

OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (TiAPFB THOMSON.) 



IK* founded the first historical 

 _ aniwd with Kanke UK 



..rian Academy, whoM 



ion in tho 



But politi 



da* Kaiewrrfch 



In* Uie nebula polley of theem 



;. ,, - - i: :... care 

 ttafee hist. Sehriftcn " (8 volu 



' 



kale 



ahrn In 1M1 and return to Bonn a* Dahlmann 



vamea member of the Prussian HotaM 

 at the time of the oooattattkmaj 



10 Government and the ParliaBMDt 



on the queMion of the reorganUation of the Prussian 



. , ii ... ,1. lined ! make ;,|.|,ro- 



priaUoos. Sybel joined il..< nt, liimarvkian party; 



t^bftunately fir Ma future, he was obliged, on ac- 



;.. ... .. :.. ...- .... . II ,-. in 1884 



Meanwhile he publish- <> und 



_, is,;-.. . ^harply critici.H- 



'B empire during th. 

 SJM r IM ilao MbUahad 

 volumes, Munich, 186*- 

 Voftriga tt.Aufa.toe" (Berlin, 1874 : Kl.-ri- 

 _: Polilik im 19. Jshrhundcrt" (Bonn, 1874). But 

 the work that established his world-wide fame is the 

 Ge*ohichte der Revolutionist von 1789-1800," in 

 ft volume*, which he had begun during the storm and 

 trass period of 1848 (186fr-$0 . In tin* work ho has 

 ahown that the great revolution was one single process 

 of disintegration in the destruction of Capet 

 Prance and the degenerate holy Roman Empire and 

 the partition of Poland. The entire work was based 

 upon the hidden sources collected in the archives of 

 the principal capitals of Europe, In the spring of 

 1047 he was elected a member of the Constitutional 

 Diet of the North German Confederation, and joined 

 the Moderate National-Liberal partv. After his res- 

 Ifnatinn he founded in Bonn the " Deutscher Vercin 

 der Khoinprovinz,** the principal instrument against 

 the Ultramontane party. In 1874 he was elected a 

 ve for Magdeburg, and in 1876 and 1879 

 The year 1875 marks the most im- 



it epoch in hi* life, when he was called b> 

 William I to be director of the Prussian state 



01 i niMuan auminittrauoD in uie t 

 In this capacitv, and as a member 

 amj of tSetonoea, he began the 

 archive document, in 1878, and 



archive* and the Berlin secret archives as well as of 

 the - Acta Borumica," the chief source of the history 

 of Prosjuan adminiftiration in the eighteenth century. 

 ' of the Berlin Acad- 

 publication of the 

 2 volumes of the 

 moat unique and valuable historical matter have ap- 

 peared. At the same time he began by order of the 

 Max Duncker, an edition of 

 ence of Frederick the Great 

 of the Central Commission of 

 the "Monumcflta Germanise Imtorica." In 1881 

 Prinos Biamarck authorised 8y bel to use the Prus- 

 siao archive, in preparing the newest history o: 

 aia and Germany. As the fruit of these researches 

 arose ftybeT* mooumenul work, M Begrundung dea 

 deoteehen lUiehaa durch Wilhelm I." the first vol- 

 h appeared in 1889, and Vols. VI and 

 uprising the history of the North German 

 and the origin of the war of 1870, at 

 19H. It is unsurpassed in the art of 



seaderay, together with Max 



.; .. j. . 



He was also a member of the 



diplomatic negotiations, and is thoroughly 

 ami yet it shows rare moderation and jus- 



Wbile writing 



- the causes of the Franco-Prun- 

 .-ed with paralysis of the lungs, 

 fee died the nm day. Rvbel was the mostS 

 i of that 1>rimant epoch of 



ini; in the forties of 

 aharacter under the 

 national revolutions in 

 conrtbotod toward the estab- 



patriotic \\"rk of 

 ini: tin- en 



Taaffe. ttiat Eduard. an Austrian state.sman. 1 

 Vienn., 



1895. In his childhood he wiw the . -:iijai 

 the Art'hdukt' Krunz .ln. f, who 

 He entered the pul .and ro^e >. 



