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Mathieu Auguste, a French historian; born in _ Paris, France, April 21, 1820. He became Profe or of Ancient History at Paris in 1872; and three years later was appointed director of the French school at Rome. He died in Paris, Aug. 15, 1895. | Gegenbaur, Karl, a German anatomist. In 1855 he was called to a medical profe orship at Jena, but from 1858 to 1873 he taught principally anatomy. He removed to Heidel- ‘berg in 1873. His fame rests on his “Outline of Comparative Anatomy.” Gehenna (Hebrew Ge Hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom), in Scriptural geography a valley anciently belonging to a man, Hinnom, of whom nothing is known, and inherited by his son or sons, whence it is called the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, or of the children of Hinnom. In Joshua it is described as lying S. of Jebusi, the Jebusite capital, which afterward became Jerusalem. Here, during the later period of the Jewish kings, men made their suns and daughters pa through the fire to Molech or Moloch, the Ammonite firegod, or actually burnt them in the fire. Josiah put an end to these cruel > practices, and defiled the place, It was doomed afterward to become an overcrowded cemetery. When the Jews outgrew all love of human sacrifice, they regarded the place with horror, the rabbis deeming it the gate of hell. The valley, which the Arabs call Gehennam, is thoroughly known. It is narrow and deep, with rugged limestone cliffs excavated for tombs, and the mountain sides overtopping all.