GOTZEN, GUSTAV ADOLF, Count von (1866— ). A German traveler, born at the Castle of Scharfe neck, Silesia. He undertook a journey to the Kili manjaro, which was highly successful, and on his second tour traversed the entire continent of Africa from Pangani, German East Africa, to the mouth of the Congo. The journey, undertaken in association with Drs. von Prittwitz and Kersting, was begun December 21, 1893, and was ter minated, after almost incredible difficulties and hardships, November 29, 1894. The interesting discoveries made by Gotzen on this tour are de scribed by him in the volume entitled Burch Afrika von Ost nosh West (1895). In 1896 he was sent to Washington as military and naval attach(, in 1900 was appointed Governor of Ger man East Africa, and in 1901 major and com mander of the defensive forces there stationed.
GoTZENBERGER, gets'en-berg-er, JAKOB (1800-66). A German historical painter, born in
Heidelberg, pupil of Cornelius, first at Diissel dorf, then in Munich. With Forster and Hermann he painted (1832), in the Aula of the University at Bonn, the frescoes representing the Faculties, for which he had made studies in Rome and Naples in 1828. A cycle in fresco in the chapel at Nierstein, Hesse, made his reputation. He was appointed Court painter and inspector of the gallery at Mannheim, visited Paris and London with Cornelius, and in 1844 decorated the Trink balle at Baden-Baden with illustrations of the legends of the Black Forest. In 1847 he went to England, where he painted many portraits and some frescoes, of which those in Bridgewater House for Lord Ellesmere, and four great com positions after an old English ballad, in Nor thumberland Palace, are the most noteworthy.