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DROSHKY (Russ. drozhki, diminutive of drogi, a See also:wagon) , a See also:light four-wheeled uncovered See also:carriage used in See also:Russia. Properly it consists of two pairs of wheels joined by a See also:board. This forms a seat for the passengers who sit sideways, while the See also:driver sits astride in front. The word Droschke, however, is applied especially in See also:Germany to light carriages generally which ply for hire. DROSTE-HULSHWFF, ANNETI'E ELISABETH, FREIIN VON (1797-1848), See also:German poet, was See also:born at the See also:family seat of Hulshoff near See also:Munster in See also:Westphalia on the loth of See also:January 1797. Her See also:early See also:mental training was largely influenced by her See also:cousin, Clemens See also:August, Freiherr von Droste zu Vischering, who, as See also:archbishop of See also:Cologne, became notorious for his extreme ultramontane views (see below) ; and she received a more liberal See also:education than in those days ordinarily See also:fell to a woman's See also:lot. After prolonged visits among the intellectual circles at See also:Coblenz, See also:Bonn and Cologne, she retired to the See also:estate of Ruschhaus near Munster, belonging to her See also:mother's family. In 1841, owing to delicate See also:health, she went to reside in the See also:house of her See also:brother-in-See also:law, the well-known See also:scholar, See also:Joseph, Freiherr von Lassberg (1770-1855), at Schloss Meersburg on the See also:Lake of See also:Constance, where she met Levin See also:Schucking (q.v.); and there she died on the 24th of May 1848. Annette von Droste-Hulshoffis, beyond doubt, the most gifted and See also:original of German See also:women poets. Her See also:verse is strong and vigorous, but often unmusical even to harshness; one looks in vain for a See also:touch of sentimentality or melting sweetness in it. As a lyric poet, she is at her best when she is able to attune her thoughts to the sober landscape of the Westphalian moorlands of her See also:home. Her narrative See also:poetry, and especially Das Hospiz auf dem Grossen St See also:Bernard and See also:Die Schlacht See also:im Loener Bruck (both 1838), belongs to the best German poetry of its See also:kind.

She was a strict See also:

Roman See also:Catholic, and her religious poems, published in 852, after her See also:death, under the See also:title Das geistliche Jahr, nebst einem Anhang religioser Gedichte, enjoyed See also:great popularity. Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's Gedichte were first published in 1844 during her lifetime, and a number of her poems were translated into See also:English by See also:Thomas Medwin. The most See also:complete edition of her See also:works is that in 4 vols. edited by E. von Droste-Hulshoff (Munster, 1886). The Ausgewahlte Gedichte were edited by W. von Scholz (See also:Leipzig, 1901). See Levin Schiicking, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, can Lebensbild (2nd ed., See also:Hanover, 1871)—her letters to L. Schiicking were published. at Leipzig in 1893; also H. Hueffer, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff and ihre Werke (See also:Gotha, 1887), and W. Kreiten, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (2nd ed., See also:Paderborn, 1900). DROSTE-VISCHERING, CLEMENS AUGUST, See also:BARON VON (1773-1845), German Roman Catholic divine, was born at Munster on the 21st of January 1773. He was educated in his native See also:town and entered the priesthood in 1798; in 1807 the See also:local See also:chapter elected him See also:vicar-See also:general. This See also:office he resigned in 1813 through his opposition to See also:Napoleon, but assumed it again after the See also:battle of See also:Waterloo (1815) until a disagreement with the Prussian See also:government in 1820 led to his See also:abdication. He remained in private See also:life until 1835, when he was appointed archbishop of Cologne.

Heve again his zeal for the supremacy of the See also:

church led him to break the agreement between the See also:state and the Catholic bishops which he had signed at his See also:installation, and he was arrested by the Prussian government in See also:November 1837. A battle of See also:pamphlets raged for some See also:time; Droste was not re-installed but was obliged to accept a coadjutor. His See also:chief works were: Uber die Religionsfreiheit der Katholiken (18x7), and Uber den Frieden unter der Kirche and den Staaten (1843). See Carl Mirbt's See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyk. See also:fur prof. Theol. v. 23.

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