or BUCEPHALOS, a town built by Alexander the Great on the western side of the Hydaspis, in memory of his horse Bucephalus, which was buried here.

BUCHER, the assumed name of Martin Kuhorn, an eminent German reformer, born in 1491, at Schelestadt, a town of Alsace, near Strasbourg. He took the religious habit of St Dominic at seven years of age; but after perusing the writings of Luther, and holding some personal conferences with that reformer, he adopted most of his sentiments. In 1548, he was sent for to Augsburg to sign the agreement, called the interims, between the Papists and Protestants. His warm opposition to this project exposed him to many difficulties and hardships; which induced him to accept the invitation of Archbishop Cranmer to fix his residence in England. On his arrival, in 1549, he was appointed to teach theology in the university of Cambridge. King Edward VI. had the greatest regard for Bucher. Having heard that he had suffered much from the cold, from want of a German stove, he sent him a hundred crowns to purchase one. Bucher died of a complication of disorders in 1551, and was buried at Cambridge with great funeral pomp. Five years afterwards, in Mary's reign, his body was dug up and burnt, and his tomb demolished; but it was subsequently re-constructed by order of Queen Elizabeth.