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Sachau THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG lgg obviously intended for the information of the In quisition, is still the most important source for the history and doctrines of that obscure sect, though it no longer exists in its original form. It was first published by Gretser (Liter contra Waldenses, Ingolstadt, 1613), but it is doubtful whether other writings are not included with it; also in E. Martane and U. Durand, Thesaurus novum aneedotorum, v. 1775 sqq. (Paris, 1717). (F. CoHlxs.)

BIHLIoaHAPHY: J. Quhtif and J. tehard, Scriptorea ordinis priedieatorum, i. 154 sqq., ii. 817, Paris, 1719-21; A. Toulon, Hist. des hommes illustres do Cordre de St. Dominique, i. 313 eqq., ib. 1743; J. C. L. Gieseler, De Rainerii summa commentatio critics, Gdttingen, 1834; A. W. Dieekhoff, Die Waldenser im Mittelalter, pp. 152 aqq., ib. 1851; W. Preger, Geschichte der deutechen Mystik im Mittelalter, i. 168 sqq., Leipsic, 1874; H. Reuter, Geschichte der relipibsen Aufklerung in Mittelalter, ii. 317, Berlin, 1877; K. MUller, Die Waldenser, pp. 147-148, Gotha, 1886; %L, x. 1452-53; H. C. Lea, Hist. of the Inquisition in the Middle Apes, vol. ii. passim, New York, 1906.

SACHAU, sdc'nu, EDUARD: Orientalist; b. at Neumtinster (36 m. n. of Hamburg) July 20, 1845. In 1869 he became extraordinary professor of Semitic languages at Vienna, and was advanced to ordinary professor in 1872; went to Berlin as professor of oriental languages, 1876; traveled in Syria and Mesopotamia, 1879-80, and 1897-98; became director of the oriental seminary at Berlin, 1887; and received civil recognition as councilor in 1906. He has written or edited: De Aljavaligi ej'usQ'e opere (Halle, 1867); Theodori Mopsuesteni fragments Syriaca (Leipsie, 1869); Inedita Syraaca; eine Sammlung syrischen Uebersefzungen van Sehriften griechischer Profanliteratur (Vienna, 1870); The Chronology of Ancient Nations. An English Version of the Arabic Text of the Athar-ul-bakiya of Albiruni (London, 1879); Syrischrr6misches Rechtsbuch aus dent 6. Jahrhundert (Leipsic, 1880; in collaboration with C. G. Bruns); Reise in Syrien and Mesopotamien (1883); Albiruni'8 India (London, 1888); Indo-Arabische Studien zur Aussprache and Geschichte des Indischen in der ersten Halfte des 11. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1888); Muhammedanisches Erbrecht von Zanzibar and Ost-Afrika (1894); Skizze des Fellichi-Dialekts von Mosul (1895); Ueber die Poesie in der Volksaprache der Nestorianer (1896); il-fuhammedanisches Recht nach schaftischer Lehre (1897); Am Euphrat urtd Tigris. Reise Notizen

. 1897-98 (Leipsie, 1900); Drew aramdi8che Papyrus-Urkunden aus Elefantine (Berlin, 1908) ; and Ibn Saad's Biographien bluhammeda (Leyden, 1908-09); besides a considerable number of smaller brochures dealing with various inscriptions and other matters of oriental and Biblical interest.

SACHEVERELL, sa-ahev'er-el, HENRY: Church of England; b. at Marlborough (70 m. w. of London), Wiltshire, about 1674; d. at The Grove (13 m. n.w. of London), Highgate, Middlesex, June 5, 1724. He was graduated at Oxford (B.A., 1693; M.A., 1695; B.D., 1707); was senior dean of arts of Magdalen College, 1708, and bursar in 1709; and was appointed preacher at St. Saviour's, Southwark, in 1705. In 1709 he preached two sermons which, on account of their political bearing, gave the gravest offense to the ministry and the majority of parliament (whigs). He was impeached for libel by the

house of commons; and in 1710 he was convicted by the peers, and suspended for three years from the ministry. He was ardently supported, however, by the tories, the clergy, and the country squires; and the excitement caused by his trial contributed much to the defeat of the whigs in the general election of 1710 and the downfall of Sidney Godolphin and his colleagues. In 1713 he was made rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, in which position he died. BIHLIOa$APHY: F. Madan, A Bibliography of Dr. Henry

Sacheverell, privately printed, Oxford, 1887 (indispensable for sources); W. Bisset, The Modern Fanatick, London, 1710 (a violent attack); W. King, Vindication of the Rev. Dr. Henry Sacheverell, ib. 1710 (reply to Bisset); T. Hearne, Remarks and Collections, ed. C. E. Doble for Ox ford Historical Society, vols. i-iii. passim, Oxford, 1885 eqq.; C. A. Lane, Illustrated Notes on English Church His tory, pp. 205-206, London, 1892; W . H . Hutton, The English Church . . . (1626-171.(), pp. 260-262, ib. 1903; DNB, 1. 80-83 (has reference to scattering notices).

SACHS, sacs, HANS: German Lutheran poet; b. at Nuremberg Nov. 5, 1494; d. there Jan. 19, 1576. After completing his education at the Latin school of his native city, he was apprenticed, at the age of fifteen, to a shoemaker, and during the two

years following received his first in-

His Life. struction in the Meistersinger's art. he returned to his rnative towne , whe hoe henceforth resided as a shoemaker and poet. His life falls in the period of Nuremberg's prosperity, and in this city, the home of wealth, art, and learning, he was honored as the master and patriarch of the Meister singers. The dialect used by him is Bavarian High German. His first work as a Meistersinger was his Bul Scheidelied (1513), but his chief activity began after his return to Nuremberg. At the instance of his friends, he undertook a complete edition of his writings (5 vols., Nuremberg, 1558-79, reprinted, Kempten, 1612-17), which contained 1,462 poems, though he himself prepared only the first three volumes. All forms of poetry are represented epic, lyric, didactic, and dramatic-and the themes are drawn indifferently from sacred and profane history, legend, descriptions of nature and geog raphy, civil and domestic life, events of the author's own life or the lives of others, and from his own imagination. The sources which he expressly names are more than 120, among the more modern being Boccaccio, S. Brant, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Alberus, and Agricola.

The first volume of the Nuremberg edition of Hans Sachs is opened by his Tragedia von der Schbpf'ung, Fall and Austreibung Ads suss dent Paradeiss, a drama with eleven characters and three acts, written in 1533. This is followed by a poem on the children of Eve, based on the writings of Agricola.

The most important poem drawn from

Principal the New Testament is the tragedy of Poems. the passion with thirty-one characters

and ten acts, written in 1557. The antagonism between the law and the Gospels is set forth in the tragedy of the last judgment with thirty-four characters and seven acts (1558). From the "golden legend" is drawn Ein Comedi von dent reichen sterbenden Menschen der Hecastus genannt (1549), which treats of a rich man called from the