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	William Wordsworth William Wordsworth 1770-1850, English poet, b. Cockermouth, Cumberland. One of the great English poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in England. Life and Works In 1791 he graduated from Cambridge and traveled abroad. While in France he fell in love with Annette Vallon, who bore him a... Read more
	Philipp Otto Runge Philipp Otto Runge , 1777-1810, German painter. Immersed in the mysticism of the romantic movement in Germany, Runge became a central figure of romantic painting. He was influenced by C. D. Friedrich and by Goethe to express universal harmonies in his art. His Rest on the Flight into Egypt ... Read more
	Womens studies WOMEN'S STUDIES. In its short history (from the late 1960s in the United States) women's studies has moved around the world as an idea, a concept, a practice, and finally a field or Fach (German for specialty or field). As late as 1982 in Germany Frauenstudium was not considered a Fach and... Read more
	Hudson River school Hudson River school group of American landscape painters, working from 1825 to 1875. The 19th-century romantic movements of England, Germany, and France were introduced to the United States by such writers as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. At the same time, American painters were... Read more
	Masters Masters Occult adepts who are supposed to have reached a superhuman stage but have elected to remain on Earth and guide seekers after wisdom. The founding and guidance of the Theosophical Society was supposed to be due to the activity of hidden Masters or Mahatmas living in remote Tibet. Since... Read more
	Thomas Percy Thomas Percy 1729-1811, English antiquary and churchman, b. Shropshire. In 1782 he became Protestant bishop of Dromore (Ireland). He achieved literary fame as the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (3 vol., 1765), a collection of 176 English and Scottish ballads. Its publication... Read more
	Louis-Hector Berlioz Louis-Hector Berlioz , 1803-69, French romantic composer. He abandoned medical study to enter the Paris Conservatory as a composition student. In 1830 his Symphonie fantastique was first performed in Paris, marking a bold new development in program music. This work, with its recurring basic theme,... Read more
	Francis Lieber Francis Lieber , 1798-1872, German-American political philosopher, b. Berlin. Ardently patriotic, he enlisted in the Prussian army and fought and was wounded at the battle of Waterloo. On his return to Germany he joined the Turnverein movement. In the suppression of student organizations in 1819,... Read more
	Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine , 1797-1856, German poet, b. Düsseldorf, of a Jewish family. One of the greatest of German lyric poets, he had a varied career. After failing in business he tried law but found it uncongenial and finally turned to history and literature. His first published poems and plays... Read more
	Edward John Russell RUSSELL, EDWARD JOHNb. Frampton-on Severn Gloucestershire, England 31 October 1872; d. Goring-on-Thamas, Oxfordshire, England, 12 July 1965)agriculatural chemistry. agronomy.Born into a poor family, Russell was encouraged to obtain an education by his father, a schoolmaster and Unitarian minister.... Read more