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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (GAYARRE HERGENROTHER.) 



royal orchestra devoted himself to composition. 

 With his overture called " Beminiscences of Ossian" 

 in 1841 he obtained a prize. He received a purse from 

 the King, spent the winter of 1843 with Mendelssohn 

 in Leipsic, and took the latter's place as conductor of 

 the orchestral concerts in the following year. Ee- 

 turning to Copenhagen in 1848, he became director of 

 the Musical Union. From 1865 till his death he was 

 first director of the Koyal Conservatoire. Gade's 

 musical compositions are numerous. 



Gayarre, Julian, a Spanish singer, born in Navarre 

 in 1850; died in Madrid, Jan. 2, 1890. He was a 

 laborer's son, and was apprenticed to a locksmith in 

 Pamplona, when his voice attracted^ the interest of 

 Prof. Eslava, who took him to Madrid. He became 

 first a comic singer, went on the operatic stage when 

 he acquired facility in his art, became a favorite in 

 Spain, and first attracted general notice in Europe 

 when he sang in St. Petersburg. In Vienna, Eome, 

 an-1 Milan he was hailed as one of the greatest tenors 

 of the time. By many ho was regarded as the true 

 successor of Mario. His dramatic talents were not of 

 an equal order, yet he carried his parts well on the 

 He had true musical sensibilities, and was able 



to interpret Wagner as well as Meyerbeer and Verdi. 

 In Spam his death was universally deplored, but 

 most of all by the peasants of his native village whom 

 he had made happy by his munificence. 



Gelele, King of Dahomey, died about Jan. 1, 1890. 

 He kept his country in a state of benighted barbarism 

 and observed the old customs, including wholesale 

 human sacrifices, notwithstanding his early educa- 

 tion in France, where, in a school in Marseilles, he 

 exhibited considerable intelligence and acquired the 

 outer polish of refined manners. He was a conqueror 

 who extended greatly the bounds of his empire. Pro- 

 tected by the marshy nature of the coast, he victori- 

 ously resisted the English expedition of -1852 and the 

 French invasions of 1877 and 1883. Until 1863 he 

 obtained a large revenue by selling slaves to traders 

 from Brazil and other parts of America, and after the 

 suppression of the traffic he increased the number of 

 human sacrifices. His kingdom was ably adminis- 

 tered and was one of the safest parts of Africa for for- 

 eigners to trade or live in. 



Georg, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, bora Nov. 

 23, 1838 ; died Jan. 19, 1890. His family is the young- 

 er branch of the house of Schwarzburg, which is de- 

 scended from Johann Giinthcr, who flourished in the 

 first half of the seventeenth century. Prince Georg 

 succeeded his father on Nov. 23, 1869, as ruler of the 



{>rincipality, one of the smallest of the German states. 

 Us own successor is his cousin, Prince Gunthcr, born 

 Aug. 21, 1852. Prince Georg had the rank of a gen- 

 eral of cavalry in the Prussian army. 



Gontaut-Biron, Viscomte, a French diplomatist, born 

 in Paris, Nov. 9, 1817; died June 4, 1890. He was 

 descended from an old feudal family. Without ever 

 having taken part in politics before, on Eepublican 

 professions he was elected a Deputy in February, 1871. 

 Nevertheless he voted with the Monarchical Eight. 

 In December, 1871, he was appointed minister at 

 Berlin, where he negotiated for the early evacuation 

 of French territory. On March 13, 1873, he was 

 made Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. 

 While still holding his diplomatic post, he was elect- 

 ed Senator for the Basses-Pyrenees in January. 1876. 

 On Jan. 31, 1878, he was succeeded at Berlin by the 

 Count de Saint- Vallier. Ecturning to France, he took 

 hip seat in the Senate on the Eight. 



Gresley, Henri X,, a French soldier, born at Vassy in 

 the Haute-Marne. Feb. 19, 1819; died in Paris, May 2, 

 1890. He entered the Eeole Polytechnique in 1838, 

 passed through the subordinate grades in the army, 

 and at the beginning of the Franco-German War was 

 a colonel. He was attached to the army of Chalons 

 received the stars of a brigadier on Aug. 12, 1870, and 

 on May 3, 1875 was promoted to the rank of a general 

 of division. On Jan. 13, 1879, Gen. Gresley was 

 called into the Cabinet to replace Gen. Corel as Min- 

 ister of War. He kept the portfolio till Dec. 28 of the 



same year. On May 27 he had been elected a Senator 

 for life. He was decorated with the grand cross of the 

 Legion of Honor on Feb. 3, 1980. 



