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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Anna Katharine Green (excerpt)
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".
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Biography of Henry Taunt (excerpt)
Henry William Taunt (June 14, 1842 – November 4, 1922) was a professional photographer, author, publisher and entertainer based in Oxford, England. His birth time is sourced from the biography "Henry Taunt of Oxford: a Victorian photographer" by Malcolm Graham in 1883.
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Biography of Paul Cabet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Paul Cabet (1 February 1815, Nuits, Yonne – 1876, Paris), was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of François Rude, his stepfather. Having achieved his own fame, he was the author of the statue known under the name of Résistance as a witness to the heroic fightings in Dijon during the 1870 war and other statues located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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Biography of Maria Bezobrazova (excerpt)
Maria Vladimirovna Bezobrazova (10 June 1857 (gregorian calendar)- 14 September 1914 (gregorian calendar)) was a philosopher, historiographer, educator, journalist and women's rights activist from the Russian Empire. She was "the first among Russian women to receive training in philosophy". Life Maria Bezobrazova was born in Saint Petersburg: her father was an economist, and her mother was a writer.
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Biography of Esther Hobart Morris (excerpt)
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902) was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly 9 months.
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Biography of Brooks Adams (excerpt)
Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 – February 13, 1927) was an American attorney, historian, and political scientist critical of capitalism. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Charles Francis Adams and Abigail Brown Brooks, he was part of a prominent family including Presidents John and John Quincy Adams.
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Biography of Fernand Labori (excerpt)
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori (April 18, 1860 – March 14, 1917) was a French attorney. He was born in Reims and educated at the Faculty of Law of Paris. In his professional life he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases of his day.
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Biography of Johann Georg Fischer (excerpt)
Johann Georg Fischer (25 October 1816 – 4 May 1897) was a German poet and playwright. Biography Fischer was born in Dettenhausen. His father was a carpenter, who died early. After Johann finished his studies in Tübingen between 1831 and 1833, he began to work as a teacher assistant at different places, including Langenau and Ulm.
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Biography of Blanche Willis Howard (excerpt)
Blanche Willis Howard (July 20, 1847 – October 7, 1898) (married name: Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel) was an American writer whose novels developed out of the genre of Sentimentalism to Realism to the New Woman. Her first novel, One Summer, and subsequent novels received critical praise.
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Biography of Eugène Mage (excerpt)
Eugène Abdon Mage, born July 30, 1837, in Paris, was a French naval officer and explorer who disappeared at sea off the coast of Brittany on the night of December 18-19, 1869. Joining the Naval School at 13, he embarked on extensive cruises across the Americas and the Pacific, ascending to ensign by September 1855.
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Biography of Aleksander Swietochowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Świętochowski (16 January 1849 – 25 April 1938) was a Polish writer, educator, and philosopher of the Positivist period that followed the January 1863 Uprising. He was widely regarded as the prophet of Polish Positivism, spreading in the Warsaw press the gospel of scientific inquiry, education, economic development, and equality of rights for all, without regard to sex, class, ethnic origin or beliefs.
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Biography of Elisabet Ney (excerpt)
Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney (26 January 1833 – 29 June 1907) was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover.
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Biography of Émile Guépratte (excerpt)
Paul Émile Aimable Guépratte, born on August 30, 1856, in Granville and died on November 21, 1939, in Brest, was a French vice-admiral. Grandson of Rear Admiral Jéhenne and mathematician Charles Guépratte, he had a distinguished career in the French Navy.
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Biography of William Mills (surveyor) (excerpt)
William Whitfield Mills (19 November 1844 – 18 August 1916), usually referred to as "W. Whitfield Mills" or "W. W. Mills", was an English surveyor of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line who is best known for naming a waterhole in Central Australia Alice Spring, from which the town of Alice Springs now takes its name.
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Biography of Emma Thursby (excerpt)
Emma Cecilia Thursby (February 21, 1845 – July 4, 1931) was an American singer popular in Europe and the United States. Her time of birth comes from the biography 'The Life of Emma Thursby, 1845-1931' (1940) by Richard McCandless Gipson. Emma Cecilia Thursby was a renowned American singer born to a rope manufacturer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Biography of Abbé Crozes (excerpt)
Abraham Sébastien Crozes, known as Abbé Crozes, was born on March 16, 1806, in Albi (Tarn) and died on October 25, 1888, in Paris. He was the chaplain of the condemned prisoners' depot at the La Roquette prison. He was also one of the founders of the Saint-François-Xavier Workers' Societies.
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Biography of Christian Wagner (writer) (excerpt)
Christian Friedrich Wagner (1835-1918) was a German writer and small-scale farmer. Born in Warmbronn, he spent his childhood and youth in humble circumstances. After his confirmation in 1849, he worked on the family farm and as a lumberjack in winter. A passionate butterfly collector and avid reader, he began writing poems in 1860.
