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He studied in the Universities of Heidelberg, 

 Tubingen, Berlin, and Gottingen. His studies 

 were interrupted by the war of 1870, in which 

 he took part. At the close of the war he re- 

 sumed his studies, devoting himself to Indian 

 philology, and particularly to the study of Pra- 

 krit. In 1873 he received an appointment to 

 collect and publish the inscriptions of Ceylon. 

 It was while engaged in this work that he was 

 attacked by malaria, to which he finally suc- 

 cumbed. He published two reports on Ms 

 labors in 1875 and 1876, which are full of in- 

 teresting material. 



GEASSMANN, HERMANN GUNTHER, a German 

 mathematician, born April 15, 1809 ; died Sep- 

 tember 26, 1877. He succeeded his father as 

 Professor of Mathematics in the Gymnasium of 

 Stettin, and gained with his " Ausdehnungs- 

 lehre" (1844 ; 2d ed., 1862) a great reputa- 

 tation. He was also distinguished as an Orient- 

 alist, and published a dictionary of the " Rig- 

 Veda" (1873-'75), and a complete German 

 translation of the same. 



GUSTAVUS, Prince of VASA, born November 

 9,1799; died August 4, 1877. He was the only 

 son of King Gustavus IV. Adolphus of Sweden, 

 who, in 1809 was dethroned by his uncle, Duke 

 Charles of Sodermannland. The latter then 

 ascended the throne as Charles XIII., and as 

 he was old and without issue, he adopted, first, 

 Prince Christian of Augustenburg, and upon 

 the latter's death the French Marshal Berna- 

 dotte, who ruled Sweden as Charles XIV. 

 John. Prince Gustavus entered the Austrian 

 army, although he never resigned his claim to 

 the Swedish throne. His daughter Carola is 

 the present Queen of Saxony. 



HACKETT, Sir WILLIAM, Chief Justice of 

 Ceylon, born in 1824; died at Colombo, of 

 cholera, in May, 1877. He was called to the 

 bar at Lincoln's Inn, in 1851. In 1861 he was 

 appointed Queen's Advocate on the Gold Coast, 

 and was Acting Chief Justice from 1861 till 

 confirmed in 1863. In the following year he 

 was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Gold 

 Coast. In 1866 he became Recorder of Prince 

 of Wales's Island, in which year he was also 

 knighted, and in 1871 was appointed Acting 

 Chief Justice of the Straits settlements. In 



1875 he became Chief Justice of Feejee, and 

 member of the Legislative Council, and in 



1876 Chief Justice of Ceylon. 

 HACKLANDER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM, a Ger- 

 man novelist, born November 1, 1816; died 

 July 5, 1877. After having devoted himself 

 for a short time to commercial pursuits, and 

 after having served in the army, he went to 

 Stuttgart, when he published his "Das Sol- 

 datenleben im Frieden," which soon made his 

 name popular. Among his best-known novels 

 are "Europaisehes Sklavenleben " (4 vols., 

 1854), " Kunstlerroman " (5 vols., 1866), and 

 "Der letzte Bombardier " (4 vols., 1870). In 

 1855 he established, with Hoefer, the magazine 

 Hawblatter, and in 1857, with Edmund Zoller, 

 Ueher Land und Meer, which soon became 



one of the most widely-circulated magazines in 

 Germany. 



HALLIDAT-DUFF, AXDREW, a British writer, 

 born in 1830; died April 10, 1877. He was 

 educated at Marischal College and University, 

 Aberdeen. His education completed, he came 

 to London, and devoted himself to literature. 

 His first engagement was with the Morning 

 Chronicle ; he afterward wrote for the Leader, 

 and his essays having attracted the notice of 

 Thackeray, he was invited to write for the 

 Cornhill Magazine. Since 1861, he contrib- 

 uted largely to All the Year Round, and 

 many of his papers have been republished in a 

 collected form. One paper from his pen, en- 

 titled "My Account with Her Majesty," ex- 

 plaining the working of the Post-Omce Savings 

 Bank, enjoyed a very wide circulation, and 

 was reprinted by the Post-Office Department 

 for the information and encouragement of de- 

 positors. Later on he devoted himself almost 

 entirely to dramatic literature. Among his 

 more recent productions of this class are a 

 dramatized version of Scott's " Lady of the 

 Lake "(1872); "Heart's Delight " (1873); a 

 drama in four acts from " Dombey & Son ; " 

 "Richard Cceur de Lion" (1874), founded on 

 Scott's " Talisman ;" and " Nicholas Nickleby" 

 (1875). 



HAMILTON, Sir WILLIAM, born February 14, 

 1790; died February 14, 1877. Ho entered 

 the navy in 1803, was a prisoner of war in 

 France from 1805 to 1814, was appointed 

 vice-consul at Flushing and Middleburg in 

 1817; at Antwerp, and afterward at Ostend, 

 in 1818; at Newport in 1820; and at Boulogne 

 in 1822. He was appointed consul there in 

 1826, and retired on a pension in 1873, and was 

 knighted for his long official services the same 

 year. 



HAMMERICII, FREDERIK, a Danish theologian, 

 born August 9, 1809 ; died February 9, 1811. 

 Having completed his studies he traveled 

 through Sweden and Germany, and having 

 acted for some time as preacher, he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Theology in the Univer- 

 sity of Copenhagen. Ho was the author of a 

 number of historical works, among them : 

 " Denmark in the Age of the Waldemars " (2 

 vols., 1847-'48), "Denmark at the Time of 

 the Northern Union " (2 vols., 1849-'54), and 

 " Denmark under Feudatory Rule " (184U), be- 

 sides a number of sketches from the ware 

 in Schleswig. Among his works on Church 

 history, the most important are " St. Bridget 

 and the Church in the North " (1668), and his 

 " History of the Christian Church" (3 vols. ; 

 2d ed., 1872-'73). 



HANFSTANGL, FRANZ VON, a Gennnn lithog- 

 rapher and photographer, born March 1, 1804 ; 

 died April 18. 1877. He came to Munich, where 

 be completed his studies and in 1*29 wa ap- 

 pointed professor. He resigned thin position 

 four years later in order to open a litbogrnphic 

 establishment. In 1835 ho received an order 

 from the Saxon Government to lithograph the 



