I. Michael, a German scholar, born at Frontenhausen, Bavaria, in 1727, died in Leipsic, April 15, 1804. He resided in Paris for several years, and went to Leipsic in 1766, where he became a teacher of the French language. He translated into French many poems of Klopstock, Wieland, Lessing, and others ( Choix de poesies allemandes, 4 vols., Paris, 1766), and other works, among which is Winckel-mann's Kunstgeschichte (3 vols., Leipsic, 1781), and wrote Notices generates des graveurs et des peintres (Dresden, 1787). II. Lndwig Ferdinand, son of the preceding, born in Paris in 1764, died near Leipsic, Dec. 24, 1804. In 1798 he became editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Stuttgart. He translated dramas from the English and French, and wrote a number of plays and collections of tales. He also published Friedemprdliminarien (10 vols., Berlin, 1793-'6). A collection of his later works was published by his widow (4 vols., Tubingen, 1806-'19). III. Therese, wife of the preceding, born in Gottingen, May 7, 1764, died in Augsburg, June 15, 1829. She was a daughter of Heyne, and was first married to the traveller Johann Georg Forster, and afterward in 1794 to Huber, under whose name many of her writings were published.

In 1819 she became editor of the Morgenblatt at Stuttgart, and published Forster's Briefwechsel with a biographical sketch (2 vols., Leipsic, 1828-'9). A collection of her Erzahlungen was published by her son (6 vols., Leipsic, 1830-'33). IV. Victor Aime, son of the preceding, born in Stuttgart, March 10,1800, died at Wernigerode, July 19, 1869. He studied medicine, travelled extensively, and was professor in various places, lastly in 1843 of languages and literature at Berlin, retiring in 1850. As a publicist he opposed the revolutionary movements of 1846- 9, but subsequently left the ranks of the ultra conservatives. His later writings embrace popular politico-economical subjects, but his reputation rests mainly on his works relating to the English and Spanish languages and literature. The more celebrated of them, besides those treating of the history of the Cid, are: Skizzen aus Spanien (4 vols., Gottingen, 1828-35); Die neuromantische Poe-sie in Frankreich (Leipsic, 1833); Die englischen Universitaten (2 vols., Cassel, 1839-'40); and Reisebriefe aus Belgien, Frankreich und England (2 vols., Hamburg, 1855). His biography by Elvers was published in 1872.