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HENRICI. 7( very obscene, but none the less valuable as a picture of contemporary life, especially at the universities. His devotional poetry includes many verses for the compositions of Jobann Se- bastian Bach, especially his passion music; and, among other hymns, Wer iceiss, ivie nahe mir mein Ende. Consult Flossman, Picander (Leip- zig, 1899). HENRICIANS, hen-rish'anz, or HENRI- CAKTS. Tlir fiillowers of Henry of Lausanne, or Henry the Deacon. Grieved at tlie corruption of the times, Henry left the Benedictine monas- tery of C'lugny, to which he belonged, in South- ern France. His consistent life and the elo- quence of his discourses deeply moved the peo- ple. At first Hildebert, his bishop, favored him, but afterwards drove him from Le JIans. Join- ing the disciples of Peter of Bruys (see Bruys, Pierre de) in Provence, he was arrested by the Archbishop of Aries, and at the second Council of Pisa (1135) was declared a heretic and placed in a cell. Subsequently released, he again went to the south of France, where he had a great influence over the lower classes. He was arrested by Pope Eugenius III., and at the Council of Rheims (1148) condemned to perpetual imprison- ment. He died in prison in 1149. HEN'BIET'TA. A town and the county-seat of Clay County, Tex., 96 miles northwest of Fort Worth; on the Little Wichita Kiver, and on the Fort Worth and Denver City and the Missouri, Kansas and Te.vas railroads (Map: Texas, E 3). As the centre of an agricultural and stock-raising coimtry, Henrietta has a considerable trade in grain and live stock; and among its industrial establishments are grain-elevators, flour-mills, cotton-gins, lumber-yards, etc. Building-stone is quarried in the vicinity. Population, in 1890, 2100; in 1900. 1614. HENRIETTE, iiN're'et'. The simple, unaf- fected inticniie in Moli6re's Femmes Savantes, whose pedantic mother and sister give the title to the play. She marries Clitandre in spite of all Arniande's machination ; and is considered the truest type of womanliness on the French stage. HENRIOT, aN're'6', Francois (1761-94). A French politician, born at Nanterre. He was educated as a choir-boy, and little is known of him until 1789, when he left his post in the city employ and joined the sans-culottes, who made him one of their commanders. He was a leader in the massacres of the Carmes and Saint Firmin (1792), and in the following year was appointed by the Commune provisional general of the army in Paris, A year later he resigned from this post, and was elected general of the National Guard three weeks afterwards, but refused to 'command the army against the people.' In 1794 his arrest was ordered on the suggestion of Tallien and Delmas; he made a bold attempt to rouse the mob in his behalf, but was taken and guillotined with Robespierre. HENKIQUEL-DTJPONT, aN're'kel' du'pON', Louis Pierre (1797-1892). A French designer and engraver. He was born in Paris. June 13, 1797. After studying in the Ecole des Beaux- Arts he entered the studio of Pierre Guerin (q.v.), and after remaining there three years turned his attention to engraving imder Bervic. His first prodtiction. the "Portrait of a Yoimg Woman with Her Infant," gained the second 2 HENRY I. medal at the exhibition of 1822. He produced in succession a "Portrait of M. de Pastoret;" •■Stratford;" ■'The Interment of Christ," after Paul Delaroehe; "The Abdication of Gustavua Vasa," after Hersent; "The Disciples at Em- maus," after Paul Veronese; "The Marriage of Saint Catliarine," after Correggio; and other works. Ten years of his life were employed in reproducing the "Hemicycle" of Paul Delaroehe (q,v. ), He was considered the most eminent French engraver of the day; his work is charac- terized by accuracy of design and purity of style. He became member of the Academy in 1849, and professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1853, and was elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of London in 1869. He died in Paris, January 20, 1892. HENRIQUEZ, en-re'kath, Francisco Fer- nandez i)E LA CuEVA. See Fernandez de la CuEVA, Henriquez Francisco. HENRY (named in honor of Joseph Henry). The practical unit of induction in the measure- ment of self and mutual "induction. ( See Elec- tricity and Electrical Units. ) It is the induc- tion in a circuit if the induced electro-motive force in it is one volt when produced by the variation of a current at the rate of one ampere per second. The henry is, therefore, substan- tially 10° times the 0. G. S. electromagnetic unit of induction. HENRY I, (876-936). King of the Germans from 919 to 936, surnamed the Fowler. He was the son of Otho, Duke of Saxony, and was distin- guished in early youth for the courage and energy with which he warred against the Slav tribes to the east of his native duchy. Otho, who died in 912, appointed Henry his successor, not only as Duke of Saxony, hut as Lord of Thuringia and part of Franconia. The German King Conrad I., instigated by certain ecclesiastical advisers whom Henry's independent bearing toward the Church had deeply offended, resisted the claims of the young Duke; but the latter was ultimately left in possession of all the lands over which his father had ruled. After Conrad's death, Henry, to whom Conrad had sent the royal insignia, was chosen King by the Franconian and Saxon nobles (919), and he h?,d little difficulty in securing the acqui- escence of the rest of Germany. For some years Lotharingia or Lorraine had held an uncertain position between the kingdoms of the East and the West Franks, as Germany and France were then called ; but in 925 Duke Giselbert trans- ferred his allegiance from the French to the German King. From the time of Louis the Child, Germany had been exposed to the inroads of the Hungarians. In 924 Henry had to pur- chase a truce of nine years by agreeing to pay an annual tribute to the Hvmsarians. The King made use of this respite bv preparing his subjects for a final struggle withnhe barbarous invaders. In the northern districts the Germans had hither- to lived for the most part in small villages or on separate settlements. Henry began building fortified cities throughout Saxony and Thuringia, and in the remaining duchies his example was fol- lowed. He also trained his vassals to meet the enemy on horseback, thus giving a strong impetus to the movement which resulted in the institu- tion of chivalry. When his arrangements were complete he tried his new force in a contest