The Egoist, comic novel by George Meredith, published in three volumes in 1879. The novel is one of Meredith’s most popular works and concerns the egoism of Sir Willoughby Patterne, an inane and conceited man who wants to marry someone worthy of him. Constantia Durham, his selected fiancée,

The Egoist, comic novel by George Meredith, published in three volumes in 1879. The novel is one of Meredith’s most popular works and concerns the egoism of Sir Willoughby Patterne, an inane and conceited man who wants to marry someone worthy of him. Constantia Durham, his selected fiancée,

Yegoryevsk, city, Moscow oblast (region), western Russia. It lies along the Glushitsy River southeast of the capital. The city of Yegoryevsk was formed in 1778 from the village of Vysokoye and became an important trading centre, especially for grain and cattle from Ryazan oblast. In the 19th

Mel Brooks: Work as producer and actor: …entertainers to have earned an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). He followed this in 2007 with a Broadway musical based on Young Frankenstein. Brooks was named a Kennedy Center honoree in 2009 for his contributions to American comedy. His memoir, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business,…

George Santayana: Return to Europe: Egotism in German Philosophy appeared in 1916, making clear his strong allegiance to the Allied cause; he also wrote a number of popular essays centring on the English character and countryside. At the end of the war he was offered a life membership in Corpus…

Atom Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian writer and director who is known for his nuanced character studies of people in unconventional circumstances. Egoyan was born to Armenian parents in Cairo and from age three was reared in Victoria, British Columbia. Although he received a B.A. (1982) in

aigrette, tuft of long, white heron (usually egret) plumes used as a decorative headdress, or any other ornament resembling such a headdress. Such plumes were highly prized as ornaments in Middle Eastern ceremonial dress. Jeweled aigrettes, at first made in the form of a tuft of plumes, became an

egret, any member of several species of herons (family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes), especially members of the genus Egretta. Most egrets have white plumage and develop long ornamental nuptial plumes for the breeding season. Their habits are generally like those of other herons, but some perform

egret: …especially members of the genus Egretta. Most egrets have white plumage and develop long ornamental nuptial plumes for the breeding season. Their habits are generally like those of other herons, but some perform elaborate mating displays involving the plumes. The name egret, or aigrette, is also used to refer to…

egret: The great white egret, Egretta (sometimes Casmerodius) alba, of both hemispheres, is about 90 cm (35 inches) long and bears plumes only on the back. The American populations of this bird are sometimes called American, or common, egrets.

heron: …and South America, and the little blue heron (E. caerulea). The green heron (Butorides virescens), a small green and brown bird widespread in North America, is notable for its habit of dropping bait on the surface of the water in order to attract fish.

egret: The little egret (E. garzetta), of the Old World, about 55 cm long, is white with firm plumes on the head and lacy plumes on the back.

snowy egret, (Egretta thula), white New World egret (family Ardeidae). It is about 24 inches (60 cm) long and has filmy recurved plumes on the back and head. Formerly hunted for its plumes, it ranges from the United States to Chile and

heron: …Egretta (egrets), such as the tricoloured heron (E. tricolor), of the southeastern United States and Central and South America, and the little blue heron (E. caerulea). The green heron (Butorides virescens), a small green and brown bird widespread in North America, is notable for its habit of dropping bait on…

Hamid Dynasty: …with two capitals, one at Eğridir and one at Antalya (Attalia). Dündar was defeated and killed (1324) by Demirtaş, the Il-Khanid governor of Anatolia. Eğridir was restored by Dündar’s sons in 1374 as a dependency of the Ottoman Turks.

