

OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (HEEZ KUNG.) 



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Chaucer " (edited ; 1887) ; and " A Flame of Fire," 

 a novel (1897). 



Herz, Cornelius, a French adventurer, born in 

 Besanon in 1848 ; died in Bournemouth, England, 

 July 6, 1898. His parents were German Jews, and 

 after passing through the schools of his native town 

 he studied medicine in Germany. Settling in Paris, 

 he had a hard struggle with poverty. At the be- 

 ginning of the war of 1870 he joined the army of 

 the Loire, served as adjutant, and in 1871 was ad- 

 mitted as a foreigner to the Legion of Honor. 

 After the war he went to the United States, became 

 an American citizen, obtained a medical diploma, 

 married the daughter of a Boston manufacturer 

 named Sarony, and established himself in business 

 in San Francisco, devoting himself to the industrial 

 applications of electricity. Returning to Paris in 

 1877, he started an electric-light concern, afterward 

 took up the working of the patents of the inventor 

 Marcel Despretz for the transmission of power by 

 electricity, attempted to get control of the tele- 

 phone company, and in 1879 organized the Paris 

 Electric-Light Company. He became associated 

 with politicians and played a role also in the scien- 

 tific world, and in financial circles attained an in- 

 fluential place, attaining such eminence that in 

 1880 he was made a grand officer of the Legion of 

 Honor. In the irregularities of the Panama Canal 

 enterprise he was the chief intermediary, and when 

 the scandal transpired, pursued by detectives, he 

 fled from France to Italy, then to Germany, and 

 finally took refuge in England, fallen from his 

 great estate, yet formidable in the possession of all 

 the secrets of the dark business. He was con- 

 demned by default to five years' imprisonment and 

 expelled from the Legion of Honor, and the French 

 Government applied persistently for his extradi- 

 tion, but his lawyers, by means of medical certifi- 

 cates of failing health and other pleas and delays, 

 defeated the proceedings. In 1897 Dr. Herz made 

 an offer to reveal everything to the Panama In- 

 quiry Committee, but when the committee set out 

 for Bournemouth he withdrew his promise. 



Jeuner, Sir William, an English physician, 

 born in Chatham in 1815 ; died in Bishop's Wal- 

 tham, Dec. 11, 1898. He was the son of an inn- 

 keeper, studied at University College, London, was 

 licensed as an apothecary in 1837, entered upon the 

 practice of medicine in London, and was graduated 

 as doctor at the University of London in 1844. He 

 i devoted himself to hospital work, and on becoming a 

 member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1848 

 withdrew from practice to take the Professorship 

 ) of Pathological Anatomy in University College, 

 R and the post of assistant physician to the college 

 H hospital. He became a fellow of the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Gulstonian professor in 

 1852 : also physician to the children's hospital, and 

 "Jin the following year physician to the London 

 l| Fever Hospital. In 1854 he was appointed physi- 

 j pian to University College Hospital, and in 1857 

 H Professor of Clinical Medicine. He was chosen 

 TJ physician extraordinary to the Queen in 1861, and 

 ( ! n 1862 physician in ordinary and appointed also 

 o the chair of the Practice of Medicine in Univer- 

 <ity College. He became physician in ordinary to 

 :he Prince of Wales in 1864, and was created a bar- 

 let in 1868. From 1881 till 1888 he was President 

 the Royal College of Physicians. He retired 

 practice in 1889, but remained in the Queen's 

 nee till 1893. As a teacher and as a physician 

 was alike eminent. His greatest contribution 

 ledical science was the discovery of the essen- 

 difference between typhoid and typhus fevers, 

 i chief works were on the " Identity or Non- 

 jntity of Typhus and Typhoid Fevers," and on 

 Diseases commonly confounded under the Term 



Continued Fevers." He also published lectures on 

 emphysema, diphtheria, rickets, and tuberculosis. 



