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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (KEBKAPOLY LAVIGEKIE.) 



with many islands, he was ready to abandon the 

 theory of Schweinfurth, that it flowed northwest- 

 ward* into Lake Chad and was identical with the 

 Shari. He was still pursuing his work when the 

 Mahdist rising occurred, and he took refuge with 

 Ernin Fasha, whom he left in 1886, managing to 

 reach Zanzibar by way of Victoria Nyariza. The 

 volumes describing his travels were passing through 

 the press in German and English editions at the time 

 of his death. 



Kerkapoly, Karl, a Hungarian statesman, born in 

 1825; died in Buda-Pesth, Jan. 1, 1892. He took part 

 in the revolution of 1848, entered the Hungarian Diet 

 in 1865, became Minister of Finance, and negotiated 

 in Vienna a loan with the Rothschilds, called the 

 Schatzbond loan, at the extraordinary rate of interest 

 of 10i per cent., an error that sent him into perma- 

 nent retirement. 



Klapka, Georg, a Hungarian patriot and soldier, born 

 in Temesvar, in 1820; died in Buda-Pesth, May 16, 

 1892. He was a lieutenant in the imperial army, 

 where he placed himself in 1848 at the disposition of 

 the Kevolutionary Government of Hungary, and was 

 made chief of staff of the corps operating in the Ban- 

 at. The plan of campaign that secured the brilliant 

 successes of the insurrectionary troops in the first part 

 of 1849 was his. When Gen. Meszaros was defeated 

 at Kaschau, on Jan. 4, 1849, Klapka was appointed to 

 succeed him. After the victory of Isaszegh- Louis 

 Kossuth raised him to the rank of general on the bat- 

 tlefield. He was Minister of War for the space of a 

 month, and then, in June, was appointed to the com- 

 mand of Komorn and of the forces operating on the 

 right bank of the Danube. Falling back upon Ko- 

 morn, he defended the fortress from Aug. 13 till Sept. 

 27, and then surrendered under the most honorable 

 conditions. He lived in exile after the revolution in 

 Switzerland, Italy, London, and Constantinople, and 

 after his return to Hungary, in 1867, made his nome in 

 Buda-Pest. He was elected to the Chamber of Dep- 

 uties, but gave his attention chiefly to industrial en- 

 terprises and railroading. He wrote several works 

 on politics and military history, including " La Guerre 

 d'Orient en 1853 et 1854" (Geneva) ; " La Guerre Na- 

 tionale en Hongrie et en Transylvanie" (Leipsic) ; 

 and " Souvenirs " (Zurich, 1887). 



Kleist-Eetzow, a German statesman, born in 1814; 

 died in Berlin, May 19, 1892. He was the most ag- 

 gressive and extreme representative of the Junker 

 party, and contended against constitutionalism and 

 liberalism in every form. His eminent abilities and 

 political prominence caused him to be placed at the 

 head of the administration of the Rhenish provinces 

 in 1851. During the reactionary period called the 

 " white terror " he went beyond all his confreres in re- 

 pressive severity, and political thought was stifled 

 until the Prince-Regent recalled him, in 1858, as soon 

 as he assumed the Government. He abandoned Bis- 

 marck when the latter showed signs of departing 

 from strict conservative principles. He was the 

 leader of his party to the end, and although the most 

 uncompromising of them, he was the only one who 

 commanded the general respect of his adversaries. 



Klenze, Hippolyt von, a German painter, born in Mu- 

 nich, Aug. 12, 1849; died in Mittelbeig, April 30, 

 1892. He studied under Roth and Schmitzberger, his 

 best works being those representing animals and 

 hunting scenes. lie was also a student of chemistry, 

 his specialty being chemistry of milk, which science 

 he applied practically at 'the estates of Prince Lud- 

 wjg of B^ivaria, whose service he entered in 1877. 



Lalo, Edouard, a French composer, born in Lille, in 

 1831 ; died in Paris, April 23, 1892. He was of Span- 

 ish parentage. His musical talent made itself re- 

 marked at an early part of his life. He was a per- 

 former on the violin, and produced first the opera 

 " Fiesque," which possessed merit of a high order. 

