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28, 1806. Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (shil'lings-fürst), Prince Pri of (Chlodwig Karl Victor), Prince of Ratibor and Korvei. Korg Bon Mar, 31. 1819. A German statesman and diplomatist. He was Ba- varian minister of foreign affairs 1866-70; became German amba ador at Paris in 1874; and was appointed governor of Alsace-Lorraine in 1885. On the dismi al of Caprivi Oct., 1894, he became chancellor of the German Empire and president of the Pru ian ministry. Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Hogarth (ho'gärth), William. Born at Lon- don, Nov. 10, 1697: died at London, Oct. 26, 1764. A celebrated English painter and en- graver. In 1712 he was apprenticed to Ellis Gamble, a silversmith; in 1718 he turned his attention to engrav- ing; and in 1726 he first became known by his plates for (väl'den-börg-shil'lings-fürst), Prince of (Leo- "Hudibras." In 1729 he ran away with Sir James Thorn hill's only daughter, and was married at Padding ton church. He published in 1733 "The Harlot's Progre ," which was soon followed by "The Rake's Progre ." In 1735 Hogarth obtained the pa age of an act securing the rights of artists to their own designs. In 1736 he painted on the stairway of St. Bartholomew's Hospital "The Good Samaritan" and "The Pool of Bethesda." Among his other pictures are the “Distre ed Poet" and the "Enraged Musician" (1741), "Marriage à la Mode" (1745), "Industry and Idlene " (1747). He made a famous journey to France in 1748. In his later years Hogarth indulged in literary compositions, and wrote "The Analysis of Beauty." He painted a number of portraits of himself, the best of which is in the National Gallery, London. Hogarth is e entially a comic painter; his pictures are not indifferent, unimpa ioned descriptions of human nature, but rich, exuberant satires upon it. He is carried away by a pa ion for the ridiculous. His object is "to show vice her own feature, scorn her own image." He is so far from contenting himself with still life that he is always on the verge of caricature, though without ever falling into it. Hazlitt , Eng. Poets, p. 190. Hogarth Club. A London club for artists, established in 1870. It has a life cla , sketching club, and reading-room. Hogg (hog), James. Born at Ettrick, Selkirk shire, 1770: died at Eltrive Lake, Nov. 21, 1835. A Scottish poet, called "the Ettrick Shepherd" from his occupation. In 1790 he began to be known as a song-maker, and in 1796 his education had advanced so far that he began to write his verses. In 1802 he made the acquaintance of Scott. In 1810 he settled in Edinburgh with a view of devoting himself to literature, but went to Eltrive Lake in Yarrow about 1816. He was "the Shepherd" in Wilson's "Recreations of Christopher North." Among his poems are "The Queen's Wake" (1813), "The Pilgrims of the Sun" (1815), "Madoc of the Moor" (1816), "The Poetic Mirror, or the Living Bards of Great Britain" (1816: parodies), and Queen Hynde" (1826). Among his prose works are "The Brownie o' Bodsbeck, etc." (1817), and "Winter Evening Tales" (1820). His "Jacobite Relics, etc." (1819-20), are both prose and verse. Hogue (hōg), or Hague (hag; F. pron. häg), La. A promontory at the northwestern extremity of the department of Manche, France, projecting into the English Channel, in lat. pold Alexander). Born at Kupferzell, near Waldenburg, Würtemberg, Aug. 17, 1794: died at Vöslau, near Vienna, Nov. 13, 1849. A German Roman Catholic ecclesiastic. He was ordained priest in 1815, and became a member of the society of "Fathers of the Sacred Heart" about 1816, canon of Gro wardein in 1824, grand provost in 1829, and bishop of Sardica in part i bus infidelium in 1844. He several times came into conflict with the civil authorities as a practitioner of the prayer-cure. He wrote "Der im Geist der Katholischen Kirche betende Christ" (1819), etc. Hohenschwangau (hō"en-shväng'ou). A medieval stronghold in Swabia, Bavaria, 56 miles southwest of Munich, said to have been raised on Roman foundations, but entirely rebuilt by Maximilian II. It is especially interesting for its frescos, which include the "Legend of Lohengrin," many historical subjects, the "Life of a Medieval Lady," episodes of chivalry, etc. The garden exhibits a reproduction of the Fountain of Lions in the Alhambra. Hohenstaufen (hō'en-stou-fen). A village in Würtemberg, 23 miles east of Stuttgart. Its former castle was the seat of the Hohenstaufen family, Height, 2,237 feet. Hohenstaufen. A German princely family. It furnished sovereigns to Germany 1138-1208 and 1215-54, and to Sicily 1194-1266. Conradin, last of the line, was executed 1268. See "Geschichte der Hohenstaufen," by Rau mer. Hohenstein (hō'en-stin). A