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Erfurt

(Encyclopedia) Erfurt Erfurt ĕrˈf&oobreve;rt [key], city, capital of Thuringia, central Germany, on the Gera…

Villars, Claude Louis Hector, duc de

(Encyclopedia) Villars, Claude Louis Hector, duc deVillars, Claude Louis Hector, duc deklōd lwē ĕktôrˈ dük də vēlärˈ [key], 1653–1734, marshal of France, the last of the great generals of Louis XIV.…

Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders

(Encyclopedia) Petrie, Sir William Matthew FlindersPetrie, Sir William Matthew Flinderspēˈtrē [key], 1853–1942, English archaeologist, a noted Egyptologist. He excavated ancient remains in Britain (…

Lucius

(Encyclopedia) Lucius, in the New Testament. 1 Christian teacher at Antioch, a Cyrenian. 2 Christian at Rome.

Hill, Daniel Harvey

(Encyclopedia) Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1821–89, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. York District, S.C. He served in the Mexican War but resigned from the army in 1849. He was professor of…

Turner, Frederick Jackson

(Encyclopedia) Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861–1932, American historian, b. Portage, Wis. He taught at the Univ. of Wisconsin from 1885 to 1910 except for a year spent in graduate study at Johns…

Indiana University

(Encyclopedia) Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The…

Massachusetts, University of

(Encyclopedia) Massachusetts, University of, main campus at Amherst; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1863, opened 1867 as Massachusetts Agricultural College. It was called…

Eckermann, Johann Peter

(Encyclopedia) Eckermann, Johann PeterEckermann, Johann Peteryōhänˈ pāˈtər ĕkˈərmän [key], 1792–1854, German scholar and author. He assisted Goethe in various literary labors, was professor of…

Thorndike, Lynn

(Encyclopedia) Thorndike, Lynn, 1882–1965, American historian, b. Lynn, Mass. He taught history at Northwestern Univ. (1907–9), at Western Reserve Univ. (1909–24), and at Columbia (1924–50). Among…