the chief influence he has exerted upon succeeding thinkers of his
own and other schools. His criticisms are worth more than his
constructions; indeed for exactness and penetration of thought he
is quite on a level with Hume and Kant. His merits in this respect,
however, can only be appraised by the study of his works at first
hand. But we are most of all indebted to Herbart for the enormous
advance psychology has been enabled to make, thanks to his fruitful
treatment of it, albeit as yet but few among the many who have
appropriated and improved his materials have ventured to adopt
his metaphysical and mathematical foundations. (J. W.*)
Bibliography.—Herbart’s works were collected and published by his disciple G. Hartenstein (Leipzig, 1850–1852; reprinted at Hamburg, with supplementary volume, 1883–1893); another edition by K. Kehrbach (Leipzig, 1882, and Langensalza, 1887). The following are the most important: Allgemeine Pädagogik (1806; new ed., 1894); Hauptpunkte der Metaphysik (1808); Allgemeine praktische Philosophie (1808); Lehrbuch zur Einleitung in die Philosophie (1813; new ed. by Hartenstein, 1883); Lehrbuch der Psychologie (1816; new ed. by Hartenstein, 1887); Psychologie als Wissenschaft (1824–1825); Allgemeine Metaphysik (1828–1829); Encyklopädie der Philosophie (2nd ed., 1841); Umriss pädagogischer Vorlesungen (2nd ed., 1841); Psychologische Untersuchungen (1839–1840).
Some of his works have been translated into English under the following titles: Textbook in Psychology, by M. K. Smith (1891); The Science of Education and the Aesthetic Revelation of the World (1892), and Letters and Lectures on Education (1898), by H. M. and E. Felkin; A B C of Sense Perception and minor pedagogical works (New York, 1896), by W. J. Eckhoff and others; Application of Psychology to the Science of Education (1898), by B. C. Mulliner; Outlines of Educational Doctrine, by A. F. Lange (1901).
There is a life of Herbart in Hartenstein’s introduction to his Kleinere philosophische Schriften und Abhandlungen (1842–1843) and by F. H. T. Allihn in Zeitschrift für exacte Philosophie (Leipzig, 1861), the organ of Herbart and his school, which ceased to appear in 1873. In America the National Society for the Scientific Study of Education was originally founded as the National Herbart Society.
Of the large number of writings dealing with Herbart’s works and theories, the following may be mentioned: H. A. Fechner, Zur Kritik der Grundlagen von Herbart’s Metaphysik (Leipzig, 1853); J. Kaftan, Sollen und Sein in ihrem Verhältniss zu einander: eine Studie zur Kritik Herbarts (Leipzig, 1872); M. W. Drobisch, Über die Fortbildung der Philosophie durch Herbart (Leipzig, 1876); K. S. Just, Die Fortbildung der Kant’schen Ethik durch Herbart (Eisenach, 1876); C. Ufer, Vorschule der Pädagogik Herbarts (1883; Eng. tr. by J. C. Zinser, 1895); G. Közle, Die pädagogische Schule Herbarts und ihre Lehre (Gutersloh, 1889); L. Strümpell, Das System der Pädagogik Herbarts (Leipzig, 1894); J. Christinger, Herbarts Erziehungslehre und ihre Fortbildner (Zürich, 1895); O. H. Lang, Outline of Herbart’s Pedagogics (1894); H. M. and E. Felkin, Introduction to Herbart’s Science and Practice of Education (1895); C. de Garmo, Herbart and the Herbartians (New York, 1895); E. Wagner, Die Praxis der Herbartianer (Langensalza, 1897) and Vollständige Darstellung der Lehre Herbarts (ib., 1899); J. Adams, The Herbartian Psychology applied to Education (1897); F. H. Hayward, The Student’s Herbart (1902), The Critics of Herbartianism (1903), Three Historical Educators: Pestalozzi, Fröbel, Herbart (1905), The Secret of Herbart (1907), The Meaning of Education as interpreted by Herbart (1907); W. Kinkel, J. F. Herbart: sein Leben und seine Philosophie (1903); A. Darroch, Herbart and the Herbartian Theory of Education (1903); C. J. Dodd, Introduction to the Herbartian Principles of Teaching (1904); J. Davidson, A new Interpretation of Herbart’s Psychology and Educational Theory through the Philosophy of Leibnitz (1906); see also J. M. Baldwin, Dictionary of Psychology and Philosophy (1901–1905).
HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, BARTHÉLEMY D’ (1625–1695),
French orientalist, was born on the 14th of December
1625 at Paris. He was educated at the university of Paris,
and devoted himself to the study of oriental languages, going
to Italy to perfect himself in them by converse with the orientals
who frequented its sea-ports. There he also made the acquaintance
of Holstenius, the Dutch humanist (1596–1661), and Leo
Allatius, the Greek scholar (1586–1669). On his return to
France after a year and a half, he was received into the house
of Fouquet, superintendent of finance, who gave him a pension
of 1500 livres. Losing this on the disgrace of Fouquet in 1661,
he was appointed secretary and interpreter of Eastern languages
to the king. A few years later he again visited Italy, when the
grand-duke Ferdinand II. of Tuscany presented him with a
large number of valuable Oriental MSS., and tried to attach him
to his court. Herbelot, however, was recalled to France by
Colbert, and received from the king a pension equal to the one
he had lost. In 1692 he succeeded D’Auvergne in the chair of
Syriac, in the Collège de France. He died in Paris on the 8th
of December 1695. His great work is the Bibliothèque orientale,
ou dictionnaire universel contenant tout ce qui regarde la connaissance
des peuples de l’Orient, which occupied him nearly all his
life, and was completed in 1697 by A. Galland. It is based
on the immense Arabic dictionary of Hadji Khalfa, of which
indeed it is largely an abridged translation, but it also contains
the substance of a vast number of other Arabic and Turkish
compilations and manuscripts.
The Bibliothèque was reprinted at Maestricht (fol. 1776), and at the Hague (4 vols. 4to, 1777–1799). The latter edition is enriched with the contributions of the Dutch orientalist Schultens, Johann Jakob Reiske (1716–1774), and by a supplement provided by Visdelow and Galland. Herbelot’s other works, none of which have been published, comprise an Oriental Anthology, and an Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Latin Dictionary.
HERBERAY DES ESSARTS, NICOLAS DE (d. about 1557),
French translator, was born in Picardy. He served in the
artillery, and at the expressed desire of Francis I. he translated
into French the first eight books of Amadis de Gaul (1540–1548).
The remaining books were translated by other authors. His
other translations from the Spanish include L’Amant maltraité
de sa mye (1539); Le Premier Livre de la chronique de dom Florès
de Grèce (1552); and L’Horloge des princes (1555) from Guevara.
He also translated the works of Josephus (1557). He died
about 1557. The Amadis de Gaul was translated into English
by Anthony Munday in 1619.
HERBERT (Family). The sudden rising of this English
family to great wealth and high place is the more remarkable
in that its elevation belongs to the 15th century and not to
that age of the Tudors when many new men made their way
upwards into the ranks of the nobility. Earlier generations of
a pedigree which carries the origin of the Herberts to Herbert
the Chamberlain, a Domesday tenant, being disregarded, their
patriarch may be taken to be one Jenkin ap Adam (temp.
Edward III.), who had a small Monmouthshire estate at Llanvapley
and the office of master sergeant of the lordship of
Abergavenny, a place which gave him precedence after the
steward of that lordship. Jenkin’s son, Gwilim ap Jenkin, who
followed his father as master sergeant, is given six sons by the
border genealogists, no less than six score pedigrees finding their
origin in these six brothers. Their order is uncertain, although
the Progers of Werndee, the last of whom sold his ancestral
estate in 1780, are reckoned as the senior line of Gwilim’s
descendants. But Thomas ap Gwilim Jenkin, called the fourth
son, is ancestor of all those who bore the surname of Herbert.
Thomas’s fifth son, William or Gwilim ap Thomas, who died in 1446, was the first man of the family to make any figure in history. This Gwilim ap Thomas was steward of the lordships of Usk and Caerleon under Richard, duke of York. Legend makes him a knight on the field of Agincourt, but his knighthood belongs to the year 1426. He appears to have married twice, his first wife being Elizabeth Bluet of Raglan, widow of Sir James Berkeley, and his second a daughter of David Gam, a valiant Welsh squire slain at Agincourt. Royal favour enriched Sir William, and he was able to buy Raglan Castle from the Lord Berkeley, his first wife’s son, the deed, which remains among the Beaufort muniments, refuting the pedigree-maker’s statement that he inherited the castle as heir of his mother “Maude, daughter of Sir John Morley.” His sons William and Richard, both partisans of the White Rose, took the surname of Herbert in or before 1461. Playing a part in English affairs remote from the Welsh Marches, their lack of a surname may well have inconvenienced them, and their choice of the name Herbert can only be explained by the suggestion that their long pedigree from Herbert the Chamberlain, absurdly represented as a bastard son of Henry I., must already have been discovered for them. Copies exist of an alleged commission issued by Edward IV. to a committee of Welsh bards for the ascertaining of the true ancestry of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, whom “the chiefest men of skill” in the province of South Wales declare to be the descendant of “Herbert, a noble lord, natural son to King Henry the first,” and it is recited that King Edward, after the creation of the earldom, commanded the earl and Sir Richard his brother to “take their surnames after their first progenitor
