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(Encyclopedia) Furtwängler, Adolf äˈdôlf fo͝ortˈvĕng-lər [key], 1853–1907, German archaeologist, authority on ancient vases and gems. He made important excavations at Olympia, Aegina, and Orchomenus and wr...

(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...

(Encyclopedia) Spemann, Hans häns shpāˈmän [key], 1869–1941, German embryologist. He was professor of zoology (1919–35) at the Univ. of Freiburg. By transplanting embryonic tissue to a new location or to ano...

(Encyclopedia) Thoma, Hans häns tōˈmä [key], 1839–1924, German painter and lithographer. He was influenced by Courbet. His later, individual style, modeled on that of old German woodcuts, shows rich coloring a...

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

(Encyclopedia) Hemling, Hans: see Memling, Hans. ...

(Encyclopedia) Burckmair, Hans: see Burgkmair, Hans. ...

(Encyclopedia) Sachs, Hans häns zäks [key], 1494–1576, German poet, leading meistersinger of the Nuremberg school. A shoemaker and guild master, he wrote more than 4,000 master songs in addition to some 2,000 fa...

(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...

(Encyclopedia) Süss, Hans: see Kulmbach, Hans von. ...