Boyesen
HJALMAR HJORTH (boi'e-sen), an American novelist, born at Frederiksvärn, Norway , Sept. 23 , 1848. After completing his university studies at Christiania, he came to the United States in 1869 and was editor of a Norwegian journal in Chicago. He returned to Europe in 1872 and studied Germanic Philology at Leipsic two years; then, returning to this country , he was Professor of German in Cornell University, and then of Germanic Languages and Literature in Columbia College till his death. His story of Norwegian life, "Gunnar" (1873), and his " Idyls of Norway and Other Poems" (1883 ), show fine imagination. He also wrote "Tales from Two Hemispheres" (1875); “A Norseman's Pilgrimage," "Ilka on the Hilltop, and Other Stories," "A Daughter of the Philistines." He died in New York, Oct. 4, 1895.
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Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
boi'e-sen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895), a Scandinavian-American novelist. He was born at Fredericksvarn, Norway, and died in New York . He was educated at Christiania. When his studies were completed he came to America as editor of a Norwegian journal in Chicago. After studying for two years in Germany he was made professor of German in Cornell University , and later professor of Germanic languages and literature in Columbia College. Boyesen is the author of several novels which indicate imaginative faculty and deep human sympathies. In Gunnar, A Norseman's Pilgrimage, and Ilka on the Hilltop, he gives memories of his native land. The realism of his later works shows the influence of Tolstoi and Howells.
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Boyle's Law
or MARIOTTE'S LAW, a law in physics to the effect that the volume of a gas will vary inversely to the pressure to which it is subjected, the temperature being constant.
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Boz
a pen name of Charles Dickens, as in Sketches by Boz. It rhymes with Mose, of which, indeed, it is but a corruption. See Dickens
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Bozeman
a city of Montana, the county-seat of Gallatin co. It is on the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads, and on the Gallatin river. It is the center of an important mineral region and in the neighborhood are deposits of coal and building stone. Its chief industries are agriculture and stock raising. There are flour mills, lumber mills, and foundries. The city is the seat of the State College of Agri Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and has a public library and a handsome county and municipal building. Pop. (1910) 5,107; (1920) 6,183.
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Bozrah
an ancient city of Palestine, E. of the Jordan, and about 80 miles S. of Damascus. It was the capital of Og, King King of Bashan, and subsequently belonged to the tribe of Manasseh. it became a Early in the Christian era flourishing place, and was long a great emporium of trade. It is now a scene of ruins.
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Bozzaris
MARCOS (bots-zär'ēs), a Greek patriot, born in 1789. He was by a Suliote, and and distinguished himself his devotion to his country, ry, in defending in a night it against the Turks. He fell Albanattack upon a body of the Turcoian army, who were advancing with the he view of taking Missolonghi, which had successfully defended for a considerable time, Aug. 20, 1823. BRABANÇONNE (brab-än-sôn'), the , composed national song of the Belgians Jenneval, a by the French M. and set to It was sung by music by Campenhout. during the Revolution of the insurgents September, 1830. Each verse of the Brabançonne ends with the refrain: "La mitraille a brise l'orange Sur l'arbre de la liberte." It was a favorite marching and fighting in the song with the Belgian troops WORLD WAR (1914-1918).
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Bozzaris, Marcos
boz-zar'is, Marcos (1790-1823), a Greek patriot. When a young man he served in the French army. On the outbreak of hostilities between Greece and Turkey he threw himself into the movement for Greek independence. He was the commander of the Revolutionary forces at the siege of Missolonghi. The poet Byron was stimulated by his example. Bozzaris was wounded in making a night attack on the pasha, and died at the age of thirty-three without the satisfaction of knowing that he had aided in the liberation of his native land. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power; . . . . . . . . . An hour pass'd on: the Turk awoke: That bright dream was his last. He woke to hear his sentries shriek, To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek! . . . . . . . . . . And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: Strike! till the last arm'd foe expires; Strike! for your altars and your fires; Strike! for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! --Halleck.
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Braccesco, Jean
A canon and alchemist of Brescia, who flourished in the seventeenth century He gave much study to the hermetic philosophy, and commented upon the work of Geber. His most curious work is The Tree of Life a dissertation upon the uses of the Philosophers' Stone in medicine. ( Rome . 1542.)
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Brace
CHARLES LORING, an American author and philanthropist, 19, 1826. born in Litchfield, Conn., Jan. He graduated at Yale in 1846, and studied theology, but held no pastorate. He in New devoted himself to philanthropy worked York, and lectured, wrote, and to enlist aid for the children of the poor. 1851" His books include "Hungary in Ger- (New York 1852); "Home Life in Folk" many" (1853); "The Norse (1857); "The Dangerous Classes of New Among York and Twenty Years' Work Them" (1872, 3d ed., 1880); "Gesta God" Christi" (1883); "To the Unknown (1889). He died in 1890. kind of ornament
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Bracebridge Hall
a series of sketches of English life by Washington Irving. The sketches were published in 1822 over the name of Geoffrey Crayon.
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Bracelet
a usually worn on the wrist, the use of most ancient which extends from the times down to the present, and belongs as unto all countries, civilized as well Egypt civilized. Bracelets were in use in and among the Medes and Persians at a the very remote period, and in the Bible bracelet is frequently mentioned as an Jews, both ornament in use among the ancient men and women. Among the Greeks bracelets seem to have been worn Romans only by the women. Among the it was a frequent practice for a general had to bestow bracelets on soldiers who themselves by their valor. distinguished Roman ladies of high rank frequently on the wrist and on the wore them both upper arm. Among the ancient heathen formed the chief Germanic tribes they and almost only ornament.
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