interest in the old German language and literature. A special "German deputation" was set aside at the Academy and entrusted with the drawing up of a German grammar and dictionary. He also stood in very close relations with many of the German poets of the time, and especially with Daniel Schubart. Among the German historians in whom he took a great interest, he had the greatest esteem for Pufendorf. He was equally concerned in the improvement of the state of education. In 1780 he boldly took up the defence of German literature, which had been disparaged by Frederick the Great in his famous writing De la littérature allemande. Hertzberg's frank and honourable nature little fitted him to be a successful diplomatist; but the course of history has justified many of his aims and ideals, and in Prussia his memory was honoured. He died at Berlin on 22 May 1795 and was buried in the family tomb under the village church (Britzer Dorfkiche) of Britz beside his country estate (Schloss Britz). Honours 1789 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1794 - Marcus Elieser Bloch named a sea catfish, Sciades herzbergii after him. Notes References This work in turn cites: Mirabeau, Histoire secrète de la cour de Berlin (1788) P. F. Weddigen, Hertzbergs Leben (Bremen, 1797) E. L. Posselt, Hertzbergs Leben (Tübingen, 1798) H. Lehmann, in Neustettiner Programm (1862) E. Fischer, in Staatsanzeiger (1873) M. Duncker, in Historische Zeitschrift (1877) Paul Bailleu, in Historische Zeitschrift (1879) and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1880) H. Petrich, Pommersche Lebensbilder i. (1880) G. Dressler, Friedrich II. und Hertzberg in ihrer Stellung zu den holländischen Wirren (University of Breslau dissertation, 1882) K. Krauel, Hertzberg als Minister Friedrich Wilhelms II (Berlin, 1899) F. K. Wittichen, in Historische Vierteljahrschrift, 9 (1906) A. Th. Preuss, Ewald Friedrich, Graf von Hertzberg (Berlin, 1909) J. Hashagen, "Hertzbergs Verhältnis zur deutschen Literatur," in Zeitschrift fur deutsche Philologie for 1903. General works: F. K. Wittichen, Preussen und England, 1785–1788 (Heidelberg, 1902) F. Luckwaldt, Die englisch-preussische Allianz von 1788 in den Forschungen zur brandenburgisch-preussischen Geschichte, Bd. 15, and in the Delbruckfestschrift (Berlin, 1908) L. Sevin, System der preussischen Geheimpolitik 1790–1791 (University of Heidelberg dissertation, 1903) P. Wittichen, Die polönische Politik Preussens 1788–1790 (Berlin, 1899) F. Andreae, Preussische and russische Politik in Polen 1787–1789 (Humboldt University of Berlin dissertation, 1905) W. Wenck, Deutschland vor 100 Jahren (2 vols, 1887, 1890) Adolf Harnack, Geschichte der preussischen Akademie