Biography Category
(l ´j dä kädämô´st ) (KEY) , 1432?–1488, Venetian navigator in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal. He seems to have enter...
(äl s-sän´dr k n´t d käly ´str ) (KEY) , 1743–95, Italian adventurer, magician, and alchemist, whose real name was Giuseppe Balsamo. After ...
(v t-t r ´n dä f l´tr ) (KEY) , 1378–1446, Italian humanist and teacher, b. Feltre. His real name was Vittorino Ramboldini. He studied at Padua ...
(f rd näN´ dwär´ bü sôN´) (KEY) , 1841–1932, French educator and Nobel Peace Prize winner. He studied at the Sorbonne and later taught (1866...
1925–85, British fashion designer and manufacturer. After serving in the Women’s Royal Naval Service, she and her husband founded a company to pro...
1894–1977, American educator, b. Lancaster, Wis., grad. Notre Dame (B.A., 1915; M.A., 1920) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1940). He was head of the departmen...