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 HEYSE lence and poetry in the university of Gottin- m, and he remained connected with that in- titution till his death. He published his views the manner of studying the ancient authors his edition of the Apollodori Bibliotheca (4 rols., Gottingen, 1782), and in several essays, rhich appeared in the "Transactions of the Iniversity of Gottingen." He was made chief ibrarian of the library of Gottingen, perpetu- 1 secretary of the royal society, and foreign iber of the institute of France. Both as a ler and writer he powerfully contributed ward the dissemination of a profound and lilosophical knowledge of antiquity. Hepub- led editions of Tibullus (Leipsic, 1755), Epic- jtus (1756), Virgil (4 vols., 1767-'75), Pindar vols., Gottingen, 1773-'4), the Iliad (8 vols., ipsic, 1802), Diodorus Siculus, and other clas- sic authors. His life has been written by his i-in-law Heeren. HEYSE. I. Karl Wilhelm Lndwig, a German ilologist, born in Oldenburg, Oct. 15, 1797, in Berlin, Nov. 25, 1855. He was for years a teacher in the family of Men-
 * >hn-Bartholdy, and subsequently was a

jrofessor at the university of Berlin. He pre- new editions of popular German gram- lars and dictionaries by his father, Johann iristian August (1764-1829), and published jveral similar works. His most valuable con- ibution to philology was edited after his death Steindthal under the title of System der issenschaft (Berlin, 1856). II. Johann idwig Paul, a German author, son of the pre- ling, born in Berlin, March 15, 1830. He lied in Berlin, Bonn, and Italy, and in 1854 icame a permanent resident of Munich, at the request of the king Maximilian II. He married in the same year a daughter of the art historian Kugler. Numerous collections of his novels in verse and prose have appeared, and some of them have been translated into Eng- lish. A fifth edition of his Neue Novellen was published in 1874. One of his finest poems is Thekla (Stuttgart, 1858), and his best known plays are Franzesca von Rimini (Berlin, 1850), Die Sabinerinnen (1859), and Ludwig der Ba- yer (1866), contained in his Dramatische Dich- tungen (6 vols., 1870). His latest and best novel is Die Kinder der Welt (1873). HEYWARD, Thomas, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, born in St. Luke's, S. C., in 1746, died in March, 1809. After completing his classical and legal studies in London, he returned home, and began the practice of the law. He was a member of congress in l775-'6, was appointed judge in 1778, and the next year was reflected to con- gress. In 1780 he was made a prisoner in Charleston, where he had commanded a body of militia, and was sent to St. Augustine. He continued in public life as a judge till 1798. HEYWOOD, a town of Lancashire, England, on a branch of the Manchester and Leeds rail- way, 8 m. N. of Manchester; pop. in 1871, 21,248. It has extensive and flourishing manu- HIACOOMES 711 factories of cotton ; there are also machine and boiler works, iron founderies, and paper mills HEYWOOD, John, an English humorist, born probably at North Mims, near St. Albans, in the early part of the 16th century, died in Mech- lin in 1565. He was educated at Oxford, and became a favorite of Henry VIII. and subse- quently of Queen Mary. He is the author of a number of humorous "interludes," the best known of which, perhaps, is " The Four P's," and of a burlesque allegory called " The Spider and the Fly." From his "Six Centuries of Epigrams," he has been called the epigrammist. A new edition of his "Proverbs," by Julian Sharman, was published in London in 1874 HEYWOOD, Thomas, an English dramatist, born in Lincolnshire in the latter half of the 16th century, died about 1650. He was edu- cated at Cambridge, and was an actor as well as a writer. He wrote the whole or the great- er part of 220 plays, of which but 23 survive. Some of them, such as " A Woman Killed with Kindness" and "The Four London Prentices," are not inferior to the productions of Massin- ger, Ford, and others of his contemporaries. Charles Lamb calls him "a sort of prose Shakespeare." The first complete edition of his dramatic works was published in 1874 (6 vols., London). HEZEKIAH, king of Judah, succeeded his father Ahaz about 727 B. C., when he was 25 years old, died about 698. Following the in- junctions of the prophet Isaiah, on his acces- sion he took measures to break up the idola- trous customs into which the people had fallen during the life of his father, and to repair the losses and defeats they had suffered. Early in his reign the Assyrians invaded the neighbor- ing kingdom of Israel, and carried away the ten tribes to provinces beyond the Tigris; but notwithstanding the power and threats of the conquerors, Hezekiah refused to ac- knowledge subjection to Assyria, or to pay the tribute which had been imposed and paid during the reign of his father. In consequence of this, the Assyrian king Sennacherib invaded his kingdom; but after various exploits his army met with a sudden destruction, and the survivors precipitately retreated. About this time he was seized by a dangerous illness, the unexpected recovery from which he celebrated in a poetical " writing " preserved in the book of Isaiah (xxxviii.). A messenger having been sent by the king of Babylon to compliment him on his restoration to health, the king of Judah displayed before him his accumulated treasures; and for this he was informed by Isaiah that from Babylon, and not from As- syria, would come the ruin and captivity of Judah. He ended his reign in peace. HIACOOMES, the first Indian convert to Chris- tianity in New England, born about 1610, died in Martha's Vineyard about 1690. He was converted under the preaching of the mission- ary Thomas Mayhew, and having been taught to read, he began in 1653 to preach to his