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le cathedral. His successor, Cardinal Franz Herzen 799-1804), was envoy of Joseph II to the Holy See. ishop Count Mikes is the present incumbent (since 111). The Abbey of Jadk, one of the chief Roman- que edifices in Hungary, is in this diocese. The

The Cathedral. Steinauamger (Szombathely)

apter of Steinamanger sprang from the chapter of isvdr that claims as its founder King St. Stephen, ough its documents are of later date. This chapter, •hi}- endowed by the Hungarian kings, decUned in the teenth centun,-, and in 1578, during the invasions of e Turks, was removed to Steinamanger; on the undation of the see it became the cathedral chapter, le number of canons was 6 with as many titular nons. The diocese has 6 archdeaneries, 189 priests, parishes. A right of patronage is exercised. There e 5 abbeys and 3 titular abbots, 4 titular provosts, id 25 monasteries with 216 members. The clergy imbers 268 and the Catholic laity 46.3,947. A Katolihus MagyaTOTszdo (Catholic Hungary) (Budapest, 1901) ; hematismus (1909).

A. Aldasy.

Steinle, Edu.\rd vox, historical painter, b. at cnna, 2 July, ISIO; d. at Frankfort, 19 Sept., 1886. einle came successively under the influence of the inters Kupelweiser, Overbeck, and Cornelius, and js thus introduced into the new and vigorous ethods of the German painters who had formed emselves into a school at Rome. Steinle went him- If several times to Rome, but preferred to work in srmany. He received his first large commission, e painting of the chapel of the Ciustle of Rheineck, tiile living at Frankfort-on-the-Main; a second one IS for work in the Hall of the Emperors {Kaisersaal) Frankfort, where he painted the pictures of Albert and Ferdinand HI. These commissions and his lendship with Philip Veit and the Brentano family ■cided him to take up his permanent residence at ankfort. From 18.50 he was professor of historical tinting at the Stiidel Art Institute of Frankfort, ke his friend Schwind he was one of the last of the eat painters of the Romantic School anfl one of ose of this school who were largest in their scope. ke .Schwind also he was probably more a master in iC artof painting ordinary subjects. Still Constant von

Eduard von Steinle From a photograph

Wurzbach was able to write an appreciation of Steinle with the title "Ein Madoimamaler unserer Zeit" (Vienna, 1879), for Steinle left more than a hundred religious panel pictures, besides numerous cartoons for church win- dows. He was also regarded as the great master of monumental fresco painting in the districts of the Rhine.

Besides his work at Rheineck he painted cycles of pictures in the Castle of Klein- Heubach, in the Church of St. .Egidius at Miin- ster, and in the Church of Our Lady at Aachen. He also painted the gi-oups of an- gels in the choir of the cathedral at Cologne, and did part of the work in the apse of the choir of the Minster at Strasburgand in the imperial cathedral at Frankfort. Nevertheless, however striking these frescoes may be, too much stress is laid on detail, and the large, monu- mental character essential to such painting is not sufficiently apparent. This lack is still more evident in the frescoes showing the historical development of civilization on the stairway of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum at Cologne. Among Steinle's smaller reli- gious pictures are some very fine ones, as that of the enthroned "Madonna holding the Child" while an angel plays a musical instrument in front of them, the "Visitation", the "Holy Farailj' at the Spring", "Mary Magdalen seeking Christ", "Christ Walking with His Disciples", the "Legend of St. Euphrosyne", and the "Great Penitentiary". Steinle was not so willing to condescend to extremes in pleasing popular taste as Schwind, although he had a keen eye for ordinary life and a sense of humour. He placed the idea presented by the picture prominently in the foreground, so that at times the method of portrayal seems too artificial. Among his noblest and most universally admired paintings that are not directly religiovis are: the "Warder of the Tower", the "Fiddler", the "Sibyl", the "Lorelei", and the pictures of the story of Parsifal; no less remarkable are his illustrations of Shakespeare, and especially those to accompany Brentano's writings. Steinle's works show both graceful and well-defined com- position, poetic conception, healthy religious feeling, and, of not less importance, pleasing colour.

Alph. von Steinle publLshed his father's correspondence (Freiburg, 1897), also his father's collected works (Kempten, 1910); Veit. Eduard ton Steinle (Leipzig. 1887); Popp, Eduard von Sleinle (Mainz, 1906)

G. GlETMANN.

Steinmeyer (Farmer), Ferdinand, Jesuit mis- sionary, b. in Swabia, Germany, 13 Oct., 1720; d. at Philadelphia, 17 Aug., 1786. He entered the Society of Jesus at Lantlsberg in Sept., 1743. He <lesired to labour on the missions in China but was sent to America instead, whither he came in 1752. His first mission was at Lancaster, where he remained until 17.58, when he was transferred to St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia, to look after the Germans in that section. HLs labours were not, however, limited to that city. He made numerous missionary journeys through Eastern Pennsylvania and North- ern anil Central New Jer.sey. He also crossed over