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* DORNOCH. 401 DORR. residence of the bishoi)s of Sutherland and C'aitliness. The town is a favorite summer resort on account of its excellent golf links and sca-batliin<,'. Population, in IHOI, of royal municipal liurgh. iiH; of civil parish. ,51(30. DORNROSCHEN, dOrn'resKcn. The German e(piiv:ilciit for 'The Sleeping Beauty.' DOROHOI, d6'r6hd'e. A town of northern luniania. situated near the Austrian frontier ( Mai) : Halkan Peninsula. F 1 ). It is connected by mil with Jassy. and has a population of (ISI'li) 12,701, of whom nearly 7000 are Jews. BOROTHE'A. (1) An unfortunate lady, whose story is told in Ccrvantes's Don Quixote. She is deserted by her husband, but is reunited after a number of adventures. (2) The heroine of Goethe's idyllic poem "Hermann und Doro- thea," a religious refugee, who is finally mar- ried to nermann. (3) The courageous Scottish Queen in Greene's James the Fourth, who sacri- liccs herself for the good of her country. (4) The over-serious Jliss Brooke in George Eliot's Middlcmarch, infatuated with the learned Casau- bon, but disillusioned after marriage with him. DOROW, do'ro, Wilhelm (1790-1846). A German archaeologist. V)orn in Kijnigsberg. He held various diplomatic positions from 1812 to 1827. In the latter year he visited Italy, where he began an important series of excavations which . resulted in numerous discoveries and the valuable collection of Etruscan antiquities now owned liy the Berlin Museum. He published Etruricn und der Orient (1829) ; Voyage archc- oloqique dans I'ancienne Etrurie (1829); and other works. DOROZSMA, d6'r6zh-m6. A market town of Hungary, in the County of Csongrad. about 10 miles west-northwest of Szegedin, and in the midst of a fertile country (Jlap: Hungary, G 3 ) . The inhabitants are largely engaged in cattle-raising. There are several salt lakes near by. The town was almost wiped out by an inun- dation of the Theiss in 1879. Population, in 1S90, 12,32.5; in 1900, 1.5,014. DORTAT, formerly also written DORPT (Russian official name Yiiriev, Esth. Tarto- lin, Lett. Tehrpata). A town in the Russian Government of Livonia, on the Enihach, 163 miles southwest of Saint Petersburg (Map: Rus- sia, C 3). The Domherg, situated at the north- west extremity of the town, was formerly occu- pied by a citadel, a cathedral, and a bishop's palace ; it now is the site of an observatory, a library, and a number of buildings connected with the imiversity. Dorpat has a number of Protestant churches, a town hall, a monument to Barclay de Tolly, a native of Dorpat, fine promenades, and a botanical garden. The town is protected by dikes from the overflowing of the Embach. Besides its famous university, Dor- pat contains a teachers' seminary, a veterinary school, several g^-mnasia. and a number of scien- tific societies. In industrial importance Dor- pat occupies in Livonia a position next to Riga. There are a number of manufacturing establish- ments, and the commerce is of considerable volume. The population. 42.421 in 1897, con- sisted principally of Esthonians and Germans, including aUo some Russians and .Tews. The official language is Russian, but German is spoken by a large proportion of the inhabitants. Dor- pat is believed to have been founded by Prince Yaroslav I. in 1030. With its capture by the Teutonic Knights in 1225 the town became tbe scat of a bishop and sub.sequently a conunercial centre, and a member of the Ilansealic Leagiu>. In 1559 it was captured by the Russians, who. in 1582 ceded it to Poland. It was subsequently taken by the Swedes, the Poles, and the Rus- sians. In 1704 it came into the permanent pos- session of Russia. In 1708 the Russians nearly destroyed the town and removed the inhabitants to the interior (if Russia. Consult Hausmann. .1 us der (icschirhtr <lrr ftladt Dorput (DorpUt. 1872). DORPAT UNIVERSITY. See Yurif.v Uni- versity. DORPEELD, dfrp'felt, Wiliiei.m (1853—). A German arclurologist. He was born at Bar- men, and was educated at the Bauakademie, Ber- lin. From 1877 to 1881 he took ])arl in the excavations at Olympia, becoming director of the technical operations there in 1878. In 1887 he was appointed secretary of the German ArchiFological Institute at Athens, with which institution he had for several years been asso- ciated as architect. He later occasionally co- operated with Schliemann (q.v.), and also undertook independent investigations in various parts of Greece. He was collaborator with Cur- tius and others on the work entitled Ausrjra- bunaen zu Olympia (1877-81), and assisted Schliemann in the preparation of the publica- tions Troja ( 1884) and Tiryns ( 1886) . He is to be ranked among the foremost of recent archaeologists. DORR, .TiLi. CvEOLiNE Ripley (1825—). An American ))oet. She was born at Charleston. S. C, but early removed to New York and tlien to Rutland, Vt., where she married Hon. Seneca R. Dorr. She wrote much from her earliest years, but published nothing till 1848. when her verse and prose began to take a prominent place in American magazines. Among her books are: Isabel Leslie (1848); Farmingdale (1854): Lanmere (1856) ; Sybil Huntingdon (1869) ; Ejc- piafion (1872); Bermuda (1884), a volume of travel sketches : The Flower of England's Face (1895); A Cathedral Pilgrimage (1896); and In Kings' Houses (1898). She is best known, however, for volumes of thoughtful, artistic verse: Poems (1871); Friar Anselm and Other Poems (1879); Daybreak : An Easter Poem (1872); and Afternoon Songs (1885). A col- lected edition of her poems appeared in 1892. DORR, Thomas Wilson (1805.54). An American politician, famous as the leader of "Dorr's Rebellion' in Rhode Island. He was born ir. Providence, R. I.; graduated at Harvard in 1823; studied law and was admitted to the bar: was a member of the State Assembly from 1833 to 1837, and soon became identified with the movement for an extension of the right of suflrage in the State. At .that time Rhode Island's government was still based on the charter issued by Charles II. in 1663. and. by an act of 1798, the sutTrage had been granted only to those who had a freehold valued at .$134, or bringing au annual rental of $7. The appor- tionment of representatives, moreover, was un- fairly made. Providence and Portsmouth, for instance, having the .same number, though in 1840 the population of the former was twenty times as great as that of the latter. In 1840 a sufTrage party was organized to effect the