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His evolution and character Rueda (rö-ā'THä), Lope de. Born in Seville: flourished from 1544 to 1567. A Spanish drama gore . Rude (rüd), François. Born at Dijon, France, Jan. 4, 1784: died at Paris, Nov. 3, 1855. A noted French sculptor. Among his works are the "Neapolitan Fisher," a group in the Arc de Triomphe, etc. Rudelsburg (rö'dels-börg). A ruined castle near Kösen, on the Saale, southwest of Naumburg, in Pru ian Saxony. Rüdesheim (rü'des-him). A town in the province of He e-Na au, Pru ia, situated near the Rhine opposite Bingen. It is celebrated for its Rhine wine "Rüdesheimer," and for the castle Brömserburg. Population (1890), 4,240. Rüdiger (rü'di-ger). One of the leading characters in the "Nibelungenlied." Rüdiger (rö'di-ger), Count Feodor. Born at Mitau, Ru ia, 1784: died at Karlsbad, June 23, 1856. A Ru ian general. He served with distinc tion in the wars against Napoleon, against Turkey 1828-29, and against Poland in 1831. He received the surrender of Görgey at Világos in 1849. Rudkjöbing (röd'che bing). The chief town in the island of Lan gel and, Denmark, situated in lat. 54° 56′ N., long. 10° 41′ E. It was the birthplace of Örsted. Population (1890), 3,485. Rudolf (rö'dolf) I. King of Burgundy 888-912. He originally held a county in the Jura, and on the dismemberment of the empire at the deposition of Charles III. made himself master of Transjurane Burgundy, which he erected into a kingdom. His dominion extended over the northern part of Savoy and all Switzerland between the Reu and the Jura. Rudolf I., or Rudolph (rö'dolf). Born May 1, 1218: died at Germersheim, Germany, July 15, 1291. German king 1273-91, son of Albert IV., count of Hapsburg and landgrave of Alsace. He succeeded his father in Hapsburg and Alsace in 1239, and was elected German king in Sept., 1273, being the first monarch of the Hapsburg line. By a war with Ottocar of Bohemia, who was slain on the Marchfeld in 1278, he obtained Austria, Styria, and Carniola for his house. Rudolf II., or Rudolph. Born July 18, 1552: died Jan. 20, 1612. Emperor of the Holy Roman empire 1576-1612, son of the emperor Maximilian II. He succeeded his father as archduke of Austria, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and as emperor in 1576. He was a scholar in his tastes and habits, but an unpractical man of affairs, and was under the influence of the court of Spain. He was forced to acknowledge his brother Matthias as king of Hungary and governor of Austria and Moravia in 1608; was forced to grant religious freedom in his "letter of majesty" to the Bohemian Protestants in 1609; and resigned Bohemia to his brother in 1611. Rudolf, or Rudolph. Born Aug. 21, 1858: com lifetime, and occupies an important place in the history of Spanish drama as the founder of the popular national theater. Rue d'Autriche (rü dō-trēsh'). An old street within the wall of Philippe Auguste, between the Louvre and the Hôtel de Bourbon, in Paris, It extended from the Quai de l'École to the Rue St.-Honoré. In 1664 a considerable part was absorbed by the enlargement of the Louvre, and the northern portion was called Rue de l'Or a to ire, from the church of that name established in 1616. Rue de l'Ancienne Comédie (rü de lon-se-en' kō-mā-de'). The old road in Paris called Rue des Fo és St.-Germain-des-Prés, made on the site of the moat of the wall of Philippe Auguste, near the abbey of St.-Germain-des-Prés. The alinement was established in 1560. In 1689 the Comédie the street. Française had its house here, and gave its modern name to Rue de la Paix (rü de lä pā). A street in Paris, running from the Place de l'Opéra to the Col umn of the Vendôme. It is filled with fine shops. Rue de l'Or a to ire. See Rue d'Autriche. Rue de Rivoli (de re-vo-lē'). An important street in Paris, leading from the Place de la Concorde to the Rue St.