Biography Category
(l v ´-brül) (KEY) , 1857–1939, French philosopher, psychologist, and ethnologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1899 and editor of the Re...
(f n´n r mäg´n sôn) (KEY) , 1781–1847, Icelandic archaeologist and scholar. Educated at the Univ. of Copenhagen, he was appointed (1815) profess...
(häm d´ kär´z ) (KEY) , 1957–, Afghan political leader, president of Afghanistan (2002–), b. Kandahar. Karzai’s father and grandfather, who ...
1763–1844, American architect, b. Boston. A member of the Boston board of selectmen in 1791, he was chosen chairman in 1799—an office equivalent t...
1874–1939, English Egyptologist. He served (1891–99) with the Egyptian Exploration Fund and later helped to reorganize the antiquities administrat...
1813–85, English Egyptologist. He wrote a dictionary of hieroglyphics and translated the Book of the Dead....