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Highgate

(Encyclopedia)Highgate, residential area within Camden, Islington, and Haringey boroughs, London, England. The house where Francis Bacon died is in Highgate, and Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, and Karl Marx are bur...

Drobisch, Moritz Wilhelm

(Encyclopedia)Drobisch, Moritz Wilhelm mōˈrĭts vĭlˈhĕlm drōˈbĭsh [key], 1802–96, German philosopher and mathematician. He was a teacher at Leipzig and a follower and adherent of Johann Friedrich Herbart....

International

(Encyclopedia)International, any of a succession of international socialist and Communist organizations of the 19th and 20th cent. After World War I, the Second International was revived (1919) by moderate social...

proletariat

(Encyclopedia)proletariat prōlətârˈēət [key], in Marxian theory, the class of exploited workers and wage earners who depend on the sale of their labor for their means of existence. In ancient Rome, the prolet...

Euler-Chelpin, Hans Karl August Simon von

(Encyclopedia)Euler-Chelpin, Hans Karl August Simon von, 1873–1964, Swedish biochemist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1895. He spent his entire career at Stockholm Univ., first as professor and later as dire...

Delitzsch, Franz

(Encyclopedia)Delitzsch, Franz fränts dāˈlĭch [key], 1813–90, German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. He was professor of theology at Rostock from 1846 to 1850, at Erlangen until 1867, and later at Leipzig. ...

Stock, Frederick

(Encyclopedia)Stock, Frederick (Friedrich Wilhelm August Stock) stŏk [key], 1872–1942, German-American conductor and composer. He came to the United States in 1895 as a violist in the Chicago Orchestra and becam...

Leipzig, University of

(Encyclopedia)Leipzig, University of, at Leipzig, Germany; founded 1409 when German scholars withdrew from Charles Univ. It was reorganized in 1946, and in 1953 its name was changed officially to Karl Marx Univ. Si...

Lützow, Adolf, Freiherr von

(Encyclopedia)Lützow, Adolf, Freiherr von äˈdôlf frīˈhĕr fən lüˈtsō [key], 1782–1834, Prussian officer. He commanded (1813–14) a volunteer corps, the Black Troops (or Black Rifles), in the War of Lib...

Larsson, Carl

(Encyclopedia)Larsson, Carl kärl lärˈsôn [key], 1853–1919, Swedish painter and illustrator. He was a popular and imaginative illustrator and was equally successful as a watercolorist. In watercolor he painted...

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