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Vorster, Balthazar Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Vorster, Balthazar Johannes yhän´s bältäzär´ fôr´str [key], 1915–83, South African political leader. A lawyer, John Vorster became involved in the Afrikaner nationalist movement and he...

Balthazar

(Encyclopedia)Balthazar blth´zr [key]: see Wise Men of the East.

Alasco, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Alasco or à Lasco, Johannes: see Laski, John.

Cocceius, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Cocceius, Johannes kks´s [key], 1603–69, German theologian, whose surname was originally Koch or Koken. Born in Bremen, he went to Holland, where he was professor at Francken and Leiden. He p...

Faber, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Faber, Johannes yhä´ns fä´br [key], 1478–1541, German churchman. His German surname was Heigerlin. He was a Dominican. After 1531 he was bishop of Vienna. Faber was friendly at first (unti...

Tauler, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Tauler, Johannes yhän´s tou´lr [key], c.1300–1361, German mystic. He was a Dominican. He met Meister Eckhart, either at Strasbourg or in Cologne, where he went to study, and he was one of E...

Fibiger, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Fibiger, Johannes yôhä´ns f´bgr [key], 1867–1928, Danish pathologist and physician. He served as professor of pathological anatomy at the Univ. of Copenhagen. For his experimental studie...

Clericus, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Clericus, Johannes: see Le Clerc, Jean.

Scheffler, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Scheffler, Johannes: see Angelus Silesius.

Schilling, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Schilling, Johannes yhän´s shl´ng [key], 1828–1910, German sculptor. He is represented by many monuments in Germany, including the colossal Germania (1883), a national monument in the Nie...