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finest paintings in the Dresden Gallery. This 

 work, completed in 1852, comprised 190 large 

 plates, all of which he engraved himself. In 

 1848 he turned his attention almost exclusively 

 to galvanography, and in 1853 again changed, 

 this time to photography. His productions 

 in this branch soon gained him great fame, and 

 at the exhibitions in Munich and Paris he ob- 

 tained the first medals. 



HANSEN, JENS ANDERSEN, a Danish Radical, 

 born in 1807; died May 8, 1877. He was 

 originally a working shoemaker, but by steadi- 

 ness and hard work he gradually reached a 

 most important position in the Lower House, 

 where he was the head of the Radical party. 



HEIS, EDUARD, a German astronomer, born 

 February 18, 1806; died June 30, 1877. He 

 studied in the University of Bonn, received an 

 appointment in 1827 in the Gymnasium of 

 Cologne, and in 1837 in that of Aix-la-Cha- 

 pelle, and in 1852 was appointed Professor of 

 Mathematics and Astronomy in the University 

 of Minister, where he remained up to his 

 death. He was the author of a large number 

 of works, some of them going through many 

 editions. Among them are " Die periodischen 

 Sternschnuppen" (1849), and "Sammlung von 

 Beispielen und Aufgaben aus der allgemeinen 

 Arithmetik und Algebra" (47th ed., 1877). 

 Together with Eschweiler he published " Lehr- 

 buch der Geometrie " (vol. i., " Planimetrie," 

 6th ed., 1876; vol. ii., " Stereometric," 3d ed., 

 1874 ; vol. iii., " Trigonometric," 2d ed., 1875). 

 Among his other works are " Neuer Himmels- 

 atlas" (1875), and " Zodiakallicht-Beobach- 

 tungen in den letzten 29 Jahren, 1847 -'75 " 

 (1875). From 1858 to 1875 he was the editor of 

 Wochenschrift fur Astronomic. 



HERBECK, JOHANN, Ritter von, a German 

 musical director and composer, born Decem- 

 ber 25, 1831; died October 28, 1877. After 

 holding several positions as musical director, 

 he was, in 1866, appointed musical director to 

 the court in Vienna, from which position he 

 retired in 1875 on account of his health. He 

 composed numerous masses, symphonies, quar- 

 tets, and songs, and one opera. 



HKEOTJLANO DE CARVALHO E ARATTJO, ALEXAN- 

 DRO, a Portuguese scholar and historian, born 

 in 1796 (according to " Meyer's Konversations- 

 lexicon;" according to Vapereau, "Diction- 

 naire des Contemporains," on March 28, 1810) ; 

 died September 14, 1877. He studied in Paris, 

 and having returned to his native country he 

 joined the Liberal party and became the editor 

 of the paper Panorama. In the poem " A Voz 

 de Propheta " (The Voice of the Prophet) he 

 painted the future of his country in sombre 

 colors. This was followed by a collection of 

 v his earlier poems under the title of " The 

 Harp of the Faithful." His novels " Enrich, 

 the Priest of the Goths," and " The Monk of 

 Cister," took a high place in Portuguese liter- 

 ature. The "Historia de Portugal" (4 vols., 

 1845-'52) was remarkable for its breadth of 

 ideas, its purity of style, and its sharp criti- 



cism. In 1841 he became a member of the 

 Cortes, and was afterward appointed librarian 

 to the King. Among his other works, the 

 most important are : " History of the Origin 

 and Establishment of the Inquisition in Portu- 

 gal " (3 vols., 1854-'59), and " Studies on Civil 

 Marriage" (1866). 



HICKLIN, JOHN, a British writer and journal- 

 ist, died January 13, 1877. He had been the 

 editor of the Nottingham Journal, the Chester 

 Courant, and other journals, and was the au- 

 thor of " Church and State," " Literary Recre- 

 ations," and other works. 



HILL, Mrs., a daughter of Robert Southey, 

 born in 1808 ; died in April, 1877. It was this 

 daughter to whom the poet often affectionately 

 alluded in his correspondence as his "Little 

 Bertha." She was married to her cousin, Rev. 

 Herbert Hill. 



HIRZEL, SALOMON, a German publisher, born 

 February 13, 1804; died February 8, 1877. 

 In 1830 he became one of the proprietors of 

 the publishing house of Weidmann & Co., in 

 Leipsic, but separated himself from it in 1853 

 in order to establish a business for himself, in 

 which he was quite successful. He was con- 

 sidered to possess an intimate knowledge of 

 the works of Goethe, as well as the most com- 

 plete Goethe library. On the basis of this he 

 published, in 1848, his " Verzeichniss einer 

 Goethe-Bibliothek " (3d ed., 1874), which, al- 

 though published for distribution among his 

 friends only, is probably the most complete 

 catalogue of the kind printed. 



HOEOK, KARL CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH, a Ger- 

 man scholar, born May 18, 1793 ; died January 

 10, 1877. He was Professor of Classical Phi- 

 lology and Ancient History in the University of 

 Gottingen, and at the same time librarian-in 

 chief of the university library. He was the 

 author of a work on Crete (3 vols., 1823-'29), 

 and of a Roman history (1841-'50). 



HOFMANN, JOHANN CHRISTIAN CONRAD VON, 

 a German theologian, born December 21, 1810 ; 

 died December 20, 1877. He was connected 

 with the University of Erlangen after 1834, 

 with the exception of a short period from 1842 

 to 1845, when he was Professor of Theology in 

 the University of Rostock. His most impor- 

 tant works are : " Weissagung und Erfullung" 

 (2 vols., 1841-'44), "Der Schriftbeweis " (2d 

 ed., 1857-60), and "Die Heilig_e Schrift des 

 Neuen Testaments, zusammenhangend tmter- 

 sucht" (7 vols., 1862-'75). 



HOFMEISTER, WiLHELM, a German botanist, 

 born May 18, 1824; died January 12, 1877. 

 He was originally intended for a commercial 

 business, but in his leisure hours diligently 

 studied natural sciences, paying particular at- 

 tention to physiological botany. In 1863 he 

 received a call as Professor of Botany to Hei- 

 delberg, and in 1872 to Gottingen. He was 

 the author of " Die Entstehung des Embryo der 

 Phanerogamen " (1849), and " Vergleichende 

 Untersuchungen hShererKryptogamenund der 

 Koniferen" (1851), besides numerous contri- 



