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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. in ![]()
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Paolina Leopardi (excerpt)
Paolina Leopardi, born in Recanati on October 5, 1800, and died in Pisa on March 13, 1869, was an accomplished Italian writer and translator, and sister to the renowned poet Giacomo Leopardi. Her time of birth comes from the biography Casa Leopardi: la vita quotidiana e le vicende familiari by Francesco Paolo Maulucci Vivolo (Bastogi, 2001).
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.
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.
Biography of Derk Haspels (excerpt)
Derk Jan Adrianus (Dirk) Haspels, born on November 17, 1837, in Nijmegen and died on March 12, 1903, in Rotterdam, was a Dutch stage actor. The son of a bookseller and printer, he became an actor in 1860, following his older brother Jaap's footsteps.
Biography of François Ernest Fournier (excerpt)
François Ernest Fournier, born on May 23, 1842, in Toulouse and died on November 6, 1934, in Paris, was a French vice admiral, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and a military medalist. He joined the Navy in 1859.During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he commanded a company of sailors and took part in the battles of Villiers and the Fort of Rosny, getting wounded at the Battle of Le Bourget.
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.
Biography of Januária of Brazil (excerpt)
Princess Januária of Brazil (Januária Maria Joana Carlota Leopoldina Cândida Francisca Xavier de Paula Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga; 11 March 1822 – 13 March 1901) was a Brazilian princess and Portuguese infanta (princess). Her time of birth comes from the biography "História do Brasil-reino e do Brasil-império, Volumes 1-2" (Editora Itatiaia, 1982).
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.
Biography of Titus Salt (excerpt)
Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876) was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Morat (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Morat, born on April 18, 1846, in Saint-Sorlin (now La Roche-Vineuse), Saône-et-Loire, and died on July 25, 1920, in the same town, now named La Roche-Vineuse, was a French physician and physiologist. He was a full professor holding the chair of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon.
Biography of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa (excerpt)
Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo (Madrid, June 8, 1845 – Madrid, August 27, 1922) was a Spanish archaeologist, collector, and politician. A Grandee of Spain, he was the chief delegate of the Traditionalist Communion (the official political party of Carlism) from 1890 to 1898 and from 1913 to 1919.
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.
Biography of Noël Ballay (excerpt)
Dr. Noël Eugène Ballay, born on July 14, 1847, in Fontenay-sur-Eure, Eure-et-Loir, and died on January 27, 1902, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, was a French explorer and colonial administrator, serving as the second Governor-General of French West Africa (AOF). After completing his education in medicine, Ballay participated in exploratory missions alongside Savorgnan de Brazza in the Ogooué region during the 1870s and represented France at the Berlin Conference in 1885.
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.
Biography of Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (excerpt)
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (13 November 1801 – 14 December 1873) was queen of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William IV. By birth, she was a Bavarian princess from the House of Wittelsbach; she was related to the ruling houses of Austria and Saxony through the marriages of her sisters.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Louis-Gustave Richelot (excerpt)
Louis-Gustave Richelot, born on November 14, 1844, in Paris and died on August 9, 1924, in La Bernerie-en-Retz, was a French surgeon and gynecologist. Louis-Gustave Richelot was the son of physician Gustave-Antoine Richelot (1806-1893). A former student of the Lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he studied medicine and obtained his medical doctorate in 1873 with the thesis "De la péritonite herniaire et de ses rapports avec l'étranglement" ("On Hernial Peritonitis and its Relationship with Strangulation").
Biography of Albert Mérat (excerpt)
Albert Mérat (March 23, 1840 - January 16, 1909) was a French poet.Born into a family of lawyers, he initially studied law before working at the Seine prefecture, where he met Paul Verlaine and Léon Valade. He co-wrote his first collection Avril, mai, juin in 1863 with Valade.
Biography of Théophile Labat (excerpt)
Henri Jean Théophile Labat, born March 20, 1834, in Lormont, and died September 10, 1896, in Bordeaux, was a French military engineer, economist, and Polytechnique graduate. He specialized in naval construction, pioneering in hauling techniques, and was recognized for his innovations. Politically, he served as a deputy of the Gironde from 1893 to 1896, focusing on economic and tax issues.
Biography of Paul Oudin (excerpt)
Paul Oudin, a French physician born in Épinal on November 29, 1851, and died in Paris on November 10, 1923, is famous for inventing the Oudin coil, a pioneer in the use of high-frequency currents in medicine. In 1876, he became a hospital extern and obtained his medical degree in 1880.
