BEUST, COUNT VOX. 



building up the Eeformed Church than any 

 other minister of that denomination. He was 

 a very diligent student, and, retaining all the 

 knowledge he had such a facility for acquiring, 

 his attainments were vast and encyclopaedic in 

 their character. He had a very high reputa- 

 tion as a controversialist, though he shrank 

 from controversy. When George Barker, the 

 noted infidel debater and orator, challenged 

 the clergy of Philadelphia to discuss with him 

 the inspiration and authenticity of the Script- 

 ures, having already defeated two clergymen 

 in public debate, Dr. Berg was requested by 

 the other clergymen of the city to accept the 

 challenge. He was reluctant to do this, but 

 finally consented, and, in the discussion which 

 followed, so completely defeated Barker that 

 he yielded up the contest, and was, as a result 

 of Dr. Berg's cogent reasoning, shortly after, 

 converted, and became an active advocate of 

 the faith he had so long labored to destroy. 

 Dr. Berg also held some discussions on Roman- 

 ism, and wrote much on that subject. The 

 following is a list of his published works : 

 "Lectures on Eomanism," 1840; "Synopsis 

 of the Theology of Peter Dens," translated 

 from the Latin, with notes, 1840; "Papal 

 Rome," 1841; Anonymous Pamphlets: "A 

 Voice from Rome," " Roman Policy toward 

 the Bible," "The Pope and the Presbyte- 

 rians," 1844; "History of the Holy Robe of 

 Treves," " Oral Controversy with a Catholic 

 Priest," 1843 ; " Old Paths ; or, A Sketch of the 

 Order and Discipline of the Reformed Church 

 before the Reformation," 1845 ; " Plea for the 

 Divine Law against Murder," 1846; "Myste- 

 ries of the Inquisition," translated from the 

 French, 1846; " Reply to Archbishop Hughes 

 on the Doctrines of Protestantism," 1850; 

 " Expos6 of the Jesuits; " "The Inquisition; " 

 " Church and State; or, Romish Influence," a 

 Prize Essay; "Farewell Words to the German 

 Reformed Church," and a vindication of the 

 same in reply to J. W. Kevin, 1852; "Proph- 

 ecy and the Times," 1856; "The Stone and 

 the Image," 1856; "Demons and Guardian 

 Angels," 1856 ; " The Olive Branch ; or, White 

 Oak Farm," a Novel, 185T ; and Translations 

 of Van Horn's German Tales. 



BEUST, FRIEDBICIT FERDINAND, Count von 

 Beust, late Chancellor of the Austrian Empire, 

 was born in Dresden, on January 13, 1809. 

 He studied at the Universities of Gottingen 

 and Leipsic, and passed the examination of 

 the law faculty at the latter university in 1829. 

 In 1832 he became assessor in the Land-direc- 

 tion of the time, and was also employed in the 

 Foreign Office. In 1836 he went to Berlin as 

 secretary of legation, and in 1838 to Paris in 

 the same capacity. Toward the end of 1841 

 he went as charge, ^affaires to Munich, where 

 he married the daughter of the deceased Ba- 

 varian Royal Lieutenant-General von Jordan. 

 From 1846 to 1848 he served as minister resi- 

 dent to London. In May, 1848, he went as 

 envoy to Berlin. On the 24th of February, 



1849, he undertook the administration of for- 

 eign affairs in the Held ministry, which was 

 formed after the retirement of the Braun 

 ministry. Upon the breaking out of the in- 

 surrection at Dresden, he appealed to Prussia 

 for help on the 3d of May, having first per- 

 suaded the King to flee to Koenigstein, and 

 accompanied him there. In the Zschinski 

 ministry, which was formed after the over- 

 throw of this insurrection, he took the de- 

 partments of Foreign Affairs and of Religion. 

 Although Saxony was a party to the so-called 

 league of the three Kings, Von Beust refused 

 to attend the Union Parliament at Erfurt. 

 For this, and also because he had entered 

 into an agreement with Austria for the res- 

 toration of the old Diet of the Confedera- 

 tion, he was sharply assailed in both Chambers 

 of the new Landtag which met at the close 

 of 1849. When, in consequence of this, the 

 dissolution of tbe Landtag, and the calling to- 

 gether again of the old orders which had been 

 abolished in 1848, were decreed, and stringent 

 regulations were imposed upon the press and 

 the right of assembly, Von Beust was re- 

 garded as the author of these measures, as 

 well as of the whole reactionary policy, 

 which was manifested in various ways. Von 

 Beust succeeded the Minister President Zschin- 

 ski on his death. When the London Confer- 

 ence for the settlement of the Schleswig- 

 Holstein difficulty was held in 1864, Von 

 Beust was intrusted with the duty of repre- 

 senting the German Confederation as a whole. 

 He gained a remarkable popularity by his 

 bearing at the conference, particularly by 

 his consistent and steadfast defence of the 

 national principle, his vindication of the 

 spontaneity of the action of the people of 

 Schleswig-Holstein, and his pronounced op- 

 position to any arbitrary division of Schles- 

 wig. Upon the conclusion of the war of 1866 

 between Prussia and Austria by the Peace of 

 Prague, Von Beust was dismissed as Saxon 

 minister. He was invited by the Emperor 

 Francis Joseph of Austria to the office of 

 minister of Foreign Affairs of that empire. 

 He accepted, and was shortly afterward named 

 Minister of the Imperial House. He made his 

 influence manifest with remarkable quickness 

 and force. Austria, which had been regarded as 

 on the verge of internal dissolution and finan- 

 cial ruin, was reorganized, one might well 

 say regenerated, under his direction. The 

 arrangement with Hungary was made, by 

 which the constitutional, political, and ad- 

 ministrative independence of that kingdom 

 was recognized, and a dualism was established 

 instead of the former centralization. The 

 erection of a separate ministry for the part 

 of the kingdom this side of the Leitha was a 

 necessary consequence of this arrangement. 

 The common affairs of the united monarchy 

 were referred to delegations or committees of 

 the two Reichstags of Pesth and Vienna. In 

 order to give the assurance of their autonomy. 



