[Footnote 105: Karl Wilhelm Baron von Humboldt (1767-1835), a distinguished Prussian diplomatist and author of a number of extremely erudite philological works.--T.] [Footnote 106: Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamisso de Boncourt (1781-1835), known as Adelbert von Chamisso, a noted German writer and naturalist, of French birth. His parents had taken him to Germany during the Emigration, and he subsequently made Prussia his adopted country. The best known of Chamisso's multifarious works, most of which are in German, is the world-famed _Peter Schlemihl_, the story of the shadowless man.--T.] [Footnote 107: Chamisso's two elder brothers (not his uncles), Hippolyte and Charles, were with Louis XVI. on the 10th of August 1792. Charles was wounded, while defending the King, and was saved by a man of the people. Shortly afterwards, he received a sword that had been worn by the unfortunate monarch, with a note thus worded: "I commend to my brothers M. de Chamisso, one of my faithful servants; he has often exposed his life for me. "LOUIS."--T. ] [Footnote 108: I here omit a quotation of some thirty-two lines of verse of Chamisso's.--T.] [Footnote 109: Nikolai Count Romanzoff (1754-1826), Russian Chancellor previous to 1812, and a considerable patron of science.--T.] [Footnote 110: Captain Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846) of the Russian Navy, son of Kotzebue the German writer, discovered the Kotzebue Straits, on the north-east coast of America, in 1816. The expedition lasted three years, from 1815 to 1818.--T.] [Footnote 111: Louisa Augusta Wilhelmina Amelia Queen of Prussia (1776-1810), daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, married to the Hereditary Prince of Prussia, later King Frederic William III., in 1793.--T.] [Footnote 112: Princess William of Prussia (1785-1846), formerly Princess Amelia Marianne of Hesse-Homburg, sister-in-law to the King.--B.] [Footnote 113: Caroline, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, formerly Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt.--T.] [Footnote 114: Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) had produced some twenty operas prior to 1823.--T.] [Footnote 115: Christopher Gluck (1712-1787), the great classical operatic composer.--T.] [Footnote 116: Johann Friedrich Christopher Schiller (1759-1805). His tragedy of _Joan of Arc_, or, rather, the _Jungfrau von Orleans_, appeared in 1802.--T.] [Footnote 117: Gaspardo Spontini (1778-1851), a native of the Papal States, made his first great success with the _Vestal_ in 1807, at which time he was musical director to the Empress Joséphine. In 1810, he became manager of the Théâtre Italien in Paris and, in 1820, manager of the Berlin Opera. On the death of Frederic William, in 1842, he returned to Paris, where he had been elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1839.--T.]