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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 Jacobus van Looy (excerpt)
Jacobus (Jac) van Looy (13 September 1855 – 24 February 1930) was a Dutch painter and writer. Orphaned at a young age, he grew up in the Haarlem municipal orphanage. Originally trained as a house painter, he entered the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 1877.
Biography of Mary DeWitt Pettit (excerpt)
Mary DeWitt Pettit (January 1, 1908 – May 5, 1996) was an American physician, researcher, and professor who taught at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia into a distinguished family, she descended from Connecticut governor John Treadwell and chemistry professor John Pitkin Norton.
Biography of René de Castéra (excerpt)
René (d'Avezac) de Castéra (Dax, April 3, 1873 - Angoumé, Landes department, October 8, 1955) was a French composer. A student of Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant, and Isaac Albéniz, he served as secretary of the Schola Cantorum, founder of the Édition Mutuelle, and a music critic.
Biography of Édouard Belin (excerpt)
Édouard Belin, born on March 5, 1876, in Vesoul and deceased on March 4, 1963, in Territet, Switzerland, was a French photographer and inventor. In 1907 he created the Bélinographe, a device that allowed the transmission of photographs over telegraph networks and telephone lines.
Biography of Rose McConnell Long (excerpt)
Rose McConnell Long (born April 8, 1892, in Greensburg, Indiana – died May 27, 1970, in Boulder, Colorado) was an American politician who served as a U.S.senator from Louisiana, succeeding her late husband, Huey Long.She was the third woman ever to serve in the U.S.
Biography of Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (excerpt)
Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (August 2, 1887 – February 12, 1960) was a French officer and explorer born in Saint-Jean-d’Angély. He inherited his family’s cognac business before joining the cavalry at the outbreak of World War I. He fought at the Marne, Verdun, and in the trenches, later becoming a pilot and establishing an air base in Zarzis, Tunisia, where he fought against the Senussi.
Biography of Karl Kristian Steincke (excerpt)
Karl Kristian Vilhelm Steincke, born August 25, 1880 and died August 8, 1963, was a Danish politician from the Social Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Justice and Social Affairs across several Stauning Cabinets from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Biography of Frank van der Goes (excerpt)
Franc van der Goes (February 13, 1859 – June 5, 1939) was a Dutch journalist and Marxist theorist, co-founder of the SDAP and co-translator of Das Kapital into Dutch. Initially active in finance, he shifted to literature and politics, founding the literary journal De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, which he left over political disagreements.
Biography of Jorge Guillén (excerpt)
Jorge Guillén Álvarez (18 January 1893 – 6 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, literary critic, and professor, best known as a prominent member of the Generation of '27. He taught in Paris, Oxford, Seville, and later at Wellesley College in the United States, where he went into exile in 1938.
Biography of Marc Dantzer (excerpt)
Marc Dantzer was born on August 30, 1903, in Le Palais, on Belle-Île-en-Mer in the Morbihan region. He died in the same town on June 12, 1990. He was a French film actor active during the 20th century. In addition to his work in cinema, Dantzer ran the Élysée-Matignon restaurant in Paris, a popular spot for figures from the film industry.
Biography of Carmel Myers (excerpt)
Carmel Myers (April 9, 1899 – November 9, 1980) was an American silent film star, known for her vamp roles and her breakout performance as Iras in Ben-Hur (1925).She began her career with D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance. She thrived during the 1920s with major roles and transitioned modestly into sound films, appearing in Svengali and The Mad Genius.
Biography of Bruno Finzi (excerpt)
Bruno Finzi, born on 12 February 1899 in Gardone Val Trompia and died on 10 September 1974 in Milan, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, and physicist. After earning a Laurea in engineering in 1920 and another in mathematics in 1921 from the University of Pavia, he became the assistant of Umberto Cisotti at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1922.
Biography of Wolfgang Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gurlitt (February 15, 1888 – March 26, 1965) was a German art dealer, museum director, and publisher whose collection included Nazi-looted artworks. The grandson of painter Louis Gurlitt and son of art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, he took over the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in 1907.
