OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



PRINOKTKAIT, General, a French general of 

 division, born in 1804; died March 25, 1876. 

 He was formerly orderly officer to Louis Phi- 

 lippe, and at the taking of the Tuileries in 

 1848 was made prisoner by the insurgents, who 

 mistook him for the Duke de Montpensier. He 

 commanded in chief the artillery of General 

 Din-rot's army during the siege of Paris, and 

 was a member of the court-martial which tried 

 Marshal Bazaino. He was a cousin of the 

 Duke Decazos, and was decorated with the 

 grand cross of the Legion of Honor. 



PROTT, SKINNER, a British artist, born in 

 1806 ; died August 29, 1876. He excelled in 

 water-color paintings, and had been for many 

 years a member of the Institute of Painters in 

 Water-Colors. 



QUAIN, Sir JOHN RICHARD, Knt., a British 

 judge; died September 12, 1876. He was edu- 

 cated at the London University, practised for 

 some years as a special pleader, and was called 

 to tlie bar at the Middle Temple in 1852, taking 

 the Northern Circuit. He wns appointed a 

 Q. C. in 186fi, a justice of the Queen's Bench 

 in 1872, in which year he was also knighted, 

 and since the passing of the Judicature Acts he 

 had been a judge of the Queen's Bench division 

 of the High Court of Justice. 



RAMEAU, SEPTIMUS, Vice-President of Hay- 

 ti ; was shot by the insurgents in April, 1876. 

 He had been a merchant, school-director, pri- 

 vate secretary to Domingue, and in 1874 was 

 elected Vice-President of Hayti. He was of a 

 violent character, and was accused of having 

 used his office for dishonorable purposes. 



RANKE, FERDINAND, a German scholar and 

 teacher, brother of the celebrated historian, 

 born in 1802; died March 28, 1876. At an 

 early ag3 he became director of the gymnasium 

 in Quedlinburg, was appointed in 1837 director 

 of the Pedagogical Seminary and Professor of 

 Ancient Literature in the University of Got- 

 tintten, and in 1842 director of the Friedrich- 

 Wilhelm-Gymnasiuin in Berlin, where he re- 

 mained up to his death. He was the author 

 of several educational works. 



RAU, HERIBERT, a German novelist, born in 

 February, 1813; died September 26, 1876. 

 He chose the biographical novel as his special- 

 ty. Among his best novels are " Mozart," 

 " Beethoven," " Alexander von Humboldt," 

 "Holderlin," "Jean Paul," " Karl Maria von 

 Weber," "Theodor Kdrner," and "William 

 Shakespeare." 



RAUMER, RUDOLF TON, a German philolo- 

 gist, born April 14, 1815; died in August, 1876. 

 He was appointed Privatdocent in Erlangen in 

 1840, extraordinary professor in 1846, and in 

 1852 Ordinary Professor of German Language 

 and Literature. His excellent work, " Der Un- 

 terricht im Deutschen" (third edition, 1857), 

 is a reprint from his father Karl Georg von 

 Raumer's " Geschichte der Padagogik." His 

 last work of importance was " Untersuchungen 

 uber die Urverwandtschaft der semitischen und 

 indo-europaischen Sprachen " (1868, et seq.). 

 VOL. xvi. 41 A 



In 1876 he took an active part in the labors of 

 the eotnmibsion for the regulation of German 

 orthography. 



REAY, ENEAS MACKEY, Baron of Scotland, 

 and Baron Mackay d'Ophemert of Holland, 

 born January 13, 1806; died March , 1876. 

 He was vice-president of the Council of the 

 King of the Netherlands. 



REDGRAVE, SAMUEL, a British art-historian, 

 born in 1804 ; died March 20, 1876. Together 

 with his brother, Richard Redgrave, the well- 

 known artist, he compiled the two volumes 

 of the "Century of Painters of the English 

 School," and completed, unassisted, the " Dic- 

 tionary of English Artists" (1874). 



REID, Sir JAMES JOHN, a British lawyer, 

 born in 1800; died April 10, 1876. He was 

 formerly Chief-Justice of the Ionian Islands, 

 and was knighted in 1840. 



REISOHACH, HERMANN ALBERT, Sr., Freiherr 

 VON, born 1798 ; died April 8, 1876. He was a 

 son-in-law of Johann Friedrich von Cotta, and 

 for over half a century had been connected 

 with the large publishing-house of J. G. Cotta. 

 His son, HERMANN ALBERT, Jr., born in 1827, 

 died April 5, 1876, was one of the heads of 

 the above firm. 



RIBBLESDALE, THOMAS LISTER, Baron, born 

 April 28, 1828 ; died August 25, 1876. He was 

 a step-son of Earl Russell. While making a 

 trip through Switzerland he committed suicide. 



RICHARDS, ALFRED BATE, a British author 

 and barrister-at-law, horn in 1820; died Juno 



12, 1876. He was one of the chief and earliest 

 promoters of the volunteer movement; was 

 the first to organize a workingman's corps, 

 numbering nearly 1,000 men, of which he was 

 colonel until 1869, when he resigned. On 

 April 16, 1859, he convened the celebrated 

 meeting at St. Martin's Hall for the purpose of 

 forming volunteer corps. In 1870 he became 

 editor of the Morning Advertiser, which posi- 

 tion he retained up to his death. He was the 

 author of a number of tragedies, novels, and 

 poems. 



RICFITER, HERMANN EBERHARD, a German 

 physician, born May 14, 1808; died May 24, 

 1876. He did much for the reconstruction and 

 popularization of medical science, and was 

 also very active in reforming the instruction in 

 natural sciences, and in gymnastics. His prin- 

 cipal works are "Grundriss der innern Klinik" 

 (2 vols., fourth edition, I860), and " Organon 

 der physiologischen Therapie" (1850). 



RIDDERHOLD, HANS, a Norwegian statesman, 

 born in 1795 ; died July 22, 1876. He was 

 Minister of Public Worship from 1848 to 

 1872. 



RIECKE, FRIEDRICH JOSEPH PYTHAGORAS, a 

 German scholar, born July 1, 1794; died April 



13, 1876. He studied in the University of Tu- 

 bingen, where he became professor in 1828, 

 which position he retained up to 1864. In 

 1852 he was appointed extraordinary member 

 of the Council of Studies of Wurtemberg, and 

 in the following year a member of the Com- 



