JOHANN HEINRICH JUNG** commonly called, a famous German Pietist, was the son of a poor charcoal-burner, and was born at Gründ in Westphalia in 1740. He originally worked at his father's occupation, but afterwards selected the trade of a tailor. He soon afterwards relinquished this business in favour of a teacher's situation. He alternated between the ferula and the needle for some time, until some rich persons, attracted by his simplicity and his modest devoutness, made him tutor to their children. Having saved a little money, he now went to the university of Strasbourg, where he studied medicine, and subsequently became a physician at Elberfeld. Jung became famous as an oculist, and is said by the poet Matthisson to have restored upwards of 2000 poor blind people to their sight. He was as liberal as he was skilful, and hundreds of the German poor knew the hand of the generous philanthropist who had heard nothing of his skill as a physician. In 1778 he was chosen professor at Lausanne, in 1787 at Marburg, and in 1803 at Heidelberg. He died at Carlsruhe in 1817.

When a student at Strasbourg, Stilling had accidentally taken the attention of Goethe by his simplicity, his earnestness, and the humble devoutness with which he entered into everything which he undertook. Goethe remained his warm friend throughout life, and has sketched his character with much fondness in various passages of his *Dichtung und Wahrheit*, books ix. and x. (See also Lewes's *Life of Goethe*, vol. i., p. 105.) Stilling was a voluminous writer. The most popular of his works are his autobiography (*Lebensgeschichte*) and his *Theorie der Geisterkunde*, which have both been rendered into English by Jackson. But he has attained his greatest fame as a mystical writer and thinker. His works have been published by Grollman at Leipzig, 18 vols., 1835.