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Brook, Peter

(Encyclopedia)Brook, Peter, 1925–, English theatrical director, b. London, grad. Oxford (1943). An innovative, unconventional, and controversial figure, Brook mounts energetic productions in which the entire stag...

Zumthor, Peter

(Encyclopedia)Zumthor, Peter, 1943–, Swiss architect. He apprenticed with his cabinetmaker father as a teenager, and wood is a recurring material in his work, e.g., his small, shingled St. Benedict Chapel, Sumvit...

Schöffer, Peter

(Encyclopedia)Schöffer, Peter: see Fust, Johann.

Pindar, Peter

(Encyclopedia)Pindar, Peter: see Wolcot, John. ...

Sellars, Peter

(Encyclopedia)Sellars, Peter, 1957–, American director, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Harvard (1981). A highly innovative director, he began his career with the Boston Shakespeare Co. (1983–84) and Washington's American...

Serkin, Peter

(Encyclopedia)Serkin, Peter: see under Serkin, Rudolf. ...

Peter, Hugh

(Encyclopedia)Peter or Peters, Hugh, 1598–1660, British Puritan clergyman, educated at Cambridge. He became a priest of the Established Church, but his Puritan doctrines forced him to leave England for Holland c....

Peter Lombard

(Encyclopedia)Peter Lombard, Lat. Petrus Lombardus, c.1100–c.1160, Italian theologian, often called Magister Sententiarum. He studied at Bologna, Reims, and Paris, where he is said to have been a student of Abela...

Peter Martyr

(Encyclopedia)Peter Martyr: see Peter of Verona, Saint; Vermigli, Pietro Martire. ...

Peter Nightingale

(Encyclopedia)Peter Nightingale: see Philomena of Dacia, Peter. ...