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(äl´fr t l tär´ v g´ n r) (KEY) , 1880–1930, German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of th...
(zhäN zhäk l z ´ r klü´) (KEY) , 1830–1905, French geographer, b. Gironde, educated mainly in Germany, where he studied under Karl Ritter. Sev...
c.1635–1715, English cleric and scientist, b. Croft, in Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Northallerton and Cambridge. Following travels in Eur...
( ´b n khäld n´) (KEY) , 1332–1406, Arab historian, b. Tunis. He held various offices under the rulers of Tunis and Morocco and served (1363) as ...
1845–1924, American authority on Siberia, b. Norwalk, Ohio. In 1864 he made the first of his journeys to East Asia as an engineer. His articles on S...
1863–1932, American geographer, b. Louisville, Ky., grad. Vassar, 1882, and studied at the Univ. of Leipzig. A follower of the German geographer Rat...