Biography Category
( r´härt rä´tôlt) (KEY) , 1442–1528, printer in Venice from 1476 to 1486 and in Augsburg from 1487 to 1522. A sheet showing specimens of his si...
(ôt´mär m r´g n-tä´´l r) (KEY) , 1854–99, American inventor of the Linotype (see printing). Mergenthaler was born in Germany. He emigrated to...
(n r ´y f) (KEY) , 1938–93, Russian ballet dancer, b. near Irkutsk, Siberian USSR (now Russia). Nureyev studied in Ufa and Leningrad (now St. Peter...
(d g´d l) (KEY) , 1841–83, American social investigator, b. Paris. While inspecting (1874) county jails for the New York Prison Association, he dev...
1841–1922, American financier, b. Tioga co., N.Y.; brother of John D. Rockefeller. He joined (1865) his brother in the oil-refining business. Willia...
1831–86, English librarian and antiquarian at Cambridge Univ. He discovered, organized, and made known the university’s treasures of manuscripts a...