- Janizary by Webster's
... n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826.
- Wilhelm Hauff by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Nov. 29, 1802, in Stuttgart; died there Nov. 18, 1827. German romantic writer.Hauff studied theology at the University of Tübingen from 1820 to 1824. His talent was evidenced in the Fairy Tale Almanac. (3 vols., 1826–28), in which, particularly in “The Story of Little Muk” and “The Cold Heart,” he combined a mastery of the Oriental and German folktale traditions with a keen interest ...
- Hauff, Wilhelm by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Nov. 29, 1802, in Stuttgart; died there Nov. 18, 1827. German romantic writer.Hauff studied theology at the University of Tübingen from 1820 to 1824. His talent was evidenced in the Fairy Tale Almanac. (3 vols., 1826–28), in which, particularly in “The Story of Little Muk” and “The Cold Heart,” he combined a mastery of the Oriental and German folktale traditions with a keen interest ...
- Biela's comet by Webster's
A periodic coment, discovered by Biela in 1826, which revolves around the sun in 6.6 years. The November meteors (Andromedes or Bielids) move in its orbit, and may be fragments of the comet.
- Flint, Timothy by Cristian Bell
1780–1840, American author, b. North Reading, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1800, and entered the ministry. As a missionary he traveled up and down the Mississippi valley from 1815 until 1825 and recorded in Recollections of the Last Ten Years. (1826) the frontier life he experienced. He also wrote several romantic novels of frontier life, notably Francis Berrian. (1826) and George Mason, the Young ...