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KINGSLEY

Minnesota University 1891-92, professor of mathematics at the State Normal School, NewPaltz, from 1892 to 1894, and instruc tor in mathematics until 1911, when he became professor at California University. Professor Keyser, who is a member of the American Board of the Hibbert Journal, is a Theist, but he rejects personal immor tality (see a fine article on &quot; The Signi ficance of Death &quot; in the Hibbert, July, 1914 ; his Science and Religion, 1914 ; and The New Infinite and the Old Theology, 1915). He is a mathematical writer of distinction, and belongs to many learned bodies.

KIELLAND, Alexandr Lange, Nor wegian novelist. B. Feb. 18, 1849. Ed. Christiania University. He studied law, but preferred to lead a quiet literary life at Stavanger, his native town, of which he was Mayor in 1891. After 1879, when his first Novellets appeared, he produced a long series of novels, of the realistic school, in which he attacks conservatism and reaction in all forms. Two have appeared in English. He wrote also several dramas, and stood next to Bjdrnson in Norwegian letters. His thorough Eationalism peeps out even in his Napoleon s Men and Methods (Eng. trans, by J. McCabe, 1907, p. 348, etc.). D. Apr. 7, 1906.

KIERKEGAARD, Sdren Aaby, Danish writer. B. May 5, 1813. Ed. Copenhagen University. After completing his studies, Kierkegaard devoted himself to the study of religion. Always profoundly religious in a liberal sense, he developed a fierce hostility to what he called &quot; existing &quot;

Christianity. His Either Or (1843),

Stages on Life s Journey (1845), and later works, stirred Scandinavia and Denmark. Ibsen, who partly dramatizes him in Brand, felt his influence. He has been called the Feuerbach of the north, but he pleaded for an Eesthetic and moral Christianity, though in the doctrinal sense he weakened the Churches hardly less than Feuerbach did in Germany. D. Nov. 11, 1855.

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KING, The Right Honourable Peter,

seventh Baron King. B. Aug. 31, 1776. Ed. Eton and Cambridge (Trinity College). He succeeded to the title in 1793, and, being of a Whig family, he supported Lord Holland [SEE] in the House of Lords. Baron King was a high authority on questions of currency, of which he made a profound study ; and in 1803 he took an active part in stopping money payments at the Bank of England. He supported Catholic Emancipation, and opposed Govern ment grants to the Society for the Propa gation of the Gospel. In 1829 he published a valuable Life of John Locke, from material in the possession of his family. He seems to have been a Deist. &quot; Of late years,&quot; said the Gentleman s Magazine in its obituary notice (1833, ii, 80), &quot; Lord King had chiefly signalized himself as the bitter enemy of the Church, and particularly of the Episcopal bench.&quot; He was a man of great learning and high character (see the memoir by Earl Fortescue prefixed to Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Lord King, 1844). D. June 4, 1833.

KINGLAKE, Alexander William, M.A.,

historian. B. Aug. 5, 1809. Ed. Eton and Cambridge (Trinity College). He was called to the Bar in 1837. In 1844 he won a high literary reputation by his Eothen, a beautiful record of a tour in the East ; and, having been in the Crimea during the war, he was requested to write the official history of it (Invasion of the Crimea, 8 vols., 1863-87). From 1857 to 1868 he was M.P. for Bridgewater. His heterodoxy appears in Eothen, and more plainly in an unpublished letter to Grant-Duff (Spectator, May 10, 1919, p. 590). He says approvingly, speaking of Hayward s death, &quot; No clergy man invaded his peace,&quot; and he seems to share the Agnostic sentiments he quotes. D. Jan. 2, 1891.

KINGSLEY, George Henry, M.D.,

F.L.S., traveller and writer. B. Feb. 14,

1827. Ed. King s College, London, and

Edinburgh, Paris, and Heidelberg Univer-

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