Regner Brakenburg

Regner Brakenburg, a Dutch painter, born at Haarlem about 1650, died there in 1702. He selected his subjects frequently from low life, which he illustrated with great truthfulness and humor. His pictures are numerous in France and the Low Countries.

Regular Clerks Of St Paul

See Baenabites.

Regular Clerks Of St. Paul

See Barnabites.

Reichenberg

Reichenberg, a town of Bohemia, on the Neisse, 55 m. N. N. E. of Prague; pop. in 1870, 22,394. Next to Prague and Pilsen it is the most populous city of Bohemia, and it is one of the most flourishing centres of Austrian industry. It has a castle, several industrial and other schools, and a new theatre. The principal manufactures are woollen, cotton, and linen stuffs and yarn.

Reigate

Reigate, a market town of Surrey, England, 21 m. S. by W. of London, on the London and Brighton and Southeast railways; pop. in 1871, 15,916. It has a church containing several costly monuments, a grammar school, and the remains of a castle, with a cave where the barons are said to have met to arrange the articles of Magna Charta. It carries on a brisk trade in fuller's earth and fine sand used in the manufacture of glass.

Reims

See Rheims.

Reinhart Dozy

Reinhart Dozy, a Dutch orientalist and historian, of French extraction, born in Leyden, Feb. 21, 1820. He studied in Leyden, where he graduated in 1844, and has been since 1850 professor of history. His principal works are: Recherches sur l'histoire et la litterature d' Espagne pendant le moyen-age (2 vols., Leyden; 2d ed., 1860), in which he exposed the falsifications of the monkish chroniclers; Al-Makkari (with Dugas, Krehl, and Wright, 2 vols., 1855 - '61); Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne jusqu'd la conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides (4 vols., 1861); Het Is-lamismus (Haarlem, 1863); and Scriptorum Arabum Loci de Abbaditis (3 vols., Leyden, 1846-'63).

Religions Orders

See Religious Orders, and Moxaciiism.

Remi Jean Baptiste Charles Cayx

Remi Jean Baptiste Charles Cayx, a French historian, born at Cahors in 1795, died in Paris in 1858. He studied in Paris, and became in 1850 rector of the academy of the department of the Seine, after having occupied other important positions as teacher and librarian, and from 1840 to 1845 a seat in the chamber of deputies. His Recits d'histoire ancienne (1823) and his Histoire de France pendant le moyen age (1835) passed through many editions; and his other writings include Histoire de l'empire romain (2 vols., 1828).

Remonstrants

See Arminians.

Remora

See Sucking Fish.

Remorino

See Ramorino.

Remscheid

Remscheid, a city of Rhenish Prussia, 6 m. S. S. E. of Elberfeld; pop. in 1871, 22,017. It is celebrated for manufactures of iron and steel, especially locks, nails, and cutlery, which have grown up within the past 60 years, the population in 1816 being but about 7,000. The immediate region yields neither iron nor coal, but its numerous streams furnish abundant water power. The number of different articles manufactured is said to be not far from 2,000, which are known in Germany as Rem-scheider Waaren.