(Encyclopedia) Hazard, PaulHazard, Paulpôl äzärˈ [key], 1878–1944, French scholar. He began his teaching at the Univ. of Lyons in 1910. After World War I he taught at the Sorbonne and in 1925 was…
(Encyclopedia) Heyse, PaulHeyse, Paulpoul hīˈzə [key], 1830–1914, German realistic writer. Besides the 120 novellas on which his reputation rests, he wrote some 50 plays, 6 novels, and many fine…
(Encyclopedia) Green, Paul, 1894–1981, American dramatist, b. Lillington, N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina, 1921. He is known for his realistic plays depicting the lives of blacks and white tenant…
(Encyclopedia) Greengard, Paul, 1925–2019, American neuroscientist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1953. Greengard was on the staff at Geigy Research Laboratories (1959–67) and a professor at…
(Encyclopedia) Gerhardt, Paul, 1607–76, German hymn writer and clergyman. Some of his famous texts, such as O Sacred Head Sore Wounded, are much used in English translations.
(Encyclopedia) Gauguin, PaulGauguin, Paulpôl gōgăNˈ [key], 1848–1903, French painter and woodcut artist, b. Paris; son of a journalist and a French-Peruvian mother.
Today Gauguin is recognized as a…
(Encyclopedia) Erdös, PaulErdös, Paulĕrˈdös [key], 1913–96, Hungarian mathematician, b. Budapest. A child prodigy, he was mostly home-schooled by his parents—both teachers of mathematics—until he…
(Encyclopedia) Kagame, PaulKagame, Paulkägäˈmə [key], 1957–, Rwandan political leader. Kagame was born into a Tutsi family that fled (1960) ethnic violence in Rwanda. Raised in Uganda, he became a…
(Encyclopedia) Jenkins, Paul, 1923–2012, American painter, b. Kansas City, Mo., studied Kansas City Art Institute, Art Students League, New York City. After he moved to New York in the 1950s, he…
