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 DANISH LANGUAGE DANTE 669 his direction ; the other by Thomas, after drawings by James Wales. William also pub- lished "A Picturesque Voyage to India," "Zoography," "Animated Nature," &c., and from 1814 to 1825 was engaged in making sketches for "A Voyage round Great Britain," a work similar to that on India. Besides these, he executed many oil paintings of Indian scen- ery, among them a panorama of Madras, the " City of Lucknow," and the "Elephant Hunt," and contributed to the " Oriental Annual." DANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. See DENMARK. DANNECKER, Johann Heinrich TOD, a German sculptor, born at Waldenbuch, near Stuttgart, Oct. 15, 1758, died in Stuttgart, Dec. 8, 1841. His father was groom to the duke of Wurtem- berg, and Dannecker grew up with a very lim- ited education. He manifested a taste for drawing at a very early age, and for want of better materials resorted to the yard of a stonecutter, and covered the slabs there with his designs. In 1771 he entered the military school established by the duke at Ludwigs- burg. When he was 18 he obtained a prize for his model of Milo of Orotona. He here formed a friendship with Schiller, in whose memory he sculptured a noble statue and sev- eral busts, one of them of colossal size. On leaving the school in 1780, he was appointed statuary to the court, and three years after- ward went to Paris on foot, having only his salary as statuary, about $125 a year. He re- mained two years in Paris, studying under Pajou, and then made his way on foot to Rome, where he made statues of Ceres and Bacchus, which procured his admission into the acade- mies of Milan and Bologna. In 1790, having spent five years in Rome, he returned to his native country, and was made a professor of the fine arts in the academy of Stuttgart. In 1796 he produced several works in marble, among them a Sappho ; and afterward he was employed by Frederick of Wiirtemberg upon a monument to Count Zeppelin, representing a figure of Friendship weeping over a coffin. Next he made his Ariadne, and in 1812 he was employed by King Frederick on a statue of Cupid. His greatest work is his colossal statue of Christ, on which he spent eight years ; this was ordered by the empress-mother of Russia, and presented to her son Alexander I. In 1826 he executed a statue of St. John, which is also ranked with his best productions. An account of the life and works of Dannecker was published at Hamburg in 1841, with illus- trations of his principal works. DANNEMORA, a parish of Sweden, in the Ian and about 23 m. N. of the city of Upsal ; pop. about 1,000. It contains celebrated iron mines, which are situated in a marshy plain surround- ed by three inland lakes. The principal mine is about 9,000 ft. long, 2,000 ft. broad, and 500 ft. deep. There are about 80 mines, which are protected against flooding from the lakes by a dam of hewn granite, rising in some places to a height of nearly 40 ft. The ore is obtained by blasting, and yields on an average 40 per cent, of pure iron. The annual production is estimated at upward of 30,000 tons. It is ex- tensively used for making steel, being regarded as the best of its kind. About a mile from Dannemora are the forges of Osterby, where the ore is smelted by charcoal, and the iron prepared for exportation. Among the neigh- boring mining places, which are generally des- ignated by the common name of the Danne- mora works, are Lofsta, Gimo, Forsmark, Carl- holm, Stromsberg, and Ullfors. DANNEMORA, a town of Clinton co., N. Y., 150 m. N. of Albany, formed from Beekman- town in 1854; pop. in 1870, 1,512. It is the seat of Clinton state prison, which in 1871 contained 529 convicts, mostly employed in the neighboring iron works and mines. DANSVILLE, a village in the town of North Dansville, Livingston co., New York, on a branch of the Erie railway, and at the termi- nus of the Genesee Valley canal, 38 m. S. of Rochester, and 62 m. E. S. E. of Buffalo ; pop. in 1870, 3,387 ; of the town, 4,015. It is situ- ated at the head of the Canaseraga valley, a branch of the Genesee valley, in the midst of a very fertile district, and is a place of consider- able business, containing 63 stores, 4 carriage shops, 3 tanneries, 4 flour mills, 2 iron foun- deries and machine shops, 1 planing mill, 1 shingle factory, 1 pail and tub factory, 3 paper mills, 2 picture galleries, 8 nurseries occupying an aggregate area of 500 acres, 2 banks, and 4 insurance offices. There is also an important trade in grain and lumber. Dansville is espe- cially noted as the seat of a health institute, known as " Our Home on the Hill-side." Its site is about 150 ft. up the slope of a steep hill, 800 ft. high, which forms the E. wall of the Canaseraga valley. The institute is sup- plied with water of great purity from a spring 250 ft. above. The home was established about 15 years ago, and now (1873) contains about 350 patients. The Dansville seminary (Methodist) was founded in 1858, and in 1871 had 116 pupils. There are also about a dozen select and district schools, two weekly news- papers, and eight churches. DANTAN, Jean Pierre, a French sculptor, born in Paris, Dec. 28, 1800, died in Baden, Sept. 7, 1869. He studied in Paris, and then went to Italy, where he executed a bust of Pope Pius VIII. Upon his return to France he devoted himself to caricature, and acquired distinction by his humorous and grotesque busts of the leading celebrities of Paris and London. DANTE (contracted from DURANTE) DEGLI ALIGHIERI, an Italian poet, born in Florence, May 14, 1265, died in Ravenna, Sept. 14, 1321. His descent is said to have been derived from a younger son of the great Roman family of the Frangipani, classed by the popular rhyme with the Orsini and Colonnas : Colonna, Orsini e Frangipani Prendono oggi e pagano domani.