Meissen, a town of Saxony, on the Upper Elbe, 15 m. NW. of Dresden; has a very fine Gothic cathedral and an old castle. Gellert and Lessing were educated here. There is a large porcelain factory, where Dresden china is made, besides manufactures of iron.
Population (circa 1900) given as 15,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mehemet Ali * Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest