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 26 IIUBKIl (Geneva, 1731 ; enlarged ed., 1T39); and Let- tres sur la religion essentielle A Vhomme (1739; new ed., enlarged, 6 vols., 1754). IIMil.ll. I. Michael, a German scholar, born at Frontenhausen, Bavaria, in 1727, died in Leipsic, April 15, 1804. He resided in Paris for several years, and went to Leipsie in 1766, where he became a teacher of the French lan- guage. He translated into French many poems of Klopstock, Wieland, Lessing, and others ( Ghoix d.epoesiesallemandes,4:vo}s., Paris, 1766), and other works, among which is Winckel- inann's Kunstgeschichte (3 vols., Leipsie, 1781), and wrote Notices generates des graveurs et des peintres (Dresden, 1787). II. Lndwlg Ferdinand, son of the preceding, born in Paris in 1764, died near Leipsie, Dec. 24, 1804. In 1798 he became editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Stuttgart. He translated dramas from the English and French, and wrote a number of plays and collections of tales. He also pub- lished Friedenspraliminarien (10 vols., Ber- lin, 1793-'6). A collection of his later works was published by his widow (4 vols., Tubin- gen, 1806-'19). III. Therese, wife of the pre- ceding, born in Gottingen, May 7, 1764, died in Augsburg, June 15, 1829. She was a daughter of Heyne, and was first married to the traveller Johann Georg Forster, and after- ward in 1794 to Huber, under whose name many of her writings were published.. In 1819 she became editor of the Morgenllatt at Stuttgart, and published Forster's Briefwechsel .with a biographical sketch (2 vols., Leipsie, 1828-'9). A collection of her Erzilhlungen was published by her son (6 vols., Leipsie, 1830-'33). IV. Victor Aime, son of the prece- ding, born in Stuttgart, March 10, 1800, died at Wernigerode, July 19, 1869. He studied med- icine, travelled extensively, and was professor in various places, lastly in 1843 of languages and literature at Berlin, retiring in 1850. As a publicist he opposed the revolutionary move- ments of 184G-'9, but subsequently left the ranks of the ultra conservatives. His later writings embrace popular politico-economical subjects, but his reputation rests mainly on his works relating to the English and Spanish languages and literature. The more celebrated of them, besides those treating of the history of the Cid, are: Skizzen aus Spanien (4 vols., Gottingen, 1828-'35); Die neuromantische Poe- sie in Frankreich (Leipsie, 1833) ; Die engluchen Univeriitaten (2 vols., Cassel, 1839-'40) ; and Keisebriefe aus Eelgien, Frankreich und Eng- land (2 vols., Hamburg, 1855). His biography by Elvers was published in 1872. Ml i:Kll, Karl, a German painter, born in Konigsberg, June 14, 1814. He is a disciple of the Diisseldorf school, and excels in genre pictures. In 1864 he was appointed profes- sor at Diisseldorf. Many of his works have been_ brought to the United States. H'UBNER, Rndolf Jnlins Benno, a German his- torical painter, born in Prussian Silesia in 1806. He studied in Berlin under Schadow, and fol- HUO lowed his master to Diisseldorf. Among hio earlier works were illustrations of Goethe's ballad of the " Fisherman," and " Orlando de- livering Isabella," a scene in Ariosto's epic. He has also gained reputation as a painter of car- toons and portraits. He became a resident of Dresden in 1839, and professor at the academy there in 1841. He sent to the universal expo- sition of 1867 a historical painting of the " Dis- cussion between Luther and Eck," and two re- ligious paintings, "Jesus at the Age of twelve," and the^" Magdalen by the Body of Christ." HUC, Evariste Regis, a French missionary and traveller, born in Toulouse, Aug. 1, 1813, died in Paris, March 31, 1860. He studied theology in his native city, and taught in the seminary there for a while, after which he entered the order of Lazarists, and was ordained priest in Paris in 1839. Resolving to devote himself to the Chinese missions, he set sail from Havre a few days after his ordination, and reached Ma- cao about the month of August. He passed 18 months in the Lazarist seminary at this place, preparing himself for the work he was about to undertake, and in the early part of 1840, shaving his head with the exception of the queue which he had carefully cultivated since his arrival, dyeing his skin, and putting on the Chinese costume, he started from Canton for the interior of the empire. After directing a Christian mission in the southern provinces, he went to Peking, where he perfected himself in the Chinese language, and subsequently estab- lished himself at He-Shuy (valley of Black Waters), in Mongolia, just north of the great wall and not far from Peking, where there was a considerable population of Chinese Chris- tians, lie visited various parts of Mongolia, acquiring the dialect of the country, and trans- lating into Mongol several books of prayer and instruction. In 1844 the vicar apostolic of Mongolia directed M. Hue and another French Lazarist, Joseph Gabet, to make a journey through the vicariate, for the purpose of ascer- taining its extent and studying the character and manners of the Tartars. Adopting the costume of the Thibetan lamas or priests, and accompanied by a young lama convert, named Samdadshiemba, they set out in September, travelling S. W. along the Mongolian side of the great wall. Their caravan consisted of a horse, a mule, and three camels. Their only guides were a map and a compass. At night they slept in tents, and their food during 18 months was generally confined to tea and a lit- tle meal. After a few days' journey they ar- rived at the city of Tolon-noor, where they completed their outfit. At the large new town of Shagan-kooren they crossed the Iloang-ho river and entered the sandy steppes of the Or- toos country, where they suffered for want of water and forage. Crossing the Hoang-ho again with great difficulty at a season of inun- dation, they entered the N. E. part of the Chi- nese province of Kansu in the early part of November, and remained two days at a frontier