HENRIK HERTZ
\hˈɛnɹɪk hˈɜːts], \hˈɛnɹɪk hˈɜːts], \h_ˈɛ_n_ɹ_ɪ_k h_ˈɜː_t_s]\
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A Danish poet and dramatist; born in Copenhagen, Aug. 25, 1798; died there, Feb. 25, 1870. He abandoned law for literature. "Letters of a Ghost", a poetical satire purporting to be written by the spirit of Jens Baggesen, made him famous. He followed this with "Nature and Art"; "Four Letters of Knut the Seelander", a good piece of word-painting; "Tyrfing", a poem; and miscellanies. As a playwright he has won a permanent place with "The Savings Bank", a comedy; "Svend Dyring's House", a tragedy; and "The Daughter of King Rene", his masterpiece.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).