Hydrazone
Hydrazone, In Chemistry, A Compound Formed By The Condensation Of A Hydrazine (q.v.) With An Aldehyde (q.v.) Or A Ketone (q.v.). ...
Hydra_2
Hydra, In Greek Legend, The Offspring Of Typhon And Echidna, A Gigantic Monster With Nine Heads (the Number Is Variously Given), The Centre One Being Immortal. Its Haunt Was The Marshes Of Lerna By Argos. The Destruction Of This Hydra Was One Of The Twelve "labours" Of Heracles, Which He ...
Hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbon, In Chemistry, A Compound Of Carbon And Hydrogen. The Simplest Hydrocarbons Are Gaseous, Many Are Liq Uid, And The More Complicated Are Solid. Many Occur In Nature: For Example, Natural Gas, Petroleum And Paraffin Are Mainly Com Posed Of Such Compounds; Other Natural Sources Are India-rubber, Turpentine And Certain ...
Hydrocele
Hydrocele, The Medical Term For Any Collection Of Fluid Other Than Pus Or Blood In The Neighbourhood Of The Testis Or Cord. The Fluid Is Usually Serous. Hydrocele May Be Congenital Or Arise In The Middle-aged Without Apparent Cause. The Hydro Cele Appears As A Rounded, Fluctuating Translucent Swelling In ...
Hydrocephalus
Hydrocephalus, A Term Applied To Disease Of The Brain Which Is Attended With Excessive Effusion Of Fluid Into Its Cavities. It Exists In Two Forms—acute And Chronic Hydrocephalus. Acute Hydrocephalus Is Another Name For Tuberculous Meningitis (see ...
Hydrocharitaceae
Hydrocharitaceae, In Botany, A Family Of Mono Cotyledons, Belonging To The Series Helobieae. They Are Water Plants, Represented In Britain By Frog-bit (hydrocharis Morsus Ranae) And Water-soldier (stratiotes Aloides). The Family Contains About 5o Species In 13 Genera, I O Of Which Occur In Fresh Water While 3 Are Marine ...
Hydrochloric Acid
Hydrochloric Acid, A Liquid Chemical Reagent Of Great Industrial Significance Sometimes Known As Muriatic Acid Or Spirits Of Salt. It Consists Essentially Of A Solution Of Gaseous Hydrogen Chloride In Water. This Gas, Which Is Less Appropriately Termed Hydrochloric Acid Gas, Is The Compound Actually Evolved By The Action Of ...
Hydrodynamics
Hydrodynamics, The Branch Of Hydromechanics Which Deals With The Motion Of Fluids (see Hydromechanics). ...
Hydrodynamics_2
Hydrodynamics A Point In, Or A "particle" Of, A Fluid In Motion Generally De Scribes A Curve, In The Course Of Time, Which Is Called The Path Of The Particle. The Rate Of Change Of Position Of The Particle May Be Represented By A Directed Quantity, Or Vector, Q Called ...
Hydrogen Ion Concentration
Hydrogen-ion Concentration. If Diluted Solutions Of, Say, Hydrochloric Acid And Acetic Acid Are Examined, It Is Found That, Whereas The Former Possesses To A Marked Degree All The Properties Generally Associated With Acids, The Latter Pos Sesses Them Only To A Very Limited Extent. On The Other Hand, If Each ...
Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen Peroxide, A Heavy Colourless Liquid, Usually Sold As A Dilute Aqueous Solution Containing 3% (" I O Vol Ume"), And Used As An Antiseptic Wash Or As A Bleacher. Its Chemi Cal Formula Is And It Is Described Under Hydrogen. ...
Hydrogen
Hydrogen, A Chemical Element, Appears To Have Been Re Cognized By Paracelsus In The 16th Century, But The First Definite Experiments Concerning Its Nature Were Made In 1766 By H. Cavendish, Who Showed That It Was Produced By The Action Of Hydrochloric Or Sulphuric Acid On Certain Metals. (symbol H, ...
Hydrogenation
Hydrogenation. The Treatment Of A Substance With Hydrogen So That This Combines Directly With The Substance Treated. The Term Has, However, Developed A More Technical And Restricted Sense. It Is Now Generally Used To Mean The Treatment Of An "unsaturated" Organic Compound With Hydrogen, So As To Convert It By ...
