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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 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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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.
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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 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 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.
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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 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 Josephine Lang (excerpt)
Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a gifted German composer, born to musician parents. She was taught piano by her mother and began composing at a young age. Mentored by prominent artists like Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller, and with support from Robert Schumann, her music gained recognition.
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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 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 Jan Van Beers (artist) (excerpt)
Jean Marie Constantin Joseph "Jan" Van Beers (27 March 1852 – 17 November 1927) was a Belgian painter and illustrator, the son of the poet Jan van Beers. They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger.
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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 Paul Brousse (excerpt)
Paul Louis Marie Brousse (23 January 1844 – 1 April 1912) was a French socialist, leader of the possibilistes group. He was active in the Jura Federation, a section of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA), from the northwestern part of Switzerland and the Alsace.
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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.
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Biography of Euphrosine Beernaert (excerpt)
Euphrosine Beernaert (11 April 1831 – 7 July 1901) was a Belgian landscape painter. Life Beernaerts was born at Ostend in 1831, and studied under Pierre-Louis Kuhnen in Brussels. She travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and exhibited landscapes at Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris, her favorite subjects being Dutch.
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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.
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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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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Billot (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Billot (15 August 1828 - 31 May 1907) was a French general and politician. Educated at Saint-Cyr, he maintained republican beliefs while advancing his career under Napoleon III, receiving the Legion of Honor in 1859. He distinguished himself in the Mexican expedition and the Franco-Prussian War, achieving the rank of general and participating in key battles.
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Biography of Septime Le Pippre (excerpt)
Septime Le Pippre born February 13, 1833 in Montfort-l'Amaury died January 2, 1871 was a French painter and junior officer. Septime Le Pippre was mortally wounded on January 12, 1871, during the Battle of Le Mans. He died ten days later. His remains were brought back to Villers-le-Sec, where a large ceremony took place.
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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 Eberhard Nestle (excerpt)
Eberhard Nestle (May 1, 1851, Stuttgart - March 9, 1913, Stuttgart) was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, and orientalist. He edited the Novum Testamentum Graece and was the father of Erwin Nestle. He studied at the University of Tübingen, focusing on Hebrew and Greek texts of the Book of Ezekiel, and later worked in orientalism and textual criticism of the New Testament.
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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 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.
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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).
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Biography of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (excerpt)
Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (16 December 1847 – 21 May 1923) was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894.
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Biography of Ida Straus (excerpt)
Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blun; February 6, 1849 – April 15, 1912) was a German-American homemaker and wife of Isidor Straus, U.S. Congressman and co-owner of the Macy's department store. She and her husband died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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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.
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Biography of Alix Joffroy (excerpt)
Alix Joffroy, born on December 16, 1844, in Stainville (Meuse) and died on November 24, 1908, in Paris, was a French neurologist, neuropathologist, and psychiatrist, a student of Charcot, and the second holder of the chair of clinical mental illnesses and the brain at Sainte-Anne.
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Biography of Padre Cruz (excerpt)
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ (29 July 1859 – 1 October 1948), known as Father Cruz, was a Portuguese Catholic priest celebrated for his apostolic zeal and charity. He visited prisons and hospitals, helped the poor, and ministered to many, earning a reputation for sanctity during his lifetime.
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Biography of Daniel Oehlert (excerpt)
Daniel Victor Œhlert, also known as Oehlert (born November 1, 1849, in Laval and died September 17, 1920, in the same city) was a French scientist. His roles as a librarian and later as a curator of the archaeology and natural history museums of Laval allowed him to devote himself to paleontology and geology.
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Biography of Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (excerpt)
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs.
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Biography of Gustave Mesureur (excerpt)
Gustave Mesureur (April 2, 1847 - August 19, 1925) was a French politician. He served as a deputy for the Seine from 1887 to 1902 and as Minister of Commerce under Léon Bourgeois. In 1901, he became the first president of the Radical-Socialist Party.
