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 402 HALLE HALLECK his father and printed with a memoir for pri- vate circulation (London, 1834). His " Remains in Verse and Prose" was published in 1862. He was betrothed to a sister of Tennyson, who made him the subject of his "In Memoriam." HALLE, a city of Prussian Saxony, on the right bank of the Saale, 20 m. N. W. of Leip- sic ; pop. in 1871, 52,639. It consists of Halle proper with five suburbs, and of the two an- cient towns of Glaucha and Neumarkt. The streets, except in some modern parts, are gen- erally crooked, narrow, and badly paved. The principal public buildings are the church of St. Mary, with four towers, built in the Gothic style about the middle of the 16th century, to which belong a library of 20,000 volumes and the so-called red tower on the market place ; that of St. Maurice, also built in the Gothic style, and that of St. Ulrich ;the cathedral, the city hall, the ruins of the castle of Moritzburg, anciently a residence of the archbishops of Magdeburg, the university, and the Francke institutions in the suburb of Glaucha. The university, which was founded in 1694 by the elector (afterward king) Frederick, and in 1815, after having been closed by Napoleon in 1806 and 1813, united with that of Wittenberg, was most nourishing in the beginning of this cen- tury, and counted many eminent men among its professors. There were 1,300 students in 1829, but subsequently the number declined to less than 600. In 1873, however, the number had again increased to 1,073. Among the in- stitutions more or less closely connected with the university are a normal, philological, and theological seminary, an academy of the natu- Unlversity of Hallo. ral sciences, a medical and surgical clinical in- stitute, a school of midwifery, an anatomical theatre, a botanical garden, an observatory, and a library of 100,000 volumes. The Francke in- stitutions comprise an orphan asylum, several schools, and a printing press. Halle has manu- factories of woollen and linen goods, stockings, gloves, silk buttons, hardware, leather, and starch, and an active commerce. The exten- sive salt works in the city belong to a company, and those outside of it to the government. The persons employed in the latter are known as the Halloren, and were long supposed to be of Slavic origin, but are now regarded either as Celts or as descendants of the earliest Frankish settlers. Halle is first mentioned, as the castle of Halla, under Charlemagne. Otho the Great gave it to the archbishop of Magdeburg, and Otho II. erected it into a city in 981. It be- came so powerful in the course of time as to contend in the 13th century, often successfully, with its feudal lords, and to resist in 1435 a large army under the elector of Saxony. The reformation was introduced here in its earliest period. The city suffered greatly during the thirty years' war, and came in 1648 into the possession of the house of Brandenburg by the peace of Westphalia. Handel was born here. HALLECK, Fitz- Greene, an American poet, born at Guilford, Conn., July 8, 1790, died there, Nov. 17, 1867. He received his educa- tion at the grammar school of his native town, and became clerk in a store at Guilford. In 1811 he entered the banking house of Jacob Barker in New York, in which employment he remained for many years. For 16 years pre- vious to the death of John Jacob Astor he was engaged in his business affairs, was named by him as one of the original trustees of the Astor library, and by his will received an annuity of $200. In 1849, having as he said " been made rich with 40 pounds a year," he retired to Guilford, to live with an unmarried sister. He wrote verses in his boy- hood, some of which appeared anonymously in contemporary news- papers. The lines to "Twilight," the first in date of his collected poems, appeared in the " New York Evening Post" in 1818; and in March, 1819, he formed a literary partnership with Joseph Eodman Drake to write the " Croaker " papers, which appeared in the same journal from March to June, 1819. Drake's death in the summer of 1820 was commemorated by Hal- leek in one of his most touching poems. In the latter part of 1819 he wrote his longest poem, " Fanny," a satire on the fashions, follies, and public characters of the day. It was completed within three weeks of its commencement, and from the variety and pungency of its local and personal allu-