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birth charts with Proserpina in VirgoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina in Virgo. 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 Ernest Cadine (excerpt)
Ernest Cadine (12 July 1893 – 20 May 1978) was a French weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. As a teenager Cadine trained in gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting and swimming.He finished third in the national middleweight weightlifting championships before World War I.
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Biography of Hubert Amyot d'Inville (excerpt)
Hubert Amyot d'Inville, born on August 3, 1909, in Beauvais and died on June 10, 1944, in Montefiascone, Lazio, Italy, was one of the first Free French fighters in the summer of 1940. Nicknamed "l'Astuce" and always accompanied by his dog Bob, Hubert Amyot d'Inville was one of the key figures of the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL), closely associated with the history of the 1st Marine Fusiliers Regiment.
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Biography of Fritz Boehle (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich "Fritz" Boehle, born on February 7, 1873, in Emmendingen, was a German visual artist associated with the Völkisch movement.He is best known for his realistic and romantic depictions of rural German life and Christian tradition figures. Trained at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, Boehle was inspired by old masters like Matthäus Merian and Isaac van Ostade.
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Biography of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (excerpt)
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist.Though often credited with first describing Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this is disputed. Born into a medical family in Harburg an der Elbe, he earned his doctorate from the University of Rostock in 1909.
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Biography of Jean Amsler (excerpt)
Jean Marcel Amsler (born on February 5, 1914, in Beaune, and died on January 29, 2005, in Paris) was a French-Swiss professor of German and translator, specializing in the works of Günter Grass, for whom he was the official translator. He was an agrégé of the University and a graduate of Oriental Languages.
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Biography of Rahel Straus (excerpt)
Rahel Straus, née Goitein (1880–1963), was a pioneering German-Jewish medical doctor, feminist, and writer. She was the first female student to study medicine normally at Heidelberg University, earning her degree in January 1905. After marrying her childhood friend, lawyer Elias Straus (1878–1933), she moved to Munich, where she opened a medical practice and became a prominent advocate for Zionism and the League of Jewish Women.
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Biography of James Tiptree Jr. (excerpt)
Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987), better known as James Tiptree Jr., was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. From 1967 until her death, she published under this male pseudonym, whose true identity was only revealed in 1977.
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Biography of Leon Krynski (excerpt)
Leon Paweł Wawrzyniec Kryński (born February 20, 1866, in Warsaw; died October 8, 1937, in Warsaw) was a Polish surgeon and urologist. Born into a Warsaw family, he studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, earning his doctorate in 1891. After advancing his skills in Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Paris, and Vienna, he became a professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1901.
Biography of Jean de Vaugelas (excerpt)
Jean Vincent de Vaugelas, born on January 2, 1913, in Paris, and died on February 13, 1950, in Mendoza, Argentina, was a French military officer and a leader of the French Militia during World War II. As a Waffen-SS officer, he participated in suppressing resistance fighters in Limousin and was involved in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.
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Biography of Elías Nandino (excerpt)
Elías Nandino (April 19, 1900 – October 3, 1993) was a Mexican poet. Born in Cocula, Jalisco, he was raised Catholic. He studied medicine at UNAM, becoming a surgeon in 1930. Alongside his medical career, he wrote poetry, influenced by Manuel M. Flores and Los Contemporáneos.
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Biography of Anne Zernike (excerpt)
Anne Zernike (1887–1972) was a Dutch liberal theologian and the first ordained woman minister in the Netherlands.Initially serving with the Mennonites, the only denomination permitting female ministers, she later joined the Dutch Protestant Association (NPB). Born on 30 April 1887 in Amsterdam into an intellectual family, she studied at the University of Amsterdam and the Anabaptist Seminary.