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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 Louis Toussaint Doutrelaine (excerpt)
Louis Toussaint Simon Doutrelaine, born on July 9, 1820, and died on May 1, 1881, was a French general in the engineering corps. Educated at the École Polytechnique and the military engineering school in Metz, he held various military positions, including during the siege of Rome and the Italian campaign.
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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.
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Biography of Benoît Rouquayrol (excerpt)
Benoît Rouquayrol (1826–1875) was a French inventor. Along with Auguste Denayrouze, Rouquayrol invented a diving suit and breathing apparatus. Benoît Rouquayrol was born on June 13, 1826, at Espalion, in the Aveyron department of Southern France. He became an engineer at the Saint-Étienne School of Mines.
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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 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 Albert Kniepf (excerpt)
Albert Kniepf, born on February 23, 1853, in Cottbus, and died on August 28, 1924, in Hamburg, was a German astrologer and mentor to Gerhardt Ritter. His time of birth comes from Cirkels, who quotes Venerius archives of astrologers. He was an early pioneer of empirical and scientifically oriented astrology in Germany, interpreting zodiacal and planetary influences as electrodynamic stimulations that correspond with the human aura.
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Biography of Thérèse Schwartze (excerpt)
Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 1851 - 23 December 1918) was a renowned Dutch portrait painter born in Amsterdam. Trained initially by her father, Johan Georg Schwartze, she furthered her studies at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten and in Munich under Gabriel Max and Franz von Lenbach.
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Biography of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (excerpt)
Louis IV (German: Ludwig IV. Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein; 12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family.
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Biography of Charles Lartigue (excerpt)
Charles Lartigue (born October 14, 1834, in Toulouse and died February 24, 1907, in Le Mans) was a French engineer who gave his name to a monorail system, known as the Lartigue monorail system. Charles François Marie-Thérèse Lartigue was born on October 14, 1834, in Toulouse.
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Biography of Wladyslaw Belza (excerpt)
Władysław Bełza, born on October 17, 1847, in Warsaw, died on January 29, 1913, in Lwów, was a Polish writer. Bełza, who was the son of a prominent chemist, studied partly in his hometown and partly in Kazan, but after travels in Western Europe, he was expelled from Posen in 1871 and settled in Lwów, where he became a library secretary after 1882.
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Biography of Natalie Zahle (excerpt)
Ida Charlotte Natalie Zahle (June 11, 1827 – August 11, 1913) was a Danish educational reformer and a pioneer in women's education. After the early death of her parents, she was raised by her grandparents and later by the family of zoologist Daniel Frederik Eschricht.
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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 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."
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Biography of Maria Konopnicka (excerpt)
Maria Konopnicka, a significant Polish poet, novelist, and women's rights activist, was born in Suwałki on May 23, 1842. Educated at home and in Warsaw, she debuted as a writer in 1870. Konopnicka's marriage to Jarosław Konopnicki was strained due to her literary pursuits, leading to their separation in 1878.
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Biography of Albert Jurardus van Prooijen (excerpt)
Albert Jurardus van Prooijen (7 September 1834 – 31 October 1898) was a Dutch painter known for cityscapes, landscapes (often with animals), and genre scenes. Born in Groningen, he studied at the Academie Minerva under Jacob Bruggink and Jan Ensing. He won the "Grote Koninklijke Medaille" in 1853 and later worked on watercolors and cityscape drawings.
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Biography of Hudson Taylor (excerpt)
James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Baptist Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 54 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who started 125 schools and directly resulted in 20,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 499 local helpers in all 18 provinces.
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Biography of Mathilde Weber (féminist) (excerpt)
Mathilde Weber (1829–1901), was a German feminist and social worker, regarded as one of the founders of the German women's movement. She focused on getting academic studies available for women. Life Weber née Walz was born on 16 August 1829 in Ellwangen, Germany. |
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