Hydrography
Hydrography, The Science Dealing With All The Waters Of The Earth's Surface, Including The Description Of Their Physical Features And Conditions; The Preparation Of Charts Showing The Position Of Lakes, Rivers, Seas, The Contour Of The Sea-bottom, The Position Of Shallows, Deeps, Reefs And The Direction And Volume Of Currents ...
Hydrolysis
Hydrolysis, In Chemistry, A Decomposition Brought About By Water After The Manner Shown In The Equation R-x+ H.oh=r•h+x•oh. Modern Research Tends To Prove That Such Reactions Are Not Occasioned By Water Acting As H20, But By Its Ions (hydrions And Hydroxyl Ions), For The Velocity Is Proportional (in Many Cases) ...
Hydromechanics
Hydromechanics. An Important Property Of A Fluid Is That The Shape Of Any Isolated Mass Depends Largely Upon The Form Of The Containing Vessel Or Confining Walls. If Water Is Poured From A Jug Into A Glass The Form Of The Water In The Glass Is Determined Largely By The ...
Hydromedusae
Hydromedusae, A Technical Name For A Class Of The Coelenterata. The Term Is More Particularly Applicable To Those Members Of The Group Which Have The Form Of Medusae Or Jelly Fish, And Is Interchangeable With The More Usually Employed Name Hydrozoa. (see Coelenterata Hydrozoa Medusa.) ...
Hydrometers
Hydrometers. The First Account Of The Use Of Hydro Meters In England Is In A Paper Published By Robert Boyle In 1675, Phil. Trans., June 1675, And Fig. I Is Reproduced From An Illustration Of A Hydrometer Contained In That Paper. The Recognition Of The Fact That Such An Instrument ...
Hydropathy
Hydropathy, The Name Given To The Treatment Of Disease By Water, Used Outwardly And Inwardly. The Active Agents In The Treatment Are Heat And Cold, Of Which Water Is Little More Than The Vehicle, And Not The Only One. Hydropathy, As A Formal System, Dates From About 1829, When Vincenz ...
Hydrophobia Or Rabies
Hydrophobia Or Rabies, An Acute Disease Occurring Particularly In Dogs, And Liable To Be Communicated By Them To Other Animals And To Man. In The Nerve Cells From Cases Of Rabies, And In No Other Disease, Certain Bodies, Named After Negri, Their Discoverer, Are Found With So Much Regularity That ...
Hydroplane
Hydroplane. The Hydroplane Is So Different From Any Other Boat That It Requires Separate Explanation. Everyone Has Played "ducks And Drakes" With A Flat Piece Of Stone On The Seashore, And Watched The Projected Object Making A Certain Number Of Hops Or Ricochets Over The Surface Of The Water Until ...
Hydrosphere
Hydrosphere, The Whole Mass Of Oceanic Waters Filling The Major Depressions In The Earth's Crust, And Covering About 72% Of Its Surface (gr. Nwp, Water, And V4aipa, Sphere). The Name Is Used In Distinction From The Atmosphere (q.v.), The Lithosphere (q.v.) And The Centrosphere Or Mass Within The Crust. ...
Hydrostatics
Hydrostatics It Has Already Been Pointed Out That A Mass Of Fluid Has No Natural Durable Shape. If A Glass Of Water Is Tilted The Water At Once Acquires A New Boundary And Some Of It May Be Spilled. If, On The Other Hand, The Glass Contained Granulated Sugar It ...
Hydrostatics_2
Hydrostatics, The Branch Of Hydromechanics Which Deals With The Equilibrium Of Fluids (see Hydromechanics). ...
Hydrosulphite Of Soda
Hydrosulphite Of Soda, A Chemical Compound Of Considerable Use In The Bleaching Industry, A Special Brand Being Marketed Under The Name "hydros." Its Chemical Formula Is And Its Correct Name In Systematic Chemistry Is Sodium Hyposulphite, But This Term Is Also Used For The Quite Distinct Sodium Thiosulphate (see Hyposulphite ...
Hydroxide
Hydroxide, In Chemistry, A Compound Containing Oxygen And Hydrogen, Linked Together In The Group, Oh, The Univalent "hydroxyl" Radical, Of Which One Or More Are Linked To Another Element Or Radical. This Name Has Generally Replaced The Term "hydrate," Now Confined To Substances In Which Molecules Of Water As Such ...
