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pal work, " Die Topographie von Jerusalem und 

 seinen Umgebungen " (1863-'54). 



TBEVISANATO, JOSEPH, an Italian cardinal, 

 born February 15, 1801 ; died April 28, 1877. 

 He was ordained a priest in 1824, and was for 

 seven years Professor of Exegesis in the Patri- 

 archial Seminary. He became Bishop of 

 Verona in March, 1854; Archbishop of Udine 

 in September, 1852; Patriarch in 1862, and 

 Cardinal of Venice in 1863. In 1854, the Em- 

 peror Francis Joseph conferred on him the 

 Order of the Iron Cross, and created him a 

 Privy Councilor. He was also Primate of 

 Dalmatia, Metropolitan of Venice, and Abbot 

 of St. Cypres, all honorary titles. 



TSCHABUSCHNIGG, ADOLF, Ritter von, an Aus- 

 trian politician and poet, born July 9, 1809; 

 died November 1, 1877. In 1861 he was elected 

 to the Austrian Chamber of Deputies by the 

 Diet of Carinthia, and remained a member of 

 that body until 1870. In the Ministry under 

 Count Potozki, he was Minister of Justice, but 

 resigned in 1871, together with the rest of the 

 Ministry. In 1870 he was created a member 

 of the Herrenhaus. His collected poems ap- 

 peared in 1833 (3d ed., 1864). He also pub- 

 lished a number of humorous and other novels. 



VOIGTS-RHETZ, CONSTANTIN BERNHABD VON, 

 a German general, born July 16, 1809; died 

 April 14, 1877. He entered the Prussian army 

 in 1827, was appointed to the general staff with 

 the rank of captain in 1841, became chief of 

 the staff of the Fifth Army Corps in 1852, and in 

 1858 commander of the Ninth Infantry Brigade. 

 In 1859 he was appointed director of the gen- 

 eral war department in the Ministry of War, 

 and as such took an active part in the reorgan- 

 ization of the Prussian army. In 1860 he was 

 appointed commander of the Federal fortress 

 of Luxemburg, and in 1864 of Frankfort. In 

 the Austrian war of 1866 he was chief of the 

 general staff of the First Army Corps, and in 

 the war of 1870 was in command of the Tenth 

 Army Corps, in both of which positions he 

 distinguished himself considerably. 



VOLKMANN, ALFRED WILHELM, a German 

 physiologist, born July 1, 1801 ; died April 

 21, 1877. After having studied medicine and 

 the natural sciences in the University of Leip- 

 sic from 1821 to 1826, he spent some years in 

 London, and returned to Leipsic in 1828, receiv- 

 ing an appointment as extraordinary professor 

 in the university in 1834. In 1837 he received a 

 call to the University of Dorpat, but a quarrel 

 with the Russian Government caused him to 

 resign, and in 1843 he went to the University 

 of Halle as Professor of Physiology, to which 

 was afterward added the chair of Anatomy. 

 The best known of his works are: ^'Neue 

 Beitrage znr Physiologic des Gesichtssinnes " 

 (1836), and " Physiologische Untersuchungen 

 im Gebiete der Optik " (1863-'64). He also con- 

 tributed a large number of articles to Poggen- 

 (iorfFsAnnalen, Wagner's "Physiologishes Wor- 

 terbuch," and Muller's Archiv.fur Physiologic. 



WAOKEBNAGEL, PHILIPP, a German scholar, 



born in 1800 ; died June 20, 1877. He was 

 principally known by his work " Das deutsche 

 Kircheulied von der altesten Zeit bis zu Anfang 

 des XVII. Jahrhunderts " (4 vols., 1864-74). 



WAHALA, ACGUSTIX, a Roman Catholic bish- 

 op, born January 23, 1802; died September 

 10, 1877. He was appointed Bishop of Leit- 

 meritz in Bohemia in 1866. He took a prom- 

 inent part in the political struggles of Bohe- 

 mia, being one of the most ardent Czechs. 



WARBEN, SAMUEL, a British author and ju- 

 rist, born May 23, 1807; died July 81, 1877. 

 He was educated at the University of Edin- 

 burgh, was called to the bar at the Inner Tem- 

 ple in 1831, and was made a Queen's Counsel 

 in 1851. In the following year he became Re- 

 corder of Hull, which position he filled until 

 1874, when he resigned. In 1856 he was elect- 

 ed to Parliament for Midhurst ; but being ap- 

 pointed in 1859 Master in Lunacy, he resigned 

 his seat. He wrote a number of novels, of 

 which " Ten Thousand a Year " was considered 

 by far the best. He also wrote a number of 

 legal works. 



WEEKES, HENRY, a British sculptor, born in 

 1807; died May, 1877. He was a pupil of 

 William Behnes and Sir Francis Chantrey, to 

 whose studio, in Pimlico, he succeeded. While 

 still a student he was a constant exhibitor at 

 the Royal Academy, and in 1837 he completed 

 the first bust of Queen Victoria made after 

 her coronation. Among his works are the 

 statues of Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, ex- 

 ecuted for the " Martyrs' Memorial " at Ox- 

 ford; of Dr. Goodall, at Eton; of the Marquis 

 Wellesley in the India House ; of Lord Bacon, 

 at Trinity College, Cambridge ; of Lord Auck- 

 land for Calcutta; and of Sir E. Barnes for 

 Ceylon. Among his later works are busts of 

 Lord Truro, Dean Bnckland, and the Duke of 

 Marlborough, and statues of John Hunter, 

 Harvey, one of the groups in the Albert Me- 

 morial, and of Charles II. for the House of 

 Lords. In 1850 he exhibited " The Suppliant," 

 and in 1852 "A Shepherd." In the latter 

 year he was awarded the medal offered by the 

 Society of Arts, for the best treatise on the 

 fine art section of the Great Exhibition of 

 1851. He was elected A. R. A. in 1860, R. A. M. 

 in 1864, and Professor of Sculpture in the Roy- 

 al Academy in 1873. 



WEISKE, JULIUS, a German jurist, born in 

 1801 ; died March 10, 1877. He was Professor 

 of Law in the University of Leipsic, and was 

 the author of a number of valuable works, 

 among them a " Law Dictionary " (" Rechta- 

 lexikon"). 



WILDBRMTTTH, OiTiLiE, a German authoress, 

 born in 1817; died June 12, 1877. She was 

 well known throughout Germany by her pleas- 

 ant sketches of homo life. Among her best 

 known works are " Schwabisoho Pfarrhfiuser," 

 "Auguste," "Heimath der Frau," and "An* 

 dem Frauenleben." She also wrote a large 

 number of stories for girls. 



WRANGKL, FRIEDBICII HEIXBICH EBSST, Count 



