brary of Famous Books).

BARTH, KASPAR VON (1587-1658), German philologist, was born at Kuestrin in
the province of Brandenburg on the 21st of June 1587. He was an extremely
precocious child, and was looked upon as a marvel of learning. After
studying at Gotha, Eisenach, Wittenberg and Jena, he travelled extensively,
visiting most of the countries of Europe. Too independent to accept any
regular post, he lived alternately at Halle and on his property at
Sellerhausen near Leipzig. In 1636, his library and MSS. at Sellerhausen
having been destroyed by fire, he removed to the Paulinum at Leipzig, where
he died on the 17th of September 1658. Barth was a very voluminous writer;
his works, which were the fruits of extensive reading and a retentive
memory, are unmethodical and uncritical and marred by want of taste and of
clearness. He appears to have been excessively vain and of an unamiable
disposition. Of his writings the most important are; _Adversaria_ (1624), a
storehouse of miscellaneous learning, dealing not only with classical but
also with medieval and modern writers; and commentaries on Claudian (1612,
1650) and Statius (1664).

BARTH, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Barther Bodden,
a lake connecting with the Baltic, 15 m. N.W. from Stralsund by rail. Pop.
(1900) 7070. It contains a fine Gothic Protestant church (St Mary's) dating
from the 13th century and has several educational establishments, notably a
[v.03 p.0448] school of seamanship. Its industries comprise iron-founding,
ship-building, brewing, and the manufacture of cigars, leather and tinned
fish. There is an active export trade in grain.

BARTHELEMY, ANATOLE JEAN-BAPTISTE ANTOINE DE (1821-1904), French
archaeologist and numismatist, was born at Reims on the 1st of July 1821,
and died at Ville d'Avray on the 27th of June 1904. In collaboration with
J. Geslin de Bourgogne he published _Etudes sur la revolution en Bretagne_
in 1858, and between 1855 and 1879 an exhaustive work in six volumes on the
_Anciens eveches de Bretagne; histoire et monuments_. In 1880 appeared the
_Choix de documents inedits sur l'histoire de la ligue en Bretagne_, by
himself alone. But it was, above all, his numismatical work which
established his reputation. This included several popular publications,
such as the _Nouveau manuel complet de numismatique ancienne_ (1851; second
edition, revised, 1890), and the _Nouveau manuel complet de numismatique du
moyen age