Heeren, Arnold

HERMANN LUDWIG, historian, born near Bremen, Germany, in 1760; married a daughter of of Heyne about 1795, and became (1801) profe or of history at Göttingen. His celebrity chiefly rests on his Ideas on the Politics, Commerce, and Trade of the Principal Nations of Antiquity, which was completed in 1824. Died in 1842. Hefele ( ha'fal ), KARL JOSEPH, a distinguished ecclesiastical historian, born in Würtemberg, Germany, in 1809; after holding a profe orship at Tübingen, became (1869) bishop of Rotten burg. His most important works all of which have been translated into English and pa ed through several editions-embrace: A History of the Christian Councils from the Original Documents to the Close of the Council of Nicsea A. D. 325; Cardinal Ximenes and the Ecclesiastical Condition of Spain in the 15th Century; and Contributions to Church History , Archæology, and History. Died June 5 , 1893. Helderberg Forma'tion. (Geol.) A series of strata in the Silurian and Devonian geological divisions of the U. S. It derives its name from the Helderberg range of eastern New York, and lies apparently on the same geological horizon as the Ludlow beds of England. It is divided into the Lower Helderberg, of the Silurian, and the Upper Helderburg, of the Devonian. Helios. n. [Gr.] ( Myth .) The Greek name of the sun (the Roman Sol ), son of Hyper i on and Theia, worshipped as a god. In the later mythology confounded with Apollo or Phœbus.