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birth charts with Zeus in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Zeus in Gemini. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Charlotte Jacobs (excerpt)
Charlotte Jacobs (13 February 1847, Sappemeer - 31 October 1916, The Hague), was a Dutch feminist and pharmacist. She was the first of her gender in the Netherlands with a degree in pharmacology and also active within the women's movement. She was the sister of Aletta Jacobs.
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 Aïcha (circus performer) (excerpt)
Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed (December 10, 1876 – July 18, 1930) was a French circus performer and the maternal grandmother of Édith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. Early Life Born in her parents' wagon in Soissons, she was the daughter of Saïd Ben Mohamed, a Kabyle acrobat from Algeria, and Margherita Bracco, an Italian acrobat.
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 Renato Simoni (excerpt)
Renato Simoni (Verona, 5 September 1875 – Milan, 5 July 1952) was an Italian journalist, playwright, writer, and theatrical critic, best known for collaborating with Giuseppe Adami on Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Born in Verona, Simoni lost his father in 1879 and became the family's main provider.
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 Viktor von Sprösser (excerpt)
Viktor Felix Sprößer, born January 15, 1853, in Heilbronn and died December 26, 1925, in Stuttgart, was a Württemberg lieutenant general during World War I. The son of a merchant, he married Amalie Pfann.After completing his studies, he joined the Württemberg army in 1871 and advanced through the ranks.
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 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 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 Armando Palacio Valdés (excerpt)
Armando Palacio Valdés (Entralgo, October 4, 1853 – Madrid, January 29, 1938) was a Spanish writer and literary critic. His time of birth comes from the biography Cuadernos para investigación de la literatura hispánica, Issue 29 (Fundación Universitaria Española, Seminario "Menéndez Pelayo", 2004).
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 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 Edmond Duquesne (excerpt)
Edmond Duquesne, born February 25, 1849 in Angers, died November 24, 1918, was a French silent film actor, known in particular for Le Chiffonnier de Paris (1913), La Légende de l'Aigle (1911) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1911).
Biography of Aribert of Anhalt (excerpt)
Prince Aribert Joseph Alexander of Anhalt (1866–1933) was the regent of Anhalt from September to November 1918 for his underage nephew, Joachim Ernst. During the German revolution, he abdicated on his nephew's behalf on 12 November 1918, ending the House of Ascania's rule.
Biography of Johanna Tesch (excerpt)
Johanna Friederike Tesch (born Carillon, 24 March 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a leading German Social Democratic Party politician, most active on the national stage during the 1920s. After 1933, as Germany became a one party dictatorship, she and her husband Richard stayed in the country.
Biography of Tina Di Lorenzo (excerpt)
Tina Di Lorenzo (born December 4, 1872 in Turin – died March 25, 1930 in Milan) was an Italian stage and silent film actress. The daughter of a Sicilian marquis and an actress, she was raised in Noto and began acting as a teenager, sometimes alongside her mother.
Biography of Georg Oeder (excerpt)
Georg Oeder (*April 12, 1846, Aachen; †July 4, 1931, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape painter associated with the Düsseldorf school. Life and Career Born to a banker and grandson of a wool merchant, Oeder began his education in Duisburg before shifting to painting.
Biography of Louis Capitan (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Capitan, born on April 19, 1854, in Paris and died on August 26, 1929, in the same city, was a French doctor, anthropologist, and prehistorian. Biography Louis Capitan was a student of Claude Bernard, interned in the hospitals of Paris, received his doctorate in 1883, and later became a clinical chief at Hôtel-Dieu and consulting physician at La Pitié.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Ludwig Aschoff (excerpt)
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (10 January 1866 – 24 June 1942) was a German physician and pathologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Hedwig Bleibtreu (excerpt)
Hedwig Bleibtreu (23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952.Bleibtreu is perhaps best known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949).
Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart (excerpt)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time.
Biography of Jean Verdier (Cardinal) (excerpt)
Jean Verdier, PSS (February 19, 1864 – April 9, 1940), was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Archbishop of Paris from 1929 until his death and elevated to cardinalate in the same year. Born to a humble family in Lacroix-Barrez, Aveyron, Verdier studied at the seminary in Rodez before joining the Society of Saint-Sulpice in 1886.
Biography of Xavier Nogués (painter) (excerpt)
Xavier Nogués i Casas (Barcelona, February 18, 1873 - Barcelona, January 28, 1941) was a Spanish painter, illustrator, ceramicist, and engraver. His work, influenced by the noucentisme movement, is known for its satirical humor, best expressed in his drawings and famous caricatures.
Biography of Hans Rupe (excerpt)
Johan Hermann Wilhelm Rupe (October 9, 1866 - January 12, 1951) was a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Basel, specializing in terpenes, camphor, and optical activity. Born in Basel, he studied under Julius Piccard in Basel, then under Rudolf Fittig in Strasbourg and Adolf von Baeyer in Munich.
Biography of Charles Joseph Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier (4 March 1865, in Orléans – 15 November 1937, in Paris) was a French zoologist. He initially taught classes at École normale (1883–85) in Orléans and at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, afterwards becoming a professor of natural history at the École normale (1887) in Grenoble.
Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
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 Ricciotto Canudo (excerpt)
Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular.Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy.
Biography of Georgette Agutte (excerpt)
Georgette Agutte, born on 17 May 1867 in Paris and died on 6 September 1922 in Chamonix, was a French painter, sculptor, and art collector. She was the daughter of painter Jean-Georges Aguttes, born just a few months after his death. Agutte studied sculpture with Jean-Louis-Désiré Schrœder and began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1887.
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 Joseph Teissier (excerpt)
Joseph Teissier, also known as Louis Anne Marie Joseph Teissier, was born in Lyon on October 1, 1851, and died there on June 13, 1926. He was a French doctor noted for co-authoring an extensive "Treatise on Internal Pathology" with Alphonse Laveran.
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. |
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