TUFTS, Col. Gardiner, at Concord, November 23, aged sixty-three; in December, 1869, was elected principal State primary school at Mouson and five years later resigned to accept the superintendency of the new State reformatory, whose system he developed and operated. This position he held until his death. WICKERSHAM, James Pyle, A. M., LL. D., in Lancaster, Pa., March 25, aged sixtysix years; was born in Pennsylvania, graduated at Unionville Academy; principal of Marietta Academy, Pennsylvania, 1845; in 1854 was elected the first superintendent of schools of Lancaster County; in 1856 was chosen first principal of the Millersville Normal School, the first State normal school; in 1866 was appointed State superintendent of public instruction which position he held for nearly fifteen years; aided in organizing the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association; was the seventh president of the latter; was twice elected president of the National Department of School Superintendents; for ten years was editor of the Pennsylvania School Journal, and published a work on "School Economy," and "Methods of Instruction:" his last literary work was the history of education in Pennsylvania; in 1882 was appointed minister to Denmark; was the most influential man after Dr. Burrows in forming the public school system of Pennsylvania and in fixing its methods an able writer, ready speaker, effective organizer and one of the foremost of his day among the educators of America. WILEY, Rev. Dr. Philander, at Denver, Colo., September 23, for many years professor of Greek in De Pauw University. WILLSON, Z. G., at St. Cloud, Minn., May 21, aged sixty-nine; was connected with the St. Louis public schools for many years, and at one time edited the Western, an educational and library journal. WINCHELL, Alexander, LL. D., at Ann Arbor, February 19, aged sixty-six; graduated at the University of Michigan, 1854; professor of geology, zoology, and botany; occupied the same position in the University of Kentucky 1866-69; in 1873 accepted the chancellorship of the University of Syracuse; in 1874 resigned to become professor of geology, botany, and zoology in the same institution, which he held until 1879; from 1873-79 held a similar position in Vanderbilt University; in 1879 was recalled to his old chair at Ann Arbor, which he held till his death. His bibliography numbers 200 titles: established seven new genera and 301 new specimens, most of which were fossil; his name has been given to 14 new spccies. WOODFORD, John Beach, at Syracuse, N. Y., April 27, aged seventy-six ; was born in Avon, Conn.; graduated at Yale 1839; was principal of private school in Middletown; in 1846 was elected principal of Southington Academy, Conn.; for thirteen years principal of academy at Windsor, Conn. FOREIGN. QUESNEVILLE, Dr., November 14, aged eighty years; an eminent French chemist, and founder of the Moniteur Scientifique. 1890. BECKER, Miss Lydia, at Geneva, July 18; had devoted her life to the saving of children in Manchester, England; was seven times elected to the school board; called the "pioneer of woman's suffrage in England." BOELLINGER, John Ignatius, in Munich, January 10, aged ninety; a professor and theologian. BRÜLLOW, Dr. Friedrich, in Berlin, September 15; founder of the Diesterweg fund. CARRUTHERS, John, D. D., September 1, aged eighty-nine; called the father of the English Congregational Church. DELITZSCH, Francis, D. D., at Leipsic, aged seventy-eight years; was professor in ordinary in the University of Rostock and that of Erlangen, professor of ED 90-83 Old Testament Exegesis in the University of Leipsic, and author of Old and New Testament commentaries. DUFF, David, D. D., in Edinburgh, August; professor of church history. FEULLET, Octave, in Paris, December; brilliant writer of the ideal school, and last imperial librarian. FRICKEN, VON, Dr. William, in Wiesbaden, December 29; councillor of education. GERBER, VON, Dr., in Germany, December -; minister of education in Saxony. HUMBECK, VON, Pierre, July 5; first minister of public instruction in Belgium; author of the Liberal Education Code, which effected such progress before the reaction of 1884. JOULE, Dr. James Prescott, an eminent scientist, noted for his treatment