HARE, WILLIAM HOBART: Protestant Episcopal missionary bishop of South Dakota; b. at Princeton, N. J., May 17, 1838. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, but was obliged to leave at the close of his junior year. He then engaged in teaching while pursuing his theological studies, and was ordered deacon in 1859, and ordained priest in 1860. He was assistant at St. Luke's, Philadelphia, in 1859-62, and rector of St. Paul's in the same city in 1862-63. He then returned to St. Luke's for a year, after which he was rector of the Church of the Ascension, Philadelphia, from 1864 to 1870. He was secretary and general agent of the foreign committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (1870-73). He was nominated missionary bishop of Cape Palmas, West Africa, in 1871, by the House of Bishops, but the nomination was withdrawn at the request of the. House of Deputies, in view of his valuable services as secretary. In 1873 he was consecrated missionary bishop of Niobrara, which was enlarged in 1883, and renamed the diocese of South Dakota. Theologically he holds to the catholic faith, and also keeps his mind open to the thought of the present day.

Bibliography: W. S. Perry, The Episcopate in America, p. 213, New York, 1895.

HARING, JOHANN BAPTISTA: Austrian Roman Catholic; b. at Wettmannstetten, a village of Styria, Aug. 5, 1867. He was educated at the University of Graz, where he took both the theological (DJ)., 1896) and the law (LL.D., 1902) courses. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1891, and after a brief term as curate in Leibnitz and Schladming (1891-92), was superintendent of studies in the theological seminary at Graz from 1892 to 1900. In 1900 he was appointed associate professor of canon law in the theological faculty of the Univer sity of Graz, and in 1906 was promoted to his present position of full professor of the same subject in that institution. He has written Der Rechts und Gesetzmbegri ff in der katholischen Ethik and modernen Jurfsprudenz (Graz, 1899); Die Schaden ersatzp flicht des Erben für Delikte des Erblassea mach kanonischem Rechte (Vienna, 1903); and Grundxage des katholischen Kirchenrechtes, i. (Graz, 1906).

HARKAVY, ALBERT (Abraham Yakovlevich)

Russian Jewish scholar; b. at Novogrudok (80 m. s. of Wilna) Oct. 27, 1830. He was educated at the rabbinical schools of Volozhin (1854-58) and Wilna (1858-63), and at the universities of St. Petersburg (1863--68; doctor of history, IETx), Berlin and Paris (1868-70). Since 1877 he has been librarian of the Semitic department of the Imperial Public Library at St. Petersburg. He has written " On the Language of the Jews " (St. Petersburg, 1865); " Statements of Mohammedan Writers on the Slavs and Russians,, (1870); " On the Original Home of the Semites " (1872); '° Statements of

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Jewish Writers on the Chazar Kingdom " (1874); " Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the Imperial Public Library " (2 vols., 1874-75); Kata log der hebräischen Bibelhandschriften der kaiser lichen Offentlichen Bibliothek in St. Petersburg (in collaboration with H. L. Strack; 1875); Altjudische Denkmdler aus der Krim (1877); Studien and Mit teilungen aus der kaiserlichm offentlichen Biblio thek zu St. Petersburg (8 vols.,1879-1903); " On the Language of the Jews living in Russia in Ancient Times " (1886); Leben and Werke des Saadjah Gaon (1892); " An Unedited (Hebrew) Version of the Romance of Alexander " (1892); and Ozar Israel