town in the governmental district of Zwickau, Saxony, 48 miles west-southwest of Dresden. Population (1890), 7,546. Hohentwiel (hō'en-tvēl). A ruined fortre in Würtemberg, near Singen. Height, 2,273 feet. Hohenzollern (hō'en-tsol-lern). A province of Pru ia, inclosed by Würtemberg. Area, 441 square miles. Population (1890), 66,085. Hohenzollern. A castle near Hechingen, southern Germany, belonging to the Pru ian royal family, situated in the Swabian Alp. It was begun in 1850, the medieval fortre having practically dis appeared, except the chapel. The exterior walls and bastions reproduce the old castle. The entrance is by com IMG:content-0521.png:[blocks in formation] Holbein (hol'bin), Hans, surnamed "The Elder." Born at Augsburg, Bavaria, about 1460: died there, 1524. A German historical painter. He represented the realistic tendency of the Swabian school, and later was influenced by that of the Italian Renai ance. His "Altar of St. Sebastian" (1516), in the Old Pinakothek, Munich, is his masterpiece. Holbein, Hans, surnamed "The Younger." Born probably at Augsburg, Bavaria, about 1497: died at London, 1543. A German historical and portrait painter and wood-engraver, son of Hans Holbein (1460-1524). He went to Basel in 1515, and painter matriculated in the painters' gild in 1519. His frescos in the city hall at Basel, and the "Pa ion" in the Basel Museum, were painted about 1521-22. In 1523 he painted the portrait of Erasmus at Long ford Castle. About 1526 he visited Antwerp to see Quentin Ma ys, and afterward went to England, where he was lodged at Sir Thomas More's house, near London. In 1528 he went to Basel, and returned to England in 1532, where he remained for the rest of his life. He became court painter to Henry VIII. about 1536. Among his works are a series of 89 sketches in red chalk and India ink, belonging to this period, now in the Windsor collection; a series of designs for wood-engraving, "The Dance of Death, engraved by Hans Lützelburger, (1527); a portrait of Anne of Cleves (1539); a number of portraits of German merchant goldsmiths of the Steelyard, some of which are in Germany; "The Amba adors" (in the National Gallery, 1533); and portraits of Henry VIII. and of the principal personages of the time. He also designed the title-pages to Cover dale's and Cranmer's Bibles, and painted some important works with religious subjects ("The Last Supper," "The Dead Christ," eight Pa ion pictures, etc.- all in the museum at Basel; "The Nativity" and "The Adoration of the Magi," at Freiburgim-Breisgau; "Madonna," with the Meyer family at Darmstadt; "Madonna and Saints," at Solothurn, etc.). Holberg (hol'berg), Ludvig von. Born at Bergen, Norway, Dec. 3, 1684: died at Copenhagen, Jan. 28, 1754. The father of the Danish drama, and the greatest name in Danish literature. His father, who had risen from a common soldier to the rank of colonel, died when he was still an infant, and his mother when he was 10 years old. He had been intended for the army, but showed such an aptitude for study that he was sent to the Bergen Latin school, and in 1702 he entered the Copenhagen University. Being destitute of means, he soon came back again to Norway, and was tutor in the family of a clergyman at Vo . A year later he again went to Copenhagen, where he studied theology and took his examination, but shortly after returned to Norway and was again a tutor, this time with a clergyman at Bergen. This latter had been a great traveler, and Holberg, through the perusal of the journal he had kept, was inspired with a desire to see the world. He accordingly set out for Holland, but went only as far as Aix-la-Chapelle. The year after he returned to Norway and settled at Christians and, where he taught French during the winter. The following spring he went to England and remained 2 years, chiefly at Oxford, where he supported himself by teaching languages and music. Returning to Copenhagen, he established him self as docent at the university, but soon after accepted the post of private tutor, and accompanied his charge to Germany. Upon his return to Denmark he was again a tutor until the year after (1710), when he was admitted as a stipendiary at Borch's Collegium in Copenhagen, when he was finally enabled to devote himself to literary work. In 1711 he published his first work, "Introduction til den Europäiske Rigers Historie" ("Introduction to the History of the Nations of Europe"). In 1714 he was made profe or extra ordinar i us, but without a stipend. Shortly after, however, he was made the beneficiary of the "Rosenkrants fund," and was thus enabled to go abroad. He accordingly sailed to Holland; traveled on foot from Bru els Paris, where he remained for a year and a half; proceeded again, partly on