Louis Lang

Louis Lang, an American artist, born at Waldsee, Wurtemberg, March 29, 1814. At 16 years of age he executed likenesses in pastel, and during a residence of four years on the lake of Constance he painted nearly 1,000 portraits in pastel and oil. He went in 1834 to Paris, and about 1838 came to America. In 1841 he went to Italy, and studied in Venice, Bologna, Florence, and Rome. In 1845 he returned to America, taking up his residence in New York, and for two years employed himself in the decoration of interiors and in modelling plaster figures for ornamental purposes. In 1847 he again visited Rome, and remained there two years, returning to New York in 1849.

Louis Laurent Simonin

Louis Laurent Simonin, a French author, born in Marseilles in 1830. He completed his studies at the mining school of St. Etienne, and was employed by the government in mineralogical explorations in the island of Reunion and in Madagascar. He has several times visited the United States, sketches of which he has written for the Revue des Deux Mondes, and has been since 1865 professor of geology at the central school of architecture, Among his works are: La richesse minerale de la France (1865); L;Etrurie et les Etrusques (1866); La me souterraine (1867); and L'Histoire de la terre (1867).

Louis Legrand Noble

Louis Legrand Noble, an American clergyman, born in Otsego co., N. Y., Sept. 26, 1811. He graduated at the Episcopal theological seminary in New York in 1840, and was rector of a parish in North Carolina till 1844, and afterward at Catskill, N. Y. As literary executor of Thomas Cole, he published a memoir of that artist, with selections from his writings (12mo, New York, 1853). In 1854 he took charge of a church in Chicago, in 1858 of one in Jersey City, and in 1874 became professor of the English language and literature at St. Stephen's college on the Hudson, Annandale, N. Y. In 1860 he made an arctic journey with the painter Church, and published "After Icebergs with a Painter" (12mo, 1861). He has also published a number of poems, including "Home," delivered at Trinity college, Hartford, in 1857. Some of his poems have been collected in "The Hours, and other Poems" (1857).

Louis Leon Rostan

Louis Leon Rostan, a French surgeon born at St. Maximin, department of Var, March 16, 1790, died Oct. 4, 1866. He graduated in medicine at Paris in 1812, and was from 1833 professor in the faculty of medicine, with a chair of clinical medicine at the Hôtel-Dieu. His principal works are: Recherches sur le ra-mollissement du cerveau (1819; 2d ed., 1823); Traité élémentaire de diagnostic (3 vols. 8vo, 1826-'7; 2d ed., 1829); Cours élémentaire d'hygiène (2 vols., 1828; 2d ed., 1838); and Exposition des principes de l'organicisme (1846; 3d ed., 1864). He also published important papers on rupture of the heart, the distinction of aneurisms, transposition of the viscera, spontaneous fracture of the femur, etc.