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* EGAN. 674 EGER. the cause of Balmaceda, the Liberal iHotator in the Revolution of 1S!)1, broui;lit down upon liim severe criticism in the United States. In the campaigns of 1896 and IflOO he left the Republi- can Party on the free-silver issue, and became a campaign speaker for his fellow-to-nsnian, William Jennings Bryan. EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). An English writ- er, lie was born in London, and by 1812 had attracted considerable attention there by his articles in the newspapers on country sports. A series of articles describing the amusements of sporting men in town which were published under the title Life in London : or, the Adicntiircs of Tom and Jerry ( 182-f ), also became very popu- lar among Londoners. This book was illustrated by George C'ruikshank, was one of Thackeray's early favorites, and is said to have furnished the hint for Dickens's Pickwick Papers. EGAN, PiKKCE (the younger) (1814-80). An Englisli novelist and artist. He was born in London, and at an early age became successful as an illustrator. He is best known, however, as a novelist. His extravagant yarns were exceed- ingly popular for a time, as also were his nu- merous contributions to the 'penny-dreadful' papers of the day. Among his stories are: Wat Tiller (18.51) ; Snake in the Crass (1858) : Ere: or, the Angel of Innocence (1867) ; and Love Me, Leave Me .Ao< (1860). EGANA, u-gii'nya. Ju.x (1709-18.30). A Spanisli-American statesman and author. He was born in Lima, Peru, and was educated at the College of Santo Toritjio. where he was made a tutor in philosophy. He practiced law at Santiago, Chile; became one of the leaders of the Revo- lution of 1810, and was elected a member of the first Chilean Congress. After the defeat of the Chilean army at Rancagua, in 1814. he was im- prisoned by the Spaniards on the island of .Juan Fernandez, but was liberated through the victory of San Martin at Chacabuco in 1817, when he was again elected to the Congress of Chile, of ■which he became President in 1823. He was considered one of the liest writers of liis day. and his literary works, publislied in ten volumes, in- clude poems and educatiimal textbooks, as well as numerous essays on legal, political, and various other subjects. His Cartas Pehiicnchns were translated into English by their author, under the title of I'liiurnvlian Lcllrrx (1819). EG'BERT, or ECGBERHT .( ?-839). A king of the fZnglish. He was the son of Eahlmund, a king of Kent, and was descended from the early kings of the West Saxons. In his youth he was compelled to flee from England to avoid the hostility of Bcohrtric. King of Wessex. and took refuge at the Court of Charles the Oreat. Here he remained probably for some thirteen years, tmtil, in 802, he became King of the West Sa.xons. For the first thirteen years of his reign nothing is known of his acts. In 815 he conquered and laid waste Cornwall. Between 825 and 829 he subdued all the other kings in England, be- ginning with the ruler of Mercia. the most powerful rival of Wessex, and was recognized as Bretwalda. Kent. Sussex, and Essex were added to his kingdom and were ruled by his sons or nobles as under-kings. Northumbria. Mercia. and East. glia were permitted to retain their self-government on acknowledging the suprem- acy of the West-Saxon King. For the first time Egbert brought all of the English peoples under one overlord. In his last years he had to contend against the Danes, by whom he wa* defeated in 835, and over whom he was vic- torious in 837. Consult: Anglo-{<axon Chronicle (where the dates, however, are given wrongly) ; Green, The Making of England (London and New York, 1881 ) ; id.. The Conquest of England- (London and Xew York, 1883). EGBERT, .LvMEs CiiinE.sTER (1850—). An Aiuerican areha'ologist and epigraphist, born in Xew York City. He graduated in ISSl at Co- lumbia University, where he afterwards held tutorships in Greek (1885-87) and Latin ( 1S8S- 95). He was adjunct professor of Latin at Columbia University from 1805 to 1900. in which year lie was appointed to the chair of Roman arehieology and ei>igrapliy. His works include an edition of Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course (1892); Cicero de Senectute (1895); and /»- troduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions (1895). EGEDE, a'gc-dc, Haxs (I686-I758). The first missionary to (Greenland. He was born in Senjen. Xorway, was educated at Copenhagen,, and was settled as a Lutheran pastor at Vaagii from 1707 to 1717. A study of the Xorse chron- icles awakened in him a desire to visit Green- land, and convert to Christianity the descend- ants of the old Xorthmen. who he believed still lived there. In 1721. liaving secured the sup- port of the Danish Government, he sailed for (Greenland, but, on arriving, he found that the former Xorse colonists had entirely disappeared. However, he resolutely turned his attention to converting and civilizing the Eskimos. From 1734 to 1740 he was princijial of a seminary at Copenhagen, in which workers were trained for the Greenland mission, and in 1740 was made superintendent or bislio|) of tiie mission. He- descrilied his work in Greenland in Det gamle C,rn>iland's nge Pcrlustration (1729), and is the author of a work on the natural history of Greenland, which has been translated into four languages. — P.iL Egede (1708-89). his son. succeeded him in the Greenland mission, and. later, in the bishopric, translated the Gospels into the Greenland language, and compiled a grammar and dictionary for the use of the mis- sionaries and colonists. EGELHAAF, a'grlhaf. G0TTI.0R (1848—). A GerMKin historian, born at Gerabionn ( Wiirttem- bergl. He studied at Tiibingen. in 1S95 became rector of the Karlsgymnasium at Stuttgart, and in 1901 lecturer in the technical institute there. Important among his publications are Kaiser Mllhrlm I. (3d ed. 188S) and Deutsche Ge- schichte im Zcitalter der Reformation (3d ed. 1893). He also wrote a popular manual. Grand- ziige der deutschen Litteraturgeschichte ( 14th ed. 1900). EGER, ii'ger (Bohemian Chch). A lown of Bohemia, situated on an eminence about 1450 feet above sea-level, at the foot of the Fichtelge- birge, on the Eger. 06 miles west-northwest of Pilsen (Map: .-Vustria. C 1). The chief build- ing of interest is the house of the burgomaster. or town hall, in which, on February 25, 1034. Wallenstein was assassinated. The hall con- tains a museum of local antiquities, pictures, and relics of the famous general. In an angle- of the old fortifications above the river stand