Jose Maria Queypo De Llano Ruiz De Saravia Toreno

Jose Maria Queypo De Llano Ruiz De Saravia Toreno, count of, a Spanish statesman, born in Oviedo, Nov. 26, 1786, died in Paris, Sept. 16, 1843. In the rising of the Spaniards against the French in 1808 he was sent to England to negotiate for assistance, was afterward repeatedly a cabinet minister, and died in exile. He published Historia del Ievantamiento, guerra y revolucion de Espana (5 vols., Madrid, 1835-7; best ed., 4 vols. 8vo, 1848).

Jose Ribera

See Spagnoletto.

Josef Iglesias De La Casa

Josef Iglesias De La Casa, a Spanish poet, born in Salamanca in 1753, died in 1791. He early published ballads and satirical effusions which made him famous, but his didactic poems subsequent to his joining the priesthood were less popular. The best editions of his works are those of Barcelona (1820) and Paris (1821), and among the later editions there is one in 4 small vols. (1840), which includes a number of poems by other authors.

Josef Israels

Josef Israels, a Dutch painter, born in Groningen in 1824. He studied in Amsterdam and Paris, and resides at the Hague. His best known works are "The Tranquil House," in a private collection in Brussels; " The Shipwrecked," " The Cradle," and " The Mother," all in London; "The True Support," in possession of the count of Flanders, brother of Leopold II.; and " The Children of the Sea," in the gallery of the queen of Holland. One of his genre pictures brought 7,150 florins at the public sale of Baron van Reede van Oudts-horn's collection at Amsterdam in 1874.

Joseph Antoine Brnni D Entrecasteaux

Joseph Antoine Brnni D' Entrecasteaux, a French navigator, born in Aix in 1739, died at sea near the island of Waigeoo, in the Pacific ocean, N. of Papua, July 20, 1793. He entered the naval service in 1754, gradually rose to the position of commandant of the French fleet in the East Indies (1785), and in 1787 became governor of Mauritius and the Isle of Bourbon. In 1791 he was sent by the French government in search of La Perouse, who had not been heard from since February, 1788. He failed to detect any trace of him, but ascertained with great exactness the outlines of the E. coast of New Caledonia, the W. and S. W. coast of New Holland, Tasmania, and various other coasts. Accounts of his voyages have been published by De la Billar-diere (2 vols., Paris, 1800), De Rossel (2 vols., 1808), and De Fremenville (Brest, 1838).

Joseph Anton Maximilian Perty

Joseph Anton Maximilian Perty, a German naturalist, born at Ohrnbau, Bavaria, Sept. 17, 1804. He studied at Munich, and in 1833 became prof essor of zoology and of natural history in the university of Bern, of which he was several times rector. His principal works are: Allgemeine Naturgeschiehte als philoso-phische und Humanitatswissenschaft (4 vols., Bern, 1838-'45); Die mystischen Erscheinun-gen der menschlichen Natur (Leipsic, 1861); Ueber das Seelenleben der Thiere (1865); Blicke in das verborgene Leben des Menschengeistes (1869); Ueber den Parasitismus in der or-ganischen Natur (Berlin, 1870); and Die An-thropologie als die Wissenschaft ton dem Jcor-perlichen und geistigen Wesen des Menschen (2 vols., Leipsic, 1873-'4).