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1870–1956, Austrian architect. A student of Otto Wagner, he was a leader of Austrian decoration in the first three decades of the 20th cent. His sop...
(ä´dôlf bäs´tyän) (KEY) , 1826–1905, German anthropologist. Often called the father of ethnography, he recorded his observations of peoples an...
(Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus) (mär´k s ôr ´l s) (KEY) , 121–180, Roman emperor, named originally Marcus Annius Verus. He was a nephew of F...
(k l k´r t z) (KEY) , 5th cent. B.C., Greek architect. In association with Ictinus he built (447–432 B.C.) the Parthenon at Athens. At Athens also ...
1897–1958, American anthropologist and sociologist, b. Chicago, grad. Univ. of Chicago (B.A., 1920; Ph.D., 1928). He began teaching at the Univ. of ...
(yän käsprô´v ch) (KEY) , 1860–1926, Polish poet. His writings progressed from social revolt (e.g., From a Peasant’s Field, 1891) to poems of ...