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DIEFENBACH. 228 DIEPPE. brarian. His literary indi)strv was enormous, and his wriliiiys iiultule poelry and roiiiaiiee, as »-ll as learned pliilosopliieal treatises. Uis prineipal works are: t'cllicu ('i vols., 183U-40) ; 'ergUicltcinlts W'ortcrbiicli di-r gol isclien Simichc (2 vols., 1846-51); Ulossariiim Lalino-dcrmuni- cum ilediir cl liifimw .Ktuti», a supplement lo Dueange's well-known Glossary (1857) ; Oriyines KurojHiw (18lil); IJovh- und iiicdcrdeiilsclws WoiUrhucli (with E. Wulcker, 2 vols., 1874-85). DIEFFENBACH, (;koki; Chuistiax ( 1S22- litOl). A CliTiiian theulojiian and poet, born at Schlitz, llesse. lie studied at Uiessen. and in 1871 bceanie ehief pastor in Schlitz. His litur- gical, jmetieal, devotional, and homilctie publica- tions are numerous and highly popular, more especially his poems for children. DIEFFENBACH, .loii.wN Frikuriih (17'J5- 1847 I. A (.liruiaii surgeon, born in KJinigsberg, Prussia. Alter studying at Bonn and elsewhere, and traveling in France, he took his degree in 1822. and commenced jiractice in Berlin, where he soon attained distinction as an operator, and in 1840 was promoted to be professor and direc- tor of clinical surgery. Besides possessing skill in all the usual operations with the knife, DietTen- bach introdiced many improvements, particu- larly in the art of foiming new noses, lips, eye- lids, and in other plastic operations. He was the author of Die Tranxfusion des liliites iitid die Kinsprilzunfl der Arzncicn in die Ad^!rn (1828) ; Chiritrgischc Erfahrutigen (4 vols., 1829-35) ; Uebcr die Dtirchschneidting der Schnen und Miis- leln (1841) ; Die Heihing des Stottenis (1841) ; Veber das Schiclen (1842); and Die operative Chirurgie ( 12 vols., 1844-48). DIEGO, dA-a'gA (Sp.. .Tames). Sexton to the Spani-^h Curate in Fletcher's play of that name. It is his constant complaint that "there's nothing to be got by burials' in his master's parish. DIEGO, Don. An alias assumed liy Surly in .Tonson'- The Alchemist : also by .James Formal in W yclrcrly's The (linlleiiiait Dniuinii Master. DIELECTRIC and DIELECTRIC CON- STANT. Sec ICuxntlCITY. DIELMANN, d.'I'man, Fredebick (1847—). An American artist, born in Hanover. Germany. From 180C to 1872 lie was a tojiographer and draughtsman in the United States Engineering Department. He then studied art as a jiupil of Wilhelni Diez at the Royal Academy of Munich, and established a studio in Xew York in lH7fi. In ISS.'S lie was elected a memlier of the National Academy, and in 180(1 and 11100 president of tlie National Academy of Design. In addition to hi-s illustrations, jiarticnlarly f<ir fine collective edi- tions of standard authors, his work includes genre and historical pictures and portraits, and designs fnr the mosaic |)anel "Thrift." in the Al- banj' Savings Bank, and those of "History" and "Law" in the Congressional Library, Washing- ton. DIELS, dels. Hermanx (1848 — ). A German classical scholar, appointed professor ordinarius of classical philologj- at the I'niversity of Berlin in 188fi. He was born at Biebrich on the Kliine, and was edncalcd at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. In adililion to his most notable work, Doxogrnphi tlrwci (187IM. in which the sources of the iloctrines of Greek philiisoplicr- iw trans- mitted by post-.ristotelian scholars were for the lirst time decided upon, his works include an edition of Siniplieius's I'uminentary on the I'hya- ica of Aristotle {Simplicii in Aristotelis J'hysiea Cumnientariu, 1882) ; and a treatise on the liibyllinische Blatter (181(0). He was one of the editors of the Archie fiir Geschichte der I'hilo- Sophie (Berlin), begun in 1887, and of the t'om- nientaria in A risloleleni (Jraea, brought out by the Berlin Academy. DIELTTTRA. See Dicextka. DIEPENBEECK, de'i)fn-bftk. AsBAnAU van ( 151IG-U)75;. A Flemish painter and engraver, born in Bois-le-Duc in 15!il). He studied under his father, a glass-painter, and e.ecuted a num- ber of important glass windows, some of which survive in the t'athedral of Antwerp, the Church of the Dominicans, and elsewhere. Afterwards he studied under llubens, assisting that artist in his pictures. But he never attained his master's brightness and transi)arency oi color, and was at best an unsatisfactory imitator. After his return from Italy he abandoned glass-painting, devot- ing himself to designing and ])ainling. In 1041 he was elected president of tlie .Vntwerp Acad- emy, and held that ollice until his death. A characteristic s|)ecinien of his religious painting is the "Ecstasy of Saint Bonaventura," in the iluseuni of Antwerp. Among his chief works are "The Atonement," in the iluseiun of Brun.s- wick; the "Marriage of Saint Catherine," in the Berlin Museum; and the "Lovers with Cupid," in the Louvre. His "Cladia Fleeing from Por.senna," a remarkable historical work, e.vists in three versions in Berlin, Dresden, and Paris. His masterjiiece in designing was a series of engravings for the Abbe de Marolle'.s "Tab- leau.K du Temple des Muses," published in Paris, 1G05. DIEPPE, dyep (connected with AS. di/pr. Dutch </ii/<. dei)th). A seaport in the Depart- ment of Seine-lnfcrieure. France, at the mouth of the river Anpies, on the English Channel, 33 miles north of Uouen (Map: France. G 2). Dieppe is situated between two high ranges of chalk clifl's, has tolerably wide, clean streets, running parallel to the sea; and the houses — built for the most part of stone and brick, with high, slanting roofs — have a picturesque apiiear- ance. Its fifteenth-century castle, now used as a barracks, occupies a high cliff at the west end of the town, which it commands, as well as the harbor, which is situated to the northeast and admits vessels of .500 tons burden. East of flic town and connected by a drawliridge lies the little fishing Miburb of Pollet, uninviting in ap- pearance, hut interesting from the fact that the inhabitants differ in language, manners, anil customs from the rest of Upper Normandy, ami are supposed to 1* descendants of Saxons who settled on the French coast iluring the Mero- vingian period, .mong the jirincipal buildings are the churches of Saint .lacqucs and Saint Bemy, a museum and picture gallery, and the theatre. The town has several squares, and is adorned by nearly seventy fountains, which de- rive their supply of water from an nqueiluet about three miles long. Dieppe, iM'iiig one of the principal watering places of France, has a great accessicin of visitors during the suiiiiiier months. The manufactures are lace, fine linen, tobacco, piiper. and carved articles of horn. bone, and