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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 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 Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (excerpt)
Ernst II (born 31 August 1871 in Altenburg – died 22 March 1955 in Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf) was the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and a German general active during World War I. As the only son of Prince Moritz, he inherited the duchy in 1908 after the death of his uncle, Ernst I.
Biography of Élisabeth Casteret (excerpt)
Élisabeth Casteret (born Élisabeth Martin on May 13, 1905, in Paris; died on May 6, 1940, in Saint-Gaudens) was a French caver and the wife of Norbert Casteret. She moved to Saint-Gaudens after her father’s retirement and met her future husband, Norbert Casteret, there.
Biography of Alfons Sack (excerpt)
Alfons Gustav Sack (August 7, 1887 – March 31, 1945) was a German lawyer known for defending far-right figures during the Weimar Republic and Nazi officials later on. In the 1920s, Sack defended nationalist activists accused of political violence, including in the trial of Walther Rathenau's assassins.
Biography of Juventino Rosas (excerpt)
José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (January 25, 1868 – July 9, 1894) was a renowned Mexican composer and violinist, best known for his piece Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves). Born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato (now Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas), he began as a street musician, performing with dance bands in Mexico City.
Biography of Anna Kavan (excerpt)
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; April 10, 1901 – December 5, 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer, and painter.Born into an affluent family in Cannes, she endured a lonely and unstable childhood.After marrying Donald Ferguson and living in Burma, she returned to London, where she began publishing under her married name.
Biography of Jacques-Paul Bonjean (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Bonjean (born April 3, 1899, in Paris 15ᵉ, died November 18, 1990, in Paris 8ᵉ) was a French art dealer, antique dealer, and collector. In 1927, he co-founded La Maison des quatre chemins with Maurice Sachs, publishing luxury editions of works by Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and later opened galleries with Pierre Colle and Christian Dior.
Biography of William Sharp (writer) (excerpt)
William Sharp, born on September 12, 1855, in Paisley and died on December 12, 1905, in Syracuse, was a Scottish writer best known for publishing under the secret pseudonym Fiona MacLeod. This alter ego allowed him to explore mystical and Celtic themes.
Biography of Käthe Latzke (excerpt)
Käthe Latzke (8 May 1899 - 31 March 1945) was a German political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism and spent most of her final twelve years in state detention.Her health having been broken, she died in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Käthe Latzke came from a working-class family and started her political activism by joining socialist youth organizations in 1918.
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 Henriette Caillaux (excerpt)
Henriette Rainouard (Madame Claretie, later Madame Caillaux), born December 5, 1874, in Rueil-Malmaison and died January 29, 1943, in Mamers, was a woman of the French haute bourgeoisie. In 1894, she married writer Léo Claretie, divorcing in 1908 before remarrying in 1911 to Joseph Caillaux, the Minister of Finance.
Biography of Nico Rost (excerpt)
Nicolaas Rost, born on June 21, 1896, in Groningen and died on February 1, 1967, in Amsterdam, was a Dutch writer, translator, journalist, and resistance fighter. During the 1920s and 1930s, he lived in Germany, working as a translator and journalist. He traveled to the Soviet Union, joined the Communist Party, and was briefly imprisoned in Oranienburg in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power.
Biography of Beatrice Hastings (excerpt)
Beatrice Hastings, born Emily Alice Haigh (January 25, 1879 – October 30, 1943), was an English writer, literary critic, poet, and theosophist.Her time of birth comes from her, in "Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life" by Stephen Gray (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2012).
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.
Biography of Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (excerpt)
Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (24 July 1863 – 8 July 1919) was a Dutch poet and philosopher. During his lifetime, only a few of his poems were published in literary journals. His pen name "Adwaita," in Sanskrit, means "he who is without duality."
Biography of Max Slevogt (excerpt)
Max Slevogt (8 or 20 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German impressionist painter, engraver, and illustrator, and a key figure of the "plein air" style alongside Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1885–1889) and later moved to Paris, where he was influenced by Manet.
Biography of Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (excerpt)
Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (born November 21, 1871, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on June 7, 1946, in Paris) was a French physician and scientist, primarily known for her discovery, alongside her mentor Paul Carnot, of hemopoietin (erythropoietin). She also initiated research that led to the development of organ transplantation.
Biography of Anneliese Maier (excerpt)
Born on November 17, 1905, in Tübingen, Germany, Anneliese Maier was a German historian of science renowned for her research on medieval natural philosophy. The daughter of philosopher Heinrich Maier, she studied natural sciences and philosophy in Berlin and Zurich from 1923 to 1926.
