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Brand, Sebastian
(Encyclopedia)Brand, Sebastian: see Brant, Sebastian. ...Brandt, Sebastian
(Encyclopedia)Brandt, Sebastian: see Brant, Sebastian. ...Franck, Sebastian
(Encyclopedia)Franck, Sebastian sābäsˈtyän frängk [key], 1499–1542, German religious writer. He was a Roman Catholic priest who came under the influence of the Reformation, but he shortly broke with the Luth...Münster, Sebastian
(Encyclopedia)Münster, Sebastian sābäsˈtyänˌ münˈstər [key], 1489–1552, German scholar and geographer. He was a Franciscan monk but after the Reformation became a Protestant and taught at Heidelberg and ...Vizcaíno, Sebastián
(Encyclopedia)Vizcaíno, Sebastián sāvästyänˈ vēthkäēˈnō [key], c.1550–c.1628, Spanish explorer and merchant. After an unsuccessful attempt to plant a colony in Lower California (1596), he sailed (1602)...Piñera, Sebastián
(Encyclopedia)Piñera, Sebastián (Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique) mēgĕlˈ hwän sābästyänˈ pēnyāˈrä āchāˈnēkā [key], 1949–, Chilean business executive and politician, president of Chile ...Cabot, Sebastian
(Encyclopedia)Cabot, Sebastian, b. 1483–86?, d. 1557, explorer in English and Spanish service; son of John Cabot. He may well have accompanied his father on the 1497 and 1498 voyages, and he was for many years gi...San Sebastián
(Encyclopedia)San Sebastián sän sābästyänˈ [key], Basque Donostia, city (1990 pop. 183,944), capital of Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa) prov., N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay at the mouth of the Urumea River, in the Basq...Brant, Sebastian
(Encyclopedia)Brant, Brandt, or Brand, Sebastian sābäsˈtyän bränt [key], 1457–1521, German humanist and moralist. He taught law at the Univ. of Basel and in 1503 became town clerk of Strasbourg. His verse al...Belalcázar, Sebastián de
(Encyclopedia)Belalcázar, Sebastián de: see Benalcázar, Sebastián de. ...Browse by Subject
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