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vifited his children at Zurich, and refided with his family in 

 a romantic fituation on the border of the lake, where he was 

 vifited by the moft eminent literati of Switzerland. Con- 

 ceiving a fond attachment to a rural retreat, he fold his 

 houfeat Weimar, and purchafed a fmall ellate in the neigh- 

 bourhood, where he fixed his abode. Although his fortune 

 was fmall, his difpofition was liberal ; and he affifted many 

 diftreffed young poets and authors for their contributions to 

 the German Mercuiv, which he commenced in the year 1783. 

 To the ex-monk Reinhold, who hadefcaped from Vienna, he 

 was a generous patron, and gave to him one of his daughters 

 in marriage. This monk was afterwards profelTor o^ pmlo; 

 fophy at Kiel. He alfo fupported another monk, who had 

 fled to him from a Ciftertian monaftery in Swabia, dunng 

 his refidence at Jena, where he ftudied philofophy. Wreland 

 had married in 1765 a perfon of good family at Auglburg, 

 of whom he expreffes himfelf in the higheil terms of re- 

 fpea and affeaion, and by whom he had thirteen children ; 

 «' found," he fays, " in body and mind ; with their mother, 

 they form the happinefs of my life." In 1807 this venera- 

 ble poet was eleded a member of the floral order at Nurem- 

 berg ; and in 1808, Buonaparte fent him the crofs of the 

 legion of honour. After the battle of Jena, he was pro- 

 tefted by a fpecial order of that conqueror. He died in , 

 January 18 13, in his 80th year. For the deUneation of his 

 talents and charafter by Kiittner and others, and an account 

 of his works, which were very numerous, we mull refer to 

 his article in the General Biography, obferving that his 

 original works have been publiftied in thirty-fix large 4to. 

 volumes, and fix fupplementary volumes. Leipfic, 1794. — 

 1802. - 



WIELAS, in Geography, a town on the eaft coalt ot 

 the ifland of Gilolo. N. lat. 1° 9'. E. long. 128° 30'. 



WIELCZYNY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 

 of Novogrodek ; 40 miles S.E. of Slonim. 

 WIELDEMAN. See Wildeman. 

 WIELEN, a town of the duchy of Warfav? ; 46 miles 

 N.W. of Pofen. 



WIELICHOW, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 

 25 miles S.S.W. of Pofen. 



WIELICZA, a town of Auftrian Poland, celebrated 

 for its falt-mines, which produce a great revenue to the em- 

 peror, to whofe lot it fell in the year 1773. The inhabit- 

 ants refide chiefly in the mines, and the church is under- 

 ground ; 8 miles S. of Cracow. Thefe falt-mines, with 

 the territory belonging to them, were afligned to the empe- 

 ror of Aufti-ia by the treaty at Vienna in 1815. 



WIELONA, a town of Samogitia ; 20 miles S. of 

 Rofienne. 



WIELUN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 

 Siradia ; 1 6 miles S. of Siradia. 



WIEN, a river of Auftria, which runs into the Danube 

 at Vienna. 



WIENNERHORBEG, a town of Auftria ; 12 miles 

 W. of Brugg. 



WIENNERWALD, or The Forejl of Vienna, the 

 fouth part of the arch-duchy of Auftria, bordering on 

 Hungary. 



WIEPERZ, or WiPRz, a river of Poland, which runs 

 into the Viftula, near Stericza, in the palatinate of San- 

 domirz. 



WIER, John, in Biography, a phyfician, was born in 

 1515, at Grave on the Meufe ; and being domefticated 

 with the famous Cornehus Agrippa, adopted his opinions 

 with regard to the occult fciences. After having ftudied at 

 Paris and Orleans, he took the degree of M.D. about the 

 year 1534. In the courfe of his travels, he vifited the court 



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of the duke of Cleves, and was appointed his phyfician. 

