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Zweig, Stefan

(Encyclopedia)Zweig, Stefan shtf´än tsvk [key], 1881–1942, Austrian biographer, poet, and novelist. Born in Vienna of a well-to-do Jewish family, he was part of the humanitarian, pan-European, pacifist, and...

Zweig, Arnold

(Encyclopedia)Zweig, Arnold är´nôlt tsvk [key], 1887–1968, German novelist and dramatist. A Zionist, he was denationalized under National Socialism and went to Palestine. There he wrote about the plight of G...

Wyszynski, Stefan

(Encyclopedia)Wyszynski, Stefan st´fän vzn´sk [key], 1901–81, Polish prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Ordained in 1924, he received (1929) a doctorate in sociology and canon law from the...

Löfven, Stefan

(Encyclopedia)Löfven, Stefan (Kjell Stefan Löfven), 1957–, Swedish union leader and politian, b. Stockholm. He worked as a welder and became a union representative. He was deputy chairman (2002–5) of the Swed...

Wolpe, Stefan

(Encyclopedia)Wolpe, Stefan shtf´än vôl´p [key], 1902–72, German–American composer. Of Jewish ancestry, he went to live in Palestine in 1933, but settled in the United States in 1938. Wolpe wrote severa...

Banach, Stefan

(Encyclopedia)Banach, Stefan st´fän bä´näkh [key], 1892–1945, Polish mathematician. He was educated at the Institute of Technology in Lviv; his doctoral thesis laid the foundations of modern functional ana...

Heym, Stefan

(Encyclopedia)Heym, Stefan sht´fän hm [key], 1913–2001, German writer, b. Chemnitz as Helmut Flieg. A Jew, he fled the Nazis (1933), moved to Prague, and settled (1935) in the United States, where he attend...

Stambulov, Stefan

(Encyclopedia)Stambulov, Stefan st´fän stämboo´lôf [key], 1854–95, Bulgarian politician. Protesting Ottoman rule in Bulgaria, he led the unsuccessful revolt of 1876, which was ruthlessly suppressed by th...

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