Biography of Hermann Kümmell (excerpt)
Hermann Kümmell (22 May 1852, Korbach, Waldeck-Pyrmont – 19 February 1937) was a German surgeon. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate at Berlin, later working as an assistant physician to Max Schede (1833-1902) at the municipal hospital in Friedrichshain.In 1883 he became chief physician of the surgical department at the "Marienkrankenhaus" in Hamburg, and in 1895 was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the Allgemeinen Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Biography of Muriel Vanderbilt (excerpt)
Muriel Vanderbilt, born November 23, 1900, in New York City and died February 3, 1972, was an American heiress and socialite, a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She was the daughter of William K. Vanderbilt II and Virginia Fair, raised between Long Island and the West Coast after her parents separated.
Biography of Philipp Harth (excerpt)
Philipp Harth (born 9 July 1885 in Mainz – died 25 December 1968 in Bayrischzell) was a German sculptor best known for his animal figures in wood, stone, and bronze. Originally trained as a lithographer and sculptor, he lived in Munich, Paris, Berlin, and Rome, and taught at the progressive Odenwald School.
Biography of Gilda de Abreu (excerpt)
Gilda de Abreu (September 23, 1904 – June 4, 1979) was a Brazilian actress, singer, writer, and film director. Born into a wealthy family, she first built a career on stage, performing in operettas and musicals, before gaining recognition in 1936 with the romantic comedy Bonequinha de Seda, which opened the door to cinema.
Biography of Léon Langeron (excerpt)
Léon Langeron (December 5, 1888 – June 29, 1963) was a French professor of medicine. A graduate of the University of Lyon, he became a hospital physician in 1926 before joining the Free Faculty of Medicine in Lille in 1927. For 35 years, he led the medical department at the Hôpital de la Charité, shaping both research and medical education.
Biography of Mimí Derba (excerpt)
Mimí Derba, born María Herminia Pérez de León on July 9, 1893, and died July 14, 1953, was a Mexican actress, screenwriter, and director, regarded as the first female film director in Mexico. Starting as a singer at seventeen, she successfully transitioned to silent cinema acting.
Biography of Wilhelm von Bismarck (excerpt)
Count Wilhelm von Bismarck-Schönhausen, born on August 1, 1852, and died on May 30, 1901, was a German civil servant and politician. The youngest son of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, he served briefly in the Reichstag (1880–1881) and later as president of the Hanover regency (1889–1890).
Biography of George E. Ohr (excerpt)
George Edgar Ohr (July 12, 1857 – April 7, 1918) was an American ceramic artist known as the “Mad Potter of Biloxi” in Mississippi. A forerunner of American Abstract Expressionism, he became famous for his daring, experimental forms between 1880 and 1910.
Biography of Margarete Berent (excerpt)
Margarete Berent (born July 9, 1887 in Berlin – died June 23, 1965 in New York) was the first woman lawyer in Prussia. She co-founded the Association of Women Jurists and the Association of German Women Academicians, advocating for women’s access to legal professions.
Biography of Moritz Geiger (excerpt)
Moritz Geiger (26 June 1880 – 9 September 1937) was a German philosopher, student of Edmund Husserl, and a key figure in the Munich school of phenomenology. He began in law, then moved to literature, philosophy, and psychology, studying with Theodor Lipps and Wilhelm Wundt.
Biography of Clara Eggink (excerpt)
Clara Hendrika Catharina Clementine Helène Eggink (Utrecht, April 18, 1906 - Scheveningen, March 3, 1991) was a Dutch poet, prose writer, and translator.The daughter of a ruined businessman and a remarried mother, she grew up in Rotterdam and attended a humanist girls’ high school, where she met poet J.C.
Biography of Antonio Ligabue (excerpt)
Antonio Ligabue, born on December 18, 1899, in Zurich and died on May 27, 1965, in Gualtieri, was an Italian painter, engraver, and sculptor.His work is associated with naïve art and shows a strong influence from Henri Rousseau. Born in Switzerland, he experienced a troubled childhood marked by poverty, illness, and psychological disorders.
