the public squares, Sacra Via for one of the principal streets, and Campus Martius for the fortification. The settlement was incorporated as a town in 1800 and chartered as a city in 1852. In 1800 the village of Harmar, including the site on which Fort Harmar was built in 1785, was annexed.
See Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio (Columbus, 1891).
MARIETTE, AUGUSTE FERDINAND FRANÇOIS (1821–1881),
French Egyptologist, was born on the 11th of February 1821 at
Boulogne, where his father was town clerk. Educated at the
Boulogne municipal college, where he distinguished himself and
showed much artistic talent, he went to England in 1839 when
eighteen as professor of French and drawing at a boys’ school
at Stratford-on-Avon. In 1840 he became pattern-designer to
a ribbon manufacturer at Coventry; but weary of ill-paid exile
he returned the same year to Boulogne, and in 1841 took his
degree at Douai. He now became a professor at his old college,
and for some years supplemented his salary by giving private
lessons and writing on historical and archaeological subjects for
local periodicals. Meanwhile his cousin Nestor L’Hôte, the
friend and fellow-traveller of Champollion, died, and upon
Mariette devolved the task of sorting the papers of the deceased
savant. He thenceforth became passionately interested in
Egyptology, devoted himself to the study of hieroglyphs and
Coptic, and in 1847 published a Catalogue analytique of the
Egyptian Gallery of the Boulogne Museum; in 1849, being
appointed to a subordinate position in the Louvre, he left
Boulogne for Paris. Entrusted with a government mission for
the purpose of seeking and purchasing Coptic, Syriac, Arabic
and Ethiopic MSS. for the national collection, he started for
Egypt in 1850; and soon after his arrival he made his celebrated
discovery of the ruins of the Serapeum and the subterraneous
catacombs of the Apisbulls. His original mission being abandoned,
funds were now advanced for the prosecution of his
researches, and he remained in Egypt for four years, excavating,
discovering and despatching archaeological treasures to the
Louvre, of which museum he was on his return appointed an
assistant conservator. In 1858 he accepted the position of
conservator of Egyptian monuments to the ex-khedive, Ismail
Pasha, and removed with his family to Cairo. His history
thenceforth becomes a chronicle of unwearied exploration and
brilliant success. The museum at Bula was founded immediately.
The pyramid-fields of Memphis and Sakkara, and the
necropolis of Meydum, and those of Abydos and Thebes were
examined; the great temples of Dendera and Edfu were disinterred;
important excavations were carried out at Karnak,
Medinet-Habu and Deir el-Bahri; Tanis (the Zoan of the Bible)
was partially explored in the Delta; and even Gebel Barkal in
the Sudan. The Sphinx was bared to the rock-level, and the
famous granite and alabaster monument miscalled the “Temple
of the Sphinx” was discovered. Mariette was raised successively
to the rank of bey and pasha in his own service. Honours and
orders were showered on him: the Legion of Honour and the
Medjidie in 1852; the Red Eagle (first class) of Prussia in 1855;
the Italian order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus in 1857; and
the Austrian order of Francis-Joseph in 1858. In 1873 the
Academy of Inscriptions decreed to him the biennial prize
of 20,000 francs, and in 1878 he was elected a member of the
Institute. He was also an honorary member of most of the
learned societies of Europe. In 1877 his health broke down
through overwork. He lingered for a few years, working to the
last, and died at Cairo on the 19th of January 1881.
His chief published works are: Le Sérapéum de Memphis (1857 and following years); Dendérah, five folios and one 4to (1873–1875); Abydos, two folios and one 4to (1870–1880); Karnak, folio and 4to (1875); Deir el-Bahari, folio and 4to (1877); Listes géographiques des pylônes de Karnak, folio (1875); Catalogue du Musée de Boulaq (six editions 1864–1876); Aperçu de l’histoire d’Égypte (four editions, 1864–1874, &c.); Les Mastabas de l’ancien empire (edited by Maspero) (1883). See “Notice biographique,” by Maspero in Auguste Mariette. Œuvres diverses (tome 1, Paris, 1904), and art. Egypt: Exploration and Research.
