Zijde (Karel van der), Dutch writer, b. Overschie, 13 July, 1838. Has been teacher at Rotterdam. Under the pen-name of M. F. ten Bergen he wrote The Devil’s Burial, 1874. Besides this he has written many literary articles, and is now teacher of Dutch and German at Zaandam.
Zimmern (Helen), b. Hamburg, 25 March, 1846. Has lived in England since ’50, and is naturalised. She has written lives of Schopenhauer and Lessing, and a paraphrase of Firdusi’s Shah Nahmeh.
Zola (Emile), French novelist, b. of Italian father, Paris, 2 April, 1840. By his powerful collection of romances known as Les Rougon Macquart, he made himself the leader of the “naturalist” school, which claims to treat fiction scientifically, representing life as it is without the ideal.
Zorrilla (Manuel Ruiz), Spanish statesman, b. Burgo-de-Osma, 1834, became a lawyer, and in ’56 was returned to the Cortes by the Progressive party. For a brochure against the Neo-Catholics he was prosecuted. In ’70 he became President of the Cortes, and has since been exiled for his Republicanism.
Zouteveen (H. H. H. van). See [Hartogh].
Zuppetta (Luigi), Italian jurist and patriot, b. Castelnuovo, 21 June, 1810. He studied at Naples, took part in the democratic movement of ’48, was exiled and returned in 1860, and has been Professor of Penal Law in the University of Pavia.
[1] So varied was the activity of T. Cooper during his long life that his works in the British Museum were catalogued as by six different persons of the same name. I pointed this out, and the six single gentlemen will be rolled into one.
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