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birth charts with Poseidon in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Poseidon in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Louis-Paul Cailletet (excerpt)
Louis-Paul Cailletet (21 September 1832 – 5 January 1913) was a French physicist and inventor. Life and work Cailletet was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d'Or.Educated in Paris, Cailletet returned to Chatillon to manage his father's ironworks.In an effort to determine the cause of accidents that occurred while tempering incompletely forged iron, Cailletet found that heating the iron put it in a highly unstable state, with gases dissolved in it. ![]()
Biography of Albert Maignan (excerpt)
Albert Pierre René Maignan, born October 14, 1845 in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died September 29, 1908 in Saint-Prix, was a French painter and illustrator. Bibliography Dominique Mallet, Albert Maignan et son oeuvre. Conférence au Mans le 14 novembre 1912. ![]()
Biography of Charles Ricketts (excerpt)
Charles De Sousy Ricketts (2 October 1866 - 7 October 1931) was a versatile English artist, illustrator, author and printer, and is best known for his work as book designer and typographer from 1896 to 1904 with the Vale Press, and his work in the theatre as a set and costume designer. ![]()
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 Tristan Bernard (excerpt)
Tristan Bernard (September 7, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 7, 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, the son of an architect. He left Besançon at the age of 14, moving with his father to Paris, where he studied at the Lycée Condorcet, which was noted for its numerous literary alumni.
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Biography of Paul Durand-Ruel (excerpt)
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He was one of the first modern art dealers who provided support to his painters with stipends and solo exhibitions.
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Biography of Charles August Lindbergh (excerpt)
Charles August Lindbergh Sr. (January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed both American entry into World War I, and the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. He was the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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Biography of Wilhelm Raabe (excerpt)
Wilhelm Raabe (September 8, 1831 – November 15, 1910), German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born at Eschershausen (then in the Duchy of Brunswick, now in the Holzminden District). He served apprenticeship at a bookseller's in Magdeburg for four years (1849-1854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied philosophy at Berlin (1855-1857). ![]()
Biography of Venustiano Carranza (excerpt)
Venustiano Carranza Garza (December 29, 1859 – May 21, 1920) was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution.He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted.
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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 Ellen Terry (excerpt)
Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was an English stage actress, who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Born into a family of actors, Terry began acting as a child in Shakespeare plays, and continuing as a teen, sometimes in London and sometimes on tour. ![]()
Biography of Ferruccio Busoni (excerpt)
Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, teacher of piano and composition, writer on musical questions, and conductor. Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni was born in Empoli in Tuscany, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinetist. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Elme-Marie Caro (excerpt)
Elme Marie Caro (March 4, 1826, Poitiers, Vienne – July 13, 1887, Paris), was a French philosopher. His father, a professor of philosophy, gave him an excellent education at the Stanislas College and the École Normale, where he graduated in 1848. After being professor of philosophy at several provincial universities, he received the degree of doctor, and came to Paris in 1858 as master of conferences at the École Normale. ![]()
Biography of Havelock Ellis (excerpt)
Henry Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939) was a British sexologist, physician, and social reformer. Early life Ellis, son of Edward Peppen Ellis and Susannah Mary Wheatley, was born at Croydon, then a small town south of London.His father was a sea captain, his mother the daughter of a sea captain, and many other relatives lived on or near the sea. ![]()
Biography of Charles Fabry (excerpt)
Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (11 June 1867, Marseille – 11 December 1945, Paris) was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer. ![]()
Biography of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (excerpt)
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German sexologist and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous series of cases studies of sexual perversity. The book remains well-known for his coinage of the term masochism using the name of a contemporary writer, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose partially autobiographical novel Venus in Furs tells of the protagonist's desire to be whipped and enslaved by a beautiful woman. ![]()
Biography of Louis Bertrand (novelist) (excerpt)
Louis Bertrand (20 March 1866, Spincourt, Meuse – 6 December 1941, Cap d'Antibes) was a French novelist, historian and essayist. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1925. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Antoine Ranvier (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (b.Lyon, France, October 2, 1835; d.Vendranges, France, March 22, 1922, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of the myelin sheath and the nodes of Ranvier, subcellular structure which covers the axons of neurons. Ranvier studied medicine at Lyon, graduating in 1865.
Biography of Louis Emile Bertin (excerpt)
Louis-Émile Bertin (March 23,1840-1924) was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships. Early life Bertin was born in Nancy, France in 1840. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse Bertillon (excerpt)
Alphonse Bertillon (April 22, 1853—February 13, 1914) was a French law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements (sole sources give April 22, 1853). Anthropometry was the first scientific system police used to identify criminals.
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Biography of August Weismann (excerpt)
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann (Birth. January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main; Death. November 5, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau, ) was a German biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.
