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birth charts 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 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 Guillaumin (excerpt)
Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Biography Early years Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons.He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861.
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Biography of Rebecca Harding Davis (excerpt)
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (June 24, 1831 – September 29, 1910) was an American author and journalist. She was a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the short story "Life in the Iron-Mills," published in the April 1861 edition of The Atlantic Monthly which quickly made her an established female writer.
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Biography of Eliza Farnham (excerpt)
Eliza Farnham (November 17, 1815 – December 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform. She was born in Rensselaerville, New York.She moved to Illinois in 1835, and there married Thomas J.Farnham in 1836, but returned to New York in 1841.
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Biography of Henri Henrot (excerpt)
Henri Alfred Henrot (born in Reims on May 22, 1838 and died in Paris on February 25, 1919), brother of Alexandre Henrot, municipal councilor since 1870, was mayor of Reims from 1884 to 1896. He is the son of Jean-Baptiste Henrot (1791-1868) and Euphrosine Leclerc (1795-1873}.
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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 Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bornet is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Ida von Hahn-Hahn (excerpt)
Countess Ida von Hahn-Hahn (German: Ida Gräfin von Hahn-Hahn; 22 June 1805 – 12 January 1880) was a German author from a wealthy family who lost their fortune because of her father's eccentric spending. She defied convention by living with Adolf von Bystram unmarried for 21 years.
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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 Émile Guyou (excerpt)
Émile Guyou (Fontainebleau, December 25, 1843 - Pleumeur-Bodou, August 24, 1915) was a French naval officer and scientist.Graduating from the Naval School in 1864, he distinguished himself in naval missions in Guyana and Cochinchina. He became a professor at the Naval School, specializing in naval architecture, astronomy, and navigation.
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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 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 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 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 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 Marcelo Spínola y Maestre (excerpt)
Marcelo Rafael José María de los Dolores Hilario Spínola y Maestre (14 January 1835 - 19 January 1906) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Seville. He established the Handmaids of the Divine Heart. ![]()
Biography of H. H. Asquith (excerpt)
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928), known as H. H. Asquith, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916. He was the last Liberal Prime Minister to lead a majority government and played a key role in passing liberal legislation and reducing the House of Lords' power.
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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 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 Pauline Hopkins (excerpt)
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (13 April 1859 – August 13, 1930) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated in her first major novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
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Biography of Charles Pigeon (excerpt)
Charles Pigeon, born on March 29, 1838, in Le Mesnil-Lieubray (Seine-Maritime) and died on March 18, 1915, in Paris, was a French inventor and entrepreneur. While Charles Pigeon did not technically invent the kerosene lamp, he was the first to produce and market a portable kerosene lighting device that was patented, non-flammable, and non-explosive.
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Biography of Gerhard Munthe (painter) (excerpt)
Gerhard Peter Frantz Munthe (19 July 1849 in Elverum, Hedmark – 15 January 1929 in Lysaker, Bærum) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. Born in Elverum, he came from a distinguished family, including his sister, writer Margrethe Munthe, and his nephews and nieces in various academic and artistic fields.
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Biography of Auguste Mercier (excerpt)
Auguste Mercier (born in Arras on December 8, 1833 and died in Paris on March 3, 1921) was a French general and polytechnician, Minister of War at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. In the summer of 1894, General Mercier, upon learning of the intercepted "Bordereau," saw a political opportunity in convicting the culprit, aiming to gain favor and control the far-right press.
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Biography of André Gill (excerpt)
André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) was a French caricaturist.Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray.
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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 Gustav Nachtigal (excerpt)
Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa.He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West Africa.His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire.
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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 Lydia Welti-Escher (excerpt)
Lydia Welti-Escher, born Augusta Clementine Lydia Escher on July 10, 1858, in Zurich, and died by suicide on December 12, 1891, in Geneva, was one of the wealthiest women in 19th-century Switzerland. Her time of birth comes from her, in Lydia Welti-Escher: (1858 - 1891) ; Biographie ; Quellen, Materialien und Beiträge by Alfred-Escher-Stiftung (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2009).
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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 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 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 François Hennebique (excerpt)
François Hennebique (25 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column and the beam, into a single monolithic element.
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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 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 Eliza Calvert Hall (excerpt)
Eliza Caroline "Lida" Obenchain (née Calvert), (February 11, 1856 – December 20, 1935) was an American author, women's rights advocate, and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lida Obenchain, writing under the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall, was widely known early in the twentieth century for her short stories featuring an elderly widowed woman, "Aunt Jane", who plainly spoke her mind about the people she knew and her experiences in the rural south.
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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.
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Biography of Ramon Alvarez Bruise (excerpt)
Ramón Álvarez Moretón (September 22, 1825 - April 25, 1889) was a Spanish sculptor born in Zamora.Coming from a poor family, he initially tended livestock before learning the tinsmith trade. His family moved to Zamora, where he studied drawing and later became self-taught in Madrid.
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Biography of Ernest Hamy (excerpt)
Ernest-Théodore Hamy (22 June 1842, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 18 November 1908, Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1868.Afterwards, he served as a préparateur under Paul Broca in the laboratory of anthropology at the Ecole pratique des hautes études.
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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 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 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 Ferdinand Carré (excerpt)
Ferdinand Philippe Edouard Carré was a French engineer, born in Moislains, in the Somme department, on March 10, 1824, and died on January 11, 1900, in Pommeuse in the Seine-et-Marne department. He became known for inventing refrigeration devices designed to produce ice for breweries. |
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