Biography Category
(zhäN shärl l ônär´ s môNd´ d s smôNd ´) (KEY) , 1773–1842, Swiss historian, economist, and critic. A member of the circle of Mme de Staë...
common name for a passerine songbird (Alauda arvensis) famous for the soaring, melodious flight of the courting male. Found in Europe (except in the M...
(y ´hän ´l rt b ´d ) (KEY) , 1747–1826, German astronomer. From 1772 to 1825 he was astronomer of the Academy of Science, Berlin, and from 1786...
(g l) (KEY) , 1843–1914, Scottish astronomer, educated at the Univ. of Aberdeen. He made observations of the transits of Venus and Mars and investig...
1761–1807, English portrait and historical painter. Opie showed a remarkable talent as a young man. He became the protégé of the poet John Wolcot,...
(mär´t n sh n´gou- r) (KEY) , 1430–91, German engraver and painter, son of a goldsmith of Colmar, Alsace. Schongauer’s only certain painting is...