Biography of Gretel Adorno (excerpt)
Margarete "Gretel" Adorno (née Karplus, 10 June 1902 – 16 July 1993) was a German chemist and an intellectual associated with the Frankfurt School.Born in Berlin, she earned her PhD in chemistry in 1925 at Friedrich Wilhelm University. Her time of birth comes from the book "The Life and Work Of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her Contributions to Frankfurt School Theory" (University of Oklahoma, 2004).
Biography of Richard Löwenthal (excerpt)
Richard Löwenthal (April 15, 1908 – August 9, 1991) was a German journalist and professor specializing in democracy, communism, and world politics.Born in Berlin, he was influenced by Max Weber and Karl Mannheim.A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) until 1929, he left due to disagreements with Comintern tactics.
Biography of Willem Weissenbruch (excerpt)
Willem Weissenbruch, born on 4 February 1864 in The Hague, Netherlands, and deceased in 1941, was a Dutch etcher, painter, scenic designer, and draftsman. He was the son of painter Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Suzanna Petronella Geertruida Schouw, who later married. Willem began his career as a set painter in The Hague, studying under J.
Biography of Henri Chrétien (excerpt)
Henri Jacques Chrétien (born February 1, 1879, in Paris – died February 6, 1956, in Forest Glen, Maryland) was a French astronomer, optical engineer, professor, and inventor. A graduate of the University of Paris and SupOptique, he became an assistant astronomer at the Nice Observatory in 1906.
Biography of Willem Witsen (excerpt)
Willem Arnoldus Witsen (born 13 August 1860 – died 13 April 1923 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and photographer associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. Influenced by James McNeill Whistler, he depicted tranquil cityscapes and rural scenes. He also created portraits and photographs of artists and cultural figures, including the French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.
Biography of Lucien Schnegg (excerpt)
Lucien Schnegg (19 March 1864 – 22 December 1909) was a French sculptor, close to Auguste Rodin, though he distanced himself from Rodin’s expressive style to promote a classical aesthetic. Born in Bordeaux into a family of Bavarian cabinetmakers, Schnegg began his training as an ornamental sculptor.
Biography of Fred Vlès (excerpt)
Fred Manuel Raoul Vlès (born January 22, 1885, in Le Havre and died July 2, 1944, in Dachau) was a French zoologist and biologist. He earned a doctorate in science and was a professor of biological physics at the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg from 1922 until his deportation in 1944.
Biography of Carel Goseling (excerpt)
Carolus Maria Joannes Franciscus (Carel) Goseling (10 June 1891, Amsterdam – 14 April 1941, Buchenwald) was a Dutch lawyer and politician for the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP). Goseling was a member of the House of Representatives from 1929 to 1937 and subsequently Minister of Justice from 1937 to 1939.
Biography of Richard Müller (socialist) (excerpt)
Richard Müller, born December 9, 1880, and died May 11, 1943, was a German socialist, lathe-operator, and union activist. A leader of the 1918 German Revolution, he helped organize mass strikes against World War I and championed the workers’ council movement.
Biography of Francis Doublier (excerpt)
Francis Doublier, born April 11, 1878, in Lyon, and died April 2, 1948, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a French cinema pioneer and operator for the Lumière brothers. Orphaned young, he began working at the Lumière factories where he learned the secrets of early filmmaking.
Biography of Paul Graetz (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Graetz (or Grätz), born on 4 August 1889 and died on 16 February 1937, was a German actor and comedian, a celebrated figure of the Weimar cabaret scene. He was a beloved star, affectionately called "our Paul" by the Berlin public, admired for his wit and stage presence.
Biography of Elisabeth Plattner (excerpt)
Elisabeth Plattner (July 9, 1899 – December 26, 1994) was a German educator, writer, and advocate of individual psychology. After studying mathematics and physics in Stuttgart, Tübingen, and Geneva, she taught in private schools in Berlin. She spent several years in Japan teaching at German schools in Tokyo before returning to Germany, where she gave courses for mothers, broadcast educational programs, and founded a language school.
Biography of Louis-François Biloul (excerpt)
Louis-François Biloul (October 15, 1874 – October 31, 1947) was a French painter known for his portraits, nudes, and genre scenes.He made his Salon debut in 1900. In 1904, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, studying under Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.
