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Horoscopes 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 Théodule Meunier (excerpt)
Théodule Meunier (August 22, 1860 in Bournezeau, France – July 25, 1907 in Cayenne, French Guiana) was a French anarchist who, along with Emile Henry and Auguste Vaillant, was responsible for a series of bombings in Paris, France during early 1892.
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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 Jules Beaujoint (excerpt)
Jules Beaujoint, born July 12, 1830 in Grandpré (Ardennes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 22, 1892 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, is a French journalist and popular novelist. He also uses the pseudonym of Jules de Grandpré.
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Biography of Théodore Lack (excerpt)
Théodore Lack (3 September 1846 – 25 November 1921) was a French pianist and composer. Born in Quimper, he studied under Antoine François Marmontel (pianoforte), Lefébure-Wély (composition) and François Bazin (harmony). He started teaching piano in Paris in 1863 and achieved acclaim as a piano pedagogue. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse de Neuville (excerpt)
Alphonse de Neuville (31 May 1835 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 18 May 1885) was a French Academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War and portraits of soldiers.
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Biography of Kintaro Hattori (excerpt)
Kintarō Hattori, born November 21, 1860 in Edo and died March 1, 1934 (aged 73), is a Japanese watchmaker and jeweler. In 1877, Kintarō Hattori opened a watch repair shop in Kyōbashi. With the success obtained, he founded in 1881 the watch firm Seiko, a Japanese high-end watchmaking company.
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Biography of Jane de La Vaudère (excerpt)
Jane de la Vaudère (April 15, 1857 – July 26, 1908) was the pen name of Jeanne Scrive, a French novelist, poet and playwright. Jane de la Vaudere was born April 15, 1857, in Paris. Her father was a famous doctor, Gaspard-Léonard Scrive, Surgeon-General of the French Army during the Crimean War.
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Biography of Ernest Archdeacon (excerpt)
Ernest Archdeacon (28 March 1863 (birth time source: Janine Tissot, birth certificate n° 636) – 1950), was a French lawyer who was prominent in the pioneering of aviation in France before the First World War. He made his first balloon flight at the age of 20.
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Biography of Alejandro Sawa (excerpt)
Alejandro Sawa Martínez, a Spanish bohemian novelist, poet, and journalist, was born on 15th March 1862 in Seville and died on 3rd March 1909. Of Greek descent, he initially pursued priesthood, then studied law in Granada, and later moved to Madrid in 1885, leading a life of poverty.
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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. ![]()
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 Juan Serrano Oteiza (excerpt)
Juan Serrano Oteiza, or Juan Serrano y Oteyza (6 May 1837, Madrid - 26 March 1886, Madrid) was a Spanish jurist, writer, journalist, and politician; one of the most prominent anarchists in 19th century Spain. In 1881, the "Federación de Trabajadores de la Región Española " (FTRE), a legal organization, was established. ![]()
Biography of Camille Doncieux (excerpt)
Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 – 5 September 1879) was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet, with whom she had two sons. She was the subject of a number of paintings by Monet, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet. ![]()
Biography of Cécile Bruyère (excerpt)
Mère Cécile Bruyère (12 October 1845 – 18 March 1909) was the first abbess of St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes) and a follower of Dom Prosper Guéranger in the revival of Benedictine spirituality in 19th century France. Although St.
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Biography of Florence Harding (excerpt)
Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the first lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as the wife of President Warren G. Harding. Florence first married Pete De Wolfe and had a son, Marshall.
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Biography of Georges Marty (excerpt)
Georges-Eugène Marty (Paris, 16 May 1860 – Paris, 11 October 1908) was a French conductor and composer associated with both major opera houses in Paris. Showing musical talent very early on, and entering the Paris Conservatoire aged 12, he won the first prize for solfege there in 1875.
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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 William Edward Hartpole Lecky (excerpt)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky OM PC FBA (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century. Lecky concentrated on his major work, A History of England during the Eighteenth Century, Vols.
