bishop of Silva in Portugal, and entitled "Admonitio ad Elizabetham reginam Angliæ," in which the English nation, and the reformation of the church, were treated in a scurrilous manner. His other works were collected and published in 1567, 4to, under the title of "Lucubrationes." This collection contains ten Latin orations, fourteen letters, besides the above-mentioned to Osorio; and also poems. Several of his original letters are in the Harleian collection; and his poems, "Poemata," containing a great number of metrical epitaphs, were separately published with his life in 1576. Many of our writers speak in high terms of Haddon, and not without reason; for, through every part of his writings, his piety appears equal to his learning. When queen Elizabeth was asked whether she preferred him or Buchanan? she replied, "Buchananum omnibus antepono, Haddonum nemini postpono."!

HADRIAN. See ADRIAN.

HAEN (ANTHONY DE), professor of medicine in the university of Vienna, was born at Leyden in 1704, and educated under the celebrated Boerhaave. After having received the degree of M. D. at his native place, he settled at the Hague, where he practised with success for nearly twenty years. Baron Van Swieten being acquainted with the extent of his talents, invited him to remove to Vienna, with the view of uniting with him in the proposed plan of reform, which he had prevailed on the empress to support, in the medical faculty of that capital. De Haen accordingly repaired to that city in 1754; and his merits were found fully equal to the expectations that had been formed of them. At the express command of Maria Theresa, he undertook a system of clinical education, in the hospital which he superintended, as the most advantageous method of forming good physicians: the result of this duty was the collection of a great number of valuable observations, which were published in the successive volumes of the work entitled "Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico," Vienna, 1757, which amounted ultimately to sixteen. He died Sept. 5, 1776, at the age of seventy-two.

He published other medical works of considerable reputation, but added little to his fame by the last of them,

1 Biog. Brit.-Alumni Etonenses.-Ath. Ox. vol. I.-Strype's Cranmer, p. 134, 231, 249.-Strype's Parker, p. 28, 43, 82, 105, 222, 365.-Warton's Hist. of Poetry.-Lloyd's State Worthies.-Peck's Desiderata.-Nichols's Progresses of Queen Elizabeth,Gent. Mag, vol. LXXXI. part 2nd. p. 414.

"De Magia," 1775, in which he attempted to prove the reality of magical operations.'

HAGEDORN (FREDERIC), a celebrated German poet of the last century, was born at Hamburgh in 1708. His father was minister from the king of Denmark to the circles of Lower Saxony, a well informed man, who associated with men of letters, and was capable of giving a direction to his son's studies suitable to his genius. By various misfortunes, however, he lost his property, and died when our poet was only fourteen, and very ill provided for the liberal education which his father intended. His mother endeavoured to make up this loss by placing him at a college at Hamburgh, where, having previously imbibed a taste for poetry, he read the ancient as well as the modern poets with eagerness and assiduity. Without the help of a master, or the salutary aid of criticism, he endeavoured to draw from his own stock the power of dissipating the fogs of dulness in the north, as Haller had done in the south of Germany. In 1728 or 1729, he published a small collection of poems, which have many marks of youth, and though his versification is free, and his language often very pure, the thoughts are frequently cold, and the expression too concise. In subjects which require little taste and philosophy, he has succeeded better than in works of sentiment and imagination. Of his taste at this time, he has given a bad specimen in his satire entitled "The Poet," in which he puts Pietsch by the side of Virgil.

About this time (1729), he came to London with the Danish ambassador, baron Stoelenthal, and here he composed some of his most beautiful odes, and his best songs. In 1733 he was appointed secretary of the English factory at Hamburgh, which united him with our countrymen, whom he always esteemed. In 1734 he married the daughter of an English taylor, of the name of Butler, a step which does not seem to have added to his happiness. In 1738 he published the first volume of his "Fables," an original work, which contributed much to his reputation. In 1740, he composed the beautiful satire of "The Philosopher;" in 1741, the sublime picture of the "Sage;" in 1742, the Universal Prayer, from the Paraphrase of Pope; and, in 1743, his celebrated poem on "Happiness." This last piece is equally favourable to his opinions and his

1 Dict. Hist.-Rees's Cyclopædia.

poetical talents. His modest muse does not succeed in sublime descriptions, or the dithirambic flights: it has more of the elegance that pleases, than the splendour that dazzles; more Socratic wisdom, than oriental sublimity. His Moral Poems are like the Sermones of Horace. His "Considerations on some of the Attributes of God" contains the sublimest passages of Scripture: "The Prattler" is a dialogue full of familiar descriptions of human life: "The Letter to a Friend" is an instructive commentary on the "Nil Admirari" of Horace. Various other pieces followed; but, in 1750, he first excited the gaiety of his nation, by mixing sports and graces with the solemn poetry of the Germans. His odes and songs are highly pleasing. Nature, sprightliness, simplicity, enthusiasm, and harmony, unite to render them seductive for spirit and elegance, he may be said to resemble our own Prior.

