OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (PIANELL ROUSSET.) 



army in 1841, took part in the expedition against 

 Persia in 1857 as aid-de-camp to Gen. Jacob, and in 

 1860 was charge d'affaires in Persia. In the following 

 year he was sent to Zanzibar in the character of po- 

 litical agent. He had risen in the army to the rank 

 of lieutenant-general before his death. He entered 

 Parliament in 1885, representing North Hackney. 

 Gen. Pelly was an author as well as a soldier, diplo- 

 mat, and Conservative politician. 



Pianell, Count Giuseppe, an Italian general, born in 

 Palermo, Nov. 9, 1818 ; died in Verona, April 5, 1892. 

 Entering the Sicilian army as captain at the age of 

 nineteen, he soon advanced to the rank of brigadier- 

 general. In 1860 he accepted the portfolio of Minister 

 of War under the new Liberal Cabinet. Being con- 

 vinced that the Kingdom of Sicily would soon lose its 

 independence and form a part of united Italy, he 

 tendered his resignation, and went to Paris to await 

 developments. From there he ottered his services to 

 Count Cavour, and was appointed lieutenant-general 

 in the Italian army. He took part in the campaign 

 of 1866, and distinguished himself in the battle of 

 Custozza. From 1867 to 1870 he was a member of the 

 Italian Chamber, and since Nov. 15, 1871, has be- 

 longed to the Senate. He was commander of an army 

 corps until December, 1891, when he retired from 

 the public service. 



Poise, Ferdinand, a French composer, born in Nimes, 

 in 1828; died in Paris, .May -26, 1892. He was a pupil 

 of Adolphe Adam at the Conservatoire, and took tne 

 second prize of Kome in 1852. lie produced more 

 than a dozen operas, of which the most liked were: 

 " Bonsoir Voisin ! " in one act, given in 1853, his first 

 production ; " Les Charmeurs," in one act, produced 

 in 1855; "La Surprise d' Amour," for which Charles 

 Monsclet wrote the libretto after Marivaux, which was 

 presented in 1877 ; " L' Amour Medecin," after Mo- 

 liere, by the same librettist ; and, chief of all, " Joli 

 Gilles." Poise was a composer of comic operas of the 

 traditional French school, who developed, -without 

 pretentiousness and with easy grace, an airy vein of 

 light melody not remarkable tor originality. 



Popelin, Claudius, a French artist and author, born in 

 Paris, in 1825 ; died there. May 27, 1892. He studied 

 painting under Ary Scheft'er, exhibited " Dante read- 

 ing his Poems" in 1852, a "St. Jerome" in the fol- 

 lowing year, " Stephanus among the Wise Men who 

 aided him " in 1854, " Guillaume Bude learning Greek " 

 in 1859, and "Dante returning to Florence after Cam- 

 paldino" in 1861. Turning to the art of enameling, 

 he produced heads of Julius Csesar, Napoleon III, and 

 Henri de Mertemart, and allegorical pictures of " The 

 Renaissance," " France," and " Truth and its Zealots." 

 In 1866 he published " L'Email des Peintres," in 1868 

 " L'Art de 1'Email," and in 1869 " Les vieux Arts de 

 Feu," all illustrated by himself. He also translated 

 from the Italian Picolpassi's work on the potter's art, 

 and from the Latin of Alberti an essay on statuary 

 and painting, and wrote an essay on the Italian Re- 

 naissance. Abandoning art except as a pastime, he 

 devoted himself to writing sonnets, which were as 

 admirable as his enamels, illustrations, and oil paint- 

 ings. He published " Cinq Octaves de Sonnets " in 

 1875, and in 1888 "Livre de Sonnets." 



Protioh, Kosta S., a Servian statesman and soldier, 

 born in 1831; died in Brestovacka Banja, June 16, 

 1892. After passing through the Belgrade gymna- 

 sium, he entered the Servian army in 1848, and two 

 years later was one of the first cadets in the new Ser- 

 vian Military Academy. In 1855, after he had become 

 a lieutenant, he was sent to Berlin to take the course 

 of engineering in the Prussian Artillery and Engi- 

 neer School, after which he was attached to a battal- 

 ion of pioneers in Dantzic, and to the inspection of 

 engineers in Coblenz, and c r mpleted his higher mili- 

 tary training in the Belgian engineer corps in Liege. 

