Biography Category
(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...
(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...
(zhäN fräNswä´ shäNpôlyôN´) (KEY) , 1790–1832, French linguist and Egyptologist. He is considered the founder of the science of Egyptology. ...
1723–96, English architect, b. Gothenburg, Sweden. He traveled extensively in the East Indies and in China making drawings of gardens and buildings,...
1868–1954, German linguist and anthropologist, a Roman Catholic priest. Educated at the universities of Berlin and Vienna, he entered the Society of...
1881–1955, British anthropologist. He did fieldwork in the Andaman Islands and in Australia. Radcliffe-Brown fostered the development of social anth...