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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 Paul Maas (classical scholar) (excerpt)
Paul Maas (18 November 1880, in Frankfurt am Main – 15 July 1964, in Oxford) was a German scholar who, among other things, developed principles of textual criticism inherited from Karl Lachmann. He studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1903.
Biography of Dalmacio Iglesias (excerpt)
Jesús María José Dalmacio Iglesias García (5 December 1879 – 13 January 1933) was a Spanish Carlist politician, active almost exclusively in Catalonia. His career climaxed during one term in the Congress of Deputies (1910–1914) and one term in the Senate (1918–1919).
Biography of Anton Philips (excerpt)
Anton Frederik Philips, born on March 14, 1874, in Zaltbommel and died on October 7, 1951, in Eindhoven, was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder of Philips Electronics in 1912 with his elder brother Gerard. Born into a Dutch-Jewish family, he joined the family business in 1912 and served as CEO from 1922 to 1939.
Biography of Louis Rouffe (excerpt)
Louis Rouffe, born on April 10, 1849, in La Tour-d'Aigues and died on December 21, 1885, in Marseille, was a French mime who succeeded Charles Deburau. He spent most of his career at the Alcazar in Marseille, where pantomime was highly popular.
Biography of Luís Cruls (excerpt)
Luíz Cruls or Luís Cruls or Louis Ferdinand Cruls (21 January 1848 – 21 June 1908) was a Belgian-Brazilian astronomer and geodesist. He was Director of the Brazilian National Observatory from 1881 to 1908, led the commission charged with the survey and selection of a future site for the capital of Brazil in the Central Plateau, and was co-discoverer of the Great Comet of 1882.
Biography of Friedrich Naumann (excerpt)
Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and (non-Marxist) socialism with Protestant Christian values, proposing social reform to prevent class struggle.
Biography of Johanna Ey (excerpt)
Johanna Ey (4 March 1864 – 27 August 1947) was a German art dealer of the 1920s, nicknamed "Mutter Ey" (Mother Ey) for her support of artists like Max Ernst and Otto Dix. Born in Wickrath, she moved to Düsseldorf at 19, married, and had twelve children, eight of whom died young.
Biography of William Craigie (excerpt)
Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a renowned philologist and lexicographer. A University of St Andrews alumnus, he became the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-edited its 1933 supplement with C. T. Onions.
Biography of Étienne Balsan (excerpt)
Fulcran Étienne Balsan (February 11, 1878, Paris – March 1, 1954, Rio de Janeiro) was a French gentleman rider, horse breeder, and influential figure in high society. The son of industrialist Auguste Balsan, he left his military career to focus on horse breeding and racing, particularly at his Royallieu estate near Compiègne.
Biography of Edith Pechey (excerpt)
Mary Edith Pechey (7 October 1845 – 14 April 1908) was one of the first women medical doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital and was involved in a range of social causes.
Biography of Christian Ernst Stahl (excerpt)
Christian Ernst Stahl, born on June 21, 1848, in Schiltigheim, Alsace, and died on December 3, 1919, in Jena, was a German botanist. He studied in Strasbourg and Halle, earning his doctorate in 1874. He worked with Julius von Sachs in Würzburg, developing his theory on lichens.
Biography of Louis Anquetin (excerpt)
Louis Anquetin (born January 26, 1861, in Étrépagny – died August 19, 1932, in Paris) was a French painter.A pioneer of Synthetism, he was friends with Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso. In 1882, he moved to Paris, joining Léon Bonnat's studio, where he befriended Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Biography of Joseph Wirth (excerpt)
Karl Joseph Wirth (7 September 1879 – 3 January 1956) was a German politician from the Catholic Centre Party, serving as Germany's chancellor from May 1921 to November 1922 during the early Weimar Republic. Between 1920 and 1931, he also held several ministerial posts, including Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Interior.
Biography of Pedro Gailhard (excerpt)
Pierre Samson Gailhard, known as Pedro Gailhard, was born in Toulouse on August 1, 1848, and died in Paris (9th arrondissement) on October 12, 1918.He was a French opera singer and theatre director. Gifted with an exceptional singing bass voice, Pedro Gailhard made his debut at the Opéra-Comique and later performed at the Paris Opera, debuting in the role of Méphisto in Faust by Charles Gounod in 1871.
