MOITTE. JKAM OUILLAUMK. 



MOLft, COSITE DK 



of 1651 he delivered a erie* of lecture. On the Poetical 

 of the Past Century,' at the Edinburgh Philosophical lasti- 

 In the aune year. 'Selim,' hi* kat contnbution to 'Bleak- 

 tared, and on the 0th of July be died. Hi* 

 unabated during hi* whole life. He bad. 

 ." | syiag sedulous and bent volent attention to hi* patient*, filled 

 varvxu monMnal ones*, and had been a member of the Gruenl 

 AneniMj II is contribution* to 'Blackwood' aloo* number 870. 

 Hi. errioa* poetry, by whioh he will be chiefly remembered, i* *weetly 

 i and tender, without any remarkable original poetic power, but it 

 rm in iu natural imatery and iu appeals to our feeling* 

 . tail to plea**. In 1852 hi* 'Poetical Works,' which, 

 however, are only a asleotica, were published, with a memoir of hi* 

 life, by T. Aird. 



MOITTE, JEAN GUI LLAUMB, Chevalier, the ton of the engraver 

 P. E. Moitte, wa* a distinguished French sculptor, and w> born at 

 Faria, in 1747. He wa* fint the pupil of Pigal, after whose death he 

 studied under Lemoyne. In 1768 be obtained tho srand prize in 

 sculpture for a etatae of David carrying the head of Goliath, and he 

 went, a* entitled in consequence, to complete his stodie* at the French 

 Academy at Kerne ; the Roman climate however proved quite unfit 

 for hi* coostitotion, and he was forced to return to Paris, where he 

 died in 1810. 



Moitto ha* executed many excellent bas-reliefs and figures, and some 

 quest risn statue* ; but he left many models, and among them his 

 ptnsoipal work*, unfinished at his death, a* the great baai rilievi for the 

 Tfffrnr* of Boulogne, and the equestrian statue of Ueuenl d'Hautpoul, 

 a model in plaster, made for the French government Moitto was a 

 member of the old French Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and 

 afterward* of the Institute of France, and a Chevalier of the Legion 



The following are some of hi* principal work* : A marble statue 

 of Catsinr ; another of General Cusline* ; a bsso-rilievo for the tomb 

 of General Leclrrc in the Pantheon ; a Vestal sprinkling the holy 

 water; Ariadne; a sacrificer : the large bsaao-rilicvo of the front of 

 the Pantheon, representing the Father-land, or La Patrio, crowning 

 civic and miliury virtues, which wss removed after the Restoration ; 

 a basso rilievo in the court of the Louvre, representing History in- 

 scribing 1'Au VI. and the name of Napoleon with bis French title of 

 L* Grand; other lassi-rilievi for the barriers of Paris, and the ChAteau 

 d* Tile Adam, and the colossal figure* of Uretague and Normaudie at 

 the barrier de* Bon* Homme* ; an equestrian statue of Napoleon 1. ; 

 and in* bavo rilievo of the warrior devoting himself to his country, or 

 France surrounded by virtue* and calling her son* to her defence, now 

 in the gallery of the Luxembourg: it wa* ordered in 1798 for the 

 vestibule of Uie Luxembourg facing the garden. / 



(Gabet, Viavaauun det Anklet de CEcolt Fnuifaue, Ac.) 



M01VUK. A. DE. (DEMOIVBE, A.] 



IIOLA. There are two artiaU of this nm-, who were contem- 

 poraries, and both studied for a time under Albar.o. Of these, the 

 ore celebrattd one, Pint* HAM. rsoo MOLA, wa* born at Coldre, in 

 the Milanese territory, in 1621, sccording to Pascoli, or at Lugano, in 

 1012, accordirg to Pssseri; and after receiving his fint instructions 

 in art from hi* fatter, who wa* both a painter and architect, he 

 studied successively under Giuseppino, Albano. and Guercino. Ho 

 attained to great excellence both in design and colouring ; and though 

 his chief merit Isy in Iscc'scapr, to which be principally applied hiirr. If, 

 he also painted history occasionally, and with much ability. Ilia 

 talent* obtained fur him the patronage of prince* snd noblts, and 

 aaong otben of Christina of Sweden. His reputation at length 

 caused him to le invited to Franco, and he wa* making preparation* 

 for prooteding thither at the lime of bis death, which happened at 

 Borne in 1000 (Pascoli), or 1068 (Paweri). 



