Biography Category
(kr n´d l) (KEY) , 1803–89, American educator and abolitionist, b. Hopkinton, R.I. In 1831 she opened a school for girls in Canterbury, Conn. Her d...
1826–86, American educator, b. Ashfield, Mass., grad. Amherst, 1848, and studied chemistry and botany at Göttingen (Ph.D., 1852). He taught at Amhe...
(äl s-sän´dr k n´t d käly ´str ) (KEY) , 1743–95, Italian adventurer, magician, and alchemist, whose real name was Giuseppe Balsamo. After ...
(l ´j dä kädämô´st ) (KEY) , 1432?–1488, Venetian navigator in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal. He seems to have enter...
1759–1839, American scientist, educator, and political philosopher, b. London, educated at Oxford. His important works include Political Essays (179...
1862–1957, American educator, b. Bedford co., Tenn., grad. Univ. of Tennessee (B.A., 1882; M.A., 1887) and studied at Johns Hopkins Univ. and in Ger...