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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 Karl von Piloty (excerpt)
Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 – 21 July 1886) was a German painter. Von Piloty was born in Munich. His father, Ferdinand Piloty (d. 1844), enjoyed a great reputation as a lithographer. In 1840 he was admitted as a student of the Munich Academy, under the artists Schorn and Schnorr.
Biography of Jacques Charles Bresse (excerpt)
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (Vienne, France, October 9, 1822 – May 22, 1883) was a French civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of hydraulic motors. His name, along with 72 others, is engraved underneath the first balcony on the Eiffel Tower for his contributions to the field of civil engineering.
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Biography of Auguste Beernaert (excerpt)
Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the 14th Prime Minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894. Born in Ostend, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1873, and became Minister of Public Works under Jules Malou, greatly improving the rail, canal and road systems.
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Biography of Zulma Bouffar (excerpt)
Zulma Madeleine Boufflar, known as Zulma Bouffar, born Nérac 23 May 1843, died Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames 20 January 1909, was a French actress and soprano singer, associated with the opéra-bouffe of Paris in the second half of the 19th century who enjoyed a successful career around Europe. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Drumont (excerpt)
Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer. He founded the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder and editor of the newspaper La Libre Parole. Early life Drumont was born in Paris on 3 May 1844 to a family of porcelain-painters from Lille. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (excerpt)
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (b. Mechelen, Belgium, December 19, 1809; d. Leuven January 8, 1894) was a zoologist and paleontologist. He studied medicine at the University of Louvain, and studied zoology in Paris under Georges Cuvier (1769–1832). In 1831 he became curator at the natural history museum in Leuven, and from 1836 until 1894 was a professor of zoology at the Catholic University in that city.
Biography of Sri Sumangala (excerpt)
Sri Sumangala, born on January 20, 1827 in Hikkaduwa, Galle, Ceylon, died on April 29, 1911, was an Indonesian high priest.
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Biography of Ferdinand Brunetiere (excerpt)
Ferdinand Brunetière (18 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic. Biography Early years Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the outbreak of war in 1870 prevented him trying again.
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Biography of Hippolyte Langlois (excerpt)
Hippolyte Langlois (3 August 1839 - 12 February 1912) was a French general noted for his writings on military science. He was born at Besançon, Doubs, and, after passing through the École polytechnique, was appointed to the artillery as sub-lieutenant in 1858, attaining the rank of captain in 1866.
Biography of Henri Delafond (excerpt)
Henri Delafond, born on February 13, 1805 in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Bourgogne (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin), died on November 15, 1861, was a French veterinary physician and pathologist. ![]()
Biography of Georges Darboy (excerpt)
Georges Darboy (16 January 1813 - 27 May 1871) was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown.
Biography of Heinrich Matthias Zopfl (excerpt)
Heinrich Matthias Zopfl, born April 6, 1807 in Bamberg and died July 4, 1877, was a German writer, professor of constitutional law and politician.
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Biography of Louis Veuillot (excerpt)
Louis Veuillot (October 11, 1813–March 7, 1883) was a French journalist and man of letters who is often credited with playing a decisive role in the popularisation of ultramontanism. He was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret). When he was five, his parents moved to Paris.
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Biography of Raoul Ponchon (excerpt)
Raoul Ponchon, born December 30, 1848 in Napoléon-Vendée (now La Roche-sur-Yon), died December 3, 1937 in Paris, was a French writer, poet, and painter. Selected works * La Muse au cabaret, Fasquelle 1920, publié de son vivant. Réédition chez Cyral en 1925 (600 ex.
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Biography of Francisque Sarcey (excerpt)
Francisque Sarcey (October 8, 1827 – May 16, 1899) was a French journalist and dramatic critic. He was born in Dourdan, Seine-et-Oise. After some years as schoolmaster, a job for which his temperament was ill-fitted, he entered journalism in 1858. He contributed to Le Figaro, L'Illustration, Le Gaulois, Le XIX' Siècle and other periodicals; but his main interest was dramatic criticism, of which he had his first experience in L'Opinion nationale in 1859. ![]()
Biography of Fernand Foureau (excerpt)
Fernand Foureau, born October 17, 1950 in Saint-Barbant (Haute-Vienne) and died in 1914, was a French engineer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions across the Sahara.
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Biography of Jules Champfleury (excerpt)
Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Setepmber 17, 1820 Laon - 1889 Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris. He met Charles Baudelaire and the next year started writing art criticism under the pen-name "Champfleury" for the journal L’Artiste. ![]()
Biography of Ouida (excerpt)
Ouida (January 1, 1839 – January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). Biography Ramé was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, to a French father and an English mother.
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Biography of Emile Augier (excerpt)
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme, the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in spirit as well as by birth. ![]()
Biography of Louis Martin (excerpt)
Louis and Zélie Martin are the parents of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun who was canonized a saint and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church, one of only three women to receive that honor. She is also known as The Little Flower of Jesus. ![]()
Biography of Emile Boutroux (excerpt)
Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (July 28, 1845 - November 22, 1921) was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of Science and Religion, and an historian of Philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritual philosopher who defended the idea that religion and science are compatible at a time when the power of science was rising inexorably. ![]()
Biography of Karl Alfred von Zittel (excerpt)
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (September 25, 1839 - January 5, 1904), German palaeontologist, was born at Bahlingen in Baden. He was educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Vaillant (excerpt)
Marie Édouard Vaillant (29 January 1840–18 December 1915) was a French politician. Born in in Vierzon, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then law at the Sorbonne. In Paris he knew Charles Longuet, Louis-Auguste Rogeard, and Jules Vallès.