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Biography of Klaus Günther (zoologist) (excerpt)
Klaus Alfred Günther (* October 7, 1907, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; † October 1, 1975, in Berlin) was a German zoologist and taxonomist, who made significant contributions to modern evolutionary theory through his definition of the ecological niche. After completing his Abitur at a humanistic gymnasium in Cottbus, Günther studied biology, paleontology, geography, chemistry, and numismatics in Berlin and Munich.
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Biography of Otto Dibelius (excerpt)
Otto Dibelius, born on May 15, 1880, in Berlin, and died on January 31, 1967, in the same city, was a clergyman and an opponent of both Nazism and communism in Germany. Born in 1880, Dibelius studied at the University of Berlin from 1899 to 1903, earning a doctorate in philosophy in 1902.
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Biography of Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (excerpt)
Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle, born on 11 November 1898 in Gut Externbrock, Westphalia, was a German Jesuit priest and one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism.He was ordained as a priest in 1927 and traveled to Japan in 1929, where he developed an interest in Buddhist practices.
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Biography of Dossibai Patell (excerpt)
Dossibai Rustomji Cowasji Patell MBE, MRCP (16 October 1881 – 4 February 1960), later known as Dossibai Jehangir Ratenshaw Dadabhoy, was an Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist, who in 1910 became the first woman to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).
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Biography of Katharine Cornell (excerpt)
Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893 – June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner, and producer. Born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York, she was dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott.
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Biography of Robert Wlérick (excerpt)
Joseph François Robert Wlérick, known as Robert Wlérick, was born on April 13, 1882, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on March 7, 1944, in Paris.He was a French sculptor. Born into a family of cabinetmakers, he was encouraged by his teacher Ismaël Morin to pursue his artistic talents.
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Biography of Carl Spiecker (excerpt)
Carl Spiecker (January 7, 1888 – November 16, 1953) was a German journalist and politician, first with the Zentrum party and later with the CDU. Spiecker started as a journalist and led propaganda operations in Silesia during the 1920s. He later became press chief for Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and founded the influential Deutsche Nachrichten- und Korrespondenz-Gesellschaft in 1925.
Biography of Geneviève Callerot (excerpt)
Geneviève Callerot, born on May 6, 1916, in Paris and passed away on January 16, 2025, in Saint-Aulaye-Puymangou (Dordogne), was a French resistance fighter, farmer, activist, and novelist. During World War II, she, her father, and her sister helped over 200 people cross the demarcation line clandestinely.
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Biography of Minoru Yasui (excerpt)
Minoru Yasui (安井稔, Yasui Minoru, October 19, 1916 – November 12, 1986) was an American lawyer from Oregon.Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon.He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants.
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Biography of Carl Theodor Sørensen (excerpt)
Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (24 July 1893 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany – 12 September 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish landscape architect who is considered to be one of the greatest landscape architects of the 20th century. A contemporary of Thomas Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Luis Barragán he was a leading figure in the first generation of Modernists in landscape design.
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Biography of Walter Blume (aircraft designer) (excerpt)
Walter Blume (10 January 1896 – 27 May 1964) was an engineer and German fighter ace of World War I. During World War I, he flew with two fighter squadrons, Jagdstaffel 26 and Jagdstaffel 9 gaining 28 aerial victories and earning the Iron Cross, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and the Pour le Merite.
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Biography of Rudolf Peierls (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (June 5, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a key role in Britain’s Tube Alloys nuclear program and the Manhattan Project. He studied physics at various universities, including under Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli.
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Biography of Francisco Lagos Cházaro (excerpt)
Francisco Jerónimo de Jesús Lagos Cházaro Mortero (Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, September 30, 1878 – November 13, 1932, in Mexico City) was the acting President of Mexico, appointed by the Convention of Aguascalientes, from June 10 to October 10, 1915. Lagos Cházaro studied law in Veracruz, Puebla, and Mexico City.
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Biography of Helen McFarland (excerpt)
Helen McFarland, born on February 13, 1888, in Pasco, Washington, and passed away in 1983, was an American astrologer and teacher based in Portland, Oregon. She became a member of the American Federation of Astrologers (AFA) in February 1962. The source for her birth time is the book Astrological Pioneers of America by James H.
