megascopically crystalline rock that has a highly developed schistosity, or tendency to split into layers. Banding (foliation) is typically poorly developed or absent. Most schists are composed largely of platy ...
group of chronic disorders caused by small, parasitic flatworms (family Schistosomatidae) commonly called blood flukes. Schistosomiasis is characterized by inflammation of the intestines, bladder, liver, and other organs. Next to ...
family of the fern order Filicales, class Filicopsida. It contains six genera and about 160 species and is called the climbing fern family. The family is considered to be relatively ...
any invertebrate animal that possesses a schizocoel, a coelom (body cavity) formed through the splitting of the mesodermal mass, the middle germ layer in embryonic development. This type of coelom ...
any of a group of severe mental disorders that have in common such symptoms as hallucinations, delusions, blunted emotions, disordered thinking, and a withdrawal from reality. Schizophrenics display a wide ...
East German athlete who won an upset victory in the discus throw at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. She went on to set world records in the discus and ...
German scholar and critic, one of the most influential disseminators of the ideas of the German Romantic movement, and the finest German translator of William Shakespeare. He was also an ...
German writer and critic, originator of many of the philosophical ideas that inspired the early German Romantic movement. Open to every new idea, he reveals a rich store of projects ...
German author and critic (uncle of August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel), whose plays and criticism helped give the German theatre a much-needed new impetus. He was educated at the ...
German linguist whose work in comparative linguistics was a summation of the achievements up to his time and whose methodology provided the direction for much subsequent research. He was influenced ...
German theologian, preacher, and classical philologist, generally recognized as the founder of modern Protestant theology. His major work, Der christliche Glaube (1821-22; 2nd ed. 1831; The Christian Faith), is a ...
American astronomer who pioneered in the use of photography to map stellar positions and to measure stellar parallaxes, from which the most direct determinations of distance can be made.
city, Schleswig-Holstein Land (state), northern Germany. The city forms a semicircle around the head of the Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea that affords access ...
historic and cultural region occupying the southern Jutland Peninsula north of the Eider River and now encompassing the northern half of Schleswig-Holstein Land (state) in northern Germany and Sonderjylland amtskommune ...
tin-glazed earthenware made from 1755 to 1814 at the town of Schleswig in the Danish duchy of Schleswig (now the Land [state] of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany). The faience factory was ...
the most northwesterly Land (state) of Germany, with an area of 6,073 square miles (15,729 square km). Schleswig-Holstein extends from the lower course of the Elbe River and the Land ...
(count of) German officer and head of the general staff who developed the plan of attack (Schlieffen Plan) that the German armies used, with significant modifications, at the outbreak of ...
historian and teacher whose universal histories stressing a moralistic and judgmental approach to the past were the most popular historical works in Germany before the rise of Leopold von Ranke ...
cactus genus of three species, family Cactaceae, native to Brazil, grown for its striking elongated flowers, unique in the family and adapted to pollination by hummingbirds. All grow perched on ...
sculptor and architect, the first important master of the late Baroque style in Germany, noted for infusing the bravura style of Baroque sculpture with a tense, personal quality.
one of the confessions of faith of Lutheranism, written by Martin Luther in 1536. The articles were prepared as the result of a bull issued by Pope Paul III calling ...
during the Reformation, a defensive alliance formed by Protestant territories of the Holy Roman Empire to defend themselves collectively against any attempt to enforce the recess of the Diet of ...
German heavyweight boxer who, from June 12, 1930, when Jack Sharkey lost to him by disqualification, until June 21, 1932, when he was outpointed by Sharkey in 15 rounds, held ...
telescope in which a spherical primary mirror receives light that has passed through a thin aspherical lens, called a correcting plate, that compensates for the image distortions-namely, spherical aberrations-produced by ...
novelist, translator, and critic, whose experimental prose established him as the preeminent Modernist of 20th-century German literature. With roots in both German Romanticism and Expressionism, he attempted to develop modern ...
optical instrument maker who invented the telescope named for him, an instrument widely used to photograph large sections of the sky because of its large field of view and its ...
