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Born Apr. 16, 1821, in Calais; died Oct. 6, 1893, in London. English painter.Brown studied in Belgium. His historical and religious compositions, which influenced the Pre-Raphaelites, are of a romantic moralizing character and are distinguished by explicitness of detail and sharpness of color ( Christ Washing Peter’s Feet., 1852, Tate Gallery, London; paintings on the history of ...

a comet discovered in 1826 by the Czech amateur astronomer W. Biela. Its identity with the comets of 1772 and 1806–1 was established.The comet was observed in appearances in 1832,1846, and 1852. In January 1846 its division into two parts was discovered; by 1852 the distance between its parts was 2.8 million km. From their motion, the comet’s mass was estimated to be4 • 10 -7 times that of ...

Full name Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Louis-Napoleon. 1808--73, Emperor of the French (1852--70); nephew of Napoleon I. He led two abortive Bonapartist risings (1836; 1840) and was elected president of the Second Republic (1848), establishing the Second Empire in 1852. Originally successful in foreign affairs, he was deposed after the disastrous Franco-Prussian War

1813–66, English clergyman and educator, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1836. From 1837 until 1852 he was an assistant master at Rugby and is the "young master" in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days. He later became (1852) headmaster of Marlborough College and after 1858 served as bishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata), where he did extensive missionary work and established numerous schools ...

... born Aug. 22, 1818, Aurich, Hanover—died Sept. 17, 1892, Göttingen, Ger.) German legal scholar. He taught Roman law at Giessen (1852–68), at Göttingen (from 1872), and at four other universities (including the University of Vienna) for briefer periods. He examined the relationship between law and social change in The Spirit of Roman Law (1852–65 ...