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OBITUAKIES, FOREIGN. 



nm,'' of the "Notes and Queries," and other 

 periodicals. 



DURING, TIIEODOR, a German actor, born in 

 1803, died August 17, 1878. He made his first 

 appearance at Bromberg in 1825, and, although 

 lie tailed on this occasion, he soon gained popu- 

 lar favor, so that in 1826 he received a perma- 

 nent engagement in Breslau. He played with 

 great success in numerous cities of Germany, 

 until in 1845 he became a member of the Court 

 Theatre in Berlin, where he remained till his 

 death. He was equally successful in tragedy 

 and in comedy, and was considered at the time 

 of his death one of the greatest, if not the 

 greatest, of German actors. 



DUFF, ALEXANDER, a Scotch missionary, born 

 in 1806, died in February, 1878. After having 

 completed his studies in St. Andrews, he went 

 in 1830 to India, where he gained great dis- 

 tinction as the founder and conductor of an im- 

 portant set of institutions for the moral and 

 religious benefit of the native races. He opened 

 a high school for Hindoos in Calcutta, in which 

 instruction was imparted through the medium 

 of the English language only, a method which 

 met with great success. In 1864 he returned 

 to Scotland, and became Professor of Theology 

 in the Free Kirk College at Edinburgh. He 

 published several works on India, among them 

 " New Era for the English Language and Lit- 

 erature in India" (1857). 



EHRENFEUCHTER, FRIEDRICH AUGUST EDU- 

 ARD, a German theologian, born December 15, 

 1814, died March 20, 1878. He was in 1845 

 appointed extraordinary and in 1849 ordina- 

 ry Professor of Theology in Gottingen. He 

 was also from 1859 to 1864 a member of the 

 Supreme Consistory of the Kingdom of Han- 

 over. Among his principal theological works 

 are : " Theorie des christlichen Cultus " (1840) ; 

 " Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit " 

 (1845); "Die praktische Theologie" (1st vol., 

 1859). This was to be his chief work and to 

 embrace three volumes, but it has not been 

 completed. In his last work, " Christenthum 

 und moderne Weltanschauung " (1876), he gave 

 a history of the attempts to show the harmony 

 between Christianity and modern science. In 

 1856 he founded, with Dorner and others, the 

 " Jahrbucher fur deutsche Theologie," to which 

 he contributed many articles. 



EVANS, WILLIAM, an English painter in 

 water-colors, born December 4, 1797, died in 

 the latter part of January, 1878. In 1831 he 

 was elected a member of the Society of Paint- 

 ers in Water-Colors, and from that time until 



Few years before his death was a constant 

 contributor to its exhibitions, sending to them 

 many and often large and important works. 



FAUOHBB, JULIUS, a German political econo- 

 mist, born in 1820, died May 14, 1878. To- 

 gether with Prince Smith and others, he es- 

 tablished in 1846 the first Free-Trade associa- 

 tion in Berlin. He was in succession the editor 

 W German Free-Trade papers, went in 

 to England, where he became in 1856 



editor of the foreign department of the "Morn- 

 ing Post" of London, returned in 1861 to Ber- 

 lin, and was elected in the same year a member 

 of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. In 1870 

 he organized the correspondence of the Lon- 

 don " Daily News " at the seat of war, went 

 to London in 1872, and there wrote in the 

 English language on the abolition of serfdom 

 in Russia and the English liquor tax. In the 

 last years of his life he traveled extensively in 

 the East and in Italy. He had published since 

 1863 the " Vierteljahrsschrift fur Volkswirth- 

 schaft und Kulturgeschichte." 



FERNKORN, ANTON, a German sculptor, born 

 March 17, 1813, died November 16, 1878. He 

 received his education in Munich, and after- 

 ward settled in Vienna. His principal works 

 are the equestrian statues of Prince Eugene 

 and Archduke Charles in Vienna. In 1866 he 

 became insane and was removed to an asylum, 

 where he died. 



FRANCHI, ALESSANDRO, an Italian Cardinal, 

 born June 25, 1819, died August 1, 1878. The 

 son of a Roman notary, he inherited an apti- 

 tude for business, supplemented by a happy 

 facility for making friends and keeping them. 

 He very soon found his way into the diplomatic 

 service, and in 1868, after various brilliant suc- 

 cesses in minor trusts, was made Nuncio in 

 Spain. Pius IX. made him a Cardinal in 1873, 

 and in the following year Prefect of the Prop- 

 aganda, a signal mark of favor and confidence. 

 He was generally regarded as a prominent can- 

 didate for the succession to Pius IX., and was 

 named by the new Pope, Leo XIII., Secretary 

 of State, a position he filled with great ability. 



FRANCIS CHARLES JOSEPH, father of the Em- 

 peror of Austria, born December 7, 1802, died 

 March 8, 1878. He was the son of Francis I., 

 the first Emperor of Austria, was married in 

 1824 to the Princess Sophia, a daughter of 

 King Maximilian I. of Bavaria, and had several 

 children. When his brother, the Emperor Fer- 

 dinand, resigned in 1848, he renounced his 

 right to the throne in favor of his oldest son, 

 who then became Emperor as Francis Joseph I. 



GEORGE V., ex-King of Hanover, born May 

 27, 1819, died June 12, 1878. (See GERMANY.) 



GESELSCHAP, EDUARD, a Dutch painter, born 

 March 22, 1814, died January 5, 1878. He 

 studied in the Academy of Dusseldorf, and ex- 

 celled in genre painting, although he also fur- 

 nished some good historical and religious paint- 

 ings. His best work is the "St. Nicholas Eve " 

 in Dusseldorf, painted in 1851. 



GOLDSMID, Sir FRANCIS HENRY, born May 1, 

 1808, died May 2, 1878. He was called to the 

 bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1833, being the first 

 member of the Jewish faith who obtained that 

 position. In 1860 he entered Parliament as 

 member for Reading, and represented that con- 

 stituency in the Liberal interest down to his 

 death. 



GRANT, Sir FRANCIS, a British painter, born 

 January 18, 1803, died October 5, 1878. He 

 received his education at Harrow and at Edin* 