 His return to Servia occurred at a period that was fa- 

 vorable for the advancement of capable officers. The 

 year 1858 saw the restoration of tne Obrenovich dy- 

 nasty to the throne. Like Ristich and Belimarko- 

 vich, he was a stanch adherent of that family. Less 



of a politician, but a better soldier than the other two, 

 his advancement was less rapid. He became a major 

 in 1869, and lieutenant-colonel in 1873, when he was 

 called into the Cabinet of Marinovich as Minister of 

 War. This post he filled till 1875, in which year hi' 

 was made a colonel. In the war with Turkey in 1876 

 he was promoted to general for brilliant services in 

 the battle of Shumatovatz, and in the campaign of 

 1877 he was chief of the general staff. After tin- war 

 he occupied an important office at court for a time. 

 He retired from active service in 1882. In 1888, when 

 King Milan was preparing for his abdication, he 

 called Protich into the Cabinet of Nikala Cristich as 

 Minister of War. It devolved upon him to go to 

 Wiesbaden to bring the young prince, because the 

 Prussian Government desired that the task should be 

 intrusted to an active minister who hold a high rank 

 in the army,although Queen Natalie regarded him us 

 her enemy, and looked upon his selection as a per- 

 sonal insult. In 1889 Milan chose Protich, Jovan Ris- 

 tich, and Belimarkovich as the three who should ad- 

 minister the supreme power as regents during the 

 minority of the young King. Protich did not take a 

 prominent part in the regency. He devoted himself 

 chiefly in keeping up the standard of the military 

 service. In political affairs he exercised a steadying 

 and conciliatory influence. 



Bangabe, Alexander Bdzps, a Greek statesman and au- 

 thor, born in Constantinople, in 1810; died Jan. 28, 

 1892. He was educated in the Military School at 

 Munich. In 1852 he became Greek Minister of Edu- 

 cation, and afterward was Professor of Archaeology. 

 In 1856-'59 he held the post of Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs. In 1867 he was appointed minister at 

 Washington, and in the next twenty^ years he repre- 

 sented his Government in the principal capitals, 

 going to Paris after his recall from the United States, 

 and thence to Constantinople, and finally to Berlin. 

 He translated Shakespeare, Leasing, and Goethe into 

 Greek, and published a Greek grammar, a Franco- 

 Greek dictionary, and a " History of Romaic Litera- 

 ture." 



Robertson, George Groom, a Scotch educator and meta- 

 physician, born in Aberdeen, in 1842 ; died in Lon- 

 don, Sept. 21, 1892. He was educated at the Uni- 

 versity of Aberdeen, graduating M. A. in 1861, 

 studied afterward in London, Berlin, Gottingen, and 

 Paris, became assistant Professor of Greek at Aber- 

 deen in 1864, and in 1866 was made Professor of Phi- 

 losophy of Mind and Logic in University College, 

 London. He acted as philosophical examiner for the 

 universities of London and Aberdeen for many years. 

 He was the editor of "Mind," for which he wrote 

 many papers. He assisted Prof. Bain in editing 

 Grote's " Aristotle," wrote a biographical study of 

 Hobbes, and contributed to the ninth edition of the 

 " Encvclopaadia Britannica." 



Bocihplz, Ernst Ludwig, a Swiss archaeologist and 

 Germanist, born in Anspach, in 1808; died in Aarau, 

 Oct. 29, 1892. He studied jurisprudence in the Uni- 

 versity of Munich, was a friend of Riickert and Dol- 

 linger, and of Grimm, under whose direction lie de- 

 voted himself to the investigation of folklore. He 

 went to Hofwyl in 1833 to assist Fellenbcrir, and re- 

 mained in Switzerland. In 1856 he published two 

 volumes of " Schweizersagen," and in the following 

 year " Allemanisches Kinderlied und Kinderspicl." 

 His " Bruder Klaus von Flue " appeared in 1870, and 

 " Tell und Gessler " in 1876. 



Eousset, Camille. a French historian, born in Paris, in 

 1820 ; died in Gobain, Oct. 20, 1892. He was Pro- 

 fessor of History at Grenoble, and afterward in Paris 

 from 1845 till 1864, when he became librarian and 

 historiographer of the War Office, a post that was 

 abolished in 1876. In 1871 he was made a member of 

 the French Academy, succeeding to the fanteuil of 

 Prevost-Paradol. He sought election to the Chamber 

 in 1877 as an Orleanist. He wrote a life of Louvois, 

 edited the correspondence of Louis XV and Marshal 

 Npailles, and pumished, under the title of " Volon- 

 taires de 1771-'94," a book in which he endeavored to 



