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 WOLFE WOLFE, an E. county of Kentucky, bounded S. by tbe N. fork of Kentucky river and drained by Red river, one of its tributaries ; area, about 170 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 3,603, of whom 28 were colored. The surface is generally hilly and broken ; the soil in parts is fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 4,145 bushels of wheat, 106,152 of Indian corn, 15,734 of oats, 72,121 Ibs. of butter, and 452 tons of hay. There were 629 horses, 860 milch cows, 1,401 other cattle, 3,874 sheep, and 3,419 swine. Cap- ital, Campton. WOLFE, a S. county of Quebec, Canada; area, 665 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 8,823, of whom 7,504 were of French, 748 of English, and 458 of Irish origin or descent. It is drained by the St. Francis river and other streams. Cap- ital, Dudswell. WOLFE, Charles, a British poet, born in Dub- lin, Dec. 14, 1791, died in Cork, Feb. 21, 1823. He graduated at Trinity college, Dublin, in 1814, was a tutor there, took orders in 1817, and was a curate at Ballyclog and afterward at Donoughmore, county Tyrone. After vis- iting the south of France in the pursuit of health, he died of consumption. His literary " Remains," with a memoir, was published in 1825 by Archdeacon Russell. His best known production is his celebrated ode on the burial of Sir John Moore. WOLFE, James, an English general, born at. Westerham, Kent, Jan. 2, 1726, killed before Quebec, Sept 13, 1759. He entered the army as a second lieutenant at the age of 15, and took part in the battles of Dettingen, Fonte- noy, Falkirk, Culloden, and Lawfeldt. In 1757 he was a colonel in the expedition against Rochefort. In 1758, with the rank of briga- dier general, he accompanied the expedition to Cape Breton, and took a distinguished part in the reduction of Louisburg, after which he returned to England. Pitt, then planning the overthrow of the French dominion in North America, selected him to command an expe- dition against Quebec, made him major gen- eral, and gave him 8,000 men and a strong fleet. On June 27, 1759, he landed on the isle of Orleans, where he erected batteries; but his fire upon the city from there and from bat- teries at Point Levi did little damage, and the ships from their great draught were unable to cooperate. In addition to the almost impreg- nable defences of the city, new works had been erected by Montcalm, the French commander, who had there concentrated the entire availa- ble forces of the province. Wolfe moved to the mouth of the Montmorency and assaulted the French works, but was repulsed with se- vere loss. July and August were spent in fruitless efforts to reduce these works. On the night of Sept. 12, when his force was greatly reduced by losses, sickness, and the necessity of leaving garrisons at Point Levi and the isle of Orleans, Wolfe took 3,600 men in boats to a point two miles above Quebec, and before daylight ascended the heights of WOLFF 697 Abraham, which commanded the city from the west. At 10 o'clock Montcalm, most of whose men were raw provincials, confronted him, and began a sharply contested engagement, in which at length the French gave way. The successful general died of his wounds just as the victory was decided. Montcalm also was fatally wounded, and died the next day. Five days after the battle Quebec surrendered, and Canada was lost to France. Wolfe's remains were carried home and interred in the par- ish church of Greenwich, parliament voting a monument to him in Westminster abbey. In the government gardens of Quebec there is an obelisk 60 ft. high to the memory of both Wolfe and Montcalm. Wolfe's life has been written by Robert Wright (London, 1864). WOLFENBUTTEL, a city of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick, formerly the residence of the dukes, on the Ocker, 8 m. S. of Bruns wick; pop. in 1871, 10,457. It is in a marshy region, and has a citadel, four churches, and a library of 200,000 volumes. Lessing, when librarian there, edited a manuscript belonging to it, the " Wolfenbuttel Fragments," against the supernatural origin of Christianity, which was proved to have been written by Reimarus. (See BRUNSWICK, and BRUNSWICK, HOUSE OF.) WOLFF, Albert, a German sculptor, born in Neu-Strelitz, Nov. 14, 1814. He studied in Berlin and in Italy. He assisted his teacher Rauch in various works, and after his death completed his marble group of " Moses." In 1866 he became professor at the Berlin acad- emy of fine arts. His works include colossal statues of Frederick William IV. at Konigsberg and of Frederick William III. at Berlin, the statue of Galileo for the university of Pesth, and many others, remarkable for classic taste. WOLFF, Emll, a German sculptor, born in Berlin, March 2, 1802. He studied under his uncle Gottfried Schadow, and at Rome, where his mythological and genre statues made him prominent. His most popular work in Ger- many represents a young fisherman of remark- able beauty. His finest busts are those of Thorwaldsen, Niebuhr, Bunsen, and the Eng- lish royal family. He became a professor in the academy of fine arts in Berlin. WOLFF, Joseph, a clergyman of the church of England, of Jewish parentage, born at Weilers- bach, near Bamberg, Germany, in 1795, died at Isle Brewers, Somersetshire, May 2, 1862. He studied at Munich, Weimar, and Vienna, passed a year in the family of Count Stolberg at Frankfort, and in 1815 went to Rome and was baptized in the Catholic church, but was afterward dismissed for heresy. He now went to England, united with the English church, spent two years at Cambridge studying orien- tal languages, and in April, 1821, embarked for Gibraltar. He travelled extensively in the East, returned home by way of Circassia, the Crimea, and Constantinople, and reached Dub- lin in May, 1826. In February, 1827, he mar- ried a daughter of the earl of Orford, and in