Hydroxylamine Or Hydroxy Ammonia
Hydroxylamine Or Hydroxy-ammonia, A Compound Prepared In 1865 By W. C. Lossen By The Reduction Of Ethyl Nitrate With Tin And Hydrochloric Acid. In 187o E. Ludwig And T. H. Hein Obtained It By Passing Nitric Oxide Through A Series Of Bottles Containing Tin And Hydrochloric Acid, To Which A ...
Indicator Or Titrimetric Methods
Indicator Or Titrimetric Methods A Very Large Number Of Indicators (q.v.) Used In Determining Acidity Owe Their Utility To The Fact That They Undergo A Change Of Colour Within A Certain Range Of Hydrogen-ion Concentration And Can Therefore Be Used To Determine This Concentration. Thus, Phenolphthalein Is Colourless In Solutions ...
Ireland Or Wales Germany
Germany, Ireland Or Wales. ...
Isaac Hull
Hull, Isaac Commodore In The U.s. Navy, Was Born At Derby (conn.), On March 9, 1773. When Only 14 He Went To Sea As A Cabin Boy. At 19 He Commanded His First Ship, And In 1798 Received A Commission In The U.s. Navy As Lieutenant. He Served Two Years ...
Isaiah Horowitz
Horowitz, Isaiah (c. 1555—c. 1630), Jewish Rabbi And Mystic, Was Born At Prague, And Died At Safed. He Held Various Rabbinates, Notably At Frankfort-on-the-main (c. 1606) And At Prague (1614) . From 1621 Onwards He Lived In Palestine. In 1625 He Was Imprisoned By The Pasha But, On Being Ransomed, ...
Islamic Institutions
Islamic Institutions And Caliphate, Give An Indication Of Mohammedan Influence On Europe. The Religious History Of Fur Ther Asia Is Treated Under Buddhism ; Brahmanism ; Shinto Ism ; Taoism ; Hinduism ; Etc., And The Individual Biographical Articles, E.g., Confucius ; Buddha, Etc. All The Principal Historical Characters Have ...
Ism Pan Slavism Churchand
Ism ; Pan-slavism ; Church And State. The Czech National Movement In Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, And Slovakia, Is Included In The Article Bohemia. There Are Also Various Articles On Special Subjects Related To History Such As Diplomacy; Record; Diplo ...
Ister Star Chamber Government
Ister; Star Chamber; Government; Government Depart Ments ; Ministry ; Speaker ; Electoral Systems ; Payment Of Members ; Women's Suffrage. Most Important Treaties, Political Documents, And Congresses Have Entries Of Their Own, E.g., Berlin, Congress And Treaty Of ; Bill Of Rights ; Nantes, Edict Of, Etc. Political Parties, ...
Italy
Italy: Florence, Soc. Bot. Ital. (1887), Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. Austria: Vienna, Zool.-bot. Ges. (1851), Verhandl. Belgium: Brussels, Soc. Ray. De Bot. (1862), Bull., With State Bot. Gardens; Soc. Ray. De Flare (1866), Soc. Ray. Linneenne (1835). Bul Garia: Sofia, Balgarsko Bot. Druzesto „ (1923), Mitteilungen (1926, Etc.). Czechoslovakia: Prague, ...
Jacob
Jacob, Born At Antwerp In 1633 And Apprenticed To Frans Wouters In 165o, Came To England Towards The Close Of The Reign Of Charles Ii., And Competed With Lely As A Fashionable Portrait Painter. Among The Portraits Executed By Him Are Those Of Queen Catherine Of Braganza, And Of Izaak ...
Jacobus Houbraken
Houbraken, Jacobus (1698-1780), Dutch Engraver, Was Born At Dort, On Dec. 25, 1698, The Son Of Arnold Houbraken (1660-1719) . In 1707 He Settled In Amsterdam. He Commenced The Art Of Engraving By Studying The Works Of Cornelis Cort, Suyderhoef, Edelinck And The Visschers. He Devoted Himself Almost Entirely To ...
Jacques Ignace Hittorff
Hittorff, Jacques Ignace (1792-1867), French Architect And Archaeologist, Was Born At Cologne On Aug. 2o, 1792, And Died In Paris On March 25, 1867. After Apprenticeship To A Mason In Cologne, He Went In 1810 To Paris To Study At The Acad Emy Of Fine Arts Under Belanger, The Government ...
James Clarke Hook
Hook, James Clarke (1819-1907), English Painter, Was Born In London On Nov. 21, 1819. He Worked For A Year In The Sculpture Galleries Of The British Museum, And In 1836 He Was Admitted A Student Of The Royal Academy, Where He Worked For Three Years. He Exhibited For The First ...
