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(mät ´äs äl ksän´d r kästr n´) (KEY) , 1813–52, Finnish philologist, one of the first scholars to study the Finno-Ugric languages. Castrén ...
(bär´´t l m ´ ´´ stä´k ) (KEY) , d. 1574, Italian anatomist. He lived in Rome from 1549 and taught at the Collegia della Sapienza (later the...
(ä´hä, shäb´khä) (KEY) or Achai of Shabcha (ä´kh ) (KEY) , c.680–c.762, Babylonian rabbi. He settled (c.752) in Palestine after being passe...
1844–1922, English parasitologist. After receiving his medical degree (1866) from the university at Aberdeen, Scotland, Manson left for China where ...
(n ´ m s ´k l ) (KEY) , 1859–1936, Jewish writer and Zionist leader, b. Poland. He served (1906–9) as general secretary of the Zionist Organizat...
or Bernouilli (both: b rn y ´) (KEY) , name of a family distinguished in scientific and mathematical history. The family, after leaving Antwerp, fina...