.rir in 1 S1 



halter >f I pl-er \u-tria in 1>'.T. In tin- sun 

 he cnU-red the Austrian ministry undei 



was formed. I'. 



jM.rtfoli.n.f National I>-feii.e. and when I 

 sperg retired he to,.k ]>ro\i.si(.i m ll\ the j 

 the Council. \Sh.n the llohenwurt n. 

 in, Taaffe was ap]>oint 

 and after tilliiiLr that oilier : 

 <-alled into the Strema\ r Cal 

 Interior in Fel.rti;. I in the foi 



ust he formed a new Cahind. in which, in & od1^H.fl 

 to thepresidoncy, betook the jM.rtfolim.1 

 The Taatfe regime was ehara. tei 

 pearance of the constitutional tlieiries \\\\-. 

 of federalism. He was criminally an udher- nt -! the 

 Constitutional L 'pni|i. Lut was gradual 1; 

 from the (ierman LH-erals. lie had tinallv 

 ujH.n the MijijM.rt of the Cl.-ri.-al K- 

 Czechs, and the r '\iiiL' out 1 



conciliation. The rise of the young < '/. -hs an 



dematid-. which imperiled the < 

 led him to seek a new alliance with ' 

 Liberals; but they rejected hi- overtures, und vott 1 

 with the Fcudali.st.H und tin 

 for the extension of the franchise, upon tin; re 

 of which he reined. N-.v. 23, 



thanked him ^ for hb long 



Tauchniti, Huron Christian Bernhard. a (icrmaoiMH 

 li>her, horn in Schleinit/. near Nauml..,' 

 died in Leipzig, A UK. 14, 18'..'.. li 

 the establishment >f his unde. the j>uhli-' 

 editions of the classics. anl in 1837 set up a ] 

 establishment of liis own, jTintcd Ux.J 

 publiaherB, unil did the |uhhc j-rintintr for tli 

 Government H<- \H-X\\\\ in 1^41 the collect 

 British authors, which finally embraced 8. 1 

 and subsequently issued books for 

 classics, collections of German authors, e<l 

 Greek and Roman classics, handbooks of logar 

 legal and theological works, editions of tin 

 and dictionaries and manuals of 

 1848 Bernhurd Tuiichnit/ \wfM\ to enter 

 ments with English author*, win r 

 an honorarium und obtained the exdu-'.-. 

 tion to print their books on the Continent, but agreed 

 not to import his editions into Kmrlund r I 

 nies, nor to hinder the sale of r 

 tions on the Continent After tbe first 

 copyright treaty was made between 

 Prussian and 8a 



tions were protected by law. He was tnn<-l 

 f Coburg in 1^77. and was a men 

 the Dppar Chamber of the Su\on l>i-t. 



Thomson. Joseph, u Sc<.tti>li tra\eler. burn ir. 

 pont, Dumfriesshire, Feb. a. inr.s; die.l in York (iste, 



Aug. 2, 18'.' .--. at Kdir 



under Sir Archibald (;<-iki 



Keith Johnson's African expedition. <>uin u ' ' th<- 



death of its leader. Mr. "I" ti- 



the expedition, and the results oft! 



in his book "To the Central African Lak. 



back " (1881). He was at 01 



an explorerj*. an-1 



expedition to Masatland. In 1885 he \\ . 

 in oehalf of the Royal Niger Company, and hiseflflHJ 

 secured the Central Soudan to (it 

 he explored the r<-irion of tlie Atla 1 * mour/ 

 Morocco, and in IHIM tfie region between Lakes Nyasss , 

 snd Bangweolo. from w)ii<h he returned with *& 

 tered health. He was a man ot 

 daring as well as a most cntertainin.' writer 

 his journeys was able to avoid all seriou coni 

 the natives. He was the author of - Through Masai 



