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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 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 Bonar Law (excerpt)
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from October 1922 to May 1923. Born in New Brunswick, he moved to Scotland in 1870 and became wealthy in the iron industry. Elected to the House of Commons in 1900, he served in various roles including Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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 Dinah Félix (excerpt)
Mélanie, known as Dinah Félix, was a French actress born on March 11, 1836, in Paris and died on November 1, 1909. She was one of the three Félix sisters, all members of the Comédie-Française, along with Rachel Félix and Rébecca Félix.
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 Paul Splingaerd (excerpt)
Paul Splingaerd (12 April 1842 in Brussels – 26 September 1906 in Xi'an, China) was the Belgian foundling who became an official or mandarin (bureaucrat) in the late Qing government. As both a Belgian and a Chinese mandarin, Paul acted as a liaison on various Sino-Belgian projects in the late nineteenth century.
Biography of Margaret Fuller (journalist) (excerpt)
Sarah Margaret Fuller, born May 23, 1810, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died July 19, 1850, was an American journalist, editor, critic, and feminist thinker linked to the transcendentalist movement. Her 1845 book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is regarded as the first major feminist work in the U.S.
Biography of Pierre Cuypers (architect) (excerpt)
Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers (May 16, 1827 – March 3, 1921) was a Dutch architect best known for Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–1885).He designed over 100 churches and restored numerous monuments. Born in Roermond, he studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in Antwerp, earning the Prix d'Excellence in 1849.
Biography of Abel Bergasse Du Petit Thouars (excerpt)
Abel-Nicolas-Georges-Henri Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, also known as Dupetit-Thouars, was born on March 23, 1832, in Bordeaux-en-Gâtinais, France, and died on May 14, 1890, in Toulon. A French naval officer, he is celebrated as the savior of Lima during the Pacific War (1879-1884), where he is hailed as a hero in Peru.
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.
Biography of Erazm Jerzmanowski (excerpt)
Erazm Józef Jerzmanowski (2 June 1844 – 7 February 1909) was an industrialist, philanthropist, and soldier who fought in the January Uprising of 1863-1865. After the uprising, he was interned but later released, moving to Paris to continue his education. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War before moving to the United States in 1873, where he gained citizenship.
Biography of Julian Ochorowicz (excerpt)
Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (Radzymin, February 23, 1850 – Warsaw, May 1, 1917) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, inventor, poet, publicist, and leading exponent of Polish Positivism. The son of Julian and Jadwiga Ochorowicz, he studied natural sciences at Warsaw University and earned his doctorate at Leipzig in 1874 with a thesis on the conditions of consciousness.
Biography of Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez (excerpt)
Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez, born on September 12, 1854 in Jaén and died on June 16, 1934 in Madrid, was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Affiliated with the Liberal Party, he began his political career as a deputy for Jaén in the 1881 elections.
Biography of Johan d'Aulnis de Bourouill (excerpt)
Johan Baron d'Aulnis de Bourouill (1850-1930), a Dutch jurist and professor of economics at the University of Utrecht, began his career in academia after practicing law in Amsterdam. His scholarly work included a dissertation on societal income and he served as a professor from 1878 until his retirement in 1917.
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.
Biography of Eleuterio Maisonnave (excerpt)
Eleuterio Maisonnave i Cutayar, born on September 6, 1840, in Alicante and died on May 5, 1890, in Madrid, was a Spanish politician. A member of the Posibilista Republican Party, he served as a deputy, Minister of the Interior during the First Spanish Republic, and Mayor of Alicante.
Biography of Marie-Anne Martinet (excerpt)
Marie-Anne Martinet, born on May 14, 1814, in Cordieux (now part of the commune of Montluel), in the Ain, and died on April 4, 1875, in Auberive, in the Haute-Marne, is known for having been the wife and accomplice of Martin Dumollard, a 19th-century serial killer in the Ain.
Biography of Paul Regnard (excerpt)
Paul Marie Léon Regnard, born on November 7, 1850, in Châtillon-sur-Seine (Côte-d'Or) and died on April 18, 1927, in Paris (5th arrondissement), was a French physician, physiologist, and biologist, and the director of the National Agronomic Institute from 1901 to 1917.
