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Glazer, Nathan

(Encyclopedia)Glazer, Nathan, 1923–2019, American sociologist, b. New York City, grad. City College, 1944. He became an editor at The Contemporary Jewish Record, later Commentary, and contributed to The Lonely Cr...

Milstein, Nathan

(Encyclopedia)Milstein, Nathan, 1904–92, Russian violinist, b. Odessa. Milstein attended the music school in Odessa before entering the St. Petersburg conservatory, where he studied under Leopold Auer. He toured ...

Nathan-melech

(Encyclopedia)Nathan-melech nāˈthăn-mēˈlĕk [key], in the Bible, chamberlain of Josiah. ...

Söderblom, Nathan

(Encyclopedia)Söderblom, Nathan näˈtän söˈdərblo͞omˌ [key], 1866–1931, Swedish churchman, primate of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, archbishop of Uppsala. He was professor of the history of religion and ...

Netanya

(Encyclopedia)Netanya nətänˈyə [key], city (1994 pop. 144,900), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea; also spelled Nathania. It is a beach resort and the trade center for agricultural settlements in the r...

Graham, Katharine Meyer

(Encyclopedia)Graham, Katharine Meyer, 1917–2001, American publisher, b. New York City, grad. Univ. of Chicago (1938). She first worked as a copy girl at the Washington Post, which was owned by her father, Eugene...

Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand

(Encyclopedia)Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand kônˈrät fĕrˈdēnänt mīˈər [key], 1825–98, Swiss poet and novelist. He studied history and art and later turned to literature. He is best known for his historical nov...

Meyer, Julius Lothar

(Encyclopedia)Meyer, Julius Lothar, 1830–95, German chemist. He taught at Breslau, Karlsruhe, and Tübingen (from 1876) and is known especially for his work in the development of the periodic law, for which, with...

Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm

(Encyclopedia)Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm vĭlˈhĕlm mīˈər-lüpˈkə [key], 1861–1936, Swiss philologist. Meyer-Lübke taught at the universities of Jena, Vienna, and Bonn. He was the author of many works on Romanc...

Dole, Nathan Haskell

(Encyclopedia)Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852–1935, American author, b. Chelsea, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1874. After teaching in New York and in New England, he worked as a newspaperman in Boston, San Francisco, and Phi...