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Horoscopes 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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Jane Poupelet (excerpt)
Jane Poupelet (born 19 April 1874 in Clauzure, a hamlet in Saint-Paul-Lizonne, Dordogne, and died 17 October 1932 in Talence, Gironde) was a French sculptor and illustrator. She also excelled in animal sculpture and created female nudes. Artistic Technique To create her unique works, Jane Poupelet developed her own technique: she first shaped a piece in clay, then cast it in plaster.
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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.
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Biography of Julius Curtius (excerpt)
Julius Curtius (born February 11, 1877, in Duisburg and died November 10, 1948, in Heidelberg) was a German politician. A member of the German People's Party (DVP), he served as Minister of Economy (1926–1929) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1929–1931). From a family of industrialists, he studied law in Bonn, Kiel, and Strasbourg, earning his doctorate in 1900.
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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.
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Biography of Albert Weisgerber (excerpt)
Albert Weisgerber (April 21, 1878 – May 10, 1915) was a German painter and wood engraver who created over 400 modern art works despite his early death. Born in St. Ingbert, he discovered his talent for drawing during school, encouraged by his parents.
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Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
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Biography of Maxime Dethomas (excerpt)
Maxime Dethomas (born October 13, 1867, in Garges – died January 21, 1929, in Paris) was a French draftsman, painter, engraver, and set designer. Coming from an influential family, he frequented Parisian literary and artistic circles, particularly the salon of Augustine Bulteau, where he mingled with figures like Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de Régnier, and Gabriel Fauré.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Marguerite Carré (soprano) (excerpt)
Marguerite Carré (born Marguerite Giraud, also known as Marguerite Giraud-Carré; Cabourg, August 16, 1880 - Paris 9th arrondissement, November 26, 1947) was a French soprano who, throughout her career, created numerous roles at the Opéra-Comique. She was the daughter of baritone and theater director Auguste Louis Giraud and the niece of Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier.
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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 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 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (excerpt)
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento.
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Biography of Théo van Rysselberghe (excerpt)
Théo (Théophile) van Rysselberghe (Ghent, November 23, 1862 – Le Lavandou, December 14, 1926) was a Flemish Neo-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and designer. He played a pivotal role in the European art world at the end of the 19th century. In 1883, he was one of the founders of the avant-garde group Les XX (The Twenty). ![]()
Biography of Séverin (mime artist) (excerpt)
Séverin Cafferra, known as Séverin or mime Séverin (19 May 1863 - 10 June 1930), was one of the best-known French Pierrots or mime artists around the turn of the twentieth century. Life Caffera was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He studied under the Marseille mime Louis Rouffe (1849-1885), who in turn had studied under Charles Deburau.
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Biography of Kurt Hiller (excerpt)
Kurt Hiller (born August 17, 1885, Berlin – died October 1, 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, expressionist poet, and pacifist journalist. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he was a communist inspired by Kant and Schopenhauer, though he rejected Hegel, which alienated him from Marxists.
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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.
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Biography of Henry Malherbe (excerpt)
Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe, known as Henry Malherbe or Henry Croisilles, was a French writer, born on February 4, 1886, in Bucharest and died on March 17, 1958, in Paris. A journalist for Le Temps and co-director of La Revue des vivants, he won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 for La flamme au poing, a poetic account of World War I.
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Biography of Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Biography of Henry H. Arnold (excerpt)
Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force, the only officer to achieve five-star rank in two U.S. military branches.
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Biography of Catharine van Tussenbroek (excerpt)
Albertina Philippina Catharina van Tussenbroek (Utrecht, August 4, 1852 – Amsterdam, May 5, 1925) was a Dutch physician and feminist, a pioneer of women's emancipation alongside Aletta Jacobs. She was the first female gynecologist in the Netherlands. Born into a modest family, she initially trained as a teacher before enrolling in Utrecht University in 1880 to study medicine.
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Biography of Luigi Cacciatore (excerpt)
Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the minister of posts and communications in 1947. He was a member and one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party. Cacciatore was born in Mercato San Severino, near Salerno, on 26 July 1900.
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Biography of Mary Gilmore (excerpt)
Dame Mary Gilmore (August 16, 1865 – December 3, 1962) was an Australian writer and journalist, a key figure in national literature. Her approximate time of birth comes from her own words: "I was born in the afternoon." Born in New South Wales, she became a teacher at 16 before moving to Sydney, where she joined the labor movement and radical nationalism.
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Biography of Marcel Moore (excerpt)
Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Alberte Malherbe, 19 July 1892 – 19 February 1972) was a French illustrator, designer, and photographer, known for her work with Claude Cahun. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Nantes and formed both an artistic and romantic partnership with Cahun.