József Egry was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Egry primarily painted landscapes, and his style emphasized a close study and rendering of the effects of light. Egry studied painting in Munich (1904) and Paris (1906) and then at the Mintarajziskola (School of Drawing) in Budapest from 1906

József Egry was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Egry primarily painted landscapes, and his style emphasized a close study and rendering of the effects of light. Egry studied painting in Munich (1904) and Paris (1906) and then at the Mintarajziskola (School of Drawing) in Budapest from 1906

Peggy Lee was an American popular singer and songwriter, known for her alluring, delicately husky voice and reserved style. The writer of more than 250 songs, she is regarded as the first important female singer-songwriter in the history of American popular music, noted for her brazen and sensuous

Wii Sports: …game created by Japanese designer Eguchi Katsuya and produced by Nintendo for the 2006 launch of the Nintendo Wii video game console. Wii Sports features five individual games that showcase the Wii’s unique motion-sensitive controller, which translates a player’s actual actions with the controller into actions by a character, or…

African dance: Masquerade dancers: The Egungun ancestral masqueraders of Yorubaland appear in a wide variety of loosely flowing cloth or palm-leaf costumes, often with carved headpieces. The heavier the mask, the less freedom for dance. For example, Epa masqueraders of the Ekiti-Yoruba carry carved helmet masks with elaborate superstructures whose…

African dance: Masquerade dancers: …simple cloth costumes of ancestral Egungun Elewe of the Igbomina-Yoruba allow for a dance of acrobatic skill, and the light raffia Igo masks of the neighbouring Edo people enable them to lift their costumes above their heads in a dance of whirling turns.

José María Eguren was a poet considered one of the leading post-Modernist poets of Peru. His first book of poetry, Simbólicas (1911; “Symbolisms”), signaled a break with the Modernismo tradition, while still maintaining contacts with the Romantic and early French Symbolist poets who had influenced

Ikot Abasi, port town, Akwa Ibom state, southern Nigeria. The town lies near the mouth of the Imo (Opobo) River. Situated at a break in the mangrove swamps and rain forest of the eastern Niger River delta, it served in the 19th century as a collecting point for the trade of enslaved people. In 1870

Péter Nádas: …novel, Egy családregény vége (The End of a Family Story)—told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a communist society—though, because of censorship issues, the book was not published until five years later. Soon after the novel’s completion, Nádas traveled to East Berlin on…

Lajos Kassák: …is his long (eight-volume) autobiography, Egy ember élete (1928–39; “A Man’s Life”). He generally found favour with the communist government of post-World War II Hungary, although this government deleted from later editions of Kassák’s autobiography the final chapters dealing with his growing disenchantment with communism. In the more relaxed atmosphere…

Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate

Youssou N’Dour: …a world-class recording artist with Egypt (2004), an album in praise of luminaries of Senegalese Sufism; in 2005 the recording won a Grammy Award for best contemporary world music album. In 2008 filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi premiered the highly acclaimed documentary I Bring What I Love, which chronicles a musically…

Memphis: Archaeology of Memphis: Beginning in the 1980s, the Egypt Exploration Society sponsored a long-range survey of the Memphite area to determine its extent and development from different historical periods. Large sculptural and architectural elements recovered from various excavations are displayed at an outdoor museum at Mīt Ruhaynah.

Paul McCartney: Wings and solo career: …Full (2007), New (2013), and Egypt Station, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart in September 2018.

Beginning in December 2010, unprecedented mass demonstrations against poverty, corruption, and political repression broke out in several Arab countries, challenging the authority of some of the most entrenched regimes in the Middle East and North Africa. Such was the case in Egypt, where in 2011 a

ancient Egypt, civilization in northeastern Africa that dates from the 4th millennium bce. Its many achievements, preserved in its art and monuments, hold a fascination that continues to grow as archaeological finds expose its secrets. This article focuses on Egypt from its prehistory through its

horizontally striped red-white-black national flag with a central coat of arms in the form of a gold eagle. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 2 to 3.Many flags have been flown over Egypt in its thousands of years of history, but its first true national flag was established only on February

Egypt: History: This section presents the history of Egypt from the Islamic conquests of the 7th century ce until the present day. For a discussion of Egypt’s earlier history, see Egypt, ancient.

John Petherick: …his accounts of his travels, Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa (1861), the Royal Geographical Society appointed him to meet John H. Speke and James A. Grant on their return from discovering the source of the Nile. While carrying out further investigations in the Zande country, however, Petherick misjudged Speke’s…

Ahmed Shafiq: …he oversaw the restructuring of EgyptAir, Egypt’s national airline, and the expansion and modernization of Egypt’s airports.

