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Aukrust, Olav

(Encyclopedia)Aukrust, Olav ōˈläv ouˈkro͝ost [key], 1883–1929, Norwegian lyric poet. Aukrust's work, which contains strong religious and nationalist sentiment, draws much of its inspiration from Norway's pea...

Kristianstad

(Encyclopedia)Kristianstad krĭstyänˈstäd [key], city (1990 pop. 31,310), SE Sweden, on the Helge River. Its nearby seaport, Åhus, is on the Baltic Sea. Kristianstad is a commercial and industrial center, locat...

Barclay, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Barclay, Robert, 1648–90, Scottish apologist for the Society of Friends (Quakers). He wrote many controversial works but is best known for his great treatise An Apology for the True Christian Divini...

Iconium

(Encyclopedia)Iconium īkōˈnēəm [key], ancient city of Asia Minor, the modern Konya, Turkey. In ancient days it was at various times in Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cappadocia, and the Roman province of Galatia. It was v...

Victorinus

(Encyclopedia)Victorinus (Caius Marius Victorinus Afer) vĭktərīˈnəs [key], fl. 361, Roman grammarian, b. Africa. He became renowned as a teacher of rhetoric in Rome and as an advocate of Neoplatonism. Becoming...

Covadonga

(Encyclopedia)Covadonga kōˈväᵺōnˈgä [key], village, Oviedo prov., N Spain, in Asturias. A battle fought nearby sometime between 718 and 725 was the first victory of the Christians over the Moors; it had gre...

Chamoun, Camille

(Encyclopedia)Chamoun, Camille kämēˈyə shämōnˈ [key], 1900–1987, Lebanese political leader. Chamoun held a variety of governmental posts before serving as president of Lebanon (1952–58). A Maronite Chris...

Falkberget, Johan

(Encyclopedia)Falkberget, Johan yōˈhän fälkˈbĕrgə [key], 1879–1967, Norwegian novelist. Falkberget's early poverty and toil in the mines colored all his works. The trilogies Christianus Sextus (1927–35) ...

Paludan-Müller, Frederik

(Encyclopedia)Paludan-Müller, Frederik frĭˈᵺərĭk päˈlo͞oᵺän-müˈlər [key], 1809–76, Danish poet. In Denmark he is widely regarded as a peer of Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen. Among his ear...

Papias

(Encyclopedia)Papias pāˈpēəs [key], fl. a.d. 130, early Christian theologian said to have been bishop of Hieropolis and a friend of St. Polycarp. Papias' five-volume work, Oracles; or, Explanations of the Sayin...