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EOCHLY, HERMANN. 



LASSEN, CHRISTIAN. 



" Geschichte des spanischen Dramas" (5 vols., 

 1869-'75) ; and " Geschichte des englischen 

 Dramas," of which the first volume appeared 

 shortly before his death. 



KOCHLY, HERMANN, a German scholar, 

 born August 5, 1815 ; died December 3, 1876. 

 He studied .in the University of Leipsic, and 

 then taught at the Realschule in Meiningen, 

 and afterward at the Kreuzschule in Dresden. 

 Having taken part in the revolutionary move- 

 ments of 1848, he was forced to flee to Bel- 

 gium, from where he went to Zurich in 1850. 

 Here he displayed great activity in various 

 branches. Besides editing a large number of 

 the Greek classics, he took an active part in 

 the administration of the university, add in 

 organizing the schools of that canton. In 1864 

 he accepted a call to the University of Heidel- 

 berg, where he remained up to his death. 



KRELING, Dr. AUGUST VON, a German paint- 

 er and sculptor, born May 23, 1819 ; died April 



23, 1876. He studied sculpture under Sch wan- 

 thaler, in Munich, and afterward painting un- 

 der Cornelius. When Cornelius left Munich 

 he went to Italy, where he studied the paint- 

 ings of Paul Veronese. In 1853 he was ap- 

 pointed Director of the Art Industrial School 

 in Nuremberg, which rapidly prospered under 

 his able supervision. Among his important 

 works are the restoration and decoration of 

 the Old Castle at Nuremberg, and a statue of 

 Heinrich Posthumus in Gera. His largest and 

 most important work, however, was the large 

 fountain in Cincinnati, which is considered one 

 of the finest in the world. Among his paint- 

 ings the best known is " Erwin von Stein- 

 bach." He also published an illustrated edi- 

 tion of Goethe's " Faust," and, together with 

 W. von Kaulbach, the " Durer Album." He 

 was an excellent teacher, being highly esteemed 

 by his pupils. He married, in 1853, a daughter 

 of Kaulbach. 



LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM, a British Oriental- 

 ist, born at Hereford, September 17, 1801 ; died 

 in August, 1876. Having studied in Cam- 

 bridge, he went to Egypt, in 1825, where he 

 remained three years, and in exploring the 

 country for archaeological purposes advanced 

 as far as the second cataract of the Nile. Dur- 

 ing this stay he acquired such an extraordinary 

 knowledge and fluency in the use of the Arabic 

 language, that he could converse with the peo- 

 ple like a native, and thus gained an insight 

 into the customs of the country and the peo- 

 ple, which, at that time, had been but little 

 touched by European influences. The fruit 

 of this journey was a description of Egypt, 

 the people, and the monuments of the country, 

 with one hundred special sketches. Owing to 

 the cost of the reproduction of these sketches, 

 this work was never published. But it caused 

 the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowl- 

 edge to send him again to Egypt, with the 

 order to prepare a work on the condition of 

 Egypt at that time. This second trip lasted 

 from 1833 to 1835, and in 1836 he published 

 his work on the " Manners and Customs of the 

 Modern Egyptians," which went through five 

 editions. In the years 1838 to 1840 he com- 

 pleted the translation of the " Arabian Nights," 

 this being the first accurate translation of this 

 work into a European language. In 1842 he 

 went tc Egypt for a third time, and remained 

 there until 1849. This journey was made at 

 the expense of the Duke of Northumberland, 

 and had for its object the preparation of an 

 Arabic-English lexicon. On this work he was 

 engaged for thirty-five years, up to his death. 

 The first volume appeared in 1863, and has 

 been followed by five more, while for the sev- 

 enth and eight volumes he left the manuscript 

 all ready. 



LARIVIERE, PIERRE CHARLES, a celebrated 

 French painter, born September 13, 1798 ; 

 died March 18, 1876. He received his first 

 lessons in painting from his fattier, but in his 

 fifteenth year entered the studio of PauliE 

 Guerin, and afterward those of Girodet and. 

 the Baron Gros. In 1813 he entered the School 

 of Fine Arts, and successively obtained dis- 

 tinguished medals and prizes. Some of the 

 best known of his works, executed between 

 the years 1824 and 1869, are "The Prisoner in 

 the Capitol visited by his Family," " The 

 Plague in Rome under Nicholas V.," " Two 

 Monks in Meditation," several portraits of dis- 

 tinguished marshals, admirals, and statesmen, 

 and studies of heads ; the battles of Ascalon, 

 of Mons-en-Puelle, and of Cocherel ; tlie ' Rais- 

 ing of the Siege of Malta," and the " Siege of 

 Dunkirk." Most of his subjects were ex- 

 hibited in the Salons from 1834 to 1847. He 

 obtained two of the highest medals in 1831 

 and 1855, and the decoration of the Legion of 

 Honor in 1836. 



LASSEN, CHRISTIAN, a celebrated Oriental- 

 ist, born in Bergen, Norway, in 1800 ; died in 

 Bonn, Germany, May 9, 1876. He studied 

 philology in the Universities of Christiania, 

 Heidelberg, and Bonn, studying Sanskrit at 

 Bonn under August Wilhelm von Schlegel. 

 The years 1823 to 1825 he passed in London 

 and Paris, and at both places devoted himself 

 assiduously to the study of philology. In Paris 

 he studied the Pali language with Burnouf, 

 with whom he published, in 1826, " Essai sur 

 le Pali." Having returned to Bonn he became, 

 in 1827, Privatdocent in the university, ex- 

 traordinary professor in 1830, and ordinary 

 professor in 1840. In this position he remained 

 some years, until a chronic disease of the eye 

 compelled him to retire. He was a member of 