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Biography of Harriet E. Wilson (excerpt)
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
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Biography of Zofia Urbanowska (excerpt)
Zofia Urbanowska, born on May 15, 1849, in Kowalewko, died on January 1, 1939, in Konin, was a Polish publicist and writer. She was renowned for her novels "Księżniczka", "Gucio zaczarowany", and "Róża bez kolców". She contributed to several publications, including "Gazeta Polska", and was a part of the editorial board of "Przegląd Pedagogiczny".
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Biography of Karlis Baumanis (excerpt)
Kārlis Baumanis (11 May 1835 – 10 January 1905), better known as Baumaņu Kārlis, was an ethnic Latvian composer in the Russian Empire. He is the author of the lyrics and music of Dievs, svētī Latviju! (“God bless Latvia!”), the national anthem of Latvia.
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Biography of Emilie Kempin-Spyri (excerpt)
Emilie Kempin-Spyri (born March 18, 1853, in Altstetten; died April 12, 1901, in Basel; née Spyri, married name Kempin) was the first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree and to be accepted as an academic lecturer. However, as a woman she was not permitted to practice as an attorney.
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Biography of Amadeo I of Spain (excerpt)
Amadeo I (Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia; 30 May 1845 – 18 January 1890), also known as Amadeus, was an Italian prince who reigned as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873. The only king of Spain to come from the House of Savoy, he was the second son of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and was known for most of his life as the Duke of Aosta, the usual title for a second son in the Savoyard dynasty.
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Biography of Alcide Railliet (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet (also known as Alcide Railliet, born 11 March 1852 at La Neuville-lès-Wasigny in the Ardennes – died 25 December 1930) was a French veterinarian and helminthologist. Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern parasitology and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology.
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Biography of François Clément Sauvage (excerpt)
François Clément Sauvage, born in Sedan on April 4, 1814 and died in Paris on November 11, 1872, was a French mining engineer and geologist. After a career as a geologist engineer, from 1846 he participated in the work of the railway from Metz to Sarrebrück.
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Biography of Simon Saint-Jean (excerpt)
Simon Saint-Jean is a French painter, born in Lyon on October 14, 1808 and died in Écully on July 3, 1860. Simon Saint-Jean, born to Antoinette Potin and Jean-Marguerite Saint-Jean, a cooper, lost his father early. He joined the École de Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 1822, studying under Pierre Révoil and Augustin Alexandre Thierriat, winning top flower drawing prizes and a gold medal in 1826.
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Biography of Ernst Abbe (excerpt)
Ernst Karl Abbe HonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of scientific microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums, and other advanced optical systems.
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Biography of Antonio Susillo (excerpt)
Antonio Susillo Fernández, born April 16, 1855 in Seville, was a renowned Spanish sculptor of the late 19th century. Educated at the Fine Arts School in Paris and in Rome, he won numerous awards, including medals at the Paris Universal Expositions.
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Biography of Susan Warner (excerpt)
Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885), was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World. Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town.
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Biography of Emilio Sala (painter) (excerpt)
Emilio Sala y Francés (20 January 1850 – 14 April 1910) was a Spanish painter, primarily of female portraits. He was born in Alcoy to a family of merchants. His first studies were at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia with Plácido Francés y Pascual, his cousin.
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Biography of Walerian Kalinka (excerpt)
Walerian Kalinka, sometimes Valerian Kalinka, a Polish priest and historian, was born in Kraków in 1826. His time of birth comes from the biography "Valerian Kalinka: life and activity" by Jerzy Mrówczyński (1972). He fled Poland in 1846 due to political involvement in the Krakow Uprising and founded the Polish branch of the Resurrectionist Order.
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Biography of Émile Duployé (excerpt)
Émile Duployé, born on September 10, 1833, in Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, and died on May 9, 1912, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (now in Val-de-Marne), was a French ecclesiastic. He is the author of the Duployé shorthand technique, which was widely used in France in the early 20th century.
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Biography of Josef Kainz (excerpt)
Josef Gottfried Ignaz Kainz (2 January 1858 – 20 September 1910) was a male actor from Austria-Hungary. He was highly active in theatres in Austria-Hungary and the German Empire from 1873 to 1910. The source for his birth time comes from Preuss (no.
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Biography of Gaston Salvayre (excerpt)
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre (24 June 1847 – 17 May 1916) was a French composer and music critic who won the Prix de Rome for composition in 1872. Born in Toulouse, Salvayre attended the Toulouse Conservatory and then the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano with Antoine François Marmontel, organ with François Benoist, harmony with François Bazin, and composition with Ambroise Thomas.
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Biography of Alexine Tinne (excerpt)
Alexandrine "Alexine" Pieternella Françoise Tinne (17 October 1835 – 1 August 1869) was a Dutch explorer in Africa who was the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara. She was an early photographer. Tinne, a pioneering photographer from The Hague, worked with several renowned photographers and embarked on an African expedition in 1861.
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Biography of Martha van Vloten (excerpt)
Martha van Eeden-van Vloten (18 February 1857 – 4 June 1943) was a Dutch translator known for her translations of children's literature, including the Grimm brothers' fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen's stories. Born in Deventer, she was the eldest child of literary scholar Johannes van Vloten.
