Karl Wilhelm Justi

Karl Wilhelm Justi, a German author, born in Marburg, Jan. 14, 1767, died there, Aug. 7, 1846. He was professor of theology at Marburg, wrote the Nationalgesange der Hebraer (5 vols., Leipsic, 1803-'18), published an enlarged edition of Herder's Geist der Ebraischen Poesie (2 vols., 1829), several historical and miscellaneous writings, including a life of St. Elizabeth, and some volumes of poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Kolbe

Karl Wilhelm Kolbe, a German painter, born in Berlin in 1781, died there, April 8, 1853. He was the nephew of an engraver and author of the same name (1757-1835), and became known in 1806 by his " Albert Achilles victorious in Nuremberg," and subsequently by many other works for Prussian churches and palaces, including "The Princess off for the Falcon Chase," "The Battle of Otho the Great against the Huns," and " A Vintage Festival in the Middle Ages."

Karl Wilhelm Scheele

Karl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist, born in Stralsund, Pomerania, Dec. 19, 1742, died at Köping, near Stockholm, May 21, 1786. In 1777 he was appointed by the medical academy apothecary at Köping. With the exception of Priestley, he probably discovered more new substances than any other chemist, including tartaric acid, manganese, chlorine, barytes, the pigment called Scheele's green, and the coloring principle of Prussian blue. (See Chemistry, vol. iv., p. 362.) In his "Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire" (Stockholm, 1777; translated into English by Kirwan), with no knowledge of the previous discovery of Priestley, he described oxygen under the name of "empyreal air".

Karli

See Carlee.

Karlsbad

See Carlsbad.

Karlsburg

See Carlsburg.

Karlskrona

See Carlscrona.

Karlsruhe

See Carlsruhe.

Karlstad

See Carlstad.

Karlstadti

Karlstadti, a fortified town of Croatia, in the county and 30 m. S. W. of the city of Agram, on the Kulpa, which is here navigable; pop. in 1870, 5,175. It is the seat of a Greek bishop, and has a castle, a Franciscan monastery, a gymnasium, and several Catholic churches. It was built in 1579 by the archduke Charles of Austria as a bulwark against the Turks, and has a citadel and an extensive armory. It is an important trading place, several fine roads and the Agram railway connecting it with the ports of the Adriatic.

Karnak

See Thebes.

Karnes

Karnes, a S. county of Texas, drained by San Antonio and Cibolo rivers, and by several smaller streams; area, 830 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 1,705, of whom 279 were colored. It has a diversified surface, in most places undulating, and thinly timbered. The soil is a fertile sandy loam or black mezquite, and is suitable for Indian corn, wheat, and potatoes. The chief productions in 1870 were 35,965 bushels of Indian corn, and 24 bales of cotton. There were 8,380 horses, 57,599 cattle, 4,255 sheep, and 3,163 swine. Capital, Helena.

Karoline Jagemann

Karoline Jagemann, a German actress, born in Weimar in 1778, died in Dresden in 1847. She was a daughter of Christian Joseph Jage-mann (1735-1804), a translator of Italian works into German, and brother of the painter Ferdinand Jagemann (1780-1820). Her father having become librarian to the duchess Amalie of Weimar, the latter had her carefully educated. Her great beauty and histrionic and vocal talents secured her success in opera as well as in the drama, and made her a favorite of Goethe, and particularly of the grand duke Charles Augustus, who presented her with the domain of Heigendorf and raised her to the nobility under that name.