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See Kisliar. Kjöbenhavn. The Danish name of Copenhagen. Kladno (kläd'nō). A town in Bohemia, 15 miles west-northwest of Prague. It has important coal and iron-mines. Population (1890), 17,215. Klagenfurt (klä'gen-fört). The capital of Carinthia, Austria-Hungary, situated in lat. 46° 37′ N., long. 14° 19′ E. It has manufactures of white lead, etc. Its most noted building is the House of the Estates. Population (1890), 19,756. Klamath (klä'mat). A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting mainly the shores of upper Klamath Lake and Sprague River, on Klamath Indian reservation, Oregon. They number about 600, distributed in 11 settlements. Also Clamet , Kla met, Tlamath, Tlamatl. Hung. Kolosvár (kōlōsh-vär). The capital of Kolos County, Hungary, situated on the Little Szamos in lat. 46° 44′ N., long. 23° 33′ E. It was founded by the Germans in 1178, and was taken by the Hungarians 1848. It contains a Magyar university, a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a citadel. Population (1890), 35,855, Klausen (klou'zen) Pa . An Alpine pa in Switzerland, leading from Altdorf, Uri, to Linththal, Glarus. Klausthal. See Clausthal . Kléber (klā-bar'), Jean Baptiste. Born at Strasburg, 1753 (17547): a a inated at Cairo, Egypt, June 14, 1800. A noted French general. He served in the Vendean war in 1798; in the eastern Napoleon as commander in Egypt in 1799; and defeated armies 1794-96; and at Mount Tabor in 1799; succeeded the Turks at Helio polis in 1800. Klein (klin), Julius Leopold. Born at Miskolez, Hungary, 1804: died at Berlin, Aug. 2, 1876. A German dramatist and historian of literature. His chief work is a "Geschichte des Dramas" (12 vols. 1865–76). Kleist (klist), Ewald Christian von. Born at Zeblin, near Köslin, Pru ia, March 3, 1715: died at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, -the-Oder, Pru ia, Aug. 24, 1759. A German poet and officer (first in the Danish and then in the Pru ian service). He was mortally wounded at Kunersdorf (Aug. 12, 1759). His best-known poem is " Der Frühling" ("Spring,"1749). IMG:content-0577.png:[blocks in formation] Kleve. See Cleves . Klik it at (klik'e-tat). A tribe of North American Indians. They wintered in 1805 on the Yakima and Klik it at rivers, Washington, in the region conterminous with the two counties named after those rivers. At that time they numbered 700. There are now about 115 on the Yakima reservation, Washington. See Shahaptian . Klin (klēn). A town in the government of Moscow, Ru ia, 56 miles northwest of Moscow: the ancient seat of the Roman offs. Population (1885-89), 5,415. Klinger (kling'er), Fried rich Maximilian von. Born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Feb. 17, 1752: died March 9, 1831. A German dramatic poet and novelist. He wrote the play "Sturm und Drang" ("Storm and Stre ," 1775), which gave its name to the so called "Sturm und Drang" period of German literature. Klintsi (klint'sē). A manufacturing town in the government of Tchernigoff, Ru ia, situated in lat. 52° 44′ N., long. 32° 16′ E. Population (1885-89), 11,635. Kli ow (klis'ov). A place in the government of Kalisz. Ru ian Poland, near the Pru ian frontier. Here, July 19, 1702, Charles XII. of Sweden defeated the Poles and Saxons. Kli ura (klis-sö'rä). A gorge made by the Danube on the frontier of Hungary and Servia, between Neu-Moldova and Orsova. Klondike (klon'dik). A river in the North west Territory, Canada, which flows into the Yukon at Dawson, above the 64th parallel north latitude. It is noted for the gold-mines in its vicinity. Klonowicz (klō-no'vich), Sebastian Fabian (called Acernus). Born at Sulmiercyce, Posen, 1551: died at Lublin about 1608. A Polish poet. He wrote both in Latin and in Polish. Among his poems are "Roxalana" (1584), a translation of Cato's "Distich a moralia" (1602), etc. Klönthal (klen'täl). A valley in the canton of Kleist (klist), He in rich Bernt Wilhelm von. Glarus, Switzerland, west of Glarus. Born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, Oct. 18, 1777: Klopstock (klop's tok), Fried rich Gottlieb. died at Wannensee, near Potsdam, Nov. 21, 1811. Born at Quedlinburg, Pru ia, July 2, 1724: died A German dramatist. He entered the army in 1795, at Hamburg, March 14, 1803. A noted German but in 1799 left it to study at Frankfort and Berlin. In 1801 he went to Paris, and afterward to Switzerland, where he again traveled in 1803. In 1804 he was given a subordinate government position at Königsberg, but resigned it after the disastrous battle of Jena. In 1807 he went to Dresden, and engaged there in editorial work on a newspaper. In 1809 he went to