Biography of Carl Beck (excerpt)
Carl Beck, born April 4, 1856 in Neckargemünd, died June 9, 1911, was a German-American surgeon, physician and author. ![]()
Biography of Mabel Collins (excerpt)
Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 - 31 March 1927) was a theosophist and author of over 46 books. She was born in London. Works (extract) The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) The Idyll of the White Lotus (1890) Morial the Mahatma (1892) ![]()
Biography of Emile Pouvillon (excerpt)
Emile Pouvillon (1840 - 1906), French novelist, was born at Montauban (Tarn et Garonne). He published in 1878 a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles réalistes.Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy, he painted its scenery and its life with great clearness of outline and without exaggeration. ![]()
Biography of Jules Vandenpeereboom (excerpt)
Jules Henri Pierre François Vandenpeereboom (18 March 1843–6 March 1917) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Vandenpeereboom was born in Kortrijk and educated as a lawyer.He represented Kortrijk in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1878 to 1900. He held several ministerial posts, beginning with Railways, Posts and Telegraphs, from 1884 to 1899.
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Biography of Lucien Lacaze (excerpt)
Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze (22 June 1860 Pierrefonds, Oise — 23 March 1955 Paris) was a French admiral, minister of Marine, préfet maritime and académicien. Lacaze was born in Pierrefonds, Oise to a physician of Réunion, where he spent his youth. He studied in France with the Jesuits, and joined the École Navale in 1879.
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Biography of Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (excerpt)
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace.He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle. ![]()
Biography of Oskar Hertwig (excerpt)
Oscar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hesse - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850-1937). ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827(birth time source: Didier Geslain) – October 12, 1875) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude.Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. ![]()
Biography of Billy Sunday (excerpt)
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1863 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete and religious figure who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Biography of Junius Massau (excerpt)
Belgian engineer Junius Massau (April 9, 1852–1909) is considered to be the creator of graphical integration.He worked out careful techniques of geometrical calculation accurately to construct the integral curves of differential equations y = f(x) and, more generally, y = f(x, y).
Biography of Emilio de Bono (excerpt)
Emilio De Bono (March 19, 1866 – January 11, 1944) was an Italian general who fought in World War I and fascist activist who helped organize the Italian Fascist Party.In 1943, he participated in the Fascist Grand Council of which toppled Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. ![]()
Biography of Jules Garnier (excerpt)
Jules Garnier, born January 22, 1847, died in 1889, was a French impressionist painter. ![]()
Biography of Jean Lorrain (excerpt)
Jean Lorrain (August 29, 1855 (birth time source: birth certificate) - June 30, 1906), born Paul Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school. Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism, and (for the times) openly gay.Lorrain wrote a number of collections of verse, including La forêt bleue (1883) and L'ombre ardente, (1897).
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Biography of Gabriel Hanotaux (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux, (november 19, 1853 – april 11, 1944) was a French statesman and historian. He was born at Beaurevoir in the département of Aisne.He studied history at the École des Chartes, and became maître de conférence in the École des Hautes Études. ![]()
Biography of Francis Thompson (excerpt)
Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic.After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years.A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Duhem (excerpt)
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day, particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Burnham (excerpt)
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Chatrian (excerpt)
Alexandre Chatrian (17 December 1826 (Wikipedia gives 18 December by mistake) – 3 September 1890) was a French writer, associated with the region of Alsace-Lorraine.Almost all of his works were written jointly with Émile Erckmann under the name Erckmann-Chatrian. Success Recognition came in 1859 and they became well known as fantasy writers under the pseudonym of Émile Erckmann-Chatrian. ![]()
Biography of Mathilde Blind (excerpt)
Mathilde Blind (21 March 1841 - 1896) (born Mathilde Cohen), was a poet. She was born at Mannheim, Germany, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind. She published several books of poetry, including The Prophecy of St. ![]()
Biography of Robert Bosch (excerpt)
Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH. Bosch was born in Langenau/Württ.He was the eleventh of twelve children.His parents came from a class of well-situated farmers from the region. ![]()
Biography of Charles Barlet (excerpt)
Albert Fauch, best known as Charles Barlet or sometimes François Charles Barlet or F.-Ch. Barlet, born October 12, 1838 in Paris, died October 29, 1909 in Paris, was a French occulist and theosopher. His work is close to Papus and Max Théon. ![]()
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 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. ![]()
Biography of George Frederic Watts (excerpt)
George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904; sometimes spelled "George Frederick Watts") was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope (see image) and Love and Life. ![]()
Biography of Peter Chalmers Mitchell (excerpt)
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS DSc LLD (23 November 1864–1945), zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time he directed the policy of the London Zoo, and created the world's first open zoological park known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park.
Biography of William Chaney (excerpt)
William Henry Chaney, born January 13, 1821 in Chesterville, Massachusetts, died January 8, 1903, was an American astrologer and author, and, - maybe - the father of American writer Jack London (with Flora Wellman).
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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. ![]()
Biography of Louis Sullivan (excerpt)
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. |
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