[Dahlmann, Friedrich Christoph], a German historian and politician, born at Wismar; was in favour of constitutional government; wrote a "History of Denmark," "Histories of the French Revolution and of the English Revolution"; left an unfinished "History of Frederick the Great" (1785-1860).
[Dahn, Felix], a German jurist, historian, novelist, and poet, born in Hamburg; a man of versatile ability and extensive learning; became professor of German jurisprudence at Königsberg; b. 1834.
[Dahna Desert], the central division of the Arabian Desert.
[Dahomey] (150), a negro kingdom of undefined limits, and under French protectorate, in W. Africa, N. of the Slave Coast; the religious rites of the natives are sanguinary, they offer human victims in sacrifice; is an agricultural country, yields palm-oil and gold dust, and once a great centre of the slave-trade.
[Daïri], the Mikado's palace or his court, and sometimes the Mikado himself.
[Dako`ta, North] and South (400), three times as large as England, forming two States of the American Union; consist of prairie land, and extend N. from Nebraska as far as Canada, traversed by the Missouri; yield cereals, especially wheat, and raise cattle.
[Dalai-Lama], chief priest of Lamaism, reverenced as a living incarnation of deity, always present on earth in him. See [Lamaism].
[Dalayrac], celebrated French composer; author of a number of comic operas (1753-1809).
[Dalberg, Baron de], an eminent member of a noble German family; trained for the Church; was a prince-bishop; a highly cultured man, held in high esteem in the Weimar Court circles, and a friend of Goethe and Schiller; an ecclesiastic, as one might suppose, only in name (1744-1817).
[Dalberg, Duc de], nephew of the preceding; contributed to political changes in France in 1814, and accompanied Talleyrand to the Congress of Vienna (1773-1833).