SCHA.UFFLER. WILLIAM GOTTLTEB, D.D., TH.D., LL.D.: b. Stuttgart, Germany, in 1798; went with his parents at the age of six to Odessa, Russia; at the age of 22 became religiously impressed, and desired to be a missionary; began to study English with a young English merchant in 1825; met at Odessa the eccentric Joseph Wolf, and accompanied him to Turkey for mission work, but, convinced that he needed more study, resorted to America by advice of the rev. Jonas King, whom he met at Smyrna; went to Andover; worked part of the time at his trade as a turner. After a three years' course in the theological seminary, he remained another year studying Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Spanish: was ordained in 1832 and sent by the American board to Paris to study Arabic and Persian with De Sacy. and Turkish with prof. Kieffer; went to Constantinople; preached in German, French, Spanish. Turkish, and English. By appointment of the British and foreign and American Bible societies, he devoted himself to the translation of the Bible into the Osmanlee, or the higher and purer Turkish language. In 1807 he received the degree of D.D. and PII,D, front the universities of Halle and Wittenberg. He published, twice, an ancient Spanish version of the Old Testament, revised by himself, with the Hebrew original, in parallel columns.
a grammar of the Hebrew language in Spanish. and a Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon of the Old Testament in the same language; Meditations on the Last Days of Ch•2st, dis courses delivered in Constantinople, printed in Boston in 1837. and recently issued by the American tract society. He contributed articles in Spanish to a missionary periodical in Salonica, a sovereign German principality; includes the western part f ' : lllllll county of Schaumburg, and is bounded on the w. Westphalia and the n. Hanover. Area 170 sq.m.; pop. '75, 33,133. Till 1866 the constitution was on the ancient patriarchal basis; but since, the Schaumburg-Lippe has a representative diet of 15 members, 10 of whom are cleated by the towns and the country districts, the rest by the prince, the nobility, and the clergy and educated classes. it has one vote in the federal council of the German empire, and sends one deputy to the Reichstag. The revenue of Schaumburg-Lippe in 1878-79 was £35,225; the expenditure just balanced it. The debt amounted to £18,000, besides k55,890 as quota toward the paper money of the empire.