The second edition of his "Moral Poems" appeared in 1752, with a considerable supplement, and many new epigrams. In 1754, was published an enlarged edition of his songs, with a translation of two discourses, on the songs of the Greeks, by Ebert. In this year he died of a dropsy, aged only forty-seven. His works have gone through so many editions, that they may be considered as perpetuating his reputation, and placing him among the standard poets of his country. He had a brother, CHRISTIAN LEWIS Hagedorn, who was born at Hamburgh in 1717, and died at Dresden in 1780, counsellor of legation and director of the academy of arts in Saxony. He wrote a work entitled "Meditations on Painting," one of the few which the Germans think have not been equalled by their neighbours; "Lettre à un Amateur de Peinture," 1755, and many pieces in the Leipsic Journal entitled "The Library of the Fine Arts," to the progress of which arts in Saxony he contributed greatly.'

HAHN (SIMON FREDERIC), a young man of extraordinary talents, was born at Bergen, in the duchy of Hanover, in 1692. He soon acquired an extensive knowledge of the learned languages, and when he was only fourteen years of age, he pronounced, at the university of Halle, a Latin harangue on the origin of the monastery of Bergen, which was printed with some other pieces. In 1708, he published

1 Bilduise, &c. Portraits of Illustrious Germans, from Crit. Rev. vol. XI. N.S. -Maty's Review, vol. VIII. p. 102,

a continuation of the "Chronicon Bergense" of Meibo mius; and, in 1711, printed two "Dissertations;" one on "Henry the Fowler," the other on the kingdom of Arles, which do him great honour. After giving public lectures for some years at Halle, he was appointed professor of history at Helmstadt, though but twenty-four years old, and afterwards was made counsellor, historiographer, and librarian to his Britannic majesty at Hanover. He died in 1729, leaving the first four volumes of a "History of the Empire;" and "Collectio Monumentorum veterum et recentium ineditorum," 2 vols. 8vo, &c.!

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HAILLAN (BERNARD DE GIRARD, lord of), a French historian, of an ancient family, was born at Bourdeaux about 1535. He went to court at twenty years of age, and in 1556 and 1557 was secretary to Francis de Noailles, bishop of Acqs, in his embassies to England and Venice. After that, his first appearance in the republic of letters was in the quality of a poet and translator. In 1559, he published a poem, entitled "The Union of the Princes, by the Marriages of Philip King of Spain and the Lady Elizabeth of France, and of Philibert Emanuel Duke of Savoy, and the Lady Margaret of France;" and another entitled "The Tomb of the most Christian King Henry II." In 1560 he published an abridged translation of Tully's Offices," and of "Eutropius's Roman History;" and, in 1568, of "The Life of Emilius Probus." He applied himself afterwards to the writing of history, and succeeded so well, that by his first performances of this nature, he obtained of Charles IX. the title of Historiographer of France 1571. He had published the year before at Paris a book entitled "Of the State and Success of the Affairs of France;" which was reckoned very curious, and was often reprinted. He augmented it in several successive editions, and dedicated it to Henry IV. in 1594: the best editions of it are those of Paris 1609 and 1613, in 8vo. He had published also the same year a work entitled "Of the Fortune and Power of France, with a Summary Discourse on the Design of a History of France:" though Niceron suspects that this may be the same with "The Promise and Design of the History of France," which he published in 1571, in order to let Charles IX. see what he might expect from him in support of the great honour he had conferred of historiographer of

1 Bibl, Germanique, vol. XXII.—Moreri.-Dict. Hist.

France. In 1576, he published a history, which reaches from Pharamond to the death of Charles VII. and was the first who composed a body of the French history in French. Henry III. shewed his satisfaction with this by the advantageous and honourable gratifications he made the author. The reasons which induced de Haillan to conclude his work with Charles VIIth's death were, that the event being recent, he must either conceal the truth, or provoke the resentment of men in power, but he afterwards promised Henry IV. to continue this history to his time, as may be seen in his dedication to him of this work in 1594; nothing however of this kind was found among his papers after his death the booksellers, who added a continuation to his work as far as to 1615, and afterwards as far as to 1627, took it from Paulus Æmilius, de Comines, Arnoul Ferron, du Bellay, &c.

Du Haillan died at Paris, Nov. 23, 1610. Dupleix remarks, that he was originally a protestant, but changed his religion, in order to ingratiate himself at court. His dedications and prefaces indeed shew, that he was not very disinterested either as to fame or fortune. He displays his labours too ostentatiously, and the success of his books, their several editions, translations, &c. and he too palpably manifests that species of puffing quackery which disgraces the literary character.1

HAKEWILL (GEORGE), a learned English divine, was the son of a merchant in Exeter, and born there in 1579. After a proper education in classical literature, he was admitted of St. Alban's-hall, in Oxford, in 1595, where he became so noted a disputant and orator, that he was unani-› mously elected fellow of Exeter college at two years standing. He then studied philosophy and divinity, and having received holy orders, travelled abroad. In 1610 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and in 1611 took his degrees in divinity. He was afterwards made chaplain to prince Charles, and archdeacon of Surrey, in 1616; but never rose to any higher dignity, on account of the zealous opposition he made to the match of the infanta of Spain. with the prince his master. Wood relates the story thus: After Hakewill had written a small tract against that match, not without reflecting on the Spaniard, he caused it to be transcribed in a fair hand, and then presented it to the Niceron, vol. XIV.-Gen, Dict.-Moreri.