Burgher
a former subdivision of the Scottish Secession Church. The Secession, which originated through the withdrawal of Ebenezer Erskine and some other ministers from the Scottish establishment in 1732, split in two in 1747, part having felt free to take, while others refused what they deemed an ensnaring burgess oath. They reunited in 1820 under the name of the Associate Synod, and, joining with the "Relief" in 1847, formed the United Presbyterian Church.
BURGKMAIR (börk'mer), a family of German artists in the 15th and 16th centuries, the best known of whom is HANS, born in Augsburg in 1472. Several of his paintings are to be seen at Augsburg, Munich, Nuremberg, etc., but fame than his woodcuts, which are not inferior to those of his friend , Albert these have contributed far less to his Dürer. The most celebrated is the series of 135 cuts representing the "Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian." He died in 1531. an BURGESS, JOHN WILLIAM, American educator, born in Cornersville, Tenn., Aug. 26, 1844. He was educated at Cumberland University, Lebanon, University, Lebanon , Tenn., and at Amherst. He studied law, and began its practice at Springfield in 1869. During this year he was appointed Professor of English Literature and Political Economy at Knox College. Two years later, he studied abroad Göttingen, Leipsic, and Berlin. On his return, he became Professor of History and Political Science at Amherst, and in 1876 Professor of Political Science and of Constitutional Law and in 1890 dean of the faculty of Political Science at Columbia University, New York. He University, New York. was Roosevelt exchange professor at the University of Berlin 1906-1907. He published a number of books and was a frequent contributor to reviews on his torical, political, and legal topics.