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Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte

(Encyclopedia)Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte hyoo´g, Fr. vktôr´ mär´ vkôNt´ üg´ [key], 1802–85, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, b. Besançon. His father was a general under Napoleon. As a ...

Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de

(Encyclopedia)Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de frdnäN´ mär´ vkôNt´ d lsps´ [key], 1805–94, French diplomat and engineer. He entered the consular service in 1825 and was minister to Spain ...

Noailles, Louis Marie Antoine, vicomte de

(Encyclopedia)Noailles, Louis Marie Antoine, vicomte de lw mär´ äN´twän´ vkôNt´ d n´y [key], 1756–1804, French general and statesman. During the American Revolution he fought with the marqu...

Bonnat, Léon Joseph Florentin

(Encyclopedia)Bonnat, Léon Joseph Florentin lôN´ zhôzf´ flôräNtN´ bônä´ [key], 1833–c.1922, French portrait and historical painter. He is best known for his portraits of famous men, including Thi...

Vogüé, Eugène Marie Melchior, vicomte de

(Encyclopedia)Vogüé, Eugène Marie Melchior, vicomte de özhn´ mär´ mlkyôr´ vkôNt´ d vôgü´ [key], 1848–1910, French critic. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War and was imprisoned for six ...

Alves, Antônio de Castro

(Encyclopedia)Alves, Antônio de Castro ntô´nyoo d käs´troo äl´vs [key], 1847–71, Brazilian poet. A disciple of Victor Hugo, he came to fame with Espumas flutuantes [tossing spume] (1871). Despite...

Winckler, Hugo

(Encyclopedia)Winckler, Hugo hoo´g vngk´lr [key], 1863–1913, German Orientalist. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin, Winckler was noted for his archaeological work. He helped to excavate the Phoenician ...

Wolf, Hugo

(Encyclopedia)Wolf, Hugo hoo´g vôlf [key], 1860–1903, Austrian composer; studied at the Vienna Conservatory. From 1883 to 1887 he wrote musical criticism for the Vienna Salonblatt. As a composer he first ga...

Münsterberg, Hugo

(Encyclopedia)Münsterberg, Hugo mn´strbrg, mn´– [key], 1863–1916, American psychologist, b. Danzig, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1885; M.D. Univ. of Heidelberg, 1887. At the instigation of William James h...

Eckener, Hugo

(Encyclopedia)Eckener, Hugo, 1868–1954, German airship designer and pilot, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1892. As a journalist he covered early flghts of Zeppelin's first rigid airships. He joined (1908) Zeppelin's co...

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