 He died at Tecklenburg, in Weftphalia, in 1586. He was a 

 man of confiderable learning ; and though participating in 

 a great degree the credulity of the age, he incurred the en- 

 mity of the monks by afcribing to deception and impofture 

 the forcery, witchcraft, and magical praftices, which they 

 fupported, to the operation of natural caufes. The turn of i 

 his mind is difcernible in his book " De Dsmonum Pref- ', 

 tigiis et Incantationibus." In his treatife of medical ob- 1 

 fervations he has given an account of the putrid fore throat, ' 

 under the name of " Angina peftilentialis." Among his 

 other writings are enumerated " De Irae Morbo, et ejug 

 Curatione Philofophica, Medica, et Philofophica ;" " Trac- 

 tatus de Commentitiis Jejuniis ;" " De Tufli Epidemica, 

 Anno 1580 ;" " De Varenis, Morbo endemic Weftphalo- 

 rum." Haller. Eloy. 



WIERINGEN, in Geography. See Vieringen. 

 WIERNITZ, a town of Auftria; 8 miles N. of Korn- j 

 Neuburg. 1 



WIESE, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Grot- 

 kau ; 2 miles N.E. of Weydenau. 



WIESEN, a river of Germany, which rifes in the '; 



Black Foreft, and runs into the Rhine a little below ■ 



, Bale. j 



WIESENBACHE, a river of Saxony, which runs into I 



the WeiflViitz, 4 miles N. of Dippoldifwalda. 



WIESENBRUN, a town of the county of Caftell ; 

 14 miles E. of Wurzburg. 



WIESENBURG, a citadel of Saxony, in the circle of 1 

 Erzgebirg ; 5 miles S. of Zwickau. — Alfo, a town of i 

 Saxony ; 15 miles N.N.W. of Wittenberg. 



WIESENFELD, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg ; 

 5 miles S.S.E. of Gemunden. 



WIESENSTEIG, a lordftiip of Bavaria, fituated be- 

 tween the territories of Ulm and Wurtemberg, about eight 

 miles long, and nearly as much in breadth. It defcended 

 from the dukes of Teck to the counts of Helfenftein, and 

 gave name to a peculiar line. On the failure of the counts 

 of this houfe, in the year 1627, in the perfon of count Ru- 

 dolph, one-third of this lordfhip devolved to the houfe of 

 Furftenberg, but the other two-thirds were purchafed by 

 the eleftor of Bavaria, of the two elder daughters of the 

 laft count ; to this the dukes of Wurtemberg indeed would 

 not give their confent, and in the year 1704 took poflellion 

 of the lordftiip, but by virtue of the peace of Baden, con- 

 cluded in the year 17 14, were obliged to reftore it to the 

 eleftor of Bavaria. — Alfo, a town of Bavaria, and capital 

 of a lordftiip of the fame name; 25 miles S.E. of Stutt- 

 gart. 



WIESENT, a town of Bavaria, in the biftiopric of 

 Bamberg ; 3 miles E. of Forcheim. 



WIESENTHAL, Bohmisch, a town of Bohemia, in 

 the circle of Saatz ; 25 miles N.W. of Saatz. N. lat. 50° 

 23'. E.long. 12° 57'. 



WiESENTHAL, Oier, a town of Saxony, in the circle 

 of Erzgebirg ; 11 miles S.E. of Schwartzenberg. 



WiESENTHAL, Uriter, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 

 Erzgebirg. All thefe towns are very near together, a fmall 

 brook only feparates the Bohemian town from the two Ger- 

 man ones ; 10 miles S.E. of Schwartzenberg. 



WIESENTHEID, a lordftiip fituated between the 

 duchy of Wurzburg, the county of Caftell, and the mar- 

 gravate of Anfpach. It takes its name from a citadel be- 

 longing to the counts of Schonburg. 



WIESPINCAN, a river of Louifiana, which runs 

 into the Mifliflippi, N. lat. 41° 22'. W. long. 91° 36'. 



WIESSEN, 



