Muntjac

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

or MUNTJACK, Cervulus, a genus of deer, indigenous in the S. and E. parts of Asia and the adjacent islands. They are diminutive animals, with small and simple antlers in the males, which have the upper canines strongly developed and sharp, curving downward, and capable of inflicting deep and dangerous wounds. Four species are known: C. muntjac, C. lacrymans, C. reevesi, and C. crinifrons, the hairyfronted muntjac. MÜNZER, THOMAS (münt'ser), a leader of the ANABAPTISTS (q. v.); born in Stolberg, in the Harz, about 1489. He studied theology, and in 1520 began to preach at Zwickau. His Christian socialism and his mystical doctrines soon brought him into collision with the Reformers and the town authorities. He thereupon made a preaching tour through Bohemia, Silesia, Brandenburg, and settled in Thuringia (1523). Again deprived of his office, he visited Nuremberg, Basel, and other S. German cities, and was finally in 1525 elected pastor of the Anabaptists of Mühlhausen, where he won the common people, notwithstanding Luther's denunciations of him, introduced his communistic ideas, and soon had the whole country in insurrection. But on May 15, 1525, he and his men were totally routed at Frankenhausen by Philip of Hesse. Münzer escaped from the battle field, but was captured in flight and executed in Mühlhausen, Prussian Saxony, May 30, 1525. MURAD V., Sultan of Turkey; born Sept. 21, 1840. He was son of Abdul- Medjid, and he succeeded to the throne on the forcible deposition of Abdul Aziz, Aug. 31, 1876, but was deposed in the course of the same year on account of insanity, and was succeeded by his younger brother ABDUL-HAMID II. (q.v.). He died in 1904.