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EUBEN, CHEISTOPH. 



EUSSIA. 



many General Committee. In 1828 he was 

 elected to the Common Council, and was re- 

 elected in 1830. At the close of his term, being 

 much exhausted, he temporarily retired from 

 professional life, and went upon a European 

 tour. While in Madrid he became engaged to 

 the daughter of General Van Ness, then 

 American minister to Spain. In 1831 he re- 

 turned and resumed the practice of law. Soon 

 afterward he was appointed Commissioner of 

 the Almshouse and other public charitable in- 

 stitutions of the city. In 1835 he was elected 

 to the Legislature, and again in 1840. In 

 1841 he was elected to Congress. He was one 

 of President Tyler's select committee. At the 

 close of his congressional term in 1843, he was 

 tendered a renomination, but declined. He 

 then took a second tour to Europe, where he 

 remained for a year, studying foreign law in 

 the courts of England, France, and Holland. 

 In 1851 he accepted the nomination for Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court in the New York 

 district, to which he was elected by a large 

 majority. He filled this responsible position 

 for eight years, and during one year occupied, 

 ex officio, a seat in the Court of Appeals. At 

 the close of his judicial career he was request- 

 ed by President Buchanan to accept the office 

 of United States Attorney for the Southern 

 District of New York, and at the close of 

 President Buchanan's Administration he re- 

 signed and retired to private life. 



EUBEN, CHEISTOPH, a German painter, born 

 in 1805 ; ; died July 8, 1875. He visited the 

 Art Academy of Dusseldorf, and went with 

 Cornelius to Munich. In 1841 he was ap- 

 pointed a teacher in the Academy of Prague, 

 and in 1852 director of the Academy of Vien- 

 na, which position he retained up to his death. 

 Among his best works is " Columbus discover- 

 ing the New World. 1 ' He also used the subjects 

 of German tales for his paintings. The paintings 

 in the Belvedere, in Prague, representing vari- 

 ous scenes from Bohemian history, were also 

 among his best works. 



EUCKEET, HEINEICH, a German historian, 

 eldest son of the celebrated poet Friedrich 

 Eiickert, born February 14, 1823 ; died Sep- 

 tember 11, 1875. He studied history and phi- 

 lology in Erlangen, Bonn, and Berlin, was ap- 

 pointed Privatdocent in the University of Jena 

 in 1845, and Professor of German Archaeology 

 in the University of Breslau, in which position 

 he remained up to his death. He wrote: 

 " Annalen der deutschenGeschichte " (3 vols., 

 1850 ; revised edition, 1861) ; " Geschichte des 

 Mittelalters " (1852) ; " Deutsche Literaturge- 

 schichte in der Zeit des Ueberganges aus dem 

 Heidenthum in das Christenthum " (2 vols., 

 1853-'54) ; " Leben des heiligen Ludwig, Land- 

 grafen von Thiiringen" (1850); "DerWelsche 

 Gast" (1851); u Marienleben des Bruders 

 Philip vom Kartauserorden " (1853) ; "Lohen- 

 grin "(1857). 



> EUSSIA (Empire of all the Eussias), an em- 

 pire in Europe and Asia. Emperor, Alexan- 



der II., born April 17 (April 29, new style), 

 1818 ; succeeded his father, February 18 

 (March 2), 1855 ; crowned at Moscow, August 

 26 (September 7), 1856. Son of the Emperor : 

 Heir-apparent, Grand-duke Alexander, born 

 February 26 (March 10), 1845; married No- 

 vember 4, 1866, to Maria Dagmar (born No- 

 vember 26, 1847), daughter of King Christian 

 IX., of Denmark. (Offspring of the union are 

 two sons: Nicholas, born May 6, 1868; and 

 George, born April 28, 1871.) 



The area and population of the great divis- 

 ions of the Eussian Empire were, according to 

 the latest dates, as follows : 



