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121Manet, Édouard — born Jan. 23, 1832, Paris, France died April 30, 1883, Paris French painter and printmaker. His father, a prosperous civil servant, wanted him to pursue a naval career, but he was a poor student interested only in drawing. After having a few… …
122Marconi, Guglielmo — born April 25, 1874, Bologna, Italy died July 20, 1937, Rome Italian physicist and inventor. He began experimenting with radio waves in 1894. In 1896 he went to England, where he developed a successful system of radio telegraphy. His work on the… …
123Miró, Joan — born April 20, 1893, Barcelona, Spain died Dec. 25, 1983, Palma de Mallorca Spanish (Catalan) artist. He attended a commercial school and worked as an office clerk until a mental breakdown persuaded his artisan father to permit him to study art.… …
124Otto, Rudolf — born Sept. 25, 1869, Peine, Prussia died March 6, 1937, Marburg, Ger. German theologian, philosopher, and historian of religion. He taught at the Universities of Göttingen and Breslau, then settled in Marburg in 1917. His theories on religion… …
125Pisano, Giovanni — born с 1250, Pisa died after 1314, Siena? Italian sculptor and architect. His early work is similar to that of Nicola Pisano, his father and teacher. About 1285 he began work on the facade of Siena s cathedral, whose lavish and ordered design and …
126Purcell, Henry — born с 1659, London, Eng. died Nov. 21, 1695, London British composer. Little is known of his origins, but he was in the Chapel Royal choir from boyhood, and he probably studied with Pelham Humfrey (1647–74) and John Blow (1649–1708). His first… …
127Putnam, Hilary — born July 31, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. philosopher. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1951 he taught at Northwestern University, Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard. Early in his career he was a defender… …
128Rhodes, Alexandre de — born March 15, 1591, Avignon, France died March 5, 1660, Eṣfahān, Iran French missionary, the first Frenchman to visit Vietnam. He established a Jesuit mission in the region in 1619 and later estimated that he had converted some 6,700 Vietnamese… …
