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KORSZA'NY, a town of Samogitia: twenty-five miles 
north, weft of Miedniki. 
KORT'CHERA, or Kortchef, a town of Rufiia, and 
diftriCt of the government of Tver, on the Volga. 
KORTESJAR'VI, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Wafa : forty-three miles eaft-north-eaft of Wafa. 
KORT'SCHIN, or Nowie Miaslaw, a town of Po¬ 
land, in the palatinate of Sandomirz : forty miles foutli- 
weft of Sandomirz. 
KORT'I-IOLT (Chriftian), a learned Lutheran theolo¬ 
gical profeffor, and a voluminous writer, was a native of 
JHolltein, and born at Burg, in the ilie of Femeren, in the 
year 1633. Ke was initiated in the rudiments of learning 
at the fchool of Burg ; and at the age of fixteen was Lent 
to Slefwic, where he purfued his ftudies for two years. 
Afterwards he was lent to the college of Stettin, where he 
exhibited public evidence of his proficiency, and acquired 
great applaufe by the able manner in which he maintained 
two thefes. In 165a, he removed to Roftock, where he 
afiiduoufiy attended the lectures of the different profeffors, 
and maintained two other thefes with increafing reputation. 
During the following year, the circumftance of his father’s 
death occafioned a temporary interruption of his acade¬ 
mical purfuits, by calling him home; but within a few 
months he returned to Roftock, where he gave new proofs 
of his talents and erudition, as well by his public depu¬ 
tations, as by the lectures which he delivered in his apart¬ 
ments, on logic, metaphyfics, and Hebrew. In 1656, he 
took his degree of doctor of philofophy; and afterwards 
went to ftudy’in the univerfity of Jena, where he greatly 
diftinguiflied himfelf in the academical abts, fometimes as 
refpondent, and fometimes as moderator; and alfo gained 
high credit by his private lectures on philofophy, the ori¬ 
ental languages, and divinity. He left Jena in 1660, and 
vifited the-univerfities of Leipfic and Wittemberg; after 
•'ivhich he returned to Roftock ; and, in February 1662, was 
nominated to the chair of Greek profeffor ; and in the 
lame year, he was admitted to the degree of dotffor of di¬ 
vinity. In 1664, he married; and in the following year 
lie accepted an invitation to be the fecond profeffor of di¬ 
vinity, in the univerfity which had lately been founded at 
Kiel. Of this feniinary he was appointed vice-chancellor 
in 1666 ; fivft divinity-profeffor in 1675 ; profeffor of ec- 
cleiiaftical antiquities in 1680 ; and, in 1689, vice-chan¬ 
cellor of the univerfity for life. Five times he had the 
honour of being nominated vice-reftor, which was in ef¬ 
fect the fame office as reftor, there being no other redtor 
at Kiel but the duke of Holftein, who founded the uni¬ 
verfity. The duties of thefe refpeblive polls profeffor 
Kortholt difcliarged with fuch great ability, application, 
and prudence, that his death, which took place in 1694, 
when lie was about the age of fixty-one, was juftly la¬ 
mented as a great lofs to the univerfity of Kiel, and to the 
republic of letters, which he enriched with a great num¬ 
ber of learned, curious, and ufeful, works. Among others, 
he was the author of, 1. De Natura Philofophite, ejufque 
in Theologia ufu, 1651, 4to. 2. Traclatus de Origine 
et Progreffu Philofophite Barbaric®, hoc eft Chaldaicae, 
Aigyptiacas, Perfic®, Italic®, Gallic®, &c. 1650, 4to. 3. 
De Perfecutionibus Ecclefi® primitivae, 1660, 8vo. and in 
3689, greatly enlarged, in 4to. 4. Traftatus de Calum- 
niis Paganorum in Veteres Chriftianos, 1663, and in 1698 
greatly enlarged, 4to. 5. Exercitatio in Hiltoriam Judith, 
1663, 4to. 6, Traclatus de Canone Scriptural, Bellar- 
snino, ejufque propugnatoribus, &c. oppofitus, 1665, 4to. 
7. Traflatus de Religione Ethnica, Muhammedana, et 
J'udaica, 1665, 4to. 8. Traftatus de variis Scriptur® fa- 
crae Editionibus, 1668,4to. 9. Traftatus de Leftione Bi- 
bliorum in Linguis vulgo cognitis, 1670, 4to. 10. Com- 
mentarius in Epiftolas Plinii et Trajani de Chriftianis pri- 
rnaevis, 1674,410. n. Commentarius in Juftinum Mar- 
tyrum, Athenagorum, Theophilum Antiochenum, Tatia- 
jjum Affyrium, 1675, folio. 12. De tribus Impoftoribus 
tnagnis, Liber, Edvai’do Herbert, Thom® Hobbes, et Be- 
iiedifto Spinolae, Oppofitus, &c. 1680, 8vo. 13. Traftatis 
’ VOL.XI. No. 80a. 
