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SEIP

He is the author of numerous medioal books, most of tliein relatiiij:: to l\is specialty ami several of them bein;,' in the French language. He died in N.-vv York city. Oct. 28, ISSO.

SEOUIN, Edward Constant, neurologist, was borninParis, France, in 1813 ; son of Dr. Edouard Seguin (q.v.). He was graduated at Columbia, M.D., 18G4, and while a studerit there served in the volunteer army as medical cadet, 1802-64 ; was assistant-surgeon at Little Rock, Ark., 1864- 6.). and active assistant-surgeon, U.S.A., in New Mexico, 1864 and 1868-69. He spent the winter of 1869-70 in Paris, studying nervous diseases under Brown-Sequard, Cliarcot, and other specialists. He was lecturer on diseases of the nervous system at Columbia college, 1868-73; adjunct professor of diseases of the mind and nervous sj-stem, 1873-87 ; founded a clinic for nervous diseases in 1873, and was one of the founders of the American Neurological association and its president. 1877. He was elected to membership in several European medical societies, and is the author of numerous monographs on nervous dis- ea.ses. In his will he bequeatiied a bronze medal- lion of Cliarcot, given him by the French patliol- ogist himself, and a photograph of Dr. Brown- Sequard. to the New York Academy of Medicine, as well as his library, including many valuable monographs and pamphlets. His collection of instruments and appliances for the study of the nervous system he gave to the Pathological Laboratory of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons. He died in New Y^ork city, Feb. 19, 1898,

SEIDENBUSH, Rupert, R.C. bishop, was born at Munich, Bavaria, Oct. 13, 1853. He studied theology in Bavaria previous to coming to the United States, 1851. He was received into the order of St. Benedict at St. Vincent's Abbey, Pa., 1852; was ordained, 1853; was visitor to Greensburg, Ligonier and Heyman's, Westmore- land county, 18.5.'}-55 ; was stationed at St. Mary's, Elk county. Pa., 18.55-57, and at Newark, N.J., where he built tlie church, 1857-62 ; was prior of St. Vincenfs abbey, 1862-66. and was blessed abbot of St. Louis (near St. John's), Minn., May 30, 1867, by Bisiiop G. A. Carrell of Covington ; resigned as abbot, May 4, 1875 ; was consecrated bishop of " Halia", t.p.i., and vicar apo.stolic of North Minnesota, May 30, 1875, at St. Cloud, Minn., by Bishop Hei.ss of LaCrosse, assisted by Bi.shops Dwenger and Fink. He resigned, Oct. 19, 18.S-8, but kept his titular see of " Halia." He ilifd at Richmond, Va., June 3, 1895.

5EIDL, Anton, musical director, was born at Budapest. Hungary, May 6, 18.50. As early as 1857 he was able to reproduce on tiie piano, melodies which he bad heard but once, and in 1865 he began the study of harmony and counterpoint at the National Music Academy of

Hungary. He was a student at the Budupest Normal si;hool, the gymnasium, and tlie uni- versity, successively for thirteen j'ears, and dur- ing tins period appeared several times in concerts. Altliough for a time the priesthood seriously occupied his thouglits, liis musical inclinations finally outweighed this ambition, and he studied music at tiie Conservatory of Leipsic, 1870-72, and tlien under Hans Richter, at Budapest, through whose influence he became secretary to Wagner, residing in the latter's houseiioUl at Bayreuth, 1872-78. He was then sent by Wagner to Vienna, as stage-director of the Royal opera- house. He became conductor of the Leipsic opera-house in 1879 : introduced for the first time the entire " Nibelungen Trilogy " at the Victoria theatre, Berlin, in 1881 ; was engaged to conduct Wagner's ring dramas at Her Majesty's theatre, London, in 1882, and joined the traveling com- pany of Angelo Neumann, as conductor, in 1883- 84, touring nearly all of the great Euroj)ean cities. In 1885 he became conductor of the Bremen opera-house ; and during this same year, upon the death of Dr. Leopold Damrosch, he was in- vited to take the conductor's chair at the Metro- politan opera-house in New Y''ork. wjiere Iiis wife, Fraulein Krauss, wns already well known as a soprano soloist. In 1890, Mr. Seidl was elected leader of the New York Philharmonic society as successor to Theodore Thomas. Later he was also chosen leader of the permanent orchestra of New York city, $100,000 having been subscribed for its maintenance. Under the management of Abbey, Shoefel and Grau, he conducted the Wag- ner operas during the seasons of 1895-97. In the summer of 1897 the ninety-third performance of " Parsifal" was conducted by him at Bayreuth, and in the winter of the same year a series of Sunday-night concerts was given under his leadershij) at the Metropolitan opera-house, and another series at the Waldorf-Astoria, New Y'ork city. Although by birth Hungarian, Seidl was closely identified with Germany and the United States, and a short time before his death refused a call to the royal opera in Berlin, preferring to remain in America. Seidl's magnificent collec- tion of Wagner's music was bequeathed to the Richard Wagner Museum at Weimar, Germany. He died in New Y\)rk city, March 28. 1898.

SEIP, Theodore Lorenzo, educator, was born in Easton, Pa., June 25, 1842 ; son of Reuben Lamb and Sarah Ann Seip : grandson of ]\Iichael and Catharine (Kreidler) Seij) and of William Henry and Margaret (Spinner) Hemsing and a descendant of Edward Seip. He was graduated from Pennsylv.ania college at Gettj'sburg, A.B., 1864, A.M., 1867; from the Lutheran Theological seminary of Philadelphia, 1807 ; was academic principal of Muhlenburg college, Allentown,