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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



the Restoration, and was appointed lieutenant- 

 general and embassador to the Court of Russia. 

 On July 29, 1830, Charles X. recalled him to 

 Paris, and intrusted him with the formation of 

 a new ministry, but too late. When the duke 

 arrived in Paris the King had already been de- 

 posed. Under Louis Napoleon he took a seat 

 in the Senate. His title goes to his nephew. 



MFLLEE, NIKLAS, a German- American poet, 

 born in 1809; died August 14, 1875. In his 

 youth he was apprenticed to a printer, which 

 trade lie learned thoroughly. He made his 

 first appearance as a poet in 1825. In 1837 a 

 collection of his poems was published by Cotta. 

 He took part in the revolutionary movements 

 of 1848, was forced to flee to Switzerland, and 

 in 1853 went to New York, where he bought 

 a printing-office. During the war he published 

 "Zehn Sonnette," and in 1867 a volume of 

 poems, entitled " Neuere Gedichte." During 

 the German-French War he published a 

 number of patriotic poems, under the title of 

 "Frische Blatter auf die Wunden deutscher 

 Krieger." In 1874 he retired from the print- 

 ing business. He was preparing a complete 

 edition of his poems in 1875, but had not 

 finished it at the time of his death. 



MULZER, KARL, Freiherr VON, a German 

 lawyer, born at Wetzlar, in 1805 ; died Janua- 

 ry 23, 1875. In 1859 he was appointed Minis- 

 ter of Justice of Bavaria, and in 1864 Presi- 

 dent of the Court of Appeals of Lower Bavaria. 

 In consequence of a disease of the eyes he was 

 pensioned in 1867. 



NEUMANN, HERMANN, a German poet, born 

 November 12, 1808 ; died November 8, 1875. 

 His poems are chiefly epics. He wrote "Nur 

 Jehan," " Jiirgen Wullenweber," and "Dinon 

 thy." 



NEW, CHARLES, an English missionary, born 

 in 1841 ; died in the interior of Africa, in 1875. 

 He joined the mission of the United Methodist 

 Free Churches in 1862, and for nine years he 

 was the fellow-laborer of the Rev. Thomas 

 Wakefield, at Ribe. While in England, in 1872, 

 he joined, by special request, the Livingstone 

 Search Expedition. He spent two years in 

 England, awaking popular interest in the cause 

 of African missions. In March, 1874, he re- 

 turned to his work in East Africa. He had 

 penetrated into the interior as far as Chaga, 

 with the intention of selecting a suitable locali- 

 ty for commencing a new mission. He did not 

 succeed, however, and was compelled to return 

 to his missionary station at Ribe. But he died, 

 before reaching this place, in the neighborhood 

 of Duruma. 



NIPPERDEY, KARL, a German philologist; 

 died January 2, 1875, at about 50 years of age. 

 He was Professor of Classical Philology at the 

 University of Jena. His editions of ' ' Cornelius 

 Nepos," "Caesar," and "Tacitus," and his phi- 

 lological researches, attracted great attention. 



NOGGERATH, GUSTAV ADOLF, a German jour- 

 nalist, born in 1841 ; died December 11, 1875. 

 He was the son of the celebrated geologist, 



Johann Jacob Noggerath. At the time of his 

 death he was the editor of the Correspondenz- 

 llatt, a National Liberal paper. 



OATES, FRANK, a British explorer, born 

 April 6, 1840; died February 5, 1875. In 

 1873 he set out on an exploring expedition to 

 South Africa, remained some time in the Mate- 

 bele country, visited toward the close of 1874 

 the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, fell sick on 

 his return voyage, and died eighty miles north 

 of Tati, in the Makalaka country. 



OHMULLER, FRANZ JOSEPH, a German bot- 

 anist, born July 5, 1797; died January 1, 

 1875. He discovered a large number of new 

 plants, and executed a botanical map of Ba- 

 varia. 



OKROPIROVITOH, Prince PAUL, the grandson 

 of the last Prince of Georgia, George XIII ; 

 died February 24, 1875. 



OMALINO D'HALLOY, JEAN BAPTISTS JTJLIEN 

 D', a Belgian geologist and ethnologist, born 

 at Li6ge, February 16, 1783 ; died at Brussels, 

 January 15, 1875. From 1815 to 1830 he was 

 Governor of the province of Namur, was 

 elected a member of the Belgian Senate in 

 1848, and vice-president of that body in 1851. 

 In 1808 he published his first work, on the 

 geology of Northern France. His best-known 

 works are : " Elements de Geologie 2' (1831) ; 

 u Introduction & la Ge"ologie " (1833) ; " Pr6cis 

 elementaire de Geologie" (1843); " Abrege" de 

 Geologie" (1853); and "Des Races humaines 

 ou Elements d'Ethnographie " (1845). The 

 Memoirs of the Belgian Academy of Sciences, 

 of which he was repeatedly president, contain 

 a series of "Notes sur la Classification des 

 Races humaines," by him. 



PETERSEN, AUGUST, a German theologian, 

 born in 1809 ; died November 1, 1875. He is 

 best known by his work, " Die Idee der christ- 

 lichen Kirche." 



PFLEGER-MORANSKY, GUSTAVUS, the most 

 prominent Bohemian poet of modern times, 

 born in 1834; died September 21, 1875. 



PHILIP, JOHN BIRNIE, an English sculptor ; 

 died in March, 1875. Among his principal 

 works is the pedestal of the Albert Monument, 

 consisting of 87 figures in life size : of these 

 the figures representing Geology, Geometry, 

 Rhetoric, and Philosophy, are considered the 

 finest. He also made the shrines of the altar 

 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, the Crimean 

 Monument in Westminster, and eight of the 

 statues in the Royal Gallery of Parliament. 



PIDERIT, KARL WILHELM, a German educa- 

 tor, born in 1816; died May 29, 1875. He 

 had been Director of the Gymnasium of Ha^ 

 nau for twenty-two years, which institution 

 gained great popularity under his administra- 

 tion. His commentaries to "Cicero," and his 

 school edition of Cicero's orations, were re- 

 ceived with great favor. 



PLEYEL, MARIE, a celebrated pianist, born 

 in Paris of Belgian parents in 1811 ; died March 

 30, 1875. She studied with Moscheles and 

 Kalkbrenner, and in her sixteenth year ap- 



