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(m ´ r fr t´män) (KEY) , 1831–1908, Hungarian Jewish scholar. He made important contributions in the field of scientific criticism of rabbinical ...
(gr r´s n) (KEY) , 1851–1941, Irish philologist. Besides writing grammars of many modern Indian vernaculars, Grierson directed the compilation of t...
( ng´k l s) (KEY) , 2d cent. A.D., translator of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, his work later being given the title Targum Onkelos (see Targum). A p...
(b s´k r ) (KEY) , called Acarya ( chär´y ) (KEY) [Skt.,=learned], b. 1114, Indian mathematician and astronomer. According to the custom, he put h...
(shärl rm t´) (KEY) , 1822–1901, French mathematician. A professor at the École polytechnique, Paris (1869–76), and at the Faculty of Sciences...
1928–, American writer, writing in French, b. Sighet, Romania. At 16 he was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, wher...