James Gibbons Huneker
Huneker, James Gibbons American Musical Critic, Was Born At Philadelphia, Jan. 31, 186o. A Gradu Ate Of Roth's Military Academy, Philadelphia He Was A Law Student For A Time, Subsequently Studying The Piano In Philadel Phia, Paris And New York. He Became Teacher Of The Piano At The National Conservatory, ...
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Hunt, James Henry Leigh English Essayist And Poet, Was Born At Southgate, Middlesex. His Father Had Been A Lawyer In Philadelphia, And Had Left The United States Because Of His Loyalist Sympathies. The Son, Who Was Educated At Christ's Hospital, Began Writing Verse As Soon As He Left School, And ...
James Hogg
Hogg, James Scottish Poet, Known As "the Ettrick Shepherd," Was Baptized At Ettrick, Selkirkshire, On Dec. 9, 177o. His Ancestors Had Been Shepherds For Generations, And He Himself Was A Shepherd From 1790 To 1799 At Yarrow To Mr. Laidlaw, Who Lent Him Books And Encouraged His Talent. On The ...
James Holman
Holman, James (1786-1857), Known As The "blind Traveller," Was Born At Exeter On Oct. 15, 1786. He Entered The Briiish Navy In 1798, And Was Invalided Out In 181o. He Became Totally Blind, But Nevertheless Travelled Widely In Europe. In 1822 He Set Out To Go Round The World, But ...
James Howell
Howell, James (c. 1594-1666), Author Of The Epistolae Ho-elianae, Who Came Of An Old Welsh Family, Was Born Probably At Abernant, In Carmarthenshire, Where His Father Was Rector. From The Free Grammar School At Hereford He Went To Jesus Col Lege, Oxford, And Took His Degree Of B.a. In 1613. ...
James Hutton
Hutton, James Scottish Geologist, Was Born In Edinburgh On June 3, 1726. He Qualified As A Doctor Of Medicine, Studying In Edinburgh And Paris, But Turned To Practical Agriculture, In Which He Made Many Improvements. In 1768 He Retired, And From Then Until His Death (march 26, 1797) He Lived ...
Jan Baptist Huysmans
Jan Baptist Huysmans, Born At Antwerp In 1654, Matricu Lated In 1676-77, And Died There In 1716. There Are Several Of His Paintings In The Museums Of Antwerp, Brussels And Munich, Representing Southern Landscapes With Figures And Cattle. His Elder Brother, Cornelius Huysmans, Was Born At Antwerp In 1648, And ...
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
Hofmeyr, Jan Hendrik (1845-19o9), South Afri Can Politician, Was Born At Cape Town On July 4, 1845. He Was Educated At The South African College. He Was Editor Of The Zuid A F Rikaan Till Its Incorporation With Ons Land, And Of The Zuid A F Rikaansche Tid Jschri F ...
Jan Van Huysum
Huysum, Jan Van (1682-1749), Dutch Painter, Was Born At Amsterdam On April 15, 1682, And Died In His Native City On Feb. 8, 1749. He Was The Son And Pupil Of Justus Van Huysum, Who Is Said To Have Been Expeditious In Decorating Doorways, Screens And Vases. His Pictures Of ...
Jean Antoine Houdon
Houdon, Jean Antoine (174o-1828), French Sculp Tor, Was Born At Versailles On March 18, 1740. At The Age Of Twelve He Entered The Ecole Royale De Sculpture, And At Twenty, Having Learnt All That He Could From Michel Ange Slodtz And Pigalle, He Carried Off The Prix De Rome And ...
Jean Guillaume Hyde De
Hyde De Neuville, Jean Guillaume, Baron (1776-1857), French Politician, Was Born At La Charite-sur-loire (nievre), On Jan. 24, 1776, Of An English Family Which Had Emigrated With The Stuarts After The Rebellion Of 5745. From He Was An Active Agent Of The Exiled Bourbon Princes; He Took Part In The ...
Jeno De Hubay
Hubay, Jeno De (1858-1937), Hungarian Composer And Violinist, Sometimes Known As Eugen Huber, Was Born At Budapest Sept. 15, 1858. His First Teacher Was His Father, Who Was A Professor Of The Violin, And Conductor Of The Hungarian National Opera. From 1871-5 He Studied In Berlin Under Joachim, And Later, ...
