Encyclopaedia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics and biography, brought down to the present time : including a copious collection of original articles in American biography : on the basis of the seventh edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon (Volume 13).
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![ing years, with alternate advantage; hav- ing been, during the latter portion of that interval, allovi^ed to slumber, owing to the struggle made by the Greeks in the Mo- rea, to recover theu- liberty. In this war, Mohammed Ali (q. v.) first put in prac- tice his improved system of tactics, on the European method; and his success, as in his recent campaigns in Syria, was ow- ing to his being provided with soldiers disciplined by European officers.—See Planat's Histoire de la Riginiraiion de PEgypte (Geneva, 1830), for an account of these campaigns against the Wahabees. Wahlenberg, George, lecturer on bot- any in the university of Upsal, and super- intendent of the museum of the society of science in that place, was bom in the province of Warmeiand, in 1784. While a student at the university, he distinguish- ed himself by his progress in scientific studies, and, soon after leaving the univer- sity, was enabled, by the assists^nce of the Swedish patriot baron Hermelin, and of the scientific societies of Upsal and Stock- holm, to enter upon a course of botanical and geological inquiries, which led him to make excursions into the remote parts of the Scandinavian peninsula, through Swedish and Norwegian Lapland, and to Gothland. Having examined Scandinavia, he set out upon similar scientific expedi- tions to foreign countries. In 1810, he visited Bohemia and Hungary, examined the Carpathian mountains, travelled in Switzerland, and, after visiting the princi- ])ul German universities, returned to Upsal, in 1814. His Floi-a Lapponica, Flora Car- pathorum, Flora Upsaliensis, and Flora Suecica (2 vols., 1824), take a high rank among works of this nature. Wahlen- berg has likewise written some geological essays of value. Wahlstadt ; a generic German term for field of battle {from Wal, which means fi^t, and also dead body ; hence Walkal- la, or Valhalla). Asa geographical name, it belongs to a large village in Silesia, near Liegnitz (q. v.), on the Katzbach (q. v.), where Henry II, duke of Silesia, fought a bloody battle, April 9, 1241, against the Tartars, in which he lost his life, and the latter were victorious. In memory of this battle, the place and vil- lage were called Wahlstadt. In the same ])lace, Blucher (q. v.) was victorious over the French, Aug. 26, 1813 (see Katzbach), and, in reward of this and other victories, was made prince of Wahlstadt. Wahoo. (See Elm.) Waifs. (See Estrays.) Wakefield ; a town of England, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the river Calder. The parish church is a Gothic structure: the spire is upwards of 237 feet in height. There is a handsome stone bridge over the Calder, buih in the reign of Edward III, in the centre of which is a chapel, in the richest style of Gothic or Saracenic architecture, ten yards in length, and about eight in breadth. Wakefield is one of the greatest com mai'kets in England, and contains im- mense corn warehouses. Population, 12,232; nine miles south of Leeds. By the reform act of 1832, Wakefield is con- stituted a borough, returning one member to parliament. Wakefield, Gilbert, a distinguished scholar and critic, son of the reverend George Wakefield of Nottingham, was born in 1756, and entered, in 1772, Jesus college, in Cambridge, where he pursued his studies with great ardor, in 1776 grad- uated bachelor of arts, and was soon after elected a fellow. In the same year, he gave the public a small volume of Latin poems, with a few critical notes upon Ho- mer. In 1778, he received deacon's or- ders, and, on leaving college, engaged in a curacy at Stockport, in Cheshire, and subsequently at another near Liverpool. The dissatisfaction which he entertained at the doctrines and liturgy of the churrh of England progressively in'reusinp, jiu determined to take the first opportunity of resigning his situation in it; which design he fulfilled in 1779, and accepted the office of classical tutor at the dissenting acade- my at Warrington. He had early formed a design of giving a new version of the New Testament, and ])ublished, in 1782, his New Translation of the Gospel,of St. Matthew, with Notes Critical, Philological and Explanatory (4to.). On the dissolu- tion of the Warrington academy, he re- moved to Bramcote, in Nottinghamshire, with a view of taking private pupils. Here he published, in 1784, the first vol- ume of an Enquiry into the Opinions of the Christian Writers of the First Three Centuries concerning the Pei-son of Jesus Christ, a work which he never conclud- ed. He subsequently removed to Rich- mond and Nottingham, until, in 1789, he commenced his Silva Critica, the object of which was to illustrate the Scriptures by the philology of Greece and Rome. Of this learned performance, five parts appeared in succession, until 1795, the three first from the Cambridge press. In 1790, he quitted Nottingham, in order to accept the office of classical tutor at the dissenting college at Hackney. Here his](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136828_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
