Biography Category
(d j´ n z) (KEY) , c.412–323 B.C., Greek Cynic philosopher; pupil of Antisthenes. He was born in Sinope and lived in Athens. He taught that the vi...
(d l´ n) (KEY) , 1941–, American singer and composer, b. Duluth, Minn., as Robert Zimmerman. Dylan learned guitar at the age of 10 and autoharp and...
(Hans Erich Marie Stroheim von Nordenaall) ( ´r kh f n shtr ´h m) (KEY) , 1885–1957, Austrian-American film director, writer, and actor. He came t...
(kr s´t än ou´g st kr ´z s) (KEY) , 1715–75, German philosopher and theologian. He was educated at the Univ. of Leipzig, where he became profes...
(py ´tr dä´bän ) (KEY) , 1250?–1316?, Italian physician and philosopher, a professor of medicine in Padua. His famous work Conciliator differen...
(h p ´sh ) (KEY) , d.415, Alexandrian Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician, a woman renowned for her learning, eloquence, and beauty. Little is ...