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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 ...

ETTMULLER, MICHAEL (1644-1683), German physician, was burn at Leipzig on the 26th of May 1644, studied at his native place and at Wittenberg, and after travelling in Italy, France and England was recalled in 1668 to Leipzig, where he was admitted a member of t ...

... s of the revolutionary agitation. 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- ...

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, ...

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 ...

... liam III. 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 arc ...

... to " Bettina's " insolent behaviour to Goethe's wife. In this year she married Ludwig Achim von Arnim (?.».), by whom she had seven children. After her husband's death in 1831, her passion for Goethe revived, and in 1835 she published her remarkable book, Goe ...

... -eastern extremity is about 59 m. It is to be noted that up to and including St Moritz (6037 ft., the highest) all the villages (save SilsBaseglia) at its south-western end are higher than the Maloja plateau itself. The uppermost portion of the valley contains ...

... so a distinguished Prussian general. But the most famous of the sons was PRINCE MORITZ OF ANHALT-DESSAU (1712-1760), who entered the Prussian army in 1725, saw his first service as a volunteer in the War of the Polish Succession (1734-35), and in the latter ye ...

ANZENGRUBER, LUDWIG (1830-1889), Austrian dramatist and novelist, was born at Vienna on the 29th of November 1839. He was educated at the Realschule of his native town, and then entered a bookseller's shop; from 1860 to 1867 he was an actor, without, however, ...

... 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 ...

... so a distinguished Prussian general. But the most famous of the sons was PRINCE MORITZ OF

... 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 ...

... ER] (1840-1892), German traveller, administrator and naturalist, was the son of Ludwig Schnitzer, a merchant of Oppeln in Silesia, and was born in Oppeln on the 28th of March 1840. He was educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin and Konigsberg, and took ...

... s partner, Johannes 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 bec ...

... organ's article " Eucleides " in Smith's Dictionary of Biography and Mythology; Moritz Cantor's Geschichte der Mathematik, vol. i. (J. S. M.)

... or western Dvina. the Berezina and Dnieper. Since the completion in 1845 of the Ludwigs or Danube-Main Canal, running; from the Main near Bamberg to Kelheim on the Danube, it has been possible to go by water from the mouth of the Rhine to the mouth of the Danu ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... etistic circles in Berlin, and came specially under the influence of Baron Hans Ernst von Kottwitz (1757-1843), who became his " spiritual father," and of the historian Neander. Before deciding on the career of theological professor, he had in view that of a m ...

... 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 ...

... Friederike, originally called Levin, afterwards Robert, and sister of the poet, Ludwig Robert (1778-1832). She was born in 1771 at Berlin, where she died in 1833. By birth she was a Jewess; but before her marriage she made profession of Christianity. Although ...