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81Eakins, Thomas — born July 25, 1844, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died June 25, 1916, Philadelphia U.S. painter. After early training at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris (1866–70), he spent most of his life in his native Philadelphia. He reinforced his study of the… …
82Gross, Samuel David — born July 8, 1805, Easton, Pa., U.S. died May 6, 1884, Philadelphia U.S. surgeon, teacher of medicine, and author. He was apprenticed to a local country doctor before receiving formal medical training. His most celebrated work, Elements of… …
83Boullée, Étienne-Louis — born Feb. 12, 1728, Paris, Fr. died Feb. 6, 1799, Paris French architect, theorist, and teacher. He studied architecture and opened his own studio by age 19. Through his investigation of the properties of geometric forms, to which he attributed… …
84Buchanan, George — born February 1506, Killearn, Stirlingshire, Scot. died Sept. 29, 1582, Edinburgh Scottish humanist, scholar, and educator. As a teacher of Latin in Paris, Buchanan wrote bitter attacks on the Franciscans that landed him in jail for heresy. He… …
85Chase, William Merritt — born Nov. 1, 1849, Williamsburg, Ind., U.S. died Oct. 25, 1916, New York, N.Y U.S. painter and teacher. He studied in New York and for six years in Munich. Chase became the most important U.S. art teacher of his generation, first at New York s… …
86Gérôme, Jean-Léon — born May 11, 1824, Vesoul, Fr. died Jan. 10, 1904, Paris French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman… …
87Wagner, Otto — born July 13, 1841, Penzing, near Vienna, Austrian Empire died April 11, 1918, Vienna Austrian architect and teacher. In 1893 his general plan (not executed) for Vienna won a major competition, and in 1894 he was appointed professor at the… …
88Arendt, Hannah — born Oct. 14, 1906, Hannover, Ger. died Dec. 4, 1975, New York, N.Y., U.S. German born U.S. political theorist. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. Forced to flee the Nazis in 1933, she became a social worker in Paris… …
89Bell, Alexander Graham — born March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scot. died Aug. 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Can. Scottish born U.S. audiologist and inventor. He moved to the U.S. in 1871 to teach the visible speech system developed by his father, Alexander Melville Bell …
90Boas, Franz — born July 9, 1858, Minden, Westphalia [Germany] died Dec. 22, 1942, New York, N.Y., U.S. German born U.S. anthropologist. Trained in physics and geography (Ph.D., 1881), Boas was part of an early scientific expedition to Baffin Island (1883–84),… …
