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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 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 Stefan Lorant (excerpt)
Stefan Lorant (22 February 1901 - 14 November 1997) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.Born in Budapest, he moved to Germany and gained fame in filmmaking and photojournalism. He opposed Hitler and was imprisoned in 1933 but later moved to England and then the U.S.
Biography of David Alfaro Siqueiros (excerpt)
David Alfaro Siqueiros, born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros on December 29, 1896, and died January 6, 1974, was a major Mexican muralist, known for his innovative large-scale public artworks. He stood alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco as one of the most iconic figures of the Mexican muralism movement.
Biography of Hildebrand Gurlitt (excerpt)
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art". A Nazi-associated art dealer and war profiteer, during the Nazi era Gurlitt traded in "degenerate art", purchasing paintings in Nazi-occupied France, many of them stolen, for Hitler's planned Führermuseum (which was never built) and for himself.
Biography of Albert Carré (actor) (excerpt)
Albert Carré was a French actor, director, playwright, librettist, and theater manager, born on June 22, 1852, in Strasbourg and died on December 11, 1938, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The nephew of playwright and librettist Michel Carré (1821–1872), he was married to the soprano Marguerite Carré, née Giraud (1880–1947), first cousin of Paul Vaillant-Couturier.
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 Bernhard Weiss (police executive) (excerpt)
Bernhard Weiss (30 July 1880 – 29 July 1951) was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic. Known for defending parliamentary democracy against extremists, Weiss was born in Berlin into a prominent Jewish family. He served as Deputy Chief of the Berlin Criminal Police and later became Vice President of the entire Berlin police force.
Biography of Erwin Piscator (excerpt)
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.
Biography of Émile Mayrisch (excerpt)
Albert Jacob Émile Mayrisch (born 10 November 1862 in Eich, Luxembourg – died 5 March 1928 in Châlons-sur-Marne, France) was a Luxembourgish industrialist and businessman. He served as chairman of the board of Arbed. Wikipedia has 10 October in error. From a family of doctors and ironmasters, he was the son of Édouard Mayrisch, a court physician, and Mathilde Metz.
Biography of Erich Brauer (excerpt)
Erich Brauer (28 June 1895, in Berlin – 9 May 1942, in Petah Tikvah) was a German Jewish illustrator, ethnographer, and ethnologist.As an artist he chose to be known as Erich Chiram Brauer.He often signed his art work "Chiram".
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 Alfred Lichtenstein (writer) (excerpt)
Alfred Lichtenstein (August 23, 1889 – September 25, 1914) was a German Expressionist writer, born in Wilmersdorf, a district of Berlin. The eldest son of a textile industrialist, he studied law in Berlin and at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg after completing his Abitur in 1909.
Biography of Giuseppe Gola (botanist) (excerpt)
Giuseppe Gola (Novara, February 26, 1877 – Padua, July 25, 1956) was an Italian botanist. After earning a medical degree from the University of Turin in 1900, he developed a passion for botany and obtained a degree in natural sciences in 1902.
Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic.He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Dolors Aleu i Riera (excerpt)
Dolores Aleu Riera (April 7, 1857, in Barcelona – February 19, 1913) was a Spanish medical doctor.She was the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree. An only child, she began reading at age 5 and studied at the University of Barcelona, earning her undergraduate degree in 1874.
Biography of Laureto Tieri (excerpt)
Laureto Tieri (born February 24, 1879, in Bolognano, and died 1952 in Florence) was an Italian physicist. He graduated in physics from the University of Rome in 1903, where he worked as an assistant to Pietro Blaserna and was a lecturer in experimental physics.
Biography of Eric Hoffer (excerpt)
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an Atheist American philosopher and social critic.A conservative moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer authored ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983.
Biography of Ramiro Prialé (excerpt)
Ramiro Abelardo Prialé Prialé (January 6, 1904 – February 27, 1988) was a Peruvian politician.A member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, he was a friend of Víctor Raúl Haya De La Torre. He served as the President of the Senate from July 1964 to July 1965, and from July 1987 until his death.
Biography of Marcelle Lender (excerpt)
Marcelle Lender, born Anne Marie Bastien in Nancy on September 17, 1861, and deceased in Paris on September 27, 1926, was a French singer and actress renowned for being immortalized by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in several of his works. Theater She began her career at the Théâtre des Batignolles, where she landed her first role on the very day she met the director, staying there for seven years.
Biography of Bernardus Arps (excerpt)
Bernardus Arps was a Dutch painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and especially his still lifes. Born in Culemborg September 1, 1865, he was the son of a printer and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Polytechnic School in Delft.
Biography of Gipsy Smith (excerpt)
Rodney "Gipsy" Smith MBE (31 March 1860 – 4 August 1947) was a British evangelist who conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Great Britain for over 70 years. He was an early member of The Salvation Army and a contemporary of Fanny Crosby and acquaintance of G.
