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 BROCKHAUS BROOKVILLE 303 gan to publish the second edition of this work, which was finished under his own editorship. Shortly before the battle of Leipsic he com- menced a political newspaper called Deutsche Blatter, which breathed a patriotic German spirit. This journal lasted from Oct. 14, 1813, to May, 1816. The peace of 1815 enabled him to enter upon large literary undertakings. In 1817 the business had increased to such an ex- tent that Brockhaus removed to Leipsic, and added a printing office to his former establish- ment. His Conversations- Lexikon ran through six editions in his lifetime, and numerous other publications of the first rank raised the firm to a high position in German literature. Among the more important publications of the firm during the lifetime of its founder may be men- tioned Ebert's Allgcmeines biblioffraphuches Lexikon (1821) and Von Raumer's Geschichte der Hohenstmtfen (1823), besides several peri- odicals edited by himself; among these is the Literarisches Wochenblatt, now published as the Blatter fur literarische Unterhaltung. His liberalism brought him under the ban of the reactionary Prussian government, which in 1821 ordered a censorship upon all the publi- cations of Brockhaus, which lasted until his death. His biography was published by one of his relatives in 1872 (2 vols.). The firm of F. A. Brockhaus was continued by the two sons of the founder, FRIEDBIOH and HEINKICH. Under their auspices the Conversations- Lexikon has passed through five new editions (llth ed., 15 vols., 1864-'8, with a supplement in 2 vols., 1872-'3), to which several companion works were added from time to time, namely : the Con- versations- Lexikon der neuesten Zeit und Lite- ratur (1832-'4), the Conversations-Lexikon der Oegenwart (1838-'41), and the Gegenwart (1848 -'56). In January, 1857, the firm commenced a supplementary work of this character, called Unsere Zeit, Jahrbuch zum Conversations- Lexi- kon, published in monthly and ultimately in semi-monthly parts, which is still continued. Tlie Systcmatischer Bilder-Atlas zum Conver- sations-Lexikon was published between 1844 and 1851. In 1854-'6 an abridgment of the 10th edition of the Conversations-Lexikon ap- peared in 4 volumes (Kleineres Broclchaus'sches Conversations- Lex ikon ; 2d ed., 1861-'4). The " Encyclopedia Americana," edited by Dr. Francis Lieber (Philadelphia, 1829-'33), was based upon the 7th edition of the Conversa- tions-Lexikon. Among the most notable pe- riodical publications of this firm are the con- tinuation since 1832 of the Allgemeine Ency- klopadie der Wissenschaften und Kunste, by Ersch and Grnber ; the Pfennig-Magazin ; the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeituny, commenced in 1837; and the Deutir.he Allgemeine Zeitung, since 1843. In 1850 Friedrioh Brockhaus re- tired from business, and Heinrich for a time constituted alone the firm of F. A. Brockliaus ; in 1854 and 1863 his two sons, HEINRICII EDE- ARD and HEINRICH RUDOLF, upon reaching re- spectively their 25th year, were admitted as 123 VOL. HI. 20 members of the firm. The firm of F. A. Brock- haus has printing, lithographing, binding, and type-founding establishments connected with its book-publishing and general bookselling busi- ness. II. Hermann, a German orientalist, third son of Friedrich Arnold, born in Amsterdam, Jan. 28, 1806. He studied the oriental languages at Leipsic, Gottingen, and Bonn. The languages and literature of Hindostan especially engaged his attention ; for the better acquisition of this branch of knowledge he resided for a long time in Paris, London, and Oxford. In 1839 he was appointed professor extraordinary at the uni- versity of Jena, and in 1841 at Leipsic. In 1848 he was called to the chair of Sanskrit lan- guage and literature in the latter university. He has edited and published several Sanskrit and Persian works, some of them in Roman type. He was one of the founders of the Ger- man oriental society, the Zeitschrift issued by which he has edited since 1852. In 1856 he undertook the editing of Ersch and Grnber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie. BROCKLESBY, Riehard, an English physician, born of a Quaker family at Minehead, in Somersetshire, Aug. 11, 1722, died in London, Dec. 11, 1797. He studied medicine at Edin- burgh, and subsequently at Leyden, where he took his doctor's degree in 1745. In 1746 he published an essay on the mortality of horned cattle. He was physician of the British forces in Germany from 1758 to 1763, and published his observations on medical hospitals on his return. In 1763, when John Wilkes was se- verely wounded in a duel with Mr. Martin, he was attended by Dr. Brocklesby. In 1765 he was elected fellow of the royal society, which at his suggestion founded a professorship of chemistry at the royal military academy of Woolwich. For over 40 years he was on inti- mate terms with the leading statesmen, au- thors, artists, and other persons of note in London. He attended on Dr. Johnson for many years without fee. When it was pro- posed that Johnson should visit the continent for a milder climate, and want of means was mentioned as a reason why the journey was to be abandoned, Brocklesby offered to settle on him 100 for life. BROCKPORT, a village in the town of Sweden, Monroe county, N. Y., on the Erie canal and a branch of the New York Central railroad, 18 m. W. of Rochester; pop. in 1870, 2,817. It is noted for the manufacture of pumps, and con- tains also three manufactories of reapers and mowers, several mills, seven or eight churches, a state normal school, a national bank with $50,000 capital, and two weekly newspapers. BROCKVILLE, a town of Ontario, Canada, in Leeds county, on the St. Lawrence, at the foot of the Thousand Islands, 125 m. 8. W. of Mon- treal, and 10 m. S. W. of Prescott ; pop. in 1871 , 10,475. It occupies a pleasant situation, and is substantially built. There are manufactures of hardware, stoves, white lead, gloves, agri- cultural implements, and chemicals, including