Biography Category
(zhäk küzhäs´, ky j ´sh s) (KEY) , 1522–90, French jurist and scholar of Roman law. He taught at Toulouse, Bourges, and elsewhere. Unlike previ...
1754–1846, American physician, b. Newport, R.I. He studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. In 1783 he became professor on the first fac...
(mâr) (KEY) , c.1089–1164, Jewish grammarian, commentator, poet, philosopher, and astronomer, b. Tudela, Spain. He traveled widely and wrote a numb...
1902–83, Australian novelist, b. Rockdale, New South Wales. She worked in the United States in the 1940s, emigrated to England in 1953, then returne...
(äl-fä´s ) (KEY) , 1013–1103, prominent Jewish Talmudic scholar of the very late Gaonic period, b. near Fès, N Africa. He headed the rabbinical ...
1886–1952, Australian nurse, b. New South Wales, grad. St. Ursula’s College, Australia, 1902. She became “Sister” Kenny as a first lieutenant ...