The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-29
OBITUARY.
Rev. Arthur Burtis, ID. ID.


hls age. The deceased was born in the Q ty OF
New York on the 25th of October 1907, hls
father being one OF the ten Governors that
ruled that city during the Revolution. In the
year 1929 the deceased graduated at Union Oh
lege, in the same class with Judge
Campbell, of Otsego county, John j. CIscoa
ana the late Collector OF this port, Mr. Preston
King. After his graduation DR.. Burtis studied
Jaw with the late Chancellor Kent, at Columbia
College, but, being of very religious cast OF
mind, abandoned the study of the profession,
and entered the Auburn Seminary, where he
| received his theological education, After his
ordination as a minister of the Presbyterian
denomination he filed several pulpits in the
western portion Of New York with great ability
and to the entire satisfaction of his different
congregations. Later he became Secretary OF
the American aud Foreign Christian Union and
was afterwards appointed Professor, of the
Greek laHeuage in the University of Oxford,
| Ohio, which position he occupied at the time of
his death. DR.. Burtis was a gentleman of tine
classical and theological abilities, and was
noted Tor his religious and exemplary life.
Professor John GoOdsir.
The Enelish journals record the death of John
Goods'r, Professor OF Anatomy in the UniVer-
sity OF Edinburgh. The deceased was the son
OF fileshre county surgeon, and, after pass
ing the Arts Curriculum III St. Andrews, became
apprenticed TO a dentist OF Edinburgh named
Nasmyth. While in this capacity he attended
tue lectures of DIR. Knox on Anatomy in the
! Royal College of Surgeons and the medical
classes in the University. Upon obtaining his
! diploma he returned to Fifeshire, where he
assisted bis father in the practice of his profess
SION: but having written several papers on ana
| tomical subjects, which procured for him the
| office OF Conservator to the museum of the
! Royal College of Surgeons, he returned to Edn-
| burgh. After being several times promoted TO
high offices in the University, he was, in 1916,
| appointed TO the position which he occupied at
| the time of his death. The anatomical and
| physiological researches of Professor Goodsir
| give him an extended reputation throughout
| the medical world, and but for his feeble
! health during the past sixteen years, would
have greatly added to the obligations under
| which he had laid the medical profession.
Marquis du HALEY COetquen.
| The foreign papers announce the recent death
! OF the notorious Marquis du HALEY Coetquen,
| of Paris, from an attack of apoplexy. For
| number of years he bore the title of "the first
| duellist in France" on account of the many
! duels in which he was successfully engaged, and
! in later years ne was looked upon as the supreme
arbiter on all points OF honor.
Peter Won Cornelius.
or the three men who gave the Academy of
| Painting at Dusseldorf new life, and to whom
the art of painting in Germany owes its revival
after years of dullness, second has just died
| full of years and honor. Won SchadoW de-
| parted in 1861 at the age Of ~, and Cornelius
died on Wednesday, the 9th instant, at Berlin,
in his 80th year. Overbeck, born in the same
| year with Won Schadow Q7S9), still lives at
| Rome, and still works, the last survivor of a
| group whose influence on art whether for good
or evil, has been as strongly and as widely diff
|
genius at any period in the history OF the
| world.
Peter Won Cornelius was born at Dusseldorf
on September 16, 1887. He was the son of a
painter, and early showed strong leaning to-
wards the study of art, and while still child
earned considerable sums by illustrating
almanacs and other cheap publications. Mean,
while, he kept his eye upon higher ann, ana
studying the works OF Raphael and the antique,
accustomed hmselt to repeat their designs
from memory. At the age of sixteen he lost
d khn of nIFlFr
money for the support of his widowed mother,
determined to renounce all thought of becom'
ing an artist; but his mother would not consent
to the sacrifice. Good and noble woman that
she was, she preferred to struggle with the mar.
! rowness OF her lot rather than to jeopard'ze
the future of her son.
In 1911 the young Cornelius went 10 Rome,
having already given proof OF his ability by
painting the interior of tho cupola OF the Church
at Neuss. At Rome he was joined by Vor
Schadow and by Overlook, and the three youne
! men worked with ferVor and energy, painting
l together IN several series OF pictures-amO Onl
others "History of Joseph" for the palace o
: NJ Barthody Ambassador of Prussia. Here
+, too he designed his illustrations 10 the Nibe
l lungen Lied which, more than any other work
Z of his made his name known in Germany. HI
= proposed also series OF illustrations in fresc(
10 the COMEDY" OF Dante, but had only mad
the designs when he was invited TO Munich b.
|, the Grown Prince OF Bavaria, afterwards KlnE
u Louis At Munich he remained several years
q and executed at the command of the KIM
|
: with frescoes In the Academy Of Fine Arts h
u decorated two halls in the Glyptothek or sculp
. ture gallery with frescoes, where subjects Wer
: drawn from the Greek mythology. After
e brief visit to Dusseldorf, where he was made
u Director of the Academy, he returned to Berlin
Il ard began the decoration of the Plnacothek o
0 picture gallery, with series of trescoes, illus
/ trating the history of painting. In the Churcl
L OF Saint Louis he painted four great trescoes
: the largest of which IS the Last Judgment,
3 the largest painting in the world, being 50 fee
U high and SO feet wide. In this work h
8 entered the lists with Michel Angelo, and dare
q 10 compete with him on a field wher
:, rivalry would seem ridiculous, But Cornelius
y at least made himself remembered by thi
a vast work, which remains his creates
d monument. After long residence in Munich
e Cornelius and King Louis became estrangeC
d and the artist took up his residence in Berlin
/ where Frederic william made him director
d the Academy, and charged him with the paint
4 ing of the Campo SantO. lie never returned t
Munich although he must have often regrette
U whatever necessity drove MIN from that CITY
4" where he lived so happily, king IN the king
a. dom of his art. OF the three restorers Of th
le art of painting in modern. Germany who's
a names have acquired EuroDean reputation
NJ Cornelius undoubtedly was the strongest H
N originality was hampered, not stimulated b
le his early devotion to Raphael, Angelo, and til
he ANTIQUE art, but il was not utterly killed by
" as was that off his iellow-pupil, 0verbecl
es whose style grows ever more thin an
70 colorless, and whose small orlglna! stock
to without process of dilution that has lou
ns since deprived them of all flavor. Yet II Owe
IS beck has little deserved to be called the Rapha
SO of German art, Cornelius as little deserved I'll
o. lille of lis Angelo He had in excess the Germa
TO tendency to suhjectivity of treatment, and b.
In lieyed that he was producing art when he WI
ct nejnting conventional fgure.peces by the acr
'st Still, though he has left no work OF uniyers
l.. IAAaT. hon