Biography of Sandie Lindsay (excerpt)
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, born on May 14, 1879, in Glasgow, died on March 18, 1952, was a distinguished Scottish academic and peer. Starting his career as a fellow in moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Lindsay also worked at the University of Manchester before joining Balliol College, Oxford, where he became master.
Biography of Henri Polak (excerpt)
Henri Polak (born 22 February 1868 in Amsterdam, died 18 February 1943 in Laren) was a Dutch trade unionist and politician. The son of a Jewish diamond cutter, he began working young before moving to London, where he embraced Marxist ideas and learned about the British labor movement.
Biography of Ernesto Schiaparelli (excerpt)
Ernesto Schiaparelli (July 12, 1856 – February 14, 1928) was an Italian Egyptologist. Born in Occhieppo Inferiore, he discovered Queen Nefertari’s tomb in 1904 and the intact tomb of royal architect Kha in 1906. He became director of the Egyptian Museum in Florence in 1880, and later of the Museo Egizio in Turin, transforming it into one of the world’s largest Egyptian museums.
Biography of Neel Doff (excerpt)
Cornelia Hubertina "Neel" Doff (born January 27, 1858, in Buggenum, Netherlands, and died July 14, 1942, in Ixelles, Belgium) was a Dutch-born writer who lived in Belgium and wrote primarily in French.She is a prominent figure in proletarian literature. Born into a large and impoverished family, she grew up in harsh conditions.
Biography of Albertus Antonie Nijland (excerpt)
Albertus (Albert) Antonie Nijland (born October 30, 1868 – died August 18, 1936) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a professor of astronomy at Utrecht University and served as director of the Sterrewacht Sonnenborgh observatory. Nijland was born in Utrecht and took part in a Dutch solar eclipse expedition to Karang Sago, Sumatra, in 1901.
Biography of José Canalejas (excerpt)
José Canalejas Méndez, born on July 31, 1854, in Ferrol and died on November 12, 1912, in Madrid, was a Spanish lawyer and regenerationist statesman.His time of his birth comes from a biography that is no longer available online. He served as Minister of Public Works, Justice, Economy and Budget, and Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, and Public Works during the regency of Queen Maria Christina.
Biography of Joel Chandler Harris (excerpt)
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at The Atlanta Constitution.
Biography of Waldemar Erfurth (excerpt)
Waldemar Erfurth (4 August 1879 – 2 May 1971) was a German general of infantry, a writer and liaison officer to Finland during World War II Erfurth was born in Berlin.He served in World War I, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern.
Biography of Porfirio Díaz Ortega (excerpt)
Deodato Lucas Porfirio Díaz Ortega (October 18, 1873 – December 28, 1946) was the fourth child of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and Delfina Ortega. A military engineer, he contributed to several important projects in Mexico and had eight children. His time of birth comes from the biography Verdad y mito de la Revolución Mexicana, Volume 1, by Ignacio Muñoz (Ediciones Populares, 1960).
Biography of Vittorio Putti (excerpt)
Vittorio Putti (born March 1, 1880, in Bologna, died November 1, 1940, in Bologna) was an Italian physician and surgeon, specializing in orthopedics. The son of surgeon Marcello Putti and nephew of poet Enrico Panzacchi, he grew up in a culturally and scientifically rich environment.
Biography of Louis de Beaufront (excerpt)
Louis Chevreux (3 octobre 1855 - 8 janvier 1935), known as Louis de Beaufront, was a key figure in the development of the international auxiliary language Ido. Initially a strong advocate of Esperanto, he played a significant role in its early spread in Western Europe.
Biography of Fritz Pregl (excerpt)
Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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 Herman Heijermans (excerpt)
Herman Heijermans (3 December 1864 – 22 November 1924) was a Dutch playwright, novelist, journalist, and writer, regarded as the greatest modern dramatist of the Netherlands. He gained international recognition, a feat unseen since Joost van den Vondel. Born in Rotterdam into a liberal Jewish family, he debuted in 1891, finding success with Ahasverus under the pseudonym "Ivan Jelakowitch." Later, as "Samuel Falkland Jr.," he published sketches of Amsterdam life.
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 Gerrit Mannoury (excerpt)
Gerrit Mannoury (17 May 1867 – 30 January 1956) was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam, and communist. He is known as the central figure in the signific circle, the Dutch counterpart to the Vienna Circle.
Biography of John Elsas (excerpt)
John Elsas, born Jonas Mayer on July 6, 1851, in Frankfurt am Main and passing away on June 5, 1935, in the same city, was a German painter. He spent most of his life working as a merchant and stockbroker, only fully dedicating himself to art in 1927, at the age of 76.