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Biography of Paul Hillemacher (excerpt)
Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (25 November 1852 – 13 August 1933) was a French composer and classical pianist. Born in Paris, Hillemacher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in François Bazin's class. Second prize for harmony in 1870, first runaway in fugue two years later, he won, in 1873 a Second Prix de Rome then, in 1876, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Judith.
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Biography of Vsevolod Garshin (excerpt)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (14 February 1855 (Gregorian calendar) — 5 April 1888) was a Russian author of short stories. His experiences as a soldier provide the basis for his first stories, including the very first, "Four Days" (Russian: "Четыре дня"), based on a real incident.
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Biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (excerpt)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, journalist, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.
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Biography of Willem Kloos (excerpt)
Willem Johannes Theodorus Kloos (6 May 1859 – 31 March 1938) was a nineteenth-century Dutch poet and literary critic. He was one of the prominent figures of the Movement of Eighty and became editor in chief of De Nieuwe Gids after the editorial fracture in 1893. ![]()
Biography of Gilbert Ballet (excerpt)
Gilbert Ballet (March 29, 1853 – March 17, 1916) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist and historian who was a native of Ambazac in the department of Haute-Vienne. He studied medicine in Limoges and Paris, and subsequently became Chef de clinique under Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) at the Salpêtrière.
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Biography of Lucretia Garfield (excerpt)
Lucretia Garfield (née Rudolph; April 19, 1832 – March 13, 1918) was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, Garfield first met her husband in 1849 at Geauga Seminary. ![]()
Biography of Henri Vever (excerpt)
Henri Vever (1854–1942) was one of the most preeminent European jewelers of the early 20th century, operating the family business, Maison Vever, started by his grandfather. Henri was also a collector of a broad range of fine art, including prints, paintings, and books of both European and Asian origin.
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Biography of Jules Tannery (excerpt)
Jules Tannery (24 March 1848 – 11 December 1910) was a French mathematician, who notably studied under Charles Hermite and was the PhD advisor of Jacques Hadamard. Tannery's theorem on interchange of limits and series is named after him. He was a brother of the mathematician and historian of science Paul Tannery.
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Biography of Julia Kavanagh (excerpt)
Julia Kavanagh (7 January 1824 – 28 October 1877) was an Irish novelist, born at Thurles in Tipperary, Ireland—then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her numerous contributions to literature have classified her as one of the non-canonical minor novelist of the Victorian period (1837–1901).
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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 Suzanne Manet (excerpt)
Suzanne Manet, born Suzanne Leenhoff; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled. An excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers.
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Biography of Anatole Deibler (excerpt)
Anatole Deibler (29 November 1863 (Rennes) - 2 February 1939 (Paris)) was a French executioner. Succeeding his father, Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler, and grandfather as the lead French executioner, he participated in the execution of 395 criminals during his 54-year career. During his 40 years as lead executioner he was responsible for 299 beheadings.
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Biography of Alfred Binet (excerpt)
Alfred Binet (8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work.
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Biography of Marie-Thérèse Joniaux (excerpt)
Marie-Thérèse Joniaux (née Maria Teresa Joséphe Ablaÿ; October 15, 1844 - 1923) was a Belgian poisoner who made headlines in 1894–1895 as part of the Joniaux Affair after the triple poisoning perpetrated against her sister, Léonie Ablaÿ, her uncle-by-marriage, Jacques Van de Kerkhove and her brother, Alfred Ablaÿ.
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Biography of Auguste Daum (excerpt)
Jean Louis Auguste Daum (1853 in Bitche – 1909 in Nancy) was a French ceramist, in glass. He was one of the founder members of École de Nancy and the director of Daum studio. He was the son of Jean Daum, brother of Antonin Daum and father of Léon Daum.
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Biography of Alfred Michaux (excerpt)
Alfred Michaux, born July 5, 1859 in Clenleu in Pas-de-Calais and died March 26, 1937 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is a French lawyer and Esperantist. Passionate about linguistics, he studies the artificial language at the base of the development of constructed languages. He first turned to the neo-Latin language of E.
