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birth charts with Vulcanus in AriesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Vulcanus in Aries. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Clément (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Clément, born May 31, 1836 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died February 26, 1903 in Paris, was a French singer, author and activist, a member of The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris). ![]()
Biography of Nikolaus Otto (excerpt)
Nikolaus August Otto (June 10, 1832 Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau - January 26, 1891 Cologne) was the German inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. Although other internal combustion engines had been invented (e. ![]()
Biography of Marie Lafarge (excerpt)
Marie-Fortunée Lafarge, née Capelle (January 15, 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 7, 1852) was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable, because it was one of the first trials to be followed by the public through daily newspaper reports, and because she was the first person convicted largely on direct forensic toxicological evidence. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Krupp (excerpt)
The Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp in modern times, merged with Thyssen AG in 1999 to form ThyssenKrupp AG, a large industrial conglomerate.
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Biography of Robert Browning (excerpt)
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Youth Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, on May 7, 1812, the first son of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. ![]()
Biography of Octave Gréard (excerpt)
Octave Gréard (April 18, 1828 (birth time source: Choisnard, birth certificate) - April 25, 1904) was a noted French educator. Gréard was born in Vire, educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and had a long career in education. He was largely responsible for the establishment of schools for girls and played a significant role in reforming the baccalauréat. ![]()
Biography of Rodolphe Salis (excerpt)
Rodolphe Salis, born May 19, 1851 in Châtellerault (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1897, was a French artist, owner and host of French cabaret Le Chat Noir. Le Chat Noir (French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th-century cabaret in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Félicien David (excerpt)
Félicien-César David, b. April 13, 1810 in Caudenet (Vaucluse – d. August 29, 1876 in La Pecq (now: Saint-Germain-en-Laye), was a French composer. Biography Félicien David wrote a prodigious number of highly original musical compositions in many forms, including symphonies, tone poems, opéras comiques, choruses, religious music, piano compositions, chamber music, and vocal works.
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Biography of Cosima Wagner (excerpt)
Cosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner (née de Flavigny, since 1844 Liszt; December 24, 1837 – April 1, 1930) was the daughter of composer Franz Liszt. She became famous as the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner and, after his death, as director of the Bayreuth Festival for 31 years. ![]()
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Arkansas is a state in the South Central region of the United States, home to more than three million people as of 2018. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people. ![]()
Biography of Adelina Patti (excerpt)
Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 - September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. Considered, along with fellow contemporaries; Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, to be one of the most famous 19th Century sopranos; Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard. ![]()
Biography of Paul Schützenberger (excerpt)
Paul Schützenberger (23 December 1829 - 26 June 1897), French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger (1779-1859) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger (1809-1881) professor of chemical medicine. He was intended for a medical career and graduated MD from the University of Strasbourg in 1855, but his interests lay in physical and chemical science. ![]()
Biography of William I, German Emperor (excerpt)
Wilhelm I, also known as Wilhelm the Great (William Frederick Louis, German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig) (March 22, 1797 – March 9, 1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (January 2, 1861 – 9 March, 1888) and the first German Emperor (18 January 1871 – 9 March, 1888). ![]()
Biography of François Fabié (excerpt)
François Fabié, born November 3, 1846 in Durenque, died July 18, 1928, is a French poet.
Biography of Théodore Dubois (excerpt)
François-Clément Théodore Dubois (August 24, 1837 – June 11, 1924) was a French composer, organist and music teacher. Théodore Dubois was born in Bligny in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart (the choirmaster at Reims cathedral) and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. ![]()
Biography of Jules Massenet (excerpt)
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, his style fell out of favor not long after his death; and, except Manon, his works were rarely performed. ![]()
Biography of Ida Ferrier (excerpt)
Born Marguerite-Joséphine Ferrand May 13, 1811, Ida Ferrier was Alexandre Dumas' wife from 1840, separated in 1845. Dumas wrote the poems Obéissance and À I… for her. She played the leading role in Bathilde. ![]()
Biography of Johann Gottfried Galle (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at (23 September 1846). ![]()
Biography of Émile Guimet (excerpt)
Émile Étienne Guimet (2 June 1836 (birth time source: Cedra, birth certificate) - 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur. He was born at Lyon and succeeded his father in the direction of his "artificial ultramarine" factory. He also founded the Musée Guimet, which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885. ![]()
Biography of Théophile Delcassé (excerpt)
Théophile Pierre Delcassé, born on March 1, 1852 in Pamiers (Ariège) (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut), died on February 21, 1923 in Nice, was a French politician and journalist. ![]()
Biography of Frédéric Kuhlmann (excerpt)
Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann (22 May 1803 – 27 January 1881) is a French chemist who patented the reaction later used in the Ostwald process. He was both a research scientist and a professor at Université Lille Nord de France. He promoted chemical engineering education for science graduates in Lille and supported the developpement of École centrale de Lille (IDN). ![]()
Biography of Charles-Marie Widor (excerpt)
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 (birth time source: birth certificate on-line) – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. Life Widor was born in Lyon, France to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889. ![]()
Biography of Hilaire de Chardonnet (excerpt)
Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet, best known as Hilaire de Chardonnet, born May 1, 1839 in Besançon, died March 11, in Paris, was a French engeener, businessman and inventor of artificial silk.
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Biography of Herbert Spencer (excerpt)
Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) was an English philosopher; prominent classical liberal political theorist; and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. ![]()
Biography of Léon Cladel (excerpt)
Léon Cladel (March 15, 1835 in Agen – July 21, 1892), was a French novelist. The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a reputation in a limited circle by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface. ![]()
Biography of Arthur James Balfour (excerpt)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He authored the tough Perpetual Crimes Act (1887) (or Coercion Act) aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation, unlawful assembly in Ireland during the Irish Land War, and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, a time when his party and government became divided over the issue of tariff reform.
