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birth charts with Vulcanus in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Vulcanus in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Jan van Zutphen (excerpt)
Johannes Andries "Jan" van Zutphen (October 8, 1863 – June 7, 1958) was a Dutch trade unionist and co-founder of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium, known for defending workers' rights and fighting tuberculosis. Coming from a modest background, he first worked as a carpenter and diamond cutter before joining the socialist movement.
Biography of Charles Murray (poet) (excerpt)
Charles Murray, born on September 28, 1864, and passing away on April 12, 1941, was a Scottish poet renowned for writing in the Doric dialect of Scots. Much of his poetry was penned during his time in South Africa, where he worked as a civil engineer.
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.
Biography of Antonio Irineo Villarreal (excerpt)
Antonio Irineo Villarreal González (July 16, 1877 in Lampazos, Mexico – December 16, 1944 in Mexico City) was a Mexican politician and soldier.Opposed to Porfirio Díaz’s dictatorship from 1903, he published liberal magazines and was imprisoned.After his release, he fled to the U.S.
Biography of Mary Kid (excerpt)
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 3 February 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Biography of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (excerpt)
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar.He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years.
Biography of Helene Stöcker (excerpt)
Helene Stöcker (13 November 1869 – 24 February 1943) was a German feminist, pacifist, journalist, author, and gender activist.She successfully campaigned to keep same sex relationships between women legal, but she was unsuccessful in her campaign to legalise abortion.She was a pacifist in Germany and joined the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft.
Biography of Yvonne Pagniez (excerpt)
Yvonne Pagniez, born on August 10, 1896, in Cauroir, was a French journalist, award-winning writer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.She studied Philosophy and served as a nurse during World War I. Her family experienced occupation and separation during the war; her father was arrested as a spy but escaped.
Biography of Hermann Abert (excerpt)
Hermann Abert (25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the Hofkapellmeister of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical philology at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig.
Biography of Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio.
Biography of Nunzio Filogamo (excerpt)
Nunzio Filogamo (20 September 1902 – 24 January 2002) was an Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer. Life and career Born in Palermo, Filogamo moved to Turin at a young age, then he studied law at the Sorbonne University and at the Turin University, where he graduated.
Biography of Tarjei Vesaas (excerpt)
Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 - 15 March 1970) was a renowned Norwegian poet and novelist, considered one of Norway’s most significant 20th-century writers. Born in Vinje, Telemark, to farmer Olav Vesaas and teacher Signe Øygarden, he experienced guilt over not taking over the family farm, a theme reflected in his works.
Biography of Thekla Resvoll (excerpt)
Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll (22 May 1871 – 14 June 1948) was a Norwegian botanist and educator.A pioneer in Norwegian natural history education and nature conservation, she worked closely with her sister, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen. Resvoll was born in Vågå, Oppland, Norway.She initially worked as a nurse in Stockholm before studying natural history at the Royal Frederick University in Kristiania in 1894.
Biography of Philipp Jarnach (excerpt)
Philipp Jarnach, born on July 26, 1892, in Noisy-le-Sec, France, and died on December 17, 1982, in Börnsen, was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor. The son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother, he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zurich during World War I.
Biography of Carlo Ninchi (excerpt)
Carlo Ninchi (Bologna, May 31, 1896 – Milan, April 27, 1974) was a prominent Italian actor. The youngest of five children of Arnaldo Ninchi and Lidia Bedetti, he began his career in his brother Annibale’s troupe, debuting as Pilade in L'Oreste by Alfieri.
Biography of Blanche Edwards-Pilliet (excerpt)
Blanche Edwards-Pilliet (24 November 1858 – 10 January 1941) was a French physician, medical teacher, and social reformer advocating for women.She was one of the first women to intern at a Parisian hospital. Educated at home by her father, she entered the Paris faculty of medicine at 19.
Biography of Heinrich Eduard Jacob (excerpt)
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.Born to a Jewish family in Berlin and raised partly in Vienna, Jacob worked for two decades as a journalist and biographer before the rise to power of the Nazi Party.
Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
Biography of Otto Leiber (excerpt)
Otto Leiber, born on May 11, 1878, in Strasbourg and died on January 27, 1958, in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, and sculptor. He created landscapes and portraits, both engraved and painted, and sculpted several busts of notable figures, including a 1929 bust of Albert Schweitzer, which helped establish his artistic reputation.
Biography of Giovanni Minzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Minzoni (1 July 1885 – 23 August 1923) was an Italian Catholic priest and anti-fascist, murdered by fascists in 1923. Ordained in 1909, he served as a military chaplain during World War I and was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor.
Biography of Mentona Moser (excerpt)
Mentona Moser (19 October 1874 – 10 April 1971) was a Swiss social worker, communist functionary and writer. Born into wealth, she disapproved of high society, and became involved in philanthropic work, helping to launch the Swiss Communist Party and one of the first birth control clinics in Zürich.
Biography of Käthe Schirmacher (excerpt)
Käthe Schirmacher, born on August 6, 1865, in Danzig (now Gdańsk), was a German writer, journalist, and political activist, notable as a leading advocate for women's rights in the 1890s. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Schirmacher lost her family fortune early and became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in Romance studies.
Biography of Louis Kahn (architect) (excerpt)
Louis Isadore Kahn, born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky on March 5 (O.S. February 20), 1901, in Kuressaare, Estonia, and died March 17, 1974, in New York City, was an influential Estonian-American architect based in Philadelphia. He opened his own studio in 1935 after working with several firms.
Biography of Henri Borel (excerpt)
Henri Jean François Borel (* November 23, 1869, in Dordrecht; † August 31, 1933, in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. Life Henri Borel studied Chinese language and literature in Leiden and Amoy.In 1894, he became a Chinese interpreter in the Dutch East Indies, took a leave of absence in 1899, and then settled in The Hague.
Biography of Gertrud von Le Fort (excerpt)
Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort, born on October 11, 1876, in Minden, was a German writer. The daughter of a Prussian colonel, she studied at Heidelberg, Marburg, and Berlin, and settled in Bavaria in 1918. Her literary career began in earnest in 1925 when she edited a posthumous work by her mentor, Ernst Troeltsch.
Biography of William McCance (excerpt)
William McCance (6 August 1894 – 19 November 1970) was a Scottish artist, and was second Controller of the Gregynog Press in Powys, mid-Wales. William McCance was the seventh of eight children. After attending Hamilton Academy, McCance entered Glasgow School of Art, studying there 1911–15 and subsequently undertaking a teacher-training course at Glasgow's Kennedy Street school.
Biography of Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer (excerpt)
Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer, born in Barcelona on January 20, 1888, and died in Mexico City on December 24, 1961, was a historian, journalist, and Catalanist Spanish politician. Initially a councilor for the municipality of his hometown, he later became a deputy in the Spanish Congress and served as Minister of Economy during the Second Republic (1933).
Biography of Constantin Oddo (excerpt)
Paul Marie Constantin Oddo, born on June 6, 1860, and died on June 21, 1926, in Marseille, was a French physician and professor at the Marseille School of Medicine, and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine. The son of a broker and grandson of Auguste Laforêt, he spent his career at the Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille, where he became an intern in 1881.
Biography of Robert Jacquinot de Besange (excerpt)
Robert Jacquinot de Besange, whose Chinese name is 饶家驹 Rao Jia-ju, was born on March 15, 1878, in Saintes, Charente-Maritime (France), and passed away on September 10, 1946, in Berlin (Germany) at the age of 68. He was a French Jesuit priest, a missionary in China, and a professor of science at the Aurore University in Shanghai.
Biography of William Bridges (general) (excerpt)
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff.
Biography of Elisabeth Zernike (excerpt)
Elisabeth Zernike (July 8, 1891 – March 12, 1982) was a Dutch writer. She was the sister of Anne Zernike and Frits Zernike. Her father was a school principal and pedagogue, and her mother was a teacher. She attended the girls’ HBS (secondary school) in Amsterdam and later the School of Music for Sound Art before pursuing writing.
