Biography Category
(d m ng´g bäth ´ä l bl k´) (KEY) , 1766–1818, Spanish traveler, known as Ali Bey. Posing as a Muslim, he set out from Cádiz (1803) and trave...
(Pierre Émile Levasseur) (py r m l´ lüväsör´) (KEY) , 1828–1911, French economist. He was noted especially for his historical approach to the...
1821–90, English explorer, writer, and linguist. He joined (1842) the service of the East India Company and, while stationed in India, acquired a th...
1851–1933, American educator and leader in social welfare, founder of the Ethical Culture movement, b. Germany. He was brought to the United States ...
1887–1940, American editor and educator, b. Queen City, Mo., grad. Northwestern Univ., 1912. He was assistant to the president of Northwestern Univ....
1728–79, English explorer and navigator. The son of a Yorkshire agricultural laborer, he had little formal education. After an apprenticeship to a f...