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Ministry of Justice at Stuttgart in 1812. In 1815, however, a volume of poems which he published (Gedichte) was so successful that he devoted himself to letters. His lyrics were particularly fine, and he wrote also a number of dramas. He adopted advanced ideas, and lent his pen to the reform movement in Germany. In 1829 he was appointed extraordinary professor of German literature at Tubingen. His advanced opinions led to trouble, and he resigned four years later. He was a member of the Frankfort Parliament in 1848, and was in the same year elected a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy. D. Nov. 13, 1862.

UHLICH, Johann Jacob Marcus Leberecht, German writer and lecturer. B. Feb. 27, 1799. Ed. Halle University. In 1824 he was ordained Lutheran minister, and he served at Diebzig, and later at Pommelte. Uhlich became one of the most eloquent and popular preachers in Germany. He was a liberal, and he organized the liberal clergy in a body which was known as &quot; The Friends of Light.&quot; His sermons were violently attacked by the orthodox. In 1845 he was appointed preacher at Magdeburg; but two years later he was suspended for heresy. He left the Church, and founded a Free Eeligious Community (Theistic Church). Liberal also in politics, he was in 1848 a deputy of the Constituent Assembly. He wrote a Handbuchlein der freien Religion (1848) and a few other works, but his mature creed, which is Pantheistic, is best seen in his Abendstunden (1871). D. Mar. 23, 1872.

ULRICI, Professor Hermann, German philosopher. B. Mar. 23, 1806. Ulrici was trained in law, but he deserted it for philosophy. In 1834 he was appointed professor at Halle, and he remained there until his death. He was from 1847 onward an associate editor of the Zeitschrift filr Philosophic und Philosophische Kritik. He was, in his own words, a Panentheist (Glaulen und Wissen, 1858 ; Gott und die 825

Natur, 1862 ; Gott und der Mensch, 2 vols., 1866-73 ; etc.). He opposed Hegel, and taught that the soul is &quot; an etheric fluid,&quot; though immortal. God and the world are one. He was nominally (ethically) Chris tian, but said that he accepted the title only on condition that he believed what he could prove and understand. D. Jan. 11 1884.

UNDERWOOD, Benjamin, American writer and lecturer. B. July 6, 1839. Underwood served in the Civil War, and was for some months a prisoner at Rich mond. In 1881 ho was joint editor with Mr. Potter of the Index, and in 1887 he founded The Open Court at Chicago. He has lectured and debated constantly in the cause of Rationalism, and has published a number of popular works (The Religion of Materialism, The Influence of Christianity on Civilization, etc.).

UNNA, Professor Paul Gerson, M.D., German anatomist. B. Sep. 8, 1850. Ed. Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Strassburg Uni versities. He took part in the Franco- German War, and in 1876 settled in medical practice at Hamburg. In 1877 he was appointed assistant at the General Hospital, and in 1881 he established a private hospital for skin diseases, on which he is a high authority. Unna has pub lished a number of authoritative works on pathology and histology. For many years he edited the Monatschrift fur Praktische Dermatologie and the Dermatologische Stu- dien. He has contributed greatly to the advancement of his branch of pathology. He is a Monist, and writes in the Monistische Jahrhundert. In the Haeckel Memorial Volume ( Was Wir Ernst Haeckel Verdanken, ii, 183-85) he expresses warm gratitude to Haeckel for his &quot; spiritual emancipation,&quot; and frowns on &quot; the men of darkness about the throne and altar.&quot;

YACHEROT, Professor Etienne, Ph.D., French philosopher and politician. B. July 29, 1809. Ed. Ecole Normale Supe- 82G