Biography Category
(h r´män f n v s´män) (KEY) , 1853–1905, German explorer in Africa. He crossed (1880–82) Africa from Luanda to Zanzibar and, on behalf of Leop...
( l ´z r hw ´l k) (KEY) , 1711–79, American clergyman, founder of Dartmouth College, b. Windham, Conn., grad. Yale, 1733. He became (1735) the pa...
(ou´g st v s´män) (KEY) , 1834–1914, German biologist. He taught zoology at the Univ. of Freiburg from 1866 to 1912. He is known as the originato...
1856–1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. His mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man. After the Civil War, he w...
1863–1947, American educator, b. South Norwalk, Conn. After teaching at Wheaton Seminary (1886–91), she attended college and became the first woma...
(ä´brähäm gôt´l p v r´n r) (KEY) , 1750–1817, German geologist. In 1775 he became inspector and teacher in the mining academy at Freiberg, wh...