Biography Category
(zhäN zhäk b rlämäk ´) (KEY) , 1694–1748, Swiss jurist. His chief works are Principes du droit naturel [principles of natural law] (1747) and P...
(broun-s kär´, –s kwär´) (KEY) , 1817–94, physiologist, b. Mauritius, of French and American parents. He taught at Harvard (1864–68), practi...
(b ltsä´n ) (KEY) , 1781–1848, Czech philosopher, mathematician, and theologian. Though as a Catholic priest he himself was primarily concerned wi...
(Alfred Renton Bridges), 1901–90, American labor leader, b. Melbourne, Australia. Arriving (1920) as an immigrant seaman in San Francisco, he became...
(g y m´ büd ´) (KEY) , 1467–1540, French humanist, b. Paris. Budé, known also by the Latinized form of his name, Budaeus, was a towering figure ...
(b r k ´ b n nätr n ´ hä-näk´dän) (KEY) , fl. 12th or 13th cent., French Jewish fabulist, biblical commentator, philosopher, grammarian, and t...