ANSCHÜTZ, Karl, musician, b. in Coblentz, Germany, in February, 1813; d. in New York city, 30 Dec., 1870. His father was an eminent musician and was in charge of a school for vocal and instrumental instruction. His early musical studies were made under his father, and in 1837 he was sent to study under Frederick Schneider, of Dessau, whose daughter he married. He then returned to Coblentz, where he became conductor of the royal musical institution and of the orchestra at the theatre, with the title of royal musical director. In 1848 he led the orchestra at Nuremburg, and in 1849 was conductor of the German opera at Amsterdam. During the same year he went to London with a German opera troupe, and subsequently he became leader of the orchestra at Drury Lane theatre. He conducted great concerts in Exeter hall, at one of which he gave Beethoven's ninth symphony with an orchestra of 250 musicians and a chorus of 500 singers. He also conducted the Italian opera at Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere in Great Britain. In 1857 he came to the United States with Ullman's Italian opera troupe, which he conducted until 1860. He founded in 1862 the German opera in New York, and was active in the establishment of the New York conservatory of music. In 1869 he served as musical director of the New York section of the mass choruses at the Baltimore singing festival. He was also a composer of some ability, and wrote out for brass instruments the nine symphonies of Beethoven, of which two were performed.
ANSELME, Jacques Bernard Modeste d',
French general, b. in Apt, 22 July, 1740; d. in September, 1814. As lieutenant-colonel of the Soissons regiment, he fought through the American revolution. As lieutenant-general he took Nice and the fortresses of Montalban and
Villefranche in 1792, but was defeated at Sospello and
imprisoned until the revolution of Thermidor.
ANSORGE, Charles, musician, b. in Spiller,
Silesia, Germany, in 1817; d. in Chicago, 28 Oct.,
1866. He was educated in Breslau, where he
received high honors, and also obtained a thorough
musical training. For some years after his graduation
he devoted his attention to teaching, and was
further occupied in editing a public newspaper.
Imbued with the liberal ideas prevalent in
Germany in 1848-'49, he published articles offensive
to the authorities, for which he was tried and
sentenced to three years' imprisonment. But he
escaped to England, where he was joined by his
family, and sailed for the United States. He
settled in Boston, and became organist and chorister
of the first church in Dorchester, where he
remained for thirteen years. He was also a teacher
of music in the asylum for the blind in South
Boston for four years. For some time he was a
resident editor of the “Massachusetts Teacher,”
and he took an active part in the state teachers'
association. In 1863 he removed to Chicago.
ANSPACH, Frederick Rinehart, clergyman, b. in central Pennsylvania in January, 1815; d. in Baltimore, Md., 16 Sept., 1867. He was graduated at the Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1839, and at the Lutheran theological seminary in 1841. He was pastor for nine years of the churches of Barren Hill and White Marsh, and subsequently at Hagerstown, Md. A sermon delivered on the occasion of the death of Henry Clay was his first publication. His “Sons of the Sires,” “Sepulchres of our Departed” (Philadelphia, 1854), “The Two Pilgrims” (1857), and other works appeared in rapid succession. In 1857 he removed to Baltimore, where he became a contributor to the
“Lutheran Observer,” and in 1858 its principal
editor, in which office he continued till 1861.
ANTES, Henry, colonist, b. in Germany in 1701; d. in Fredericktown, Pa., 20 July, 1755. The name Antes is a Greek paraphrase of the German Blume, adopted as a disguise during the Romanist persecutions of 1620. Henry Antes
emigrated with his father's family to Pennsylvania about 1720, and built a paper-mill on the Wissahickon near Philadelphia. Here he married Christina, daughter of William Dewees, and became a leader in the civil and religious affairs of the colony. He was the friend of Whitefield and Zinzendorf, and, after consultation with the latter, assumed the leadership of the religious organization founded in 1741, and known as “Unitas Fratrum,” or Moravians. He was one of the founders of
Bethlehem. — His son, Philip Frederick, b. 2 July, 1730; d. in Lancaster, Pa., 20 Sept., 1801, held
several public offices, was a member of the provincial
council and of the general and state assemblies, judge of the court of common pleas, and a colonel of state militia. He was so conspicuous and ardent a patriot during the revolution that the British offered a reward for his head. In 1776, in company with a Mr. Potts at Warwick furnace, he successfully cast an eighteen-pounder, the first cannon ever made in America. See “A German Hero,” by Rev. Edwin McMinn (Moorestown, N. J., 1886).
ANTHON, John, jurist, b. in Detroit, 14 May,
1784; d. in New York city, 5 March, 1863. He
was the second son of Dr. G. C. Anthon, was graduated
at Columbia college in 1801 at the head of his
class, studied law, and, upon attaining his majority,
was admitted to practice in the supreme court.
During the war of 1812 he was in command of a
company of militia, and served in the defence of
New York city. He was also frequently employed
during this period as judge-advocate. The
establishment of the supreme court of the city of New
York is largely due to his efforts, he having
successfully urged its necessity upon the state legislature.
He was one of the founders of the New York
Law Institute, and at the time of his death was its
president. He published “Digested Index to the
Reports of the United States Courts” (5 vols.,
1813); “Reports of Cases at Nisi Prius in the New
York Supreme Court” (1820); “An Analytical
Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries,” with
a prefatory essay “On the Study of Law” (2d ed.,
1832); and “Anthon's Law Student” and “American
Precedents” (1810). — His brother, Henry,
clergyman, b. in New York city, 11 March, 1795; d.
there, 5 Jan., 1861, was graduated at Columbia
in 1813, after which he studied theology under
Bishop Hobart and took orders in the Protestant
Episcopal church. In 1816, while still a deacon,
he had charge of the parish of St. Paul's church
in Tivoli-on-Hudson, N. Y.; but, his health failing,
he removed to South Carolina, where he
remained from 1819 to 1822. During the latter
year he became rector of Trinity church, Utica,
where he remained till 1829, when he took charge
of St. Stephen's church, New York. This pastorate
he resigned in 1837 and became rector of St.
Mark's in the Bowery, continuing there till his
death. All Souls' church, originally a chapel of
St. Mark's, was completed afterward, and was
made a memorial by his late congregation. A
memorial tablet has been erected near the chancel
by the vestry of St. Mark's. Dr. Anthon
published “Historical Notices of St. Mark's Church
from 1795 to 1845” (New York, 1845). — Another
brother, Charles, educator, b. in New York city,
19 Nov., 1797; d. there, 29 July, 1867, was gradu-