foot, to Marseilles and Genoa, where he fell ill; and afterward went on to Rome, where he remained the whole winter. The following Feb. he set out again for Denmark, making the whole journey from Rome to Paris on foot. In 1718 he was made profe or of metaphysics at Copenhagen; later he became profe or of Latin and rhetoric, and ultimately (1730) of history and geography. In 1719-20 appeared, under the pseudonym Hans Mikkelsen, the first of his characteristic pro IMG:content-0522.png:[blocks in formation] land, and Richard Stan i hurst to continue from 1509 to 1547 the history of Ireland, which Holinshed had compiled chiefly from a manuscript by Edmund Campion. At length, on 1 July, 1578, a license for publishing "Raphael Hollingesheds Cronycle" was i ued to John Harrison and George Bishop, on payment of the unusually high fee of "xxs and a copy." Holborn (ho born). A district in the central part of London. Population (1891), 33,503. Holbrook (hol' brük), John Edwards. Born at Beaufort, S. C., Dec. 31, 1795: died at Norfolk, Ma ., Sept. 8, 1871. An American naturalist. He became profe or of anatomy in the Medical College of South Carolina in 1824, a position which he retained up- ward of 30 years. His chief work is "American Herpe- tology" (1842). Holcroft (hol'kroft), Thomas. Born at London, Dec. 10 (O. S.), 1745: died there, March 23, 1809. a An English dramatist, miscellaneous writer, and actor. He was ridiculed by Gifford in the "Baviad." In 1794, having embraced the principles of the French Revolution, he was indicted for high treason, but after remaining for about two months in New gate he was discharged without a trial. Among his plays are "The Follies of a Day," a translation of Beau march a is's "Mariage de Figaro" (produced in 1784, Holcroft appearing as Figaro), "The Road to Ruin” (1792: revived in 1873, and translated into Danish and German), "The Deserted Daughter," founded on Cumber land's "Fashionable Lover" (1795), etc. Healso wrote "Tales of the Castle" from the French of Madame de Genlis (1785), "Life of Baron Frederic Trenck, etc." (1788), "A Tale of Mystery" (the first melodrama, 1802), with several novels and translations. Holder (holder), Joseph Ba ett. Born at Lynn, Ma ., Oct. 26, 1824: died in New York city, Feb. 28, 1888. An American naturalist. He was curator of invertebrate zoology, ichthyology, and herpetology in the American Museum of Natural History in New York city from 1870 until his death. He wrote a "History of the North American Fauna" (1882), "History of the Atlantic Right Whales" (1883), "The Living World" (1884), etc. Hölderlin (hel'der-lin), Johann Christian Fried rich. Born at Lauffen, Würtemberg, March 20, 1770: died at Tübingen, Würtemberg, June 7, 1843. A German poet, author of the romance "Hyper i on" (1797-99), lyric poems (1826), etc. Holder ne (höl'der-nes). The peninsula between the North Sea and the Humber, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Holger Danske (hōl'ger däns'ke). The tutelary genius of the Danes, who, according to the legend, sleeps beneath the Kronborg at Helsingör (the Elsinore of Shakspere's "Hamlet"), ready to arise when Denmark is in danger. Local legend places him also at Mögelt on dern, in North Schleswig. Holics (hoʻlich). A town in the county of Neutra, Hungary, 45 miles north of Presburg. Population (1890), 5,747. Holinshed (hol'inz-hed), or Hollingshead (hol'ingz-hed), Raphael. Born probably at Sutton Downes, Cheshire: died about 1580. An English chronicler. He is said to have been educated at one of the universities, po ibly Cambridge. His great work, "Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland," was begun for Reginald Wolfe, a London printer, whose service he entered as translator early in the reign of Elizabeth. (See the extract.) A second and enlarged edition, edited by John Hooker, was published after Holinshed's death (1587). About 1548 Wolfe designed a universal history and cosmography, with maps and illustrations. He had inherited Leland's notes, and he himself began the compilation of the English, Scottish, and Irish portions. Holinshed worked for some years under his direction, and had free acce to Leland's manuscripts. "After flue-and-twentie yeares travell spent therein, Wolfe died in 1573. No part of the great project was then ready for publication, but three well-known publishers, George Bishop, John Harrison, and Luke or Lucas Harrison, determined to persevere with it, and Holinshed continued his labours in their ser vice. Alarmed at the size the work seemed likely to a ume, Wolfe's succe ors resolved to limit their plan to histories and descriptions of England, Scotland, and Ireland only, and maps. Harrison was engaged to a ist Holinshed in the descriptions of England and Soot