 His first popular success was with " Namouna," 

 on the score of which he labored so intently for 

 eight months that he brought on congestion of the 

 brain. This work delighted the Parisians, and his 



"Roi d'Ys" was an equally brilliant and lasting suc- 

 cess. Lalo composed a number of symphonies and 

 concerted pieces that are counted ariiong the gems of 

 modern French music. 



Lambert, Sir John, an English statesman, born in 

 Wiltshire, Feb. 4, 1815; d'ied in London, Jan. 27, 

 1892. He was educated at the Roman Catholic college 

 at Downside, near Bath, and became a solicitor. In- 

 teresting himself, after the outbreak of cholera, in 1853, 

 in the public health of Salisbury, where he practiced 

 his profession, he was elected mayor in 1854, be- 

 ing the first Roman Catholic to hold that office in 

 any cathedral city of England. He was called to the 

 aid of the Government to prepare schemes for the re- 

 lief of the famine in Lancashire caused by the stop- 

 page of the supply of cotton from the United States 

 m 1863. lie planned the relief works, and the distress 

 was in a great measure removed by the expenditure on 

 public improvements under his superintendence of 

 1,200,000 advanced as a loan to the local authorities by 

 act of Parliament. In 1865 Lord Russell's Government 

 called upon him to prepare the statistics on which 

 the bill for extending the franchise was based, and 

 he was consulted again when Mr. Disraeli trained his 

 reform bill, in 1867. Mr. Gladstone employed him to 

 go to Ireland in connection with the Irish Church 

 act and the first Irish land bill. In 1867 he also drew 

 up the scheme for the metropolitan poor act, and was 

 made receiver of the poor fund after the act wiw 

 passed. In 1869 he prepared the scheme for the 

 metropolitan valuation act. He was a member of the 

 commission on parliamentary boundaries under the 

 act of 1867, and of the sanitary commission that made 

 a report which led to the creation of the Local Gov- 

 ernment Board in 1871, of which he was made the 

 first secretary. He resigned this post in 1882. In 

 1883 he prepared the scheme on which the parlia- 

 mentary reform bill of 1884 was based, and in the 

 following year drew up the plans for the redistribu- 

 tion of seats. He acted as chairman of the commis- 

 sions on the boundaries of the new electoral areas in 

 England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Sir John 

 Lambert, in addition to the enormous amount of offi- 

 cial work that he performed, gave considerable atten- 

 tion to floriculture as an amateur, and was deeply in- 

 terested in music, writing several essays on the sub- 

 ject, and publishing organ accompaniments for the 

 psalms and autiphons of parts of the Roman Catholic 

 liturgy and for the whole of the vesper hymns. 



Lamperti, Francesco, an Italian teacher of singing, 

 born in Savone, March 11, 1813 died at his villa on 

 Lake Como, May 6, 1892. He became professor at 

 the Conservatory of Milan in 1850, and from that 

 time his fame spread rapidly through the civilized 

 world. He was held to be the last representative of 

 the great school of Italian singing. A great number 

 of singers who became famous were formed by him, 

 among them Cruvelli, De'siree Artot, Waldmann, 

 Lagrange, Teresina Stolz, Emma Albani, the tenor 

 Campanini, and Collini. Lamperti wrote several 

 books on the principles of the vocal art. 



Launay, Count, an Italiau diplomatist, born in 1820 ; 

 died in Berlin, Feb. 7, 1892. lie was appointed rep- 

 resentative at the Prussian court of the King of Sar- 

 dinia on June 16, 1853, having previously been attacM. 

 In 1865 he was replaced by Count Barral, but re- 

 turned in 1867, and remained there as minister and 

 afterward ambassador of the united Kingdom of Italy. 

 He took a prominent part in the conclusion of the 

 triple alliance, was one of the delegates to the Congress 

 of Berlin, and was long the doyen of the diplo- 

 matic body in the German capital. 



Lavigerie, Charles Allemand, a French ecclesiastic and 

 missionary, born in Bayonue in 1825; died in Al- 

 giers, Nov. 26, 1892. He was the sou of an officer of 

 the customs service. Showing great promise in the 

 school at Bayonne, he was sent to the Sulpice, in 

 Paris, took his doctor's degree, and became Professor 

 of Ecclesiastical History at the Sorbonne. After the 

 massacre of Christians at Damascus he went to Syria 

 as a missionary, where he con&eived the idea of es- 