MARIGNAC, JEAN CHARLES GALISSARD DE (1817–1894), Swiss chemist, was born at Geneva on the 24th of April 1817. When sixteen years old he began to attend the École Polytechnique in Paris, and from 1837 to 1839 studied at the École des Mines. Then, after a short time in Liebig’s laboratory at Giessen, and in the Sèvres porcelain factory, he became in 1841 professor of chemistry in the academy of Geneva. In 1845 he was appointed professor of mineralogy also, and held both chairs till 1878, when ill-health obliged him to resign. He died at Geneva on the 15th of April 1894. Marignac’s name is well known for the careful and exact determinations of atomic weights which he carried out for twenty-eight of the elements. In undertaking this work he had, like J. S. Stas, the purpose of testing Prout’s hypothesis, but he remained more disposed than the Belgian chemist to consider the possibility that it may have some degree of validity. Throughout his life he paid great attention to the “rare earths” and the problem of separating and distinguishing them; in 1878 he extracted ytterbia from what was supposed to be pure erbia, and two years later found gadolinia and samaria in the samarskite earths. In 1858 he pointed out the isomorphism of the fluostannates and the fluosilicates, thus settling the then vexed question of the composition of silicic acid; and subsequently he studied the fluosalts of zirconium, boron, tungsten, &c., and prepared silicotungstic acid, one of the first examples of the complex inorganic acids. In physical chemistry he carried out many researches on the nature and process of solution, investigating in particular the thermal effects produced by the dilution of saline solutions, the variation of the specific heat of saline solutions with temperature and concentration, and the phenomena of liquid diffusion.
A memorial lecture by P. T. Cleve, printed in the Journal of the London Chemical Society for 1895, contains a list of Marignac’s papers.
MARIGNAN, BATTLE OF, fought on the 13th and 14th of September 1515 between the French army under Francis I. and the Swiss. The scene of the battle—which was also that of a hard fought engagement in 1859 (see Italian Wars)—was the northern outskirts of the village of Melegnano, on the river Lambro, 10 m. S.E. of Milan. The circumstances out of which the battle of Marignan arose, almost inconceivable to the modern mind, were not abnormal in the conditions of Italian warfare and politics then prevailing. The young king of France had gathered an army about Lyons, wherewith to overrun the Milanese; his allies were the republics of Venice and Genoa. The duke of Milan, Maximilian Sforza, had secured the support of the emperor, the king of Spain, and the pope, and also that of the Swiss cantons, which then supplied the best and most numerous mercenary soldiers in Europe. The practicable passes of the Alps and the Apennines were held by Swiss and papal troops. Francis however boldly crossed the Col de l’Argentière (Aug. 1515) by paths that no army had hitherto used, and Marshal de La Palisse surprised and captured a papal corps at Villafranca near Pinerolo, whereupon the whole of the enemy’s troops fell back on Milan. The king then marching by Vercelli, Novara and Pavia, joined hands with Alviano, the Venetian commander, and secured a foothold in the Milanese. But in order to avoid the necessity of besieging Milan itself, he offered the Swiss a large sum to retire into their own country. They were about to accept his offer, not having received their subsidies from the pope and the king of Spain, when a fresh corps of mercenaries descended into Italy, desirous both of gaining booty and of showing their prowess against their new rivals the French and Lower Rhine “lansquenets” (Landsknechts) and against the French gendarmerie, whom (alluding to the “Battle of the Spurs” at Guinegatte in 1513) they called “hares in armour.” The French took position at Melegnano to face the Swiss, the Venetians at Lodi to hold in check the Spanish army at Piacenza. Alviano, who was visiting the king when the Swiss appeared before Melegnano, hurried off to bring thither his own army. Meantime the French and the Swiss engaged in an incredibly fierce struggle.
The king’s army was grouped in front of the village, facing in the direction of Milan, with a small stream separating it from the oncoming Swiss. On either side of the Milan road was a