EgyptAir flight 990, flight of an EgyptAir jet airliner that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles (100 km) south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, in the early morning hours of October 31, 1999. All 217 people on board died. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) stated that the

ancient Egyptian architecture, the architectural monuments produced mainly during the dynastic periods of the first three millennia bce in the Nile valley regions of Egypt and Nubia. The architecture, similar to representational art, aimed to preserve forms and conventions that were held to reflect

Egyptian art and architecture, the ancient architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings, and applied crafts produced mainly during the dynastic periods of the first three millennia bce in the Nile valley regions of Egypt and Nubia. The course of art in Egypt paralleled to a large extent the

Egyptian calendar, dating system established several thousand years before the common era, the first calendar known to use a year of 365 days, approximately equal to the solar year. In addition to this civil calendar, the ancient Egyptians simultaneously maintained a second calendar based upon the

Ṭāhā Ḥusayn: , 1929–67; The Days), the first modern Arab literary work to be acclaimed in the West.

Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Oriental Orthodox church and principal Christian church in predominantly Muslim Egypt. The people of Egypt before the Arab conquest in the 7th century identified themselves and their language in Greek as Aigyptios (Arabic qibṭ, Westernized as Copt). When

church year: Lent: …these ceremonies is in the Apostolic Tradition (c. 200) of St. Hippolytus. At the conclusion all the faithful joined the catechumens (inquirers for instruction) in a strict fast on the Friday and Saturday before Easter. These were the days “when the Bridegroom was taken away” (compare Mark 2:20).

Egyptian cobra, (Naja haje), large, extremely venomous snake of the cobra family (Elapidae), widespread in semiarid northern and eastern Africa, the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and northern South Africa. The Egyptian cobra is depicted on the crowns of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt and

lygaeid bug: …the Old World, or Egyptian, cotton stainer (Oxycarenus hyalinipennis) and the Australian Nysius vinitor, both of which are destructive to fruit trees, and the predatory Geocoris punctipes, which feeds on mites, termites, and other small plant-feeding insects.

Wafd, (Arabic: “Egyptian Delegation”), nationalist political party that was instrumental in gaining Egyptian independence from Britain. Organized by Saad Zaghloul on November 13, 1918, as a permanent delegation of the Egyptian people, it demanded a voice in London and at the peace conferences

filovirus: …the Old World fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus, which lives in areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This species is suspected to serve as a reservoir for the virus and may be responsible for outbreaks of Marburg disease in humans.

Egyptian goose, (Alopochen aegyptiaca), species of African waterfowl classified with ducks and geese in family Anatidae in the bird order Anseriformes; it is the only living member of genus Alopochen. Despite the bird’s common name, it is a sheldgoose, and thus it is more closely related to ducks

henbane: …henbane, and sometimes those of Egyptian henbane (H. muticus) and white henbane (H. albus), yield three medicinal alkaloids—atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine—that can be purified for use in pharmaceuticals. The plants also are sometimes used in herbal and folk medicine. The leaves are

Egypt: Labour and taxation: …associations have arisen, and the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI; 1922) has regained powers it once lost, such as the authority to reject government-proposed trade boycotts.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), Egyptian extremist organization that originated in the late 1970s and developed into a powerful force in the 1980s and 1990s. Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) allied with the al-Qaeda network in the late 1990s, and the two groups merged in 2001. EIJ coalesced out of a

Amenemhet III: …of this great work, the labyrinth described by the Greek historian Herodotus was probably built nearby, south of one of Amenemhet’s pyramids at Hawara, in Al-Fayyūm. It was probably a multifunctional building—palace, temple, town, and administrative centre. To celebrate the reclamation of 153,600 acres (62,200 hectares) of land for agricultural…

Egyptian language, extinct language of the Nile valley that constitutes a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. The Semitic, Cushitic, Chadic, Omotic, and Amazigh (Berber) language groups constitute the remaining members of the phylum. On the basis of ancient texts, scholars generally divide