Biography of Walter Czollek (excerpt)
Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 – 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt from 1954 to 1972. Born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, into a Jewish family, he trained in textile production and studied applied economics.
Biography of Maurice Fernez (excerpt)
Maurice Fernez, born on August 30, 1885, and died on January 31, 1952, in Alfortville, was a French inventor and a pioneer in underwater breathing and gas masks. His innovative inventions helped transform scuba diving, evolving it from the "heavy-foot" diving suit to the self-contained diving suit during the first half of the 20th century.
Biography of Willem van Konijnenburg (excerpt)
Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg (The Hague, February 11, 1868 – The Hague, February 28, 1943) was a Dutch visual artist. During the interwar period (1919-1939), he was, alongside Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters, one of the national figureheads of modern Dutch art.
Biography of Mariano Azuela (excerpt)
Mariano Azuela (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican physician and writer, known as the first major novelist of the Mexican Revolution.His socially committed novels influenced generations of protest writers. He began publishing in the 1890s and wrote early novels about fate and society under Porfirio Díaz.
Biography of Émile Decré (excerpt)
Émile Decré (28 July 1897 – 17 February 1973) was a French businessman and heir to the Decré department stores, founded by his grandfather Jules-César Decré.During World War I, he helped manage the family business alongside his brother. In 1930, he oversaw the renovation of the stores with architect Henri Sauvage and founded the Nantes chapter of the Christian Employers’ Confederation.
Biography of Hans Jantzen (excerpt)
Hans Jantzen (26 April 1881 – 15 February 1967) was a German art historian specializing in Medieval art. Initially studying law, he later turned to art history, archaeology, and philosophy, studying under Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin and Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle. He earned his PhD in 1908 with a dissertation on architecture in Netherlandish paintings.
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.
Biography of Georges Barbier (illustrator) (excerpt)
Georges Barbier, born in Nantes on October 16, 1882, and died in Paris on March 16, 1932, was a French painter, fashion illustrator, and designer.He also worked under the pseudonym Edward W.Larry. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, he began exhibiting in 1910 under this pseudonym.
Biography of David Garnett (excerpt)
David Garnett (March 9, 1892 – February 17, 1981) was a British writer and publisher, a member of the Bloomsbury Group.He gained literary fame with Lady into Fox, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1923.
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.
Biography of Caesar Rudolf Boettger (excerpt)
Caesar Rudolf Boettger (20 May 1888 – 8 September 1976) was a German zoologist from Frankfurt am Main, specializing in malacology. He earned his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1912 and conducted expeditions in Africa and the Orient. During WWI, he served in France and Turkey.
Biography of Isaac Puente (excerpt)
Isaac Puente Amestoy (3 June 1896 – 1 September 1936), born in Las Carreras near Biscay, was a Basque physician and Spanish anarchist of a strong anarchist communist bent, who adhered to concerns around birth control, hygiene and sexuality. He promoted anarcho-naturism, and was active in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).
Biography of Félix d'Hérelle (excerpt)
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist and co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).He experimented with phage therapy and contributed significantly to applied microbiology. Self-taught, d'Hérelle discovered in 1917 that an "invisible antagonist" (bacteriophage) could kill bacteria, which he confirmed through dilution experiments.
Biography of José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
Biography of Irina Paley (excerpt)
Irina Pavlovna Romanova, Princess Paley (December 21, 1903 – November 15, 1990), was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Romanov and his second wife, Olga Valerianovna von Pistohlkors. Early Life: Irina was born in Paris as her parents were exiled for marrying without Tsar Nicholas II's permission.
Biography of Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
Biography of Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
Biography of Bettiola Heloise Fortson (excerpt)
Bettiola Heloise Fortson (December 29, 1890 – April 13, 1917) was an African-American poet, essayist, activist, and suffragist. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she moved to Chicago at age 12. Fortson co-founded the University Society of Chicago, promoting artistic and intellectual development among African Americans. |
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