes. His works are in the collections of many museums throughout France.
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Biography of Max Buchon (excerpt)
Joseph-Maximilien Buchon, known as Max Buchon, born May 8, 1818 in Salins (Jura) where he died December 14, 1869, is a French poet, novelist and translator. His childhood friend Gustave Courbet places it in his monumental painting of 1855, The Painter's Workshop, and gives him a portrait (Museum of Vevey).
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Biography of Alexander Herzen (excerpt)
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (6 April (O.S. 25 March) 1812 – 21 January (O.S. 9 January) 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). ![]()
Biography of Taras Shevchenko (excerpt)
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (9 March (O.S. 25 February) 1814 – 10 March (O.S. 26 February) 1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
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Biography of Yevgeny Baratynsky (excerpt)
Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (Russian: Евге́ний Абра́мович Бараты́нский; 2 March (O.S. 19 February) 1800 – 11 July 1844) was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Russian Symbolism poets as a supreme poet of thought.
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Biography of Adèle Schopenhauer (excerpt)
Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer, known as Adele Schopenhauer (12 July 1797 – 25 August 1849), was a German author. She was the sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and daughter of author Johanna Schopenhauer. Henriette Sommer and Adrian van der Venne were pseudonyms used by her.
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Biography of Dorothea de Ficquelmont (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dolly" de Ficquelmont (Russian: Да́рья Фёдоровна Фикельмо́н; Daria Fyodorovna Fikelmon; 14 October (26 October, Gregorian calendar) 1804, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 10 April 1863, Venice, Austrian Empire), born Countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen, was a Russian writer and salonist. A granddaughter of the Russian war hero General Prince Kutuzov (who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars), she was a Russian aristocrat of German Baltic origin, and later a member of the Austrian nobility as the wife of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont.
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Biography of Adolphe Alphand (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (born in 1817 and died in 1891, interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 66), was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. Born in Grenoble, Alphand entered the École polytechnique in 1835 and continued his engineering studies at the prestigious École des ponts et chaussées in 1837.
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Biography of Ernest Pinard (excerpt)
Pierre Ernest Pinard (10 October 1822 – 12 September 1909) was a French prosecutor and Minister of the Interior. He is known for his indictments against Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. Minister of the Interior Pinard was appointed to the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) in 1866, aged 44, seen as one of the new men who could rejuvenate the empire.
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Biography of Alexeï Pissemski (excerpt)
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (23 March (O.S. 11 March) 1821 – 2 February (O.S. 21 January) 1881) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with Sovremennik magazine in the early 1860s.
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Biography of Isabella Braun (excerpt)
Isabella Braun (born 12 December 1815 in Jettingen, died 2 May 1886 in Munich) was a German writer. Braun was the daughter of Bernhard Maria Braun, and his wife Euphemia. After her father's death in 1827, the family moved to Augsburg, where Isabella Braun attended secondary school until 1834.
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Biography of Louise Aston (excerpt)
Luise Aston, or Louise Aston (26 November 1814 – 21 December 1871), was a German author and feminist, who championed the rights of women, and was known for dressing in male attire. She was an advocate of democracy, free love, and sexuality.
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Biography of Ferdinand Barbedienne (excerpt)
Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder. Career The son of a small farmer from Calvados, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Paris. ![]()
Biography of François Blanc (excerpt)
François Blanc ( 12 December 1806 – 27 July 1877), nicknamed "The Magician of Homburg" and "The Magician of Monte Carlo", was a French entrepreneur and operator of casinos, including the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. His daughter, Marie-Félix, married Prince Roland Bonaparte and had issue.
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Biography of Fanny Fern (excerpt)
Fanny Fern (born Sara Payson Willis; July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers.
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Biography of Agénor de Gasparin (excerpt)
Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 (his birth time comes from Orange's online archives) – 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author. He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping. He was born at Orange, Vaucluse, the son of Adrien de Gasparin.
