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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Vitebsk, in 1813, received some elementary 

 training in the Gymnasium, and at the age of 

 thirteen became an assistant in his father's 

 employ for five years, during a portion of 

 which he was one of the writers in a Govern- 

 ment office. In 1830 he received a post in the 

 civil service at St. Petersburg, which he soon 

 contrived to exchange for an appointment in 

 the Imperial Public Library. So vigorously 

 had he set to work in the mean time to edu- 

 cate himself, that before long he acquired such 

 knowledge as enabled him to render no slight 

 service to the institution. Under the auspices 

 of Baron (now Count) Korff, he founded the 

 section of "Books about Russia in Foreign 

 Languages." He also introduced the arrange- 

 ment by which the library was rendered fire- 

 proof. As a writer he was known by his 

 " Review of the Principal Libraries in Europe 

 at the Commencement of the Year 1859," pub- 

 lished in French as well as in Russian, by two 

 books on the warming and preserving of build- 

 ings, and by a number of essays and articles 

 on architecture and similar subjects. 



Oct. . DAHL, VLADIMIR IVANOVITCH, a 

 Russian author and lexicographer ; died in 

 Moscow. He was born at St. Petersburg, edu- 

 cated at the Cadet Institute there, and served 

 on board the Black Sea fleet. At a later peri- 

 od he held a commission in the Russian army, 

 and served in the Polish campaign of 1831. 

 Having studied medicine at Dorpat, he filled a 

 medical post in one of the Government hos- 

 pitals at St. Petersburg, and finally obtained 

 an appointment in the civil service. But it 

 was as a student of its popular literature that 

 he made himself most useful to Russia. So 

 diligent was he as a collector of Russian folk- 

 lore that he was in possession of above 4,000 

 popular tales, besides more than 30,000 prov- 

 erbs. The latter he published in a separate 

 volume, the former he liberally communicated 

 to other scholars, and many of them now en- 

 rich the great collection edited by Afanasief. 

 As an author he gained a considerable reputa- 

 tion by various works, such as the stories he 

 published under the pseudonym of the " Cos- 

 sack Lugftnsky." But his great work that 

 which will render his name truly immortal 

 is the invaluable "Dictionary of the Living 

 Russian Tongue," in four large volumes, which 

 was completed in 1866. To this he devoted a 

 large part of his lifetime, and it is sufficient to 

 say that, for the study of the popular litera- 

 ture of Russia it is an absolute necessity. For 

 some time previous to his death he suffered 

 much from illness, but his love of study was 

 strong to the end. 



Oct. . FINZI, FELICE, a gifted Italian lin- 

 guist ; died at Florence, aged 25 years. "With 

 Prof. Mantegazza, he founded the Archivio di 

 Etnologia e di Antropologia, and was one of 

 the promoters of the Societd Orientale, of 

 Italy. 



Oct. . GIUDICI, PAOLO EMILIANI, a popu- 

 lar Italian author; died in England, aged 60 



years. He was born at Masomelli, Sicily, 

 June 13, 1812, was a professor at Pisa from 

 1849 to 1852, and in 1859 was appointed to 

 the chair of ^Esthetics at the Royal Academy 

 of Fine Arts at Florence, and secretary of the 

 Academy. In 1862 he resigned his professor- 

 ship, in order that he might devote himself 

 more particularly to literary pursuits. Ir 

 1867 he was elected a Deputy in the Italu 

 Parliament. Signer Giudici was the authc 

 of a "History of Italian Literature" (1844): 

 " History of the Italian Communes " (1853- 

 '54); "History of the Italian Stage " (I860) 

 and a translation of " Macaulay's History of 

 England." 



Oct. . GONZALES, GEEGOEIO GUTIEEEEZ, 

 Hispano- American poet of Colombia; di 

 there. His reputation as a writer was hij 

 and he was called the Byron of that countr 



Oct. . HIGHGASON, WILLIAM, an Engli 

 centenarian ; died in London, aged 107 yet 



Oct. . LIGIEE, PIEEEE, a famous Frencl 

 tragedian, born in Bordeaux, in 1797; died in 

 Paris, aged 75 years. He was of very humble 

 family, and served his apprenticeship to a 

 glass-blower in Bordeaux, but, becoming en- 

 amoured of the stage, he attempted secondary 

 parts at the theatre of his native city, and 

 carefully saving his little earnings went <o 

 Paris in 1819 and made his debut at the Thea- 

 tre Francais under the auspices of Talma. 

 From this theatre he went in 1825 to the 

 Odeon, and some time after to the Porte St.- 

 Martin. The parts in which he obtained his 

 greatest successes were the Doge in " Marino 

 Faliero," Gloucester in "Les Enfants d'Edou- 

 ard," and Louis XL He also played Fred- 

 erick de Hohenstaufen in " The Burgraves," 

 and Triboulet in "Le Roi s' Amuse." His last 

 successes in Paris were Richard 777., in 1852 

 -'54, and Tartuffe, in 1854-'56. He acted in 

 the provinces and in Italy, with great success, 

 after he was sixty years of age, and did not 

 retire from the stage till 1863. He was most 

 popular in those parts where terror was to be 

 excited by the sternness of his manner, and 

 the grimness of his visage. 



Oct. . TADOLINI, GIOVANNI, an Italian 

 musical composer; died in Bologna, aged 80 

 years. He was born in that city, in 1793. He 

 commenced the study of music at an early age 

 under Mattei and Babini. At the age of six- 

 teen he went to Paris, where he was a musi- 

 cian under Spontini at the Italian Theatre 

 from 1811 to 1814. His first opera was "La 

 Fata Alcina," written for Rubini and other 

 performers, which was received with enthusi- 

 asm. He afterward wrote many operas, which 

 were generally successful, for the theatres of 

 Venice, Bologna, Rome, Milan, and Trieste. 

 The most noted of these were : " The Princess 

 of Navarre," "The Credulous Duke," "Tam- 

 erlane," "Moctar," " Mithridates," 'Alman- 

 zor," etc. From none of them, however, did 

 he succeed in acquiring a fortune, and from 

 1830 to 1845 he resumed his old employment 



