DORPAT UNIVERSITY. See YURI EV UNI VERSITY.
DoRPFELD, WItm•a.m (1853—).
A German archaeologist. lie was born at Bar men, and was educated at the Benakademie, Ber lin. From 1877 to 1881 lie took part in the excavations at. Olympia. becoming director of the technical operations there in 1878. In 1887 lie was appointed secretary of the German Arclueological Institute at Athens, with which institution he had for several years been asso ciated as architect, lle later occasionally co operated with Sehliemann (q.v.), and also undertook independent investigations in various parts of Greece. Ile was collaborator with Cur tins and others on the work entitled Ausgra bullpen zu Olympia ( 1877-81 ) , and assisted Schliemann in the preparation of the publica tions Troja (1884) and Tiryns (1886). Ile is to be ranked among the foremost of recent archwologists.
DORR, ,Tt•rA CAROLINE IlleLEY (1823—). An
American poet. She was born at Charleston. S. C., but early removed to New- York and then to Rutland, Vt., where she married Hon. Seneca Dor•. She wrote much from her earliest years, but published nothing till 1848, when her verse and prose began to take a prominent place in American magazines. Among her books are: Isabel Leslie (1S4S) ; Farmingdale (1854); Lanniere (1856); Sybil Huntingdon (1869) : Ex piation (1872) ; Bermuda (1884), a volume of travel sketches: The Flower of England's Face (1895) ; A Cathedral Pilgrimage (1896); and In If legs' Houses (139S). She is best known, however, for volumes of thoughtful, artistic verse: Poems (1871) : Friar A liselni and Other Poems ( 1879 ) ; Daybreak: Jo Easter Poem (1872) ; and Afternoon (ISS5). A col lected edition of her poems appeared in 1892.