Harden
MAXIMILIAN FELIX ERNST, a German editor and journalist, born in Berlin, 1861, son of a Jewish merchant named Witowski. He was educated in the French Gymnasium in Berlin, then began his life vocation as a journalist, first attracting attention by his political articles, written under the pseudonym "Apostata." In 1892 he founded and HARDING began to edit his famous weekly paper, "Die Zukunft" (the Future). His pungent and critical editorials soon gained for him national prominence. With prominence. bitter invective and satire he pointed out the evils of the government and German society which made his paper the most feared of all German publications by the ruling classes. He showed himself bitterly opposed to the war when Germany attacked France in 1914.
Many editions of his paper were confiscated or suppressed by the Government during the war. Harden was especially strong in his denunciation of the Government's anti-American policy, and referred to the United States as "a great storehouse of idealism." Much capital was made of Harden's many exposures by the Socialists, but Harden himself was never a Socialist, and wrote as bithe had terly against Bolshevism as he had against German Imperialism. as HARDERWIJK (här'der-wīk), a fishing town of the Netherlands, on the S. E. shore of the Zuider Zee, 31 miles N.
E. of Utrecht. From 1648 to 1811 it was the seat of a university. It is now a depot for recruits for the Dutch East Indian army.
HARDICANUTE (-nūt'), a king of England, son of Canute the Great and Emma of Normandy, the widow of Ethelred II.; born about 1019. At the time of his father's death (1035) Hardicanute was in Denmark, and the throne given to Harold, his younger was brother; Wessex, however, was reserved for the absent prince, whose claims to the kingdom were upheld by Godwin and Emma. On the death of Harold, in 1040, Hardicanute was elected king in his place. In the short space of two years he provoked the discontent of his subjects by the imposition of a very heavy danegeld. He died in Lambeth, near London, June 8, 1042.