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in Plauen and Strehlon, and was well known 

 bj liia work, "Geschichte dor Jaoquard Ma- 

 Hi-hino and der sioh ihr anschliessenden Ab- 

 anderungen " (1878). 



K.'M-.. Hi 1:1:1:1:1. a German artist, actor, 

 and author, born in 1821; died June 18, 1876. 

 He was, in his youth, a popular comedian ; but, 

 devoting himself exclusively to art, he con- 

 tributed a large number of comical illustrations 

 to the must popular German journals, and also 

 contributed a number of satirical sketches. He 

 published an autobiography in the Gartenlaube 

 in 1872, under the title of "Ein Autodidakt." 



K6NIG8MARK-PLAUE, HANS KARL ALBKECHT, 



Count VON, born September 15, 1790 ; died in 

 the latter part of April, 1876. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Prussian Herrenhaus, and a Privy 

 Councilor ( Wirklicher G-eheimratJi). 



KRABBE, NIKOLAUS OARLOVITCB, a Russian 

 admiral, born in 1815; died January 15, 1876. 

 He had been Minister of the Navy from 1861 

 to 187<5. 



KRUGER, K. W., a German scholar, born in 

 1796 ; died May 1, 1876. He studied at the 

 University of Halle, and, after holding several 

 minor positions, became professor in the Jo- 

 achimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin in 1827, re- 

 maining there until 1838, when he was pen- 

 sioned. He published " Historiographica Dio- 

 nysii Halicarnassensis " (1823), and editions 

 of Herodotus, Thucydides, and of the " Anaba- 

 sis" of Xenophon and of Arrian. He pub- 

 lished a smaller Greek grammar which has 

 gone through nine editions, and a larger one 

 which has gone through four. He also wrote 

 " Geschichte der Englischen Revolution," 

 " Zur Charakteristik der gesturzten Verwaltung 

 in Preussen" (1848), and "Kritische Ana- 

 lekto " (1848). 



KUH, EMIL, a German poet and critic, born 

 December 13, 1828; died December 30, 1876. 

 After having been connected for some time 

 with several prominent literary journals in 

 Berlin, he returned to Vienna, his native city, 

 and in 1864 received an appointment as Pro- 

 fessor of German Language and Literature in 

 the Commercial Academy of that city. Among 

 his critical works are : " Friedrich Hebbel " 

 (1854), "Adalbert Stifter " (1868), and "Zwei 

 osterreichische Dichter, Franz Grillparzer und 

 Adalbert Stifter" (1872). His "Gedichte" 

 appeared in 1858, and "Drei Erzahlungen " 

 in 1857. He also published "Dichterbuch aus 

 Oesterreich " (1853), and, together with Glaser, 

 edited the complete works of Friedrich Hebbel 

 (1864-'68). 



LANG, HEINRIOH, a German theologian, born 

 November 14, 1826; died January 13, 1876. 

 He studied in Tubingen, and in 1848 went to 

 Switzerland to escape political persecution. 

 In Switzerland he received a position as clergy- 

 man. In 1859 he established a religious paper, 

 Zeitstimmen fur die Reformirte Schweiz, which, 

 in time, became the central organ of liberal 

 Protestantism in Switzerland. He also pub- 

 lished " Versuch einer christlichen Dogmatik " 



(1858), "Stuoden der Andacht" (2 vola., 1862- 

 '65), "Martin Luther, em religiose* Churuk- 

 terbild " (1870), and " Das Leben Jeu uud die 

 Kirche der Zukunft" (1872). 



LARABIT, MABIE DENIS, a French politician, 

 born August 15, 1792; died in January, 1876. 

 He had taken part as an officer in the cam- 

 paigns of Napoleon I., whom he accompanied 

 to Elba. Upon the restoration of the Bour- 

 bons he resigned his position in the army. 

 During the reign of Louis Philippe he was a 

 member of the Chamber of Deputies for Au- 

 xerre, and was created a senator by Louis Na- 

 poleon. In 1876 he was a candidate for the 

 Senate from the department of Yonne, but 

 died before the election was held. 



LA ROCHETTE, ERNEST DE, a French states- 

 man, born in 1804 ; died January 20, 1876. He 

 represented the department of Loire-Inferieure 

 in the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies, 

 and was reflected by this department Febru- 

 ary 8, 1871. He was throughout his life a de- 

 cided Legitimist. At the senatorial elections 

 in the Assembly he entered into an alliance 

 with the Republicans for himself and his 

 friends, by which the Republicans obtained 

 fifty-four and the pure Legitimists ten of the 

 life-senators. He was the twenty-first senator 

 elected by the Assembly, but died before that 

 body organized. 



LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED, a British law- 

 yer and author, born in 1827; died Septem- 

 ber 24, 1876. He was educated at Rugby and 

 Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated 

 in 1848 as a second-class in classics, and was 

 called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1852, 

 but early abandoned the law for literature. 

 He was the author of "Guy Livingstone" and 

 "Sword and Gown," both published anony- 

 mously ; and a third tale by him, " Barren 

 Honor," was published in Fraser^s Magazine 

 in 1861. 



LAYCOOK, THOMAS, a British physician, horn 

 in 1812; died September 21, 1876. He was 

 a professor in Edinburgh, and was the author 

 of " The Reflex Functions of the Brain," 

 " The Mind and Brain," etc. 



LEBRETON, EUGENE CASIMIR, a French gen- 

 eral of division, born January 18, 1791; died 

 March 4, 1876. He served with distinction in 

 Algeria, was elected in 1848 from Eure-et- 

 Loire to the Constituent Assembly, of which 

 he was elected qustor, and afterward to the 

 Legislative Assembly, where he showed himself 

 a decided enemy of the republic. He was pro- 

 moted to the grade of general of division in 

 1852, and retired from the service in 1854. In 

 1852 he was elected to the Corps Legislatif as 

 the Government candidate for La Vend6e, 

 which he represented until 1863, when he was 

 returned for Eure-et-Loire. He retained this 

 seat up to the overthrow of the empire, being 

 appointed qustor in 1869. He was created 

 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1850. 



LEDERER, JOACHIM, a German author, born 

 August 23, 1808; died July 31, 1876. He 



