Defregger
FRANZ (def-reg'er), a German genre painter of deserved popularity; born in Stronach, in 1835.
The subjects s of almost all his pictures are drawn from the Tyrolese peasant life, his few religious pictures having been in the main unsuccessful.
DEGREE has been superseded by the belief in a development from low savagery.
DEGGENDORF (degen-dorf), n-dorf), a town of lower Bavaria, on the Danube, which is here crossed by two bridges, 39 miles N. W. of Passau, with manufactures of paper, linen, woolens, stoneware, and matches. Its church of the Holy Sepulcher is often visited by more than 30,000 pilgrims annually. Pop. (1905) 7,211.