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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (ABLER AUERSPERG.) 



tion, served some time as superintendent of public 

 schools, was register of deeds in, Strafford County in 

 1855-' 60, was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court 

 of New Hampshire in 1860, and resigned to become 

 a 1st lieutenant and quartermaster of the 7th New 

 Hampshire Infantry, Oct. 22, 1861. In 1862 he was 

 promoted captain ; from December, 1862, till July 1, 

 1864, he served in all the campaigns of the Army of 

 the Potomac ; was then appointed an additional pay- 

 master, and served in the Army of the Potomac, in 

 the Department of the Platte, and in Wyoming Ter- 

 ritory, and on March 13, 1865, was bre vetted lieuten- 

 ant-colonel of volunteers for faithful and meritorious 

 services during the war. He was mustered out of the 

 service July 20, 1866; was Collector of Internal Reve- 

 nue, first for the 1st District of New Hampshire, and 

 then for the entire State, from April 29, 1869. till 

 April 29, 1882; and was appointed captain and as- 

 sistant quartermaster, Nov. 13, 1884. 



Zilliox, Jacob, clergyman, born in Newark, N. J., 

 Oct. 14, 1849 ; died there, Dec. 31, 1890. In 1862 he 

 became a novitiate of the Benedictine Order at St. 

 Vincent's College, Westmoreland, Pa. ; in 1868 went 

 to Europe to finish his education ; in 1869 attended 

 the (Ecumenical Council in Rome, and afterward 

 spent several years in the Jesuit University at Inns- 

 bruck, Austria, and at Regensburg, Bavaria. In 1872 

 he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic 

 Church, and, in recognition of his scholarly attain- 

 ments, the Pope granted a dispensation for him to re- 

 ceive the degree of D. D. a year earlier than is com- 

 mon in the Roman Church. Dr. Zilliox returned to 

 the United States in 1875, and held the chair of Theol- 

 ogy in St. Vincent's College till 1880, when he was 

 appointed friar. On Feb. 11, 1885, he was elected the 

 first abbot of St. Mary's Priory, in Newark, N. J., 

 bein then the youngest abbot in the world. Failing 

 health caused him to resign in 1886. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Sketches of a 

 few of the most eminent foreigners that died in 

 1890 may be found in their alphabetical places 

 in this volume, accompanied with portraits. 



Adler, Nathan Marcus, Chief Rabbi of the British Or- 

 thodox Jews, born in Hanover in 1803; died in Brigh- 

 ton, Jan. 21, 1890. He was the son of the Chief Rab- 

 bi of Hanover, a descendant of the priestly family of 

 Aaron. He studied at the universities of Gottingen, 

 Erlangen, and Wiirzburg, and was appointed Chief 

 Rabbi of Oldenburg in 1829, and in 1830 of Hanover. 

 In 1845 he was called to London as Chief Rabbi of the 

 United Congregations of the British Empire. The bit- 

 ter animosities awakened by the sentence of excommu- 

 nication pronounced by his predecessor against the 

 reforming Jews who had undertaken to remodel the 

 German ritual of the synagogue were appeased in a 

 great measure by his conciliatory ways, and though 

 he held firmly to' the traditional rite and the two bod- 

 ies remained apart, they worked together for charita- 

 ble and educational purposes, in which they were 

 joined by members of the older Portuguese and Span- 

 ish congregations, who were independent of the Chief 

 Rabbi's authority, which otherwise extended to all 

 parts of the British Empire and to other countries 

 where there were English-speaking Hebrews follow- 

 ing the German rite. His unbending adherence to 

 the Talmudical observances was repugnant to a large 

 section of the younger generation of Hebrews, though 

 no new schism arose. His chief literary work was 

 "Nethina Lage"!*," a commentary in Hebrew on the 

 Chaldaic version of the Pentateuch known as the 

 "Targum" of Onkelos. He wrote other books in 

 classical Hebrew, and published a volume of " Ser- 

 mons on the Jewish Faith." 



Albert!, Carl, a Danish politician, born in 1814 ; died 

 in the latter part of May, 1890. He entered politics 

 soon after terminating his legal studies in 1839, and 

 by his editorials in the " Kjobenhavns Posten" did 

 great service for the Liberal party. In 1849 he was 

 elected to the Folkething for the district of Soroe. 

