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place of secretary of embassy. A couple of years after his appointment, King Frederick William III arrived at Home, and Bunsen became his cicerone. The king was struck with the erudition of his young official, and marked him out for promotion. In 1824 he made him his charge d'affaires at Rome, and in 1827 his minister re-id int. While enjoying this almost sinecure, Bun- sen devoted himself to philological and antiquarian studies, and formed an enduring friendship with Cham- pollion and his own countrymen Lepsius and Gerhard. He devoted himself alternately to Egyptian hieroglyph- ics, to the topography of ancient Rome, and to ancient Greek literature, more especially to the study of Plato. He also took a great interest in the Protestant Church and worship at Rome. In 1838 he was recalled, on account of a difficulty between the papal court and that of Prussia about certain extravagances of the Archbishop of Cologne. In 1841 Bunsen was appoint- ed ambassador to England, and remained in that post until 1854. His political ideas being too liberal for the times, he was recalled home in that year, and spent the remainder of his life in his favorite studies, chiefly at Heidelberg, where he hid a charming home, in which all visitors, and especially English and Ameri- can travellers, were received with a free and cordial hospitality. He died at Bonn on Oct. 29, 1860. As a fruit of his residence in Italy, he furnished a largo part of the material for Cotta's Beschreibung von Bom, and in 1843 he published, under his own name, Die /»''.< '//".■, ,/. ,/,',■ Chrisf'ichm Boms (Munich, Svo). His Verfassung dir Kirche der Zukunft (Hamb. 1845) was translated into English, and published, both in London and New York, under the title of The Church of thi Fu'ure (12mo). In 1845 he commenced the publica- tion of his ZEgyptens Stelle in der IVeltgsschichte, the fifth and last volume of which appeared in 1857. Part of this work has been translated into English, under the title Egypt's P'ice in Universal History. It is a vast repertory of facts and fancies, not a thoroughly digested book of science. He issued his Ignatius von Antiochkn u. seine Ztit in 1847, and his Briefe des Ig- natius in the same year. His Zeichen der Zed appear- ed in 1855-6, and was translated into English as Tin fiigns of the Tim"s (London and New York). This work is a powerful plea in behalf of the principle of religious liberty, and was principally directed against the intolerant views of Stahl and Hengstenberg. It led to a very violent controversy with Stahl, in which a number of the leading theologians of Germany took part on both sides. His Gott in dsr Gesckickte (1857) has not, we think, been translated. His most impor- tant work of late years is his H'ppolytus (Loud. 1851, 1 vols, svo i, afterward republished in 1854 in a fuller form, as Christianity and Mankind: Heir Beginnings and Prospects (Lond. 7 vols. 8vo), which contains, hi- de sd, a vast deal of learned lumber, and of vague and conjectural dissertation, but is yet a very valuable contribution to our knowledge of early Church histo- ry. At the time of his death lie was engaged upon bis Vollstandiges BibeUvxrk fur dir <,, „„;„.■/.. of which tb ■ first half volume appeared in 1858. The preface show- the character of the work fully. It was to be completed in eight volumes, four of which were to consist of bis new version of the Bible in German, three of BM Docum tits, and one of Bible History. It ;|1 n|- in proofs of learning, but, like the other theo- logical writings of Bunsen, it is entirely wanting in sobriety and discrimination, and has called forth very decided remonstrances on the part of the evangelical tns of Germany as well as of other countries. M. Pressense, in the Revtu Chretienne, Dec. 1 800, gives
0 touching description of the last days and the death of Bunsen, which has been translate, 1 in many English and American journals. See also (ietzer. Buns n ah Staatsman und Schriftstelh r (Gotha, 186] ),
Bunting, Jabkz, 1>. I>., the most eminent of mod- ern English Wesleyans, was burn at .Manchester, May