EOGEAED
KOLAND DE DA PLATIERE
Sevres porcelain works. In the following
year he proved his remarkable power by
producing his Homme au nez casse ; but
there were still years of struggle and
comparative obscurity. He studied and
worked in Belgium for seven years, and
it was near the end of the seventies when
he secured recognition. In the eighties
he created wonderful portrait-busts, and
his later statuary is known all over the
world. He was a Commander of the
Legion of Honour, President of the Inter
national Society of Sculptors, Painters,
and Engravers, and Vice-President of the
National Society of Fine Arts. His degree
in Civil Law was awarded by Oxford
University, and he was generally admitted
to be the greatest sculptor since Michael
Angelo some say since Pheidias. As
one would gather from the spirit of his
entire work, Eodin was a thorough Ration
alist. His favourite authors were Eousseau
and Baudelaire, and his funeral was purely
secular. His biographer, C. Mauclair,
mildly observes that he was " independent
of any religious doctrine " (Augusts Eodin,
Eng. trans., 1905, p. 26). D. Nov. 17,1917.
ROGEARD, Louis Auguste, French writer. B. Apr. 25, 1820. Ed. Ecole Norm ale, Paris. For ten years Eogeard taught grammar and rhetoric in the pro vinces ; but he was dismissed because he refused to attend Mass. He went to Paris, to engage in private teaching, and worked with the Eationalists and Eepublicans. In 1856 he was arrested for joining a secret society, and in 1865 he was condemned to prison for five years. He escaped from France, and did not return until 1870, when he collaborated with Pyat on Le Vengeur. He was expelled again in 1873, returning at the general amnesty. Much of his journalistic work, signed " Atheist," was very anti-clerical. D. Dec. 7, 1896.
ROGERS, Professor James Edwin
Thorold, M.A., economist. B. 1823. Ed.
Southampton, King s College, London, and
Oxford (Magdalen Hall). Thorold Rogers
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was an ardent High Churchman in his
Oxford days. He was ordained priest, and
acted as curate at Oxford until 1859, when
he became a Eationalist and quitted the
Church. When the Clerical Disabilities
Eelief Act, which he had energetically
promoted, was passed, he was the first to
avail himself of it and formally get rid of
his orders. He had become a classical
tutor at Oxford, and was university
examiner from 1857 to 1862. From early
years he had taken a keen interest in
economic questions, and in 1859 he was
appointed the first Tooke Professor of
statistics and economic science at King s
College, where he taught until his death.
From 1862 to 1867 and from 1888 to
1890 he was also Drummond Professor
of political economy at Oxford. Thorold
Eogers was a great friend of Cobden and
Bright and a strenuous Liberal worker for
reform. He sat in Parliament from 1880
to 1886. His chief work, History of Agri
culture and Prices (8 vols., 1866-87), is
a very valuable compilation. D. Oct. 12,
1890.
ROKITANSKY, Professor Baron Karl von, M.D., Bohemian anatomist and pathologist. B. Feb. 19, 1804. Ed. Leimeritz Gymnasium, and Prague and Vienna Universities. In 1828 he was appointed assistant at the Pathological- Anatomical Institute ; and from 1834 to 1875 he was professor of pathological anatomy at Vienna University and Pro sector at the Vienna Grand Hospital. Eokitansky was the founder of the German school of pathological anatomy, and his labours are largely responsible for the medical reputation which the universities of Prague and Vienna obtained. He brought about great reforms in medicine, and his works (chiefly his Lehrbuch der pathologischen Anatomic, 3 vols., 1842-46) were of high value. D. June 23, 1878.
ROLAND DE LA PLATIERE, Jean
Marie, French politician. B. Feb. 18, 1734. He was in his early years trained by an 674 2 A
