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Godly Meditation of the Soul, A (work by Margaret of Angoulême)
Although some of Margaret’s poetry, including the Miroir de l’âme pécheresse (1531; trans. by the future Queen Elizabeth I of England as A Godly Meditation of the Soul, 1548), was published during her lifetime, her best verse, including Le Navire, was not compiled until 1896, under the title of Les Dernières Poé...
Godmanchester (district, England, United Kingdom)
town (parish), Huntingdonshire district, administrative county of Cambridgeshire, historic county of Huntingdonshire, England. It is the administrative centre and county town (seat) of Huntingdonshire, and it lies on the north bank of the River Ouse. Huntingdon, founded by the Anglo-Saxons and Danes, prosp...
Godmanhood (work by Solovyov)
...travels in the West, he wrote a second thesis, a critique of abstract principles, and accepted a teaching post at the University of St. Petersburg, where he delivered his celebrated lectures on Godmanhood (1880). This appointment was later rescinded because of Solovyov’s clemency appeal for the March 1881 assassins of Tsar Alexander II. He also encountered official opposition to h...
godmother (Christianity)
one who stands surety for another in the rite of Christian baptism. In the modern baptism of an infant or child the godparent or godparents make profession of faith for the person being baptized (the godchild) and assume an obligation to serve as proxies for the parents if the parents either are unable or neglect to provide for the religious training of the child, in fulfillment...
Gododdin (people)
The Votadini, the dominant Celtic tribe of the Lothians, with whom Rome had a relatively stable relationship, were the group most likely to have occupied the Castle Rock site. The Votadini capital was on Traprain Law, a cone-shaped hill (law) some 20 miles (30 km) east of the modern city, but it appears that about ad 500, after the Roman withdrawal from Britain, the capital was moved...
Gödöllő (Hungary)
...an Episcopal centre for centuries), is the industrial heart of the county, with a cement factory and photo chemical and light industry units. Gödöllő is an important centre for agricultural research and home to two automotive factories. Szászhalombatta has a major oil.....
Godolphin Barb (horse)
...Calendars and sales papers. After a few years of revision, it was updated annually. All Thoroughbreds are said to descend from three “Oriental” stallions (the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Barb, and the Byerly Turk, all brought to Great Britain, 1690–1730) and from 43 “royal” mares (those imported by Charles II). The preeminence of English racing ...
Godolphin, Margaret Blagge (English aristocrat)
About 1670 Evelyn formed a paternal affection for Margaret Blagge, a maid of honour at court, who later secretly married Sidney Godolphin, future lord high treasurer. She died after giving birth to a child in 1678; Evelyn’s Life of Mrs. Godolphin (1847; ed. H. Sampson, 1939), is one of the most moving of 17th-century biographies....
Godolphin, Sidney (English poet)
English poet and Royalist during the reign of Charles I....
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of, Viscount Rialton, Baron Godolphin of Rialton (English politician)
British politician and administrator who did much to stabilize British financial administration during the 20 years after the Glorious Revolution of 1688....
Godomer (king of Burgundy)
...I, as allies of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, moved into Burgundy, whose king, Sigismund, Theodoric’s son-in-law, had assassinated his own son. Sigismund was captured and killed. Godomer, the new Burgundian king, defeated the Franks at Vézeronce and forced them to retreat; Clodomir was killed in the battle. Childebert I, Chlotar I, and Theodebert I, the son of......
Godongwana (Mthethwa leader)
African chief or king of the Mthethwa of Southern Africa. Few hard facts are known about Dingiswayo—not even the approximate dates of his birth, his assumption of chieftaincy, or his death—but it is clear that he was dominant during the first two decades of the 19th century (though he may have been influential in the 1790s, or even earlier)....
Godowsky, Leopold (American pianist and composer)
renowned Russian-born American virtuoso pianist and composer, known for his exceptional piano technique....
Godowsky, Leopold, Jr. (American musician and photography technician)
American musician and photographic technician primarily known as a codeveloper of Kodachrome film (1935)....
Godoy Cruz (Argentina)
suburb immediately south of the city of Mendoza in northern Mendoza provincia (province), western Argentina. Originally an agricultural oasis supplying wine grapes, fruit, potatoes, and alfalfa, Godoy Cruz has become an important manufacturing and industrial centre within Greater Mendoza. Wineries, canneries, meat-packin...
