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 KNABL KNAUS Mm by Dietz (Paris, 1859). D. F. Strauss has an essay on Klopstock in his Kleine Scliriften (Berlin, 1866). KNABL, Joseph, a Tyrolese sculptor, born at Fliess in 1821. He is the son of a farmer, and studied first under a local artist, and subsequent- ly in Munich, where he became in 1863 profes- sor in the academy. He excels in mediaeval statuary. His principal works represent reli- gious subjects, as his " St. Anne and Mary," for the Eichstadt cathedral, which obtained a prize in 1858 and his admission to the acad- emy, and his masterpiece, the " Coronation of Mary," for the high altar of the church of Our Lady in Munich. KNAPP, Albert, a German poet, born in Tu- bingen, July 25, 1798, died in Stuttgart, June 18, 1864. After becoming pastor at Stutt- gart, he applied himself to poetry, especially to the composition of hymns, and published a small volume of them annually between 1833 and 1853, under the title of Christoterpe. Among his other publications are three collec- tions of poems (Stuttgart, 1829, 1834, and 1843), and Evangelischer Liederschatz fur Kirche und Ham (1837 ; 3d ed., 1865), taken from the liturgies and hymns of every Chris- tian century. KNAPP, Georg Christian, a German theologian, born in Halle, Sept. 17, 1753, died there, Oct. 14, 1825. He was educated in the orphan school at Halle, founded by Francke, of which his father was director, and in the universities of Halle and Gottingen. In 1777 he became extraordinary, and in 1782 ordinary professor of theology at Halle, maintaining a system of rational supernaturalism, seeking to harmonize revelation with the theoretical and the practi- cal reason. His Vorlesungen uber die Ghrist- licJie GlaulensleJire has been translated into English, with additions, by Leonard Woods, jr.,D.D. KNAPP, Jacob, an American clergyman, born in Otsego co., 1ST. Y., Dec. 7, 1799, died in Eockford, 111., March 2, 1874. He entered the theological institution at Hamilton, N. Y., in 1821, and began active work as pastor of the Baptist church in Springfield, N. Y., where he also managed a farm. From there he moved to Watertown, N. Y., where also he was at the same time pastor of a church and manager of a large farm, displaying a full degree of energy and capacity in each occupation. In 1832 he experienced deeper religious impres- sions, which he himself was accustomed to call his second conversion ; and from that time he gave up his secular employment, and undertook a wider work as an evangelist. He applied to the New York state Baptist convention for appointment as their missionary ; but as they hesitated to appoint him, he began preaching as an evangelist on his own responsibility. He preached at first in school houses and obscure churches, but was soon sought by the largest churches and most distinguished pastors. In Baltimore, Boston, and New York vast num- bers attended his preaching, and such excite- ment prevailed that mobs threatened him and his hearers, and the protection of the civil au- thorities was necessary. His preaching was stern and terrible, yet cultivated and able men were moved by it, as well as the populace. Thousands believed themselves converted under his ministry. A few years before his death he visited California. In his old age he had ac- quired, by several judicious business invest- ments, a comfortable competency, which he proposed shortly before his death to distribute among the benevolent societies of his church. KNAPP, Lndwig Friedrich, a German chemist, born at Michelstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Feb. 22, 1814. He studied under Liebig, graduated at Giessen as a chemist, and at the mint in Paris as an assayer. He was professor at Giessen from 1841 till the close of 1853, and subse- quently in the economical institution of Mu- nich. In 1856 he became inspector of the royal porcelain works, and in 1863 he went to Brunswick to teach chemistry at the polytech- nic school. He has published Lehrbuch der chemischen Technologic (2 vols., Brunswick, 1847 ; translated into English by Ronalds and Richardson, 3 vols., London, 1848-'51, and by W. R. Johnson, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1848-'9), and translated Percy's "Metallurgy" (1862). He has made some remarkable investigations relative to tanning. KNAPP, Samuel Lorenzo, an American author, born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1784, died in Hopkinton, Mass., July 8, 1838. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1804, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts. He made his first appearance as an author in "Travels of All Bey " (18mo, Boston, 1818), a work purporting to give an eastern traveller's experiences of society in Boston and Cam- bridge. It was followed in 1821 by "Bio- fraphical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers and tatesmen and Men of Letters." In 1828, hav- ing previously been connected as editor or con- tributor ,with several literary journals, he es- tablished himself in New York in the practice of his profession. Among his remaining works are: "Lectures on American Litera- ture " (New York, 1829) ; " Sketches of Public Characters" (1830); "American Biography" (1833); "Life of Aaron Burr "(1835); "The Bachelor and other Tales " (1836) ; and " Fe- male Biography of different Ages and Nations." He was the author of a variety of occasional public addresses. KNAUS, Lndwig, a German painter, born at Wiesbaden, Oct. 5, 1829. He studied in^Dus- seldorf, and became famous in 1850 by his ad- mirable genre pictures of humble life. He re- sided in Paris from 1853 to 1861, in Berlin from 1861 to 1866, and in Dusseldorf from 1866 to 1874, when he was appointed minister of art at Berlin. Besides many portraits, his works include "The Gamblers," "Peasants' Dance," " The Funeral," " A Fair, with a Chief hunted by the Police," " The Gypsies," "The