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Horoscopes with Proserpina in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina 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 Albert Lebourg (excerpt)
Albert Lebourg, born February 1, 1849 in Montfort-sur-Risle and died January 6, 1928 in Rouen, was a French painter of Rouen's School. He was a member of Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts of Rouen. Bibliography (extract) Léonce Bénédite, Albert Lebourg, Georges Petit, Paris, 1923 ![]()
Biography of Mikhail Glinka (excerpt)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка) (June 1 1804 – February 15 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctively Russian kind of classical music. ![]()
Biography of Prince Arthur of Connaught (excerpt)
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria. Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. ![]()
Biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (excerpt)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, psychologist, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he was considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Palizzi (excerpt)
Filippo Palizzi, born June 16, 1818 in Vasto and died September 11, 1899 in Rome, is an Italian painter. Works Saint Jean (cathédrale de Vasto). Amedée de Savoie blessé ŕ Custoza en 1866. Al Pascolo con le caprette. (au paturage avec les chevrettes). ![]()
Biography of William Quan Judge (excerpt)
William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. When he was 13 years old, his family emigrated to the United States.
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Biography of Paul Gabriel (excerpt)
Paul Gabriel, born July 5, 1828 in Amsterdam, died August 23, 1903, was a Dutch artist and landscape painter.
Biography of Bangalore S. Rao (excerpt)
Bangalore S. Rao, born February 12, 1856 in Srikakulam, died in March 1937, was an Indian author and professional astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Henry Morton Stanley (excerpt)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (June 10, 1840 – May 10, 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr. ![]()
Biography of Albert Lavignac (excerpt)
Albert Lavignac (Paris 22 January 1846 – Paris, 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer. Lavignac studied with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris where later he taught harmony.
Biography of Eugčne Tisserand (agronomist) (excerpt)
Eugčne Tisserand, born on May 26, 1830 in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, died in 1925 in Paris, was a French agronomist and author.
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Biography of Jules Perrot (excerpt)
Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 in Lyon, France – 29 August 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including Pas de Quatre, La Esmeralda, Ondine, and Giselle with Jean Coralli.
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Biography of Jean Aicard (excerpt)
Jean François Victor Aicard (February 4, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - May 13, 1921) was a French poet, dramatist and novelist. He was born in Toulon. His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son early began his career in 1867 with Les Jeunes Croyances, followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at the Marseille theatre. ![]()
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Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Lalo (excerpt)
Édouard Victor Antoine Lalo (January 27, 1823 – April 22, 1892) was a French composer of Spanish descent. Born in Lille, he studied first at that city's conservatoire, and then at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck. For years, he worked as a viola player (specializing in chamber music) and teacher in Paris before gaining fame as a composer, which eventually arrived when he was in his late forties.
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Biography of Jean Albert Gaudry (excerpt)
Jean Albert Gaudry (September 16, 1827 - November 27, 1908), French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas. At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece, residing in the latter country from 1855 to 1860. ![]()
Biography of Emil Kirdorf (excerpt)
Emil Kirdorf (8 April 1847 (source not archived) - 13 July 1938) was a German industrialist, one of the first important employers in the Ruhr industrial sectors. He was personally awarded by Adolf Hitler the Order of the German Eagle, Nazi Germany's highest distinctions, on his 90th birthday in 1937, for his support to the Nazi Party in the late 1920s. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Cadorna (excerpt)
Luigi Cadorna (September 4, 1850–December 21, 1928) was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian army during the first part of World War I. Born to General Raffaele Cadorna in Verbania Pallanza, Piedmont, after joining the Italian Army in 1868 Cadorna was offered the post of chief of staff for the first time in 1908, which he rejected due to the issue of political control during wartime.
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Biography of Paul Gavarni (excerpt)
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (January 13, 1804 in Paris – November 24, 1866), a French caricaturist, born in Paris. He began life as an engineer's draughtsman, but soon turned his attention to his proper vocation as a cartoonist. ![]()
Biography of Evariste Luminais (excerpt)
Evariste Vital Luminais, born October 13, 1821 in Nantes, died in 1896 in Paris, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Edouard van Beneden (excerpt)
Edouard Joseph Marie Van Beneden (Leuven, 5 March 1846 – Ličge, 28 April 1910), son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Ličge. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. ![]()
Biography of Charles Wagner (excerpt)
Charles Wagner (4 January 1852 Château-Salins (source: Lescaut) – 12 May 1918) was a French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping reformed theology. Biography At the age of 14, he was sent to Paris to school; was graduated at the Sorbonne in 1869; and studied theology at Strassburg and Göttingen. ![]()
Biography of Randolph Churchill (excerpt)
Lord Randolph Churchill, born February 13, 1849 in London, died January 24, 1895 in London, was a British politician (he is not the son of Winston Churchill, with the same name). ![]()
Biography of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (excerpt)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850–October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". ![]()
Biography of Joseph Plateau (excerpt)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. Born in Brussels, he studied at the University of Ličge (Ličge), where he graduated as a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1829. In 1835, he was appointed Professor of experimental physics in Ghent University.