Dutch-born American astronomer whose identification of the wavelengths of the radiation emitted by quasars (quasi-stellar objects) led to the theory that they may be among the most distant, as well ...
American professional baseball player, one of the finest all-around third basemen in history. He spent his entire career with the National League Philadelphia Phillies.
German anthropologist and Roman Catholic priest who led the influential cultural-historical European school of ethnology. He was a member of the Society of the Divine Word missionary order.
theologian and educator who was a principal exponent of the American Lutheran movement, which sought to create a particularly American expression of Lutheranism.
Austrian pianist and teacher whose performances and recordings made him a legend in his own time and a model of scholarly musicianship to all later pianists.
any of three breeds of dogs-the standard, miniature, and giant schnauzers-developed in Germany. The standard, or medium-sized, schnauzer is the stock from which the other two breeds were derived. It ...
Austrian-born ski instructor who developed what came to be called the Arlberg technique, based on the snowplow, stem, and stem Christiania turns. He helped popularize skiing in the United States.
Swiss Alpine skier who was the dominant female skier of her generation and one of the greatest skiers in the history of the slalom and giant slalom events. During her ...
postmodernist Russian composer who created serious, dark-toned musical works characterized by abrupt juxtapositions of radically different, often contradictory, styles, an approach that came to be known as "polystylism."
police official who was twice prime minister of Austria (1921-22 and 1929-30). He established friendly relations with the Czechoslovak republic but was unable to negotiate a union between Austria and ...
Austrian-American composer who created a new method of composition based on a row, or series, of 12 tones-a method called atonality (q.v.). He was also one of the most influential ...
German-born American biochemist whose technique of "tagging" molecules with radioactive isotopes made it possible to trace the paths of organic substances through animals and plants and revolutionized metabolic studies.
American welfare worker and reformer who was influential in state and national child welfare and juvenile criminal legislation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
in Germany, a lay jurist or assessor assigned primarily to a lower criminal court to make decisions both on points of law and on fact jointly with professional jurists. A ...
county, east-central New York state, U.S., comprising a mountainous region. The principal streams are Schoharie, Cobleskill, and Catskill creeks and West and Manor kills. The main (west) and east branches ...
medieval papal singing school and associated choir, the ancestor of the modern Sistine Choir. According to tradition, the schola cantorum was established by Pope Sylvester I (d. 335) and was ...
the philosophical systems and speculative tendencies of various medieval Christian thinkers, who, working against a background of fixed religious dogma, sought to solve anew general philosophical problems (as of faith ...
Canadian-born American economist best known for his work with colleague Fischer Black on the Black-Scholes option valuation formula, which made options trading more accessible by giving investors a benchmark for ...
German soldier of fortune, a marshal of France, and an English peer, who fought in the service of various countries in the major European wars between 1634 and 1690.
German chemist who discovered and named ozone (1840) and was the first to describe guncotton (nitrocellulose). His teaching posts included one at Epsom, Eng., before he joined the faculty at ...
Rococo-style 1,440-room summer palace of the Habsburgs in Vienna. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's first design for the building, meant to rival France's Palace of Versailles, was done in 1690. ...
(Oct. 14, 1809), agreement signed at the Schloss Schonbrunn in Vienna after Austria's premature war of liberation against Napoleon collapsed with its defeat at Wagram and its failure to get ...
Bezirk (district) of Berlin, Germany. The original 13th-century peasant settlement of Alt-Schoneberg was merged in 1874 with Neu-Schoneberg, which was founded by Frederick the Great in 1750 to accommodate weavers ...
Austrian political extremist, founder of the Pan-German Party (1885). He was a virulent anti-Semite and was perhaps the best-known spokesman for popular antidemocratic sentiments in the late empire.