Gull, Sir "William, ah English physician, born at 

 Thorpe-de-Soken, Essex, in December, 1816; died in 

 London, Jan. 29, 1890. He was the son of a boatman, 

 was educated at Christ's Hospital, taught for a time, 

 studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, was graduated 

 in 1841, and remained in the hospital as a tutor and 

 medical attendant. He was made lecturer on natural 

 philosophy in 1843, and on physiology and compara- 

 tive anatomy in 1846. In 1847 he became Professor 

 of Physiology at the Eoyal Institution, and in 1848 

 lectured on paralysis before the Eoyal College of 

 Physicians. He was appointed assistant, physician, 

 and consulting physician in course at Guy's Hospital. 

 From 1856 till 1867 he was lecturer on medicine. 

 For his care of the Prince of Wales during an attack 

 of typhoid fever in 1871 he was made a baronet and 

 physician extraordinary to the Queen. In 1887 he 

 was appointed her physician in ordinary, but soon 

 afterward received a stroke of paralysis, and has 

 not since been able to practice. He made, with Dr. 

 Baly, a report on cholera to the Eoyal College of 

 Physicians and was the first to describe the disease 

 since called myxoedema. 



Hammond, Edmund, Lord, an English official, born in 

 London in 1802 ; died there, April 29, Ib90. He was 

 educated at Eton, Harrow, and University College, 

 Oxford, of which he became a fellow after taking his 

 baccalaureate degree in 1823. Entering the civil serv- 

 ice as a clerk in the office of the Privy Council after 

 leaving the university, he was transferred in 1824 to 

 the Foreign Office, in which he advanced gradually 

 to the important post of Under-Secretary of State, 

 which he held from April, 1854, till 1873, when he 

 was retired on a pension. In 1866 he was sworn a 

 member of the Privy Council. He was raised to the 

 peerage in 1874 as Baron Hammond of Kirk Ella. 



Hanoteau, Hector, a French painter, bom in the 

 Nievre in 1823 ; died in Briey, April 9, 1890. He was 

 a pupil_of Gigoux. His pictures appeared at the Salon 

 for thirty-five years, and several times obtained 

 medals. Two were purchased for the Luxemburg 

 Museum. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of 

 Honor in 1870. Hanoteau, without being a great or 

 "an original artist, was a landscape painter of merit, a 

 sincere observer of nature, and thoroughly conscien- 

 tious in the treatment of his subjects. 



Hausner, Otto, an Austrian politician, born in Brody, 

 in 1827 ; died in Vienna, Feb. 26, 1890. He studied 

 medicine and other branches in Lemberg, Vienna, 

 and Berlin, and subsequently agricultural science at 

 Hohenheim, and settled in Galicia as a scientific farmer 

 on a large scale. He became known as a writer on 

 various subjects, but took no part in politics before 

 1870, when' he entered the district council. In 1873 

 he took his seat in the Galician Diet, and in 1878 was 

 sent to the Austrian Eeichsrath. On Nov. 4, 1878, he 

 achieved a reputation as an orator by his speech 

 against the occupation of Bosnia, and for many years 

 he was one of the most prominent members of the 

 House of Deputies. To the last he was a chairman 

 of the budget committee. In recent years he had 

 acted with the Eight entirely, and was the leader of 

 the Polish group. 



Hergenrotner, Josef, a Bavarian prelate, born in Wurz- 

 burg, Sept. 15, 1822; died in Eome, Oct. 12, 1890. 

 He studied theology in Wiirzburg, Munich, and Eome, 

 and was appointed Professor of Ecclesiastical History 

 and Canon Law at Wiirzburg in 1852, having in the 

 previous year published in Latin a volume on the 

 origin of the Catholic Church to refute Protestant 

 views. In 1860 lie won the admiration and gratitude 

 of Catholics by his work on the Papal state from the 

 time of the French revolution. The charge that the 

 Popes were responsible for the Greek schism he at- 

 tempted to rebut in a treatise on Greek documents 

 relating to Photius and his history, published in 1869, 

 and seven years later he published in German a his- 

 torical biography of the Patriarch Photius of Con- 



