Koerbagh (Adriaan), Dutch martyr, b. Amsterdam, 1632 or 1633. He became a doctor of law and medicine. In 1668 he published A Flower Garden of all Loveliness, a dictionary of definitions in which he gave bold explanations. The work was rigidly suppressed, and the writer fled to Culemborg. There he translated a book De Trinitate, and began a work entitled A Light Shining in Dark Places, to illuminate the chief things of theology and religion by Vrederijk Waarmond, inquisitor of truth. Betrayed for a sum of money, Koerbagh was tried for blasphemy, heavily fined and sentenced to be imprisoned for ten years, to be followed by ten years banishment. He died in prison, Oct. 1669. Kolb (Georg Friedrich), German statistician and author, b. Spires 14 Sept. 1808, author of an able History of Culture, 1869-70. Died at Munich 15 May, 1884. Koornhert (Theodore). See Coornhert (Dirk Volkertszoon.) Korn (Selig), learned German Orientalist of Jewish birth, b. Prague, 26 April, 1804. A convert to Freethought, under the name of "F. Nork," he wrote many works on mythology which may still be consulted with profit. A list is given in Fuerst's Bibliotheca Judaica. We mention Christmas and Easter Explained by Oriental Sun Worship, Leipsic, '36; Brahmins and Rabbins, Weissen, '36; The Prophet Elijah as a Sun Myth, '37; The Gods of the Syrians, '42; Biblical Mythology of the Old and New Testament, 2 vols. Stuttgart, '42-'43. Died at Teplitz, Bohemia, 16 Oct. 1850. Krause (Ernst H. Ludwig), German scientific writer, b. Zielenzig 22 Nov. 1839. He studied science and contributed to the Vossische Zeitung and Gartenlaube. In '63 he published, under the pen-name of "Carus Sterne," a work on The Natural History of Ghosts, and in '76 a work on Growth and Decay, a history of evolution. In '77 he established with Hæckel, Dr. Otto Caspari, and Professor Gustav Jaeger, the monthly magazine Kosmos, devoted to the spread of Darwinism. This he conducted till '82. In Kosmos appeared the germ of his little book on Erasmus Darwin, '79, to which Charles Darwin wrote a preliminary notice. As "Carus Sterne" he has also written essays entitled Prattle from Paradise, The Crown of Creation, '84, and an illustrated work in parts on Ancient and Modern Ideas of the World, '87, etc. Krekel (Arnold), American judge, b. Langenfield, Prussia 14 March, 1815. Went with parents to America in '32 and settled in Missouri. In '42 he was elected Justice of the Peace and afterwards county attorney. In '52 he was elected to the Missouri State Legislature. He served in the civil war being elected colonel, was president of the constitutional convention of '65 and signed the ordinance of emancipation by which the slaves of Missouri were set free. He was appointed judge by President Lincoln 9 March, '65. A pronounced Agnostic, when he realized he was about to die he requested his wife not to wear mourning, saying that death was as natural as birth. Died at Kansas 14 July, 1888.