Marblehead
a town and port of entry in Essex co., Mass.; on Massachusetts bay and on the Boston and Maine railroad; 17 miles N. E. of Boston. It contains Abbot Hall with a public library and art gallery, a high school, improved waterworks, National banks, and weekly newspapers. There are 30 shoe factories, seed-growing and fisheries industries.
Pop. (1910) 7,388; (1920) 7,324.
MARBURG (mär börg), a quaint old town in the Prussian province of Hesse- Nassau, situated on the Lahn, 50 miles N. of Frankfort; built on a terraced hill crowned by a castle dating from 1065.
In its Rittersaal (1277-1312) was held in 1529 the conference between the Wittenberg and the Swiss reformers regarding the Lord's Supper. The fine Gothic Church of Elizabeth, with two towers 243 MARCH feet high, was built in 1235-1283 by the Teutonic Knights over the splendid shrine of St. Elizabeth and was thoroughly restored in 1850-1867. The university occupies new Gothic buildings of 1879; in 1914-1915 had 118 professors and teachers and 2,040 students in theology, jurisprudence, medicine, and philosophy. It was founded in 1527 in the Reformed interest by Philip the Magnanimous, Landgrave of Hesse. Pop. about 25,000.