Jeremiah Horrocks
Horrocks, Jeremiah (1619-1641), English Astron Omer, Was Born In 1619 At Toxteth Park, Near Liverpool. He Was A Student At Emmanuel College, Cambridge, From 1832-35; Then He Became A Tutor At Toxteth And Studied Astronomy In His Spare Time. He Calculated That, Contrary To The Prediction In Kepler's Rudolphine Tables, ...
Johan Fredrik Hockert
Hockert, Johan Fredrik Swedish Painter, Was Born At Jonkoping On Aug. 26, 1826. He Studied In Munich And In Paris, Where He Came Under The Influence Of Delacroix's Romanticism, And Afterwards Went From Place To Place, Working In Spain, Tunis And Naples. The Experience Thus Gained Gave Him An Unusually ...
Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin
Holderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich German Poet And Neo-hellenist, Was Born On March 20, 1770, At Lauffen On The Neckar. He Was Destined For The Church And Studied Theology At Tubingen. He Was Already The Writer Of Occasional Verses, And Had Begun To Sketch His Novel When He Was Introduced To ...
Johann Joseph Hoffmann
Hoffmann, Johann Joseph German Scholar, Was Born At Wiirzburg On Feb. 16, 1805. From The Travel Ler, P. F. Von Siebold (1796-1866) He Acquired The Rudiments Of Japanese. He Then Learned Chinese, And Became Japanese Trans Lator To The Dutch Colonial Ministry. Eventually He Received A Chair Of Oriental Languages ...
Johann Nepomuk Huber
Huber, Johann Nepomuk German Philosophical And Theological Writer, A Leader Of The Old Catholics, Was Born On Aug. 18, 1830, At Munich, Where He Was Professor Of Theology From 1864 Until His Death On March 20, 1879. He Joined Dollinger And Others In The Challenge To The Supporters Of The ...
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk Ger Man Composer And Pianist, Was Born On Nov. 14, 1778, At Press Burg, In Hungary. In 1785 His Father Became Conductor At Schikaneder's Theatre In Vienna. Schikaneder Was A Friend Of Mozart And The Librettist Of The Magic Flute, And Introduced Hummel To Mozart Who Gave ...
Johann Nikolaus Von Hontheim
Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus Von (17oi 179o), German Historian And Theologian, Was Born Of Noble Family On Jan. 2 7, 1701, At Trier. He Was Educated At Trier, Louvain And Leyden, And After Travelling Extensively In Europe, Spent Three Years In Rome, Where He Was Ordained Priest In 1728. Returning To ...
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
Hittorf, Johann Wilhelm German Physicist, Was Born At Bonn, On March 27, 1824. He Studied At Bonn And Berlin, And Became Privatdozent In The Academy Of Munster. When This Institution Became The University Of Mun Ster, Hittorf Became Professor Of Physics And Chemistry; In 1879 The Physics And Chemistry Departments ...
John Bell Hood
Hood, John Bell (1831-1879), American Soldier, Lieut. General Of The Confederate Army, Was Born At Owingsville, Ky., In 1831, And Graduated At West Point Military Academy In As A Cavalry Officer He Saw Service Against Indians, And Later He Was Cavalry Instructor At West Point. He Resigned From The U.s. ...
John Callcott Horsley
Horsley, John Callcott English Painter, Was Born In London On Jan. 29, 1817. He Studied At Sass's Academy And At The Academy Schools. In 1844 He Was Selected As One Of The Six Painters Employed To Decorate With Frescoes The Walls Of The New Palace Of Westminster, Where Two Of ...
John Dyke Hullah
Hullah, John Dyke (1812-1884), English Composer And Teacher Of Music, Was Born At Worcester On June 27. He Was A Pupil Of William Horsley From 1829, And Entered The Royal Academy Of Music In 1833. He Wrote An Opera To Words By Dickens, The Village Coquettes, Produced In 1836; The ...
John Fletcher Hurst
Hurst, John Fletcher (1834-1903), American Methodist Episcopal Bishop, Was Born In Salem, Md., On Aug. 17, 1834. He Graduated At Dickinson College In 18s4, Taught For A Couple Of Years, And In 1856 Went To Germany To Study At Halle. From 1857 To 1866 He Was Engaged In Pastoral Work ...
