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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 Elias Nason (excerpt)
Elias Nason (April 21, 1811, in Wrentham, Massachusetts – June 17, 1887, in North Billerica, Massachusetts) was a Massachusetts Congregational clergyman, educator, editor, and author. He started working in a paper mill in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1826, while attending school.After five years, he studied at Amherst College for a year before entering Brown University, where he taught to finance his studies.
Biography of Emily Stowe (excerpt)
Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings, May 1, 1831, in Norwich Township, Ontario, and died April 30, 1903) was a Canadian physician, the first woman to practise medicine in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Born into a Quaker farming family, she initially worked as a teacher before pursuing medicine.
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.
Biography of Gustave Courtois (excerpt)
Gustave Claude Étienne Courtois, born on May 18, 1852, in Pusey and died on November 25, 1923, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French painter known for portraits and genre scenes. A student of Jean-Léon Gérôme, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1869 and made his Salon debut in 1875.
Biography of Isala Van Diest (excerpt)
Isala Van Diest, born on May 7, 1842, in Louvain and passed away on February 9, 1916, in Knokke, was the first female doctor and the first female university graduate in Belgium. Daughter of a progressive surgeon, she went to study in Switzerland due to limited opportunities in Belgium.
Biography of William Sharp (writer) (excerpt)
William Sharp, born on September 12, 1855, in Paisley and died on December 12, 1905, in Syracuse, was a Scottish writer best known for publishing under the secret pseudonym Fiona MacLeod. This alter ego allowed him to explore mystical and Celtic themes.
Biography of Mario Tiberini (excerpt)
Mario Tiberini (8 September 1826 – 16 October 1880) was an Italian tenor who performed leading roles in opera houses across Europe and the Americas during a 25-year career. Renowned for his advanced vocal technique and dramatic talent, he created the role of Alvaro in the revised version of Verdi’s La forza del destino and originated several roles in operas by lesser-known composers, including the title role in Faccio’s Amleto.
Biography of Ludmilla Assing (excerpt)
Rosa Ludmilla Assing (born February 22, 1821, in Hamburg – died March 25, 1880, in Florence) was a German writer, also known under the pen names Achim Lothar and Talora. She came from a family of liberal intellectuals and grew up in a salon frequented by writers like Heine, Hebbel, and Gutzkow.
Biography of Ada Cambridge (excerpt)
Ada Cambridge (born November 21, 1844 – died July 19, 1926) was an English-born Australian writer.Born in Norfolk into a middle-class farming family, she began writing hymns as a teenager before contributing poetry and short fiction to church magazines. In 1870, she married a clergyman and moved to Australia, where they lived in a series of rural parishes until 1893.
Biography of Paul Tannery (excerpt)
Paul Tannery (born December 20, 1843, in Mantes-la-Jolie, and died November 27, 1904, in Pantin) was a French historian of science.A polytechnic engineer, he specialized in ancient science and the study of Byzantine, medieval, and 17th-century mathematics. He edited the works of the mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria, and with Charles Henry, the works of Fermat.
Biography of Philipp Franck (painter) (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860 – 13 March 1944) was a German Impressionist painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Encouraged by his father, Franck initially studied architecture but shifted to art after his father’s death.At 17, he enrolled at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, specializing in landscapes and fairy tale illustrations under Eduard Jakob von Steinle.
Biography of Léo Taxil (excerpt)
Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, known as Léo Taxil (21 March 1854 – 31 March 1907), was a French writer infamous for his anti-clerical publications and a later hoax targeting Freemasonry. Born into a Catholic, royalist family, he broke from religion in his teens and became a radical republican and satirical journalist, attacking the Church with provocative writings.
Biography of James Dwight Dana (excerpt)
James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world. His zoological author abbreviation is Dana.
Biography of Martha M. Place (excerpt)
Martha M.Place, born on September 18, 1849, in Readington Township, New Jersey, became the first woman executed in the electric chair on March 20, 1899, at Sing Sing Prison. At the age of 23, she suffered an accident that reportedly affected her mental stability.
Biography of Karl Salvator of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero; German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranier; Florence, 30 April 1839 – Vienna, 18 January 1892 (pneumonia)), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.
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.
Biography of Jaume Ferran i Clua (excerpt)
Jaime Ferran y Clua (Corbera d'Ebre, Febraury 1, 1851 – Barcelona November 22, 1929) was a Spanish-French bacteriologist and sanitarian , contemporary of Robert Koch, and said by his fellows to have made some of the discoveries attributed to Koch. As early as 1885, he wrote on immunization against cholera.
