See Porter, Travels, ii, 412 ; Kinneir, Persian Empire, p. 100-106; Sir H. Rawlinson, in Geograph. Journ. ix, 84-93; Layard, ibid, xvi, 91-94; Loftus, Chaldma and Susiana, p. 424-431.
U'lani {\l<ih.Ulam',t^^'»., porch; Sept. Oir\a|ii v. r. occasionally AiXsju), the name of two Hebrew's.
1. First named of the two sons of Sheresh and father of Bedan in the Gileadite posterity of Manasseh ( 1 Ohron. vi, 16, 17). B.C. cir. KUS.
2. The tirst-born of Eshek ainong the descendants of king Saul, and the ancestor of one hundred and fifty valiant archers (1 Chron. viii, 39. 40). B.C. cir. 588.
Ulber, Christian Samuel, a Protestant theolo- gian of Germany, was born Aug. 26, 1714, at Landshut, in Silesia. He studied at Jena; was appointed pastor
at Heincrsdorf, in Silesia, in 1737; in 1741 he was called to liis native place, and in 1757 to Hamburg, wliere he ttied Aug. 27, 1776. Ulber was not only a man of great learning, but also a good pulpit orator. His luunerous writings are more of an ascetical nature, valuable indeed for their time, but less so now. They are eniiinerated in Diiriug, Gtlchrle Theoloyen Deutsch- lands, iv, 547 sq. (B. P.)"
Ulenberg, Caspar, a Roman Catholic priest of Germany, was born of Lutheran parents in 1549, at Lippstadt. He studied at Wittenberg. At Cologne he succeeded in bringing back a cousin of his, who had become a Roman Catliolic, to the Lutheran Church ; but in 1572 thej- both joined the Catholic Church, and Ulenberg was appointed teacher at Cologne. In 1575 he received holy orders, was appointed pastor at Kaisers- werth, and in 1583 was made canon of the Church of St. Swibertus. From 1593 to 1615 he stood at the head of the gymnasium in Cologne, where he died as pastor of St. Cuuibert's, Feb. 16, 1617. He is the author of Die Psalinen Davids in allerlei teutscke Gesangreinien gebracht (Cologne, 1582 ; 5th ed. 1709). See Koch, Gesch. des deutschen Kirchenliedes, ii, 442 sq. (B. P.)
Ulfilas (Ulphilas, Ulfila, or Wulfila, prob. = Vuljila, or " wolfkiii"), a Gothic bishop, was born among the Goths in 310 (or 311, or 313), and is believed to have belonged to a family of Cappadocian Christians whom the Goths had carried into captivity (Pliilostorg. Hist. Eccles. ii, 5). Having mastered the Gothic, Greek, and Hebrew languages, he became bishop of the Goths in 341, and (according to Atixentius) in 348 settled, with permission of the emperor Constantius, in Moesian ter- ritory, near Nicopolis. He propagated among his peo- ple the love of letters, formed an alphabet of twenty- four characters, based on the Greek, and translated into Moeso-Gothic the whole Bible, excepting Kings. Ul- filas w-as a semi-Arian, subscribed to the Creed of Rimini in 359, was at the Synod of Constantinople in 360, and died while attending the (Ecumenical Council of 381. Ulfilas's Bible was constantly used by the Gothic people so long as they maintained their nationality, but in the 9th century it disappeared. In the latter part of the 16th century, Arnold Mercator discovered in the Abbey of Werden a fragment containing the four gospels. It was the so-called Codex A rgenteus, written with silver letters on purple parchment. It is now preserved at LTpsala, Sweden. Another fragment, containing nearly all the epistles of St. Paul, was discovered in 1818 on some palimpsests by cardinal Mai and count Castiglioni in the Lombardian monastery of Bobbio, and published at Milan (1819-39). See Gothic Vkrsion. Among its recent editors and commentators are Gabelenz, Liibe, ^Massmann, and Stamm. A new edition by Bernhardt appeared at Halle in 1876. See Bessel, Ueher das Leben des Ulflas nnd die Bekehrimg der Gothm (1860); Waitz, Ueher das Leben und die Lekre des Ulfila (1840).
Ulfruna, in Norse mythology, was one of the nine beautiful giant-maidens, and became mother of the god Heimdal, the guard of heaven.
Ulin, .loii\, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Virginia in 1792 or 1793. After preaching ten or eleven years as a local preacher, he was admitted to the Ohio Conference in 1826. He died of the cholera, near New Richmond, O., July 13, 1833. Success attended his ministrj'. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, ii, 276.
Ulius, in Greek mythology, was a surname of Apollo. It is uncertain whether he carried this name as a god of destruction or preservation. To him Theseus made an oath conditioned upon his safe return from Crete.
Uria (Heb. Ulla', S^i", yoke or burden ; Sept. '0\n V. r. 'Q.\a ; Vulg. Olla), a descendant of Asher (perhaps the son of .Jetlier or Ithran), and the father of four sons esteemed among the valiant chiefs of the tribe (1 Chron. vii, 39). B.C. apparently cir. 1014.
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Ullan Machaitee, in the religion of the Lamaites,
was a sect calling themselves the Red-caps. They do Hot recognise Dalai-Lama as their head, but have their own chief, Bogdo Lama. The sovereignty belongs to the emperor of China.
UUdra, in the su|)erstition of the Norwegians, was the name of the river deity upon wliom de])ended suc- cess and blessing in tishing. His favor was sought in like manner to that of Nipen.
Uller, in Norse mythology, was the son of the beau- tiful golden-haired Sif, second wife of Thor; not by Thor, however, but through a former union. Uller is renowned as a good protector and an excellent hinit- er, and walks upon scales, which are indispensable in Norway, with great alacrity, so that no one is compe- tent to keep up with him, for which he is called Weida As. the hunting Asa. In the legend of Uller, that he was made king suijsequent to Odin's banishment from Asgard, eventually, however, was himself banished, and slain by the victoriously returning Odin, the latest ap- pendix is quite evident. — Vollmer, Wortei-b. d. Mylhol. s. v.