Biography of Dora Jacobsohn (excerpt)
Dora Elisabeth Jacobsohn (1908–1983) was a German-Swedish physiologist and endocrinologist, regarded as an early pioneer of neuroendocrinology.She is best known for her collaboration with Geoffrey Harris proving that the hypothalamus regulates the anterior pituitary through the hypophyseal portal system. Born in Berlin, Jacobsohn earned her M.D.
Biography of Cécile Vogt-Mugnier (excerpt)
Cécile Vogt-Mugnier was born on March 27, 1875, in Annecy and passed away on May 4, 1962, in Cambridge.A Franco-German neurologist and neuropathologist, she made significant contributions to medical research. She was among the first women admitted to medical school and defended her thesis in 1900 on brain myelination.
Biography of Brutus Molkenbuhr (excerpt)
Brutus Molkenbuhr, born March 10, 1881, in Ottensen and died September 11, 1959, in Berlin, was a German socialist and the son of SPD politician Hermann Molkenbuhr. A trained typesetter, he joined the SPD in 1899 and served as a sergeant during World War I.
Biography of Carl Legien (excerpt)
Carl Rudolf Legien (1 December 1861 – 26 December 1920) was a German trade unionist and moderate Social Democrat. Orphaned in childhood, he trained as a wood turner, joined the SPD in 1885, and quickly rose through union ranks, leading the German Turners' Association and the General Commission of German Trade Unions from 1891.
Biography of Charles Eyck (excerpt)
Charles Hubert Eyck, born March 24, 1897 in Meerssen and died August 2, 1983, was a Dutch visual artist.Alongside Henri Jonas and Joep Nicolas, he was a pioneer of the Limburg School. Trained at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, he started as a ceramic painter at the Céramique factory in Maastricht.
Biography of Waldemar Pabst (excerpt)
Ernst Julius Waldemar Pabst, born December 24, 1880, and died May 29, 1970, was a German military officer known for his violent role in post-WWI anti-communist actions and far-right paramilitary politics. As a Freikorps captain, he ordered the extrajudicial killings of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 and later helped lead the failed Kapp Putsch against the Weimar Republic.
Biography of Wilhelm Pfannenstiel (excerpt)
Wilhelm Hermann Pfannenstiel, born February 12, 1890 in Breslau (now Wrocław) and died November 1, 1982, was a German physician, Nazi Party member from 1933, and SS officer from 1934. A hygiene professor at the University of Marburg, he founded a local chapter of the German Society for Racial Hygiene.
Biography of Marcel Minnaert (excerpt)
Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert, born February 12, 1893, in Bruges and died October 26, 1970, in Utrecht, was a Belgian astronomer. During World War I, he supported the Flemish movement and advocated replacing French with Dutch in occupied Belgium, forcing him into exile after the war.
Biography of Hans Ehrenberg (excerpt)
Hans Philipp Ehrenberg, born on 4 June 1883 in Altona and died on 21 March 1958 in Heidelberg, was a German philosopher and theologian from a liberal Jewish family.Baptized as a Protestant in 1911, he taught at Heidelberg and was close to Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.
Biography of Martin Boyd (excerpt)
Martin à Beckett Boyd (10 June 1893 – 3 June 1972) was an Australian writer born into the prominent à Beckett–Boyd family, known for its legacy in the arts, literature, publishing and the judiciary. A novelist, poet and memoirist, he spent most of his post–World War I life in Europe, especially in Britain.
Biography of Otto Selz (excerpt)
Otto Selz (14 February 1881 – 27 August 1943) was a German psychologist born in Munich. In 1913, he developed the first theory of thinking that rejected associations and mental imagery. His time of birth comes from the book "Otto Selz: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Psychologie" by Hans Bernard Seebohm (Universität Heidelberg, 1970).
Biography of Albert Libertad (excerpt)
Albert Libertad, born Joseph Albert on November 24, 1875, in Bordeaux and died November 12, 1908, in Paris, was a French individualist anarchist, writer, and activist who founded the influential journal L’Anarchie. A central figure in early 20th-century libertarian thought, he combined intellectual radicalism with a passionate defense of personal freedom. |
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