an inflammation of the bronchi or tubes by which the lungs are supplied with air. It may be acute or chronic.

BRÖNDSTED, Peter Oluf, an able and judicious archaeologist, was the son of a Danish clergyman, and was born at Horsens in Jutland on 17th Nov. 1781. He received his academical education at the university of Copenhagen; and in 1802 he visited Paris in company with his friend M. Kocs. After remaining there two years, he accompanied the same gentleman to Italy. Both were zealously attached to the study of antiquities; and congeniality of tastes and pursuits induced them both in 1810 to join Baron Stackelberg, Von Haller, and Linckh of Stuttgart, in an expedition to Greece, where they examined with attention the interesting remains of ancient art, and engaged with ardour in excavations among the ruins, which were carried on extensively, especially by Bröndsted and Stackelberg, with very interesting results. The discoveries which Bröndsted made have been since given to the world in several works, which show learning and sagacity seldom applied to the elucidation of antiquity with happier results. After three years of active researches in Greece, Bröndsted returned to Copenhagen, where, as a reward for his labours, he was appointed professor of Greek in the university. He now began to arrange and prepare for publication the vast materials he had collected during his travels; but finding that Copenhagen did not afford him the desired facilities, he exchanged his professorship for the office of Danish envoy at the papal court in 1818, and took up his abode at Rome. He also, in 1820 and 1821, went to Sicily and the Ionian Isles to collect additional materials for his great work; and when the artistic illustrations were completed, he obtained leave to visit Paris to superintend the publication. In 1826, he came over to London, chiefly with a view to study the Elgin marbles and other antique relics in the British Museum, and became acquainted with the principal archaeologists of England. His great work appeared at Paris, in parts, in two editions, with a French text, one in quarto and the other in folio, besides a quarto one with German text. The first appeared in 1826, the second in 1830. Eight parts were promised, but only two had appeared at his death. The title of this admirable work, which contains many recently discovered and till then unpublished Grecian remains, with charts and numerous vignettes, is *Voyages dans Grèce, accompagnés des recherches archéologiques, et suivis d'un aperçu sur toutes les entreprises scientifiques, qui ont eu lieu en Grèce depuis Pausanias jusqu'à nos jours*.

He returned to Copenhagen in 1832; when he immediately received the appointment of director of the royal museum of antiquities, and the professorship of archaeology and philology. His merits were ten years afterwards further rewarded with the honourable office of Rector of the University; but an unlucky fall from his horse caused the death of this eminent man on the 26th of June 1842.

Besides the great work above noticed, Brondsted wrote numerous dissertations on archaeological subjects, which he illustrated with great learning. Among these we may notice two published by the Dilettanti Society of London, viz., *A description of thirty-two painted Greek Vases, found near Vulci*, 1832; and on the *Bronzes of Siris*, 1836.