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.
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.
Biography of Hans Huber (composer) (excerpt)
Hans Huber (28 June 1852 – 25 December 1921) was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys.
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.
Biography of Oscar Pletsch (excerpt)
Oscar Pletsch (March 26, 1830 - January 12, 1888) was a German illustrator.Born in Berlin to a poor family, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts under Ludwig Richter and Eduard Bendemann. Pletsch worked in Dresden and then Berlin, specializing in genre paintings and illustrations, mainly depicting children.
Biography of Felix Dahn (excerpt)
Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (February 9, 1834 – January 3, 1912) was a German law professor, nationalist author, poet, and historian. Born in Hamburg, he studied law and philosophy in Munich and Berlin, becoming a professor of German Law. Dahn wrote extensively, influencing German historiography of the European Migration Period with works like "Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples."
Biography of Jeanne Fallières (excerpt)
Jeanne Fallières, born Jeanne Bresson on May 24, 1849, in Nérac, was the wife of Armand Fallières, President of the French Republic from 1906 to 1913. Coming from a family of lawyers, she married Armand in 1868, and they had two children.
Biography of Félix Léon Edoux (excerpt)
Félix Léon Edoux born May 29, 1827 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) and died October 13, 1910 in Paris was a French engineer and industrialist. Edoux is best known for having designed a hydraulic lift he baptized "elevator" in 1867. In 1884, Eiffel ordered from Edoux the elevator which was to connect the second floor to the top of the future Eiffel Tower, and which would operate until 1983.
Biography of Clémentine of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Clémentine of Orléans (French: Marie Clémentine Léopoldine Caroline Clotilde d'Orléans) (3 June 1817 – 16 February 1907), princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and duchess in Saxony, was the sixth child and youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies.
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.
Biography of Gaston La Touche (excerpt)
Gaston de La Touche, born on October 22, 1854, in Saint-Cloud, was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. He began taking drawing lessons in 1864, but his studies were interrupted by the 1870 war. In 1875, he exhibited his first bas-relief medallion at the Salon, later befriending Édouard Manet and admiring Émile Zola, whose works he illustrated.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Marian Langiewicz (excerpt)
Marian Langiewicz (August 5, 1827 – May 11, 1887), was a key figure in the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863. Born in Krotoszyn, he was educated in Posen, Breslau, and Prague, and worked as a lecturer to earn a living.
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.
Biography of John Scott Haldane (excerpt)
John Scott Haldane CH FRS (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J.
Biography of Antoine Marfan (excerpt)
Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, known as Antoine Marfan, born in Castelnaudary, France, on June 23, 1858, and died in Paris on February 11, 1942, was a French pediatrician and a founding figure in the field of pediatrics in France. Despite initial reluctance from his father, also a doctor, Marfan pursued medical studies in Toulouse and then in Paris.
Biography of Paul Berger (surgeon) (excerpt)
Paul Berger (January 6, 1845 - October 17, 1908) was a French surgeon renowned for his research on abdominal hernias and his operative technique for interscapulothoracic amputation, known as the Berger technique. Born in Beaucourt, he studied medicine in Paris, becoming an intern in 1866 and a surgeon at Paris hospitals in 1877.
Biography of Georges Rayet (excerpt)
Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet (12 December 1839 – 14 June 1906) was a French astronomer. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy. He specialized in what was then the new field of spectroscopy.
Biography of Eugène Pelletan (excerpt)
Pierre Clément Eugène Pelletan, born on October 29, 1813, in Saint-Palais-sur-Mer and died on December 13, 1884, in Paris, was a French writer, journalist, and politician. He was heavily influenced by figures such as George Sand and Alphonse de Lamartine and was a fervent supporter of republican ideals.
Biography of Théodore Thalès (excerpt)
Théodore Marius Jammet, known as Théodore Thalès or simply Thalès, was born on February 25, 1857, in Marseille and died on October 13, 1935, in Paris's 10th arrondissement.He was a French mime and silent film actor. Mime Thalès performed in pantomimes at the Palais de Cristal, where he enjoyed great success with the audience.
Biography of Émilie de Villeneuve (excerpt)
Jeanne-Émilie de Villeneuve, best known as Émilie de Villeneuve (9 March 1811 – 2 October 1854), was a French Catholic nun and the founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres. After she died her cause of canonization was opened. |
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