ferdinand | (n) the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516), Syn. King Ferdinand, Ferdinand the Catholic, Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand V |
ferdinand and isabella | (n) joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I |
ferdinand i | (n) Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia (1503-1564) |
ferdinand i | (n) king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065), Syn. Ferdinand the Great |
ferdinand ii | (n) Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary who waged war against Protestant forces (1578-1637) |
ferdinand iii | (n) Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia who signed the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War (1608-1657) |
francis ferdinand | (n) archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914), Syn. Franz Ferdinand |
cohn | (n) German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants, Syn. Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
delacroix | (n) French romantic painter (1798-1863), Syn. Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Delacroix |
de saussure | (n) Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913), Syn. Ferdinand de Saussure, Saussure |
helmholtz | (n) German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894), Syn. Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz |
lesseps | (n) French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894), Syn. Ferdinand de Lesseps, Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps |
magellan | (n) Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521), Syn. Fernao Magalhaes, Ferdinand Magellan |
mobius | (n) German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868), Syn. August Ferdinand Mobius, August F. Mobius |
morton | (n) United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941), Syn. Jelly Roll Morton, Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton |
perutz | (n) English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002), Syn. Max Perutz, Max Ferdinand Perutz |
zeppelin | (n) German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917), Syn. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
里希特霍芬 | [Lǐ xī tè huò fēn, ㄌㄧˇ ㄒㄧ ㄊㄜˋ ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄣ, 里 希 特 霍 芬] Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路 #225,855 [Add to Longdo] |
李希霍芬 | [Lǐ xī huò fēn, ㄌㄧˇ ㄒㄧ ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄣ, 李 希 霍 芬] Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路 #321,858 [Add to Longdo] |
弗迪南 | [Fú dí nán, ㄈㄨˊ ㄉㄧˊ ㄋㄢˊ, 弗 迪 南] Ferdinand (name) [Add to Longdo] |
福煦 | [Fú xù, ㄈㄨˊ ㄒㄩˋ, 福 煦] Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One [Add to Longdo] |