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(y ´hän fr ´dr kh o´v rb k) (KEY) , 1789–1869, German religious painter. Expelled from the Vienna Academy because of his opposition to its class...
(fräns sn ´d rs) (KEY) , 1579–1657, most celebrated Flemish still-life and animal painter, b. Antwerp. He studied with Bruegel, the younger, and H...
(l b) (KEY) , 1859–1924, American physiologist, b. Germany, M.D. Univ. of Strasbourg, 1884. He came to the United States in 1891 and taught at Bryn ...
(väl´t r bä´d ) (KEY) , 1893–1960, German-born American astronomer. From 1919 to 1931 he was on the staff of the Hamburg observatory; from 1931 ...
(hwän d pär ´hä) (KEY) , c.1610–70, Spanish religious and portrait painter, of Moorish origin. Pareja was the lifelong assistant of Velázquez,...
1945–, American educator and college president, b. Grapeland, Tex., grad. Dillard Univ. (B.A., 1967) and Harvard (A.M., 1970; Ph.D., 1973). As a sch...