Biography of Césaire Phisalix (excerpt)
Césaire Phisalix, born on October 8, 1852, in Mouthier-Haute-Pierre (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region) and died in Paris on March 15, 1906, was a French herpetologist known for developing a serum against the bites of certain vipers. The son of winemakers, he studied in Besançon and Paris, earning a doctorate in medicine in 1877.
Biography of Oscar Brefeld (excerpt)
Julius Oscar Brefeld (19 September 1839 – 12 January 1925), commonly known as Oscar Brefeld, was a German botanist and mycologist. Born in Telgte, he studied pharmacy and worked as an assistant to Anton de Bary.He became a botany lecturer at Eberswalde Forestry Academy in 1878 and a professor at the University of Münster in 1882, later succeeding Ferdinand Cohn at the University of Breslau in 1898.
Biography of Wen Tingshi (excerpt)
Wen Tingshi was a Chinese political figure, poet, and scholar born to a family with a history in politics.He achieved the Jinshi status in 1890 and worked at the imperial court. A firm opponent of peace with Japan during the First Sino-Japanese War, he joined officials criticizing the government and submitted memorials.
Biography of Draga Ljocic (excerpt)
Draga Ljočić Milošević (22 February 1855 – 5 November 1926) was a Serbian physician, socialist, and feminist. In 1872, she became the first Serbian woman to be accepted at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. During the war between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, she worked as a medical assistant in the army and received the grade of a Lieutenant.
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 Philippe Comairas (excerpt)
Philippe Comairas, born on October 24, 1803, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and died on February 15, 1875, in Fontainebleau, was a French painter, second prize winner of the Prix de Rome in 1833. A student of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, he gained recognition with his painting "Moses and the Brazen Serpent".
Biography of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (excerpt)
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (5 September 1807 in Jülich – 11 September 1863 in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Prussian Duchy of Jülich. Schirmer was started as a student of historical painting under Schadow at the academy of Düsseldorf.
Biography of Mary Slessor (excerpt)
Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women's rights and protecting native children.
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.
Biography of Richard Barth (excerpt)
Richard Barth (5 June 1850 in Wanzleben – 25 December 1923 in Marburg) was a left-handed German violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher and composer in the circle of Johannes Brahms. His time of birth comes from the biography "Johannes Brahms in den Erinnerungen von Richard Barth" by Kurt Hofmann (Schuberth, 1979).
Biography of Artur Zawisza (excerpt)
Artur Zawisza Czarny of Przerowa coat of arms, born on September 24, 1809, in Sobota, was a Polish independence activist.He played a significant role in the November Uprising (1830–1831), was a member of the Patriotic Society, and after 1831 lived in exile in France, joining the Polish Democratic Society.
Biography of Otto Wallach (excerpt)
Otto Wallach, born March 27, 1847 and died February 26, 1931, was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds. Born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia) to a Prussian official of Jewish descent who had converted to Lutheranism, Wallach grew up in Stettin and Potsdam, developing an interest in literature and art history.
Biography of Adelbert Lebarbier de Tinan (excerpt)
Marie Charles Adelbert Le Barbier de Tinan, born in Paris on May 2, 1803, and deceased there on December 18, 1876, was a prominent French vice-admiral. His notable contributions include playing a key role during the Crimean War in 1853, aiding troop landings and blockading Greek ports.
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.
Biography of Angelo Inganni (excerpt)
Angelo Inganni (November 24, 1807 – December 2, 1880) was an Italian painter. Born in Brescia, he learned the basics of art from his father Giovanni and elder brother Francesco. Noticed during his military service for his skills as a draftsman, he was admitted to the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1833 thanks to Marshal Radetzky.
Biography of Peter Mackie (excerpt)
Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie, 1st Baronet, JP (26 November 1855 – 22 September 1924) was a Scottish whisky distiller and writer. Mackie was born at St Ninians, Stirling. His father, Alexander Mackie (died 1884), was a distiller. His mother was Jane Simpson Brown (died 1886).
