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LEMBERG (Pol. Lwdw, Lat. Leopolis)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 410 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEMBERG (Pol. Lwdw, See also:Lat. Leopolis)  , the See also:capital of the crowniand of See also:Galicia, See also:Austria, 468 m . N.W. of See also:Vienna by See also:rail . Pop . (Ig0o) 159,618, of whom over 8o% were Poles, 10% Germans, and 8% Ruthenians; nearly 30% of the See also:population were See also:Jews . According to population See also:Lemberg is the See also:fourth See also:city in the See also:Austrian See also:empire, coming after Vienna, See also:Prague and See also:Trieste . Lemberg is situated on the small See also:river 'Peltew, an affluent of the See also:Bug, in a valley in the Sarmatian See also:plateau, and is surrounded by hills . It is composed of the inner See also:town and of four suburbs . The inner town was formerly fortified, but the fortifications were subjects might be treated without offence . The See also:Pinto (1800) was transformed into See also:pleasure grounds in 1811 . Lemberg is the the result of a See also:wager that no further dramatic innovations were See also:residence of See also:Roman See also:Catholic, See also:Greek Catholic and Armenian possible after the comedies of See also:Beaumarchais . It is a See also:historical archbishops, and contains three cathedrals . The Roman See also:comedy on the subject of the Portuguese revolution of 1640 .

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cathedral was finished by Casimir IV. in 1480 in See also:Gothic This See also:play was construed as casting reflections on the first See also:consul, See also:style; near it is a See also:chapel (1609) remarkable for its See also:architecture who had hitherto been a See also:firm friend of See also:Lemercier . His extreme and See also:sculpture . The Greek cathedral, built in 1740—1779 in the freedom of speech finally offended See also:Napoleon, and the See also:quarrel See also:Basilica style, is situated on a height which dominates the town. proved disastrous to Lemercier's See also:fortune for the See also:time . None The Armenian cathedral was built in 1437 in the Armenian- of his subsequent See also:work fulfilled the expectations raised by See also:Byzantine style . The Dominican See also:church, built in 1749 after See also:Agamemnon, with the exception perhaps of Fredegonde et the See also:model of St See also:Peter's at See also:Rome, contains a See also:monument by Brunelzaut (1821) . In 1810 he was elected to the See also:Academy, Thorvaldsen to the Countess Dunin-Borkowska; the Greek where he consistently opposed the romanticists, refusing to St See also:Nicholas church was built in 1292; and the Roman Catholic give his See also:vote to See also:Victor See also:Hugo . In spite of this, he has some St See also:Mary church was built in 1363 by the first See also:German settlers. pretensions to be considered the earliest of the romantic school . The town See also:hall (1828–1837) with a See also:tower 250 ft. high is situated His Christophe See also:Colomb (1809), advertised on the playbill as a in the See also:middle of a square: Also notable are the hall of the comedie shakespirienne (sic), represented the interior of a See also:ship, estates (18777–1881), the See also:industrial museum, the See also:theatre, the and showed no respect for the unities . Its numerous innovations See also:palace of the Roman Catholic See also:archbishop and several educational provoked such violent disturbances in the See also:audience that one establishments . There are many beautiful private buildings, See also:person was killed and future representations had to be guarded broad and well-paved streets, numerous squares and public by the See also:police . Lemercier wrote four See also:long and ambitious epic gardens . At the See also:head of the educational institutions stands the poems: Homere, See also:Alexandre (18o1), L'Atlantiade, ou la theogonie university, founded in 1784 by See also:Joseph II., transformed into a newtonienne (1812) and Moise (1823), as well as an extraordinary lycee in 1803, and restored and reorganized in 1817 .

Since 1871 Panhypocrisiade (1819–1832), a distinctly romantic See also:

production the See also:language of instruction has been See also:Polish, and in 1901 the in twenty cantos, which has the sub-See also:title Spectacle infernal du university had fro lecturers, and was attended by 2060 students . X VP siecle . In it 16th-See also:century See also:history, with See also:Charles V. and There are also a See also:polytechnic, gymnasia—for Poles, Ruthenians See also:Francis I. as See also:principal personages, is played out on an imaginary and Germans respectively—seminaries for priests, training See also:stage by demons in the intervals of their sufferings . Lemercier colleges for teachers, and other See also:special and technical See also:schools. died on the 7th of See also:June 1840 in See also:Paris . In Lemberg is the See also:National See also:Institute founded by See also:Count Ossolinski, See also:LEMERY, See also:NICOLAS (1645–1715), See also:French chemist, was See also:born at which contains a library of books and See also:manuscripts See also:relating See also:Rouen on the 17th of See also:November 1645 . After learning See also:pharmacy chiefly to the history and literature of See also:Poland, valuable See also:anti- in his native town he became a See also:pupil of C . See also:Glaser's in Paris, and quarian and scientific collections, and a See also:printing See also:establishment; then went to See also:Montpellier, where he began to lecture on See also:chemistry. also the Dzieduszycki museum with collections of natural He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his history and ethnography relating chiefly to Galicia . Industrially lectures, but in 1683, being a Calvinist, he was obliged to retire and commercially Lemberg is the most important city in Galicia, to See also:England . In the following See also:year he returned to See also:France, and its See also:industries including the manufacture of machinery and See also:iron turning Catholic in 1686 was able to reopen his See also:shop and resume wares, matches, stearin candles and See also:naphtha, arrack and See also:liqueurs, his lectures . He died in Paris on the 19th of June 1715 . Lemery See also:chocolate, See also:chicory, See also:leather and See also:plaster of Paris, as well as See also:brewing, did not concern himself much with theoretical speculations, See also:corn-milling and See also:brick and See also:tile making . It has important I but holding chemistry to be a See also:demonstrative See also:science, confined See also:commerce in See also:linen, See also:flax, See also:hemp, See also:wool and seeds, and a considerable I himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. transit See also:trade .

Of the well-wooded hills which surround Lemberg, In consequence, his lecture-See also:

room was thronged with See also:people of all sorts, anxious to hear a See also:man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's See also:stone and the See also:elixir of See also:life as the See also:sole end of his science . Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 See also:editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a See also:standard work . His other publications included Pharmacopee universelle (1697), Traite universel See also:des drogues simples (1698), Traite de l'antimoine (1707), together with a number of papers contributed the most important is the See also:Franz-Josef-See also:Berg to the N.E., with an See also:altitude of 1310 ft . Several beautiful parks have been laid out on this See also:hill . Leopolis was founded about 1259 by the Ruthenian See also:prince See also:Leo Danilowicz, who moved here his residence from See also:Halicz in 1270 . From Casimir the See also:Great, who captured it in 1340, it received the See also:Magdeburg rights, and for almost two See also:hundred years the public records were kept in German . In 1412 it became the see of a Roman Catholic archbishopric, and from 1432 until to the French Academy, one of which offered a chemical and 1772 it was the capital of the Polish See also:province of Reussen (Terra See also:physical explanation of underground fires, earthquakes, See also:lightning and See also:thunder . He discovered that See also:heat is evolved when iron filings and See also:sulphur are rubbed together to a See also:paste with See also:water, and the artificial volcan de Lemery was produced by burying underground a considerable quantity of this mixture, which he regarded as a potent See also:agent in the See also:causation of volcanic See also:action . His son Lours (1677–1743) was appointed physician at the Hotel Dieu in 1710, and became demonstrator of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi in 1731 . He was the author of a Traite des aliments (1702), and of a Dissertation sur la nature des os (1704), as well as of a number of papers on chemical topics .

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