EUROPEAN OBITUARY.

Evening Star, Issue 3434, 23 February 1874, Page 3

EUROPEAN OBITUARY.

(From * Men of the Times.’) Michelet Jules, historian, born at Paris August 21, 1798, having devoted himself with‘brilliant success to historical studies became a public teacher, was, in 1821, and hfter a sharp competition, called to a chair in Gbllege Sainte-Barbe,. where ho taught the ancient languages and philosophy until 1826. Shortly after the revolution of 1830 he was appointed chief of the historical section of tho archives of the realm, and M. Guizot, unable, on acconnt of his political duties, to continue his lectures on history in the faculty of literature in Paris, named Michelet as his substitute. In 1838 he succeeded M. Dunon in the chair of history in the College of France, and was elected member of the Institute. M. Michelet’s views were founded upon those of the German school of history, and particularly on the ideas of Vico, of whose works he published an edition, and regarded history as '‘philosophy teaching by ex ample.” The. French ■ overnment, in March, 1851, interdicted his lectures, since when he has been in retirement. Strauss, David Frederick, theologian, born at Ludwigsburg, in Wiictemberg, June 27, 1808, completed his studies at Tubingen, was ordained in 1830, and in 1831 became Professor in the seminary of Deilbronn, which he quilted to finish his theological studies at Berlin. After a short study of the Hegelian philosphy, he returned to liibigen, where he became a tutor in a theological academy, and was entirely unknown to fame until he pub lished, in 1835, his *• Life of Jesus,” which, on account of his resolving the Saviour into almost a mythical personage, produced a great sensation throughout the Christain world. It was speedily translated into other languages, and called forth several able replies. lie was dismissed from his tutorship, and after spending some time in retirement, during which he wrote some works tending to allay the alarm and irritation caused _by his doctrines, he was appointed Professor of Dogmatics and Church History at Zurich in 1839 ; but the appointment; was considered a scandal, and he was obliged to resign. During the revolution of 1848 he was an unacccessful candidate for the German National Assembly ; was returned by his native town to the Diet ot Wurtemberg, where, to the astonishment of every one, he took his place among the Conservatives. JEia constituents were so displeased with big conduct that he soon gave in his resignation. In addition to his theological works, -Strauss baa written tho “ Life of Schubert,” published iu (849; ‘‘Christian .vlaerklm,” in 1851 ; the “ Life and Writings of the Poet and Philologist Nicodemus Frischliu,” in 1856, and other works.