614 OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



OGDEN, WILLIAM B. 



von, the oldest officer in the Prussian service, 

 born April 13, 1784; died November 1, 1877. 

 He entered the Prussian army in 1796, took part 

 in the campaigns against Napoleon, command- 

 ed the allied troops against Denmark in 1848, 

 resigned his command September 8th to quell 

 the revolution in Berlin, and having succeeded 

 in this was created general of cavalry in 1849, 

 after having been major-general since 1823, 

 and lieutenant-general since 1838. In 1856, 

 on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of 

 his military service, King William created him 

 a field-marshal. With him a large part of 

 old specific Prussian history passed away. A 

 regimental cadet when King William was 

 born, decorated for valor in the field in the 

 first days of the present century, a colonel at 

 Waterloo, and a general over fifty years ago, 

 it was thought very probable that this extraor- 

 dinary veteran, of whom the Berliners said, 

 " He has forgotten how to die," might outlive 

 his sovereign. He was one of the curiosities 

 of Berlin, and when he would ride through the 

 Thiergarten and Unter den Linden, carefully 

 strapped to his horse, he would be followed 

 by numerous gamins to whom he would throw 

 coins. "Papa Wrangel," as he was called, 

 was in every sense a true child of Berlin, hav- 

 ing even that disregard for the rules of the 

 German language so common among the low- 

 er classes of that city. 



WUNDEBLICH, KABL AiTGTJST, a German phy- 

 sician, born August 4, 1815 ; died September 

 25, 1877. He studied medicine in the Univer- 

 sity of Tubingen, where he commenced to lect- 

 ure in 1840, and in 1850 went to Leipsic as 

 Professor of Clinics. He was the author of 

 " Handbnch der Pathologie und Therapie " (3 

 vols., 1846-'54; 2d edition, 1853), "Ueber die 

 franzosische und deutsche Medicin" (1841), 

 "Versuch einer pathologischen Physiologie 

 des Blutes " (1844), "Geschichte der Medicin " 

 (1859), and " Ueber die Eigenwarme in Krank- 

 heiten " (1868). In 1841 he established, to- 

 gether with Roser, the Archivfurphysiologische 

 Heilkunde. 



WTATT, Sir MATTHEW DIGBY, a British archi- 

 tect, born in 1820; died May 21, 1877. In 

 1851 he superintended the erection of the 

 Crystal Palace in London, in 1852-'54 the fine 

 art department and decorations of the Crystal 

 Palace at Sydenham, was appointed surveyor 

 to the East India Company, and in 1859 was 

 knighted and appointed the first Professor of 

 Fine Arts in Cambridge. He was the anthor of 

 a large number of works, among them, " The 

 Industrial Arts of the XlXth Century" (2 

 vols., 1851; with 160 plates), "Fine Art" 

 (1870), and "An Architect's Note Book in 

 Spain " (1872). 



ZiMMEHMANif, KABL, a German theologian, 

 born August 23, 1803; died June 12, 1877. 

 He was one of the principal founders and pro- 

 moters of the " Gustav- Adolf -Verein," estab- 

 lished for the purpose of founding Protestant 

 communities in strictly Catholic parts of Ger- 



many. He was also the author of a consider- 

 able number of works, and the editor of various 

 educational and theological journals. 



ZITZ, FBANZ, a member of the German Par- 

 liament, born in 1803; died April 30, 1877. 

 In the revolutionary movements of 1848 he 

 took an active part, and was a prominent mem- 

 ber of the German National Assembly. He 

 was forced, however, to flee from Germany, 

 and having gone to the United States, he es- 

 tablished himself in New York as notary pub- 

 lic with Friedrich Kapp. He returned to his 

 native country in 1868. 



ZOPFL, HEINBIOH MATHETTS, a German jurist, 

 born April 6, 1807; died July 4, 1877. He 

 studied in the University of Wiirzburg, and 

 afterward lectured in the University of Hei- 

 delberg, becoming an ordinary professor in 

 1842. In 1850 he was elected a member of 

 the first Chamber of Baden, and from there 

 was sent to the State House of the Union Par- 

 liament of Erfurt. He was the author of a 

 number of works, the best known of which 

 are "Grundsatze des allgemeinen und deut- 

 schen Staatsrechts " (1839; 5th edition, 1863), 

 and " Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte " (3d edition, 

 (1858). 



ZWYSEX, JOHN, a Dutch Catholic prelate, died 

 in October, 1877. He became Bishop of Utrecht 

 in 1852, and of Bois-le-Duc in 1868. He was 

 one of the most active of the Dutch Catholics, 

 and in 1853 had contributed materially to the 

 restoration of the Episcopate in the Nether- 

 lands. 



OGDEN, WILLIAM B., died in New York 

 City, August 3d. He was born in Delaware 

 County, N. Y., in 1805. At the age of 21 he 

 entered a large mercantile firm, and in 1834 

 he was a member of the New York Legisla- 

 ture, where he gave special attention to the bill 

 providing for the construction of the Erie 

 Railway. In 1835 he removed to Chicago, 

 where he established a Land and Trust Agency ; 

 in 1837 he became the first mayor of the city, 

 and in 1860 he was elected to the State Senate. 

 His lumbering establishment, situated in Pesh- 

 tigo, Wis., was one of the largest in the world; 

 and he was among the first to bring mowing 

 and reaping machines into general use, at his 

 suggestion the first reaper being sent to the 

 London Exhibition in 1851. He was President 

 of the National Railroad Convention held in 

 1850, to take measures in reference to build- 

 ing the Pacific Railroad, was also President of 

 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad Com- 

 pany, the Northwest Railroad Company, the 

 Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad Company, the 

 Buffalo & Mississippi Railroad Company, and 

 in 1862 he became the first President of the 

 Union Pacific Railroad Company, but soon re- 

 tired from that position. He was the first 

 President of Rush Medical College, and gave 

 timely aid to the Theological Seminary of the 

 Northwest, the Historical Society of Chicago, 

 the Academy of Sciences, the Astronomical 

 Society, the University of Chicago, and the 



