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Dusseldorf. He excelled in portrait and his- 

 torical painting, but chiefly in church decora- 

 tions. 



ST. GERMANS, EDWARD GRANVILLE ELIOT, 

 Earl of, a British statesman, born August 29, 

 1798 ; died October 7, 1877. He was educated 

 at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford. Prior to his accession to the peerage on 

 January 19, 1845, he sat in Parliament for 

 Liskeard from 1824 to 1832, and for East Corn- 

 wall from 1837 to 1845. He was Secretary of 

 Legation at Madrid from 1824 to 1833, and a 

 Lord of the Treasury from 1827 to 1832. In 

 1835, being then Lord Eliot, he went as envoy 

 to Spain, and concluded the famous Eliot Con- 

 vention. In 1841 he was made Chief Secretary 

 for Ireland, and in 1845 Postmaster-General. 

 From December, 1852, to March, 1855, he was 

 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; and twice 1857 

 to 1858, and 1859 to 1866 Lord Steward of 

 the Household. His administration of Ireland 

 was characterized by fairness and ability, and 

 gained for him the esteem of all parties. He 

 is succeeded by his son, William Gordon Corn- 

 wallis, born in 1829. 



STRANDBERG, 0. W. A., a Swedish poet, born 

 in 1818; died February 5, 1877. His first 

 volume of poems, entitled " Sangar i Pansar " 

 (1845), was mostly of a political character. 

 A second volume, which appeared some time 

 after, also contained mostly patriotic poems. He 

 also furnished a number of excellent transla- 

 tions of foreign poems, among which that of 

 Byron's " Don Juan" is considered the best. 



SWINHOE, ROBERT, a British naturalist, born 

 in 1836 ; died October 28, 1877. He was edu- 

 cated at King's College, and in 1854 received an 

 appointment in the British Consular Service 

 in China. While in China, he was actively en- 

 gaged in exploring the zoology of the country. 

 His first essay was " Notes on the Fauna of 

 the Amoy ;" and since then he contributed un- 

 interruptedly to various journals. He had com- 

 menced a complete work on the ornithology of 

 China, but was interrupted in its preparation 

 by death. He was a Fellow of the Royal and 

 a number of other societies. 



TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY Fox, a British au- 

 thor, born February 11, 1800 ; died September 

 21, 1877. He was educated at Harrow and 

 Cambridge, and represented Chippenham in the 

 Liberal interest in the first Reform Parliament. 

 In his "Pencil of Nature " (6 parts, 1844-'46) 

 he related the steps by which he was led to the 

 discovery of the photographic art, for which 

 he received, in 1842, the medal of the Royal 

 Society. Of late years he devoted himself to 

 the task of deciphering cumeiform inscrip- 

 tions. Among his principal works are " Il- 

 lustrations of the Antiquity of the Book of 

 Genesis " (1839) and "English Etymologies" 

 (1846). 



THOLUCK, FKIEDRIOH AUGUST GOTTREU, one 

 of the foremost theologians in Protestant Ger- 

 many, born in Breslau, March 30, 1799 ; died 

 June 10, 1877. He became in 1820 Privat- 



docent and in 1824 extraordinary Professor of 

 the Theological Faculty of Berlin ; but his great 

 influence upon the Protestant theology of Ger- 

 many began with his appointment as ordinary 

 Professor of Theology at the University of 

 Halle. As it was known that he was appointed 

 to this position for the special purpose of at- 

 tacking and repressing the "Old Rationalism," 

 which had its chief seat in Halle, all the pro- 

 fessors of the theological faculty signed a peti- 

 tion to the Government, praying for the repeal 

 of the appointment, as it was sure to disturb 

 the peace of the faculty. It was, however, 

 not repealed, and the theological school of 

 which Tholuck was one of the chief repre- 

 sentatives continued to enjoy exclusively for 

 many years the patronage of the Prussian Gov- 

 ernment. Tholuck saw, in the course of time, 

 the ascendency of his views at Halle, as well as 

 in many other theological faculties, and in 

 many church boards. As Tholuck's religious 

 system was to be those of the Moravians and 

 the Pietists, based on a religion of the heart 

 rather than on strict orthodoxy, he could not 

 reconcile himself with the new school of 

 Lutheran orthodoxy which of late has regained 

 great influence in Germany ; and he deeply re- 

 gretted that it wasjoined by large numbers of 

 his pupils. The principal works of Tholuck 

 have been translated into the languages of all 

 Protestant nations, and into French, and have 

 found a large circulation. His lectures at the 

 university were discontinued many years be- 

 fore his death. 



TITIENS, THERESA, a celebrated operatic sing- 

 er, born at Hamburg in 1834; died at London, 

 October 3, 1877. She made her first appear- 

 ance on the operatic stage at Hamburg, in 

 1849, in the character of Lucresia Borgia, in 

 Donizetti's opera of that name. She afterward 

 . appeared with great success at Frankfort and 

 Vienna, and made her debut in England as Va- 

 lentine, in " Les Huguenots," at Her Majesty's 

 Theatre, in 1858. From that time up to her 

 death, she was the most popular prima donna 

 on the English stage. In 1875 she made a bril- 

 liant tour of the United States. In 1876 her 

 health began to fail her, and she was com- 

 pelled to retire from the stage. Among her 

 different roles, her Norma, Donna Anna, Semi- 

 ramide, Lucrezia, Valentine and AgatJia were 

 declared by many to be unrivaled. 



TOBLER, TITUS, a Swiss Orientalist, born 

 June 25, 1806; died January 21, 1877. He 

 studied medicine, and afterward settled in his 

 native town, where he soon obtained an exten- 

 sive practice. His " Appenzellischer Sprach- 

 schatz " (1837) is considered one of the best 

 contributions to the study of Swiss dialects. 

 He made three journeys to Palestine, on which 

 he published a considerable number of works. 

 Among them are " Lustreise in's Morgenland " 

 (1839), " Plan von Jerusalem " (1839), " Beth- 

 lehem" (1849), "Golgotha" (1851), "Die 

 Siloahquelle und tor Oelberg " (1852), " Denk- 

 blatter aus Jerusalem " (1852), and his princi- 



