. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... descendants of Kaab sold for tenthousand pieces of silver. He died m 662. K^MPFER, Englebert, a celebra-ted physician, naturalist, and traveller, wasborn, in 1651, atLemgow, in Westphalia;studied at Dantzic, Thorn, Cracow, andUpsal; accompanied the Swedish embassyto Persia, whence he proceeded to Java,and thence to Japan; returned to his native country, and entered upon the medical prac-tice; and died in 1716. Besides his His-tory of Japan, he published AmoenitatesExoticiie ; and other
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... descendants of Kaab sold for tenthousand pieces of silver. He died m 662. K^MPFER, Englebert, a celebra-ted physician, naturalist, and traveller, wasborn, in 1651, atLemgow, in Westphalia;studied at Dantzic, Thorn, Cracow, andUpsal; accompanied the Swedish embassyto Persia, whence he proceeded to Java,and thence to Japan; returned to his native country, and entered upon the medical prac-tice; and died in 1716. Besides his His-tory of Japan, he published AmoenitatesExoticiie ; and other valuable works. KAESTNER, Abraham Gotthelf,an eminent mathematician and astronomer,was born, in 1719, at Leipsic, and died, in1799, professor of mathematics at Gottin-gen; an office which he held with high rep-utation for more than forty years. He wasa man of wit and satire, and a poet, aswell as a votary of science. His worksare more than two hundred in number. Oneof the most important of them is a Historyof Mathematics. KALKBRENNER, Christian, wasborn, in 1755, at Munden, in Prussia, was S44 KAR K£I. a pupil of Emanuel Dacli; ami, uAcr hav-,tlic imperial guards; and, after his return ingbeen in the service of Prince Henry of , from travelling, devoted to liiera-Pnifsia, he settled at Paris, where he ditd tare. He died, at Mii!.co«, June 3, 1826. in 1806. He composed .sc\cral operas, lie author of a History of Russia, luamong which are the Widow of Malahar, eleven volumes; Letters of a Russian , Don Juan, and (Enonc; and eller; Tales; and various other two musical treatises, on Accompa-niments, Fuj^nes, and Counterpoint; anduari of a History of Music. , Ietkr, a Swedish natural and traveller, was born, in 1715,in Osiro Bothnia; travelled from 1748 to1751 in North America, and, at a later pe-riod, in Russia; became professor of bota-ny at the university of Abo; and died in1779. Besides his American travels, which
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