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Biography of Armand du Paty de Clam (excerpt)
Charles Armand Auguste Ferdinand Mercier du Paty de Clam (21 February 1853 - 3 September 1916) was a French army officer and amateur graphologist, central to the Dreyfus affair. He pinpointed Dreyfus as a suspect based on graphology, leading to Dreyfus's arrest and conviction without substantial evidence.
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Biography of C. I. Defontenay (excerpt)
Charlemagne Ischir Defontenay, writing as C.I. Defontenay (15 Februray 1819 – 14 November 1856), was a French science fiction writer and surgeon. His Star, ou Psi Cassiopea of 1854 is seen by some as an example of proto-space opera. Others see Defontenay as a predecessor of Olaf Stapledon. ![]()
Biography of Charlotte Wolter (excerpt)
Charlotte Wolter (March 1, 1834, in Cologne - June 14, 1897, in Hietzing) was an Austrian actress who began her artistic career in Budapest in 1857. She is buried in an honorary grave at the Central Cemetery in Vienna (group 32 A, number 20), as per her wish, in the costume of Iphigenia from Goethe's play of the same name, her most famous role.
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Biography of Cura Santa Cruz (excerpt)
Manuel Ignacio Santa Cruz Loidi (1842–1926) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest. For some 35 years he served on apostolic mission in Colombia, where he was heading a parish in rural interior of the Pasto province; for some 15 years he held also various minor posts in Jamaica.
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Biography of Onno Klopp (excerpt)
Onno Klopp (9 October 1822 – 9 August 1903) was a German historian best known for his comprehensive work Der Fall des Hauses Stuart (The Fall of the House of Stuart). Educated at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Göttingen, Klopp worked as a teacher before settling in Hanover in 1858, where he became close to King George V, who appointed him Archivrat.
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Biography of Julia Cruger (excerpt)
Julia Grinnell Storrow Cruger (pseudonym, Julien Gordon; July 19, 1854 – July 12, 1920) was an American novelist. Because many of her books examined the American social world, she was known as the Edith Wharton of her day. Family She was the daughter of Thomas Wentworth Storrow of Boston and a grandniece of Washington Irving.
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Biography of Suzanne Lagier (excerpt)
uzanne Lagier (30 November 1833 — 1893) was a French theatre actress and opera singer. She often performed with Thérésa and made many appearances in Paris, France, and Saint Petersburg, Russia. Biography Lagier was born in Dunkirk on 30 November 1833, in the Rue du Magasin à Poudre, but grew up in a boarding school in Paris and her father was a musician.
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Biography of Charles Lamy (acteur) (excerpt)
Charles Lamy or M. Lamy (28 August 1857 – 15 June 1940) was the stage name of the French actor Charles Castarède. Lamy, born into a theatrical family in Lyon, began his stage career in 1874. After training at the Conservatoire de Lyon and performing in Italy and Brussels, he made his Paris debut in 1880.
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Biography of Jan Woltjer (classical scholar) (excerpt)
Jan Woltjer (4 February 1849, Groningen – 28 July 1917, Amsterdam) was a professor of Classical languages and literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He served as rector magnificus of that institution five times. Woltjer, the son of a baker, started his career as an assistant teacher at a high school in his hometown of Groningen in 1867.
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Biography of Johannes Orth (excerpt)
Johannes Orth (14 January 1847 – 13 January 1923 in Berlin) was a German pathologist born in Wallmerod. He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Bonn, receiving his habilitation in 1872 while an assistant to Eduard von Rindfleisch at Bonn.
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Biography of Théodore-Augustin Forcade (excerpt)
Théodore-Augustin Forcade, born in Versailles on March 2, 1816, and died in Aix-en-Provence on September 12, 1885, was a French priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Considered a great traveler, he served as the Apostolic Vicar of Tokyo (Japan) from 1846 to 1852, then as Bishop of Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) from 1853 to 1860, Bishop of Nevers from 1860 to 1873, and finally Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence from 1873 to 1885.
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Biography of Richard Dedekind (excerpt)
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His best known contribution is the definition of real numbers through the notion of Dedekind cut.
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Biography of Lucina Hagman (excerpt)
Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election. Life and career Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman, a police chief in rural Kälviä.
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Biography of Dióscoro Puebla (excerpt)
Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín (February 25, 1831 – October 24, 1901) was a Spanish painter known for his work in the Eclectic style, focusing on portraits, genre, and history painting. Born in Burgos, he first displayed his drawing talent in Carrión de los Condes, leading to his studies at the "Escuela Municipal de Dibujo de Palencia" and later at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
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Biography of Godefroy Cavaignac (politician) (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (21 May 1853 - 25 September 1905) was a French politician known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair. Born in Paris, he demonstrated early republican convictions. A veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, he later entered the École Polytechnique and served as a civil engineer before becoming a republican deputy. |
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