Godoy, Manuel de (prime minister of Spain)
Spanish royal favourite and twice prime minister, whose disastrous foreign policy contributed to a series of misfortunes and defeats that culminated in the abdication of King Charles IV and the occupation of Spain by the armies of ...
godparent (Christianity)
one who stands surety for another in the rite of Christian baptism. In the modern baptism of an infant or child the godparent or godparents make profession of faith for the person being baptized (the godchild) and assume an obligation to serve as proxies for the parents if the parents either are unable or neglect to provide for the religious training of the child, in fulfillment...
Godrh (India)
city, northeastern Gujarat state, west-central India. Godhra is a road and rail junction and a commercial centre for timber and agricultural produce. Industries include oilseed pressing, flour milling, and glass manufacture. Pop. (2001) 121,879....
Godrum (king of Denmark)
leader of a major Danish invasion of Anglo-Saxon England who waged war against the West Saxon king Alfred the Great (reigned 871–899) and later made himself king of East Anglia (reigned 880–890)....
Gods and Generals (film by Maxwell)
...AOL, Turner became vice-chairman and senior adviser of AOL Time Warner Inc. In 2003 he resigned as vice-chairman of that company. Also in 2003, Turner both produced and starred in the films Gods and Generals and Gettysburg. In 2006 he received the Bower Award for Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute—a premier science and technology education and development......
Gods Are Athirst, The (work by France)
...and his condemnation of fanaticism in his novel on the French Revolution, Les Dieux ont soif (1912; The Gods Are Athirst). For Anglophone readers right up to the end of World War II, he spoke for that Voltairean liberal humanism, reason,...
God’s Bits of Wood (work by Sembène)
Ousmane Sembène was a major film director and a significant novelist. Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (1960; God’s Bits of Wood), his greatest novel, describes the last gasp of colonialism through the story of a railroad strike. In it Bakayoko is the spokesman for a future that will combine African humanism and European technology. The......
God’s Determination Touching His Elect (poem by Taylor)
...Yale University in 1883 by the gift of a descendant, and the best of his verse was published in 1939. The important poems fall into two broad divisions. “God’s Determinations Touching His Elect” is an extended verse sequence thematically setting forth the grace and majesty of God as a drama of sin and redemption. The “Sacramental......
Gods, Garden of the (park, Colorado, United States)
...the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (1965), and Nazarene Bible College (1967) and is well served by rail, road, and air links. The Garden of the Gods, a 1,350-acre (546-hectare) natural park with red sandstone monoliths, now a National Landmark, is one of many scenic attractions in the area. Of cultural and historical interest......
God’s Gift, College of (school, Southwark, London, United Kingdom)
one of the greatest actors of the Elizabethan stage and founder of Dulwich College, London. Rivaled only by Richard Burbage, Alleyn won the outspoken admiration of such authors as Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe for his interpretations of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, ......
God’s Little Acre (novel by Caldwell)
...a staple of the American theatre, with its tragicomic picture of Jeeter Lester, his family, and his neighbours. Caldwell’s reputation as a novelist largely rests on Tobacco Road and on God’s Little Acre (1933), another best-selling novel featuring a cast of hopelessly poor and degenerate whites in the rural South. Among his other more important works are Trouble i...
Gods Must Be Crazy, The (film by Uys)
...used a largely American cast to bring the harsh reality of apartheid to an international audience. Other films that reached a wider audience include Afrikaner director Jamie Uys’s The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), Oliver Schmitz and Thomas Mogotlane’s Mapantsula (1988), Manie van Rensburg’s Taxi to Soweto...
Gods of Pegana, The (work by Dunsany)
...served in the South African War and World War I. His first book of short stories was The Gods of Pegana (1905); his first play, The Glittering Gate, was produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1909; and his first......
Gods of the Mountain, The (play by Dunsany)
...(1905); his first play, The Glittering Gate, was produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1909; and his first London production, The Gods of the Mountain, at the Haymarket Theatre in 1911. As in his more than 50 subsequent verse plays, novels, short stories and memoirs, in these works Dunsany explored in a richly coloured......
God’s Orchid (work by Bergman)
...sombre, and yet moving world that was peculiarly his own, despite its real-life setting. His work was appreciated by a discriminating few, until with Markurells i Wadköping (1919; God’s Orchid, 1924) he at last captured the wider public. The action of this vigorous comic novel takes place, with numerous recapitulations, within a 24-hour period. It tells the story of ...
