HERMANN VOX HELfflOLTZ 



AN 



AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 



An Address delivered on the occasion of his Jubilee, 1891, 



IN the course of the past year, and most recently on 

 the occasion of the celebration of my seventieth 

 birthday, and the subsequent festivities, I have been 

 overloaded with honours, with marks of respect and of 

 goodwill in a way which could never have been ex- 

 pected. My own sovereign, his Majesty the German. 

 Emperor, has raised me to the highest rank in the 

 Civil Service ; the Kings of Sweden and of Italy, my 

 former sovereign, the Grand Duke of Baden, and the 

 President of the French Eepublic, have conferred Grand 

 Crosses on me ; many academies, not only of science, 

 but also of the fine arts, faculties, and learned societies 

 spread over the whole world, from Tomsk to Melbourne, 

 have sent me diplomas, and richly illuminated addresses, 

 expressing in elevated language their recognition of 

 my scientific endeavours, and their thanks for those 

 endeavours, in terms which I cannot read without a 



