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Stefan Banach
Banach, Stefan (b. Krakow, Poland, 30 March 1892; d, Lvov, Ukrainian S.S.R., 31 August 1945) Mathematics. Banach Read more |
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Louis Zorich
Zorich, Louis 1924-PERSONALBorn February 12, 1924, in Chicago, IL; son of Christ and Anna (maiden name, Gledi) Zorich; married Olympia Dukakis (an actress), November 30, 1962; children: Christina (an actress), Peter, Stefan. Education: Roosevelt College (later known as Roosevelt University), B.A.;... Read more |
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Stefan Lochner
Lochner, Stefan (b ?Meersburg, ?c.1415; d Cologne, ?1451). German painter. The works associated with him have long been regarded as the finest paintings produced in Cologne in the mid-15th century, but there has recently been some doubt about the artist's identity. A painter called Stefan Lochner... Read more |
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Josef Stefan
STEFAN, JOSEF(b. St. Peter, near Klagenfurt, Austria, 24 March 1835; d. Vienna, Austria, 7 January 1893)physics.Stefan’s parents were of Slovene origin. An excellent student at the elementary school and later the Gymnasium in Klagenfurt, he enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1853 and became a... Read more |
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Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe , 1902-72, German-American composer. Of Jewish ancestry, he went to live in Palestine in 1933, but settled in the United States in 1938. Wolpe wrote several operas and cantatas and a good deal of chamber music. His style embraces many elements, from folk music to modern jazz to a form... Read more |
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Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann , 1844-1906, Austrian physicist, b. Vienna, educated at Univ. of Vienna. He began teaching (1869) at Graz Univ. In 1873 he became mathematics professor at Vienna and then physics professor at Graz (1876), Munich (1890), Vienna (1895), and Leipzig (1900). Boltzmann made important... Read more |
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Arnold Zweig
ZWEIG, ARNOLD (1887-1968) Born to a Jewish family in Glogau, Silesia, on November 10, 1887, novelist and author Arnold Zweig died in East Berlin, almost completely blind, on November 26, 1968. At his death Zweig was the most celebrated author in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Zweig... Read more |
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Linguistic Turn
LINGUISTIC TURN. "Where word breaks off no thing may be": this is the line from a poem by Stefan George repeatedly cited by Martin Heidegger to indicate his version of the linguistic turn, which affected many philosophers in the early twentieth century—literary scholars already having made... Read more |
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Stefan Wyszynski
Wyszynski, Stefan (b. 3 Aug. 1901, d. 28 May 1981). Primate of Poland 1948–81 Born in Zuzela, he studied at the Roman Catholic University of Lublin, before becoming a teacher at a seminary, where he was noted for his social catholicism and his progressiveness. During World War II he went... Read more |
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig , 1881-1942, Austrian biographer, poet, and novelist. Born in Vienna of a well-to-do Jewish family, he was part of the humanitarian, pan-European cultural circle that included Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. Zweig's first works were poetry and a poetic drama, Jeremias ... Read more |
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