CIAMATTIBT.A MOLA, who wa* not at all related to the preceding, 

 but ' said to have been of Fnnch extraction, wa* born in 162<>. 1 1.- 

 studied Brat at Psris under Vouet, snd fterwarda under Albauo at 

 Bologna. Like hi* namesake Pierfnncesco, Gianb*ttista was an 

 excellent Undacspe-peinUr. snd well (killed also in penpvctive, 

 though in other respects hi* inferior. On* of hi* most celebrated 

 wet k* i* a ' Itepose in Egypt,' in the liinuccini collection st Florence. 

 He dkd in 1001. 



MOLBECH, nil:l>TIAN. sn eminent Danish writer on biblio- 

 graphy, liUnry biography and history, philology, critichm, and other 

 abject*, wa* born at Stroe on the cth of October 17M1. Hi* father, 

 Joban Ihrietian Moll*cb, also an author, wa* by birth a Norwegian, 

 and bald the poet of professor of pl.iksor hy sod mathematics at the 

 celebrated academy of Soro* from 17b7 to 1822. The son wa* 

 mtended (or the sea, snd would have gone on a voyage to India in 

 1790, tut for an illness which kept him at home, and gave occasion 

 to an entire ch*ng* in hi* | ur.mu. He entered the univenity of 

 Cocenlagsn and sUdicd for the law, in whioh b* passed a creditable 

 examination, bat he was drstictd t<> b* neither esamsn nor a lawyer. 

 In 1604 be wa* admitted as a "tolunteer" to aaaiit in the royal 

 library at Copenhagen and be U now (in 1867), by gradual advance, 

 th* second officer In that establishment. 



Hr* sitrvity dum g a literary career of now more than half a 

 century ba* been 10 i nn,(. in.itu.l, that the list of his winks and of 

 th* review >o I tbm in Erlw For fatter !:.. i,.' whioh however 



include, article. In periodical*, ooeupiea nearly twelve clotcly printed 

 pagra, Thee* prodncUona, a* ha* been mentioned, are of very variou. 

 character. Among the moat prominent are 'Breve fra Sverrige ' 

 (Letter* from Sweden'), 3 vole, 1814-17, giving an inter, Ming, but omo- 

 what diffiuc account of a vuit to Sweden in 1812, and ' Kewe giennem 

 en Deal af Tydakland,' fte. (' Travel* through a portion of Grrmauy, 

 France, England, and Italy '), 8 vol.. 1821-22, in which he narrate* a 

 journey of >ouie month, in 1819 and 1820, which ho wa* enabled to 

 undertake by the liberality of the Daniih government, with the view 

 among other thing., of itudying the condition and arrangement* of 

 public libraries. With Kn^land in general he wa* much pleaned, aud 

 with Italy he wa* delighted, and then were the two oountrie* he mo.t 

 wished to revi.it. Sonic of hi* other work* bear on the subject of 

 librarie*, in particular a treati** ' On Public Libraries,' iaiued in 1829, 

 and a life of Uoldenbawer, once librarian of the royal library at 

 Copenhagen, in which there i* an intere*ting delineation of enlightened 

 activity in a field of literary exertion to which little attention ha* 

 Wen Riven in England. 



