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(zhäN lw shärl gärny ´) (KEY) , 1825–98, French architect, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and won the Grand Prix de Rome (1848). He was a...
(käs´ l) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 202,160), Hesse, central Germany, on the Fulda River. It is an industrial, rail, and cultural center. Manufactures ...
1825–1910, American anthropologist and entomologist, b. Kingsport, Tenn. He was a lawyer, then a minister (1865–69) of the Evangelical Lutheran Ch...
(py r fräNswä´ l när´ fôNt n´) (KEY) , 1762–1853, French architect. He was known chiefly for the work which, beginning in 1794, he did joint...
1661–1736, English architect involved in the development of most of the great buildings of the English baroque. From the age of 21 he assisted Sir C...
(p ´t r b ´r ns) (KEY) , 1868–1940, German architect, influential in Europe in the evolution of the modern architectural style. He established bef...