of the conservation of energy and the mechanical equivalent of heat. LIDDEN, Henry Perry, September 9, aged sixty-one; canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. LUTZ, VON, Baron, ex-premier and minister of education, Bavaria; correspondent of the Bureau of Education MCGREGOR, April 25; principal of McMaster College, Ontario. NEESIMA, Joseph Hardy, LL.D., at Oiso, Japan, January 23, aged forty-seven; in his youth, desiring to learn of Christianity, he escaped from Japan, when such an act was punishable with death, and came to America on a vessel owned by Alpheus Hardy; was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, Amherst, and Andover Theological Seminary, at the expense of Mr. Hardy; was interpreter to the Iwakura Special Embassy on its visit to this country; was offered a place in the Japanese ministry, but declined; became missionary to Japan under the American Board: founded the Christian school in Kioto, under great difficulties, which was finally made a university. ROGERS, James Thorold, in Oxford, England, October 13 was professor of economical science and statistics in King's College and professor of political economy at Oxford; was the author of a number of works, including Aristotle's Ethics, Economic Interpretation of History, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, and a history of agriculture and prices in England. SCHLIEMANN, Dr. Henry, at Naples, December 26, aged sixty-nine; was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin; was famous as an explorer of Greek archæology; he made a fortune in trade and expended it in the study and collection of Greek antiquities, which he has described in his general works; has greatly contributed to the increase of interest in Greece and in old Troy. SCHMITZ, Leonard, in England, June; formerly instructor to Prince of Wales; rector of high school, Edinburgh; was named for the professorship of Greek, Edinburgh University; classical examiner to the University of London. BERG,-, in Copenhagen, December 2; a teacher, and leader of the radical wing in Parliament. BOBIES, Rector, in Vienna, November 13; president of the Austrian Teachers' Association. BUDOZIS, Dr. Friedrich, in Berlin, March 11; historian of Brandenburg. CIRIACY-WANTRUP, VON, Dr., in Arnsberg, Germany, July; school councilor and leader of the conservative party in school affairs. CHADWICK, Edwin C. B., July 5; aged eighty-nine; an English social economist and lawyer; was assistant commissioner of the poor law commission; a member of the commission of inquiry into the labor of young persons in factories: in 1838 he made an inquiry into the causes of local diseases and the improvement of habitations in the metropolis. COLLINS, George, at London, April 2; was a member of the London school board, master of model school and of methods in the borough training school, Borough-Road, and member of the editorial staff of the Schoolmaster. CORCI, Carlo Maria, June 10; aged ninety-one; a Roman Catholic professor of theology at Rome. COSSACK, Dr. K. W., in Dantzic, November; author of literature for schools. DIETLEIN. Waldemar, Rector, in Dortmund, Germany, October 31; author of the best German readers. ESSER, Dr., in Berlin, October; chief of division in the ministry of education. FISCHER, Dr., in Potsdam, July 19; well-known teacher of gymnastics. FRICKE, F. William, in Weisbaden, March 28; promoter of spelling reform. FRISCHBIER, Hermann, at Königsberg, December 8; a promoter of the teachers' association. GABELLI, Aristide, at Padua, October 7, aged sixty-one; a prominent educator. GAUTIER, Col. Emile, at Geneva, November 24, aged sixty-eight; an eminent astronomer and director of the Observatory, Geneva. HASNER, Dr. Leopold (Ritter, von Artha), at Ischl, Austria, June 5; the father of the modern school in Austria. HAUPT, August, in Berlin, July 4; professor of music. HÄUSELMANN, J., in Biel, Germany, March 18; a promoter of drawing. HEUMANN, G., in Gorlitz, Germany, March 2F; superintendent of schools. KENNEDY, William, M. A., in Scotland, December; clerk to the school board of Glasgow. KERN, Dr. Hermann, at Bruneck in the Tyrol, July 4, aged sixty-eight; was for many years director of the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin; was a