Biography of Eelco van Kleffens (excerpt)
Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (born 17 November 1894, died 17 June 1983) was a Dutch politician and diplomat. Descending from a Frisian family of civil servants, he studied law at Leiden University and started his career at the League of Nations and later at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Oscar Fetrás (excerpt)
Oscar Fetrás (16 February 1854 – 10 January 1931), born Otto Kaufmann Faster in Hamburg, was a German composer of light music, known for his waltzes and marches. His best-known piece is the waltz Mondnacht auf der Alster Op. 60, still widely loved today.
Biography of Johan Huizinga (excerpt)
Johan Huizinga (7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian regarded as one of the pioneers of modern cultural history. Born in Groningen, he initially studied Indo-European languages and wrote his 1897 doctoral thesis on the jester in Indian drama.
Biography of Heinrich Seufferheld (excerpt)
Heinrich Seufferheld (* January 27, 1866, in Weinsberg; † February 20, 1940, in Tübingen) was a German draftsman, painter, and etcher. From 1909 to 1933, he served as a professor at the University of Tübingen, where he reformed university-level drawing education.
Biography of Rudolf Levy (excerpt)
Rudolf Levy (July 15, 1875 – January 1944) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish descent. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, he grew up in Danzig.Despite his parents’ objections, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1895, later moving to Munich.
Biography of Felice Casorati (excerpt)
Felice Casorati (4 December 1883 – 1 March 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for his figure compositions, portraits, and still lifes with unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara, he abandoned piano studies after an illness and turned to art.
Biography of Louis Z. Rollini (excerpt)
Louis Z.Rollini, born August 26, 1866 in Paris, died July 4, 1951 in Le Vésinet, was a French film writer whose works range from La leçon du gouffre (1913), Bigorno fume l'opium (1914) and Il bacio della gloria (1913).He was the brother of film director Ferdinand Zecca.
Biography of Irmgard Enderle (excerpt)
Irmgard Enderle (born Irmgard Rasch: April 28, 1895 – September 20, 1985) was a German politician, trade unionist, and journalist.She was active in the Communist Party and later joined the Socialist Workers' Party (SAPD). After the Nazis came to power, Enderle fled Germany, eventually settling in Sweden, where she continued her political activities.
Biography of Walter Fyrst (excerpt)
Walter Fyrst (né Fürst; 6 July 1901 – 23 February 1993) was a Norwegian filmmaker.He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the physician Valentin Fürst and Margarethe Christiane Dedekam.His first film was Troll-elgen from 1927, based on two novels by Mikkjel Fønhus.
Biography of Julius Richard Petri (excerpt)
Julius Richard Petri (born 31 May 1852 in Barmen, Germany – died 20 December 1921) was a German microbiologist, best known for inventing the Petri dish. He studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians and earned his doctorate from Charité Hospital in Berlin in 1876.
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.
Biography of Joan Cornudella (excerpt)
Joan Cornudella i Barberà (born November 3, 1904, in les Borges Blanques, Garrigues - died March 26, 1985, in Barcelona) was a Catalan nationalist politician, secretary general of Estat Català, and co-founder of the Front Nacional de Catalunya. After the democratic transition, he joined the Pacte Democràtic per Catalunya before concluding his political career with the PSC, where he served as a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for two terms.
Biography of Alfons Maria Jakob (excerpt)
Alfons Maria Jakob (2 July 1884 – 17 October 1931) was a German neurologist specializing in neuropathology. Born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, he earned his medical doctorate in 1908 after studying in Munich, Berlin, and Strasbourg. He worked with Franz Nissl and Alois Alzheimer in Munich.
Biography of Joaquín Zamacois (excerpt)
Joaquín Zamacois y Soler was a Chilean-Spanish composer, music educator, and author, born on December 15, 1894, in Santiago, Chile, and died on September 8, 1976, in Barcelona. Coming from a renowned family of Spanish artists, he was the son of composer Joaquín Zamacois y Zabala and the nephew of notable writers, singers, and painters.
Biography of Dossibai Patell (excerpt)
Dossibai Rustomji Cowasji Patell MBE, MRCP (16 October 1881 – 4 February 1960), later known as Dossibai Jehangir Ratenshaw Dadabhoy, was an Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist, who in 1910 became the first woman to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).
