Schinner
AUGUSTIN FRANCIS, an American Roman Catholic bishop, born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1863. He was educated at St. Francis Seminary, and was ordained priest in 1886. After serving for one year as a pastor, he was a member of the faculty of St. Francis Seminary from 1887 to 1893. From 1893 to 1905 he was chancellor and vicar general of the archdiocese of Milwaukee. He was consecrated first bishop of Superior, Wis., in 1905, but resigned in 1913, and in the following year was appointed first bishop of Spokane.
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Schlangenbad
a watering-place of Prussia, in Hesse-Nassau, 6 miles W. N. W. of Wiesbaden, among wooded hills. The water has a temperature of from 80° to 88°, and is beneficial in hysteria, neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, paralysis, etc.
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Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (1772-1829), a German poet and critic. He was the younger brother of August Wilhelm Schlegel. Friedrich Schlegel, as he is usually called, is considered by many as the more able of the two brothers, but he is less known to English readers. He was born at Hanover. He studied at Gottingen and Leipsic, and became noted as one of the foremost scholars of his time. He was the first to bring Sanskrit literature to the notice of German scholars. He was influenced profoundly by the philosophy of Fichte, the idealist, and by that of Schelling. Oppressed by the conditions of his own times, he turned to the past and found ecclesiastic life in the Middle Ages attractive. He joined the Roman Catholic church, hoping and believing that it might come again to the position of power it had held in former times. Schlegel lectured on philosophy, history, and literature, and was celebrated widely for brilliancy as a talker. His poetry was famous also and much of it is beautiful, though it is dreamy, mystical, and full of obscurity. As a critic, Schlegel's work was, like his brother's, that of the interpreter. He was more given to enthusiastic praise and to prejudiced criticism than the elder Schlegel. His most important prose works are On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians and Lectures on the History of Ancient and Modern Literature.
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Schleswig
or SLESWICK, formerly a duchy of Denmark; bounded N. by Jutland, from which it is nearly separated by the Konge Aa river and the Kolding fiord. Prussia took possession of it in 1867 with Holstein, and the two duchies formed the province of Schleswig-Holstein. By a plebiscite, provided for by the Treaty of Versailles, north Schleswig in 1920 decided to join with Denmark, while south Schleswig adhered to Prussia. Area, 7,299 square miles. Pop. N. Schleswig (1921) 184,133. SCHLESWIG or SLESWICK, a seaport of Prussia, in the province of Schleswig-Holstein; situated on the W. end of the Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea; 70 miles N. W. of Hamburg. It was an important port and seat of trade as early as 800. It contains a church founded in 850, the ducal castle of Gottorp, a fine cathedral, and deaf and dumb and lunatic asylums. Among the manufactures are lace, woolen goods, earthenware, leather, and sugar. Seven annual fairs are held here. In April, 1848, Schleswig was occupied in turn by the Danes and the Allies; in July, 1850, was regained by the Danes; in February, 1864, was occupied by the Austrians; and in 1867 came into possession of Prussia. Pop. about 20,000.
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Schleswig-Holstein
. See Denmark ; Prussia
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Schlettstadt
or SCHLESTADT, a town of Alsace-Lorraine; 27 miles S. W. of Strasburg. It was made a free city under the Hohenstaufen. In 1634 it was taken by the Fre French, and was fortified by Vauban, 1676; ceded to the Germans, 1870; and the fortress destroyed by them, 1874. Here was discovered, in the 13th century, the art of glazing pottery. It is the birthplace of the reformer, Martin Bucer, 1491. It has manufactories of leather, gloves, cottons, linens, chemicals, beer, spirits, oil, and other commodities. Pop. about 10,000.
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Schliemann
shleeman, Heinrich (1822-1890), a German merchant, antiquarian, and traveler. He was a native of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and died in Naples. He traveled extensively in the employment of Amsterdam commercial houses with which he was connected. Having amassed a fortune by successful trade, he retired from business in 1864 and devoted himself to the study of Greek archaeology. In 1870 he began excavating on the site of ancient Troy, a work which he prosecuted incessantly for twenty years. The rich collections of antiquities he deposited in a museum at Berlin. He also explored the ruins at Mycenae and elsewhere. He wrote a number of works. The most celebrated is Trojan Antiquities. See Troy
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Schnitzer
EDWARD, better known as EMIN PASHA, an African explorer; born in Oppeln, Germany, March 28, 1840. Studying medicine, he graduated in 1864. Proceeding to Turkey, he practiced his profession. He adopted the name of Emin, and Turkish habits and customs, entering the Egyptian medical service as Dr. Emin Effendi. In 1878 he was appointed by Gordon Pasha governor of the Equatorial Province. He showed himself an enlightened ruler and a bitter foe to slavery. He added greatly to the anthropological knowledge of central Africa and published valuable geographical papers. He entered the German service, 1889, and commanded an expedition to central Africa; made treaties with the Arabs of Tabora, and founded three large German stations on Victoria Lake; established a chain of military posts from Mpwapwa to the interior; in 1891 pressed onward into the heart of central Africa, and in 1892 S. toward the equator. He was murdered by Arab slave traders in the Kongo Free State, Oct. 20, 1892.
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Schnitzler
ARTHUR, an Austrian dramatist and short-story writer, born in Vienna, in 1862. He was educated in his native city and in 1885 received the degree of M.D. from the University of Vienna. He practiced medicine until 1893, when he published with great success, "Anatole," a sequence of seven one-act dramas of modern life in Vienna. These, as well as later creations of his, have been played successfully, not only on Austrian and German stages, but also in many other countries, including the United States. Among his other dramatic works were "Der Grüne Kakadu" (1899); "Paracelsus" (1899); "Lebendige Stunden" (1902); "Der Einsame Weg" (1904); "Der Ruf des Lebens" (1905); "Comptess Mizzi" (1909); "Das Weite Land" (1911); "Professor Bernhardi" (1913); etc. Among his fictional works should be mentioned: "Sterben" (1895); "Der Weg ins Freie" (1908); etc. A collection of his writings were published in seven volumes in Berlin, in 1912.
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