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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 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.
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Biography of George Robert Sims (excerpt)
George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 (source not archived) - 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Lorentz (excerpt)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time. ![]()
Biography of Emil Fischer (excerpt)
Hermann Emil Fischer (9 October 1852 - 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. Biography Early years Fischer was born in Euskirchen, near Cologne in Germany, the son of a businessman. After graduating he wished to study natural sciences, but his father compelled him to work in the family business until determining that his son was unsuitable.
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Biography of François Schommer (excerpt)
François Schommer, born November 20, 1850 in Paris and died in 1935, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
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 Jean Casimir-Perier (excerpt)
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier (8 November 1847 - 11 March 1907) was a French politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic. He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe.
Biography of André Messager (excerpt)
André Charles Prosper Messager (30 December 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) – 24 February 1929), was a French composer, organist, pianist, conductor and administrator. His stage compositions included ballets and 30 opéra comiques and operettas, among which Véronique, had lasting success, with Les p'tites Michu and Monsieur Beaucaire also enjoying international success. ![]()
Biography of Adolphus Busch (excerpt)
Colonel Adolphus Busch (July 10, 1839 – October 10, 1913) was the co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. His great-great-grandson, August Busch IV is now president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch. He was born in 1839 in Kastel, Germany (now Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany).
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 Frederik van Eeden (excerpt)
Frederik Willem van Eeden (April 3, 1860 in Haarlem, Netherlands – June 16, 1932 in Bussum) was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885.
Biography of Edmond Lescarbault (excerpt)
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault, born August 11, 1814 in Châteaudun, died in 1894, was a French astronomer and physician. ![]()
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Salem is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County. ![]()
Biography of Emile Roux (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Emile Roux (b. December 17, 1853, Confolens (Charente), France, d. November 3, 1933, Paris) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute and discoverer of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. ![]()
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. ![]()
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 Charles Gordon (excerpt)
Major-General Charles George Gordon (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa. Early career ![]()
Biography of Alfred Edward Housman (excerpt)
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900.
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Biography of Louis Henry (excerpt)
Louis Henry (December 26, 1834-1913) was a Belgian organic chemist. ![]()
Biography of Christopher Nicholson Johnston (excerpt)
Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (October 18, 1857–1934) was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency) between two by-elections in 1916 and 1917. He stood down as an MP when he became a Senator of the College of Justice, a senior judicial post.
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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 Paul Gachet (excerpt)
Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate - 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise. Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Ferdinand Mannlicher (excerpt)
Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher (January 30, 1848 in Mainz, Germany – January 20, 1904 in Vienna, Austria) was an engineer and small armaments designer. He was famous for inventing the en-bloc clip loading system, and later for patenting the Mannlicher-Schönauer rotary magazine rifle with his protégé Otto Schönauer.
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 Alfred Vulpian (excerpt)
Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian (January 5, 1826 – May 18, 1887) was a French physician and neurologist. He was the co-discoverer of Vulpian-Bernard spinal muscular atrophy and the Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon. Vulpian was born in Paris, France, in 1826. Among other noted discoveries and experiments, Vulpian discovered adrenaline in the adrenal medulla. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (excerpt)
Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 25, 1852 - September 14, 1905), was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized Frenchman. With the backing of the Société de Géographique de Paris, he opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo that eventually led to French colonies in Central Africa. ![]()
Biography of Andrew W. Mellon (excerpt)
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 (birth time sources: Lescaut, Penfield) – August 26, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. Early life Mellon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U. ![]()
Biography of Artemus Ward (excerpt)
Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was a United States humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. At birth, his surname was "Brown." He added the "e" after he became famous. Biography Browne was born in Waterford, Maine.
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Biography of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (excerpt)
Henri Alexandre Deslandres (July 24, 1853 – January 15, 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories. Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career. ![]()
Biography of Alfonso XII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
Biography of Alexandre Emile Taskin (excerpt)
Émile-Alexandre Taskin, born in Paris on March 18 1853, was a French singer at the Opera-Comique. ![]()
Biography of Kenneth Grahame (excerpt)
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film.
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Biography of Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer. ![]()
Biography of Henri Lacordaire (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (12 May 1802 in Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or) – 21 November 1861 in Sorèze (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 Joseph Grasset (excerpt)
Joseph Grasset (18 March 1849 – July 1918), was a French neurologist and parapsychological investigator, born in Montpellier. He received his medical degree (1873) in Montpellier, where in 1881 he became a professor of therapy. In 1886 he attained the chair of clinical medicine, and in 1909 was appointed chair of general pathology. ![]()
Biography of Emile Loubet (excerpt)
Émile François Loubet (31 December 1838, Marsanne, France - 20 December 1929) was a French politician and the 8th President of France. Early life He was born the son of a peasant proprietor and mayor of Marsanne (Drôme). Admitted to the Parisian bar in 1862, he took his doctorate in law the next year. ![]()
Biography of Kate Chase (excerpt)
Katherine Jane ("Kate") Chase (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899), was the daughter of famous Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, the Treasury Secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and later Chief Justice of the United States. She is best known as a society hostess during the American Civil War, and a strong supporter of her widowed father's presidential ambitions that would have made her First Lady.
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 Karl May (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 – March 30, 1912) was one of the best selling German writers of all time, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East. ![]()
Biography of Jozef Israels (excerpt)
Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824, Groningen – 12 August 1911, Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter, and "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century". Youth He was born in Groningen, of Jewish parents. His father intended for him to be a man of business, and it was only after a determined struggle that he was allowed to enter on an artistic career.
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Biography of Édouard Debat-Ponsan (excerpt)
Édouard Debat-Ponsan (Toulouse, 25 April 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Paris, 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter. Biography A pupil of Cabanel, Debat-Ponson was famous for his portraits of wealthy citizens and politicians in Paris, paintings of ancient history and scenes of peasant life. ![]()
Biography of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Helena (Helena Augusta Victoria: Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein by marriage; 25 May 1846 – 9 June 1923) was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Sullivan (excerpt)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer, of Irish and Italian descent, best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert, including such continually-popular works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado.
Biography of Paul Alexis (excerpt)
Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola. Life Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a graduate. ![]()
Biography of Oliver Lodge (excerpt)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term "coherer.
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Biography of Jean de Reszke (excerpt)
Jean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw, (14 January 1850 – 3 April 1925) was a Polish operatic tenor. He was born in Warsaw in 1850. His parents were Poles; his father was a state official and his mother a capable amateur singer, their house being a recognized musical centre. |
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