EMINESCU 



EMMICH 



Emin Pasha, German 

 administrator 



compartimento includes the provs. 

 of Bologna, Ferrara, Forli, Modena. 

 Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, and 

 Reggio Emilia. Low- lying along 

 the coast, it is elsewhere hilly, and 

 is drained by tributaries of the Po. 

 Area, 8,042 sq. m. Pop. 2,809,187. 

 Eminescu, MIHAIL (1849-89). 

 Rumanian poet and editor. Born 

 at Ipateshti in Moldavia, Dec. 26, 

 1849, he was educated at the uni- 

 versities of Vienna, Jena, and 

 Berlin. In 1870 he contributed 

 two memorable poems, Venere si 

 Madona, and Epigonii, to the Con- 

 vorbizi Literare, and in 1874 he was 

 appointed school inspector and 

 librarian in the university of Jassy. 

 He died at Bukarest, June 15, 1889, 

 and is regarded as a great lyric 

 and satiric poet. 



Emin Pasha (1840-92). Ger- 

 man administrator. Born at 

 Oppeln, Silesia, March 28, 1840, of 

 Jewish parents, 

 his real name 

 was Edward 

 Schnitzer. Alter 

 studying medi- 

 cine at Breslau 

 and Berlin, he 

 took up an ap- 

 pointment on 

 the staff of 

 Hakki Pasha, 

 in Turkey, and 

 adopted a Turkish name. In 

 1876 he went to Egypt, and in 

 1878 was appointed by Gordon 

 governor-general of the Equatorial 

 province. When the Sudan was 

 abandoned in 1883, Emin was 

 left in the heart of the country, 

 whence he was rescued by Stanley 

 in 1889. Returning to Equatoria 

 in the German service, he met his 

 death at the hands of Manyama 

 Arabs in Oct., 1892. His success 

 in abolishing the slave trade in the 

 district under his control, his care- 

 ful survey of over 4,000 miles of 

 road, and his observations of the 

 flora, fauna, and meteorology of the 

 country gained him an enduring 

 reputation. See his Letters and 

 Journals, Eng. trans. Mrs. R. W. 

 Felkin, 1888; New Light on Dark 

 Africa, C. Peters, Eng. trans. H. W. 

 Dulcken, 1891. 



Emir. Arabic word meaning 

 commander, also spelt ameer or 

 amir. It is used for chiefs and 

 other rulers of certain Mahomedan 

 peoples, the form emir being mainly 

 confined to those in Africa. 



Em'ly, LITTLE. Character in 

 Dickens's David Copperfield. A 

 pretty and attractive girl, the niece 

 and adopted daughter of the old 

 boatman, Daniel Peggotty, and en- 

 gaged to her cousin Ham, she runs 

 off with David CopperfiekT s old 

 schoolfellow, Steerforth, by whom 

 she is ultimately abandoned. 



Emmanuel College 

 arms 



Emma. Novel by Jane Austen, 

 written in 1815 and published the 

 following year. It is one of the 

 best of its author's works, full 

 of character and humour in the 

 presentation of the society of High- 

 bury, a " large and populous vil- 

 lage almost amounting to a town." 

 Emmanuel College. One of 

 the colleges of Cambridge Univer- 

 sity. It was founded by Sir Walter 

 Mildmayin 1584, 

 but is now gov- 

 erned by statutes 

 made in 1882. 

 The head is the 

 master, and there 

 are both senior 

 and junior fel- 

 lows. The build- 

 ings in St. An- 

 drew's Street 

 date mainly from 

 the latter part of 

 the 16th century, although Wren 

 designed the chapel. Those which 

 they replaced belonged before the 

 Reformation to a house of the 

 Dominicans. The college names in- 

 clude Archbishop 

 Sancroft, John 

 Harvard, and 

 Bishop Percy. It 

 was long a 

 stronghold of ; 

 Puritanism. 



E m m a u s . 

 Ancient town of 

 Palestine. It is 

 now represented 

 by the village of 

 Amwas, on the 

 road between 

 Jaffa and Jerusa- 

 lem, noted for a 

 medicinal spring 

 It is not to be 

 confused with the 

 Emmaus of the 

 N.T., near which 

 Christ appeared to His disciples 

 after the Resurrection, the site of 

 which is unknown. 



Emmen. Town of Holland, in 

 the prov. of Dreulbe. It is 29 m. 

 S.S.E. of Groningen, just N.W. of 

 the Berger Meer, and on the road 

 from Groningen to Koevorden. The 

 inhabitants are principally engaged 

 in agriculture and sheep and cattle 

 rearing. Pop. 37,156. 



Emmerich. Town of Germany 

 in the Prussian Rhine province. It 

 stands on the right bank of the 

 Rhine, 5 m. from Cleves, and not 

 far from the frontiers of the Nether- 

 lands. The chief building is the 

 minster church, built in the llth 

 and 12th centuries, while another 

 is the church of S. Aldegunde. A 

 steam ferry crosses the Rhine here. 

 Emmerich is an old place, having 

 been a Roman settlement. In 1217 

 it was made a town ; later it joined 



the ph 



the Hanseatic League, and as part 

 of the duchy of Cleves it passed 

 into the possession of Brandenburg 

 in 1609. Having been for a few 

 years part of Berg, it was returned 

 to Prussia in 1815. Pop. 13,400. 



Emmet, ROBERT (1778-1803). 

 Irish nationalist. Youngest son of 

 the viceroy, and 

 pi brother of the 

 I United Irish- 

 man, Thomas 

 Addis Emmet, 

 he was born 

 in Dublin 

 and educated 

 at Trinity 

 College. B e - 

 tween 1800-2, 

 Emmet tra- 

 velled on the 

 Continent, 

 and was fired with the idea of se- 

 curing French aid from Bonaparte 

 in a rising against England. He 

 succeeded in collecting arms at 

 various depots in Dublin and drew 

 up a full plan of campaign for a 

 rising on July 23, 1803. 



Robert Emmet, 

 Irish nationalist 



After Petrie 



Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Chapel and cilo;s:er 



on the east side of the Great Court, the work of Sir 



Christopher Wren 



J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge 



Treachery and faulty organiza- 

 tion, however, frustrated his plans, 

 and Emmet fled for refuge into the 

 Wicklow Mts. On Aug. 25 he was 

 arrested near Harold's Cross, was 

 found guilty of treason, and hanged, 

 Sept 20, 1803. The hold of 

 Emmet's memory on the popular 

 imagination in Ireland was in- 

 creased by the story of his love 

 affair with Sarah Curran, daughter 

 of John Philpot Curran (q.v.), a 

 theme which inspired Thomas 

 Moore's lyric, She is far from the 

 land where her young hero sleeps. 



Emmich, OTTO VON (1848- 

 1915). German soldier. Bom at 

 Minden, Sept. 4, 1848, the son of a 

 Prussian officer, he entered the 

 Prussian army in 1866. He served 

 in the Franco -Prussian War, 1870- 

 71, and in 1909 he was general of 

 infantry, and commander of the 

 1 Oth Army Corps. On the outbreak 



