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 772 BODICHON BODLEIAN LIBRARY upon the old English literature. He has trans- lated from the Russian the poems of Lermontoff (2 vols.) and Pushkin (3 vols.), and from the English Shakespeare's sonnets (1802), and written Shakspeare'a Zeitgenossen mid ihre Werke (3 vols., Berlin, 1858-'60). The most brilliant of his original compositions was the Lieder des Mirza Schaffy (Berlin, 1851; 30th ed., 1870). These songs were long erroneously supposed to he translations from the Persian, and have been rendered into almost all the lan- guages of Europe. Among his other publica- tions are Demetrius (1856), Gedichte (3d ed., Berlin, 1859), EpiscJie Dichtungen (1862), and Konig Autharfs Brautfahrt (1860). The last two are dramas. He is now (1873) engaged with others in making a complete translation of Shakespeare. BODICHOIV. I. Eugene, a French physician, born at Nantes about 1810. He received his diploma in Paris in 1835, and has since prac- tised his profession in Algiers, and published several works, includ- ing fitude sur VAlgerie et TAfrique (Paris and Algiers, 1847). II. Bar- bara Leigh, wife of the preceding, born in Eng- land, April 8, 1827. She is the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Benja- min Smith, who was member of parliament for Norwich. She pro- moted reforms in the English laws of mar- riage and divorce, es- tablished a school in London for daughters of respectable artisans, and in 1857 married Dr. Bodichon, whom she aided in some of his works. She has also successfully devoted herself to landscape painting. BODIN, Jean, a French publicist, born at An- gers in 1530, died at Laon in 1596. After studying law at Toulouse, he repaired to Paris, and devoted himself to politics. His first work was a Methodus ad facilem ffistoriarum Cog- nitionem (Paris, 1566). In 1576 he published his Six litres de la republique, which gained for him a great reputation, and the esteem of Henry III. ; but having suffered in the king's mind by the calumnies of some courtiers, he transferred his services to the duke of Alencon, then the chief of the party called lea politiyties, and went with that prince to England in 1580. His Demonomanie, ou traite des sorciers, was printed at Paris in 1580. After the death of his protector, in 1584, he retired to Laon, where he married, and held the office of pro- eureur. He was subsequently sent as deputy for the tiers etat of Vermandois to the states general at Blois, where he supported several democratic measures. On the death of Henry III. Bodin joined the party of the league, but a little later went over to the side of Henry IV. He died of the plague. His biography has been written by Baudrillart (Paris, 1853). BODLEIAN LIBRARY, the public library of the university of Oxford, so called from Sir Thomas Bodley, who restored it toward the close of the 16th century, many of the previous collections of books and MSS. having been destroyed dur- ing the reign of Edward VI. Besides restoring the building and providing a fund of 2,000 for the purchase of books, he also presented a collection which he had made on the conti- nent valued at 10,000, and left an estate for the maintenance of officers and for keeping the library in repair. For the government of the library he drew up statutes, which were after- ward incorporated with those of the university. The library was first opened to the public Nov. 8, 1602. The example of Bodley was soon fol- lowed by the earl of Essex, who presented part of the library of the Portuguese bishop Oso- rius, which had been captured by him in 1596, shortly after the expedition against Cadiz. After the death of Bodley, the earl of Pem- broke added a valuable collection of Greek MSS., procured by Baroccio, a Venetian. At later dates Sir Thomas Roe, Sir Kenelm Difiby, Selden, Gough the antiquary, and Archbishop Laud made donations of valuable Greek, ori- ental, and German MSS. The rabbinical col- lections of the Hebrew scholar Oppenheim, a great collection of eastern MSS., of early edi- tions of the Bible, original editions of ancient and classic authors, together with 50,000 dis- sertations by members of foreign universities, and an extensive collection of medals, coins, prints, &c., were also subsequently deposited in this library. In 1809 the traveller Clarke gave to it some rare Greek and Latin MSS.,