OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (PEARSON SCHLOZER.) 



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"Imaginary Portraits" (London, 1887); "Apprecia- 

 tions: With an Essay on Style" (London, 1889); 

 ''Plato and Platonism" (New York and London, 

 1893). Not long before his death there appeared a 

 privately printed volume by him containing imagina- 

 tive sketches of a little child, which were written in 

 1878, and in these some of his rarest arid most delicate 

 work is found. 



Pearson, Charles Henry, an English historian, born in 

 Islington, Sept. 7, 1830 ; died May 29, 1894. His edu- 

 cation was received at Rugby and Oxford, and in 1854 

 he became a fellow of Oriel College, retaining his 

 fellowship till his marriage, in 1872. Within that 

 period he was lecturer on modern history at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, and King's College, London, 

 and editor for a year of the " National Review." In 



1872 he went to Australia for his health, return- 

 ing to England in 1892. His career in Australia 

 was a busy one, both in education and politics. He 

 lectured on modern history at the Melbourne Univer- 

 sity, and from 1875 to 1877 was at the head of a 

 Presbyterian college for women at Melbourne. He 

 was a member of the Legislative Assembly of 

 Victoria from 1878 to 1892, and Minister of Public In- 

 struction from 1886 to 1890. While serving in the 

 latter capacity he was noted for endeavors to make 

 primary instruction compulsory and secular. His 

 greatest literary work was entitled " National Life and 

 Character," published in 1893. It was one of the 

 most important books of that year, and not only ex- 

 hibited a firm hold of a very wide subject but a 

 merciless logic in its conclusions. It attracted general 

 attention, and none of its arguments have as yet beerf 

 seriously controverted. His other works include "A 

 History of England during the Early and Middle 

 Ages " (London, 1861-'t>8) ; u Historical Maps of Eng- 

 land during the First Thirteen Centuries, with Ex- 

 planatory Essays " (London, 1869) ; " English History 

 in the Fourteenth Century" (London, 1876); "Vic- 

 toria Public Education : Royal Commission Report " 

 (Melbourne, 1878). 



Piglhein, Bruno, a German painter, born in Ham- 

 burg, in 1848; died in Munich, July 15, 1894. He 

 studied sculpture in Hamburg and Dresden, and 

 afterward in Italy, where he turned his attention to 

 painting and determined to follow that branch ex- 

 clusively. His first paintings in oil had small suc- 

 cess, and his reputation was first made by crayon 

 drawings. In 1885 he went to Palestine and sketched 

 the background for a great panorama of the " Cruci- 

 fixion," which was exhibited in London in 1886. 



Plong, Carl Parmo, Danish poet and patriot, born at 

 Kolding, Oct. 29,1813; died in Copenhagen, Oct. 27, 

 1894. _ He entered the University of Copenhagen when 

 but sixteen years of age, and soon became one of its 

 most prominent students, writing many popular stu- 

 dent songs while there. He organized in 1843 the first 

 student pilgrimage to Upsala". In 1841 he became 

 the editor of "Faedrelaridet" (The Fatherland), and 

 remained the editor of that newspaper until 1881. 

 When the Schleswig^-Holstein war broke put his paper 

 was the most powerful in Denmark, and its editor be- 

 came one of the most popular persons of the day and 

 was returned to the Rigsdag by his native town by 

 acclamation. His poetry was first collected into book 

 form in 1846, and several later collections of it have 

 been made. It was not artistic in its cast, but direct 

 and simple, having politics and patriotism for its 

 themes, Plong's great ambition being to behold a 

 united Scandinavia. 



Pringsheim, Prof., a German botanist, born in 1823 ; 

 died in Berlin, Oct. 7, 1894. He established a high 

 scientific reputation by his researches into the fructi- 

 fication and germination of the alga?, became Pro- 

 fessor of Botany at Jena in 1864, established there the 

 earliest institute for vegetable physiology, and in 

 1868 went to Berlin and there organized a private 

 laboratory, in which he pursued investigations into 

 the sexual life of the lowest vegetable organisms. 



