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ERNST. HEINRICH WILHELM (1814-1865), German violinist and composer, was born at Briinn, in Moravia, in 1814. He was educated at the Conservatorium of Vienna, studying the violin under Joseph Bohm and Joseph Mayseder, and composition under Ignaz von Seyfried. A ...

... tation. To this period belong the formidable names of Ludwig Borne (1786-1837), Heinrich Heine (1700-1854), Edward Ganz (1708-1839), Gabriel Riesser (1806-1863), Ferdinand Lassallc (1825-1864), Karl Marx (1818-1883). Moses Hess (1812-1875), Ignatz Kuranda (181 ...

ETTMULLER. ERNST MORITZ LUDWIG (1802-1877), German philologist, was born at Gcrsdorf near Lobau, in Saxony, on the $th of October 1802. He was privately educated by his father, the Protestant pastor of the village, entered the gymnasium at Zittau in 1816 and s ...

ARNDT, ERNST MORITZ (1769-1860), German poet and patriot, was born on the 26th of December 1769 at Schoritz in the island of RUgen, which at that time belonged to Sweden. He was the son of a prosperous farmer, and emancipated serf of the lord of the district, ...

... most simultaneously yielded their secret to the same fortunate inquirer. Johann Heinrich Lambert pointed out in 1773 that the motion of Saturn, from being retarded, had become accelerated. A periodic character was thus indicated for the disturbance; and Laplac ...

... ectric lighting. The various improvements in electric illuminants, such as the Nernst oxide lamp, the and osmium incandescent lamps, and improved forms of arc lamp, enclosed, inverted and flame arcs, are described under LIGHTING: Electric. Between 1800 and 190 ...

... design is concerned, they were much affected by the Italian revivalists. ENGEL, ERNST (1821-1806), German political economist and statistician, was born in Dresden on the list of March 1821. He studied at the famous mining academy of Freiberg, in Saxony, and o ...

TELLER, WILHELM ABRAHAM (1734-1804), German Protestant divine, was born at Leipzig on the 9th of January 1734. His father, Romanus Teller (1703-1750), was a pastor at Leipzig, and afterwards became professor of theology in the university. He edited the earlier ...

... greater advantage, and there he was received into the house of the Orientalist Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1750-1817). He was introduced to pietistic circles in Berlin, and came specially under the influence of Baron Hans Ernst von Kottwitz (1757-1843), who ...

... a Middle High German minnesinger, contains some of the episodes of Apollonius ; Heinrich von Neustadt wrote a poem of 20,000 lines on Apollonius von Tyrland (c. 1400); the story was well known in Spanish, Libre de Apolonio (verse, c. 1200), and in J. de Timone ...

... I. gave it to his friend and spiritual adviser, the celebrated preacher, Ludwig Ernst Borowski (1740-1831), general superintendent of Prussia (1812) and bishop (1816). In the Church of England and its sister and daughter churches the position of the archbishop ...

... e was born in Pomerania on the 3rd of October 1824, and brought up by his uncle Heinrich von Arnim, who was Prussian ambassador at Paris and foreign minister from March to June 1848, while Count Arnim-Boytzenburg, whose daughter Harry von Arnim afterwards marr ...

... Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomic (Munich, 1877), ch. i. Sec also the article by Ernst Riess on Astrology in Pauly-Wissowa, Realcncyclopddie der klassischen Altertumswtssenschaft, vol. ii. (Stuttgart, 1896). For modern and practical astrology the following work ...

... lly by some 4000 vessels, and until its conversion in 1887-1895 into the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal afforded the only direct connexion between the North Sea and the Baltic. EIDER (Icelandic, jEa'ur) , a large marine duck, the Somateria mollissima of ornithologists, ...

... ohannes Amerbach, who was now dead, Beatus Rhenanus, Wilhclm Nesen, Ludwig Ber, Heinrich Glareanus, Nikolaus Gerbell, Johannes Oecolampadius — who looked to him as their head and were proud to do him service. Though from this time forward Basel became the cent ...

... Saxe-Meiningen, and in 1558 held the same post with the elector-palatine, Otto Heinrich, being at the same time professor of medicine at Heidelberg. His patron's successor, Frederick III., made him (1559) a privy councillor and member of the church consistory ...

... ssor of philosophy at his own university; and on the death of his cousin August Wilhelm in 1801 he was for five months professor of rhetoric. He died on the sth of June of the following year. His principal works are: — Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781); of th ...

... emical subjects. His collected works were published in 1708 by his son, Michael Ernst EttmUller (1673-1732), who was successively professor of medicine (1702), anatomy and surgery (1706), physiology (1719) and pathology (1724) at Leipzig.

... ivity. He was educated at Aurich, where one of his teachers was the philosopher Wilhelm Reuter, whose influence was the dominating factor in the development of his thought. Passing to the university of Gottingen he took his degree in classical philology and an ...

... , but they are of little importance compared with those in the west. The Kaiser Wilhelm or North Sea ana Baltic canal, opened in 1895, has, however, no little international value, inasmuch as it shortens the sea-route to the Baltic for all North Sea ports to t ...

... e residence of a group of poets and writers, of whom the best-known were Johann Heinrich Voss, the brothers Stolberg, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. In the neighbourhood is a beautiful tract of country, rich in beech forests and fjords, known as " the Holstein ...

... ntial supporters of the Formula Consensus Helvetica, drawn up chiefly by Johann Heinrich Heidegger (1633-1698), in 1675, and of the particular type of Calvinistic theology which that symbol embodied, and an opponent of the theology of Moses Amyraut and the sch ...

... ergoes when acted upon by light. In the system Korn apparatus the light from a Nernst electric lamp is concentrated to a point by means of a lens on the original picture, which is wound on a glass cylinder in the shape of a transparent photographic film. A tot ...

TENNEMANN, WILHELM GOTTLIEB (1761-1819), German historian of philosophy, was born at Erfurt. Educated at his native town, he became lecturer on the history of philosophy at Jena in 1788. Ten years later he became professor at the same university, where he rema ...

... s for some years apprenticed to a merchant. He soon came under the influence of Wilhelm Hoffman, a pietistic revivalist, and devoted himself to writing and public speaking, withdrawing in 1728 from all secular pursuits and giving himself entirely to religious ...

... pathic establishment, and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany (founded by Heinrich Cotta in 181 1 ) with about sixty students. Tharandt is a favourite summer resort of the people of Dresden, one of its principal charms being the magnificent beech woods w ...

... by Mr Oscar Barrett at the Lyceum Theatre in Christmas 1893, and designed by Mr Wilhelm. This production also enjoyed a prosperous season in New York. The system of international exchange seems to hold good in stage spectacle as in other cases, and in return f ...

... merely agnostics like Leslie Stephen but Christian theologians of the Left like Ernst Troeltsch regard it as the time when supernal uralism began decisively to go to pieces, and the " modern " spirit to assert its authority even over religion. A. Ritschl, agai ...

... atin, and in the following year published a monthly periodical (Scherzhafte und ernsthafte, vernunftige und einfallige Gedanken iiber allerhand lustige und nulzliche Biicher und Fragen) in which he ridiculed the pedantic weaknesses of the learned, taking the s ...