BUNSEN, ROBERT WILHELM VON

Ger. chemist; succe ively prof. at Marburg, Breslau Heidelberg; famous as the founder, Kirchhoff, of spectrum analysis; inventor of the burner (in which gag through a tube which is pierced base as well as open at the top; thus drawn in, and an intensely non-luminous flame is produced; principle is utilized in laboratories g28 and stoves) magnesium and cell light; famous ing his numerous other researches. el J mit! ey Eng. leader and writer; 5. near; tn Woon hur tha he wor exit: gradually gave up his am use and dancing, and led a, religious could find no inward peace: lengt @ became happier, an the Gospel But nonconformist was not tolerated, and in 1660 imprisoned in Bedford gaol. In he wrote his Grace Abounding to of Sinners, describing his own conflict. He was let out for time in 1662, and again imtill 1678. In 1678 appeared his Progre , one of the most religious books in English, his death it was read widely by New England, and among — Protestants. Written in the form allegory, it had appealed to generation s of readers, alas a modern authority points was for long read almost only lower orders of society. His among Baptists was such that called ‘Bp. Bunyan,’ and though sometimes feared persecution he was never again imprisoned. He published The Life and Death of Mr. fn 1680, and in all more than fifty works.