 This seat he held till illness compelled him to resign 



in January, 1890. In his long parliamentary career 

 he was the most active member of the Opposition. 

 He was respected no less by his adversaries than by 

 his political associates, and as a lawyer he enjoyed 

 a high reputation and occupied important places of 

 trust", among them that of manager of the Danish 

 Farmers' Savings Bank, which began with a few 

 thousand kroner and has to-day 50,000,000. 



Anethan, Baron Jules d', a Belgian statesman, born 

 in 1804 ; died in Brussels in October, 1890. He en- 

 tered the civil service at the age of twei.ty, and in 1843 

 became Minister of Justice, exchanging this portfolio 

 for that of the Interior, and later for that of War, and 

 retiring in 1847. In 1849 he became a member of the 

 Senate, and in that body he played an important part 

 till the close of his career. He was one of the leaders 

 of the Clerical party, and in 1870 he formed a cabi- 

 net, in which he chose for himself the portfolio of 

 Foreign Affairs, the most important and difficult office 

 during the continuance of the war between France and 

 Germany. An unpopular appointment entailed the 

 defeat and resignation of his ministry at the close of 

 1871. He was chosen President of the Senate in 1884. 



Aube, Hyacinthe Laurent The'pphile, a French naval 

 officer, born Nov. 22, 1826 ; died in Paris, Dec. 30, 

 1880. He entered the French Naval Academy in 

 1840, and from the date of his first commission near- 

 ly the whole of his life was spent on the sea. He was 

 a post captain during the French war, and wa pres- 

 ent at all the engagements on the Loire. In 1880-' 81 

 he w.'is Governor of the colony of Martinique. In 



1887 Rear-Admiral Aube was given the portfolio of the 

 M. de Freycinet's Cabinet, and during his 



Marine in 



administration the policy of building heavily armored 

 battle ships was changea in accordance with his ideas, 

 and swift belted cruisers or commerce destroyers were 

 begun. He was a strong advocate of torpedo boats, 

 and to him the French navy is indebted for the new 

 class having a speed of 20 knots. 



Audouard, Olympe, a French author, born about 1830 : 

 died in Nice, Jan. 14, 1890. She was the divorced 

 wife of a notary of Marseilles, and became an agitator 

 for the emancipation of women. Essaying to pub- 

 lish a journal under the empire, she was prosecuted 

 by the* authorities, and an injunction was issued on 

 the ground that only a French citizen enjoying full 

 civil and political rights was authorized by law to 

 print a newspaper. She then arranged meetings for 

 the discussion of subjects relating to the health of 

 women under the presidency of Alexandre Dumas, 

 the younger. Madame Audouard traveled through 

 Egypt and Turkey and visited the community of the 

 Mormons, and published essays treating of the con- 

 ditions of women in those countries. In her later 

 years she was a conspicuous advocate of equal politi- 

 cal rights for women, and organized meetings for the 

 propagation of this idea. 



Auersperg, Prince Karl, an Austrian statesman, born 

 May 1, 1814; died Jan. 4, 1890. Succeeding early to 

 the great family estates of Wlaschin in Bohemia and 

 Gottschee in Carniola, arid lands besides in Moravia 

 and upper Austria, he devoted himself to their man- 

 agement and occupied himself little with politics, 

 beyond taking his stand among the higher Bohemian 

 aristocracy with the section that favored -Moderate 

 Liberal tendencies and siding with the families of 

 Clam and Windischgratz, and a branch of the Thuns 

 against Czech nationalistic ideas. In 1860 began his 

 political career, when Schinerling, in order to coun- 

 teractthe Czechish influence of Prince Karl Schwarzcn- 

 berg, had him proposed as President of the Bohemian 

 House of Nobles. He won over others to the new 

 system of centralism.^and in a short time stood at the 

 head of a party of Liberal Bohemian peers with Ger- 

 man sympathies in opposition to Auersperg's feudal- 

 istic Conservative Czech. The rivalry between the 

 two princely houses forms a part of the modern 

 history of Bohemia, and was important in its in- 

 fluence on the political development of the Austrian 

 Empire. His partisan zeal was no obstacle to his 

 presiding with fairness over the House of Lords from 



