HASKINS. 61T HASSABD. especially to examination of tlic Vatican areliives at Rome. In ISnO-l'JOO lu; was a loi-luior on liis- tory at Harvard University, and in l'J()2 was made professor of liistory in lliat institution. HASLEB, hils'ler, or HASSLEE, Hans Leo VON ( 15ti4-I612). A German composer, one of the fouriders of a national Herman iiuisie, born at Nuremberg. He studied with bis fatber. Isaac Hasler, town musician, and in 1584 witb G. Gabrieli at Venice. He was the first important German composer who studied in Italy, and his works, despite their (niginality, were influenced by the Italian style. From lij'sS to 1001 be was organist to Count Octavianus Fugger at Augs- burg; in the latter year he received the post of Court musician at Prague to Emperor Rudolph II. In IGOS be accepted an appointment at the Court of the Elector of Saxony. His compositions were of great value in the history of nuisie, but are of little modern importance. Consult Eitner. Ohronolofiischeft Xerzeiclmiss (Berlin, 1873-74) of Haslcr's printed works. HASLINGDEN, liaz'ling-den. A manufactur- ing and market town in Lancashire, England, four miles soutb-southeast of Acerington (Map: England, D 3). It has manufactures of cottons, silks, woolens, sizing of cotton warps, and iron- works. In the neigbborhood are coal-mines and extensive stone-quarries. Situated in a hilly district near the Forest of Rossendale. it derives its name, signifying 'Hollow of the Hazels,' from the neighboring trees. Its cburcb. restored in 1870. dates from the thirteenth century, and has handsome endowed schools attached. Population, in 1801, 18,200: in 1001. 18.iiOO. HASMON.ffi'ANS. See Macc.bees. HASNER, liaz'ner, Leopold, von Artha (1818- 91 ) . An Austrian statesman and jurist, born at Prague. He studied law at Prague; was appointed professor of the philosophy of law there (1849), and then of polilical economy (1851) ; and was elected to the Bohemian Diet and the Austrian House of Deputies in 1801. Two years afterAA'ards he was made president of the latter body and head of the Council of Education. In 180.5 he became professor of po- litical economy in the University of Vienna, was called to the Austrian House of Peers in 1807, was appointed Minister of Pulilic Instruction in 1808, and was for a short time president of the Ministry in 1870. He resigned in that year, and was active as a leader of the Liberal Centrist Party in the Upper House. The Austrian pub- lic-school system in its present form is a prod- uct of his labors. He wrote: FiJosofie dex Rcrlits villi seiner Geschichte in Grundlinien (1851), and an unfinished System dcr polifischcn Oekoiwmir, (1801). Consult his posthumously published DenkicUrdigkeUen. A utohiographisches und Apho- rifiiiieii (Stuttgart. 1892). HASPINGEB, biis'inng-er, Joachim (1770- 1858). A Tyrolese patriot, born at Sankt Martin im Gsiess. He studied at Bo7x;n and Inn.sbruck, fonsbt against the French in 1700. 1707. and 17901801, and became a Capuchin priest in 1805. He was an ardent patriot, and took a leading part in the rising of the Tyrolese against I'.avaria. to which power Napoleon had given their country. In 1800 he distinguished himself by bis bravery in a niimber of cncovmters witb the French, and in 1810 he was ?,econd only to llofer and Speckbacher as a leader in the re- newe<l revolt of that year. In 1810 he was ex- iled by the Bavarians and went to Vienna, whence he was sent on a secret mission two years after- v:irds to arouse the people of l'i)iM.'r Italy to revolt. He was pastor of a church near Vien- na, at Hietzing, from 1814 to 1848; then went into Italy as chaplain to a coni|iany of Tyrolese volunteers; lived at UiJbling until 1854, and then at Salzburg, He W'as buried besi<le Andreas Hofer at Innsbruck. As a member of tlic Ca- puchin Order he bad unusually great inllucnce witb the peojile. who called him 'I'citcr .Jochem' and 'Rotbart.' Consult Schallhammer, liiographie dtf! Tiroler Heldenprieslcrs Joacliiiii Haspiiiger (Salzl>urg. 1850). HAS'SALL, Arthur (1853—). An English historian, born at Bebington, in Cheshire. He studied at Trinity College., (.)xford, where he was history exhibitioner in 1870, and the next year won a first-elass honor in the School of JUodern History, Oxford. From 1880 to 1883 he was a lecturer and tutor at Keble College, and from 1800 to 1802, and again in 1901, examiner in the Honor School of Modern History. He was elected a member of the Hebdomadal Council from 1802 to 1890; was senior proctor in 1893-94; Censor of Christ Cbnrch, 1894-05; and was reelected member of the Hebdomadal Council in 1897. His publications include: Louis XIV. and the Zcnitli of the French Monarchy (1895, in the "Heroes of the Nations" Series) ; The Balance of Power, Iliri-S'J (1896, in the scries "Periods of European History," of which he was made general editor) : Tlistorii of France (1001) ; and The French Peo- ple (I'OOI). HAS'SAM, CiiiLDE (1859—). An Amerieaa painter, born in Boston. He studied in Paris under Boulanger and Lefebvre, and has won many medals and prizes. He was elected president of the New York Water-Color Club, and was made one of the Ten American Artists, and a member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His street scenes are notable for atmos- pheric effect, and his landscapes, in the impres- sionistic French style, are brilliant in color and broadly painted. His "Plaza Centrale, Havana," won the Webb prize in 1895. He received a third-class medal at the Paris Exposition of 1889. HASSAN BEN SABBAH, has'san ben siib'- hii. The founder of the sect of the Assassins (q.v.). HAS'SAB. Any of several of the dorads or mailed catfish of the Orinoco River and its tribu- taries, w-bieh have some extraordinary habits. They make nocturnal journeys in the dry sea- son, from a diminislriug pond to anntbcr one. or from river to river, overland, often in com- panies, and to such distances that several nights are consumed in travel. They also construct nests of leaves at the margin of ponds and streams at the beginning of the rainy season, where the eggs are deposited and guarded till tbey hatch. Most of them belong to the genus Doras. HAS'SABD, ,ToHN Rose Greene (1830-88). .
.Vmerican journalist. He was born in New
York (^itv. and grndunled at Saint .John's Col- lege. Fordhani. in 1855. He was one of the editors of the New American Cyclopwdia, in 1865