Prague, where he wrote as a pamphleteer against France in the war with Austria; but after the defeat of Wagram he returned to Berlin and again took up his work as a journalist. The first of his dramas, the tragedy "Die Familie Schroffenstein" ("The Family Schroffenstein "), appeared in 1803; "A mph i try on" in 1807; the tragedy "Pen the sile a" in 1808; the chivalric drama "Kathchen von Heilbronn" in 1810; and the comedy "Der zerbrochene Krug" ("The Broken Jug '"') in 1811. He also wrote "Erzählungen" ("Tales," 1810-11), and a few lyrics. His fame is almost wholly posthumous. His literary efforts met with but little succe during his life, and he at last not only became despondent, but was actually threatened with need. After first carrying out the promise he had made to a female friend, as morbid as himself, to kill her, he committed suicide when only 34 years old. Two dramas were published after his death: "Die Hermann chlacht ("The Battle of Hermann," i. e. Arm in i us), and "Der Prinz von Homburg" ("The Prince of Homburg"), "Robert Guiscard" is a fragment. His collected writings were first published at Berlin, 1826, in 3 vols. Kleist von Nollendorf (klist fon nol'len-dorf), Count Fried rich He in rich Ferdinand Emil. Born at Berlin, April 9, 1762: died at Berlin, Feb. 17, 1823. A Pru ian field-marshal, dist in guished in the War of Liberation, 1813-14. Klemm (klem), Fried rich Gustav. Born at Chemnitz, Saxony, Nov. 12, 1802: died at Dresden, Aug. 26, 1867. A noted German historian, secretary and later librarian of the royal library at Dresden. He wrote "Die Geschichte von Bayern" (1828), "All gem eine Kulturgeschichte der Mensch he it" (1843-52), "Handbuch der german is chen Altertumskunde" (1835), "Die Frauen" (1856-58), etc. Klengel (kleng'el), Johann Christian. Born at Ke elsdorf, near Dresden, May 5, 1751: died at Dresden, Dec. 19, 1824. A German landscape painter. Klenze (klent'se), Leo von. Born near Hildesheim, Pru ia, Feb. 29, 1784: died at Munich, Jan. 27, 1864. A German architect. Among his works are the "Walhalla" (near Ratisbon), many buildings in Munich (including the Glyptothek, Odeon, and Pinako thek), etc. Klephts (klefts). Greek or Albanian brigands. As a cla , the Klephts were originally those Greeks who, after the Turkish conquest in the 15th century, formed armed bands or communities in mountain fastne es, and maintained their independence, defying and plundering the Turks and their adherents. They gave powerful aid to the patriots in the war of independence (1821-28), after which those who kept up their organization became mere robbers. They have been suppre ed in Greece. Klettgau (klet'gou). A mountainous region poet. Before 1745, when he went to Jena to study theology, he had already conceived the plan of the religious epic afterward written as the "Me ias" ("The Me iah"). In Leipsic, in 1748, he published anonymously, in the journal "Bremer Beiträge," the first three cantos of the poem. This same year he went as tutor to Langensalza. In 1750 he accepted the invitation of the poet and historian Bodmer to Zurich, but the succeeding year was summoned by the King of Denmark to Copenhagen, that he might there find the leisure to complete his poem. He remained there until 1771; went then to Hamburg; in 1775 was for a year in Karlsruhe; and then returned to Hamburg, where he subsequently lived. The "Me ias," a poem consisting of twenty cantos written in hexameters, did not appear in its complete form until 1773. "Geistliche Lieder" ("Religious Songs") appeared in 1758, and "Oden" ("Odes") in 1771. He also wrote three dramas on biblical subjects: "Der Tod Adams" ("The Death of Adam," 1757), "Salomo" ("Solomon"), and "David" (1772). Three others were written on subjects from early national history: "Hermann chlacht" ("The Battle of Hermann," i. e. Arm in i us, 1769), "Hermann und die Fürsten" ("Hermann and the Princes,' 1784), "Hermanns Tod" ("Hermann's Death," 1787). The last three dramas were in prose interspersed with bardic choruses, so called, and were consequently named by him "Bardiete." Minor poems are the ode "An meine Freunde" ("To My Friends," 1747), later changed to "Wingolf," addre ed to the poets of the Saxon school; the "Kriegslied " ("War Song"), written in 1749 in honor of Frederick the Great; and the ode "Hermann und Thusnelda," written in 1752. His principal prose work is "Die Gelehrtenrepublik" ("The Scholars Republic," 1744), an art of poetry from his own standpoint. His complete works appeared (Leipsic, 1844-45) in 11 vols. Klosterneuburg (klos-ter-noi'börg). A town in Lower Austria, 6 miles north-northwest of Vienna. Population (1890), commune, 8,988. Kloster-Zeven (klos'ter-tse'fen), Convention of. See Closter - Seven . Knabl (knä'bl), Joseph. Born at Flie , Tyrol, July 17, 1819: died at Munich, Nov. 3, 1881. A Tyrolese sculptor. His works are chiefly in Bavaria. K'naia-khotana (knī'a-chō-tänä), or Kenai (ke-ni'). A tribe of the northern division of the At hap as can stock of North American Indians, living in villages along Cook's Inlet and the Kenai Peninsula, southern Alaska. Knapp, Georg Christian. Born at Halle, Pru ia, Sept. 17, 1753: died at Halle, Oct. 14, 1825. A German Protestant theologian, profe or of theology at the University of Halle. He wrote "Vorlesungen über die christliche Glaubenslehre" (1827), etc. Knapp, Ludwig Fried rich. Born at Michelstadt, He e, Feb. 22, 1814. A German chemist. He became profe or in the University of Gie en in 1841, and of Munich in 1853, and in the Polytechnic School at Knapp, Ludwig Fried rich Knox, John Knatchbull-Huge en (nach'bül-hūʼges-en), Edward Huge en, Lord Bra bourne. Born April 29, 1829: died Feb. 6, 1893. A British pol i- tician and author. He was educated at Eton and Ox- estant exegete, profe or at Breslau and after The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names and printed in 1647. Knight of the Burning Pestle, The. A mock- heroic drama by Beaumont and Fletcher, pub- lished anonymously in 1613. It was intended to satirize such plays as Heywood's "Four Prentices of Lon- don," in which extravagantly chivalric and knightly lan- guage was put into the mouths of the middle cla . It was doubtle suggested by "Don Quixote." from 1857 till 1870, when he was raised to the peerage. He Quixote: so called by Sancho Panza. joined the Conservative party in 1885. He wrote "Crackers Knight of the Swan. See Swan and Lohengrin . for Christmas" (1870), "Higgledy-Piggledy" (1875), and Knaus (knous), Ludwig. Born at Wiesbaden, Pru ia, Oct. 5, 1829. A noted German genre painter, one of the leaders of the younger Dü eldorf school. He was a pupil of Sohn and Schadow at Dü eldorf 1846-52, studied in Paris till 1860, and was profe or at the Berlin Academy from 1874 to 1884. He received first-cla medals in 1855, 1857, and 1859, and a medal of honor in 1867. numerous other books for children. Knebel (knā'bel), Karl Ludwig von. Born at Waller stein, Bavaria, Nov. 30, 1744: died at Jena, Germany, Feb. 23, 1834. A German author, best known as a friend of Goethe. Knecht Ruprecht (knecht rö'precht). [G., 'Knight Rupert.'] The German genius of Christmas, corresponding to St. Nicholas, or Santa Claus. In some parts of Germany he is supposed to appear just previous to Christmas, with a bag on his back and a rod in his hand, to inquire into the conduct of the children, whom he rewards or punishes according to their deserts. The actual dispenser of gifts on Christmas Eve is, however, the Christ-child. Kneller (nel'èr), Sir Godfrey (Gottfried Kniller). Born at Lübeck, Germany, Aug. 8, 1646: died at London, Oct. 19, 1723. A German-English portrait-painter. His father was a portrait painter of Lübeck. Godfrey was sent to Leyden to study mathematics and fortification. He abandoned the career of a soldier and entered the atelier of Ferdinand Bol at Amsterdam, receiving probably some instruction from Rembrandt. In 1672 he went to Italy; from Italy he went to Hamburg. In 1675 he found his way to England, and to the patronage of Mr. Vernon, secretary to the Duke of Mon mouth, and later to that of the duke himself, whose por trait he painted, and who recommended him to Charles II. For Charles he painted the portrait of Louis XIV. in Paris. Knights (nits), The. A comedy of Aris toph anes, exhibited in 424 B. c. The play ["Knights"] personifies the A then i an Demosas an easy-going, dull-witted old man, with Nikias, Demosthenes, and Cleon among his slaves, among whom the latter has attained a tyrannical ascendancy by alternate bullying his fellows and flattering his master. By the advice of oracles, which play a great part all through the play, and which imply an earnest faith in religion among the A then i an people of that day, the former two persuade a low sausage-seller (Agora crit us) to undertake the task of supplanting Cleon. He is a isted by the chorus of Knights, who are determined enemies of Cleon, and who come in to defend their friends, and attack the demagogue, in their famous parabasis. The greater part of the remainder is occupied with the brazen attempts of both demagogues to out-bully one another, and to devise bribes and promises to gain Demos' favour. At last Agora crit us prevails and retires with Demos, whom he presently reproduces, apparently by eccyclema, sitting crowned, and in his right mind, heartily ashamed of his former follies.