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Biography of Louise von Gall (excerpt)
Louise von Gall (15 September (according to her German Wikipedia page) 1815, Darmstadt – 16 March 1855, Augsburg) was a nineteenth-century German novelist and social critic. Johanna Udalrike Louise Gerhardine Freiin von Gall was the posthumous daughter of General Ludwig Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Philipp von Gall. ![]()
Biography of Luise Hensel (excerpt)
Luise Hensel (30 March 1798 to 18 December 1876) was a German teacher and religious poet, who influenced the romantic style of her friend and fellow poet, Clemens Brentano.
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Biography of Johannes Bilders (excerpt)
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter; he was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School because of his connections with H.W. Mesdag, Jozef Israëls, Willem Roelofs, his later wife Marie Bilders-van Bosse and others painters of The Hague.
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Biography of Marie Nathusius (excerpt)
Marie Nathusius, née Scheele (March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg – December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt) was a German novelist and composer. Life Her father was the Calvinist parson Friedrich August Scheele. Marie Nathusius grew up in Calbe (Saale). 1841 she married the publisher Philipp von Nathusius (1815–1872).
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Biography of Pierre Jules Baroche (excerpt)
Pierre Jules Baroche (18 November 1802, Paris – 29 October 1870, Jersey) was a French statesman, who served as minister in several of Napoleon III's governments. He was Minister of the Interior from 15 March 1850 to 24 January 1851, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 April 1851 to 26 October 1851, President of the Conseil d'État from 30 December 1852, briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 4 January 1860 to 24 January 1860, Minister without portfolio from 3 December 1860, and Minister of Justice (and of Public Worship) from 23 June 1863 to 17 July 1869. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Boulanger (composer) (excerpt)
Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer of comic operas and a conductor. He was more known, however, for being a choral music composer, choral group director, voice teacher, and vocal contest jury member.
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Biography of Amédée de Noé (excerpt)
Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (26 January 1818 – 6 September 1879), was a French caricaturist and lithographer. He was born in Paris and raised by a family who wished for him to attend a polytechnic school. He instead attended painting workshops hosted by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist.
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Biography of Charles Philipon (excerpt)
Charles Philipon (8 September 1800 (civil registrar, Didier Geslain. Wikipedia gives another date) – 25 January 1861) was a French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist. He was the founder and director of the satirical political journals La Caricature and of Le Charivari.
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Biography of Étienne Vacherot (excerpt)
Étienne Vacherot (29 July 1809 – 28 July 1897) was a French philosophical writer. Life Vacherot was born of peasant parentage at Torcenay, near Langres in the Haute-Marne département of France. He was educated at the École Normale, and returned there as director of studies in 1838, after some years spent in provincial schoolmasterships.
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Biography of Achille Devéria (excerpt)
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (6 February 1800 – 23 December 1857) was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six children were Théodule Devéria and Gabriel Devéria.
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Biography of Louisa Anne Meredith (excerpt)
Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer, illustrator and possibly one of Australia's earliest photographers. Emigration to Australia Meredith and her husband sailed for New South Wales in June 1839, and arrived at Sydney on 27 September 1839.
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Biography of Louise von François (excerpt)
Marie-Louise von François (June 27, 1817 – September 25, 1893) was a German writer best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She corresponded with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Born in Herzberg, she lost her father young and was raised in Potsdam by her uncle, where she discovered writings about the Napoleonic Wars.
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Biography of Alice Cary (excerpt)
Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Works Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849) A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary With Some of Their Later Poems, compiled and edited by Mary Clemmer Ames (1873) ![]()
Biography of Henri Robin (excerpt)
Henri Robin (12 July 1811 – 24 February 1874), born Henrik Joseph Donckel, was a French illusionist, born in Hazebrouck. In the early 1850s, he performed at Windsor Castle, at the request of Queen Victoria. In 1861, he became the first illusionist to offer a full programme of magic at Egyptian Hall in London.
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Biography of Félix Arvers (excerpt)
élix Arvers (July 23, 1806 – November 7, 1850) was a French poet and dramatist, most famous for his poem Un secret. Born in Paris, Arvers abandoned his law career aged 30 to concentrate on theatre. His plays gained moderate success in their own time, but none were as notorious as Un Secret, dedicated to Marie, the daughter of writer Charles Nodier.