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Biography of Mathilde de Morny (excerpt)
Mathilde de Morny (26 May 1863 – 29 June 1944) was a French aristocrat and artist. Morny was also known by the nickname "Missy" or by the artistic pseudonym "Yssim" (an anagram of Missy), or as "Max", "Uncle Max" (French: Oncle Max), or "Monsieur le Marquis".
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Biography of Zacharie Astruc (excerpt)
Zacharie Astruc (20 February (not 23 February, a mistake from Wikipedia) 1833 in Angers – 24 May 1907 in Paris) was a French sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century, and participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
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Biography of Antonin Proust (excerpt)
Antonin Proust (10 March 1832 – 20 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician. Antonin Proust was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. In the 1840s, Proust attended the Collège Rollin where he met lifelong friend Édouard Manet. In September 1850, Proust and Manet joined the studio of Thomas Couture for artistic training.
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Biography of Eugenie Marlitt (excerpt)
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 1825 – 1887), a popular German novelist. She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to study music for three years on account of her fine voice.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Hans Emmenegger (artist) (excerpt)
Hans Emmenegger, born August 19, 1866 in Küssnacht and died September 21, 1940 in Lucerne, is a Swiss painter, designer, engraver and philatelist. He studied at the Lucerne School of Fine Arts then in Paris where he was a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian then of Jean-Léon Gérôme before doing an internship in Munich with Karl Raupp and returning in Paris where he works with Benjamin Constant and Lucien Doucet.
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Biography of Chung Ling Soo (excerpt)
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo. He is mostly remembered today for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick. Soo's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called "Condemned to Death by the Boxers". ![]()
Biography of Clara Viebig (excerpt)
Clara Emma Amalia Viebig (17 July 1860 (for her time of birth, two sources exist, 10:00 pm and 9:00 pm) – 31 July 1952) was a German author. Life Viebig was born in the German city of Trier, the daughter of a Prussian civil servant.
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Biography of Philippe Barbier (excerpt)
Philippe Antoine Francoise Barbier (2 March 1848 – 18 September 1922) was a French organic chemist. He is best known for his two named reactions in organic synthesis, the Barbier reaction and the Barbier-Wieland degradation, as well as for his role in the creation of organomagnesium reagents with his student, Victor Grignard.
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Biography of Samuel Pozzi (excerpt)
Samuel-Jean Pozzi (3 October 1846 – 13 June 1918) was a French surgeon, professor, author, and gynecologist. He was also interested in anthropology and neurology. Medical career Members of the Paris Medical Faculty (1904) In 1864, Pozzi began to study medicine in Paris. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, he volunteered and became a medic.
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Biography of Antonin Daum (excerpt)
Born Jean Antonin Daum in Bitche on October 30, 1864 and died in Nancy on March 28, 1930, son of Jean Daum, Antonin Daum is a French master glassmaker, engineer and entrepreneur, founder with his brother Auguste of the Daum crystal factory.
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Biography of Constance Gordon-Cumming (excerpt)
Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming (26 May 1837 – 4 September 1924) was a noted Scottish travel writer and painter. Born in a wealthy family, she travelled around the world and painted described scenes and life as she saw them. She was a friend and influencer of the travel writers and artists Marianne North and Isabella Bird.
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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 Georgie Raoul-Duval (excerpt)
Jeannie Urquhart or Georgie Raoul–Duval (3 July 1866 – 3 November 1913) was an American writer, playwright, and socialite. She is mainly remembered for having been in a ménage-a-trois with Colette and Colette's husband Henry Gauthier–Villars. Early life Urquhart was born in the 16th arrondissement in Paris, France during one of the frequent travels of American merchant David Urquhart and his wife Augusta (née Slocomb). ![]()
Biography of Paul Natorp (excerpt)
Paul Gerhard Natorp (24 January 1854 – 17 August 1924) was a German philosopher and educationalist, considered one of the co-founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He was known as an authority on Plato. Paul Natorp was born in Düsseldorf, the son of the Protestant minister Adelbert Natorp and his wife Emilie Keller. |
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