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merit." Being accused of high treason, he 

 boldly returned from Switzerland, stood his 

 trial at Konigsberg, and was once more ac- 

 quitted, despite the most strenuous efforts for 

 his conviction. In 1863. having passed the 

 intervening period in retirement, he entered the 

 Lower Housa of the Prussian Legislature, and 

 there vigorously resisted the measures of Bis- 

 marck. In 1870 he publicly denounced the 

 annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, for which 

 he was arrested without legal warrant and im- 

 prisoned for three weeks. In 1871 he declined 

 an election to the German Reichstag. His 

 collected writings and speeches appeared in 

 two volumes in 1877. 



JAMES, Sir HESKY, a British lieutenant-gen- 

 eral, born in 1803 ; died June 15, 1877. He 

 had been director of ordnance surveys of Great 

 Britain and the topographical and statistical 

 department o the War Office. He was knight- 

 ed in 1860. 



JEJEEBHOY, Sir JAMSETJEE, Bart., born Octo- 

 ber 9, 1811 ; died in July, 1877. He was the eld- 

 est son of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, a Parsee mer- 

 chant of wealth and ability, and a great phi- 

 lanthropist, who was created a baronet in 1857. 

 He succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's 

 death in 1859, and the following year re- 

 linquished his original names, Carsetjee Jam- 

 88tjee, for those of his father, under a special 

 act of the Council of India, authorizing all suc- 

 cessors to the title to bear the names of the 

 first baronet. 



KAVANAGH, JULIA, a British authoress, born 

 in 1824; died October 28, 1877. She began 

 her literary career in 1844, when she wrote 

 some novels for journals. In 1877 she began 

 the publication of a series of novels, of which 

 " Madeleine," a story of peasant life in France, 

 was one of her earliest as well as best works. 



KETTELEE, WILHELM EMAXUEL, Freiherr von, 

 a German prelate, born December 25, 1811 ; 

 died July 13, 1877. After having studied law, 

 and been engaged in the civil service at 

 Miinster for several years, he devoted himself 

 to the study of theology, and was ordained 

 priest in 1844. In 1848 he was elected to the 

 Frankfort Parliament, where he gained consid- 

 erable celebrity by a speech delivered at the 

 funeral of Prince Lichnowsky and Auerswald, 

 who had been murdered by a mob on September 

 18, 1848. In 1850 he was appointed Bishop of 

 Mentz. In this position he became known as 

 one of the active Ultramontanes. He founded 

 numerous institutions and religious orders and 

 communities, and exerted himself for the pro- 

 tection of Roman Catholic interests in Ger- 

 many. Aided by the Grand-Duchess of Hesse- 

 Darmstadt, and the prime minister Dalwigk, 

 he secured, in virtue of a secret convention of 

 August 23, 1854, special prerogatives for his 

 diocese. This convention was afterward ab- 

 rogated, but Bishop Ketteler retained the priv- 

 ileges he had secured until after the overthrow 

 of the Dalwigk cabinet in 1871. At the Vati- 

 can Council he was one of the bishops who op- 



posed the promulgation of papal infallibility 

 as inopportune, but he submitted immediately 

 after the promulgation. In 1871 he was for a 

 short time a member of the German Reichstag. 

 Both as a writer and as a parliamentary speak- 

 er, Bishop Ketteler was looked upon as one of 

 the most influential Catholic bishops of Ger- 

 many. 



KRFG, ANITA CHARLOTTE, a German author- 

 ess, born June 20, 1805 ; died May 3, 1877. She 

 was a sister of the celebrated artist Julius 

 Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Among her poetical 

 works, " Anna und Lisbeth " (1853), and " Der 

 Alpensee" (1858), are her largest as well as 

 her best. Her novels appeared under the title 

 of " Aus vergangenen Tagen." 



LADOUE, THOMAS CASIMIR FRANCOIS DE, a 

 French prelate, born July 23, 1817; died July 

 23, 1877. He was appointed Bishop of Nevers 

 in 1873, and during 1877 had obtained consid- 

 erable celebrity by his pastoral letters, and 

 his letter to President MacMahon, calling upon 

 the latter to interfere in behalf of the Pope. 



LANFREY,* PIERRE, a French Senator, born in 

 1828, died November 15, 1877. His histori- 

 cal works on the Popes and on Napoleon I. 

 made his name well known, even during the 

 Empire. He did not occupy an official po- 

 sition at that time, owing to his republican 

 ideas, and even after the revolution of 1870 

 his personal relations with Gambetta, which 

 were very bitter, prevented him from taking 

 part in public affairs. In 1871 he was, how- 

 ever, elected to the National Assembly from 

 Marseilles, and was soon after appointed by 

 President Thiers embassador to Switzerland, 

 which position he resigned in 1873 upon the 

 accession of President MacMahon. He then 

 returned to the National Assembly, by which 

 he was elected a life Senator in 1875, receiving 

 350 votes. In both the Assembly and the 

 Senate he acted with the moderate Left. 



LATOITR, ISIDORE, a French dramatic author, 

 called after his native village Latour de Saint- 

 Ylars, born about 1809 ; died in May, 1877. 

 He was the author of a number of dramas, 

 having for their subjects incidents from ancient 

 history. Among them are : " Virginie " (1845), 

 " Le Tribun de Palermo " (1842), " Le Syrien " 

 (1847), and " Alexandre le Grand " (1868). He 

 was also the author of a volume of poems en- 

 titled " Chants du Neophyte " (1837). 



LAUZANNE DE VAUX-ROUSSEL, AUGTTSTIN THE- 

 ODORE, Chevalier de, a French author of vau- 

 devilles, born November 4, 1805, died in Oc- 

 tober, 1877. He began by writing a burlesq 1:9 

 parody in verse of the drama "Hernani," en- 

 titled "Harnali, on la Contrainte par Cor," 

 which, owing to its sprightliness and humor, 

 had a long and successful run. M. de Lanzanne 

 became from that time the collaborator of M. 

 Duvent, whose daughter he married. Numer 

 ous triumphs resulting from this literary part- 

 nership joined the names of these two writers 

 in an inseparable manner. He was decorated 

 * See ANNUAL CYCLOPEDIA for 18T5, page 320. 