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de Vita et Mcribus Chriftianis primaevis, per Gentilium 
Militiatn afficlis, 1683, 4to. 14. Thefes, Differtations, 
Orations, coutroverfial and mifcellaneous Tracts, Sec. of 
which a long lift may be feen in Bayle, and a ftill fuller’ 
one in Moreri. 
KORT'HOI.T (Chriftian), grandfon of the preceding, 
was, like him, educated to the ecclefialtical profefiion 
among the Lutherans, and celebrated for his proficiency 
in literature and fcience. For fome time before the year • 
1736, he had a principal fliare in conducting the Journal 
de Leipfic, and afterwards became profeffor of divinity, 
in the univerfity of Gottingen. He died in 1751, when 
he was in the flower of his age. He publiftied an edition 
of the Latin Letters of Leibnitz, in 4 vols. an edition of 
the French Letters, of the fame philol’opher, in 1 vol. and 
a collection of feveral of the philosophical, mathematical, 
and hiftorical, pieces of that learned man ; and he was the 
author of treadles, De Eccle/iis Sukurbicariis ; De Ertlhufi- 
afmo Mu/iammcdis ; Dillertations, Sermons, See. 
KORT'RIGHT, a townfnip of the American States, in 
Otlego county, New York ; 122 of its inhabitants are elec¬ 
tors. » 
KOR'TY, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Sen- 
naar, on the borders of the Nile, where the caravans quit 
the river, and turn to the defert, in order to efcape the 
pirates of the Nile: fixty miles eaft of Dongola, and 185 
north of Gerri. 
KORYSOW'A, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kiev : thirty-two miles fouth-weft of Kiev. 
KORZEC'ZOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Sandomirz : twenty-four miles fouth of Sandomirz. 
KORZEL'LEN, a town of Warfaw -. feventy miles 
north-weft of Warfaw. 
KORZ'YMECK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Lublin : thirty-eight miles north-north-eaft Lublin. 
KOS, f. In Jewifti antiquity, a meafure of capacity, con¬ 
taining about four cubic inches : this was the cup of bleff- 
ing out of which they drank when they gave thanks after 
folemn meals, like that of the paffover. 
KO'SA, a town of Rufiia, in the government of Perm ; 
forty-eight miles weft of Solikamlk. 
KOSAI'A, a town of Rufiia, in the government of 
Perm : thirty-two miles north-eaft of Obvinlk. 
KOSA'RIA. See Dorstenia, vol. vi. 
KOS'BRUN, a town of Bavaria, in the biftiopric of 
Bamberg: ten miles eaft of Grofzweinltein. 
KOSCHEL'LITZ, a town of Pruflia, in Pomerelia, on 
the Viftula : three miles louth-fouth-weft of Culm. 
KOSCHURAL'SKOI, a fortrefs of Rufiia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Caucafus, on the Ural: twenty-four miles 
fouth Uralfk. 
KOS'CIA, a town of Walachia : fixteen miles north of 
Kim nick. 
KOSIABAD', a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man : fixty miles fouth-weft of Sirjian. 
KOS'CLOW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia: 
fixty miles eaft of Lemberg. 
KO'SEL, a town of the county of Tyrol, on the Brenta: 
twenty-one miles eaft of Trent. 
KO'SELAW, a town of the duchy of Holftein : four 
miles north-north-weft of Cifmar. 
KCFSEN, a town of Saxony, in Thuringia: three miles 
fouth-weft of Naumburg. 
KOSH OG'LAN DAG'HI, a mountain of Turkifli 
Armenia: thirty miles fouth-eaft of Trebilond. 
KO'SHAB, a town of Curdiftan : twenty miles fouth 
of Van, and 130 welt-fouth-welt of Tabris. 
KOSHA'NIA, a town of Grand Bukharia: thirty- 
miles weft of Samarcand. 
KOSHEN'IKUT, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Segeltan : no miles north-eaft of Boil. 
KO'SIACK, a town of the duchy of Carniola : tern 
miles fouth-eaft of Weixelburg. 
KOSIAN', or Cansia'no (Saint), a town of Carniola 9 
ten miles north-ealt of Triefte, 
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