Adolph Anderssen, a German chess player, born in Breslau, July 6, 1818. He was a teacher of mathematics, acquired in Berlin a high reputation as a chess player, and attended in 1851 the chess tournament in London, where he defeated Staunton and other English celebrities. In December, 1858, he was defeated in Paris by Paul Morphy; but in 1862, at the second London chess tournament, he obtained the highest prize. He is the author of many original outlinss of games and of writings on the theory of chess, published in the Leipsio Schachzeitung.