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JULIUS STINDE (1841-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIUS See also:STINDE (1841-1905)  , See also:German author, was See also:born at Kirchnifchel near See also:Eutin on the 28th of See also:August 1841, the son of a clergyman . Having attended the gymnasium at Eutin, he was apprenticed in 1858 to a chemist in See also:Lubeck . He soon tired of the See also:shop, and went to study See also:chemistry at See also:Kiel and See also:Giessen where he proceeded to the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy . In 1863 See also:Stinde received an See also:appointment as consulting chemist to a large See also:industrial undertaking in See also:Hamburg; but, becoming editor of the Hamburger Gewerbeblatt, he gradually transferred his energies to journalism . His earliest See also:works were little comedies, dealing with Hamburg See also:life, though he continued to make scientific contributions to various See also:journals . In 1876 Stinde settled in See also:Berlin and began the See also:series of stories of the See also:Buchholz See also:family, vivid and humorous studies of Berlin See also:middle-class life by which he is most widely known . He died at Olsberg near Kassel on the 7th of August 1905 . The first of the series Buchholzens in Italien (translated by H . F . See also:Powell, 1887) appeared in 1883 and achieved an immense success . It was followed by See also:Die Familie Buchholz in 1884 (translated by L . D .

Schmitz, 1885) ; Frau Buchholz See also:

im Orient in 1888; Frau Wilhelmine (Der Familie Buchholz letzter Teil; translated by H . F . Powell, 1887) in ,886; Wilhelmine Buchholz' Memoiren, in 1894; and Hotel Buchholz; Ausstellungserlebnisse der Frau Wilhelmine Buchholz, in 1896 . Under the pseudonyms of See also:Alfred de Valmy, Wilhelmine Buchholz and See also:Richard E . See also:Ward, he also published various other works of more or less merit, among which his Naturphilosophie (1898) deserves See also:special mention; his Waldnovellen (1881) have been translated into See also:English . STINK-See also:WOOD, in See also:botany, a See also:South See also:African See also:tree, known botanically as Ocotea bullata; and a member of the family Laurineae . Other names for it are Cape See also:Walnut, Stinkhout, Cape See also:Laurel and Laurel wood . It derives its name from having a strong and unpleasant See also:smell when fresh felled . It is used for See also:building in South See also:Africa and is described by See also:Stone (Timbers of See also:Commerce, p . 174) as " the most beautiful dark-coloured wood that I have yet met with." It is said to be a substitute for See also:teak and equally durable . The wood is dark walnut or reddish See also:brown to See also:black with a yellow See also:sap-wood, and the See also:grain extremely See also:fine, See also:close, dense and smooth .

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