Biography of Charles Beauquier (excerpt)
Charles Beauquier (born December 18, 1833, in Besançon (Wikipedia mistakenly states the 19th), died August 12, 1916) was a French politician and historian. He graduated from the École impériale des chartes in 1857 and became a general councilor of Besançon in 1871.
Biography of George Hendrik Breitner (excerpt)
George Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.
Biography of Leonard Springer (excerpt)
Leonard Antony Springer (Amsterdam, January 24, 1855 – Haarlem, September 28, 1940) was a Dutch garden and landscape architect. He was the son of painter Cornelis Springer and initially trained as a nurseryman before making a name as a garden architect.
Biography of Gerrit de Vries (politician) (excerpt)
Gerrit Abrahamszoon de Vries, born in Haarlem on February 22, 1818, and died in The Hague on March 4, 1900, was a Dutch statesman. De Vries was a disciple of Thorbecke and succeeded him as head of the De Vries/Fransen van de Putte government after Thorbecke's death in 1872.
Biography of Kate Douglas Wiggin (excerpt)
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author, and composer.She is best known for her children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and collections of children's songs. In 1878, she founded San Francisco’s first free kindergarten, the Silver Street Free Kindergarten.
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.
Biography of Édouard Marie Heckel (excerpt)
Édouard Marie Heckel was a French pharmacist, physician, and botanist, born on March 24, 1843, in Toulon and died on January 20, 1916, in Marseille. He dedicated his life to studying plants from French colonies, focusing on their economic and medical aspects.
Biography of Alexis Damour (excerpt)
Augustin Alexis Damour was a French mineralogist born in the former 11th arrondissement of Paris on July 19, 1808, and died in the same city in the 9th arrondissement on September 22, 1902. After completing a legal education, he pursued an administrative career, notably at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until 1853.
Biography of Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (excerpt)
Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, born on February 8, 1856, in Rouen and died on February 17, 1901, at the Château de Montgrimont in Fontaine-le-Bourg (Seine-Inférieure), was a French industrialist and inventor, a pioneer of the automobile, and the founder of Automobile Delamare-Deboutteville.
Biography of Aimé Guerlain (excerpt)
Aimé Guerlain, born on April 2, 1834, in Paris and passing away on February 26, 1910, is considered the father of modern perfumery. As the son of Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain and brother of Gabriel Guerlain, he left an indelible mark on the world of fragrance.
Biography of Wilhelm Camerer (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Camerer (17 October 1842 – 25 March 1910) was a German physician born in Stuttgart.Camerer was a pioneer in the field of pediatric medicine. He studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen and Vienna.At Tübingen he was a student of physiologist Karl von Vierordt (1818–1884).
Biography of Victor Capoul (excerpt)
Joseph-Amédée-Victor Capoul, born February 27, 1839 in Toulouse, was a French tenor and actor. He trained at the Paris Conservatoire and made a name at the Opéra-Comique with Le Chalet in 1861. His charming voice, stage skills, and likable appearance brought him immense popularity.
Biography of Pierre Termier (excerpt)
Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859, and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, was a prominent French geologist, specializing in tectonics and the structural synthesis of the Alps. Graduating top of his class from Polytechnique, he joined the prestigious Corps des mines and quickly developed a passion for studying the Alps.
Biography of Théophile Ferré (excerpt)
Théophile Ferré, born on May 6, 1846, in Paris and executed on November 28, 1871, in Satory, was a notable figure of the Paris Commune. Formerly a notary clerk and a Blanquist militant, he was repeatedly condemned for his political views under the Second Empire.
Biography of Hubert-Joseph Henry (excerpt)
Hubert-Joseph Henry, born on June 2, 1846, in Pogny, Marne, and died on August 31, 1898, at the Mont-Valérien fortress, was a French officer who produced false documents aimed at accusing Captain Alfred Dreyfus and confirming his conviction. Confessions and Death The suicide of Lieutenant Colonel Henry in a cell of the Mont-Valérien fortress (Le Progrès Illustré, September 11, 1898).
Biography of Francesco Crispi (excerpt)
Francesco Crispi (October 4, 1818 – August 11, 1901) was an Italian patriot and statesman.A key figure in the Risorgimento, he was a close ally of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi and played a central role in the Italian unification of 1860. |
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