Historian; born at Memmingen, Bavaria, 26 March, 1811; died at Prague, 29 December, 1898.

A plant which is referred to in a few passages of Holy Writ, and which cannot be identified with certainty at the present day.

Austrian anatomist, b. at Eisenstadt in Hungary, December 7, 1810; d. 17 July, 1894, on his estate near Vienna.

Titular see of Asia Minor.

A distinct Jewish-pagan sect which flourished from about 200 B.C. to about A.D. 400, mostly in Asia Minor (Cappadocia Bithynia, Pontus) and on the South Russian coasts of the Euxine Sea.

A theological term used with reference to the Incarnation to express the revealed truth that in Christ one person subsists in two natures, the Divine and the human.

The pretension to qualities which one does not possess, or, more cognately to the scope of this article, the putting forward of a false appearance of virtue or religion.

The nervous sleep, induced by artificial and external means, which has been made the subject of experiment and methodical study by men of science, physicians or physiologists.

Hymnody means exactly "hymn song", but as the hymn-singer as well as the hymn-poet are included under (hymnodos), so we also include under hymnody the hymnal verse or religious lyric. Hymnology is the science of hymnody or the historico-philogical investigation and aesthetic estimation of hymns and hymn writers.

A derivative of the Latin hymnus, which comes from the Greek hymnos, derived from hydein, to sing.

Biographical article on "Germany's greatest poetess."

The doctrine according to which all matter possesses life.

Greek by birth, the successor of Pope Telesphorus. Died in about 142.

Historian and jurist; born 24 March, 1830, at Münster in Westphalia; died at Bonn, 15 March, 1905.

Hyderabad, also called Bhagnagar, and Fakhunda Bunyad, capital of the Nizam's dominions, was founded in 1589, by Mohammed Kuli, King of Golconda.

Chronicler and bishop. (d. 468)

An Austrian statesman, born 26 Nov., 1811; died 30 July, 1892.

Third Order Franciscan, founder of the Oblates of Mary (Sacconi), died 1640.

Polish Dominican, died in 1257.

French novelist. (1848-1907)

Priest, b. at Holbeck, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 29 June, 1811; d. at Ratcliffe, Leicestershire, England, 2 Sept., 1880.

The followers of Jan Hus did not of themselves assume the name of Hussites. Like Hus, they believed their creed to be truly Catholic; in papal and conciliar documents they appear as Wycliffites, although Hus and even Jerome of Prague are also named as their leaders.

Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, b. at Ballybogan, Co. Meath, in 1746; d. at Tramore, Co. Waterford, 11 July, 1803.