Biography Category
(gl n´v l) (KEY) , 1636–80, English clergyman and philosopher. He was chaplain in ordinary to Charles II and prebendary of Worcester Cathedral. An ...
( fr d sh´ s) (KEY) , fl. A.D. 200, Greek Peripatetic philosopher. A celebrated ancient commentator on Aristotle, he was often called the Exegete. A...
(g n´ s) (KEY) , 1914–2000, English actor, b. London. After his stage debut in 1934, Guinness performed with John Gielgud’s company and at the Ol...
(kärl t ´ dôr´´ dr ´ r) (KEY) , 1889–1968, Danish motion picture director. He began making films in Denmark in 1919. His Passion of Joan of Ar...
1911–60, British philosopher. A graduate of Oxford, he was a fellow of All Souls (1933–35) and Magdalen (1935–52) colleges before he became Whit...
(hôrk´h ´´m r, hôr´k ´´–) (KEY) , 1895–1973, German philosopher and sociologist. As director (1930–58) of the Institute for Social Resea...