BUNGERT, boon'gart, August, German composer: b. Mfilheim, Prussia, 14 March 1846. He studied under Kufferath at Miilheirn, at Cologne and Paris. He held a position as musical director at Kreuznach, then went to Berlin, where he continued his studies under Kiel, and later moved to Genoa. By many Ger man musicians he has been regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Wagnerian school. His songs are among the modern masterpieces of that kind of music. His com positions include an opera cycle, (The Homeric World,' consisting of two main parts, (The Iliad,' and (The Odyssey' ; (Tasso' ;
formerly BON HILL FIELD, a burial-ground in London, near Finsbury square. The poet Southey named it the Santo of the Dissenters?' Opened in 1665, it became a public ((open space" by act of Parliament in 1867. Among those who lie buried there are John Bunyan (1688) ; Dr. Thomas Goodwin, who attended Cromwell on his deathbed (1679); George Fox, the Quaker (1690); Dr. Isaac Watts (1748); Gen eral Fleetwood, son-in-law of Cromwell (1692) ; Daniel Defoe, author of Crusoe> (1731); Dr. John Owen, who preached the first sermon before Parliament after the execution of Charles I; William Blake, the painter and poet; Susannah Wesley, mother of John Wes ley, and Horne Tooke. In 1870 a monument to Defoe was inaugurated, subscribed for by boys and girls.