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(v l´h lm fr ´h r f n h m´bôlt) (KEY) , 1767–1835, German statesman and philologist; brother of Alexander von Humboldt. As Prussian minister of ...
1795–1873, American financier and philanthropist, founder of Johns Hopkins Univ., b. Anne Arundel co., Md. In 1819 he founded his own commission fir...
(h k´l t, h k´ lw t) (KEY) , 1552?–1616, English geographer. He graduated in 1574 from Oxford, where he later lectured on geography. A passionate ...
(gr r) (KEY) , 1861–1933, American educator, b. Peoria, Ill., grad. Princeton (B.A. 1882; Ph.D., 1893) and studied at the Univ. of Berlin and Prince...
1795–1877, American educator and clergyman, b. Croydon, N.H. After teaching in Rumford, Maine, and Fitchburg, Mass., he founded (1823) at Concord, V...
1831–1912, American educator, b. Worthington, Ohio, grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1849. In Madison, Wis., he published the Wisconsin Farmer and Northwe...