Tirlemont
a town of Belgium; in South Brabant, on the Great Geete, 30 miles E. S. E. of Brussels. It has two fine churches of the 12th and 13th centuries, and manufactures of machinery, hosiery, flannel, leather, sugar, etc. Once a large and prosperous city, Tirlemont was ravaged by Marlborough in 1705; and here the French, under Dumouriez, defeated the Austrians in 1793. It was captured by the Germans in the first year of the World War and held by them until the armistice. Pop. about 17,500.
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Tirnova
a town of Bulgaria, on the Jantra; 35 miles S. S. E. of Sistova; amid strange limestone rocks. It became in 1235 the seat of the Bulgarian patriarch, and has more than once served as the capital. Dyeing is carried on, silk and coarse cloth are manufactured. Pop. about 15,000.
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Tirpitz
ALFRED VON, a German admiral, notorious as the dominating figure behind the German submarine warfare policy during the World War. He was born in Kustrin, 1849, and educated in the Marine Academy, from which he graduated at the age of 17. After his period of sea service he entered
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Tischendorf
LOBEGOTT FRIED- RICH KONSTANTIN (tish'en-dorf), a German Biblical critic; born in Lengenfeld, Saxony, Jan. 18, 1815; studied at Leipsic; and in 1845 became professor extraordinary there, becoming Professor Ordinary of Theology in 1859. He made several visits to the East, and brought back valuable MSS., the most remarkable being (in 1859) the very famous Sinaitic Codex. Tischendorf was continually engaged in editorial labors, and wa died in Leipsic, Dec. 7, 1874.
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Tisdall
FITZGERALD, an American educator; born in New York city, March 15, 1840; was graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1859; tutor in the Free Academy, New York, in 1860; director of Cooper Union Schools of Science and Art in 1870; and Professor of Greek Language and Literature in the College of the City of New York after 1879. He lectured extensively; visited Europe several times; and was a member and councillor of the American Institute of Archæology and a member of the American Philological Association.
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Tisiphone
One of the Furies, daughter of Nox and Acheron . Titanes (The Titans). A name given to the gigantic sons of Coelus and Terra. The most conspicuous of them are Saturn, Hyperion , Oceanus, Iapetus, Cottus, and Briareus.
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Tisri
in the Jewish calendar, the first month of the civil, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year. It corresponded to part of our September and October. The Great Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles fell within its limits. Called in I Kings viii; 2, Ethanim (=streaming rivers), because the rivers, swelled by the autumnal rains, were then in flood. The name tisri occurs in the Palmyrene inscriptions and was probably not confined to the Jews.
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Tissandier
GASTON (te-songdya'), a French_aeronaut_and chemist; born in Paris, France, Nov. 21, 1843. Besides textbooks of chemistry, he wrote for the "Library of Wonders," volumes on "Water," "Coal," "Coal," "Fossils," "Photography"; in collaboration with Glaisher and Flammarion, "Aerial Voyages." He died Nov. 21, 1899.
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Tissot
PIERRE FRANÇOIS, a French historian and miscellaneous writer; born in Versailles, France, in 1768. Among his works are: "Reminiscences of Prairial 1st to 3d" (1799), an interesting page of French history; "Vergil's Bucolics," in French verse (1800); "The Three Irish Conspirators; or, Emmet's Shade" (1804); "The Wars of the Revolution to 1815" (1820); "Vergil Compared with Ancient and Modern AA broken down by overwork in 1873. He Poets" (4 vols. 1825-1830); "Complete History of the French French Revolution" (6 vols. 1833-1836). He died in 1854.
CLAUDE JOSEPH (te-sō'), a French philosopher; born in Fourgs, Doubs, Nov. 26, 1801. He tra translated most of Kant's writings into French. Among his original works are: "Of the Beautiful, Especially in Literature" (1830); "Short History of Philosophy" (1840); "The Mania of Suicide and of Revolt" (1840): "Parcelling of the Land and Division of Property" (1842); "Principles of Morality" (1866); "Catholicism and Public Instruction" (1874); "Insanity Considered Especially in its Relations to Normal Psychology" (1876). He died in Dijon, Oct. 7, 1876.
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Tisza
KOLOMAN BOROSJENO VON, a Hungarian statesman; born in Geszt, Hungary, Dec. 16, 1830; was educated for the civil service; devoted much time to travel; was elected to the Hungarian Parliament in 1860; and later became leader of the Moderate Radicals, which party he united with the Liberals in 1875. He was appointed Minister of the Interior in the same year and prime minister in 1876. In 1876-1878 he opposed the policy of Russia and Pan- Slavism, and resigned with his cabinet when the financial condition of the Austrian government was found to be insufficient to meet the expense of the Bosnian occupation. Subsequently, however, he resumed this office and held it till 1890, when he resigned. He died in Budapest, Hungary, March 23, 1902.
STEPHAN, COUNT, Hungarian statesman, born in Budapest, in COUNT STEPHAN TISZA 1861; died in 1918, at the hand of an assassin. After finishing his studies in Berlin and Heidelberg and Vienna he was given a post in the Ministry of the Interior, in 1882. He was a strong supporter of the union with Austria and on the strength of this policy became Premier and Minister of the Interior in 1903-1906. In 1913 he again became Premier, and was believed to be one of the most influential figures in precipitating the World War. His Cabinet was compelled to resign in 1917, its war policies having by that time become discredited.
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Tithing
an ancient subdivision of England, forming part of 100, and consisting of 10 householders and their families held together in a society, all being bound for the peaceable behavior of each other, the chief of whom was the tithing man.
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Titiens
or TEIEJENS, TERESA, a German operatic singer; born in Hamburg, Germany July 18, 1831. She appeared as Lucrezia in her native town in her 16th year, and soon established her position as the chief lyric artist in Germany before her début in London, on April 13, 1858, as Valentine in "The Huguenots." Her success here was so decided that she made that country her future home. She followed Mr. Mapleson's fortunes at the Opera House in the Haymarket and at Drury Lane, and was the chief attraction of his management. Nature not only gifted her with a voice of marvelous strength and brilliant quality, but with a dramatic force illumined by the fire of genius. As Norma, Donna Anna, Semiramide, Medea, and Leonora, she was unequalled by any of her contemporaries. In the concert room and in oratorio her success was unequivocal. She died in the full maturity of her powers on Oct. 3, 1877. A monument was erected to her memory in All- Souls' Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, in November, 1878.
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