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Biography of Martin Dibelius (excerpt)
Martin Dibelius (Dresden, September 14, 1883 – Heidelberg, November 11, 1947) was a German Protestant theologian and biblical scholar, professor of New Testament at Heidelberg University. The son of pastor Franz Wilhelm Dibelius and cousin of Otto Dibelius, he studied theology and philosophy at renowned universities before becoming a professor in Heidelberg in 1915.
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Biography of Rodolfo Oroz (excerpt)
Rodolfo Oroz Scheibe (July 8, 1895 – April 13, 1997) was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist of German descent. Graduating in pedagogy from the University of Leipzig in 1920, he returned to Chile to teach Latin, English, grammar, and linguistics. Between 1933 and 1944, he directed the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago and founded the Chilean Institute of Philology in 1944.
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Biography of Hanna Nagel (excerpt)
Hanna Nagel (born Johanna Nagel on June 10, 1907, in Heidelberg, where she died on March 15, 1975) was a German engraver and illustrator known for her activism against patriarchy and discrimination. The eldest of three children, she grew up in Heidelberg, attended a girls’ school, trained as a bookbinder, and later joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
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Biography of Elga Brink (excerpt)
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (born Frey, formerly Brink; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known as Elga Brink, was a German film actress.She rose to prominence in the 1920s through her roles in numerous silent films.Her final silent film, Marriage in Trouble, was released in 1928.
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Biography of Heinrich Rickert (excerpt)
Heinrich John Rickert (German: ; 25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, one of the leading neo-Kantians. Life Rickert was born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to the journalist and later politician Heinrich Edwin Rickert and Annette née Stoddart.
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Biography of Youki (model) (excerpt)
Youki, born Lucie Badoud (July 31, 1903 – October 13, 1966), was a Montparnasse model during the 1930s.Her nickname, meaning "snow" in Japanese, was given to her by her first husband, painter Tsugouharu Foujita. Daughter of Joséphine Bousez, from Wallonia, and Swiss-born Célestin Badoud, Lucie was raised in Paris by her maternal grandmother after the family farm was sold.
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Biography of Herman Heijermans (excerpt)
Herman Heijermans (3 December 1864 – 22 November 1924) was a Dutch playwright, novelist, journalist, and writer, regarded as the greatest modern dramatist of the Netherlands. He gained international recognition, a feat unseen since Joost van den Vondel. Born in Rotterdam into a liberal Jewish family, he debuted in 1891, finding success with Ahasverus under the pseudonym "Ivan Jelakowitch." Later, as "Samuel Falkland Jr.," he published sketches of Amsterdam life.
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Biography of Juventino Rosas (excerpt)
José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (January 25, 1868 – July 9, 1894) was a renowned Mexican composer and violinist, best known for his piece Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves). Born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato (now Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas), he began as a street musician, performing with dance bands in Mexico City.
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Biography of Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (excerpt)
Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (24 July 1863 – 8 July 1919) was a Dutch poet and philosopher. During his lifetime, only a few of his poems were published in literary journals. His pen name "Adwaita," in Sanskrit, means "he who is without duality."
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Biography of Tjalling Koopmans (excerpt)
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources.
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Biography of Albert Volk (excerpt)
Albert Volk (* September 13, 1882, in Frankfurt am Main; † March 16, 1982, in Heilbronn) was a German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. After World War I, he created several war memorials in his workshop in Weinsberg. From 1926 until the end of World War II, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart before returning to Weinsberg in 1945, where he actively contributed to artistic and cultural reconstruction.
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Biography of Manfred George (excerpt)
Manfred George (October 22, 1893 – December 30, 1965), born Manfred Georg Cohn, later shortened to Manfred Georg, was a German journalist, author and translator. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power, living in several different European countries and eventually emigrating penniless to the United States in 1939.