John Home
Home, John (1722-1808), Scottish Dramatic Poet, Was Born At Leith. Graduating M.a. At Edinburgh University He Was Licensed To Preach By The Presbytery Of Edinburgh In 1745. In July 1746 Home Was Presented To The Parish Of Athelstaneford, Haddingtonshire. His First Play, Agis: A Tragedy, Founded On Plutarch, Was Rejected ...
John Hooper
Hooper, John (d. 1555), Bishop Of Gloucester And Wor Cester And Martyr, Was Born In Somerset About The End Of The 15th Century And Graduated B.a. At Oxford In 1519. In 1538 A John Hooper Appears Among The Names Of The Black Friars At Gloucester, Another Among The White Friars ...
John Hopkinson
Hopkinson, John (1849-1898), English Engineer And Physicist, Was Born In Manchester On July 27, 1849. After A Brilliant Career At Cambridge And London Universities, He Became A Pupil In The Engineering Works In Which His Father Was A Partner. In 1872 He Undertook The Duties Of Engineering Manager In The ...
John Hoppner
Hoppner, John English Portrait-painter, Was Born, It Is Said, On April 4, 1758, At Whitechapel. His Father Was Of German Extraction, And His Mother Was One Of The German Attendants At The Royal Palace. Hoppner Received The Patronage Of George Iii., Whose Regard For Him Gave Rise To The Report ...
John Horrocks
Horrocks, John (1768-1804), British Cotton Manufac Turer, Was Born At Edgeworth, Near Bolton. His Father Was The Owner Of A Small Quarry, And John Horrocks Spent His Early Days In Dressing And Polishing Millstones. The Lancashire Cotton Indus Try Was Then In Its Infancy. Horrocks Obtained A Few Spinning Crames ...
John Horsley
Horsley, John (c. 1685-1732), British Archaeologist. There Is Evidence That He Was Settled In Morpeth As A Presby Terian Minister As Early As 1709. At Morpeth Horsley Opened A Private School. Respect For His Character And Abilities Attracted Pupils Irrespective Of Religious Connection, Among Them Newton Ogle, Afterwards Dean Of ...
John Hoskins
Hoskins, John (d. 1664), English Miniature Painter. His Finest Miniatures Are At Ham House, Montagu House, Windsor Castle, Amsterdam And In The Pierpont Morgan Collection. Vertue Stated That Hoskins Had A Son, And Redgrave Added That The Son Painted A Portrait Of James Ii. In 1686 And Was Paid L ...
John House
House, John (1708-179o), English Divine, Was Born At Middlewich, Cheshire. He Succeeded To Estates In Cheshire Which He In Turn Bequeathed To Cambridge University Mainly For The Establishment Of A Hulsean Lectureship. ...
John Howard
Howard, John (1726-179o) , English Philanthropist And Prison Reformer, Was Born At Hackney, Probably On Sept. 2, His Father Was A Retired Merchant Who Lived At Cardington, Near Bedford. Af Ter Serving As An Apprentice To A Firm Of Grocers, John Howard Inherited Considerable Property On His Father's Death And ...
John Howe
Howe, John (163o-17o6), English Puritan Divine, Was Born On May 17, 1630 At Loughborough, Leicestershire, Where His Father Was Vicar. He Studied At Christ's College, Cambridge, Became Fellow And Chaplain Of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Held A Devonshire Curacy. In 1657 Howe Became Domestic Chap Lain To Cromwell. In This ...
John Hudson
Hudson, John (1662-1719), English Classical Scholar, Was Born At Wythop In Cumberland. He Was Educated At Oxford, Where The Remainder Of His Life Was Spent. In 1701 He Was Ap Pointed Bodley's Librarian, And In 1711 Principal Of St. Mary's Hall. He Died On Nov. 26, 1719. His Works Were ...
John Hughes
Hughes, John (1677-172o), English Poet And Miscella Neous Writer, Was Born At Marlborough, Wiltshire. He Died On The Night Of The Production Of His Most Celebrated Work, The Siege Of Damascus, Feb. 17, 172o. Hughes Wrote Some Of The Libretti Of The Cantatas (2 Vols., 1712) Set To Music By ...
John Hughes_2
Hughes, John American Roman Catholic Divine, Was Born In Annaloghan, County Tyrone, Ireland, On June He Followed His Father To Chambersburg, Pa., And Was Ordained Deacon In 1825 And Priest In 1826. He Opposed The Lay Trustee System In Philadelphia Where He Served In Several Churches. In The New York ...