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Biography of Edmond Haraucourt (excerpt)
Edmond Haraucourt, born October 18, 1856 in Bourmont, died in 1941 in Paris, was a French writer, composer and poet. Bibliography (extract) L’Âme nue, 1885 Amis, 1887 - Collection "In Extenso" N°17 Seul, roman en vers, 1890 La Passion, pičce évangélique en vers, 1890 ![]()
Biography of Pierre Laffitte (excerpt)
Pierre Laffitte (February 21, 1823 - January 4, 1903) was a French positivist. Laffitte was born at Béguey (Gironde). Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor. On the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death, he was recognized as head of the section which accepted the full Comtian doctrine; the other section adhered to Émile Littré, who rejected the religion of humanity as inconsistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier period. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Henner (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Henner (March 5, 1829 - 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato in painting religious subjects and nudes. Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). At first a pupil of Drolling and Picot, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1848, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of "Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel" (1858). ![]()
Biography of Ernest Lavisse (excerpt)
Ernest Lavisse (December 17, 1842 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - August 18, 1922) was a French historian. He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence (1876) at the école normale supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888), in the place of Henri Wallon. ![]()
Biography of Josephin Peladan (excerpt)
Joséphin Péladan (March 28, 1858 – June 27, 1918) was a French novelist and Martinist. He claimed that a Babylonian King left the title of "Sâr" to his family. Péladan wrote a novel, Le vice suprčme (1884), that was interwoven with Rosicrucian and occult themes. ![]()
Biography of Max Bruch (excerpt)
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (January 6, 1838 – October 2, 1920) also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire. ![]()
Biography of Rama IV of Siam (excerpt)
Phrabat Somdet Phra Pormen Maha Mongkut, Phra Chom Klao Chaoyouhua, or Rama IV (October 19, 1804 - October 1, 1868) was the fourth king of Siam (1851 - 1868) of the Chakri dynasty and one of the most revered monarchs of Siam. ![]()
Biography of Carlo Collodi (excerpt)
Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. Biography Collodi was born in Florence. During the Wars of Independence in 1848 and 1860 Collodi served as a volunteer with the Tuscan army.
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Biography of Edmond About (excerpt)
Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 January 1885), was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Life He was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the École Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came first. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Bichat (excerpt)
Ernest Bichat, born September 17,1845 in Luneville, died in 1905 in Nancy, was a French physicist, teacher and researcher. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Babinski (excerpt)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (November 17, 1857, Paris – October 29, 1932, Paris) was a French neurologist of Polish ethnicity. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Schure (excerpt)
Eduard (Edouard) Schuré (Strasbourg, January 21, 1841 – April 7, 1929), French philosopher, poet, writer, musical critic and publicist of esoteric literature. He is known by being the author of "The Great Initiated" (1889) in which he describes the path followed by some of the ancient philosophers in search for profound esoteric knowledge, so often called the "initiation", as describing the process of becoming a mystic master or spiritual healer.
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Biography of Jean-Marie Guyau (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Guyau (Laval, France, October 28, 1854 - March 31, 1888) was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by, amongst others, the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry/literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset, . ![]()
Biography of Jean Gaston Darboux (excerpt)
Jean-Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. Life Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier. ![]()
Biography of Russell Sage (excerpt)
Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 22 July 1906) was a financier and politician from New York, United States. Sage was born at Verona in Oneida County, New York. He received a public school education and worked as a farm hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R. ![]()
Biography of François-Auguste Ravier (excerpt)
François-Auguste Ravier, born on May 4, 1814 in Lyon (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate, es Archives Municipales de Lyon, email), died on June 26, 1895 in Morestel, was a French landscape painter. Bibliography (French) Maurice Wantellet, Deux sičcles et plus de peinture dauphinoise, Grenoble, édité par l'auteur, 1987, 269 p.
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Biography of Giovanni Giolitti (excerpt)
Giovanni Giolitti (October 27, 1842 – July 17, 1928) was an Italian statesman. He was Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. Giolitti was born at Mondově (Piedmont). After a rapid career in the financial administration he was, in 1882, appointed councillor of state and elected to the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Parliament). ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Yvon (excerpt)
Adolphe Yvon (January 30, 1817 in Drulingen - September 11, 1893 in Paris) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars. Paintings (extract) The Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Reichshof Marshall Ney at Retreat in Russia
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Biography of Charles Cros (excerpt)
Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 - August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France. Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. He developed various improved methods of photography including an early color photo process. ![]()
Biography of Charles Martins (excerpt)
Charles Martins, born February 6, 1806 in Paris and died March 7, 1889, was a French scientist, physician, philosopher and writer, a member of Académie des Sciences. ![]()
Biography of Elbert Hubbard (excerpt)
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia. ![]()
Biography of Johan Jongkind (excerpt)
Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 (birth time source: Lescaut, Gauquelin) – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism who influenced Eugene Boudin, whom later was mentor to Claude Monet. Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany.
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Biography of Victor Jacquemont (excerpt)
Victor Jacquemont (August 8, 1801 in Paris - November 7, 1832 in Mumbai) was a French botanist and geologist. Born in Paris on August 8, 1801, Victor Jacquemont was the youngest of four sons of Venceslas Jacquemont and Rose Laisné. Jacquemont traveled to India in 1828, and remained there for the rest of his life. ![]()
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 Gustave Jacquet (excerpt)
Gustave Jean Jacquet, born May 25, 1846 in Paris and died in 1909 was a French painter, a student of Bouguereau. |
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