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STINDE, JULIUS (1841-1905)

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STINDE, See also:JULIUS (1841-1905) , See also:German author, was See also:born at Kirchnifchel near See also:Eutin on the 28th of See also:August 1841, the son of a clergyman. Having attended the gymnasium at Eutin, he was apprenticed in 1858 to a chemist in See also:Lubeck. He soon tired of the See also:shop, and went to study See also:chemistry at See also:Kiel and See also:Giessen where he proceeded to the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy. In 1863 Stinde received an See also:appointment as consulting chemist to a large See also:industrial undertaking in See also:Hamburg; but, becoming editor of the Hamburger Gewerbeblatt, he gradually transferred his energies to journalism. His earliest See also:works were little comedies, dealing with Hamburg See also:life, though he continued to make scientific contributions to various See also:journals. In 1876 Stinde settled in See also:Berlin and began the See also:series of stories of the See also:Buchholz See also:family, vivid and humorous studies of Berlin See also:middle-class life by which he is most widely known. He died at Olsberg near Kassel on the 7th of August 1905. The first of the series Buchholzens in Italien (translated by H. F. See also:Powell, 1887) appeared in 1883 and achieved an immense success. It was followed by See also:Die Familie Buchholz in 1884 (translated by L. D.

Schmitz, 1885) ; Frau Buchholz See also:

im Orient in 1888; Frau Wilhelmine (Der Familie Buchholz letzter Teil; translated by H. F. Powell, 1887) in ,886; Wilhelmine Buchholz' Memoiren, in 1894; and Hotel Buchholz; Ausstellungserlebnisse der Frau Wilhelmine Buchholz, in 1896. Under the pseudonyms of See also:Alfred de Valmy, Wilhelmine Buchholz and See also:Richard E. See also:Ward, he also published various other works of more or less merit, among which his Naturphilosophie (1898) deserves See also:special mention; his Waldnovellen (1881) have been translated into See also:English. STINK-See also:WOOD, in See also:botany, a See also:South See also:African See also:tree, known botanically as Ocotea bullata; and a member of the family Laurineae. Other names for it are Cape See also:Walnut, Stinkhout, Cape See also:Laurel and Laurel wood. It derives its name from having a strong and unpleasant See also:smell when fresh felled. It is used for See also:building in South See also:Africa and is described by See also:Stone (Timbers of See also:Commerce, p. 174) as " the most beautiful dark-coloured wood that I have yet met with." It is said to be a substitute for See also:teak and equally durable. The wood is dark walnut or reddish See also:brown to See also:black with a yellow See also:sap-wood, and the See also:grain extremely See also:fine, See also:close, dense and smooth.

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