Biography of Gusta Noske (excerpt)
Gustav Noske (9 July 1868 – 30 November 1946) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence (Reichswehrminister) of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske was known for using army and paramilitary forces to suppress the socialist/communist uprisings of 1919.
Biography of Honoré Jackson (excerpt)
William Henry Jackson (May 3, 1861 – January 10, 1952), also known as Honoré Jackson or Jaxon, was the secretary to Louis Riel during the North-West Rebellion in 1885.His time of birth comes from his father, as mentioned in the biography "Honore Jaxon: Prairie Visionary" by Donald B.
Biography of Giuseppe Prezzolini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Prezzolini (27 January 1882 – 14 July 1982) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer.He later became an American citizen. Prezzolini was born in Perugia in January 1882, to Tuscan parents from Siena, Luigi and Emilia Pianigiani.In 1903 he founded together with Giovanni Papini the literary journal Leonardo.
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 Herbert Myrick (excerpt)
Herbert Myrick, born on 20 August 1860 in Arlington, Massachusetts, was an American writer, editor, and businessman known for his influential work in agricultural publishing.He was the owner of the Phelps Publishing Company and served as editor-in-chief of the New England Homestead.
Biography of Otto Ruff (excerpt)
Otto Ruff was born on 30 December 1871 in Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg. Initially a pharmacist under Carl Magnus von Hell, he later joined Hermann Emil Fischer in Berlin, gaining early fame in 1898 for the Ruff degradation, which converts d-Glucose into d-Arabinose.
Biography of Jennie Smillie Robertson (excerpt)
Jennie Smillie Robertson (February 10, 1878 – February 26, 1981), known throughout her career as Jennie Smillie, was the first Canadian female surgeon and also performed the country's first major gynecological surgery. Born to farmers, she worked as a teacher to afford tuition for medical school before enrolling at the Ontario Medical College for Women which merged into the University of Toronto medical school during her time there.
Biography of Wilhelm Cuno (excerpt)
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno (July 2, 1876 – January 3, 1933) was a German businessman and politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923 for 264 days. His term was marked by the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and the onset of hyperinflation in Germany.
Biography of Felipe Trigo (excerpt)
Felipe Trigo (13 February 1864 in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz – 2 September 1916 in Madrid) was a 20th-century Spanish writer. He studied Medicine in Madrid and practised in several villages in Extremadura. He later become a member of Military Health Corps and he was appointed to Philippines, where he was about to die and he had to be repatriated as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
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.
Biography of Lovis Corinth (excerpt)
Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president.
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.
Biography of Marius Toudoire (excerpt)
Denis Marius Toudoire (November 15, 1852 – March 1, 1922) was a French architect known for designing train stations and public buildings. He created iconic stations for the PLM railway company, including Gare de Lyon in Paris, Bordeaux-Saint-Jean, and Toulouse-Matabiau. He also designed the Grande Poste in Algiers.
Biography of Alfred Weber (économist) (excerpt)
Carl David Alfred Weber (July 30, 1868 – May 2, 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist whose work significantly influenced the development of modern economic geography. The younger brother of sociologist Max Weber, he was born in Erfurt and raised in Charlottenburg.
Biography of Pierre-Félix Lagrange (excerpt)
Pierre-Félix Lagrange, born in 1857 in Soumensac (Lot-et-Garonne) and died in 1928 in Paris, was a renowned French ophthalmologist. Born to a modest family, his teacher recognized his potential and encouraged his family to pursue his education. He became an associate professor of surgery at 26, before specializing in ophthalmology.
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 Georg Kolbe (excerpt)
Georg Kolbe (April 15, 1877 – November 20, 1947) was a German sculptor and a leading figure of his generation in modernized classical style. Born in Saxony, he initially trained as a painter before turning to sculpture in Rome under Louis Tuaillon.
Biography of Pascual Custode (excerpt)
Pasquale Maria Custode del Vecchio (born in Castelnuovo di Conza, Italy, on November 21, 1873 - died in Sincelejo, Colombia, on January 23, 1928) was a Catholic priest who ministered in the departments of Sucre and Córdoba, Colombia. He served in the parishes of Sampués, Palmito, San Andrés de Sotavento, Chinú, Sahagún, and Sincelejo, where he inspired a whole generation through his dedicated and selfless service.
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. |
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