God’s Step-Children (work by Millin)
...white, Coloured, and black communities provided the background for much of her writing. Her first novel, The Dark River (1920), was set around Barkly West. Others followed, but it was God’s Step-Children (1924; new ed. 1951)—dealing with the problems of four generations of a half-black, half-white (“Coloured”) family in ......
God’s Trombones (work by Johnson)
...or a poet is movingly evoked in his most famous poem, Heritage (1925). In contrast, James Weldon Johnson embraced the African American oral tradition in God’s Trombones (1927), his verse tribute to the folk sermon tradition of Southern blacks....
God’s Wife of Amon (Egyptian royal title)
...of a new dynasty because he was the native ruler who reunified Egypt. Continuing a recently inaugurated practice, he married his full sister Ahmose-Nofretari. The queen was given the title of God’s Wife of Amon. Like her predecessors of the 17th dynasty, Queen Ahmose-Nofretari was influential and highly honoured. A measure of her importance was her posthumous veneration at Thebes, where....
godspell
The English word gospel is derived from the Anglo-Saxon godspell (“good story”). The classical Greek word euangelion means “a reward for bringing of good news” or the “good news” itself. In the emperor cult particularly, in which the Roman emperor was venerated as the spirit and protector of the empire, the term took on a religious meaning: t...
Godthåb (Greenland)
capital and main port of Greenland, on the southwestern coast, near the mouth of the Godthåb Fjord, an inlet of the Davis Strait, and the mountain landmarks Sermitsiaq (“Saddle Island”) and Hjortetakken (“Deer Antlers”). The modern town dates from 1721, when Hans Egede, a...
Godunov, Aleksandr Borisovich (Russian dancer)
(ALEKSANDR BORISOVICH GODUNOV), Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. Nov. 25/28, 1949, Sakhalin Island, U.S.S.R.--d. May 18?, 1995, Los Angeles, Calif.), had a successful career with Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet before defecting to the U.S. during the ...
Godunov, Alexander (Russian dancer)
(ALEKSANDR BORISOVICH GODUNOV), Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. Nov. 25/28, 1949, Sakhalin Island, U.S.S.R.--d. May 18?, 1995, Los Angeles, Calif.), had a successful career with Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet before defecting to the U.S. during the ...
Godunov, Boris (literary character)
the protagonist of Aleksandr Pushkin’s historical tragedy Boris Godunov (1831)....
Godunov, Boris (tsar of Russia)
Russian statesman who was chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I (reigned 1584–98) and was himself elected tsar of Muscovy (reigning 1598–1605) after the extinction of the Rurik dynasty. His reign inaugurated the devastating Time of Trou...
Godunov, Boris Fyodorovich (tsar of Russia)
Russian statesman who was chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I (reigned 1584–98) and was himself elected tsar of Muscovy (reigning 1598–1605) after the extinction of the Rurik dynasty. His reign inaugurated the devastating Time of Trou...
Godunov, Fyodor Borisovich (tsar of Russia)
tsar who ruled Russia briefly (April–June 1605) during the Time of Troubles (1598–1613)....
Godwi (work by Brentano)
...major works include the dramas Ponce de Leon (1801) and Die Gründung Prags (1815; “The Foundation of Prague”) and the novel Godwi (1801), which forms an important link between the older and the newer forms of Romanticism....
Godwin (earl of Wessex)
earl of Wessex, the most powerful man in England during the opening years of the reign of Edward the Confessor....
Godwin Austen Glacier (glacier)
The glacier- and snow-covered mountain rises from its base at about 15,000 feet (4,570 metres) on the Godwin Austen Glacier, a tributary of the Baltoro Glacier. The mountain was discovered and measured in 1856 by Col. T.G. Montgomerie of the Survey of India, and it was given the symbol K2 because it was the second peak measured in the Karakoram Range. The name ......
Godwin Austen, Mount (mountain, Asia)
the world’s second highest peak (28,251 feet [8,611 metres]), second only to Mount Everest. K2 is located in the Karakoram Range and lies partly in a Chinese-administered enclave of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang of China and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portio...
Godwin, Edward (British architect and writer)
British architect, designer, and writer notable for his contributions to the English Aesthetic movement in design, which drew its inspiration mainly from East Asia, particularly from Japan....
Godwin, Francis (English bishop and historian)
bishop and historian who wrote the first story of space travel in English literature, The Man in the Moone: or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales, the Speedy Messenger. The tale was begun in about 1603–06 and finished aro...
