Biography Category
(äl´br cht f n hä´l r) (KEY) , 1708–77, Swiss scientist and writer. He had already won distinction as botanist and poet when he was appointed (1...
1578–1657, English physician considered by many to have laid the foundation of modern medicine, b. Folkestone, studied at Cambridge, M.D. Univ. of P...
1808–88, German rabbi and chief exponent of Neo-Orthodoxy. As rabbi in Frankfurt-am-Main, he advocated the organization of autonomous Orthodox congr...
(h s k´ s) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent.?, Alexandrian grammarian. Hesychius is known as the compiler of an invaluable lexicon, a glossary of unusual words ...
(h sh´ l) (KEY) , 1907–72, American Jewish philosopher and theologian, b. Warsaw, Poland. He succeeded Martin Buber as director of the Central Orga...
(h r´ n) (KEY) or Hero, mathematician and inventor. The dates of his birth and death are unknown; conjecture places them between the 2d cent. B.C. a...