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Melville, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Melville, Herman, 1819–91, American author, b. New York City, considered one of the great American writers and a major figure in world literature. Early Life and Works Born into an impoverished fami...

Fairhaven

(Encyclopedia)Fairhaven, residential town (1990 pop. 16,132), Bristol co., SE Mass., at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzards Bay, opposite New Bedford; settled 1670, set off from New Bedford and inc. 1812. A...

Ladislaus Herman

(Encyclopedia)Ladislaus Herman läd´slous hr´män [key], 1040–1102, duke of Poland (1079–1102), brother and successor of Boleslaus II. His rule was one of weakness and decline. At his death the kingdom ...

Heijermans, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Heijermans, Herman hr´män h´rmäns [key], 1864–1924, Dutch dramatist. Much of his work treated life among the Dutch Jews. His dramas include Op Hoop van Zegen (1900, tr. The Good Hope, 1928...

Wouk, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Wouk, Herman wk [key], 1915–2019, American writer, b. New York City. In The Caine Mutiny (1951; Pulitzer Prize), he made the protagonist-antagonist Captain Queeg a popular symbol of uncontrolled a...

Kahn, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Kahn, Hermankän, 1922–83, American military strategist. b. Bayonne, N.J. After graduate work in physics at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the Rand Corporation. Unlike scholars su...

Robbers, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Robbers, Herman hr´män rô´brs [key], 1868–1937, Dutch novelist. A representative of descriptive realism, he wrote De Roman van een Gezin (1909–10; tr. The Fortunes of a Household, 1924). ...

Badillo, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Badillo, Herman bäd´y [key], 1929–2014, U.S. politician, b. Caguas, Puerto Rico, grad. City College (now part of the City Univ. of New York), 1951, Brooklyn Law School, 1954. As a Democrat, he...

Hollerith, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Hollerith, Herman h´lrth [key], 1860–1929, American inventor, b. Buffalo, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia Univ. (B.S., 1879), he worked on the U.S. Census of 1880. Intrigued by the proble...

Gorter, Herman

(Encyclopedia)Gorter, Herman hr´män gôr´tr [key], 1864–1927, Dutch poet. He wrote two notable long poems, Mei (1889) and Pan (1912). A Marxian socialist, Gorter was a well-known political journalist. ...