Egyptian law, the law that originated with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under King Menes (c. 2925 bc) and grew and developed until the Roman occupation of Egypt (30 bc). The history of Egyptian law is longer than that of any other civilization. Even after the Roman occupation, elements

Al-Ahly: …Egyptian League (now called the Egyptian Premier League) began in the 1948–49 season, and Al-Ahly won the league’s first title. It would not lose a league championship until 1960, when Al-Ahly’s fiercest rival, Zamalek SC, won its own first league title. In total, Al-Ahly has won 42 Egyptian league championships,…

lock: Early history.: …the type known as a pin tumbler or, from its widespread use in Egypt, an Egyptian lock. It consists of a large wooden bolt, which secures the door, through which is pierced a slot with several holes in its upper surface. An assembly attached to the door contains several wooden…

lotus: The Egyptian lotus is a white water lily, Nymphaea lotus (family Nymphaeaceae). The blue lotus (N. caerulea) was the dominant lotus in Egyptian art. The sacred lotus of the Hindus is an aquatic plant (Nelumbo nucifera) with white or delicate pink flowers; the lotus of eastern…

mongoose: …Herpestes, among which are the Egyptian mongoose, or ichneumon (H. ichneumon), of Africa and southern Europe and the Indian gray mongoose (H. edwardsi), made famous as Rikki-tikki-tavi in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books (1894 and 1895). The meerkat (Suricata suricatta) is also a member of the mongoose family. The colloquial…

Zahi Hawass: He also initiated the Egyptian Mummy Project, which used modern forensic techniques such as CAT scans to study both royal and nonroyal mummies. As a result of that project, in 2007 Hawass announced that he had identified the remains of Hatshepsut, and in 2010 it was determined that Tutankhamen…

Vatican Museums and Galleries: The Egyptian Museum (Museo Gregoriano Egizio), also founded by Gregory XVI, was opened to the public in 1839. The Pinacoteca, founded by Pope Pius VI in 1797 and housed in its present gallery (commissioned by Pope Pius XI) since 1932, contains 460 paintings arranged chronologically. It…

Egyptian Museum, museum of Egyptian antiquities in Cairo, which was founded in the 19th century by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette and which housed the world’s most valuable collection of its kind into the 21st century. The Egyptian Museum was founded in 1858 at Būlāq, moved to Al-Jīzah

New Museum: It houses the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung), the Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte), and parts of the Collection of Classical Antiquities (Antikensammlung). It is especially noted for exhibiting one of the world’s leading collections of artifacts and…

ancient Egyptian religion, indigenous beliefs of ancient Egypt from predynastic times (4th millennium bce) to the disappearance of the traditional culture in the first centuries ce. For historical background and detailed dates, see Egypt, history of. Egyptian religious beliefs and practices were

Aleksandr Pushkin: Return from exile of Aleksandr Pushkin: …the unfinished Yegipetskiye nochi (1835; Egyptian Nights).

Prospero Alpini: …Oriental plants described in his De plantis Aegypti liber (1592; “Book of Egyptian Plants”). Included in this work were the first European botanical accounts of coffee, banana, and a genus of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) that was later named Alpinia.

crocodile bird, (Pluvianus aegyptius), shorebird belonging to the family Glareolidae (order Charadriiformes). The crocodile bird is a courser that derives its name from its frequent association with the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus). The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that crocodiles

Al-Ahly: …Egyptian League (now called the Egyptian Premier League) began in the 1948–49 season, and Al-Ahly won the league’s first title. It would not lose a league championship until 1960, when Al-Ahly’s fiercest rival, Zamalek SC, won its own first league title. In total, Al-Ahly has won 42 Egyptian league championships,…

henna tree, (Lawsonia inermis), tropical shrub or small tree of the loosestrife family (Lythraceae), native to northern Africa, Asia, and Australia. The leaves are the source of a reddish-brown dye, known as henna, which is commonly used for temporary body art and to dye fabrics. The plant bears

ancient Egyptian religion, indigenous beliefs of ancient Egypt from predynastic times (4th millennium bce) to the disappearance of the traditional culture in the first centuries ce. For historical background and detailed dates, see Egypt, history of. Egyptian religious beliefs and practices were

Hollywood: …the late 20th century; the Egyptian Theatre (built in 1922), for example, was fully restored in the 1990s and became the home of the American Cinematheque, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the presentation of the motion picture.