Kalnoky, Count Gustav Siegmund, an Austrian 

 statesman, born in Lettowitz, Moravia, Dec. 29, 

 1832 ; died in Briinn, Feb. 13, 1898. He belonged 

 to a Hungarian family ennobled in the fourteenth 

 century, entered the diplomatic service in 1854, was 

 first attached to the legations at Munich and Ber- 

 lin, went to London in 1859 as secretary of the em- 

 bassy, and 1871 was sent to Rome as envoy extraor- 

 dinary and minister plenipotentiary ad interim. 

 He was appointed in 1874 minister to Copenhagen, 

 where he remained until after the conclusion of the 

 treaty between Austria and Prussia. He was sent 

 later on a special mission to St. Petersburg, and in 

 1880 was appointed ambassador at the court of the 

 Czar, where he remained until he was, on Nov. 20, 

 1881, made Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs and of the Imperial House. The alliance 

 with Germany which Count Andrassy had ar- 

 ranged with Prince Bismarck was extended into the 

 Triple Alliance, and this was renewed in 1891. 

 Serious difficulties with Russia, arising out of the 

 Bulgarian situation in 1887, after Alexander of 

 Battenburg had been forced to abdicate, he suc- 

 ceeded in smoothing over. He reconciled the Hun- 

 garians to the measures necessary for the organiza- 

 tion of Bosnia, but was finally compelled to resign 

 in May, 1895, because he had failed to forward to 

 the Vatican Baron Banff y's vigorous remonstrance 

 against the assumption of influence and authority 

 in Hungarian domestic politics by the papal nuncio, 

 Monsignor Agliardi. He was always an advocate 

 of cordial relations between Austria, Germany and 

 Russia, and of the maintenance of the status quo 

 in the Balkans, as the sole means of conciliating 

 Russia. 



Kant hack. Alfredo Antnnes, a British pathol- 

 ogist, born in Brazil, March 4, 1863; died in Cam- 

 bridge, England, Dec. 22, 1898. His father, a Ger- 

 man, was British consul at Para. The son was 

 educated in Germany and at Cambridge, becoming 

 Professor of Pathology at Cambridge in 1897. He 

 was eminent in his profession and his loss was much 

 felt both in England and in Germany. With H. 

 D. Rolleston he published " Leprosy in India " 

 (1892) ; " Manual of Practical Morbid Anatomy " 

 (1894) ; " Manual of Practical Bacteriology " (1895). 



Kingsford, William, a Canadian historian, born 

 in London, England, in 1819 ; died in Ottawa, On- 

 tario, Sept. 29, 1898. He was an engineer, and his 

 name is associated with public works in Canada, 

 among them the Victoria Bridge at Montreal. He 

 was the author of " The History, Structure, and Sta- 

 tistics of Plank Roads in the United States and 

 Canada " (Philadelphia, 1851) ; " Impressions of the 

 West and South during a Six Weeks' Holiday " 

 (Toronto, 1858) ; " The Canadian Canals : Their 

 History and Cost " (1865) ; " The History of Can- 

 ada" (Montreal and London, 1887-'88), the last 

 named a notably careful work. 



Rung. Prince, a Chinese statesman, born in 1830 ; 

 died in Pekin, May 29, 1898. He was a younger 

 brother of the Emperor Hsien-Fang, and when di- 

 rect diplomatic relations with European nations 

 were established as the result of the war of 1859 he 

 was appointed president of the Tsung-li-Yamen, the 

 newly constituted board of foreign relations. When 

 Hsien-Fang died a few months later he concocted 

 and carried to a successful issue the palace revolu- 

 tion by which the two Empresses came to be 

 regents, and he continued to guide and direct the 

 affairs of the court until the unfortunate issue of 

 the conflict with France compelled him to retire in 

 1884. When the Japanese war broke out in 1894 

 the Empress Dowager called him from the privacy 

 and seclusion in which he had passed his life in the 



