Biography Category
(f r´d nänt bär n´ f n r kht´h f n) (KEY) , 1833–1905, German geographer, geologist, and traveler. He took part in a Prussian expedition in E A...
(t ´sh s, t ´s s) (KEY) , fl. 400 B.C., Greek historian and physician of Cnidus. He lived many years in the Persian court. He tended Artaxerxes II...
(b r ´s s) (KEY) , 3d cent. B.C., Babylonian priest-historian; contemporary of Manetho. His work, in Greek, preserved Mesopotamian myths regarding cr...
(l ´käs älämän´) (KEY) , 1792–1853, Mexican historian and statesman. As deputy to the Spanish Cortes, he failed to win a hearing for the insur...
1814–77, American historian and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of two novels concerning Thomas Morton (1839 and 1849), as well as a number of...
(nätän´ä l pr ngs´h m) (KEY) , 1823–94, German botanist, one of the founders of the scientific study of algae. He made important discoveries in...