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HOTHO, HEINRICH GUSTAV (1802-1873)

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HOTHO, HEINRICH GUSTAV (1802-1873) , See also:German historian of See also:art, was See also:born at See also:Berlin in 1802, and died in his native See also:city on See also:Christmas See also:day 1873. During boyhood he was affected for two years with See also:blindness consequent on an attack of See also:measles. But recovering his sight he studied so hard as to take his degree at Berlin in 1826. A See also:year of travel spent in visiting See also:Paris, See also:London and the See also:Low Countries determined his vocation. He came See also:home delighted with the treasures which he had seen, worked laboriously for a higher examination and passed as " docent " in See also:aesthetics and art See also:history. In 1829 he was made See also:professor at the university of Berlin. In 1833 G. F. See also:Waagen accepted him as assistant in the museum of the Prussian See also:capital; and in 1858 he was promoted to the directorship of the See also:print-See also:room. During a See also:long and busy See also:life, in which his See also:time was divided between literature and See also:official duties, Hotho's ambition had always been to See also:master the history of the See also:schools of See also:Germany and the Nether-lands. Accordingly what he published was generally confined to those countries. In 1842-1843 he gave to the See also:world his See also:account of German and Flemish See also:painting.

From 1853 to 1858 he revised and published anew a See also:

part of this See also:work, which he called " The school of See also:Hubert See also:van See also:Eyck, with his German precursors and contemporaries." His See also:attempt later on to write a history of See also:Christian painting overtasked his strength, and remained unfinished. Hotho is important in the history of aesthetics as having See also:developed See also:Hegel's theories; but he was deficient in knowledge of See also:Italian painting. HOTI-MARDAN, or MARDAN, a frontier See also:cantonment of See also:British See also:India in the See also:Peshawar See also:district of the See also:North-See also:West Frontier See also:Province, situated 15 M. N. of See also:Nowshera. Pop. (1901) 3572. It is notable as the permanent headquarters of the famous See also:corps of Guides, and also contains a See also:cavalry See also:brigade belonging to the 1st See also:division of the See also:northern See also:army.

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