Godwin, Gail (American author)
American author of fiction about personal freedom in man-woman relationships and the choices women make....
Godwin, Gail Kathleen (American author)
American author of fiction about personal freedom in man-woman relationships and the choices women make....
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft (British author)
English Romantic novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein....
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft (English author)
English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women....
Godwin, William (British philosopher)
social philosopher, political journalist, and religious dissenter who anticipated the English Romantic literary movement with his writings advancing atheism, anarchism, and personal freedom....
Godwine (archbishop of Canterbury)
archbishop of Canterbury who was venerated as a martyr after his murder by the Danes....
Godwine (earl of Wessex)
earl of Wessex, the most powerful man in England during the opening years of the reign of Edward the Confessor....
Godwine of Wessex (Anglo-Saxon earl)
Tostig was a son, probably the third, of Godwine, earl of Wessex and Kent, and in 1051 married Judith, half sister of Baldwin V, count of Flanders. In the year of his marriage he shared the short exile of his father, returning with him to England in 1052, and he became earl of Northumbria after the death of Earl Siward in 1055. By stern measures, Tostig introduced a certain degree of order into......
Godwinville (New Jersey, United States)
village, Bergen county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Saddle River, 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Paterson, New Jersey. Dutch farmers settled in the area in the late 1600s. The village’s Old Paramus Reformed Church, built about 1800 and remodeled in 1875, is on the site of an earlier church where statesman Aaron Burr a...
godwit (bird)
any of four species of large, long-billed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, family Scolopacidae, named for its whistling call. Godwits are generally reddish brown in summer and grayish in winter; all nest in the Northern Hemisphere. The black-tailed godwit (L. limosa), about 40 centimetres (16 inches) long including the bill, has a black-banded, white tail. The bill is long and straig...
Gody życia (work by Dygasiński)
...short stories of uneven literary quality, the best pieces of which deal with the lives of domestic and wild animals. His masterpiece is Gody życia (1902; “Feast of Life”), an allegorical prose poem about the struggle between a small bird and a powerful......
Godzilla (film)
...best known, however, for its science fiction offerings, particularly in the kaiju (monster) genre. Most notable was Gojira (Godzilla), a colossal, irradiated, dinosaur-like beast that made its film debut in 1954. During the virtual collapse of the Japanese film industry in the 1970s, the company restructured its......
Godzina strzeżona (work by Jastrun)
...communist group. Immediately after the war he became the deputy editor of the communist literary periodical Kuźnica. His wartime poetry collections, Godzina strzeżona (1944; “A Curfew Hour”) and Rzecz ludzka (1946; “The Human Story”), reflect upon the national experience during the German......
Goebbels, Joseph (German propagandist)
minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler. A master orator and propagandist, he is generally accounted responsible for presenting a favourable image of the Nazi regime to the German people. Following Hitler’s suicide, Goebbels served as chancellor of Germany for a single day before he and ...
Goebbels, Paul Joseph (German propagandist)
minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler. A master orator and propagandist, he is generally accounted responsible for presenting a favourable image of the Nazi regime to the German people. Following Hitler’s suicide, Goebbels served as chancellor of Germany for a single day before he and ...
Goebel, Karl Immanuel Eberhard von (German botanist)
German botanist whose Organographie der Pflanzen (1898–1901; Organography of Plants, 1900–05) clarified the principles of the science of plant morphology in relation to form and structure....
Goebel, Timothy (American athlete)
...the quad; he was the first to land a quad in combination with a double toe loop (at the 1991 World Championships in Munich) and with a triple toe loop (at the 1997 Champions Series final in Munich). Timothy Goebel, an American, completed the first quad salchow in 1998 at the Junior Grand Prix finals. He also was the first to land three quads in one program, two quad salchows and one quad toe......
Goeben (ship)
...should have to take Austria-Hungary’s side against Russia. The unforeseen entry of Great Britain into the war against Germany alarmed the Turks, but the timely arrival of two German warships, the Goeben and the Breslau, in the Dardanelles on August 10 turned the scales in favour of Enver’s policy. The ships were ostensibly sold to Turkey, but they retained their Germ...
Goeben, August Karl von (Prussian general)
a victorious and exceptionally able Prussian general in the wars of 1864, 1866, and 1870–71....