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Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
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Biography of Martín Ramírez (artist) (excerpt)
Martín Ramírez (* January 30, 1895 – † February 17, 1963) was a self-taught Mexican artist, now regarded as one of the 20th century's masters of outsider art. Biography Born in Tepatitlán, Mexico, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1925 to work on railroads, leaving his family behind.
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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".
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Biography of Ruth Snyder (excerpt)
May Ruth Snyder (née Brown, March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1928. Her execution was captured in a widely publicized photograph. Married to Albert Snyder in 1915, she lived an unfulfilled life in their Queens home.
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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 Johann Georg Mohr (excerpt)
Johann Georg Mohr (May 6 1864 – January 28, 1943) was a German painter, associated with the Kronberger Malerkolonie. He was born in the Free City of Frankfurt, where he studied at the Städelschule and at the Academy of Berlin. Among his classmates at the Städel Institute included Fritz Rumpf, Robert Forell, Oscar Goebel, Jacob Happ (1861-1936) and the sculptor Hugo Kauffmann.
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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.
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Biography of Henri Jacotot (excerpt)
Henri Louis Jacotot, born on May 29, 1896, in Dijon and died on April 16, 1991, in Paris, was a French veterinarian and biologist. His entire career was spent at the Pasteur Institute: first in Indochina, at the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang (where he served as director from 1927 to 1947), and later at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (from 1948 to 1966).
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Biography of Herta Gotthelf (excerpt)
Herta Gotthelf (6 June 1902 – 13 May 1963) was a German journalist and SPD politician. Before 1933, she was editor-in-chief of the SPD women's magazine Genossin, and after 1945, she became a key figure in the SPD’s reconstruction. Born in Breslau, she joined the SPD in 1918 after earlier involvement with the Spartacus League.
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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 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.
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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 Ramiro Fabiani (excerpt)
Ramiro Fabiani (Barbarano Vicentino, May 15, 1879 – Rome, April 28, 1954) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Born into a modest family after the early death of his father, he studied at the Pigafetta High School in Vicenza and later at the University of Padua, earning degrees in mathematics (1901) and natural sciences (1903).
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Biography of Doris Kenyon (excerpt)
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist minister. Doris studied at Packer College Institute and Columbia University, singing in church choirs.
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Biography of Nic Waal (excerpt)
Nic Waal, born Caroline Schweigaard Nicolaysen on January 1, 1905, in Kristiania and passed away on May 28, 1960, in Oslo, was a Norwegian psychoanalyst and physician. She graduated in medicine in 1930, specialized in psychology in Berlin, and studied under Harald Schjelderup and Wilhelm Reich.
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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 Lucien Andriot (excerpt)
Lucien Andriot (November 19, 1892 – March 19, 1979) was a French cinematographer who built most of his career in the United States. A member of the American Society of Cinematographers, he was sometimes credited as Lucien N. Andriot. He began in France between 1909 and 1913, working on silent short films directed by Victorin Jasset, often starring his sister, actress Josette Andriot.
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Biography of Gaston Schnegg (excerpt)
Gaston Jacques Schnegg (September 4, 1866 – November 25, 1953) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Bordeaux, he won two sculpture prizes before moving to Paris in 1887, where he joined his older brother Lucien in Alexandre Falguière’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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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.
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Biography of Joseph Léon Lignières (excerpt)
Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (March 26, 1868, Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – October 19, 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, the binomial authority for the Salmonella genus of bacteria. Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (born March 26, 1868, in Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – died October 19, 1933, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, known for describing the Salmonella genus.
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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 Christina Broom (excerpt)
Christina Broom, born on December 28, 1862, in London and passed away on June 5, 1939, in Margate, was a Scottish photographer, recognized as the UK’s first female photojournalist. After the failure of her family business in 1903, she taught herself photography and started selling postcard prints near Buckingham Palace.
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Biography of Chris Lebeau (excerpt)
Joris Johannes Christiaan Lebeau, known as Chris Lebeau (May 26, 1878 - April 30, 1945), was a Dutch artist, art teacher, theosophist, and anarchist. Born into a poor working-class family, he supported his father in selling an anarchist magazine and led a sober, vegetarian lifestyle.
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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 Charles Despiau (excerpt)
Charles Alfred Marie Despiau, known as Charles Despiau, was a French sculptor born on November 4, 1874, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on October 28, 1946, in Paris. Primarily known as a portraitist with an archaic spirit and simplified features, he also received public commissions, such as the Apollo for the Palais de Tokyo in 1937.
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Biography of Felix Jentzsch (excerpt)
Felix Hermann Ferdinand Jentzsch (*September 14, 1882, Königsberg – †November 10, 1946, Berlin) was a German physicist specializing in applied optics, known for his contributions to microscopy innovations. He studied at TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1908 on electron emission from heated metal oxides.
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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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