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Biography of Félix Hippolyte Larrey (excerpt)
Félix Hippolyte Larrey, born September 18, 1808 in Paris, died October 8, 1895 in the same city, 2nd Baron Larrey, was a French military doctor and politician. Chief doctor of the army, he was the doctor of Napoleon III, deputy of the Hautes-Pyrénées between 1877 and 1881 and member of the Institut de France (Academy of Sciences, free member, December 9, 1867). ![]()
Biography of Lydia Maria Child (excerpt)
Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s.
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Biography of Auguste Préault (excerpt)
Antoine-Augustin Préault (8 October 1809 – 11 January 1879) was a French sculptor of the "Romantic" movement. Born in the Marais district of Paris, he was better known during his lifetime as Auguste Préault. Biography A student of David d'Angers, Préault first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1833.
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Biography of Valérie de Gasparin (excerpt)
Valérie Boissier, comtesse de Gasparin (13 September 1813 – 1894) was a Swiss woman of letters. She was a spokeswoman in topics such as freedom, equality and creativity. She was born at Geneva. She was the wife of Agénor de Gasparin. She lived a great part of her life in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and was a prolific writer on religion, social topics and travel.
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Biography of Adolphe Maillart (excerpt)
Adolphe Maillart is a French actor born in Metz on December 9, 1810 and died in Paris on March 7, 1891.
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Biography of Sidonie de La Houssaye (excerpt)
Sidonie de la Houssaye, born Hélène Perret, pen name Louise Raymond (Edgard, Louisiana, August 17, 1820 – February 18, 1894) was an American-born French language writer of Louisiana Creole descent. The daughter of Creoles Ursin Perret and Françoise Pain, she received a bilingual education in English and French while living in St.
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Biography of Caroline Kirkland (excerpt)
Caroline Mathilda Stansbury Kirkland (January 11, 1801 – April 6, 1864) was an American writer. Biography She was born into a middle-class family in New York City, the oldest of eleven children. Her mother was a writer of fiction and poetry. Her father died when she was 21 and the family followed her to upstate New York, where she taught and had met her future husband, William Kirkland.
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Biography of François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville (excerpt)
François d'Orléans, Prince de Joinville (14 August 1818 – 16 June 1900) was the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours.
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Biography of John McDouall Stuart (excerpt)
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 1815 – 5 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the first successful expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north and return, through the centre of the continent.
Biography of Gabriel Jugan (excerpt)
Gabriel Auguste Jugan, born September 7, 1807 in Rochefort, died February 15, 1855 in the Strait of Bonifacio, was a French captain. His name is especially linked to the sinking of the Sémillante, which he commanded, a 19th century French navy frigate.
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Biography of Jan Van Beers (excerpt)
Jan van Beers (22 February 1821 – 14 November 1888) was a Belgian poet born in Antwerp. He is usually referred to as "van Beers the elder" to distinguish him from his son, Jan van Beers (1852–1927), the painter. Background Van Beers was essentially a Netherlander, though politically a Belgian, expressing his thoughts in the same language as any North Netherland writer.
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Biography of James Paget (excerpt)
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (/ˈpædʒət/, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology.
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Biography of Eliza Farnham (excerpt)
Eliza Farnham (November 17, 1815 – December 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform. She was born in Rensselaerville, New York. She moved to Illinois in 1835, and there married Thomas J. Farnham in 1836, but returned to New York in 1841.
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Biography of Felix Schadow (excerpt)
Felix Schadow, born on June 21, 1819, in Berlin and died on June 25, 1861, in the same city, was a German painter. He was the son of Johann Gottfried Schadow and the half-brother of Wilhelm von Schadow and Rudolf Schadow.
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Biography of Jules de La Gournerie (excerpt)
Viscount Jules Maillard de La Gournerie was a French engineer and mathematician, born on December 20, 1814, in Nantes, and died on June 25, 1883, in Paris. His studies mainly focused on the geometry of skew curves and their application to stereotomy. |
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