Goedel, Kurt (American mathematician)
Austrian-born mathematician, logician, and philosopher who obtained what may be the most important mathematical result of the 20th century: his famous incompleteness theorem, which states that within any axiomatic mathematical system there are propositions that cannot be proved or disproved on the basis of the axioms within that system; thus, such a system can...
Goeie Hoop, Kaap die (historical province, South Africa)
Former province, South Africa....
Goeje, Michael Jan de (Dutch scholar)
Dutch scholar who edited many Arabic works, most important of which was the medieval history, Annals of Tabari, 13 vol. (1879–1901)....
Goeldi’s marmoset (primate)
There are three groups of marmosets: the “true” marmosets, the tamarins, and Goeldi’s monkey (Callimico goeldi). Also called Goeldi’s marmoset, this species is found only in the western Amazon River basin. Black in colour and maned, it differs from other marmosets in that it possesses a third set of ...
Goeldi’s monkey (primate)
There are three groups of marmosets: the “true” marmosets, the tamarins, and Goeldi’s monkey (Callimico goeldi). Also called Goeldi’s marmoset, this species is found only in the western Amazon River basin. Black in colour and maned, it differs from other marmosets in that it possesses a third set of ...
Goëmagot (Cornish legendary figure)
...to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (1135–39), he was a Trojan warrior who accompanied Brutus the Trojan, the legendary founder of Britain, to England. Corineus killed Gogmagog (Goëmagot), the greatest of the giants inhabiting Cornwall, by hurling him from a cliff. A cliff near Totnes, Devon, is still called Giant’s Leap....
Goenka, Ramnath (Indian publisher)
Indian newspaper publisher and crusader against government corruption....
Goeppert, Maria (American physicist)
German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen of West Germany for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. (The other half of the prize was awarded ...
Goerdeler, Karl Friedrich (German politician)
conservative German municipal administrator and prominent figure in the resistance movement and in an unsuccessful coup against Adolf Hitler. A long-time mayor of Leipzig, he was to have been chancellor of the new government if the coup had succeeded....
Goering, Hermann (German minister)
a leader of the Nazi Party and one of the primary architects of the Nazi police state in Germany. He was condemned to hang as a war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg in 1946 but took poison instead and died the night his execution was ordered....
Goes, Benedict de (Spanish missionary)
...thereafter. The Venetian traveler Marco Polo may have traversed the Vākhān region en route to Cathay (China), but it was not known to Europe until 1603 when the Spanish Jesuit missionary Benedict de Goes reported on his travels through the area. As Konstantin Petrovich Kaufmann conquered successive Central Asian khanates for Russia during the mid-19th century, British......
Goes, Hugo van der (Flemish artist)
one of the greatest Flemish painters of the second half of the 15th century, whose strange, melancholy genius found expression in religious works of profound but often disturbing spirituality....
Goetel, Ferdynand (Polish author)
Polish novelist and essayist noted primarily for his memoirs and his novels about exotic countries....
Goethals, George Washington (American engineer)
U.S. Army officer and engineer who directed the building of the Panama Canal....
Goethe and Tolstoi (essay by Mann)
With the establishment of the German (Weimar) Republic in 1919, Mann slowly revised his outlook; the essays “Goethe und Tolstoi” and “Von deutscher Republik” (“The German Republic”) show his somewhat hesitant espousal of democratic principles. His new position was clarified in the novel The Magic Mountain. Its theme grows out of an earlier motif: a....
Goethe in the Campagna (painting by Tischbein)
...of the art academy in Naples. Forced to leave in 1799 because of war, the painter retired to northern Germany. Tischbein’s most famous painting, “Goethe in the Campagna,” was painted in 1787 at the time the two men traveled from Rome to Naples. Though Goethe induced the artist to turn his interest toward the Neoclassical...
“Goethe in the Roman Campagna” (painting by Tischbein)
...of the art academy in Naples. Forced to leave in 1799 because of war, the painter retired to northern Germany. Tischbein’s most famous painting, “Goethe in the Campagna,” was painted in 1787 at the time the two men traveled from Rome to Naples. Though Goethe induced the artist to turn his interest toward the Neoclassical...
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German author)
German poet, novelist, playwright, statesman, and scientist....
Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes (institution, Munich, Germany)
Prominent among cultural groups is the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes (formerly the Goethe Institut of Munich). Founded in 1951, it has some 140 branches in more than 70 countries. It operates schools in Germany and abroad that offer instruction in the German language. It also maintains lending......
