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Beautes do Lord Byron," and the "Galerio 

 des Personnages de Shakespeare." 



PISTOKIUS, HERMANN ALEXANDER, a German 

 poet and clergyman, born in 1811 ; died in 

 May, 1877. He gained great celebrity in 1870 

 by bis " Kntschke-Lied," whicb was translated 

 into almost all modern languages. He received 

 a golden medal from the Grand-Duke of Meck- 

 lenburg-Schwerin, and another from the Ger- 

 mans of Chicago, as the author of the most 

 popular war poem. 



POGGENDOBFF, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, a German 

 scientist, born December 29, 1796 ; died Jan- 

 uary 24, 1877. He studied chemistry and 

 natural philosophy in Berlin, and devoted him- 

 self particularly to galvanism. In the course 

 of his researches he invented the magnetome- 

 ter, so called by Gauss. He was Professor of 

 Natural Philosophy in the University of Berlin 

 from 1834 up to his death, and from 1824 to 

 1874 was the editor of the Annalen der 

 Physik und Chemie. He was also the author 

 of a large number of valuable works. 



FOLDING, JOHN BEDE, Roman Catholic Arch- 

 bishop of Sydney, died March 16, 1877. He 

 was consecrated in 1834 as Vicar Apostolic of 

 New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and 

 was nominated to Sydney in 1842. 



POWTS, HOBATIO, an English bishop, born in 

 1805 ; died May 31, 1877. He was the third 

 son of the second Lord Lilford, and was edu- 

 cated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He 

 was Rector of Warrington from 1831 to 1854, 

 was in 1854 consecrated Bishop of Sodor and 

 Man, and resigned that see a few months be- 

 fore his death. 



PUTZ, WILHELM, a German writer of school- 

 books, born in 1806; died June 4, 1877. He 

 was the author of a large number of histori- 

 cal, geographical, and literary handbooks for 

 schools, many of which have been translated 

 into almost all the modern languages. The 

 best known among them are " Grundriss der 

 Geographie und Geschichte der alten, neuen 

 und mittleren Zeit " (15th ed., 1877), " Lehr- 

 buch der vergleichenden Erdkunde " (10th ed., 

 1877), and " Leitfaden bei dem Unterrichte in 

 der vergleichenden Erdbeschreibung " (16th 

 ed., 1877). 



REICHLIN-MELDEGG, KARL ALEXANDEB, Frei- 

 herr von, a German scholar, born February 

 22, 1801 ; died February 15, 1877. He studied 

 in the University of Freiburg, was ordained 

 as priest in 1822, and in 1825 received an ap- 

 pointment in the University of Freiburg. In 

 consequence of his teachings he soon came in 

 conflict with the Church, and in 1832 left the 

 Catholic Church. In the same year he was 

 appointed Professor of Philosophy in Heidel- 

 berg, where he remained up to his death. 

 Among his best known works is his "Ge- 

 echichte des Christenthums." 



REINHART, KARL AUGUST, a German painter 

 and author, born April 25, 1818; died August 

 11, 1877. He devoted himself at first to land- 

 scape painting, but afterward turned his at- 

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tention to caricature?, and furnished a large 

 number of excellent ones to the leading hu- 

 morous papers of Germany. He was the au- 

 thor of the novel u Der fiinfte Mai " (4 vols., 

 1869), and a number of humorous tales pub- 

 lished under the title of " Dintenklexe" (2 

 vols., 1869). In 1874 he established the hu- 

 morous paper Der Calculator an der Elbe. 



ROBERTSON, JAMES BURTON, a British schol- 

 ar, born November 15, 1800; died in Febru- 

 ary, 1877. He was educated in the Catholic 

 College of St. Edmund, near Ware, which he 

 quitted in 1819, and afterward visited France 

 and Germany. In 1855 he was appointed to 

 the chair ol Modern History at the Catholic 

 University of Dublin, to which was afterward 

 added that of English Literature. He was the 

 author of " Lectures on Various Subjects of 

 Ancient and Modern History" (1858); "Lect- 

 ures on Spain in the 18th Century; on the 

 Life, Writings, and Times of Chateaubriand; 

 and on the Freemasons, Illuminati, Jacobins, 

 and Socialists" (1864); and "Lectures on the 

 Life, Writings, and Times of Edmund Burke " 

 (1868). He also translated a number of works 

 from the German, of which that of Schlegel's 

 " Philosophy of History " (1835) was very suc- 

 cessful. 



ROGERS, HENRY, n British scholar, bore in 

 1806 ; died August 20, 1877. He was educated 

 at Highbury College, was for a few years pas- 

 tor of an independent congregation, afterward 

 became Professor of English Language and Lit- 

 erature in University College, London, and in 

 1858 was appointed principal of the Lanca- 

 shire Independent College. He contributed a 

 large number of articles to the Edinburgh Re- 

 view and to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." 



Rous, HENRY JOHN, a British admiral and 

 sportsman, born in January, 1795; died June 

 21, 1877. He entered the navy in 1808, and 

 distinguished himself on various occasions by 

 his bravery and gallantry. In 1841 he was 

 elected to Parliament from Westminster, and 

 was rejected in 1846. Notwithstanding hie 

 defeat, Sir Robert Peel appointed him a Lord 

 of the Admiralty. As a sportsman he was 

 well known throughout England. He had been 

 steward of the Jockey Club almost uninter- 

 ruptedly since 1838, and as such he was almost 

 supremo as an authority on the turf; and his 

 work on "The Laws and Practice of Horse 

 Racing" procured for him the title of the 

 "Blackstone of the Turf." 



RUNEBKRG, JOHAN LuDvio, a Finnish poet 

 and scholar, born February 5, 1804; died Way 

 6, 1877. He graduated from the University 

 of Abo in 1827, and in 1880 was appointed tu- 

 tor of Roman literature in the new Univenttj 

 of Helsingfbrs. In 1881 liis poem " Grafven i 

 Perrho " gained the second prize of the Swed- 

 ish Academy. In 1882 he published an idyl, 

 " Elgskyttarne " (The Elk Hunters), which 

 considered one of his finest and most spirited 

 writings. In 1837 he was appointed to the 

 chair of Classical Literature in the College of 



