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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 Pierre-Félix Lagrange (excerpt)
Pierre-Félix Lagrange, born in 1857 in Soumensac (Lot-et-Garonne) and died in 1928 in Paris, was a renowned French ophthalmologist. Born to a modest family, his teacher recognized his potential and encouraged his family to pursue his education. He became an associate professor of surgery at 26, before specializing in ophthalmology.
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Biography of Louis Capitan (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Capitan, born on April 19, 1854, in Paris and died on August 26, 1929, in the same city, was a French doctor, anthropologist, and prehistorian. Biography Louis Capitan was a student of Claude Bernard, interned in the hospitals of Paris, received his doctorate in 1883, and later became a clinical chief at Hôtel-Dieu and consulting physician at La Pitié.
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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.
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Biography of Joseph Cassien-Bernard (excerpt)
Joseph Marie Cassien Bernard, also known as Marie-Joseph-Cassien Bernard or simply Cassien-Bernard, was a French architect born on October 14, 1848, in La Mure and who passed away in 1926. A student of Charles Garnier, Cassien-Bernard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and later in Paris, where he earned a first-class medal and the second Prix de Rome.
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Biography of Aeneas Mackay Jr. (excerpt)
Æneas, Baron Mackay (29 November 1838 – 13 November 1909) was a Dutch Anti-Revolutionary politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1888 to 1891. Born into a noble family from Gelderland, he studied law in Utrecht and worked as lawyer and a judge.
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Biography of Georges Demenÿ (excerpt)
Georges Emile Joseph Demenÿ, born on June 12, 1850, in Douai and passed away on October 26, 1917, in Paris, was a pioneer in film technology, photographer, inventor, cinema pioneer, and gymnast. As an assistant to physiologist Etienne Jules Marey, he developed the chronophotograph, a device for recording moving images.
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Biography of Friedrich Hecker (excerpt)
Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker (September 28, 1811 – March 24, 1881) was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary. He was one of the most popular speakers and agitators of the 1848 Revolution. After moving to the United States, he served as a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Biography of Gabriel Guerlain (excerpt)
Gabriel Guerlain, born on July 6, 1841, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, and who died in 1933, was a French perfumer and business executive, one of the sons of Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, and the brother of Aimé Guerlain. In 1862, his brother Aimé Guerlain took over the family perfume business, having learned the art from their father.
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Biography of Valentin le Désossé (excerpt)
Edme-Étienne-Jules Renaudin, known as Valentin le Désossé, Valentin Montagné, or Seigneur Valache (Paris, February 28, 1843 – Sceaux, March 4, 1907), was a French dancer and contortionist. Wikipedia has February 26 in error. Biography The son of a lawyer from Sceaux, he initially worked as a wine merchant on Rue Coquillière in Paris's 1st arrondissement.
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Biography of Anita Augspurg (excerpt)
Anita Theodora Johanna Sophie Augspurg (22 September 1857 – 20 December 1943) was a German jurist, actress, writer, activist of the radical feminist movement and a pacifist.
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Biography of Agnes McLaren (excerpt)
Agnes McLaren (4 July 1837 – 17 April 1913) was a pioneering Scottish doctor who provided medical assistance to women in India who could not receive care from male doctors due to cultural restrictions. Active in social justice, she protested the white slave trade and signed the 1866 women’s suffrage petition.
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Biography of François Laurent (jurist) (excerpt)
François Laurent, born on 8 July 1810 in Luxembourg and passed away on 11 February 1887, was a Belgian historian and jurisconsult. He held a prominent position in the Ministry of Justice before becoming a professor of civil law at Ghent University in 1836.
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Biography of Dugald Sutherland MacColl (excerpt)
Dugald Sutherland MacColl (March 10, 1859 – December 21, 1948) was a Scottish watercolorist, art critic, lecturer, and writer. He served as keeper of the Tate Gallery for five years. Born in Glasgow, he studied at the University of London, Oxford, and later at Westminster School of Art and the Slade School under Alphonse Legros.
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Biography of Aletta Jacobs (excerpt)
Aletta Jacobs, born on February 9, 1854, in Sappemeer, and died on August 10, 1929, in Baarn, was a Dutch pioneer in medicine and women’s rights. She was the first woman to earn a university degree and to become a certified physician in the Netherlands.
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Biography of Edith Pechey (excerpt)
Mary Edith Pechey (7 October 1845 – 14 April 1908) was one of the first women medical doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital and was involved in a range of social causes.
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Biography of Neel Doff (excerpt)
Cornelia Hubertina "Neel" Doff (born January 27, 1858, in Buggenum, Netherlands, and died July 14, 1942, in Ixelles, Belgium) was a Dutch-born writer who lived in Belgium and wrote primarily in French. She is a prominent figure in proletarian literature. Born into a large and impoverished family, she grew up in harsh conditions.
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Biography of Pedro Gailhard (excerpt)
Pierre Samson Gailhard, known as Pedro Gailhard, was born in Toulouse on August 1, 1848, and died in Paris (9th arrondissement) on October 12, 1918. He was a French opera singer and theatre director. Gifted with an exceptional singing bass voice, Pedro Gailhard made his debut at the Opéra-Comique and later performed at the Paris Opera, debuting in the role of Méphisto in Faust by Charles Gounod in 1871.