Goetheanum, Das (Swiss periodical)
...he joined the anthroposophical movement in 1907, settling at its centre in Dornach, near Basel. (Steffen was later president of the Anthroposophical Society and was editor of its review, Das Goetheanum.) From that time his numerous writings became visions of a world permeated by metaphysical powers of good and evil, as......
Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde (work by Arnim)
...on narcissism. These paradoxes in her nature she projected into her books. Her three best-known works are rearranged and retouched records of her correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde, 1835; “Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child”), with Karoline von Günderode (Die Günderode, 1840), and with her broth...
Goethe’s Color Theory (work by Goethe)
...Friedrich Cotta (see Cotta family), who also began the separate printing of his largest work, Zur Farbenlehre (“On the Theory of Colour”; Eng. trans. Goethe’s Color Theory), and in 1806 Goethe sent to him the completed manuscript of part one of Faust. War, however, delayed publication of ......
goethite (mineral)
a widespread iron oxide mineral [αあるふぁ-FeO(OH)] and the most common ingredient of iron rust. It was named in 1806 for J.W. von Goethe, a German poet and philosopher with a keen interest in minerals. The name was originally applied to lepidocrocite [γがんま-FeO(OH)], a less common mineral with the same chemical composition as ...
Goetz, Ruth Goodman (American playwright)
American playwright (b. Jan. 12, 1908, Philadelphia, Pa.—d. Oct. 12, 2001, Englewood, N.J.), collaborated with her husband, Augustus Goetz, most notably on The Heiress (1947)—an adaptation of the Henry James novel Washington Square—and on the screenplay for the film version (1949). She also became a highly regarded mentor of young playwrights....
Goetz, Walter (British artist)
German-born British illustrator and cartoonist whose amusing perspectives on the English and on Anglo-French relations delighted the public in the Daily Express cartoon strips "Colonel Up and Mr. Down" and "Dab and Flounder," 1934-54, and in Pierre Danino’s "Major Thompson" books, 1954-57 (b. Nov. 24, 1911--d. ...
Goeze, J. M. (German clergyman)
...had rejected the basic tenets of the Christian faith. Lessing went into battle against the orthodox clergy, involving himself in violent controversies with their leader, the chief pastor of Hamburg, J.M. Goeze. Against this rigid dogmatist, who was a man of almost pharisaical narrow-mindedness, Lessing launched some of his most cutting polemics, notably “Anti-Goeze” (1778), in whi...
Gofannon (Celtic mythology)
ancient Celtic smith god. Goibhniu figured in Irish tradition as one of a trio of divine craftsmen; the other two were Luchta the wright and Creidhne the metalworker. Goibhniu was also the provider of the sacred otherworld feast, the Fled Goibhnenn; he allegedly brewed the special ale thought to confer immortality on those who drank it. In Christian times he became known as Gobbán Saer (Gob...
Goff, Bruce (American architect)
ancient Celtic smith god. Goibhniu figured in Irish tradition as one of a trio of divine craftsmen; the other two were Luchta the wright and Creidhne the metalworker. Goibhniu was also the provider of the sacred otherworld feast, the Fled Goibhnenn; he allegedly brewed the special ale thought to confer immortality on those who drank it. In Christian times he became known as Gobbán Saer (Gob...
Goff, Helen Lyndon (British author)
Australian-born English writer known for her Mary Poppins books, which have been widely translated and were the basis for the motion picture Mary Poppins (1964)....
Goffin, Gerry (American songwriter)
...company of Brill Building pop music (actually located across the street at 1650 Broadway) was Aldon Music, founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Brill Building-era songwriting teams such as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman were to rock and roll what Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and......
Goffman, Erving (Canadian-American sociologist)
Canadian-American sociologist noted for his studies of face-to-face communication and related rituals of social interaction. His The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) laid out the dramaturgical perspective he used in subsequent studies, such as Asylums (1961) and St...
Gog (religion and mythology)
in the Hebrew Bible, the prophesied invader of Israel and the land from which he comes, respectively; or, in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament), evil forces opposed to the people of God. Although biblical references to Gog and Magog are relatively few, they assumed an important place in ...
Gogarty, Oliver St. John (Irish writer)
writer, wit, and raconteur associated with the Irish literary renaissance whose memoirs vividly re-create the Dublin of his youth....
Gogceli, Kemal Sadik (Turkish author)
Turkish novelist of Kurdish descent best known for his stories of village life and for his outspoken advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed....

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