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KARL RICHARD (lep'sēös), a German Egyptologist; born in Naumburg, Dec. 23, 1810. While pur- 1867, and on the death of Juarez, July 18, 1872, he succeeded to the presidency; was elected to that post in the following November. In 1876 he was again candidate to succeed himself and after the election, which was in doubt, he was declared re-elected by Congress. This action resulted in a revolution and Lerdo was forced to leave the country. He lived in retirement in New York City till his death, April 21, 1889. suing his studies in Paris he wrote three LÉRIDA, a town of Spain, capital of disquisitions, which won prizes of the Academy: "Palæography as a Means of the province of Lérida on a tributary Linguistic Research" (1834) "Kinship of the Ebro, 114 miles W. by N. of Barof the Semitic, Indian, Ethiopian, Old celona, pop. about 25,000. The second city of Catalonia, Lerida has a castle Indian, Ethiopian, Old celona, pop. about 25,000. The second Persian, and Old Egyptian Alphabets"; and two cathedral churches, one an an- Alphabets"; city of Catalonia, Lerida has a castle "Origin and Relationship of Numerical two churches, one an ancient Byzantino-Moorish edifice, now Græco-Roman building. It carries on manufactures of woolens, cottons, leather, paper, and glass. Near Lerida, the Celtiberian Ilerda, Scipio Africanus Terms in the Indo-Germanic, Semitic, used as a barracks, the other a modern and Coptic Languages." In his celebrated "Letter to Mr. Rossellini on the and Coptic Languages." In his celethe Hieroglyphic Alphabet" (1837), he propounded a scientific theory of hieroglyphic writing. His translation of the "Book of the Dead" was published in 1842.
That year he visited Egypt, and for four years studied its monuments; the results of his researches are contained in the magnificent "Monuments of Egypt and Ethiopia" (12 vols. 1849-1860). He wrote for the general public "Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Sinaitic Peninsula" (1852). He died in Berlin, July 10, 1884. defeated Hanno (216 B. c.); and Cæsar, the lieutenants of Pompey (49 B. c.). lieutenants of Pompey (49 в. c.).
The Goths made it a bishop's see and held here a council of the Church in the 6th century. In 1300 a university was founded here; it is now extinct. The town has been several times besieged, on the last occasion by the French in 1810.
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