Rink, Henry John, a Danish explorer, born in Copen- 

 hagen, in 1819 ; died in Christiania, Norway, in De- 



cember, 1894. He was educated in the Polytechnic 

 School in Copenhagen, and circumnavigated the globe 

 in 1845 as a naturalist in an exploring expedition on 

 the corvette " Galatea," and investigated especially 

 the geological formation of the Nicobar Islands. In 

 1848 he made the first one of 38 exploring jour- 

 neys in Greenland, obtaining an office in the Danish 

 administration there. He held the post of inspector 

 in South Greenland before he returned to Denmark 

 as director of the Greenland trade in 1871. Of the 

 numerous works that he wrote about Greenland, the 

 most important are " Danish Greenland : Its Popula- 

 tion and its Products " ; " Danish North Greenland " 

 (1852) ; and " Geographical and Statistical Description 

 ot Greenland" (1857). 



Roscher, Wilhelm, a German economist, born in Han- 

 over, Oct. 21, 1817 ; died in Leipsic, June 4, 1894. He 

 studied in Gottingen and Berlin after passing through 

 the Hanover gymnasium. He was professor in Got- 

 tingen from 1844 till 1848, when he was called to 

 Leipsic. There he spent the remainder of his life, 

 attracting students from every quarter of the globe by 

 his lectures on political economy, finance, and statis- 

 tics in their relations to national life and political 

 history and the development of art, literature, and 

 morals. He was the founder of the historical school 

 of political economy. He published works on " The 

 Life, Works, and Time of Thucydides " ; " History of 

 Political Economy in England in the Sixteenth and 

 Seventeenth Centuries " (1851); "The Price of Grain": 

 " History of National Economy in Germany " ; and 

 " Thoughts upon Socialism and Communism." 



Rossetti, Lncy, an English painter, born about 1853 ; 

 died in San Remo, Italy, March 12, 1894. She was the 

 daughter of the artist 1 ord Madox Brown, and became 

 the wife of William Michael Rossetti in 1874. In 1S68 

 she began to study art under her father's instruction, 

 and in 1869 she exhibited " Painting " in the Dudley 

 Gallery, where " After the Ball " also was exhibited 

 in 1870, and her " Romeo and Juliet " in 1871. 

 " Ferdinand and Miranda playing Chess " was ex- 

 hibited in 1872, together with " Cornelius Agrippa 

 showing the Fair Geraldine to the Earl of Surrey in 

 a Magic Mirror" and "Lynmouth." "Margaret 

 Roper receiving the Head of Sir Thomas More " was 

 painted in 1875. "The Duet" was in the Royal 

 Academy exhibition of 1875. 



Baintin, Jnles Emile, a French painter, horn in 1830; 

 died in Paris, July 14, 1894. He was one of the most 

 successful of portrait painters. Not long before his 

 death he finished a portrait of Madame Carnot. 



Sax, Adolphe, a French inventor, born in 1814 ; died 

 in Paris, Feb. 8, 1894. He was the son of a manufac- 

 turer of musical instruments, and early became an 

 adept in the properties of all kinds of instruments, es- 

 pecially wind instruments. He invented a 24-key 

 clarinet, which was exhibited in Brussels in 1835, and 

 made improvements in the form and material of clari- 

 nets until he produced the instrument as it is known 

 to-day. He invented also the saxophone, perfected 

 the bassoon, and improved other instruments in such 

 degree as to change the whole character of the orches- 

 tra and the military band. He believed that the only 

 quality necessary in the material of a wind instrument 

 was that it should offer sufficient resistance. 



Schlozer, Kurd von, a German diplomatist, born in 

 Liibeck, in 1822 ; died in Berlin, May 13, 1892. He 

 studied in Gottingen, Berlin, and Bonn ; devoted 

 himself to Oriental literature and languages, and in 

 1850 entered the Prussian service as a clerk in the 

 Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was secretary of 

 legation successively in St. Petersburg, Rome, and 

 Copenhagen, then charge d'affaires in Mexico, and in 

 1871 was appointed minister at Washington. From 

 1882 till 1892 he was Prussian minister at the Vatican, 

 where his services were required in bringing about a 

 reconciliation and a settlement of the differences aris- 

 ing out of the Kulturkampf. He was the author of 

 books on the " History of the Hanseatic League," 

 " Choiseul and his Times," "Provinces of East Prus- 

 sia," and " Frederick the Great and Catherine II." 



