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* DENISON. 125 DENMARK. offered by the Czar for the best work on that subject, was transhited into Kussiaii, and sub- sequently also into German and Japanese. He has been known as an earnest advocate of Ini- jii'iiiil miily. DENISON UNIVERSITY. An educational institution, situated at Granville, Ohio. The university was orj;anizcd by the Jiaptist Educa- tion Society in 1S31 as a manual labor school, under the name of the Granville Literary and Tlieological Institution. The manual-labor idea, liowcvcr. did not prove successful and was soon al)andoned. In 1S.5C the name of the institution was ebanfred to Denison University, in honor of William 8. Denison, one of its principal bene- factors. The theolosical department was dis- continued in 1870. The university olVers degrees in arts and science. In 1900 Shepardson Col- lege for women, established in 1887, became affili- ated with the university. The property value of tiie two institutions, including their endowment funds, is estimated at about .* 1.000.000. The university has a registration of over 500 stu- dents. The library contains about 21,000 vol- umes besides pamphlets. DENITRIFICATION. See Nitrification. DENIZEN (AF. denzein, denezyn, OF. deinz, Fr. (/f/».s', within, from Lat. de, from + intus, within). One who was born an alien (q.v.) to his adopted country, but who has been granted some of the privileges of citizenship. In Eng- land 'denizen' signifies one who has been ad- mitted to become a citizen by letters patent from the Crown, his rights dating from the time when they were conferred; and he is distinguished from a naturalized citizen, whose rights are granted by Parliament, and are retroactive, putting him in the same status as if he were a natural-born citi- zen. A denizen in England is also under certain political disabilities as to holding office, and he is subject to certain taxes from which other citi- zens are exempt. He is said, therefore, to occupy a middle position between an alien and a natural- born or naturalized subject. In the United States the terms denizen and naturalized citizen are used synonymously, there being no distinc- tion. Naturalization (q.v.) is held here not to be retroactive; but when one becomes a denizen or naturalized citizen, he has practically all the rights and privileges of a natural-born citizen from that time. The Constitiition provides that no one not a natural-bom citizen may become President, but otherwise there are no constitu- tional limitations on the rights of a naturalized citizen. See Citizex ; X.vTiRALiZATlox ; Subject. DENIZLI, dOn'fz-le' (Turk, dcniz, sea). A town of Asiatic Tirkey, in the Vilayet of Smyr- na, on the Smyrna-Dinair Railway (Map: Tur- key in Asia. C 4). In its vicinity are situated the ruins of ancient I.aodicea. The situation of Denizli amid beautiful gardens and vineyards at the base of the Bab.a Dagh h,as earned it the title of the 'Damascus of Anatolia.' It has a bazaar, khrms. and leather curing and manufacturing in- du^^tries. Population, about 17,000. DENK, n.r.-s (c. 1495- 1.527). A German Anab:i|ili~t. He was born in Bavaria; studied at Ingolstadt. was proof-reader in Basel, rector of a school at Nuremberg in 152."?. and there met Thomas Miinzer, and so first came in contact with Anabafjtism. which he accepted with modifieations. In consequence he was ban- ished from the city. January. 1524. and forced upon that wandering life which he henceforth led until his death, in Basel, November, 1527. His writings are very scarce. He was essentially a niystie,and,like his class, mingled truth and error. For his life, consult L. Keller (Leipzig, 1527). DEN'MAN, Thomas, Baron (1779-18.54). An Euglisli jurist. He was born in London, studied at Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 180. On the accession of George IV. he was appointed solicitor-general to the (i>ueeu, and in conducting ber defense won a considerable reputation both as a lawyer and as a speaker, but earned the enmity of the King, who for some time thereafter opposed his advancement. In 1818 he was elect- ed to Parliament, and took a seat with the Whig Oi)position, .serving there until 1820 and being returned again in 1830. In the latter year be was made Attorney-General, and two years later heeame Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. In 1834 he was raised to the peerage. He resigned the office of Chief Justice in 1850. His character was marked by high moral and social virtues. As a jurist he was especially interested in the subject of law reform, and instituted important clianges in the code. He also strove with great energ}-, both as a writer and as a judge, to effect the abolition of the slave trade. DEN 'MARK. The smallest of the three Seandinavi.ui kingdoms of Europe (Map: Europe. D 3, and special "map) . It comprises the north- ern portion of the Cimbrian Peninsula, called Jutland, the Danish Archipelago east of the peninsula, the island of Bornholm. and the Faroe Islands, m.aking a total area of 15,300 square miles. Not reckoning the Faroe Islands, it lies between latitudes 54" 33' and 57° 45' N. It is almost surrounded by the sea, .Jutland being con- nected with the Continent only at the southern frontier, in which place the peninsula is less than 40 miles wide. Topography. The western and northwestern coasts of Jutland, which are washed by the North Sea, and the Skagerrak. are low and girt by dunes and sand-bars. Behind the dunes there are several largi- lagoons or inclosed bays, but they are usually too shallow to sei've as harbors. Tlie northern extremity of Jutland is formed by the Skagen, a long, curved sand-pit. The east coast along the Cattegat lies at a somewhat higher level, and is indented by a series of inlets (fjords) that penetrate deeply into the interior; Limfjord. the most northerly, reaches across the peninsula and communicates through a tortuous course with the North Sea. Some of the inlets may be entered by ships of light draught. Be- tween the south of -Jutland and the southern extremity of Sweden are Fiinen and Zealand, the largest islands of Denmark, dividing the out- let of the Baltic into three passages — the Little Belt, between Jutland and Fiinen; the Great Belt, separating Fiinen and Zealand; and the Sound between Zealand and Sweden. Both islands have an irregular and sandy coast line. The surface of Denmark is uniformly low. A ridge of hills crosses the middle porticui of Jut- land from the southern frontier to the Limfjord, the highest points of which are less than COO feet above the sea ; and this elevation is not exceeded elsewhere. The ridge constitutes the water part- ing between the North Sea. which receives the Stor Aa, the Liinborg Aa, and the Varde Aa, and