GYLIPPUS, ji-lip'pfis, Spartan general of the 5th century B.c. His father was Clean dridas, a Spartan who had been exiled on charges of bribery. He was appointed general of the Syracusan forces against the Athenians in 414 a.c., and was successful in accomplishing their defeat in the following year. Commis sioned to return with the booty to Sparta he appropriated a vast portion of it for his own use. For this crime he was banished and ended his days in exile. The story is told in Plutarch, 'Nicias) (19, 21, 27, 28) ; in Dio dorus (XIII, 7, 8, 28-32) and Thucydides (VII).
leb-boor-y'aren-svard, Thomasine Christine, née BUNTZEN, Danish novelist: b. Copenhagen, 1773; d. there, 2 July 1856. In 1790 she mar ried Peter Andreas Heiberg, an author of con siderable repute. A son was born to them, Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Obtaining a di vorce from her husband in 1800, she married Baron K. F. Ehrensvard, a political exile, who
adopted the family name of Gyllembourg. On his death in 1815 she took up her residence at Kid where her son had obtained a professor ship. She returned with him to Copenhagen and at the age of 53 began her literary career. Her first work, The Polonius Family,' ap peared in the newspaper Flyvende Post, of which her son was editor. In this paper were published also 'The Magic Ring' (1828) and 'En Hverdags historic.) Others of her novels are 'New Stories' (1835-36) ; 'Near and Far) (1843) ; 'The Cross Ways' (1844), and 'Two Generations' (1845). Her collected works were published in 12 volumes (1849-51). Consult Heiberg, J. L., 'Peter Andreas Heiberg og Thomasine Gyllembourg' (Copenhagen 1882).