Successor of Fliedner at the head of the Kaiserswerth home for deaconesses (see FLaRDNBR, THao DoR; and DascoNnss,111., 2, a, § 1 2-3); b. in $oest, Westphalia, Oct. 24, 1827; d. near Simmern (26 m. s.w. of Coblenz) July 14, 1896. He entered the University of Halls in 1846. In the national student movement of 1848 he represented the royalistic old Prussian side, and was Halle's delegate to the parliament at Eisenach. In 1850 he became Fliedner's assistant in Kaieerswerth; in 1853 pastor at $ehermbeck, near Wesel, where he established a basket factory for the unemployed in his own parsonage, and showed great talent as an organizer. On the call of Fliedner, in 1855 he returned to Kaiserswerth, thenceforth his field of labor. His careful study Gegenw&Eige Lage der Kretinen, BI6flsinnigen and Idioten (Bonn, 1857) led to the founding of several asylums for the insane. In 1859 appeared his collections of sermons (Geschichte des K6nigs Sauis. David, Ruth, Paulus) and his epic poem Kdnig Alfred; in 1860, New Weisen-the last two works under the pseudonym Julius von Boast. He traveled much in the interest of Haiserswerth, visiting the Orient five times, and founded the orphanage " Zoar " in Beirut in 1861. During the wars of 1864, 1866, and 1870-71 he led the gaieerswerth deaconesses in the- field and grganized their work. After nedner'a death (1885) he became the head of the ratter's institutions. With the publication of his Wegweiser su J. (f, Hamann in 1871 he bade farewell to his favorite literary studies and devoted himself henceforth for thirty years to his allotted work. When he entered the field he found 115 stations and 327 sisters; he left double the number of stations and 953 sisters.
(DIODAT Dlesalaolr.)BIHLtOOt1PH7: The %aiaerstserAer %alendm'for IM oontaiae a brief sketch of his life. Consult: J. Djeseihoff, Pastor Julius Disssthof, , sum lieddehdam Kaiserswerth, 1896.
D1TTRICH, FRANZ: Roman Catholic; b. at Thegsten (near Heileberg, 41 m. s.e. of BOnigsberg) Jan. 28, 1839. He studied at Braunsberg, Rome, and Munich, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1863. In 1866 he became privat-docent at Brauneberg, where he was appointed associate professor of theology. In 1873 he was promoted full professor, and since 1903 has also been provost of the cathedral of Ermland. He is a member of the Prussian house of deputies. He was editor of
the Mittheilungen des ermltgndiachen Kunatroeria (Braunsberg, 1870-75), and has written Dionysius der Grosse von Alexandrian (Freiburg, 1867); Ob. aerpationea quesdam de ordine naturali et morali (Brauneberg, 1869); Rageaten and Briefs des Cardinal- Gasparo Condarini (1881); Gaaparo Contarini, eine Monographic (1885 ), Abrias einer Lehre der Untersiehung and des Untarrielata (1890);
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