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Aquila Ponticus
( k´w l , kw l´ p n´t k s) (KEY) , 2d cent., Jewish translator of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek. The characteristic feature of Aquila’s version was its extremely literal rendering of the ...
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Pappus
(p p´ s) (KEY) , fl. c.300, Greek mathematician of Alexandria. He recorded and enlarged on the results of his predecessors, including Euclid and Apollonius of Perga, in his Mathematical Collection (8 ...
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Hirsch, Samson Raphael
1808–88, German rabbi and chief exponent of Neo-Orthodoxy. As rabbi in Frankfurt-am-Main, he advocated the organization of autonomous Orthodox congregations outside the state-recognized Jewish communa...
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Rashi
(rä´sh ) (KEY) , 1040–1105, Jewish exegete, grammarian, and legal authority, b. Troyes, France. The name he is known by is an acronym of Rabbi Solomon bar Isaac. He studied in Worms and Mainz, returni...
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Eustachi, Bartolomeo
(bär´´t l m ´ ´´ stä´k ) (KEY) , d. 1574, Italian anatomist. He lived in Rome from 1549 and taught at the Collegia della Sapienza (later the Univ. of Rome). He described many structures in the human...
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Calmette, Léon Charles Albert
(l ôN´ shärl älb r´ kälm t´) (KEY) , 1863–1933, French physician and bacteriologist. He was founder and director of the Pasteur institutes at Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and at Lille. From 1917 he w...
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Kirkland, Lane
(Joseph Lane Kirkland) (kûr´kl nd) (KEY) , 1922–99, American labor leader, president (1979–95) of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), b. Camden, S.C. H...
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Martens, Feodor
(fyô´d r mär´ty ns) (KEY) , 1845–1909, Russian diplomat and authority on international law. He became an official in the foreign ministry in 1868 and was professor of international law at the Univ. of...
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Seelye, Julius Hawley
(s ´l ) (KEY) , 1824–95, American clergyman and educator, b. Bethel, Conn., grad. Amherst, 1849, and Auburn Theological Seminary, 1852, and studied in Germany; brother of L. C. Seelye. After serving a...
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Giner de los Ríos, Francisco
(fränth s´k h n r´ d l s r ´ s) (KEY) , 1839–1915, Spanish educator and philosopher. He founded the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, a school that sought to develop a spirit of inquiry in its student...
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Fellenberg, Philipp Emanuel von
(f ´l p mä´n l f n f l´ nb rkh) (KEY) , 1771–1844, Swiss educator and agriculturist. He purchased (1799) an estate, Hofwyl (near Bern), where he put into practice his theory of combining farm traini...
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McIntosh, Millicent Carey
1898–2001, American educator, b. Baltimore, grad. Bryn Mawr, 1920, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1926. From 1926 to 1930 she taught at Bryn Mawr and was acting dean in 1929–30. She was headmistress of Br...
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Duchesne, Rose Philippine
(r z f l p n´ düsh n´) (KEY) , 1769–1852, French educator in the United States, a Roman Catholic nun, b. Grenoble, France. She entered the order of the Visitation, but was forced (1791) by the antirel...
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Porter, Noah
1811–92, American educator and philosopher, b. Farmington, Conn., grad. Yale, 1831. He entered the ministry in 1836. In 1846 he became professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale and from 18...
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