Biography Category
(s ´f s b ´g ) (KEY) , 1833–1907, Norwegian philologist. He made a notable edition of the Old Norse runes, and his was the first critical edition ...
1785–1853, American physician, b. Lebanon, Conn. He was privately educated and was licensed (1812) to practice in Vermont. His Experiments and Obser...
(st ´fän bä´näkh) (KEY) , 1892–1945, Polish mathematician. He was educated at the Institute of Technology in Lviv; his doctoral thesis laid the...
1702–61, English clergyman and mathematician. The son of a Nonconformist minister, he was privately educated and earned his livelihood as a minister...
(bäl-sh m-tôv) (KEY) , c.1698–1760, Jewish founder of modern Hasidism, b. Ukraine. His life is the subject of many tales that circulated even befo...
(dûrk b ´gärd) (KEY) , 1920–99, English film actor, b. Hampstead as Derek Van den Bogaerde. In his early career Bogarde played romantic leads in ...