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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Adolf Zeising (1810–1876)

Zeising, Adolf (tsī’zing). A German writer on art; born at Ballenstedt, Sept. 24, 1810; died at Munich, April 27, 1876. He wrote: ‘New Doctrine of the Proportions of the Human Body’ (1854); ‘Æsthetic Researches’ (1855); ‘The Metamorphoses in the Ratios of the Human Figure’ (1859); ‘Religion and Science, State and Church’ (1873); and several novels.