Heidelberg, a celebrated German city, in Baden, situated amid beautiful surroundings, on the Neckar, 13 m. SE. of Mannheim; has many interesting buildings, including ruins of a splendid 13th-century castle, but is chiefly celebrated for its flourishing university (student roll, 800; professors, 100; library, 500,000), whose professoriate has included many of the most distinguished German scholars; it was long the centre of Calvinism; its chief trade is in books, tobacco, wine, and beer.
Population (circa 1900) given as 35,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hegesippus * HeijnLinks here from Chalmers
Adam, Melchior
Agricola, Rodolphus
Alting, Henry
Alting, James
Andreas, James
Apuleius, Lucius
Athanasius, St.
Bachovius, Reiner
Bachovius, Reiner [No. 3]
Baudouin, Francis
[showing first 10 entries of 109]