BOSWORTH, JOSEPH (17S9-1S76). An Eng lish philologist. He was born in Derbyshire. He graduated at Aberdeen and also took degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. In 1817 he ob tained the vicarage of Horwood Parva, Bucking hamshire. He devoted such time as an active discharge of his parochial duties left at his dis posal to literature. and especially to researches in Anglo-Saxon. The result of his labors ap peared in 1823 in Elements of .Inglo-Saxon Grammar.' Fifteen years later he published the work by which his name is best known: A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (new edition, very much enlarged and improved by T. N. Tolley, ISS2-98). Bosworth lived in Hol land from 1829 to 1840 as British chaplain, and during this period he translated the Book of Common Prayer into Dutch. On his return to England he was presented to the vicarage of Waith, in Lincolnshire. In 1857 he became rec tor of Water SheHord, in Buckinghamshire, and in the following year Rawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. In 1865 he published
the Gospels in Gothic and Anglo-Saxon. in parallel columns with Wyelif's version of 1389, and Tyndale's of 1526. In 1867 he established a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at the Univer sity of Cambridge. He died May 27, 1376.
BliSZoRMENY, (cf. Russ. ba surinan. Slussulman, Hung. hajdu, Turk. haiduk, a light-armed Turkish or Hungarian•guard), or HAsnu-BiiszliamENY. A town of the Kingdom of Hungary, about 10 miles north-northwest of Debreezin (Slap: Hungary, G 3). It is situ ated in the midst of a fertile district. Vege tables and fruit, particularly melons. are raised in large quantities. Population. in 1890. 21,000: in ploO, 25,06,5. (The population is given for the municipal district. which includes five vil lages besides