He
directed the imperial policy during the earlier part of the Thirty
Years' War, and was in general a friend and supporter of Wallenstein,
and an opponent of Maximilian I., duke of Bavaria, and of Spain. He was
largely responsible for Wallenstein's return to the imperial service
early in 1632, and retired from public life just after the general's
murder in February 1634, dying at Laibach, on the 18th of October 1634.
Eggenberg's influence with Ferdinand was so marked that it was commonly
said that Austria rested upon three hills (_Berge_): Eggenberg,
Questenberg and Werdenberg. He was richly rewarded for his services to
the emperor. Having received many valuable estates in Bohemia and
elsewhere, he was made a prince of the Empire in 1623, and duke of
Krumau in 1625.

See H. von Zwiedineck-Sudenhorst, _Hans Ulrich, Furst von Eggenberg_
(Vienna, 1880); and F. Mares, _Beitrage zur Geschichte der Beziehungen
des Fursten J. U. von Eggenberg zu Kaiser Ferdinand II und zu
Waldstein_ (Prague, 1893).

EGGER, EMILE (1813-1885), French scholar, was born in Paris on the 18th
of July 1813. From 1840 till 1855 he was assistant professor, and from
1855 till his death professor of Greek literature in the Faculte; des
Lettres at Paris University. In 1854 he was elected a member of the
Academie des Inscriptions and in 1873 of the Conseil superieur de
l'instruction publique. He was a voluminous writer, a sound and
discerning scholar, and his influence was largely responsible for the
revival of the study of classical philology in France. His most
important works were _Essai sur l'histoire de la critique chez les
Grecs_ (1849), _Notions elementaires de grammaire comparee_ (1852),
_Apollonius Dyscole, essai sur l'histoire des theories grammalicales
dans l'antiquite_ (1854), _Memoires de litterature ancienne_ (1862),
_Memoires d'histoire ancienne et de philologie_ (1863), _Les Papyrus
grecs du Musee du Louvre et de la Bibliotheque Imperiale_ (1865),
_Etudes sur les traites publics chez les Grecs et les Romains_ (1866),
_L'Hellenisme en France_ (1869), _La Litterature grecque_ (1890). He was
also the author of _Observations et reflexions sur le developpement de
l'intelligence et du langage chez les enfants_ (1879). Egger died in
Paris on the 1st of September 1885.

EGGLESTON, EDWARD (1837-1902), American novelist and historian, was born
in Vevay, Indiana, on the 10th of December 1837, of Virginia stock.
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