-Antoine, which connects it with the Place de la Bastille. It dates from the first empire, and derives its name from the tory of Bonaparte over the Austrians at Rivoli, Jan. 14, 1797. The present street was completed in 1865. The reasons for its creation were mainly military, as it controlled the approach to the western palaces and the faubourg from the Place de la Bastille. It contains many fine shops and hotels, and pa es the Louvre, the Place du Palais Royal, the garden of the Tuileries, the Hôtel de Ville, etc. Rueil (rü-ay'). A town in the department of Seine-et-Oise, France, 4 miles west of the fort i fications of Paris. Population (1891), 9,937. Rue St.-Antoine (rü san-ton-twän'). A street in Paris, leading from the Rue de Rivoli to the Place de la Bastille, from which point it is known as the Faubourg St.-Antoine. It was originally a Roman road leading from the Pont Notre Dame to Vincennes. During the middle ages it pa ed between the royal palaces of Saint-Paul and Les Tournelles. About the reign of Louis XI. it began to be identified with the proletariat of Paris. It is the street by which the mob of the Faubourg St.-Antoine and the Place de la Bastille advanced on the Louvre and Faubourg St.-Honoré. This fact led to the construction of the Rue de Rivoli and Caserne Napoléon by the Napoleonic dynasty. Rue St.-Denis (rü son-de-ne'). A street in Paris, leading north from the Rue de Rivoli to the Boulevard St.-Denis. Cro ing this at the Porte St. Denis, it becomes the Rue du Faubourg St.-Denis, which Ruhla terminates in the Boulevard de la Chapelle, forming one of the most ancient lines of streets in Paris. The Porte St.-Denis is a triumphal arch built in 1672 to commemorate the victories of Louis XIV. in Holland and the lower Rhine region. Rue St.-Honoré (san-to-nō-rā'). The name givthe Fournus du Louvre. It was so named thes to an old street in Paris, called in early times a chapel near the western gate of the wall of Philippe Auguste, dedicated about 1204 to St.-Honoré, bishop of Amiens. After 1209 the chapel was definitely established as a collegiate church. After the reign of Henry IV, the lower lands ('petits champs') without the walls became the Faubourg St.-Honoré. The street runs from the Rue du Pont Neuf past the Place du Théâtre Français, where it is called the Rue du Faubourg St.-Honoré, and by the Palais de l'Elysée to the Avenue des Ternes. During the middle ages the Rue St.-Honoré was the great street of Paris, corresponding to the Strand in London. Ruffini (rö-fe'nē), Giovanni Domenico. Born at Genoa, Italy, in 1807: died at Taggia (Riviera), vier a), in 1881. An English-Italian writer. Rufinus (rö-fi'nus). Born in A quit an i a: a a inated Nov. 27, 395. Chief minister of Theodosius the Great, and later of Arcadius. He encouraged the inroad of the Goths into the Roman Empire. Rug (rög), or Hogolu (ho'go-lö). One of the islands of the Caroline group, North Pacific, situated in lat. 7° 28′ N., long. 151° 55′ E. Population, estimated, 5,000. Rugby (rug'bi). A town in War wicks hire, England, situated near the Avon 28 miles east southeast of Birmingham. It is a railway junction, and a seat of fairs, but is notable principally for its grammar-school, one of the great public schools of England. It was founded by Laurence Sheriff in 1567, and reached its greatest celebrity under the head-mastership of Dr. Thomas Arnold 1827-42. Population (1891), 11,262. Rugby. A colony in eastern Tenne ee, in Morgan County, founded in 1880 by Thomas Hughes, and partly colonized by English men. Rugby. A servant to Dr. Caius, in Shakspere's "Merry Wives of Windsor." Ruge (rö'ge), Arnold. Born at Bergen, island of Rügen, Germany, Sept. 13, 1802: died at Brighton, England, Dec. 31, 1880. A German political and philosophical writer. He conducted various jour. nals suppre ed by the Pru ian and Saxon gov. ernments on account of their radical tendencies, and was a member of the Frankfort Parliament in 1848. After 1849 he lived in England. Rügen (rü'gen). The largest island of Germany, situated in the Baltic north of the mainland of Pomerania, Pru ia, to which it belongs, and from which it is separated by the Strelasund