Biography Category
( j ´n ) (KEY) , 7th cent.?, Greek physician. His only extant work is a medical history in seven books; it was translated into English, with a commen...
(p l´ k) (KEY) , 1845–1937, English jurist, b. London. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He succeeded to h...
(zä´m l bärôn´ f n p ´f ndôrf) (KEY) , 1632–94, German jurist and historian. He is especially noted as an early theorist of international la...
(Aemilius Papinianus) (p p n´ n) (KEY) , d. 212, Roman jurist. He was a close friend of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, under whom he was libel...
1849–1924, American labor leader, b. Carbondale, Pa. Apprenticed in a machine shop, he joined (1871) the Machinists and Blacksmiths National Union, ...
(mäks f n p t´ nk ´´f r) (KEY) , 1818–1901, German chemist and hygienist. He studied medicine at Munich. Pettenkofer is considered a founder of ...