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Biography of Edmond Le Boeuf (excerpt)
Edmond Le Bœuf, born in Paris on December 5, 1809, and died on June 7, 1888, at the Château du Moncel in Bailleul in the Orne, was a French general and politician, elevated to the rank of Marshal of France. A graduate of the École Polytechnique, he distinguished himself as an artillery officer during the conquest of Algeria, the Crimean War, and the Italian campaign in 1859.
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Biography of François Rivoire (excerpt)
François Rivoire, born on April 16, 1842, in Lyon and deceased on August 7, 1919, in Villers-en-Arthies, was a French painter. He was the son of Auguste Rivoire, a fabric manufacturer, and Antoinette Musy. In 1868, he worked as a designer and married Marie Bertrand in Lyon.
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Biography of Ernest Jouin (excerpt)
Ernest Jouin (December 20, 1844 – June 27, 1932) was a French Catholic priest, journalist, and author, known for his anti-Masonic and antisemitic writings. Born in Angers to a cabinetmaker, Jouin served as a vicar in various parishes before becoming the parish priest of Joinville-le-Pont in 1882, and later of Saint-Augustin and Saint-Médard in Paris.
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Biography of Charles Lenepveu (excerpt)
Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu (4 October 1840 – 16 August 1910), was a French composer and teacher. Destined for a career as a lawyer, he defied his family and followed a musical career. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and won France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome in 1867.
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Biography of Octave Pirmez (excerpt)
Octave Pirmez, born on April 19, 1832, in Châtelineau (a section of Châtelet), and died on May 1, 1883, at the Château d'Acoz, was a Belgian writer, philosopher, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. Octave Louis Benjamin Pirmez was the son of Benjamin Pirmez and Irénée Drion.
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Biography of Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (excerpt)
Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (December 2, 1833 – February 28, 1886) was a Belgian botanist who served as a professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Liège (1857–1886). His particular field of study was the Bromeliaceae family, for which he was recognized as an authority.
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Biography of Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli (excerpt)
Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli (31 January 1834 to 31 May 1900) was an Italian physician known for his works in pathology and hygiene. He studied for his medical degree at the University of Pisa. He was trained in pathology under the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
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Biography of Eugène Hénard (excerpt)
Eugène Alfred Hénard (22 October 1849 – 19 February 1923) was a French architect and a highly influential urban planner. He was a pioneer of roundabouts, which were first introduced in Paris in 1907. Hénard advocated several major urban projects in Paris, including great radial roads linking the center to a new ring road, and the expansion of the Place de l'Opéra. ![]()
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.
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Biography of José Nakens (excerpt)
José Nakens (21 December 1841 – 12 November 1926) was a Spanish journalist, republican activist, and anticlerical. His time of birth comes from an autobiographical poem in which Nakens claims to have been born just before dawn (the sunrise was at 7:15).
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Biography of Maurice Lévy (mathematician) (excerpt)
Maurice Lévy, born on February 28, 1838, in Ribeauvillé and died on September 30, 1910, in Paris, was a French engineer known for his contributions to continuum mechanics. Education The son of Alsatian industrialists, he studied at the École Polytechnique in 1854 and the École des Ponts et Chaussées, where he developed a method to calculate forces in continuous beams.
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Biography of Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder (excerpt)
Friedrich Christian Carl von Bodelschwingh (* 6 March 1831 in Tecklenburg; † 2 April 1910 in Bielefeld-Bethel) was a German theologian and politician. He is best known as the founder of the v. Bodelschwinghsche Anstalten Bethel charitable foundations. From Westphalian nobility, his father Ernst von Bodelschwingh was Prussia's Finance Minister.
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Biography of Antoine-François Marmontel (excerpt)
Antoine François Marmontel, born on July 16, 1816, in Clermont-Ferrand, and died on January 17, 1898, in Paris, was a renowned French pianist, educator, and musicographer. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1827, studying under masters like Pierre Zimmermann for piano and Victor Dourlen for harmony.
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Biography of Ernesto Schiaparelli (excerpt)
Ernesto Schiaparelli (July 12, 1856 – February 14, 1928) was an Italian Egyptologist. Born in Occhieppo Inferiore, he discovered Queen Nefertari’s tomb in 1904 and the intact tomb of royal architect Kha in 1906. He became director of the Egyptian Museum in Florence in 1880, and later of the Museo Egizio in Turin, transforming it into one of the world’s largest Egyptian museums.
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Biography of Michel Carré (librettist) (excerpt)
Michel-Antoine-Florentin Carré (October 20, 1821 - June 28, 1872) was a French playwright and librettist. He frequently collaborated with Jules Barbier, notably on operas by Charles Gounod, and worked with Jules Verne on three opéra-comiques, including Le Colin-maillard and Les Compagnons de la Marjolaine, with music by Aristide Hignard.
