Biography Category
(m l´th s) (KEY) , 1766–1834, English economist, sociologist, and pioneer in modern population study. In An Essay on the Principle of Population (1...
(Herbert Marshall McLuhan), 1911–80, Canadian communications theorist and educator, b. Edmonton, Alta. He taught at the Univ. of Toronto (1946–80)...
(s bäs´tyän´´ mün´st r) (KEY) , 1489–1552, German scholar and geographer. He was a Franciscan monk but after the Reformation became a Protest...
(äNdr ´ m sh ´) (KEY) , 1746–1802, French botanist. He collected botanical specimens in Europe and Asia. In 1785 he was sent by the French govern...
1849–1934, American historian and educator, b. Bristol, R.I.; brother of Dana Carleton Munro. From 1870 to 1871 he was a master at De Veaux College,...
1904–89, American historian, b. New York City. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1930, taught (1927–49) at the College of the City of New Yor...