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 DORNBIRN DORSETSHIRE 217 DORNBIRN, a town of Yorarlberg, Austria, 6 m. S. of Bregenz ; pop. in 1870, 8,486. It has a flourishing industry, chiefly consisting of the construction of wooden houses, which are exported, and of manufactures of cotton goods and embroidery. It was formerly an imperial village. DORNER, Isaak August, a German theologian, born near Tuttlingen, Wtirtemberg, June 20, 1809. He is the son of a Lutheran clergy- man, studied at Tubingen, and became a pro- fessor there in 1838. He removed in the fol- lowing year to the university of Kiel, which he left very soon on his appointment as pro- fessor of divinity and councillor of the consis- tory at Konigsberg. In 184T he accepted a chair at Bonn, which he held till 1853, when he removed to Gottingen ; and since 1862 he has been professor of systematic theology and exegesis at the university of Berlin. As a theological writer he is best known by his Entwickelungsgeschichte der Lelire von der Person Christi (Stuttgart, 1839; English translation by Dr. W. Simon, Edinburgh, 1859) ; and for his contributions to Herzog's Encyclopddie fur protestantische Theologie, and to the JaJirlueJier fur deutscJie Theologie, of which he is joint editor with Liebner and Ehrenfeuchter. Among his recent publications are OeseJiichte der protestantischen Theolo- gie (Leipsic, 1867; translated into English, Edinburgh, 1871), and Ueber die einheitliche Textgestaltung, fieziehungsweise Verbesserung der lutJierischen Uebersetzung des Neuen Tes- taments (Stuttgart, 1868). DOROG, the name of several towns of Hun- gary, the most important of which is situated in the circle beyond the Theiss, 20 m. N". E". W. of Debreczin, and belongs to the Hayduk dis- trict; pop. in 1870, 6,872. It is surrounded by marshy tracts of great fertility, but deficient in wood, and is an important market for grain, cattle, and horses. It contains a Greek non- united and a Roman Catholic parish church. DOROGOBUZH, a town of Russia, capital of a district in the government and 55 m. E. N. E. of the city of Smolensk, on the Dnieper ; pop. in 1867, 8,467. An encounter took place here, Oct. 27, 1812, between the rear guard of the retreating French and the Russians. The French partly burned the town. DOROSMA, a town of Hungary, in the district of Little Oumania, 6 m. W. by N. of Sz.egedin ; pop. in 1870, 9,688. It contains a Roman Cath- olic high school. DORP, a town of Prussia, in the province of the Rhine, situated on the Wupper, 17 m. N. E. of Cologne; pop. in 1871, 10,690. It has con- siderable manufactures of tobacco, paper, steel, and hardware, and is growing rapidly. DORPAT, Dorpt, or Derpt, a town of Russia, in Livonia, situated on the Embach, which is here crossed by a granite bridge, 163 m. S. W. of St. Petersburg ; pop. in 1867, 20,780. It is on the road from Riga to St. Petersburg, and has two suburbs bearing the names of those cities. It has a neat and picturesque appear- ance, being ranged in a semicircle, with clean, well paved streets, and a spacious market place. The most noteworthy of the public buildings is the university, founded in 1632, when the town belonged to Sweden, by Gus- tavus Adolphus, suppressed by the Russians in 1656, and reestablished in 1802 by the emperor Alexander. Connected with it are a normal school called the Professoren-Institut, founded in 1828, and an observatory which the labors of Strove and other astronomers have ren- dered famous. The university has a library of about 80,000 volumes, a museum, and a botanical garden. It is in high repute, and students (600 to 700) resort to it from every part of the empire. The rector of the university is now appointed by the emperor ; previous to 1851 he was selected by the professors from their own body. Dorpat also contains a gym- nasium, founded in 1589, a number of other schools and academies, handsome law courts, and an ancient cathedral, now partly in ruins. The town was once fortified, but the defences have been dismantled and converted into pleasure gardens. It was founded in the llth century, and anciently possessed great com- mercial importance, ranking as one of the Hanse towns. The Teutonic knights took it from the Russians in 1223, and erected it into a bishopric in 1224. This rendered it a place of considerable note, and for upward of three centuries the bishop exercised almost sovereign power within his diocese. The see was abol- ished in 1558, when the town passed again into the hands of the Russians. The Poles seized it in 1582, and the Swedes took it from them in 1625. Peter the Great recaptured it in 1704, and it has remained ever since in the possession of Russia. The vernacular is Es- thonian, but the best educated classes speak German, which is also the language of the uni- versity and of the gymnasium. DORSET, Earls of. See SAOKVILLE. DORSETSHIRE, a maritime county of Eng- land, on the British channel, and bordering on Devonshire, Somersetshire, Wilts, and Hants; length from E. to W. 57 m., greatest breadth 40 m. ; area, 1,006 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 195,- 544. The seacoast is very irregular, running out in several promontories, and broken by Poole harbor and Weymouth or Melcombe Regis bay. The chief rivers are the Stour, Frome, and Piddle. The face of the country is undulating, there being no mountains, and the highest point, Pillerden Pen, being only 934 ft. above the sea. A range of chalk downs, entering the country from "Wiltshire on the N., passes S. "W". and W. to the border of Somersetshire on the W., and is called the North downs; while a similar range, under the name of South downs, runs S. and S. E. from the W. terminus of the other, nearly parallel with the coast, to Poole harbor. The soil consists mainly of loose sand or gravel, interspersed with clay and chalk, and in some places mixed with them,