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* HEINSIUS. 7i than twenty-five years he led the busy life of traveler, scholar, diplomat, and poet. He ran- sacked the lihraries of France and Italy in search of classical manuscripts. In ICiO he en- tered the sen-ice of Cliristina of Sweden, and in 1054 became Dutch -Minister at .Stockholm. In 16C0 he visited Paissia, and two years later re- tired to private life. He published editions of Vergil, Ovid, Prudentius, V'ellius Paterculus, and Valerius Flaccus, based on manuscripts in his possession. He was also the author of commen- taries on many other poets of antiquity. He is said to have supplied ililton with facts for use against .Salmasius (q.v.). His Latin poems were published at Amsterdam in lOGC. He died at The H.agiie, October 7, 16S1. — His illegitimate son XlcoL..s (1G55-?) was a .scapegrace of re- markable talent, who wrote the only original Dutch romance of the seventeenth century. The Delightful Adventures and Wonderful Life of ilirander (1675), a curious anticipation of Gil Bias. He fled from Holland a disowned criminal in 1077. and died in obscurity. HEINTZELMAN, hm'tscl-mau, Samuel Teteb (1805-80). An American soldier, born at Manheim, Lancaster County, Pa. He graduated at West Point in 1826, and was assigned to the Second Infantry, with which he seiwed on the frontier. He took part in the wars with the Florida Indians from 1835 to 1841, becoming a captain in 1838 ; served with his regiment in the Me.xican War, and received the brevet of major for gallantry at the battle of Huamantla, October 7, 1847. Later he served in California, accompanying the expedition against the Yuma Indians in 1852, and in Texas. He attained the rank of major in 1855, and at the outbreak of the Civil War became colonel, and inspector-general of the Department of Washington. On May 17, 3801, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, and was in command of the forces which occupied Alexandria, Va. In McClellan's Peninsular campaign of 1862 he commanded the Thii-d, and later also the Fourth, Anny Corps, and participated in all of the important battles. He received his commission of major-general of volunteers on the day of the battle of Williams- burg (ilay 5, 1802), and for gallantry at the battle of Fair Oaks received the brevet rank of brigadier-general in the Regular Army. He fought also at Savage's Station. Glendale, and Malvern Hill, and later in the .vear at the second battle of Bull Run and at Chantilly. In the winter of 1862-63 he was in command of the defenses of Washington, and from February to October. 1803, of the Department of Washington. During the remainder of the war he was not in the field, sending as commander of the Department of the Aest in 1804. and on court-martial duty in I8G5. . In ;Iarch. 1865. he was brevetted major-general in the L'nited Slates Army for his conduct at Williamsburg, and in 1869 was retired, on ac- count of age, with the full rank of major-general. HEUTZE, hin'tsc, Kael FRTEDKini Rt-dolf (1S25-96). A German criminologist, born at Saalfeld. and educated at Leipzig. He served suc- cessively in the judiciary of 'Meiningen and of Saxony: in 1805 was appointed professor at Leip- zig, and eight years afterwards at Heidelberg, He was three times representative of the Univer- sity of Leipzig in the Saxon Diet, and was a prominent member of the party of the opposition. ' < HEIB. He wrote: Parallehn zu-ischcn der englischen Jury und dem franzOsisch-dvutschen Geschw-orcm- cngcricht (1804); Ijin deutsches Geschuxirvnen- gericht (18G5); Das Reoht dcr Untersuchung- schaft (1865); Verluiltnis dcs Reich.sstrafrcchts
 * « dcm Landesslrafrccht (1871); and a report

for the International Congress for Prison Reform at Saint Petersburg, Dc quelle farou I'icrcKse peut-iire Qncisagie dans la legislation penale (1S',»0), HEINZEL, hln'tsd, Ricuaed (1838—), An Austrian philologist, born in Capo d'lstria, and educated at Vicmia. After teaching in gym- nasia at Triest, Vicima, and Linz, he was aji- poLnted professor of German at Gratz (1S68), and then at Vienna (1873). His work comprises discussions of Germanic phonetics, Teutonic myths, and the relation of Geruuin poetry to French. Among liis writings are: IJeinrich vmi Melk (1867) ; Veber den Siil der altgcrmanischcn I'ucsie (1875) ; Bcschreihung der isUindisehen Saga (1880) ; Vehcr die Xibelungensage (1885) ; Ueber die Hervarasaga (1887) : Ucber die Wal- Ihersage (1888); Veber die ostgotisehe Ileldcn- sage (1889) ; Abhundlungen zum altdeutsehcn Drama (1890); lie.schreibung des geisilicheti Hchauspiels im deulsclien Mittclalter (1898); Ueber die franzosischen Gralromane (1891); Veber diis iledicht ron Konig Orendel (1892). HEINZEN, hin'tscn, Peter (better known as Karl) (1809-80), A G«rmau-Amcrican author, born at Grevenbroich, and educated at Bonn, whence he was expelled because of his radicalism. After two years in the Dutch Army he returned to Germany, and entered the Prussian Government sen'ice. But his contributions to the Lcipziger Allgemeine Zeitung and to the Rheinische Zei- luug excited the displeasure of the Government; both journals were suppressed : his book. Die preussisehe Bilreankratie (1845), was confiscat- ed, and he escaped trial by flight to Belgium, Switzerland, and finally to America, He re- turned to take part in the Revolution of 1848; then came once more to the Cnited States ; lived in Xew York, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Boston, and published the ven- radical organ, the Pionier. His collected works were published at Bost<m (1808-72), and include: Gcdiehte; Sechs Briefe an einen fronimen Mann; Die Teut- schen und die Amerikaner ; and The True Char- acter of Humboldt. Many of his writings were published by the Society for the Propagation of Radicalism in the United States — e.g. Rights of Women (1891). and Teutscher Radikalismus in Amcrika (1898). HEIK (Lat. heres). At Roman law, the es- tate of a deceased person always passed as an entirety (by 'universal succession') to one or more persons described as heirs. The heir or heirs, if not apjiointed liy testament, were desig- nated by the law: and. in the later development of the Roman law. certain near relatives of a testator were entitled to a share of his estate even against his will, unless they had so acted as to give him legal ground for disinheriting them. (See St'ccE.ssiox.) If the heir, whether appointed by testament or designated by law, was luider the decedent's household ruthority, the inheritance vested in him immediately. If, on the other hand, the inheritance was given by testament or assigned by law to a jxTson out of the household, the latter became heir only by