I. Christian Ludwig

Christian Ludwig, a German author, born in Leipsic, Dec. 12, 1756, died there, July 17, 1836. He was an architect, held important local offices, and published poetical and other works, but is elderly known by his Encyklopadie der Bauhunst der Alien (5 vols., Leipsic, 1792-'8) and Geschiehte der Bauhunst vom fruhesten Alterthum his in die neuern Zeiten (Nuremberg, 1827; 2d ed., 1836).

II. Heinrich, A German Poet

A German Poet Heinrich, nephew of the preceding, born in Arolsen, Feb. 22, 1S03, died in Venice, Aug. 24, 1849. He was librarian and teacher at Berlin from 1828 to 1833, when to cure his melancholv he started on a iour-ney with his wife. The latter in 1834 killed herself in the hope that the sudden shock might restore his mental vigor. Her correspondence and diary were edited by Mundt: Charlotte Sticglitz, ein Deiikmal (1835). Her husband subsequently led a wandering life. His works include Bilder des Orients (4 vols., Leipsic, 1831-'3), Stimmen der Zeit in Liedern (1832), and his posthumous Selhsthiographie and Erin-ncrungen an Charlotte (1805).