Biography of William Arbuthnot Lane (excerpt)
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane (July 4, 1856 – January 16, 1943) was a British surgeon and physician, specializing in orthopaedic, abdominal, and ENT surgery. He designed new surgical instruments to ensure maximal asepsis and introduced the "no-touch technique", which remains in use today.
Biography of Jacob van Lennep (excerpt)
Jacob van Lennep, born on March 24, 1802, in Amsterdam and died on August 25, 1868, in Oosterbeek, was a Dutch poet and writer.The son of poet and professor David Jacob van Lennep, he grew up in a cultured environment and spent his summers at Huis te Manpad, which inspired some of his works.
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.
Biography of Félicien Chapuis (excerpt)
Félicien Chapuis, born on April 21, 1824 in Verviers and died on September 30, 1879 in Heusy, was a Belgian physician and amateur entomologist with a lifelong passion for natural sciences. Wikipedia has April 29 in error. He studied in Bonn and then at the University of Liège, where he became close friends with Ernest Candèze and conducted research on beetle larvae under zoologist Théodore Lacordaire.
Biography of Jean Dollfus (excerpt)
Jean Mathieu Dollfus, born on September 25, 1800, in Mulhouse and died on May 21, 1887, in the same city, was a French industrialist, economist, and politician. He served as the mayor of Mulhouse from 1863 to 1869 and led the family textile business Dollfus-Mieg et Compagnie (DMC).
Biography of Emilio Sala Cortés (excerpt)
Emilio Sala Cortés, born February 22, 1841, in Barcelona and died June 7, 1921, in La Garriga, was a Spanish architect.In Catalan, his name is Emili Sala i Cortés. He studied at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, where he graduated in 1876 and later taught.
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.
Biography of Clément Étienne Challier (excerpt)
Clément Étienne Challier was born on August 10, 1851, in Toulon, Var, and died on October 2, 1884, in Tonkin, aboard the gunboat "Massue". He was the son of Michel Magloire Challier, a chief mechanic and Knight of the Legion of Honor, born in La Roche-Guyon (now in Val d'Oise) and who died in Toulon in 1887.
Biography of Eugène Chevandier de Valdrome (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Napoléon Eugène Chevandier de Valdrome, born on August 15, 1810, in Saint-Quirin (Moselle) and died on December 1, 1878, in Cirey-sur-Vezouze (Meurthe-et-Moselle), was a French politician, forester, and industrialist. Promoted to Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1869, he managed numerous family enterprises, including glassworks, forges, coal mines, and sawmills.
Biography of Marie Bilders-van Bosse (excerpt)
Maria Philippina (Marie) Bilders-van Bosse (Amsterdam, 21 February 1837 – Wiesbaden, 11 July 1900) was a painter, famous for her landscape paintings in an early Dutch-impressionist style. Marie van Bosse was a daughter of Pieter Philip van Bosse (1809–1879) and Maria Johanna Reynvaan (1809–1864).
Biography of Gustave Planchon (excerpt)
François Gustave Planchon, born October 29, 1833, in Ganges, France, and died April 13, 1900, in Montpellier, was a French pharmacist and entomologist. After earning his medical doctorate in 1859, he became a professor of botany in Lausanne and later earned doctorates in science and pharmacy in 1864.
Biography of Ferdinand Keller (painter) (excerpt)
Ferdinand Keller, or von Keller (5 August 1842 – 8 July 1922) was a German genre and history painter. Life He was born in Karlsruhe to the family of a civil engineer.In 1857, when he was fifteen, his father was awarded a contract to design bridges, roads and dams in Brazil.
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.
Biography of Gerard Bilders (excerpt)
Born in Utrecht on 9 December 1838, Gerard Bilders was a Dutch landscape painter strongly influenced by his father, Johannes Warnardus Bilders. He spent part of his youth in Oosterbeek, later a center for plein-air painters, and moved to The Hague in 1857.
Biography of Carl Ernst von Stetten (excerpt)
Carl Ernst von Stetten (1857 – 1942) was a Bavarian-born German painter who spent much of his life in France.He came from a banking family in Augsburg and began studying art in Munich in 1876 before moving to Paris. There, he trained under Jean-Léon Gérôme and studied at the Académie Julian with Boulanger and Lefebvre.
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.
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.