Biography of Marius Daille (excerpt)
Marius Daille, born on October 10, 1878, in Les Mollettes, was a distinguished French general during the Second World War. Beyond his military career, he gained international recognition as a speaker and columnist, publishing works in English and authoring several books on military analysis and strategy.
Biography of Julius Guttmann (excerpt)
Julius Guttmann (April 15, 1880 – May 19, 1950) was a German-born rabbi, Jewish theologian, and philosopher of religion. The son of Jakob Guttmann, Chief Rabbi of Hildesheim, Julius moved with his family to Breslau in 1880.He studied at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary and the University of Breslau.
Biography of Abel Tarride (excerpt)
Abel Anatole Tarride, born on April 18, 1865, in Niort and died on February 3, 1951, in Lyon, was a French actor and playwright. He is best known for his role as Commissaire Maigret in the 1932 film Le Chien jaune.
Biography of Joseph Jessurun de Mesquita (excerpt)
Joseph Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, September 7, 1865 – April 1, 1890) was a Dutch photographer. He was influenced by the principles of Impressionism and chose unembellished snapshots of the moment, unposed, at a time when photography was still heavily dominated by staged and prop-laden works of studio photographers.
Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
Biography of Arthur Kronfeld (excerpt)
Arthur Kronfeld was born on January 9, 1886, in Berlin and died on October 16, 1941, in Moscow.He was a German physician, psychologist, and psychotherapist, trained in philosophy within the Berlin circle of Leonard Nelson. He specialized in psychiatry and published a scientific critique of psychoanalysis in collaboration with Karl Jaspers, Otto Meyerhof, and Otto Heinrich Warburg.
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 Ramón Menéndez Pidal (excerpt)
Ramón Menéndez Pidal (13 March 1869 – 14 November 1968) was a Spanish philologist and historian, renowned for his work on the Spanish language, folklore, and poetry. He was best known for his studies on El Cid and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature a record 154 times.
Biography of Lino Vaccari (excerpt)
Lino Vaccari, born on August 23, 1873 in Crespano del Grappa and died in Rome in 1951, was an Italian botanist known for his alpine flora studies and educational contributions. He earned a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Padua and taught in various secondary schools before becoming a headmaster, school inspector, and professor of botany in Rome and Florence.
Biography of Francisco Asorey (excerpt)
Francisco Asorey González, born March 4, 1889, in Cambados, and died July 2, 1961, in Santiago de Compostela, was a prominent Spanish sculptor of the 20th century.As a child, he showed talent for carving wooden Christs and saints. He studied with the Salesians in Sarrià and later taught drawing in Baracaldo, where he opened a religious sculpture workshop.
Biography of André Fontainas (excerpt)
André Fontainas, born on February 5, 1865, in Brussels and died on December 8, 1948, in Paris, was a French poet and critic, Belgian by birth. The grandson of André-Napoléon Fontainas and the son of Charles Fontainas, a lawyer at the Court of Brussels, André had to follow his father to Paris in 1877 for professional reasons.
Biography of Rodolfo Oroz (excerpt)
Rodolfo Oroz Scheibe (July 8, 1895 – April 13, 1997) was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist of German descent. Graduating in pedagogy from the University of Leipzig in 1920, he returned to Chile to teach Latin, English, grammar, and linguistics. Between 1933 and 1944, he directed the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago and founded the Chilean Institute of Philology in 1944.
Biography of Miguel Covarrubias (excerpt)
José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (Mexico City, November 22, 1904 – February 3, 1957), also known as El Chamaco, was a Mexican artist and researcher. His time of birth comes from the biography "Covarrubias" by Adriana Williams and Doris Ober (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).
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 Robert Wlérick (excerpt)
Joseph François Robert Wlérick, known as Robert Wlérick, was born on April 13, 1882, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on March 7, 1944, in Paris.He was a French sculptor. Born into a family of cabinetmakers, he was encouraged by his teacher Ismaël Morin to pursue his artistic talents.
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.
Biography of Antoni Troczewski (excerpt)
Antoni Fortunat Marian Troczewski (born June 1, 1861, in Łomża, died September 22, 1928, in Kutno) was a Polish physician, social activist, and political figure. Son of Antoni and Dionizy, Troczewski moved to Kutno in 1891, where he quickly became prominent. Starting as a volunteer doctor, he directed Saint Valentine Hospital, transforming it with new surgical, gynecological-obstetric, and infectious disease departments. |
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