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Holbein, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Holbein, Hans häns hôlˈbīn [key] the elder, c.1465–1524, German painter and draftsman. Holbein worked principally in Augsburg and Ulm, painting altarpieces for churches and probably creating por...

Brosamer, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Brosamer, Hans häns brōˈzämər [key], c.1500–1554, German painter and engraver. His work shows the influence of Cranach, Dürer, and Holbein. Recent scholarship has attempted to reattribute a la...

Lützelburger, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Lützelburger, Hans häns lüˈtsəlbo͝orgər [key], d. 1526, German wood engraver, assumed to be the same man as Hans Franck, active from c.1516. He worked in Augsburg and Basel and probably in Main...

Augsburg

(Encyclopedia)Augsburg ouksˈbo͝ork [key], city, capital of Swabia, Bavaria, S central Germany, a major industrial center on the Lech River. The major industries include the manufactur...

Froben, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Froben, Johannes yōhäˈnəs frōˈbən [key], 1460–1527, German printer. He established himself at Basel and there in 1516 printed the Greek New Testament, edited and translated into Latin by Eras...

Egede, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Egede, Hans häns āˈgədə [key], 1686–1758, Norwegian Lutheran missionary, called the Apostle of Greenland. He went to Greenland in 1721 and, with the support of the Danish government, founded a ...

Delbrück, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Delbrück, Hans häns dĕlˈbrük [key], 1848–1929, German historian, professor at the Univ. of Berlin. His Geschichte der Kriegskunst [history of the art of warfare] (4 vol., 1900–1927) is notabl...

Fischer, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Fischer, Hans, 1881–1945, German organic chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, 1904; M.D. Univ. of Munich, 1908. Fischer was a professor at the Univ. of Innsbruck from 1916 to 1918 and at the Univ. of Vi...

Fallada, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Fallada, Hans ro͞oˈdôlf dĭtˈsən [key], 1893–1947, German novelist. Little Man, What Now? (1932, tr. 1933), his story of a young couple in Germany after World War I, was an immediate internatio...

Franck, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Franck, Hans: see Lützelburger, Hans. ...