Biography of Alexis Didier (excerpt)
Alexis Didier (born March 30, 1826 in Paris – died October 9, 1886) was a famous 19th-century French medium. At his funeral, he was described as “the greatest clairvoyant of modern times.” His case represents a key moment in the clash between Mesmer’s animal magnetism and the 19th-century medical establishment, which stopped all official research into such phenomena in 1842.
Biography of August Allebé (excerpt)
August Allebé, born on 19 April 1838 in Amsterdam and died there on 10 January 1927, was a Northern Dutch painter and influential teacher.His early work was romantic, later evolving into realism and impressionism. A key figure in founding Amsterdam Impressionism – also called the “School of Allebé” – he offered a counterbalance to the dominant Hague School.
Biography of Jean Servais Stas (excerpt)
Jean Servais Stas (August 21, 1813 – December 13, 1891) was a Belgian physician and analytical chemist, known for his work on atomic masses. Graduating in medicine in 1835, he discovered chemistry while working with Jean-Baptiste Van Mons and later refined his research in Paris under Jean-Baptiste Dumas.
Biography of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (excerpt)
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, born October 28, 1842, and died October 22, 1932, was an American orator, author, and activist for the abolition of slavery and women’s rights. She was the first woman to deliver a political speech before the U.S. Congress.
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.
Biography of Paul Flechsig (excerpt)
Paul Emil Flechsig was born on June 29, 1847, and died on July 22, 1929.He was a German neuroanatomist and neuropathologist affiliated with the University of Leipzig.He is notably known as the physician of jurist Daniel Paul Schreber. After studying medicine in Leipzig, he became an assistant in pathology and later led the histology department in 1873.
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.
Biography of Félix Potin (excerpt)
Jean Louis Félix Potin (July 9, 1820 – July 19, 1871) was a visionary French grocer and founder of the Félix Potin retail brand. Born into a farming family in Arpajon, he moved to Paris at 16 to become a grocer’s apprentice.
Biography of Paul Avril (excerpt)
Édouard-Henri Avril, born May 21, 1849, in Algiers and died July 28, 1928, in Le Raincy, was a French painter and illustrator, best known under the pseudonym Paul-Avril for his erotic illustrations. He was the brother of engraver and photographer Paul Victor Avril, with whom he collaborated.
Biography of Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford (excerpt)
Louisa Anne Beresford (14 April 1818 – 12 May 1891), Marchioness of Waterford, was a British Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist and noted philanthropist.Daughter of diplomat Charles Stuart, she spent her youth between Paris and the family estate at Highcliffe Castle. Her time of birth comes from her grand-mother, in "The Story of Two Noble Lives: Being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford," Volume 1, by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (G.
Biography of Jakob Christian Heusser (excerpt)
Jakob Christian Heusser (March 28, 1826 – April 21, 1909) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and geologist. Born in Hirzel, Canton of Zurich, he was the son of physician Johann Jakob Heusser and poet Meta Heusser-Schweizer.After studying medicine in Zurich, he specialized in natural sciences in Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1851.
Biography of Thomas Couture (excerpt)
Thomas Couture, born on December 21, 1815, in Senlis and died on March 29, 1879, in Villiers-le-Bel, was a French painter best known for Romans of the Decadence. Trained in Paris under Gros and Delaroche, he won second prize in the Prix de Rome in 1837 after several failed attempts.
Biography of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (excerpt)
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American children's author best known under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, into the affluent Dwight family, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1852. She was the aunt of writer and poet Gamel Woolsey.
Biography of Pierre Martinet (anarchist) (excerpt)
Pierre Martinet, known as “Pol” or “the Pariah,” was born on May 5, 1848, in Laudun (Gard) and died on October 6, 1919, in Clermont (Oise).A French anarchist and Dreyfusard, he was among the founders of European individualist anarchism but remained a divisive figure, often suspected of being a police informant.
Biography of Olympia Brown (excerpt)
Olympia Brown, born January 5, 1835, and died October 23, 1926, was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained with the consent of her denomination and was an eloquent advocate for women’s rights, being one of the few first-generation suffragists to vote after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Biography of Eugène Le Bègue de Germiny (excerpt)
Charles-Eugène Le Bègue, Count of Germiny, born on July 11, 1841, in Melun and died in June 1898 in Buenos Aires, was a French lawyer and politician. A rising figure in Parisian Catholic right-wing circles, his career was ruined in 1876 by a moral scandal. |
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