Wolfgang A German Author Menzel, born at Waldenburg, Silesia, June 21, 1798, died in Stuttgart, April 23, 1873. He began his studies at Breslau, served as a volunteer in the war of 1815, and subsequently studied at Jena and Bonn. In 1820 he went to Switzerland, and engaged in teaching. About this time he became known as a writer of poems and literary criticisms. His first publication was his Strcck-verse (Heidelberg, 1823). In 1825 he established himself at Stuttgart. After the revolution of 1830 he zealously opposed French political and literary influence in Germany, and was repeatedly elected to the Wi'irtemberg diet. Borne satirized him in his Menzel der Fran-zosenfresser. He edited for many years the Literaturllatt of Stuttgart, gave it up in 1848, but revived it in 1852, and made it an organ of reactionary policy in civil and ecclesiastical affairs. Besides the writings mentioned above, he published Geschichte der Deutschen (3 vols., Zurich, 1824-'5; translated into English by G. Horrocks, London, 1849); Die dentsche Literatur (Stuttgart, 1828; translated into English by C. C. Felton, in Ripley's "Specimens of Foreign Literature," Boston, 1840); Rubezahl (1829); Narcissus (1830); Reise nach Oesterreich (1831); Reise nach Ita-lien (1835); Ihschenluch derncucsten Geschichte (5 vols., 1829-'33); Geist der Geschichte (1835); Europa im Jahre 1840 (1839); Mytho-logische Forschungen und Sammlwngen (1842); Die Gesdngeder Volker (1851); Furore, a novel descriptive of scenes of the thirty years' war (Leipsic, 1851); Geschichte Furopas von 1789- 1815 (2 vols., Stuttgart, 1853); Geschichte der letztai 40 Jahre (2 vols., 3d ed., 1805); Preus- sen und Oesterreich im Jahre 1806 (1800); Geschichte des franzosischen Krieges von 1870 (1871); Rom's Unrecht (1871); Geschichte der neuesten Jesuitenumtriebe in Deutschland 1870 -72 (1873); and Kritih des modernen Zeitbe-wusstseins (2d ed., 1874). His library was purchased by the German government in 1874 for the university of Strasburg.