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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN". 



sian general, died in the beginning of May, 

 1878. (See " Annual Cyclopedia" for 1877.) 



IIiLDEBKAXD, BRUNO, a German statistician, 

 born March 0, 1812, died January 29, 1878. 

 After having been professor in the Universities 

 of Brcslau and Marburg, he was elected in 

 1848 a member of the German National As- 

 sembly. From 1851 to 1856 he was a profes- 

 sor in Zurich, then went to Berne, where he es- 

 tablished the first statistical bureau in Switz- 

 erland, and in 1861 went to Jena as Professor 

 of Political Economy and Director of the Sta- 

 tistical Bureau. His principal works are: " Na- 

 tionalokonomie der Gegenwart und Zukunft" 

 (1848), and "KurhessischeFinanzverwaltung" 

 (1850). From 1863 he published the "Jahr- 

 bucher fiir Nationalokonomie und Statistik." 



HILTON, JOHN, a British surgeon, born in 

 1804, died September 14, 1878. He received 

 his professional education in the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, was chosen in 1854 by his fellows 

 to represent them in Council, was appointed 

 in 1859 Professor of Human Anatomy and Sur- 

 gery, became in 1865 a member of the Court 

 of Examiners of the College, and in 1867 was 

 elected President of the College. He was the 

 author of a number of valuable works, and con- 

 tributor to the various reports of the societies 

 to which he belonged. 



KEIL, ERNST, a German publisher, born De- 

 cember 6, 1816, died March 23, 1878. He es- 

 tablished himself in 1845 as a bookseller at 

 Leipsic, and in 1846 produced his first literary 

 venture, a monthly publication, the "Leucht- 

 thurm." In 1853 he established the " Garten- 

 laube," a weekly publication, which soon took 

 the first place among German periodicals, ob- 

 taining a circulation exceeded by no other pub- 

 lication of the kind. 



KEIM, THEODOR, a German theologian, born 

 December 17, 1825, died November 17, 1878. 

 He was from 1851 to 1855 tutor at the Uni- 

 versity of Tubingen, became in 1860 Professor 

 of Theology at Zurich, and in 1873 at Giessen. 

 His most important work is a new life of Je- 

 sus, entitled " Geschichte Jesu von Nazara" 

 (3 vols., 1867-72), an abridgment of which 

 was published under the title "Geschichte 

 Jesu" (1873). His last work was "Aus dern 

 Urchristenthum " (1878), a collection of essays 

 on important controverted points in the early 

 history of Christianity. He also published 

 several works on the history of the reforma- 

 tion of southwestern Germany, and a collec- 

 tion of sermons (" Freundesworte zur Gemein- 

 de," 2 vols., 1861 and 1862). He was regarded 

 as one of the keenest and most learned repre- 

 sentatives of the liberal school of German the- 

 ology. 



KEOOH WILLIAM, a British judge, born in. 



817, died September 30, 1878. He was edu- 



ted at Trinity College, Dublin, studied law 



icoln s Inn, and practiced with success at 



the Irish bar, becoming a Q. C. in 1849. In 1847 



he was elected to Parliament from Athlone, in 



8o2 was appointed Solicitor-General for Ire- 



land under Lord Aberdeen's Government, and 

 in 1855 was promoted to be Attorney-General. 

 A year later he was raised to the Irish bench 

 as one of the Judges of the Court of Common 

 Pleas. He was at one time an active politi- 

 cian of the Liberal party, and gained distinc- 

 tion both as a writer and speaker. 



KERIDEC, HIPPOLYTE AIME MARIE THOME, 

 Comte de, a French Senator, born August 12, 

 1804, died April 14, 1878. He was from his 

 youth an ardent Legitimist, and therefore re- 

 signed a position as judge after the revolution 

 of 1830. He was elected to the Legislative 

 Assembly in 1849, and retired to private life 

 after the coup d'etat. In 1871 he was elected 

 from Morbihan to the National Assembly, and 

 in 1876 to the Senate. 



KOHL, JOHANN GEORG, a German traveler, 

 born in Bremen, April 28, 1808, died there, 

 October 28, 1878. He studied law at the Uni- 

 versities of Gottingen, Heidelberg, and Munich, 

 but was prevented from completing his studies 

 by the death of his father, and accepted a posi- 

 tion as tutor in Courland, where he remained 

 for six years. After returning to Germany, 

 he published several works on his travels in 

 Russia. He lived for some time in Dresden, 

 but soon resumed his travels, which were 

 gradually extended to nearly all the countries 

 of Europe, and resulted in the publication of 

 numerous works. The rich material which 

 he had collected relating to the early history 

 of America induced him in 1854 to visit the 

 United States, where he continued his explo- 

 rations, and published, at the request of the 

 officers of the Coast Survey, " Entdeckungs- 

 geschichte der Ktisten der Vereinigten Staaten " 

 and ''Geschichte des Golfstroms und seiner 

 Erforschung" (1868). He gave descriptions 

 of his travels in North America, in " Reisen 

 in Canada" (1856), "Reisen im Nordwesten 

 der Vereinigten Staaten" (1858), and " Kitschi 

 Garni oder Erziihlungen vom Obern See " (1859). 

 Several of these works have been translated 

 into English. From 1858 he lived in Bremen, 

 where he was appointed city librarian in 1863. 

 A paper sent to the Maine Historical Society, 

 and published in English under the title "A 

 History of the Discovery of the East Coast of 

 North America" (Portland, 1869), gave inter- 

 esting information respecting the early coast 

 lines, and the patents of the first proprietors 

 of the Maine settlements. After repeatedly 

 delivering a series of lectures, he published 

 them under the title " Geschichte der Ent' 

 deckung Amerikas " (1861 ; English translation, 

 1862). Among his latest publications were 

 " Geschichte der Entdeckungen und Schifffahr- 

 ten zur Magellanstrasse " (1877), and "Die 

 naturlichen Lockmittel des Volkerverkehrs" 

 (1878). 



KRIEGK, GEORG LUDWIG, a German historian, 

 born February 28, 1805, died May 28, 1878. 

 He was for a long time Professor of Geography 

 and History in the Gymnasium of Frankfort. 

 Among his numerous works is "Deutsche Kul- 



