Wilhelm Heinrich 1798 Wackenroder

WACKENRODER, WILHELM HEINRICH 1798), German writer, the fellow student of Ludwig Tieck (q.v.) at Erlangen and Gottingen. Wackenroder inspired his friend with his own enthusiasm for the art of the middle ages. They went to Berlin in 1794, and after the breach with Nicolai there in 1796, to Dresden. The relation between mediaeval art and religion is the theme of Wackenroder's Herzensergiessungen eines Kunstlie benden Klosterbruders (1797). His early death, in 1798, was a great blow to his friend, who completed Wackenroder's frag mentary works.

See Wackenroder's Werke and Briefe, ed., in 2 vols., by F. von der Leyen (Jena, 191o) ; P. Koldewey, Wackenroder and sein Einfluss auf Tieck (1904)• a city of Texas, U.S.A. Population (192o) 38,50o (75% native white and 20% negroes) ; in 193o, 52,848 by the Federal census. About a third of the cotton crop of Texas is grown within a radius of ioo m. of Waco. The city is the seat of Baylor University, founded at Independence in 1845 by the Texas Union Baptist Association and chartered by the Republic of Texas; and of Paul Quinn College for Negroes. The city has a

commission-manager form of government, adopted in 1909. Waco was settled in 1849 and incorporated as a town in 1856. It was named after the Hueco Indians, who had a large village here until 183o, when they were nearly exterminated by the Cherokees.

WAD,

a black, earthy mineral consisting mainly of hydrated manganese dioxide; of importance as an ore of manganese. Being an amorphous substance, it varies considerably in chemical com position, and contains different impurities often in large amount. A variety containing much cobalt oxide is called "asbolite," while "lampadite" is a cupriferous variety. It is very soft, readily soiling the fingers, and may be considered as an earthy form of psilo melane (q.v.). It results from the decomposition of other man ganese minerals, and is often deposited in marshes ("bog man ganese") or by springs. The name wad is of uncertain origin, and has been applied also to graphite.