See also:BARON VON See also:CHRISTIAN See also:CHARLES JOSIAS See also:BUNSEN (1791-186o,)
, Prussian diplomatist and See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:August 1791 at Korbach, an. old See also:town in the little See also:German principality of Waldeck
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His See also:father was a See also:farmer who was driven by poverty to become a soldier
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Having studied at the Korbach See also:grammar school and See also:Marburg university, See also:Bunsen went in his nineteenth See also:year to See also:Gottingen, where he supported himself by teaching and later by acting as See also:tutor to W
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B
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See also:Astor, the See also:American See also:merchant
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He won the university See also:prize See also:essay of the year 1812 by a See also:treatise on the Athenian See also:Law of See also:Inheritance, and a few months later the university of See also:Jena granted him the' honorary degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy
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During 1813 he travelled with Astor in See also:South See also:Germany,. and then turned to the study of the See also:religion, See also:laws, See also:language and literature of the See also:Teutonic
races
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He had read See also:Hebrew when a boy, and now worked at Arabic at See also:Munich, See also:Persian at See also:Leiden, and Norse at See also:Copenhagen
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At the See also:close of 1815 he went to See also:Berlin, to See also:lay before See also:Niebuhr the See also:plan of See also:research which he had mapped out
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Niebuhr was so impressed with Bunsen's ability that, two years later, when he became Prussian See also:envoy to the papal See also:court, he made the See also:young scholar his secretary
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The intervening years Bunsen spent in assiduous labour among the See also:libraries and collections of See also:Paris and See also:Florence
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In See also:July 1817 he married Frances See also:Waddington, eldest daughter and co-heiress of B
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Waddington of Llanover, See also:Monmouthshire
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As secretary to Niebuhr, Bunsen was brought into contact with the Vatican See also:movement for the See also:establishment of the papal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in the Prussian dominions, to provide for the largely increased See also:Catholic See also:population
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He was among the first to realize the importance of this new vitality on the See also:part of the Vatican, and he made it his See also:duty to provide against its possible dangers by urging upon the Prussian court the See also:wisdom of See also:fair and impartial treatment of its Catholic subjects
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In this See also:object he was at first successful, and both from the Vatican and from See also:Frederick See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III., who put him in See also:charge of the See also:legation on Niebuhr's resignation, he received unqualified approbation
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Owing partly to the See also:wise statesmanship of See also:Count Spiegel, See also:arch-See also:bishop of See also:Cologne, an arrangement was made by which the thorny question of " mixed " marriages (i.e. between Catholic and See also:Protestant) would have been happily solved; but the See also:archbishop died in 1835, the arrangement was never ratified, and the Prussian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king was foolish enough to appoint as Spiegel's successor the narrow-minded See also:partisan See also:Baron Droste
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The See also:pope gladly accepted the See also:appointment, and in two years the forward policy of the See also:Jesuits had brought about the strife which Bunsen and Spiegel had tried to prevent
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Bunsen rashly recommended that Droste should be seized, but the coup was so clumsily attempted, that the incriminating documents were, it is said, destroyed in advance
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The See also:government, in this impasse, took the safest course, refused to support Bunsen, and accepted his resignation in See also:April 1838
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After leaving See also:Rome, where he had become intimate with all that was most interesting in the See also:cosmopolitan society of the papal See also:capital, Bunsen went to See also:England, where, except for a See also:short See also:term as Prussian See also:ambassador to See also:Switzerland (1839–1841), he was destined to pass the See also:rest of his See also:official See also:life
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The See also:accession to the See also:throne of See also:Prussia of Frederick William IV., on See also:June 7th, 184o, made a See also:great See also:change in Bunsen's career
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Ever since their first See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting in 1828 the two men had been close See also:friends and had exchanged ideas in an intimate See also:correspondence, published under See also:Ranke's editorship in 1873
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See also:Enthusiasm for evangelical religion and admiration for the See also:Anglican Church they held in See also:common, and Bunsen was the See also:instrument naturally selected for realizing the king's fantastic See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of setting up at See also:Jerusalem a Prusso-Anglican bishopric as a sort of See also:advertisement of the unity and aggressive force of Protestantism
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The See also:special See also:mission of Bunsen to England, from June to See also:November 1841, was completely successful, in spite of the opposition of See also:English high churchmen and Lutheran extremists
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The Jerusalem bishopric, with the consent of the See also:British government and the active encouragement of the archbishop of See also:Canterbury and the bishop of See also:London; was duly established, endowed with Prussian and English See also:money, and remained for some See also:forty years an isolated See also:symbol of Protestant unity and a See also:rock of stumbling to Anglican Catholics
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During his stay in England Bunsen had made himself very popular among all classes of society, and he was selected by See also:Queen See also:Victoria, out of three names proposed by the king of
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Prussia, as ambassador to the court of St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's
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In this See also:post he remained for thirteen years
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His See also:tenure of the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office coincided with the See also:critical See also:period in Prussian and See also:European affairs which culminated in the revolutions of 1848
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With the visionary schemes of Frederick William, whether that of setting up a strict episcopal organization in the Evangelical Church, or that of reviving the defunct ideal of the See also:medieval See also:Empire, Bunsen found himself increasingly out of sympathy
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He realized the significance of the signs that' heralded the coming See also:storm, and tried invain to move the king to a policy which would have placed him at the See also:head of a Germany See also:united and See also:free
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He See also:felt bitterly the humiliation of Prussia by See also:Austria after the victory of the reaction; and in 1852 he set his See also:signature reluctantly to the treaty which, in his view, surrendered the " constitutional rights of See also:Schleswig and See also:Holstein." His whole See also:influence was now directed to withdrawing Prussia from the blighting influence of Austria and See also:Russia, and attempting to draw closer the ties that See also:bound her to Great See also:Britain
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On the outbreak of the See also:Crimean See also:War he urged Frederick William to throw in his See also:lot with the western See also:powers, and create a diversion in the See also:north-See also:east which would have forced Russia at once to terms
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The rejection of his See also:advice, and the See also:proclamation of Prussia's attitude of ", benevolent See also:neutrality," led him in April 1854 to offer his resignation, which was accepted
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Bunsen's life as a public See also:man was now practically at an end
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He retired first to a See also:villa on the See also:Neckar near See also:Heidelberg and later to See also:Bonn
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He refused to stand for a seat, in the Liberal See also:interest, in the See also:Lower See also:House of the Prussian See also:diet, but continued to take an active interest in politics, and in 1855 published in two volumes a See also:work, See also:Die Zeichen der Zeit: Briefe, ere., which exercised an immense influence in reviving the Liberal movement which the failure of the revolution had crushed
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In See also:September 1857 Bunsen attended, as the king's See also:guest, a meeting of the Evangelical See also:Alliance at Berlin; and one of the last papers signed by Frederick William, before his mind gave way in See also:October, was that which conferred upon him the See also:title of baron and a See also:peerage for life
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In 1858, at the special See also:request of the See also:regent (afterwards the See also:emperor) William, he took his seat in the Prussian Upper House, and, though remaining silent, supported the new See also:ministry, of which his See also:political and See also:personal friends were members
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See also:Literary work was, however, his See also:main preoccupationduring all this period
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Two discoveries of See also:ancient See also:MSS. made during his stay in London, the one containing a shorter See also:text of the Epistles of St See also:Ignatius, and the other an unknown work On all the Heresies, by Bishop See also:Hippolytus, had already led him to write his Hippolytus and his See also:Age: See also:Doctrine and Practice of Rome under See also:Commodus and See also:Severus (1852)
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He now concentrated all his efforts upon a See also:translation of the See also:Bible with commentaries
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While this was in preparation he published his See also:God in See also:History, in which he contends that the progress of mankind See also:marches parallel to the conception of God formed within each nation by the highest exponents of its thought
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At the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he carried through the See also:press, assisted by See also:Samuel See also:Birch, theconcluding volumes of his work (published in English as well as in German) See also:Egypt's See also:Place in Universal History—containing a reconstruction of See also:Egyptian See also:chronology, together with an See also:attempt to determine the relation in which the language and the religion of that See also:country stand to the development of each among the more ancient non-See also:Aryan and Aryan races
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His ideas on this subject were most fully See also:developed in two volumes published in London before he quitted England—Outlines of the Philosophy of Universal History as applied to Language and Religion (2 vols., 1854)
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In 1858 Bunsen's See also:health began to fail; visits to See also:Cannes in 1858 and 1859 brought no improvement, and he died on November 28th, !86o
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One of his last See also:requests having been that his wife would write down recollections of their common life, she published his See also:Memoirs in 1868, which contain much of his private correspondence
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The German translation ; of these Memoirs has added extracts from unpublished documents, throwing a new See also:light upon the political events in which he played a part
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Baron See also:Humboldt's letters to Bunsen were printed in 1869
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Bunsen's English connexion, both through his wife (d
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1876) and through his own See also:long See also:residence in London, was further in-creased in his See also:family
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He had ten See also:children, including five: sons, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry (1818–1855), Ernest (1819–1903), Karl ,(1821-1887), Georg (1824–1896) and Theodor (-1832-1892)
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Of these Karl (See also:Charles) and Theodor had careers in the German See also:diplomatic service; and Georg, who for some time was an active politician in Germany, eventually retired to live in London; Henry, who was an English clergyman, became a naturalized Englishman,
and Ernest, who in 1845 married an Englishwoman, See also:Miss See also:Gurney, subsequently resided and died in London
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The See also:form of " de " Bunsen was adopted for the surname in England
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Ernest de Bunseh was a scholarly writer, who published various See also:works both in German and in English, notably on Biblical chronology and other questions of See also:comparative religion
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His son, See also:Sir See also:Maurice de Bunsen (b
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1852), entered the English diplomatic service in 1877, and after a varied experience became See also:minister at See also:Lisbon in 1905
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See also L. von Ranke, Aus dem Briefwechsel See also:Friedrich Wilhelms TV. mit Bunsen (Berlin, 1873)
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The See also:biography in the 9th edition of this See also:encyclopaedia, which has been See also:drawn upon above, was by Georg von Bunsen
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