Egypt: Labour and taxation: …by the government through the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) and umbrella organizations with close ties to the government. Hundreds of independent trade unions sprang up after President Mubarak’s removal, but board elections that would enable these unions to be formalized were continuously delayed. When elections were finally held in…

vulture: Old World vultures: The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), also called Pharaoh’s chicken, is a small Old World vulture about 60 cm (24 inches) long. It is white with black flight feathers, a bare face, and a cascading mane of feathers. This vulture’s range is northern and eastern Africa, southern…

African wildcat, (Felis silvestris libyca), small, tabbylike cat (family Felidae) found in open and forested regions of Africa and Asia. Likely the first cat to be domesticated, the African wildcat is somewhat larger and stockier than the modern house cat, with which it interbreeds readily. Its

The Egyptian, historical novel by Mika Waltari, published in Finnish in 1945 as Sinuhe, egyptiläinen. The novel is set in Egypt during the 18th dynasty when Akhenaton, who ruled from 1353 to 1336 bce, established a new monotheistic cult. Narrated by its protagonist, a physician named Sinuhe who is

Michael Curtiz: Last films of Michael Curtiz: …Curtiz made the costume epic The Egyptian for Fox, and then he signed with Paramount, where his very first project proved to be the year’s biggest hit, White Christmas. Essentially a remake of Holiday Inn (1942), it brought back Bing Crosby from the original and teamed him with Danny Kaye…

Egyptology, the study of pharaonic Egypt, spanning the period c. 4500 bce to ce 641. Egyptology began when the scholars accompanying Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt (1798–1801) published Description de l’Égypte (1809–28), which made large quantities of source material about ancient Egypt

Egyptomania: Sphinxes, Obelisks, and Scarabs: Fascination with Egypt has existed for millennia, Isis temples in Greece being known by the 4th century bce. Romans imported a multitude of genuine Egyptian objects and created their own “Egyptian” works: Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli, built about 125–134 ce, featured an Egyptian garden with…

Fascination with Egypt has existed for millennia, Isis temples in Greece being known by the 4th century bce. Romans imported a multitude of genuine Egyptian objects and created their own “Egyptian” works: Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli, built about 125–134 ce, featured an Egyptian garden with

mineral: Use in sedimentary petrology: …be expressed in terms of Eh (oxidation potential) and pH (the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration [H+]; a pH of 0–7 indicates acidity, a pH of 7–14 indicates basicity, and neutral solutions have a pH of 7).

Samuel Beckett: The humour and mastery: The short television play Eh Joe! (1967) exploits the television camera’s ability to move in on a face and the particular character of small-screen drama. Finally, his film script Film (1967) creates an unforgettable sequence of images of the observed self trying to escape the eye of its own…

Eh–pH diagram, any of a class of diagrams that illustrate the fields of stability of mineral or chemical species in terms of the activity of hydrogen ions (pH) and the activity of electrons (Eh). Consequently, the reactions illustrated on Eh–pH diagrams involve either proton transfer (e.g.,

eHarmony, American company providing online personal-relationship and matchmaking services. Founded in 2000 by Neil Clark Warren, a clinical psychologist, eHarmony is based in Pasadena, Calif. The company aims to unite compatible individuals in long-term relationships via scientific methods. After

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: …Ehe der Maria Braun (1979; The Marriage of Maria Braun), an ironic portrait of a marriage that reflects German history from World War II to the “economic miracle” of the 1950s; Lola (1981), Fassbinder’s version of the Blue Angel legend; and Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982; Veronika Voss), based…

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: …in the United States as Fools Are Passing Through in 1958. Among the plays that followed were Der Besuch der alten Dame (1956; The Visit); Die Physiker (1962; The Physicists), a modern morality play about science, generally considered his best play; Der Meteor (1966; The Meteor); and Porträt eines Planeten…

e-health, use of digital technologies and telecommunications, such as computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, to facilitate health improvement and health care services. E-health is often used alongside traditional “off-line” (non-digital) approaches for the delivery of information directed to

