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Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
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f these occupationshis spirits received a great shock from the deathof a favourite daughter, of a consumption, atthe age of sixteen. An unusually severe winterafterwards brought on a catarrhal affection,succeeded by a nervous fever, under which hesunk on February 7, 1799, in the sixty-ninthyear of his age. Dr. Hedwig was a man ofgreat modesty and candour, benevolent, friendly,and upright; little solicitous of wealth andhonours, and void of all parade in teaching andwriting. He attained his eminence solely byquiet and patient industry. Several learnedsocieties enrolled him among their members ;and his name has been botanieally honoured bythe appellation of Hedivigia halsnmifera (jlvento an evergreen tree in the forests of Hispaniola.His numerous writings are chiefly in the Ger-man language, upon subjects above enumerated.A posthumous work entitled Species Mus-corum frondosorum, quarto, with many plates,was published at Leipsie in 1801, by FredericSchwaegrichcn. He left two sons; one an
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