Biography of Johann Karl Zahn (excerpt)
Johann Zahn, born August 21, 1631, died August 22, 1707, was a German architect, critif, author, painter and Professor in the Academy of Arts of Berlin in 1829. ![]()
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Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Tetã Paraguái), is a country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of which live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro.
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Biography of Léon Hennique (excerpt)
Léon Hennique (November 4, 1850 – December 25, 1935) was a French naturalist novelist and playwright. Born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, he was the son of a naval infantry officer. Initially studying painting, he turned to literature after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
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Biography of Albert de Lapparent (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (30 December 1839 (birth time source: Christophe de Cène, birth certificate) - 5 May 1908) was a French geologist. He was born at Bourges. After studying at the École polytechnique from 1858 to 1860 he became ingénieur au corps des mines, and took part in drawing up the geological map of France; and in 1875 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic Institute in Paris.
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Biography of Saint John Bosco (excerpt)
Saint John Bosco, born Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, and known in English as Don Bosco (August 16, 1815 – January 31, 1888), was an Italian Catholic priest, and recognized educator, who put into practice the dogma of his religion, employing teaching methods based on love rather than punishment. ![]()
Biography of Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (excerpt)
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (21 August 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 19 August 1856) was a French chemist. Biography He was born in Strasbourg, where he attended the gymnasium. He then studied at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where Friedrich Walchner's lectures first attracted his interest to chemistry. ![]()
Biography of Zénaïde Fleuriot (excerpt)
Zénaïde-Marie-Anne Fleuriot (born in Saint-Brieuc (source not archived), 28 October 1829; died in Paris, 18 December 1890) was a French novelist. Life She published her first novel, Les souvenirs d'une douairière, in 1859, and its success led her to adopt the literary profession. ![]()
Biography of Georg Büchner (excerpt)
Karl Georg Büchner (October 17, 1813 – February 19, 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Georg Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death, he might have attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.
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Biography of Frédérick Lemaitre (excerpt)
Frédérick Lemaître, (July 28, 1800 - January 26, 1876) was a French actor and playwright. The son of an architect, he was born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime but adopted the first name Frédérick as a stage name. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Russell Wallace (excerpt)
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. ![]()
Biography of Charles Leconte de Lisle (excerpt)
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle ( 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle. Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. ![]()
Biography of Paul Arène (excerpt)
Paul-Auguste Arène, born 26 June 1843 in Arezzo in Italy and died 17 December 1896 in Antibes, was a Provençal poet and French writer. The son of Adolphe, a clockmaker, and Reine, a cap presser, he studied in Marseille, then in Vannes.
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Biography of Fromental Halévy (excerpt)
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (pronounced ) (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive. Early career Halévy was born in Paris as Elias Levy, the son of a cantor, Élie Halfon Halévy, who was the secretary of the Jewish community of Paris, a writer and a teacher of Hebrew, and a French Jewish mother. ![]()
Biography of Hector Malot (excerpt)
Hector Malot (May 20, 1830 - July 17, 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, close to Rouen. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale. ![]()
Biography of James Young Simpson (excerpt)
Sir James Young Simpson (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish doctor and an important figure in the history of medicine. Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use. Early life James Simpson was born in Bathgate, West Lothian the youngest of eight children, Thomas, John, Alexander, David, George (died young), George and a sister Mary. ![]()
Biography of André Hubert Dumont (excerpt)
André Hubert Dumont (February 15, 1809–February 28, 1857) was a Belgian geologist. Dumont was born at Liège. His first work was a masterly Mémoire on the geology of the province of Liege published in 1832. A few years later he became professor of mineralogy and geology and afterwards rector in the University of Liege.
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Biography of Benoît-Constant Coquelin (excerpt)
Benoît-Constant Coquelin (23 January 1841 – 27 January 1909), known as Coquelin aîné, was a French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Biography Coquelin was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais. He was originally intended to follow his father's trade of baker (he was once called "un boulanger manqué" by a hostile critic), but his love of acting led him to the Conservatoire, where he entered Régnier's class in 1859. ![]()
Biography of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. ![]()
Biography of Emile Claus (excerpt)
Emile Claus (September 27, 1849–June 14, 1924) was a Belgian painter. Emile Claus was born on September 27, 1849 inLendelede . Later he studied at the Academy of Antwerp. Under the influence of Claude Monet, he developed a style that has been characterized as luminism.
Biography of Frans de Cort (excerpt)
Frans Jozef de Cort (Antwerp, 21 June 1834- Elsene, 18 January 1878) was a Flemish writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Dumas Fils (excerpt)
Alexandre Dumas, fils (French for son, similar to Junior in English) (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his father's footsteps becoming a celebrated writer, author and playwright. Alexandre Dumas, fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794 – 1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. ![]()
Biography of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (excerpt)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (December 23, 1804 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – October 13, 1869 in Paris) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824-27). ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Feuerbach (excerpt)
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. Education Feuerbach matriculated in the University of Heidelberg with the intention of pursuing a career in the Church. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Azam (excerpt)
Étienne Eugène Azam (1822 (source not archived – 1899) was a French surgeon from Bordeaux who is chiefly remembered for his work in psychology, particularly a case involving a female patient he named "Félida X" who seemed to have "alternating personalities", or what Azam referred to as doublement de la vie. |
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