From 1858 to 1859 he edited a literary journal entitled _Weekly Leaves_. His last drama, _Three Days in Padua_, was produced in 1869, and he died on the 25th of February of the next year. Hertz is one of the first of Danish lyrical poets. His poems are full of colour and passion, his versification has more witchcraft in it than any other poet's of his age, and his style is grace itself. He has all the sensuous fire of Keats without his proclivity to the antique. As a romantic dramatist he is scarcely less original. He has bequeathed to the Danish theatre, in _Svend Dyrings Hus_ and _King Rene's Daughter_, two pieces which have become classic. He is a troubadour by instinct; he has little or nothing of Scandinavian local colouring, and succeeds best when he is describing the scenery or the emotions of the glowing south. His _Dramatic Works_ (18 vols.) were published at Copenhagen in 1854-1873; and his _Poems_ (4 vols.) in 1851-1862. HERTZBERG, EWALD FRIEDRICH, COUNT VON (1725-1795), Prussian statesman, who came of a noble family which had been settled in Pomerania since the 13th century, was born at Lottin, in that province, on the 2nd of September 1725. After 1739 he studied, chiefly classics and history at the gymnasium at Stettin, and in 1742 entered the university of Halle as a student of jurisprudence, becoming in due course a doctor of laws in 1745. In addition to this principal study, he was also interested while at the university in historical and philosophical (Christian Wolff) studies. A first thesis for his doctorate, entitled _Jus publicum Brandenburgicum_, was not printed, because it contained a criticism of the existing condition of the state. Shortly afterwards Hertzberg entered the government service, in which he was first employed in the department of the state archives (of which he became director in 1750), soon after in the foreign office, and finally in 1763 as chief minister (_Cabinetsminister_). In 1752 he married Baroness Marie von Knyphausen, a marriage which was happy, but childless.