Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, baron, a German author, born at Langenfurt, a suburb of Dantzic, Sept. 3, 1745, died near Hamburg, Feb. 28, 1812. He served in the Prussian army from 1760 to 1763, and afterward spent 16 years travelling over Europe. On his return to Germany he devoted himself to liter-ary pursuits, and lived successively at Dres-den, Leipsic, Berlin, and finally at Hamburg. His work on "England and Italy," and his histories of Queen Elizabeth and Gustavus Vasa, enjoyed popularity; but his most valuable work is that on the seven years' war. His "Annals of British History since 1788" are piquant and full of anecdote. In his "Historical Essays " he gives an account of the filibusters and pirates who infested the West Indies during the 17th century. From 1782 to 1791 he edited a periodical called Literatur and Volkerkunde, and from 1792 to the time of his death he was editor of the Minerva.