Biography of Jules Destrée (excerpt)
Jules Destrée (Charleroi, 21 August 1863 – Brussels, 3 January 1936) was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician.The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 determined his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. He wrote a Letter to the King in 1912, which is seen as the founding declaration of the Walloon movement.
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 Miguel Zacarías (excerpt)
Miguel Zacarías Nogaim (March 19, 1905 – April 20, 2006) was a Mexican film director, producer, and writer. He began his directing career in 1933 and was known for discovering new acting talent, helping launch the careers of Pedro Infante, Cantinflas, and María Félix, among others.
Biography of Gus Bofa (excerpt)
Gus Bofa, born Charles Blanchot on May 23, 1883, in Brive-la-Gaillarde and died on September 1, 1968, was a French illustrator known for his work in satirical press and luxury illustrated books. The son of a military officer, he grew up in Bordeaux and Paris, where he met lifelong friends André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Maurice Constantin-Weyer.
Biography of Jan Campert (excerpt)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
Biography of Louis de Vries (actor) (excerpt)
Louis de Vries, born Levi de Vries, (Amsterdam, October 18, 1871 - Nice, March 10, 1940) was a Dutch actor. De Vries came from a background of Jewish diamond workers.His parents were Samuel de Vries and Saartje Philip Peper, both of whom were deaf-mute.
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 Henriette Hardenberg (excerpt)
Henriette Hardenberg (born Margarete Rosenberg, February 5, 1894 – October 26, 1993) was a German-Jewish poet who emigrated to Britain in the late 1930s. In the 1910s, she was part of the literary Expressionist circle around the magazine Die Aktion. Her poetry often examined the relationship between people and their bodies, especially the skin as an interface between self and world.
Biography of Alfred de Waart (excerpt)
Alfred de Waart, born on October 12, 1888, in The Hague and passed away on April 6, 1981, in Voorburg, was a Dutch professor of physiology. He graduated in medicine from Leiden University under Willem Einthoven, working as his assistant before serving as a ship doctor and working in Constantinople.
Biography of André Lalande (philosopher) (excerpt)
Pierre André Lalande (July 19, 1867 – November 15, 1963) was a French philosopher known for his work in logic and methodology of science. He ranked first in the philosophy agrégation in 1888 and taught at several prestigious high schools before becoming a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1906.
Biography of Francesco Valagussa (excerpt)
Francesco Valagussa, born on August 2, 1872, in Pistoia and died on May 24, 1950, in Rome, was an Italian pediatrician and politician. Graduating in 1897, he became a professor of pediatrics in 1902 and served as the chief assistant at the pediatric clinic in Rome for twelve years.
Biography of Anatole Chauffard (excerpt)
Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard (* 22 August 1855 in Avignon; † 1 November 1932 in Paris) was an internationally renowned French physician, professor of clinical medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Biography of Auguste Champetier de Ribes (excerpt)
Jean Jules Marie Auguste Champetier de Ribes, born on July 30, 1882, in Antony and died on March 6, 1947, in Paris, was a French statesman. He served as a minister under the Third Republic and president of the Council of the Republic under the Fourth Republic.
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 Oskar Maria Graf (excerpt)
Oskar Maria Graf (July 22, 1894 – June 28, 1967) was a German-American writer known for his autobiographical narratives about life in Bavaria. Born in Berg, Bavaria, Graf fled his family in 1911 to live in Munich’s bohemian circles.During World War I, he was discharged after refusing orders and being institutionalized.
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 Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
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.
Biography of Josette Andriot (excerpt)
Camille Élisa Andriot, known as Josette Andriot (23 August 1886 – 13 May 1942), was a French actress from the silent film era of the 1910s. Without theatrical training, she began her career in 1909 at Laboratoires Éclair, standing out as an actress thanks to her athletic skills (swimming, cycling, horse riding).
Biography of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (excerpt)
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (July 6, 1888 – February 24, 1973) was a historian and social philosopher whose work encompassed history, theology, sociology, and linguistics. Born in Berlin to a non-observant Jewish family, he converted to Christianity in his late teens, which deeply influenced his writings.
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 Johnston McCulley (excerpt)
John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, McCulley graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1901.
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 Antonio Paoli (excerpt)
Antonio Paoli, full name Antonio Emilio Paoli y Marcano (born April 14, 1871, in Ponce; died August 24, 1946, in San Juan), was a Puerto Rican tenor. Nicknamed "the king of tenors," he was the first Puerto Rican to achieve international fame in the arts.
Biography of Betty Smith (novelist) (excerpt)
Betty Smith, born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, in New York, and died on January 17, 1972, in Shelton, Connecticut, was an American writer best known for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). Born to German immigrant parents, she grew up in poverty in Brooklyn, developing a love for literature through her local library.
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 Georg Heym (excerpt)
Georg Theodor Franz Artur Heym (30 October 1887 – 16 January 1912) was a German writer, best known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism. Born in Hirschberg, Silesia, he often clashed with social conventions, leaving his Wilhelmian middle-class parents baffled.In 1900, the family moved to Berlin, where Heym attended various schools unsuccessfully before enrolling at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin. |
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