Daniel the Stylite was bom near Samosata about A.D. 410, and died near Constantinople about 490. He entered a monastery at twelre, and deter* mined in middle life to imitate Simeon the Stylite (^. T.). In 461 he fixed himself on a pillar on the height called Anapla, near Constantinople, and exposed him- self there day and night. It is said that he had the gift of prophecy, and was at last escorted to heaven by the angels! He is celebrated as a saint in the Greek and Roman churches, Dec. 11. — ^Butler, Zt'i^ of the Saintt, Dec. 11.
Daniel, blBl)op of Winchester, a monk in the con- vent of Malmesbury, was raised to the see of Winches- ter in 705. The convent from whence came Boniface, the apostle of Germany, was situated in his diocese, and Daniel himself strongly encouraged Bonifiice in his resolution of preaching the Gospel on the Conti- nent. He gave him, on the occasion of his first Jour- ney to Rome, two letters of introduction, one addressed to all Christians, kings, and bishops (epist, B, ed. Wurdt- wem, ep. 1), and another to Gregory II, which has been lost He remained in relation with Boniface, and sus- tained him bythis advice, instructions, and sympathy (ep. B, «p. 12-14). In 721 he undertook a pilgrimage to Rome, and on his return furnished to Bede the sources of hb history of the kingdom of Wessex, as the latter himself states in his Ecclesiastical History of the An- glo-Saxons. Having become blind, he renounced his charge, and returned to the convent of Malmesbury, where he died in 745 or 746. The four letters men- tioned above are all that remains of his writings ; the ep. 14, by WOrdtwein, is also to be found ui Baronins A.D. 724.— Herzog, Recd-Encyhlop, s. v. ; Wright, Bi- ographka IMeraria (Anglo-Saxon Period), p. 292 sq.
Dan'ite (Heb. always with the article had-Dam^ •^a*!}!; Sept. o Adv, Adv, ol Aavirai', A. V. "Dan- ites,"Judg.xiii,2; xviii,l,ll; 1 Chron. xii, 85 ; "of Dan," Judg. xvui, 80), a member of the tribe of Dan (q. v.).
Dan-ja'&n (Heb. but once and with n local ap- pended, Da'nah Ya'an, 1?^ Jin ; Sept. Aavi^&v Kai OuSdv V. r. Aaviapdv Kai lovSdv ; Vulg. Dan tilves- tr%a\ a place named only in 2 Sam. xxiv, 6 as one of the points visited by Joab in taking the census of the people. It occurs after Gilead, between •*the land of Tahtim-hodshi'' and Zidon, and therefore may have been somewhere in the direction of Dan (Laish), at the sources of the Jordan. The reading of the Alex- andrian Sept and of the Vulg. was evidently *ir^ •j1, Dan-jaar^ the nearest translation of which is *' Dan in the wood." This reading is approved by Gesenins (Jhee, Heb. p. 836), and agrees with the well-wooded
character of the country abont Td eUKak % Daphne. F&rst (Heb. HandwMerhaek, p. S81 a pares Dan-jaan with Baal-Jaan, a Phwddn £tb whose name is found on coins. Theaiu fagpititi Jaan was originally Laish, the h having &lka and 1^ having been subetitated for O {^.Ban on Sam. p. 257). There seems no reason for iak that the well-known Dan, or Leshem, is imeoddl have no record of any other Dan in the oortL even if thb were not the case, Dan, as tbe northern limit of the nation, was too onpoitiot tpi to escape mention in such a list aa that m tht td Dr. Schultz, however, the late Prussian coaod a] rusalem, discovered an ancient site caUed Lamei Danyaly in tbe mountains above Khan eB>Nik| south of Tyre, which he proposes to identi^' witk U Jaan (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 806).— Siitii, i.t.
Dan'nah (Heb. Datmak', ran, ptoh. mmrm but FOrst thinks Unoly; Sept. 'Powa v. r. 'Piwa,! dently by mistake of *n for *l ; Vulg. D€ama\%csi the mountains of Judab, mentioned betweea S« and Kiijath-sannah (Josh, xv, 49), and eridenth \i in the group south-west <tf Hebron (Keil, Coama^ loc.) ; possibly the modem ed-Dkokeriytk, a cobHI ous village on the hills west of Wady el-KhoE f«- sisting of stone hovels with remains of older ran* tures, and surrounded by a fine grazing repoo (£«- inson, Retearches, i, 808, 811). Knobel {Extg. Bal in loc.) suggests the site TamttOj but this is pnbtlv; that of the ancient Tanoah.
Dannhaner, Conbad, a Lutheran divhie, vu bsi in the Breisgau 1603, and studied at tbe vaitaat/s of Bfarburg, Altdorf, and Jena. In 16^8 be bees» professor of eloquence, and later of theology tX Se»- burir, where also in 1688 he became pastor of tk IV tbedral church. He died in 1666. PinnhsiifT nf . learned theologian, and an earnest Lutheran ci^^ vertist against Romanism and Syncretism (q. v.). Fi an account of his numerous writings, lee Tboiat Akademisches Leben d. 17 Jahrhmdertt^ sac xri? 274 ; and Tholuck's article in Herzog^ JSooJ-fMytii^ xix,886.
Dante (properly Durahte) Aliefaieri,oD« a'^ greatest Christian poets of all times, and, on aec«c!i of his views of religion and the Church, genenir counted among the foreranners of the RefonsatiEKi (^ the sixteenth century. He was bom at Fkvnce 3Iif 8, 1265 ; according to others, May 27, 1261 Hf stii led philosophy at the universides of Bologna tod P^ ua ; later, when an exUe, he devoted himself to tk study of philosophy at Paris. According to s rtnt- ment of Boccaccio, he also visited England. In be youth Dante took an active part m the pditia cf ^ native city, and in 1800 waa for two months cae <^ its two Priori, In the party strife bctweea the -Vn (Blacks), the unconditional adherents of the pope, ^ the Bianchi (Whites), who rather sympathised ^ the Ghibellines, Dante was one of the leading aeit^ the latter. His party sent him to Rome to conoteW- the plans t)f the Neri, who had implored the sH rf Boniface VIII. The pope induced Cbarka of V»bii brother of Philip IV of France, to go to Flewocs »e make peace. Charles recalled the exiled chieft of te Bianchi, and gave up the houses and the propcftr if the Neri to plundering. Many of the proninett cea of the party, among them Dante, were banishii Dante never saw his native city again, and fail s^>^ quent life was very unsettled. After the hat ^B»■^ cessful attempt of the ** Whites" to re-enter Florroa. he probably left Italy for Paris. When enpeK^ Henry VII marched against Rome, Dante wrote «• thusiastic letters in favor of the emperor igaiort th» pope. It is thought that his work Be wtmardM v« compOed at the same time. The death of the i^J^/ disappointed his last hope. . The bst years of hi» IJ*