THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
BARRY ALFRED : Church of England, suffragan bishop in West London; b. at London Jan. 15, i;>26. He was educated at King's College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1848), where he was elected fellow in 1849. He was subwarden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, in 1S49-54. headmaster of Leeds Grammar School in 1S54-62, principal of Cheltenham College in 1862-68, and principal of King's College, London, in 1S6S-S3. Having been ordained deacon in 1850 and priest in 1S53, he was canon of Worcester in 1S71-S1 and of Westminster in 1881-84, in addition to being chaplain to the queen in 1875-84. In 1SS4 he was consecrated bishop of Sydney and primate of Australia, but resigned in 1889, and until 1S91 was suffragan bishop in the diocese of Rochester. He was then appointed canon of Windsor, and was rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, from 1S95 to 1900. He was consecrated suffragan bishop in West London in 1897. In addition to numerous volumes of sermons, he has written Introduction to the Old Testament (London, 1850); The Atonement of Christ (1871); What is Natural Theology ? (Boyle Lectures for 1876); The Manifold Witness for Christ ((Boyle Lectures for 1877- 78); Teacher's Prayer Book (1882); First Words in Australia (1884); Parables of the Old Testament (1889); Christianity and Socialism (1891); Light of Science on the Faith (Bampton Lectures for 1892); England's Message to India (1894); Ecclesiastical Expansion of England (Hulsean Lectures for 1894- 95); The Position of the Laity (1903); and The Christian Sunday (1904).
BARRY, WILLIAM FRANCIS: English Roman Catholic; b. at London Apr. 21, 1849. He was educated at St. Mary's College, Oscott, English College, Rome, and Gregorian University, Rome (D.D., 1873). He was ordained to the priesthood at St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1873, and from that year until 1877 was vice-president and professor of philosophy at the Birmingham Diocesan Seminary. He was then appointed to the professorship of theology at St. Mary's College, Oscott, where he remained until 1880. From 1881 to 1883 he was curate at Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, and since the latter year has been rector of St. Birinus, Dorchester, Oxfordshire. He was a delegate to the Temperance Convention at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and lectured before the Royal Institution, London, in 1896. Since 1889 he has been a member and lecturer of the Catholic Truth Society, and in 1897 was elected vice-president of the Irish Literary Society of London. In addition to numerous briefer studies and contributions to periodicals, he has written The New Antigone (London, 1887); The Two Standards (1899); Arden Massiter (1900); The Wizard's Knot (1901); The Papal Monarchy (1902); The Day Spring (1903); Cardinal Newman (1903); Perils of Revolt (1904); Ernest Renan (1905); and The Tradition of Scripture (1906; put upon the Index).
BARSU'MAS: 1. Archimandrite or abbot of a Syrian monastery, adherent of Eutyches and his doctrine. At the Robber Synod of Ephesus (449) he appeared at the head of a thousand rough and
turbulent monks, and took part personally in the tumults which disgraced that assembly (see Eutychianis.m). Two years later he presented himself at the Council of Chalcedon but was refused admittance. He continued to work for Eutychianism till his death in 458. By the Jacobites he is honored as a saint and miracle-worker.
2. Bishop of Nisibis 435-489. See Nestorians.
BARTH, bort, CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB : Pastor and friend of missions; b. in Stuttgart July 13, 1799; d. at Calw (20 m. w. of Stuttgart) Nov. 12, 1862. He studied theology at Tubingen, became pastor of Mottlingen, near Calw, in 1824, but retired in 1838 to Calw, and devoted himself entirely to the missionary cause. He founded the missionary society of Wurttemberg, and brought it in active cooperation with Basel and all the great missionary societies of the Christian world. He wrote some of the best German missionary hymns. He edited the Calwer Missionsblatt and wrote a great number of works of practical Christianity, and stories for children and youth, some of which met with an almost unparalleled success. Several were translated into English, e.g., The Autobiography of Thomas Platter (London, 1839); Bible Stories for the Young (1845); Stories for Christian Children (2 series, 1851 and 1854).
Bibliography: K. Werner, C. O. Barth, nach seinem Leben und Wirken gezeichnet, 3 vols., Calw, 1865-69; G. Weitbrecht, Dr. Barth nach seinem Leben und Wirken, Stuttgart, 1875; W Kopp, C. G. Barth's Leben und Wirken, Calw, 1886.
BARTH, JACOB: Judeo-German Semitic scholar; b. at Flehingen (a village of Baden) Mar. 3, 1851. He was educated at the universities of Leipsic, Strasburg, and Berlin, and since 1874 has taught Hebrew, exegesis, and the philosophy of religion at the rabbinical seminary in Berlin, and has also lectured for many years on Semitic and Jewish literature at the Veitel Heine Ephraim Institute in the same city. In 1880 he was appointed associate professor of Semitic languages in the University of Berlin. He has written Beitrdge zur Erkldrung des Buches Hiob (Berlin, 1876); Maimonides Commentar zum Tractat Makkoth (1880); Beitrdge zur Erkldrung des Jesaja (1885); Die Nominalbildung in den semitischen Sprachen (2 vols., Leipsic, 1889-91); Etymologische Studien zum semitischen, insbesondere zum hebrdischen Lexikon (1893); Wurzeluntersuchungen zum hebrdischen und aramdischen Lexikon (1902); and a large number of contributions to various learned periodicals. He has also edited the Kitab al-Fasih of Thalab (Leyden, 1876); the first two parts of the Leyden edition of the " Annals " of al-Tabari (1879-81); and the Diwan of al-Kutami (1902).
BARTH, MARIE ETIENNE AUGUSTE : French Lutheran; b. at Strasburg Mar. 22, 1834. He was educated at the College Royal and the academy of his native city, being graduated from the latter in 1855. From 1856 to 1861 he was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at the college of Buchsweiler, Alsace, but has since lived as a private scholar in Paris. He is a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a grand officer of the Royal Order of Cam-