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Biography of Walter Gramatté (excerpt)
Walter Gramatté (Berlin, January 8, 1897 - Hamburg, February 9, 1929) was a German painter and printmaker of the second generation of Expressionism.In 1920, he married Sophie Eckhardt, known as Sonia, whom he painted numerous times.A renowned soloist, Sonia Gramatté stopped performing in public after her husband’s death and dedicated herself to composing.
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Biography of Gottfried of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Gottfried of Austria (‹See Tfd›German: Gottfried Maria Joseph Peter Ferdinand Hubert Anton Rupert Leopold Heinrich Ignaz Alfons, Erzherzog von Österreich, Prinz von Toskana; 14 March 1902 – 21 January 1984), also styled as Gottfried Erzherzog von Österreich, was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Archduke of Austria, and Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.
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Biography of Corrado Alvaro (excerpt)
Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
Biography of Caio Prado Júnior (excerpt)
Caio da Silva Prado Júnior (February 11, 1907 – November 23, 1990) was a Brazilian historian, geographer, writer, philosopher, and politician.He pioneered a Marxist-inspired historiographic tradition in Brazil to reinterpret its colonial society. He graduated in law from Faculdade do Largo de São Francisco in 1928, later becoming a professor of political economy.
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Biography of Vincent Persichetti (excerpt)
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School.
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Biography of Henry Pachter (excerpt)
Henry Pachter (1907–1980) was a Marxist intellectual and libertarian socialist activist. Renowned as an essayist on historical and political topics, he authored several books on diverse subjects. An exile from Nazi Germany, he taught at the New School for Social Research and City College in New York until his death.
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Biography of Jean Daragon (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Émile Daragon (February 14, 1870 – April 7, 1923) was a French actor. Married to actress Marguerite Moreno, he left the stage to become a horse trader. Paul Léautaud mentioned this decision in his Journal littéraire (February 10, 1909), quoting Moreno:
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Biography of Louis Anquetin (excerpt)
Louis Anquetin (born January 26, 1861, in Étrépagny – died August 19, 1932, in Paris) was a French painter.A pioneer of Synthetism, he was friends with Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso. In 1882, he moved to Paris, joining Léon Bonnat's studio, where he befriended Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Biography of Aline de Saint-Hubert (excerpt)
Aline de Saint-Hubert (22 August 1874 – 24 January 1947) was a Luxembourgish writer and patron, dedicated to women's education and cultural exchange. Married to industrialist Émile Mayrisch, she founded in 1906 the "Association for the Defense of Women's Interests" and advocated for a girls' high school in Luxembourg.
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Biography of Rodolphe Wytsman (excerpt)
Rodolphe Paul Marie Wytsman, born in Dendermonde (East Flanders) on March 11, 1860, and died in Linkebeek (Flemish Brabant) on November 2, 1927, was a Belgian Impressionist painter. Rodolphe Wytsman trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he was a student of Portaels.
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Biography of Hans Grundig (excerpt)
Hans Grundig (February 19, 1901 – September 11, 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. Born in Dresden, he trained as an interior decorator before studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts (1920–1921) and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1922–1923).
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Biography of Carlos Sáenz Herrera (excerpt)
Carlos Sáenz Herrera (Brussels, Belgium, 1 September 1910 – Saint José, 7 November 1980) was a Vice President of Costa Rica.He also served as a pioneer pediatrician in Costa Rica. His parents were José Carlos Sáenz Esquivel and Úrsula Celina Herrera and Paut.
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Biography of Willi Sänger (excerpt)
Heinrich Max Willi Sänger (born on 21 May 1894 in Berlin, Germany – died on 27 November 1944 in Brandenburg, Germany) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazis. The son of a carpenter, he joined the SPD in 1912 and switched to the Communist Party in 1919 after World War I. |
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