Biography Category
(shm t-r t´l f) (KEY) , 1884–1976, German painter and woodcut artist. Schmidt-Rottluff cofounded and named the Brücke in 1905. After moving to Ber...
(brä´´m g p´t ) (KEY) , c.598–c.660, Indian mathematician and astronomer. He wrote in verse the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta [improved system of Brah...
(zhül s môN´) (KEY) , 1814–96, French statesman. His full name was Jules François Simon Suisse. He taught philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1839 t...
(käm ´y p sär ´) (KEY) , 1830–1903, French impressionist painter, b. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. In Paris from 1855, he came under the influenc...
(s l ´zh , –sh , s –) (KEY) , Czech Slezsko, Ger. Schlesien, Pol. l sk, region of E central Europe, extending along both banks of the Oder River...
(s f´nôs) (KEY) or Siphnos (s f´n s) (KEY) , island, c.32 sq mi (83 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea; one of the Cyclades. It is a resort area...