Biography Category
(h r´män f n v s´män) (KEY) , 1853–1905, German explorer in Africa. He crossed (1880–82) Africa from Luanda to Zanzibar and, on behalf of Leop...
1802–87, American educator, b. Stockbridge, Mass., grad. Williams, 1824, and Berkshire Medical School, 1829. After a few months of medical practice ...
1831–1912, American educator, b. Worthington, Ohio, grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1849. In Madison, Wis., he published the Wisconsin Farmer and Northwe...
(g n´är m r´däl, Swed. mür´däl) (KEY) , 1898–1987, Swedish economist, sociologist, and public official; husband of Alva Myrdal. A graduate (1...
1858–1931, lawyer and newspaper publisher. He was the son of missionaries in Hawaii. Favoring U.S. annexation of Hawaii, he was one of the leaders o...
(kärl v ´pr kht) (KEY) , 1838–81, German arctic explorer. With Julius von Payer he made a voyage to Novaya Zemlya in 1871. Weyprecht and Payer wer...