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Borga, and from 1847 to 1850 was rector of 

 the college. Besides a number of fine lyric po- 

 ems and epics published after this period, he 

 wrote the "Fanrik Stals Sagner" (1st series, 

 1848; 2d series, 1860), in which he described 

 the heroism and sorrows of his people at the 

 time of the war between Sweden and Russia, 

 which ended in the cession of Finland, and 

 which are considered the finest lyrics in the 

 Swedish language. 



SANDBOEN, JOHN SEWELL, a Canadian judge, 

 born in Gilmanton, N. H., January 1, 1819 ; 

 died July 18, 1877. Having graduated from 

 Dartmouth College in 1845, he went to Can- 

 ada, and in 1847 was admitted to the bar in 

 Montreal. In 1850 he was elected to Parlia- 

 ment for Sherbrooke County, and was reflected 

 in 1852 and 1854. He was subsequently elect- 

 ed from Coinpton County, and remained a mem- 

 ber until 1857. In 1863 he was elected to rep- 

 resent the Division of Wellington in the Legis- 

 lative Council, and served until the Confedera- 

 tion. He was then appointed a Dominion 

 Senator, and held the office until 1873, when 

 he was elevated to the Bench as Judge of the 

 Superior Court at Sherbrooke, by the Sir John 

 A. Mflcdonald administration, to which he was 

 opposed politically. In 1874 he was elevated 

 to the Queen's Bench. In politics he was a 

 Liberal, but always moderate in his views. In 

 1863 he was made a Queen's Councilor. 



SANFORD, JOHN LANGTON, a British histo- 

 rian, born in 1824 ; died July 27, 1877. Though 

 incapable of sustained labor, weakened by a 

 latent heart disease, which ultimately carried 

 him off, and for the later years of his life ir- 

 remediably blind, his work was considered, by 

 many, of the highest order. His book on the 

 Commonwealth is regarded by critics as a 

 standard work, while his " Characteristics of 

 English Kings " called forth warm commenda- 

 tions from men like Mr. Freeman and Prof. 

 Stnbbs. 



SANSAS, PIERRE, a French Radical, born in 

 1803 ; died January 6, 1877. He was one of 

 the vieilles barbes, the Democrats of 1848, and 

 was banished after the coup d'etat. He went 

 to Spain, but returned after a short time and 

 was then transported to Algeria. The Govern- 

 ment of September 4, 1870, appointed him at- 

 torney-general for Bordeaux, from which post 

 he was, however, removed by Thiers. He was 

 elected a member of the National Assembly and 

 afterward of the Chamber of Deputies for the 

 Gironde, in both of which bodies he acted with 

 the small number of Intransigents led by Louis 

 Blanc. 



SANTINI, GIOVANNI, an Italian astronomer, 

 born June 30, 1786; died June 28, 1877. He 

 graduated from the University of Pisa, was 

 appointed professor in 1824, and rector of the 

 University of Padua in 1825. His principal 

 works are " Decimal Arithmetic " (1808), "Ele- 

 ments of Astronomy " s (1820), " Logarithms 

 and Trigonometry," ani" Optical Problems" 

 (1821-'23J. 



SOHEBE, GREGOR VON, a German Catholic 

 prelate, born June 22, 1804 ; died October 24, 

 1877. He was ordained a priest in 1824, and in 

 1856 was created Archbishop of Munich. He 

 was loved and respected by all for his noble 

 character and his goodness of heart. In the 

 (Ecumenical Council of 1870, he opposed the 

 declaration of the dogma of papal infallibility. 



SOHMID, THEODOR, a German philologist and 

 teacher, born December 10, 1798 ; died Janu- 

 ary 12, 1877. He possessed an intimate knowl- 

 edge of the works of Horace, and published an 

 edition of the epistles of this poet in two parts 

 (1828-'30). He was a contributor to a number 

 of pedagogical journals. 



SOIALOJA, ANTONIO, an Italian statesman 

 and political economist, born in 1817; died 

 October 18, 1877. He was admitted to the 

 bar in Naples, in 1845, was successively Minis- 

 ter of Agriculture, Commerce, and of Ecclesias- 

 tical Affairs, in the kingdom of Naples in 1848, 

 after which he was elected deputy and con- 

 tinued to serve until the dissolution of the 

 Chamber in 1849. He then reentered his pro- 

 fession, and, becoming implicated in the insur- 

 rection of 1849, he was banished from Naples. 

 He then went to Turin, and was elected a dep- 

 uty to the National Parliament from the prov- 

 ince of Casale in 1859. In 1 860 he was recalled 

 to Naples as Minister of Finance, and in 1862 

 was sent to Paris to negotiate a new treaty of 

 commerce between France and Italy. In 1865 

 he became Minister of Finance in La Marmora's 

 cabinet. In this position he resorted to vari- 

 ous extraordinary measures to provide for the 

 expenses, and was succeeded in 1867 by Signor 

 Cambray-Dingy. He was the author of several 

 works on political economy. 



SFORZA, SISTO RIARIO, an Italian cardinal, 

 born December 5, 1810; died September 29, 

 1877. He was admitted by Pope Gregory XVI. 

 among his chamberlains, was consecrated Bish- 

 op of Aversa in 1845, and in 1846 was created 

 Archbishop of Naples and cardinal. He was 

 distinguished for his piety and goodness of 

 heart, and was truly beloved by the people of 

 Naples. As an instance of his charity it is 

 related that when, during the reign Ferdinand 

 II., Naples was visited by the cholera, and 

 when aU who could leave the city had gone to 

 Gaeta, the archbishop alone remained. He 

 sold his horses and hie carriage and almost 

 everything belonging to himself, and with the 

 proceeds aided the poor. Soon, however, this 

 source failed him, and the archbishop request- 

 ed the king by letter to go security for him at 

 the bank of Naples for a note of 60,000 ducats. 

 The king, who disliked the archbishop on ac- 

 count of his popularity, flatly refused. The 

 latter then applied to the Baron Rothschild, 

 then residing at Naples, who instantly indorsed 

 his note for 100,000 francs. In the course of fl 

 year the archbishop paid his debt. 



SIMON, MARIE, a German philanthropist, 

 born in 1824 ; died February 21, 1877. In the 

 wars of 1866 and 1870, she labored unceaa- 



