Daniel
the prophet, a contemporary of Ezekiel; was born of a distinguished Hebrew family. In his youth, 605 b. c., he was carried captive to Babylon, and educated in the Babylonish court for the service of King Nebuchadnezzar. Thrown into the lions' den for conscientiously refusing to obey the king, he was miraculously preserved, and finally made primeminister in the court of the Persian king Darius. He ranks with what are called the "greater prophets." The book of the Old Testament which bears his name is divided into a historical and a prohetic part. Modern criticism generally regards it as written during the oppression Jews under Antiochus, about 170 B. C. It is partly in Chaldee.
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Daniell
MOSES GRANT, an American educator, born in Boston in 1836. He graduated from Harvard in 1863 and entered the field of secondary education, in which he held a prominent part for over thirty years. He first served with the Everett School in Dorchester, and then for seventeen years was instructor of Latin in the Roxbury Latin School. For twelve years he was Headmaster of the Chauncy Hall School in Boston. His textbook, written with William C. Collier, is widely used in the early study of Latin.
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Daniell, John F.
John F. (1790-1845), an English scientist. Born in London. Professor of chemistry in King's College, London, 1831. Daniell invented the first form of electric battery by which a steady current could be obtained for a considerable length of time. The Daniell cell consists of a copper plate immersed in a solution of copper sulphate in an outer glass jar, and a zinc plate immersed in sulphuric acid in an inner porous cup. The gravity cell used in telegraph stations is a modification of Daniell's, which dispenses with the porous cup. Daniell's Meteorological Essays was the first attempt made to account for all the then known phenomena of the atmosphere. He also published an essay on Artificial Climate. The Royal Society conferred upon him all of the medals, viz., three, which they had at their disposal.
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Daniels
WINTHROP MORE, an American official and economist, born in Dayton, O., in 1867. He graduated from Princeton in 1888. After studying in Germany, he became professor of political economy in Princeton in 1892, serving until 1911. In the latter year he was appointed a member of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of New Jersey. He served in this capacity until 1914, when he became a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He was a chairman of the Commission in 1918-1919. He was the author of "Elements of Public Finance" (1899); and "Continuation of Alexander Johnston's History of American Politics" (1902). He was a contributor to magazines on economic subjects.
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Daniels (JOSEPHUS an American public)
JOSEPHUS, an American public official, born in 1862 in Washington, con, N. C. He became, in 1880, editor of the "Advance," a newspaper of Wilson, JOSEPHUS DANIELS N. C. Although he studied law and was admitted to the bar he never practiced that profession, preferring newspaper work. In 1885 he became editor of the "State Chronicle" of Raleigh and in 1894 united this newspaper with another and published it as the "News and Observer." From 1887 to 1893 he was State printer. From 1895 to 1912 he was prominent in National and State politics as a Bryan Democrat and took a considerable part in the election of Wilson to the presidency in 1912. In March of the next year he received the appointment of Secretary of the Navy. He gained prominence by his order forbidding officers to have liquor aboard their vessels and by banning the use of liquor by the officers and men of the navy. He also advocated government manufacture of armor and munitions. During the war with Germany the navy of the United States did its work effectively, and this was due largely to the efforts of Secretary Daniels. A controversy between him and Admiral Sims, as a result of the latter's criticism of navy administration during the war was followed by a Senatorial investigation in 1920.
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Danish Literature
. See Literature
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Danite
a member of a former Mormon secret society whose purpose it was to avenge wrongs committed by the "Gentiles" on the "Saints." They are said to have been organized about 1837. They derive their name from Jacob's blessing to his son Dan (Gen. xlix: 17).
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Dannemora
a village on a lake of the same name, 24 miles N. N. E. of Upsala, in Sweden, celebrated for its iron-mines, the second richest in Sweden, which have been worked uninterruptedly for upward of three centuries.
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Dannevirke
the rampart built by the Danes about 808 across Sleswick, just N. of the Eider; the scene of fighting in 1849, and razed by the Germans in 1850.
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Danton
GEORGES JACQUES, a French revolutionist; born in Arcis-sur- Aube, Oct. 26, 1759. He was an advocate by profession, but became one of the most active among the demagogues of the After the im- Revolutionary period. ouis XVI, at Varennes, Louis prisonment of he took the lead in the meeting of Champde-Mars, which paved the way to the dethronement of the king. Danton's burly figure, stentorian voice, courage and self-confidence fitted him to dominate the revolutionists. He became one of the executive council and took active measures to defend Paris, threatened by the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick. He was afterward a member of the Convention and of the Committee of Public Safety, and was a chief promoter of all the sanguinary acts of that terrible period. At length a struggle for supremacy took place between him and Robespierre, in which the latter was suc- DANTON cessful, when Danton was sent to the guillotine, April 5, 1794.
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Danton, George Jacques
George Jacques (1759-1794), a leader of the French Revolution . He is described as a man of gigantic stature, with a voice that fairly shook the dome of the Assembly with its roar. He speedily became one of the small circle that brought Louis XVI , Queen Marie Antoinette, and scores of royalists to the guillotine. When the Prussians invaded France, Danton's courage saved the day. He and Robesierre fell out and distrusted each other. Each sought the other's downfall. Danton was arrested on a charge of conniving to bring back the royal family. He went stoutly to the fate to which he had condemned others. He gloried to the last in his part in the revolution. He gave expression to two regrets; one that he had been outwitted by Robespierre, the other that he should never see his wife again. See Robespierre ; French Revolution
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