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 ISM.) 



ALBEBI, EUGENIO, an Italian historian, born 

 in Padua, October 1, 1809, died at Vichy, 

 France, in June, 1878. Having served in the 

 army for several years, he left it in 1830 in or- 

 der to devote himself wholly to a literary life. 

 In 1848 he took part in the war against Aus- 

 tria as lieutenant-colonel, and subsequently he 

 was for a time Secretary-General in the Min- 

 istry of War at Rome. The literary reputation 

 of Alberi rests chiefly upon a work on the 

 military history of Prince Eugene of Savoy 

 (" Guerre d'ltalia del Principe Eugenio," 1830), 

 which is highly valued by military men ; an 

 apology of Catharine de' Medici (*' Storia di Ca- 

 terina de' Medici," 1838); a collection of the 

 important reports of the Venetian ambassadors 

 of the sixteenth century (" Relazioni degii Am- 

 basciatori Veneti," 1839) ; and the first complete 

 edition of the works of Galileo (" Opere edits 

 ed inedite di Galileo "). In 1859 he declared 

 in favor of a confederation of the Italian states 

 and against the unification of Italy under one 

 prince. His last work, *' II Problema dell' 

 unano Destino " (1872), is a eulogy of the 

 Catholic religion from a philosophical and po- 

 litical point of view. 



ALZOG, JOHANX BAPTIST, a Roman Catholic 

 theologian, born in 1808, died February 28, 

 1878. He had been for many years Professor 

 of Church History in the University of Frei- 

 burg, and had attained considerable eminence 

 as a church historian. His principal work is 

 the " Handbook of Universal Church History," 

 which has passed through many editions (9th 

 edition, 1872), and has been translated into 

 many foreign languages (English translation by 

 Pabish, Cincinnati, 1878). He was also the 

 author of an a Outline of Patrol ogy " (1866 ; 

 3d edition 1874), which has likewise been trans- 

 lated into French and English. In 1869 he was 

 appointed a member of the Dogmatic Commis- 

 sion which, was to prepare the work of the 

 Vatican Council ; and he was the only theolo- 

 gian of this commission who opposed the pro- 

 mulgation of Papal infallibility. 



ARXAUD, FREDERIC, a French Senator, born 

 April 8, 1819, died May 30, 1878. He acquired 

 considerable reputation as an advocate at the 

 time of the revolution of 1848. He was elected 

 to the Constituent and afterward to the Legis- 

 lative Assembly, and was at once a Republican 

 and zealous friend of the clergy. After the 

 coup d'etat he kept away from politics nnt^l 

 1869, when he was chosen a Deputy from Ari- 

 6ge. In 1871 he was elected to the National 

 Assembly from Paris, and in 1876 to the Sen- 

 ate from Ariege. He was the author of " The 

 Independence of the Pope and the Rights of 

 the People" (1860), "The Temporalities of 

 the Papacy and Italian Nationality" (1864), 

 41 Italy" (1864), and " The Revolution and the 

 Church " (1869). 



ARNDTS voi* ARNESBERG, KARL LTTDWIG, a 

 German jurist, born in Arnsberg, Prussia, Au- 



gust 19, 1803, died in Vienna in 1878. He 

 was in succession professor in the law faculties 

 of the Universities of Bonn, Munich, and Vi- 

 enna, and was pensioned in 1874. As a mem- 

 ber of the German National Assembly of Frank- 

 fort in 1848, he belonged to the so-called Great 

 German party, which was against the exclusion 

 of Austria from the German Empire. The 

 Austrian Government appointed him in 1867 

 a member of the House of Lords, and in 1871 

 knighted him. He achieved great distinction 

 as a juridical writer, and his " Juristische En- 

 cyclopadie und Methodologie " (5th edition, 

 1871) and his u Lehrbuch der Pandekten " (8th 

 edition, 1874) have found a very extensive cir- 

 culation. 



AWDRY, Sir JOHN WITHER, an English law- 

 yer, born in 1795, died May 31, 1878. He was 

 educated at Christ Church, Oxford, was called 

 to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1822, and, 

 after being for some years Puisne Judge at 

 Bombay, was appointed Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of Judicature in Bombay in 

 1839. This position lie resigned in 1842. He 

 was knighted in 1830. 



BARNI, JULES ROMAIC, a French Deputy, 

 born June 1, 1818, died July 5, 1878. He was 

 Professor of Philosophy at Rouen at the time 

 of the coup (Tetat, which compelled him to go 

 to Switzerland. He returned home upon the 

 establishment of the republic in 1870, and from 

 1872 represented Amiens in the various As- 

 semblies, until his health compelled him to re- 

 tire from public life shortly before his death. 

 He was one of the most respected members of 

 the Republican party, and was very active in 

 the cause of popular education. The principal 

 object of his literary activity was to make 

 France acquainted with the philosophical works 

 of Kant, which he translated and critically an- 

 alyzed. He was also the author of " Histoire 

 des Id6es morales et politiques en France au 

 XVIII" Siecle " (2 voK, 1866). 



BATHURST, WILLIAM LENNOX, Earl, born Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1791, died February 24, 1878. He 

 was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford, was called to the bar in 1821, and was 

 Clerk of the Privy Council from 1830 to I860. 

 He succeeded his brother George as Earl in 

 1866, and, as he died unmarried, is himself 

 succeeded by his nephew, Allen Alexander 

 Bathurst, M. P. for Cirencester. 



BAUDISSIN, WOLF HEINRIOH FRIEDRICH KARL, 

 Count, a German author, born January 30, 

 1789, died April 4, 1878. He entered for a 

 short time the service of Denmark, but in 1827" 

 took up his permanent residence in Dresden, 

 where he contributed largely to the German 

 translation of Shakespeare edited by Tieck, and 

 under the title of " Ben Jonson und seine 

 Schule " (2 vols., 1836), published translations 

 of a number of old English dramas. He also 

 translated some works of Hartmann von der 

 Aue and Wirnt von Gravenberg into modern 

 German. 



BECK, JOHANNES TOBIAS vox, a German the- 



