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 In1 HEATHFIELD voted to enroll 12,000 minute men, volunteers from among the militia, Heath, then a farmer in Roxbury, was commissioned as one of the generals. On June 22, 1775, he was appointed brigadier in the continental army, and in Au- gust, 1776, became major general. When the troops moved to New York, Heath was sta- tioned in the highlands near King's Bridge. In 1777 he was transferred to Boston, and the prisoners of Saratoga were intrusted to him. In June, 1779, he was again at the highlands, with four regiments, and he was stationed near e Hudson till the close of the war. He was e last surviving major general of the revo- lutionary army, and published "Memoirs of Maj. Gen. Heath, containing Anecdotes, De- ils of Skirmishes, Battles, &c., during the merican War " (1798). HEATHFIELD, Lord. See ELIOTT, GEOEGE TJGU8TUS. HEBBEL, Friedrich, a German lyric and dra- c poet, born at Wesselburen, Holstein, " 18, 1813, died in Vienna, Dec. 13, 1863. was the son of a farmer, was educated at "elberg, and went to Hamburg, where in he wrote his tragedy of Judith, which immediately successful. He then visited penhagen, Paris, London, and Naples, and 1846 settled in Vienna, where he married e actress Christine Enghaus. Among his er dramas are Genoveva (1843), Maria Mag- (1844), Der Diamant (1847), E 'erodes Mariamne (1850), Julia (1851), Michel ngelo (1855), and Die Nibelungen (2 vols., 862). A complete edition of his works was ed at Hamburg in 12 vols., 1865-'8. They characterized by boldness, vigor, and origi- nality, with a predilection for the horrible. HEBE (Gr. ijp?), youth), in mythology, the dess of youth, a daughter of Jupiter and .o. She served her fellow divinities with ctar at their festivals, assisted her mother in tting the horses to her chariot, and bathed dressed her brother Mars. She is said have been married to Hercules after his theosis, and to have been the mother of wo sons by him. HEBEL, Johann Peter, a German poet, born Basel, May 11, 1760, died at Schwetzingen, ept. 22, 1826. He studied at Erlangen, and 1791 was appointed professor in the gymna- um of Carlsruhe. He became in 1805 church imsellor, and in 1819 prelate. His works in- .ude Allemannische Gedichte, written in a wabian sub-dialect (llth ed., Aarau, 1860), which there are five High German trans- ons; Die fiiblischen Geschichten (2 vols., ed., Stuttgart, 1824) ; Der rheinlandische r ausfreund (3d ed., 1827) ; and SchatzTcastlein rheinischen Hausfreundes (last ed., 1850). is complete works were issued in 8 vols. in 1832-'4; new edition, 1871 etseq. HEBER. I. Reginald, an English bishop, born in Malpas, Cheshire, April 21, 1783, died in Trichinopoly, India, April 3, 1826. At the of seven he had translated Phaedrus into HEBER 581 English verse. In 1800 he entered Brasenose college, Oxford, and his Carmen Seculare ob- tained the first prize for Latin verse. In 1803 he wrote his prize poem "Palestine," which is still considered the best of the kind produced at Oxford. He graduated in 1804, and in 1805 gained the bachelor's prize for an essay on the " Sense of Honor." In 1807 he took or- ders, and was presented by his brother Richard to a living at Hodnet in Shropshire, on which he settled in 1809, immediately after his mar- riage with the daughter of Dr. Shipley, dean of St. Asaph. He devoted himself to the re- lief of the sick and the poor, and gave his lei- sure to literature, frequently contributing to the " Quarterly Review," and composing hymns. His "Poems and Translations" (London, 1812) contains many original hymns written to par- ticular tunes ; some of these are at once the most popular and the most artistic in the lan- guage. Heber commenced a dictionary of the Bible, which he was compelled by other duties to relinquish, and in 1819-'22 edited the works of Jeremy Taylor, with a copious life of the author, and a critical examination of his wri- tings. In 1822 he was appointed preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and in 1823 was consecrated bishop of Calcutta, a see which at that time embraced all British India, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Australia. He started for Calcutta in June, 1823, and 12 months later entered upon the visitation of his vast diocese. From that time until his death he was occupied with the duties of his office, making long journeys to Bombay, Madras, and Ceylon, and showing great ener- gy and capacity. He died of apoplexy. His " Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay " (2 vols. 4to, London, 1828), was posthumous. In 1827 his hymns were first published entire in a volume entitled " Hymns written and adapted to the Service of the Church," of which many subsequent editions have ap- peared. The latest edition of his complete poems, including his "Palestine," is that of 1855 (8vo, London). The Bampton lectures entitled "The Personality and Office of the Christian Comforter" (8vo, Oxford, 1813) were his only sermons published during his life. Several volumes of his sermons delivered in England and India were published posthu- mously, and in 1830 appeared the "Life and Unpublished Works of Reginald Heber, by his Widow" (2 vols. 4to, London). II. Richard, a bibliomaniac, half brother of the preceding, born in Westminster in 1773, died in Octo- ber, 1833. He was educated at Brasenose college, Oxford. At 19 he edited the works of Silius Italicus (2 vols. 12mo, 1792), and a year later prepared for the press an edition of Claudiani Carmina (2 vols., 1793). A taste for book collecting was developed in him in childhood, and in the latter part of his life it became a ruling passion. Succeeding on the death of his father in 1804 to large estates in Yorkshire and Shropshire, which he consider-