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Biography of Louis Lepine (excerpt)
Louis Jean-Baptiste Lépine, born August 6, 1846 in Lyon and died November 10, 1933 in Paris, was an eminent lawyer, politician and inventor who was Prefect of Police (Préfet de Police) for Paris from 1893 to 1897 and again from 1899 to 1913.
Biography of Philip Bourke Marston (excerpt)
Philip Bourke Marston (13 August 1850 – 13 February 1887) was an English poet. He was born in London. His father, John Westland Marston (1819-1890), wrote verse dramas, and was a friend of Dickens, Macready and Charles Kean. Philip's godparents were Philip James Bailey and Dinah Mulock.
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Biography of Ned Buntline (excerpt)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886), known by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer. Later work and death Buntline continued to write dime novels, but none was as successful as his earlier work.
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Biography of Jules Janin (excerpt)
Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 - 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Biography Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He involved himself in journalism from an early date, and worked on the Figaro and the Quotidienne, among others, until in 1830 he became dramatic critic of the Journal des Débats. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Charles Cazin (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Cazin (May 25, 1841 – March 17, 1901), French landscape painter and ceramicist, son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788-1864), was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art After studying in France, he went to England, where he was strongly influenced by the pre-Raphaelite movement.
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Biography of Constantin Meunier (excerpt)
Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905), Belgian painter and sculptor, was born in Etterbeek, Brussels. His first exhibit was a plaster sketch, "The Garland," shown at the Brussels Salon in 1851. Soon afterwards, on the advice of the painter Charles de Groux, he abandoned the chisel for the brush. ![]()
Biography of Alexander Smith (poet) (excerpt)
Alexander Smith (31 December 1829 (source: Lescaut)- 5 January 1867, 8 January according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School. Life and works He was born in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the Scottish Lowlands south-west of Glasgow, the first of several children.
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Biography of Isaac Pitman (excerpt)
Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 12 January 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge.
Biography of Raphael V (excerpt)
Raphael V, born Sparks on July 17, 1820 in London, was a British professional astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Adolph Kolping (excerpt)
Adolph Kolping (December 8, 1813 in Kerpen — December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest. Life Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest. ![]()
Biography of Jacob Burckhardt (excerpt)
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland – August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (excerpt)
French politician, mayor of the second district of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Emile Blanche (excerpt)
(Antoine) Émile Blanche born in Paris on October 1, 1820 and died in Paris on August 15, 1893, is a French alienist (a doctor specializing in the treatment of the insane). He was born in the nursing home that his father Esprit Blanche (1796-1852), himself an alienist, directed.
Biography of Paul-Louis Grolleron (excerpt)
Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron, born on June 14, 1848 in Seignelay, died in 1901, was a French artist and painter.
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Biography of George Dewey (excerpt)
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 – January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of heat stroke) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
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Biography of Charles Paul Renouard (excerpt)
Charles Paul Renouard, born in Cour-Cheverny November 5, 1845 (source not archived), died in Paris January 2, 1924, was a French engravor, artist, painter and drawer. He was a member of Société des artistes Français and Société Nationale des Beaux-arts. Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, born November 9, 1821 in Guebwiller, died May 20, 1910 in Trottberg bei Gebweiler, was a French musician, composer and editor.
Biography of David Younger (excerpt)
David Younger, born October 21, 1828 in Ecclefechan, died in 1905, was a Scottish botanist, physician and writer. ![]()
Biography of Charles Francis Adams Jr. (excerpt)
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27, 1835 – May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Mallard (excerpt)
Ernest-François Mallard (February 4, 1833 in Châteauneuf-sur-Cher - July 6, 1894 in Paris) was a French mineralogist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. ![]()
Biography of Paul-Albert Besnard (excerpt)
Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He won the Prix de Rome in 1874 with the painting Death of Timophanes
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Biography of Henri de Bornier (excerpt)
Henri, vicomte de Bornier (24 December 1825 in Lunel (source: Gauquelin Vol. 6/122) – January 1901) was a French poet and dramatist, born in Lunel (Hérault). He came to Paris in 1845 with the object of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comédie-Française accepted a play of his entitled Le Manage de Luther. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Colonne (excerpt)
Édouard Juda Colonne (23 July 1838 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 28 March 1910) was a French conductor and violinist. Born in Bordeaux, Colonne studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, where he won first prizes in both harmony and violin. For almost a decade (1858-67) he was first violinist at the Opéra in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Felipe Pedrell (excerpt)
Felip Pedrell (Spanish: Felipe)(19 February 1841, Tortosa – 19 August 1922, Barcelona), was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain.
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Biography of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (excerpt)
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
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Biography of Paolo Boselli (excerpt)
Paolo Boselli (June 8, 1838 (birth time source: Lescaut) – March 10, 1932) was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I. Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria. In June 1916 he was a relatively undistinguished center-right politician and one the oldest members of the Italian parliament, when he was appointed Prime Minister, following the collapse of the Salandra government as a result of military defeats.
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Biography of Benedetto Cairoli (excerpt)
Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian statesman. Biography Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament. |
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