German E. coli outbreak of 2011: E. coli O104:H4: coli (EIEC), enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC), and diffusely adherent E. coli (DAEC). The causative EAEC O104:H4 bacterium of the 2011 outbreak was initially described as a strain of EHEC, but subsequent genetic analyses revealed that it was closely related…

Quetzalcóatl, (from Nahuatl quetzalli, “tail feather of the quetzal bird [Pharomachrus mocinno],” and coatl, “snake”), the Feathered Serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon. Representations of a feathered snake occur as early as the Teotihuacán civilization (3rd to 8th

Odessa, (German: “Organization of Former SS Members”), clandestine escape organization of the SS (q.v.) underground, founded probably in early 1947 in Germany. A large organizational network was set up to help former SS and Gestapo members and other high Nazi functionaries to avoid arrest, to

telecommunications media: The radio-frequency spectrum: …to extremely high frequency (EHF), ending at 300 gigahertz.

Ehime, prefecture (ken), northwestern Shikoku, Japan, facing the Inland Sea (north) and Bungo Strait (west). The interior is mountainous, and most of the population is grouped on the shallow coastal plains. Matsuyama, on the western coast, is the prefectural capital. Crops grown on terraced

South Arabian languages: Dialects include Mahrī (Mehri), Shaḥrī (Eḥkalī; Jibbali), Ḥarsūsī, and Baṭḥarī on the Arabian shore of the Indian Ocean and Soqoṭrī on Socotra. Ḥarsūsī has been influenced by Arabic, a northern Arabian language, to a greater extent than have the other dialects. These languages lack a tradition of writing, and…

Pride and Prejudice: Movies and other adaptations: …the 1995 TV miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, and the 2005 movie featuring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. The novel also served as a premise for a myriad of books at the turn of the 21st century, including the best seller Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) by

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), rare heritable disorder characterized primarily by great elasticity of the skin, skin fragility with a tendency to hemorrhage, poor scar formation, and hyperextensibility of the joints. The skin is velvety and bruises easily, and the ears tend to droop; dislocations of

Adam Elsheimer was a German painter and printmaker, recognized as an important figure in the development of 17th-century landscape painting, noted especially for his atmospheric use of light. Elsheimer studied with Philipp Uffenbach in Frankfurt, where he learned the basic techniques of German

Freda Ehmann was a German businesswoman known as the “mother of the California ripe olive industry” for her contributions to the olive industry in the late 19th century. Ehmann made her mark late in life. At age 56 she was poor and recently widowed. Her only asset was a 20-acre (8-hectare) orchard

electronic health record (EHR), computer- and telecommunication-based system capable of housing and sharing patient health information, including data on patient history, medications, test results, and demographics. The technical infrastructure of electronic health records (EHRs) varies according

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: …the Eternal Glories”) and “Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur” (“The Glory of God in Nature”), were later set to music by Beethoven and still appear in hymnbooks. Gellert also wrote a sentimental novel, Das Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G (1748; “The Life of the Swedish Countess of…

Hermann Sudermann: , What Money Cannot Buy), first performed in Berlin on Nov. 27, 1889, was a milestone in the naturalist movement, although to later critics it seemed a rather trite and slick treatment of class conflicts in Berlin. Heimat (performed 1893; Eng. trans., Magda) carried his fame…

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg was a German biologist, microscopist, scientific explorer, and a founder of micropaleontology—the study of fossil microorganisms. Ehrenberg studied at the University of Berlin (M.D., 1818) and was associated with the university throughout his career. He took part in a

Ashley Montagu was a British American anthropologist noted for his works popularizing anthropology and science. Montagu studied at the University of London and the University of Florence and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York City, in 1937. He lectured and taught at a number of

Koblenz: The Ehrenbreitstein Fortress and suburb across the Rhine were incorporated into Koblenz in 1937. A castle, first built on the site in the 11th century, passed to the archbishops of Trier in the 12th century; destroyed by the French in 1801 after a four-year siege, it…