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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN". 



GAPE, JOSEPH, a British admiral, born in 

 1793 ; died March 20, 1876. He entered the 

 navy in 1803, and took part in the battle of 

 Trafalgar. 



GELDAET, Rev. JAMES WILLIAM, LL. D., an 

 English scholar, born 1785 ; died February 

 16, 1876. He had been Regius Professor of 

 Civil Law in Cambridge University from 1813 

 to 1847. 



GEORGE, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, born 

 January 11, 1824 ; died June 20, 1876. He was 

 a brother of the ruling grand-duke, and was 

 a general of artillery and adjutant-general of 

 the Russian army. 



GHILLANY, FEANZ, a German scholar, born 

 in 1806; died June 26, 1876. He was the 

 author of a number of historical works, among 

 them "Geschichte des Seefahrers Martin Be- 

 haim " (1853) ; " Europiiische Chronik von 

 1492 bis in die neueste Zeit; " and "Niirnberg 

 historisch und topographisch, nach den altesten 

 vorhandenen Quellen und Urkunden" (1871). 

 He was also the author of "Das Glaubensbe- 

 kenntniss der denkenden Christen " (1847), 

 which appeared under the nom de plume of 

 Leonegg. 



GIBBONS, Sir SILLS JOHN, Bart., born in 

 1809 ; died January 11, 1876. He was a com- 

 missioner of lieutenancy for London, had been 

 Lord-Mayor of London 1871 to 1872, and was 

 created a baronet in 1872. 



GINZEL, JOSEPH AUGUST, an Austrian church 

 historian, born in 1804; died June 1, 1876. He 

 studied in Pilsen, Leitmeritz, and Vienna; be- 

 came Professor of Ethics at the University of 

 Leitmeritz in 1837, and of Church History and 

 Ecclesiastical Law in 1843. He was the author 

 of " Geschichte der Kirche " (2 vols., 1847, et 

 seq.}; "Evangelium und Kirche" (1843); 

 "Ueber die Zukunft der Kirche in Oester- 

 reich " (1848) ; and contributed numerous ar- 

 ticles to German and Austrian theological 

 journals. 



GISEKE, BEENHAED LUDWIG, a German phi- 

 lologist, born September 28, 1823 ; died No- 

 vember 29, 1876. He studied philology in the 

 Universities of Leipsic and Berlin. Having 

 filled various positions as teacher, he was ap- 

 pointed director of the Realschule in Mei- 

 ningen in 1859, where he remained up to his 

 death. He was the author of " Die allmiihliche 

 Entstehung der Gesange der Ilias " (1853), " Ho- 

 merische Forschungen" (1864), and " Thra- 

 kisch-pelasgische Stamme der Balkanhalbinsel 

 und ihre Wanderungen in mythischer Zeit " 

 (1858). 



GORDON, Sir HENRY PEECY, Bart., F. R. S., 

 born October 21, 1806; died July 29, 1876. 

 He studied law, and was called to the bar in 

 1831. He was married to Lady Mary, daugh- 

 ter of the third Earl of Ashburnham. 



GOEDON, LEWIS D. B., a British scholar and 

 engineer, born in 1815 ; died April 28, 1876. 

 He had been Regius Professor of Civil En- 

 gineering in the College of Glasgow. 



GORDON, Sir WILLIAM HOME, Bart., born 



1818; died July 29, 1876. He was a deputy- 

 lieutenant and justice of the peace for 

 Suther] andshire, and is succeeded by his son, 

 Home Seton, born in 1845. 



GORMANSTON, Viscount EDWARD ANTHONY 

 JOHN PRESTON, born June 3, 1796; died Sep- 

 tember 28, 1876. Besides his title of viscount 

 and that of Baron Loundres in the Irish peer- 

 age, he held that of Baron Gormanston in the 

 peerage of the United Kingdom. He was Pre- 

 mier Viscount of Ireland. He is succeeded by 

 his son, Jenico William Joseph, born 1837. 



GEASS, PHILIPPE, a distinguished French 

 sculptor, born May 6, 1801 ; died April 18, 

 1876. Most of his works are in the various 

 museums of Europe, and represented in the 

 public monuments of Strasburg, where he re- 

 sided. Two of his most remarkable works 

 were exhibited in the Paris Expositions of 1855 

 and 1867 in the former a magnificent mar- 

 ble statue, called the " Rose of the Alps," and 

 in the latter a monument in bronze, called 

 " Love disarmed by Innocence." Besides these, 

 he executed numerous busts of public persons, 

 which are now in the public squares of Stras- 

 burg. 



GBOEBEN-NEUDORFCHEN, KARL, Count VON, 

 a German officer, born September 17, 1788; 

 died July 13, 1876. He entered the army at 

 an early age, but left it when the Prussian army 

 was ordered to join Napoleon in his campaign 

 against Russia. Having entered the army 

 again in 1813, he took an active part in the 

 wars that followed, and rapidly advanced. 

 At the time of his death he was adjutant- 

 general to the emperor. He was also a mem- 

 ber of the Prussian Herrenhaus, to which he 

 was called in 1854. 



GEOEN VAN PRINSTERER, WILLEM, a Dutch 

 historian and statesman, born in 1801 ; died 

 May 20, 1876. Having completed his legal 

 studies in the University of Leyden, he was 

 appointed Cabinet Secretary to the King in 

 1829, which position he resigned in 1833, in 

 order to devote himself to his historical stud- 

 ies. His first work of importance was " Ar- 

 chives, ou Correspondence iriedite de la Maison 

 d'Orange-Nassau " (1835-'64; first seriesj 10 

 vols. ; second series, vols. 1-5). At the same 

 time he undertook a " Handboek der Geschie- 

 denis van bet Vaderland " (4 vols., fourth edi- 

 tion, 1874). He took a great interest in the 

 political and religious questions of the day, 

 and even at that time belonged to the "Anti- 

 revolutionary " party. From 1849 to 1865 he 

 was almost uninterruptedly a member of the 

 Second Chamber, and the leader of his party 

 in the House. Among his works are : " Bij- 

 drage tot Herziening der Grondwet in Neder- 

 landschen Zin" (1840), " Ongeloof en Revolu- 

 tie " (1847), " La Prusse et les Pays-Bas," and 

 " L'Empire Prussien et 1'Apocalypse " (1867). 

 He also published a large number of political 

 brochures, and from 1850 to 1855 was editor- 

 in-chief of the Nederlander, a political conser- 

 vative journal. 