and Bodden (14 miles wide). It is diversified and picturesque, is deeply indented in outline, and rises to over 400 feet. It contains the peninsulas Jasmund, Wittow, Mönchgut, etc. It is frequented on account of its scenery and bathing-places. The noted points are Bergen, Putbus, and the Stubenkammer. It has flourishing fish eries. The ancient inhabitants were Germans, followed by Slavs. The island remained heathen until late in the middle ages. It was in the po e ion of Denmark 11681325 (and nominally a century longer); was then attached to Pomerania; pa ed to Sweden in 1648; and was annexed to Pru ia in 1815. Length, 37 miles. Area, 377 square miles. Population (1890), 45,185. Ruger (röger), Thomas Howard. Born at Lima, Livings ton County, N. Y., April 2, 1833. A Union general in the Civil War. He graduated at West Point in 1854, but resigned from the army in 1855 in order to take up law. He volunteered at the begin ning of the Civil War; commanded a division at Gettys burg; and aided in suppre ing the draft riots at New York in 1863. He accepted a colonelcy in the regular army at the close of the war; was superintendent of West Point Academy from 1871 to 1876; and was promoted brigadier-general in 1886. He retired in 1897. Ruggiero. See Rogero . Ruggles (rug'lz), Timothy. Born at Rochester, Ma ., Oct. 20, 1711: died at Wilmot, Nova Seotia, Aug. 4, 1795. An American lawyer, and a general in the French and Indian war. He was president of the Stamp Act Congre of 1765, but refused to sign the addre es and petitions which it drew up, and publicly censured for this by the general court. He emigrated from Ma achusetts to Nova Scotia in 1776. Rugii (rö'ji-1). [L. Rugii (Tacitus), or Rugi (Paulus Diaconus), Gr. 'Ρογοί (Procopius).] A Germanic tribe first mentioned by Tacitus. They were originally situated on the Baltic, west of the mouth of the Vistula. In the 5th century they appeared south of the Car path i ans, where they are named among the people in the army of Attila. They founded a kingdom on the Danube, including parts of Roman Noricum, which was overthrown late in the same century. They then joined themselves to the East Goths, with whom they subse quently disappear from history. With Jutes, Angles, Saxons, and po ibly Friesians, they seem to have taken part in the conquest of England, where their name is preserved in Surrey (AS. Súth - ryge ) and in Eastry in Kent (AS. Est ryge). Ruhla (rö'lä). A town and summer resort in Thu ring i a, 6 miles south-southeast of Eisenach. It belongs partly to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, partly to Sare Coburg-Gotha, and has manufactures of pipes, etc. Popu lati on (1890), 5,077. Ruhmeshalle Ruhmeshalle (römes-häl-le). [G., 'hall of fame.] A Doric hall in the southwest of Munich, finished by Klenze in 1853. It is adorned with busts of noted Bavarians. Ruhmkorff (röm'korf), He in rich Daniel. Born at Hannover, 1803: died at Paris, Dec. 21, 1877. A German-French mechanician, inventor of the "Ruhmkorff coil" (1851). He lived in Paris from 1839. Ruhr (rör). 1. A right-hand tributary of the Rhine in Pru ia. It rises in southern Westphalia and joins the Rhine at Ruhrort. Length, 146 miles.-2. See Roer . Ruhrort (rör'ort). A town in the Rhine Province, Pru ia, situated at the junction of the Ruhr with the Rhine. It has a large river harbor, and is the chief place of export for coal mined in the Ruhr basin, etc. Population (1890), 11,099. Ruisdael. See Ruysdael . Ruiz (rö-eth'), Juan, called the "Archpriest of Hita." Flourished about the middle of the 14th century. A Spanish poet of note. "He appears to have been born at Alcalá de Henares, and lived much at Guadelaxara and Hita." Ticknor . The Archpriest [of Hita, Juan Ruiz) has not, indeed, the tenderne , the elevation or the general power of Chaucer; but his genius has a compa , and his verse a skill and succe , that show him to be more nearly akin to the great English master than will be believed except by those who have carefully read the works of both.