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Hildebrand, Adolf von

(Encyclopedia)Hildebrand, Adolf von äˈdôlf fən hĭlˈdəbränt [key], 1847–1921, German sculptor and author. He studied in Munich and in Italy, where he spent 18 years. He is best known for his dignified publ...

Harnack, Adolf von

(Encyclopedia)Harnack, Adolf von äˈdôlf fən härˈnäk [key], 1851–1930, German theologian and church historian. He was professor of church history successively in the universities of Leipzig, Giessen, Marbur...

Gjellerup, Karl Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Gjellerup, Karl Adolf kärl äˈdôlf yĕlˈəro͝op [key], 1857–1919, Danish poet and novelist, b. Sjæland. His early novels, naturalistic and partly autobiographical, include The Young Denmark (1...

Dehn, Adolf Arthur

(Encyclopedia)Dehn, Adolf Arthur dān [key], 1895–1968, American painter and illustrator, b. Waterville, Minn. During the 1920s, Dehn became known as a forceful satiric illustrator. Later he concentrated primaril...

Baeyer, Adolf von

(Encyclopedia)Baeyer, Adolf von (Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer) äˈdôlf fən bāˈyər; yōhänˈ frēˈdrĭkh vĭlˈhĕlm [key], 1835–1917, German chemist. He taught at Berlin and Strasbourg and in...

Paneth, Friedrich Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Paneth, Friedrich Adolf frēˈdrĭkh äˈdôlf päˈnĕt [key], 1887–1958, Austrian chemist. He was educated at Vienna, Munich, and Glasgow. He held a number of teaching posts in Germany until he wa...

Adolf of Nassau

(Encyclopedia)Adolf of Nassau näˈsou [key], d. 1298, duke of Luxembourg, German king (1292–98). He owed his election to the ecclesiastical electors, who, fearing the growing power and ambition of the Hapsburgs,...

Verner, Karl Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Verner, Karl Adolf vûrˈnər, Dan. kärl äˈdôlf vĕrˈnər [key], 1846–96, Danish philologist. Verner was a librarian at the Univ. of Halle (now in E Germany) and a professor of Slavonic languag...

Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf, 1865–1929, Austrian-German chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of Munich, 1889. Zsigmondy was a lecturer at the Univ. of Munich (1887–1893) and at the Univ. of Graz (1893–97), then wo...

Northeast Passage

(Encyclopedia)Northeast Passage, water route along the northern coast of Europe and Asia, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Beginning in the 15th cent., efforts were made to find a new all-water route to Ind...