Ui'l'uech vraa early engaged as one of the compiler* of the great 

 Dictionary of the DanUh language iuued under the euperiutendenco 

 of the Copenhagen Academy of Science*, the fint volume of which 

 was istued in 179S, while the lait portion that has appeared of it, 

 'part of the seventh volume, published in 1853, bring* it no farther 

 than the letUr T. HU name appear, a* one of the editor, to the 

 lixth volume, which comprises the letter 8 only, nml took nineteen 

 yean in preparing. It U a singular illustration of the duTen-ncu 

 between the progress made by individual, and by committee, that iu 

 i33 he published in two volume* a complete Dictionary of the Danish 

 language, compiled by himself, which i. recognised as the bet now 

 existing, and of which a second edition i* at present (1857) issuing 

 from the press. A Danish ' Dialect Lexicon ' (Copenhagen, 18il), in 

 perhaps a still more valuable contribution to philology, 03 bringing 

 together for the fint time a mass of materials of great interest to tho 

 inquirer not only into the Scandinavian, but our own and the other 

 languages of the Germanic stock. A collection of Danish proverbs, 

 provertial phrases, aud mottoes (' Danske Ordsprog, Taukesprog, og 

 Itiiuisprog,' Copenhagen, 1839), forms a sort of supplement to these 

 works. Jlolbech has also superintended the publication of various 

 monument* of the ancient Danish language the oldest translation of 

 the Bible, several rhymed chronicles, and an old medical work of 

 the 13th century by lienrik Harpestreng; and he has taken up a 

 somewhat novel position among philologists by pointing out the sup - 

 liority of the modern Danuh to the old Icelandic, from which it 

 spring*, in the greater variety of style of which it admits a point of 

 comparison which many writers on the advantages of the earlier 

 phases of modern languages seem to have utterly overlooked. A 

 new edition of Holberg's comedies by Molbech, and biographies of 

 Ewald and Schack-Staueldt, as well as a series of lives of Danish 

 poet* prefixed to his selections in a 'Dansk Poetiek Anthologie,' evince 

 his interest in the more modern clasucal literature of his country. 

 Perhaps the short biographies, which are remarkably well done, are 

 of all the productions of Molbech's pen the most felicitous. In 

 I.'anish history, his 'Forteolliuger og Skildriuger' ('Tales and Sketches'), 

 in the manner of Scott's ' Tales of a Grandfather,' have enjoyed an 

 extensive popularity; and he has edited the 'Diary of Bishop Birche- 

 rod/aud, iu conjunction with Petersen, a selection of ancient Dauish 

 document* and letters. A collection of his miscellaneous smaller 

 writings, 'Elandede Smaaskrifter,' was published in two volumes, 

 between 1834 and 1836. He edited a monthly periodical entitled 

 'Athene,' in nine volumes, between 1810 aud 1817; aud also the 

 ' Mount d*k rift for Littoratur,' a monthly literary review, in twenty 

 volume*, from 1830 to 1838, which are two of the most valuable 

 works of the kind in Danish literature. The ' Nordisk Tidskrift for 

 Historic ' (4 vols., 1827-36), was also edited by him ; and the ' Histo- 

 risk Tidtkrift,' or Historical Magazine, issued by the Danish Historical 

 Association, which was commenced in 1840, and still continues, is 

 under his lupcrintendcnco. He has be< n urging the same society to 

 undertake a great biographical dictionary of Danes, a work of which 

 there is much need, and which would be a valuable contribution to 

 the literature of Europe. Molbcch is a member of tho Danish 

 Academy of Sconces, of the fint hundred yean of which he has 

 published a history, a knight of the order of Dannebrog, and a 

 member of numerous foreign learned societies, among other*, of the 

 Antiquarian and Philological of London. His sou, Christian Knud 

 Kredrik Molbtcb, born iu 1821, also attached to the Royal Library at 

 Copenbngtn, is the author of some poem., sud of a volume of travel* 

 entitled ' En alusned i Spauicn ' ('A Mouth in Spain '). 



MULE, COMTK 111'., was born iu 1781, and wa* descended from an 

 illustrious family in France. He wa* tho ion of the Prwidtnt Mold, 

 who fell a victim to the violence of the first French Involution. 

 Enough pro|>erty however appears to have been taved from the 

 wreck of hi* family fortune* to enable tho father to send his sou to 

 the Central school of Public Works, afterwards called the Polytech- 

 ni'Hi". where he purnued his studies with indu-try and vigour. In 

 IMjii he piitilirluil ' KMain de Monle <t do Politique* which attracted \ 

 the attention of the Emperor N.polton I., and secured for him the 

 post of auditor of the Council of State. These Essays, a* may be sup- 

 posed, v> no of a highly altolutut cut; sud though their author 