scientific student and educator, and published several educational books, and for many years was a member of the board of examiners for positions in higher schools. KOKOWOSKY DE, W., Lieut. Gen., September; founder and director of the Russian Museum of Pedagogy. KUENEN, Abraham, in Germany, December 10, aged sixty-three; a professor of theology. LANGENBERG, Eduard, in Berlin, February 16; pupil and biographer of Ad. Diesterweg. MAGALHAES, Benjamin Constant Botelho, January 22; a prominent Brazilian educator and scientist, and founder of the Republic. MOSELEY, Henry Nattridge, November 10, aged forty-seven; professor of anatomy at Oxford. MÖWING, Regborg, in Königsberg, August 6; founder of the teachers' association. OEHLWEIN, Dr., in Weimar, October 10; a promoter of deaf-mute education. PACHECHO, D. Carlos, formerly minister of education, Mexico. PATRICK, Brother (John P. Murphy), in Paris, April 25, aged sixty-nine; was born in Ireland; entered as novitiate into the order of the Christian Brothers at Montreal; was director of the Brothers' School, St. Louis, in 1861; was transferred to Manhattan College, New York, which institution prospered greatly under his care; his last position was that of second assistant to the superior-general of the Christian Brothers' schools. PEDRO, DOM, II, ex-Emperor of Brazil, in Paris, December 4, aged sixty-six; became sovereign at the age of six, and abdicated in 1889. His tastes were scholarly, his ideas of government liberal; he established justice, encouraged schools, libraries, and colleges, traveled extensively, visited the United States, and was interested in the Bureau of Education, to whose chief he offered a decoration of the Empire. PERUZZI, UBALDINO, in Italy, September 9; called the Modern Pericles. PRANGE, William, in Breslau, March 25; school councilor and editor of Lübens QUICK, R. H., M. A., in Surrey, England, March 9; was educated at Cambridge; assistant master at Harrow and Cranleigh, lecturer at Cambridge; writer of pedagogies: is known among teachers the world over by his Educational Reformers. RJEDKIN, Peter, LL. D., in St. Petersburg, March 7, aged eighty-three; an eminent Russian scholar; was a graduate of the universities of Dorpat and Moscow; became the first professor of the Cyclopædia of Law at the University, Moscow: in 1863 was called to be professor ordinarius at St. Petersburg, published a History of Law and a History of Philosophy. REE, Anton, Dr., in Hamburg, January 1; the well-known champion of the common schools. SCHLAIKIER, in Meiningen, March 14; school councilor. SCHUBERT, Otto, Rector, in Haynan, Germany, July 9; superintendent of schools. THOMISSEN, Dr., in Brussels, November; ex-minister of public instruction. TICHELMANN, Rector, in Königsberg, July 17; promoter of Pestalozzi societies. TÖPLER, F., in Berlin, December 10; editor of educational journals. VELHAGEN, Auguste, in Leipsic, December, aged eighty-two; a publisher of books and atlases on the principle of “good and cheap. WÄCHTER, Robert, in Rudolstadt, Germany, March 28; school councilor. WIDGERY, William Henry, M. A., England, assistant master in University College school, August 26 was born at Exeter, March 11, 1857; entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1874, and graduated seventh senior optime in the mathematical tripos; taught at Dover College; gained the Harness prize for essay on Hamlet, which was commended in the Atheneum; was second master at Brewer's School, E. C., London, and gained "prizes for Icelandic and Gothic;" in 1883 assumed the work which he continued until his death, meantime having studied in Berlin in 1886. His tract on teaching languages was republished and translated into other languages. His sketch of education at the Paris Exposition appears in this Report. He was librarian and an active member of the council of the Teachers' Guild. Friends have joined in creating a fund for a memorial to his memory. WOLFF, Emil, Rector, in Apolda, Germany, February 16; a pedagogical author and editor of Allgemeine Schulblatt. WULKOW, August, in Stettin, Germany, October 9; president of teachers' association. ZAHN, Franz, Dr., in Mörs, Germany, July 9; the successor of Ad. Diesterweg in the Normal School at Mörs, and author of a Biblical history. |