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Biography of Marius Toudoire (excerpt)
Denis Marius Toudoire (November 15, 1852 – March 1, 1922) was a French architect known for designing train stations and public buildings. He created iconic stations for the PLM railway company, including Gare de Lyon in Paris, Bordeaux-Saint-Jean, and Toulouse-Matabiau. He also designed the Grande Poste in Algiers.
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Biography of Constance Stone (excerpt)
Emma Constance Stone (December 4, 1856 – December 29, 1902) was the first woman to practice medicine in Australia. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she moved with her family to Melbourne in 1872. Unable to study medicine in Australia, she went to the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, earning her degree in 1888.
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Biography of René Dagron (photographer) (excerpt)
Prudent René Patrice Dagron, born on March 17, 1819, in Beauvoir (Sarthe), and died on June 13, 1900, was a French photographer and inventor. In 1859, he became the first to patent a microfilm process. In 1860, he combined a micro-image with a Stanhope lens, creating miniature photos with 100x magnification.
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Biography of Jennie Kidd Trout (excerpt)
Jennie Kidd Trout (née Gowanlock; April 21, 1841 – November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor, on March 11, 1875. She remained the only woman authorized to practice medicine until July 1880, when Emily Stowe completed her official qualifications.
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Biography of Albert Carré (actor) (excerpt)
Albert Carré was a French actor, director, playwright, librettist, and theater manager, born on June 22, 1852, in Strasbourg and died on December 11, 1938, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The nephew of playwright and librettist Michel Carré (1821–1872), he was married to the soprano Marguerite Carré, née Giraud (1880–1947), first cousin of Paul Vaillant-Couturier.
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Biography of Catharine van Tussenbroek (excerpt)
Albertina Philippina Catharina van Tussenbroek (Utrecht, August 4, 1852 – Amsterdam, May 5, 1925) was a Dutch physician and feminist, a pioneer of women's emancipation alongside Aletta Jacobs. She was the first female gynecologist in the Netherlands. Born into a modest family, she initially trained as a teacher before enrolling in Utrecht University in 1880 to study medicine.
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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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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.
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Biography of Adolphe Pinard (excerpt)
Adolphe Pinard (February 4, 1844, in Méry-sur-Seine, Aube – March 1, 1934) was a French obstetrician and politician, a member of the Academy of Medicine, and regarded as the father of childcare. He also served as a deputy during two legislatures in the Third Republic.
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Biography of Auguste Metz (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Auguste Metz (8 August 1812 – 22 June 1854) was a Luxembourgish entrepreneur, politician, and lawyer. He played a key role in developing Luxembourg’s steel industry in the 19th century and was a prominent liberal member of the Chamber of Deputies, alongside his brothers.
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Biography of Richard Thoma (physician) (excerpt)
Richard Andreas Thoma (December 11, 1847, in Bonndorf im Schwarzwald – November 26, 1923, in Heidelberg) was a German pathologist. Family His parents were Andreas Thoma, a lawyer, and Maria Friedericke Alwine Siegel. In 1881, he married Elisabeth Schmidt, the daughter of a lawyer.
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Biography of Alexandre Guilmant (excerpt)
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (March 12, 1837 – March 29, 1911) was a French organist and composer, serving as organist of La Trinité in Paris from 1871 to 1901. A student of his father Jean-Baptiste and later Belgian master Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, he became an organist and teacher in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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Biography of Pierre Lallement (excerpt)
Pierre Lallement (October 25, 1843 – August 29, 1891) was a French inventor, considered by some as the creator of the bicycle. In 1862, while working at a baby carriage factory in Nancy, he designed a bicycle by adding pedals and a crank to a draisine.
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Biography of Roberto Menini (excerpt)
Roberto Menini (October 18, 1837 – 1916) was a Catholic archbishop and apostolic vicar of the Sofia-Plovdiv vicariate. Born in Split, Dalmatia, he mastered South Slavic languages. After studying law, he graduated in theology from the University of Graz. Ordained a Capuchin priest on July 5, 1863, he was elected titular bishop of Metelopol and coadjutor of Sofia-Plovdiv in 1880.
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Biography of Camila O'Gorman (excerpt)
Camila O’Gorman (July 9, 1825 – August 18, 1848) was a young woman from Argentine high society whose affair with Father Ladislao Gutiérrez caused a major scandal. Her execution while eight months pregnant sparked international outrage and weakened the rule of dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
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Biography of Gaston Calmette (excerpt)
Gaston Calmette (July 30, 1858, Montpellier – March 17, 1914, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French journalist and the director of Le Figaro. Career The elder brother of bacteriologist Albert Calmette, he joined Le Figaro at 27 and became its director in 1902. In January 1914, he led a fierce campaign against Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, publishing compromising personal letters.
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Biography of Désiré Dihau (excerpt)
Désiré Hippolyte Dihau (August 2, 1833, Lille – August 19, 1909, Paris) was a French bassoonist and composer, famously immortalized by Edgar Degas in the painting L'Orchestre de l'Opéra. Career Trained at the conservatories of Lille and Paris, he won first prize for bassoon in 1857.
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Biography of Lovis Corinth (excerpt)
Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president. |
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