Biography Category
(ô´t m ´ rh f) (KEY) , 1884–1951, American physiologist, b. Germany, M.D. Heidelberg, 1909. He was professor at the Univ. of Kiel (1912–24) an...
1908–2002, American entertainer, b. New York City as Milton Berlinger. Berle first performed in vaudeville and on (1939–48) radio. His great succe...
(f l p´ d r m ´ s r d b mänwär´) (KEY) , c.1250–1296, French poet and jurist, a writer of medieval law texts. He was a judicial officer at Cl...
1679–1766, American physician, b. Brookline, Mass. He was privately educated in medicine and settled in Boston. In an epidemic of smallpox in 1721 h...
(b v r´) (KEY) , 1787–1851, American writer on law, b. France. He emigrated to Philadelphia in 1802 with his parents and later was a lawyer and jou...
1785–1848, American jurist and diplomat, b. Providence, R.I., grad. Rhode Island College (now Brown), 1802. After translating the Code Napoléon int...