KARL WILHELM FRENZEL
\kˈɑːl wˈɪlhɛlm fɹˈɛnzə͡l], \kˈɑːl wˈɪlhɛlm fɹˈɛnzəl], \k_ˈɑː_l w_ˈɪ_l_h_ɛ_l_m f_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_z_əl]\
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A German novelist and essayist; born at Berlin, Dec.6, 1827. He has published several volumes of historical essays, as "Poets and Women" (3 vols., 1859-66), "Busts and Pictures" (1864), "Renaissance and Rococo" (1878), all marked by fine discernment and just historical perspective; also two volumes of dramatic criticism, "Berlin Dramaturgy" (1877). Among his numerous historical novels of the eighteenth century are: "Pope Ganganelli" (1864); "Charlotte Corday" (1864); "La Pucelle" (1871); "Lucifer: A Story of Napoleon's Time" (1873). Outside the field of historical fiction he has written many stories, as "Mrs. Venus" (1880); "Chambord" (1883); "Weary of Life" (1886); "Woman's Rights" (1892). He is also author of "German Voyages" (1868).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).