Biography Category
(d g´d l) (KEY) , 1841–83, American social investigator, b. Paris. While inspecting (1874) county jails for the New York Prison Association, he dev...
(n r ´y f) (KEY) , 1938–93, Russian ballet dancer, b. near Irkutsk, Siberian USSR (now Russia). Nureyev studied in Ufa and Leningrad (now St. Peter...
(ôt´mär m r´g n-tä´´l r) (KEY) , 1854–99, American inventor of the Linotype (see printing). Mergenthaler was born in Germany. He emigrated to...
( r´härt rä´tôlt) (KEY) , 1442–1528, printer in Venice from 1476 to 1486 and in Augsburg from 1487 to 1522. A sheet showing specimens of his si...
(w d´n r) (KEY) , 1885–1912, American bibliophile, b. Philadelphia. He had the greatest Robert Louis Stevenson collection in existence. Widener die...
(ky närd´) (KEY) , 1787–1865, Canadian pioneer of regular transatlantic steam navigation, b. Halifax, N.S. The son of a United Empire Loyalist, he...