Biography Category
1723–96, English architect, b. Gothenburg, Sweden. He traveled extensively in the East Indies and in China making drawings of gardens and buildings,...
(zhäN fräNswä´ shäNpôlyôN´) (KEY) , 1790–1832, French linguist and Egyptologist. He is considered the founder of the science of Egyptology. ...
(z kh´fr d g ´d ôn) (KEY) , 1883–1968, Swiss historian of architecture. Giedion was a student of Heinrich Wölfflin and close associate of Walter...
(j vän´n bät-t s´tä b ltsô´n ) (KEY) , 1778–1823, Italian adventurer and antiquities dealer. He lived (1803–12) in England and there inven...
1861–1947, Belgian architect. The Tassel House in Brussels (1892–93), his first mature work, was the earliest monument of art nouveau. It was exce...
(h l´ w l´´) (KEY) , 1892–1974, American anthropologist, b. Philadelphia, Pa., grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania (B.S., 1914; A.M., 1920; Ph.D., 1924)....