John Hunter
Hunter, John (1728-1793), British Physiologist And Surgeon, Was Born On Feb. 13, 1728, At Long Calderwood, In The Parish Of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Being The Youngest Of The Ten Children Of John And Agnes Hunter. His Father, Who Died On Oct. 3o, 1741, Aged 78, Was Descended From The Old ...
John Huss Or Hus
Huss Or Hus, John (c. 1373-1415), Bohemian Reformer, Was Born Of Peasant Parents At Hussinecz, Near The Bavarian Frontier. He Was Educated At The, University Of Prague Where He Began To Lecture In 1398. He Was Made Dean Of The Philosophical Faculty In Oct. 1401, And Was Rector (oct. 1402–april ...
John Hutchinson
Hutchinson, John (1615-1664), Puritan Soldier, Son Of Sir Thomas Hutchinson Of Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, And Of Margaret, Daughter Of Sir John Byron Of Newstead, Was Bap Tized On Sept. 18, 1615. On The Outbreak Of The Great Rebellion He Took The Side Of The Parliament, And Was Made In 1643 Gov ...
John Hutchinson_2
Hutchinson, John (5674-1737), English Theological Writer, Was Born At Spennithorne, Yorkshire, In 1674. He Served As Steward In Several Families Of Position, Latterly In That Of The Duke Of Somerset, Who Ultimately Obtained For Him The Post Of Riding Purveyor To The Master Of The Horse, A Sinecure Worth About ...
John Janos Hunyadi
Hunyadi, John (janos) (c. Hungarian Statesman And Warrior, Was The Son Of Vojk, A Magyarized Vlach Who Married Elizabeth Morzsinay. He Derived His Family Name From The Small Family Estate Of Hunyad, In Transylvania. The Epithet Corvinus, Adopted By His Son Matthias, Was Derived From Another Property, Piatra Da Corvo. ...
John Leonard Hines
Hines, John Leonard (1868— ), American Soldier, Was Born At White Sulphur Springs, W.va., On May 21, 1868. After Graduating From The U.s. Military Academy In 1891 He Was Stationed For Five Years At Fort Omaha, Neb. He Served As Acting Quartermaster In Cuba During The Spanish-american War, And Afterwards ...
John Philip Holland
Holland, John Philip (1841-1914), American In Ventor, Was Born At Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland, In 1841. He Was Educated At Limerick, And Was A Schoolmaster In Ireland Prior To Migrating To The United States. He Was Teaching In New Jersey When The Civil War Broke Out And The Conflict Between ...
John Van Huchtenburg
Huchtenburg, John Van Dutch Painter, A Native Of Haarlem, Was First Taught By Thomas Wyk, And Afterward Visited Italy, Where He Lived In Rome With His Brother Jacob, Who Spent All His Life In Italy And Painted Land Scapes, Very Few Of Which Are Extant. After Jacob's Death, John Wandered ...
John Whitaker Hulke
Hulke, John Whitaker (183o-1895), British Surgeon And Geolo Gist, Was Born On Nov. 6, 1830. He Was Educated At The Moravian College At Neu Wied, At King's College School, And At The Hospital, Becoming M.r.c.s. In 1852. In The Crimean War He Was Appointed Assistant-surgeon At Smyrna And Subsequently At ...
Joris Hoefnagel
Hoefnagel, Joris (1542-160o), Dutch Painter, De Signer And Traveller, The Son Of A Diamond Merchant, Was Born At Antwerp. He Was A Pupil Of Jan Bol. He Travelled Abroad Often In The Company Of The Famous Geographer Abraham Ortelius, Studying And Making Drawings Of Countries, The People, Their Cos Tumes ...
Joris Karl Huysmans
Huysmans, Joris Karl (1848-1907), French Novel Ist, Was Born In Paris On Feb. 5, 1848. He Belonged To A Family Of Artists Of Dutch Extraction ; He Entered The Ministry Of The Interior, And Was Pensioned After Thirty Years' Service. He Thus Led A Thoroughly Bourgeois Existence In Striking Enough ...
Josef Casimir Hofmann
Hofmann, Josef Casimir (1876— ), Pianist And Composer, Was Born At Cracow, Poland, Jan. 20, 1876. At Seven He Attracted Rubinstein's Attention, Becoming His Pupil. Touring Europe At Nine, He Went To The United States Two Years Later, Giving 52 Concerts, But Was Compelled To Stop By The Society For ...
