Diebitsch, Count, a Russian general, born in Silesia; commander-in-chief in 1829 of the Russian army against Turkey, over the forces of which he gained a victory in the Balkans; commissioned to suppress a Polish insurrection, he was baffled in his efforts, and fell a victim to cholera in 1831.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Didymus * Dieffenbach, Johann Friedrich