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JOHANN KASPAR (blöntsh'lē), a Swiss jurist and statesman, born in Zurich, March 7, 1808; became professor in the newly founded university in that city in 1833. He took an active part in the political struggles that divided his country. In 1839 he led the Conservatives. He was a Councilor of State, and became a member of the Government and of the Federal Directory, and afterward worked for the formation of a moderate Liberal Conservative party in Switzerland. In 1848 he went to Munich as Professor of Civil and International Law. There he published his "Allgemeines Staatsrecht" (5th ed., 1876), on which his reputation as a + BLYTHEVILLE jurisconsult chiefly rest. In 1861 he removed to Heidelberg University, and became a Privy Councilor of Baden, actively forwarding all Liberal measures in the state. He acted several times as president of the Protestantenverein, and died after delivering a speech at the synod of Baden at Karlsruhe, Oct. 21, 1881.
He was the author of valuable histories of Zurich and of the Swiss Confederation, and of a number of works on law. BOADICEA nada, dethroned his father, Ab-ul-Hasan, in 1481, and two years later was defeated and taken prisoner by the Castilians near Lucena. He was set free on condition of paying tribute, and returned to Granada to struggle with his father and with his heroic uncle, Ez-Zaghal, for the throne. The fall of Malaga and Baza was but the prelude to the siege of the capital. The spot from which Boabdil looked his last on Granada still bears the last sigh of the Moor." He soon crossed name of el ultimo sospiro del Moro, "the to Africa and flung away his life in