Josef Charles Holbrooke
Holbrooke, Josef Charles ), Eng Lish Composer, Was Born At Croydon On July 5, 1878, His Father Being A Pianist, And His Scottish Mother A Professional Singer. When His Father Settled In London Josef Became A Chorister At St. Anne's Soho, And Also Attended The Church School. In He Entered ...
Joseph Alexander Hubner
Hubner, Joseph Alexander, Count (1811 1892), Austrian Diplomatist, Was Born In Vienna On Nov. 26, 1811, Of Middle-class Origin, His Real Name, Afterwards Changed To Hub Ner, Being Hafenbredl. He Began His Public Career In 1833 Under Metternich, Who Employed Him Successively In Paris (1837), Lisbon (1841), Leipzig (1844) And ...
Joseph Hooker
Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879), American General, Was Born In Hadley (mass.), Nov. 13, 1814. He Was Educated At West Point (1833-37), And Entered The Ist U.s. Artillery. In The War With Mexico (1846-48) He Served As A Staff Officer, And Rose To The Rank Of Lieutenant-colonel. In 1853 He Left The ...
Joseph Hormayr
Hormayr, Joseph, Baron Von (1782-1848), German Statesman And Historian, Was Born At Innsbruck On Jan. 20, 1782. He Entered The Foreign Office At Vienna (18o I) , Rose In 1803 To Be Court Secretary And, Being A Near Friend Of The Archduke John, Director Of The Secret Archives Of The ...
Joseph Howe
Howe, Joseph (1804-1873), Canadian Statesman, Was Born At Halifax, Nova Scotia, On Dec. 13, 1804, The Son Of John Howe (1752-1835), A United Empire Loyalist Who Was For Many Years King's Printer And Postmaster-general For The Maritime Provinces And The Bermudas. In 1827 He Started The Acadian, A Weekly Non-political ...
Joseph Hume
Hume, Joseph (1777-1855), British Politician, Was Born On Jan. 22, 1777, Of Humble Parents, At Montrose, Scotland. After Completing His Course Of Medical Study At The University Of Edinburgh He Sailed In 1797 For India, Where He Made A Fortune. In 1812 He Purchased A Seat In Parliament For Weymouth ...
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Holland, Josiah Gilbert American Author And Editor, Was Born In Belchertown (mass.), July 24 1819. He Graduated In 1843 At The Berkshire Medical College At Pittsfield (mass.), And After Practising Medicine And Making An Unsuccessful Attempt To Establish A Hospital For Women, He Taught For A While In Richmond (va.) ...
Juan Claudio De La
Hoz Y Mota, Juan Claudio De La (1630?— 1714), Spanish Dramatist, Was Born In Madrid, And In His Later Years Acted As Official Censor Of The Madrid Theatres. El Mon Tales Juan Pascal—the Source Of Rivas's Una Antigualla De Se Villa And Of Zorrilla's El Zapatero Y El Rey—and El ...
Juan Huarte De San
Huarte De San Juan Or Huarte Y Navarro, Juan (c. , Spanish Physician And Psychologist, Was Born At Saint-jean-pied-de-port (lower Navarre) And Studied Medicine At The University Of Huesca, During The Plague Which Devastated Baeza In 1566. His Examen De Ingenios Pare Las Ciencias One Of The First Attempts To ...
Julia Ward Howe
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-191o), American Author And Reformer, Was Born In New York City, May 27, 1819, And Died At Her Summer Home, Oak Glen, In Rhode Island, Oct. 17, 1910. The Only Woman To Be Honoured By Election To The American Academy Of Arts And Letters, Mrs. Howe Probably ...
Karl Eduard Von Holtei
Holtei, Karl Eduard Von German Poet And Actor, Was Born At Breslau On Jan. 24, 1798, The Son Of An Officer Of Hussars. After Serving In The Prussian Army As A Volunteer In 1815, He Began To Study Law At Breslau, But Abandoned His Studies For The Stage. In 1821 ...
Karl Gustav Homeyer
Homeyer, Karl Gustav German Jurist, Born On Aug. 13, 1795 At Wolgast In Pomerania. He Became Professor Of Law (1827) At Berlin, And In 1854 A Member Of The Council And Of The Upper House Of The Prussian Diet. He Died On Oct. 20, 1874. His Principal Works Are His ...