. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... was, successively, professor of Greekat his native place, and of history at Cas-sel, secretary of state to the elector ofMetz, Counsellor of the Imperial chancery,and secretary of state, and director generalof public instruction of the kingdom ofWestphalia. MuUer, who has been calledthe Helvetian Thncydides, died in [jrincipal woiks are, A History of theSwiss Confederacy; and A Course ofUniversal History. INULIAER, AnoLPHrs, an eminentGern un dramatic writer, was Kirn, in
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... was, successively, professor of Greekat his native place, and of history at Cas-sel, secretary of state to the elector ofMetz, Counsellor of the Imperial chancery,and secretary of state, and director generalof public instruction of the kingdom ofWestphalia. MuUer, who has been calledthe Helvetian Thncydides, died in [jrincipal woiks are, A History of theSwiss Confederacy; and A Course ofUniversal History. INULIAER, AnoLPHrs, an eminentGern un dramatic writer, was Kirn, in1771, at Laiigendorf, near Weissenfcls;was brought up to the law ; actjuired greatreputation as a dramatist and critic; anddied June 11, 1829. Midlner was a manof genius, but the bitterest of censors, andthe most (|uarrelsome of authors. Amonghis plays are the tragedies of Guilt; KingInsiurd ; and The Albanaserin. MURAT, JoAfHiM, ex-king of iVaplcs,one of the most intrepid of the Frenchmarshals, was born in 1771; was the eon MUR of an iiikeeper at Bastide, near Cahors;and was intended for the church. The. array, however, was his choice; and in1796 Bonaparte made him his Italy, in 1796 and 1797, and in Egyptand Syria, in 1798 and 1799, Marat dis-played great valour and military returned with Bonaparte to France,assisted him in overthrowing the Directory,and was rewarded with the hand of Caro-line, the sister of the first consul. AtMarengo and Austerlitz he was one of themost distinguished of the French 1806 Napoleon created him grand dukeof Berg; and in 1808 he raised him to thethrone of Naples. Murat took a conspicu-ous part in the campaigns of 1806, 1807,1808, 1812, and 1813; but, in 1814, find-ing that tlie throne of his patron began tototter, he joined the allies. In the follow-ing year, however, he was expelled fromhis kingdom; and, having made a despe-rate attempt to recover it, he was takenprisoner, and shot, at Pizzo, Oct. 13,1815. MUR
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