The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Knortz, Karl

KNORTZ, nôrz, Karl, American author: b. Garbenheim, near Wetzlar, 28 Aug. 1841. He was educated at Heidelberg University and came to the United States in 1863. He taught in Detroit, Oshkosh and Cincinnati, 1864-74, edited a German daily in Indianapolis for some years, and from 1892 to 1905 was superintendent of German schools in Evansville, Ind. In the latter year he removed to North Tarrytown, N. Y., and has devoted himself to letters. Among his numerous works are ‘Tales and Legends of the North-American Indians’ (1871); ‘American Sketches’ (1876); ‘Longfellow’ (1879); ‘From the Wigwam’ (1880); ‘Capital and Labor in America’ (1881); ‘Indian Legends’; ‘Pictures of American Life’ (1884); ‘History of American Literature,’ in German (1891); ‘Individuality’ (1897); ‘Child Study’ (1899); ‘Ein amerikanischer Diogenes’ (1898); ‘Poetischer Hauschatz der Nordamerikaner’ (1902); ‘Nackklänge germanischer Glaubers und Brauchs in Amerika’ (1903); ‘Streifzüge auf dem Gebiete amerikanischer Volkskunde’ (1903); ‘Friedrich Nietzsche, der Unzeitgemässe’ (1909); ‘Die Insekten in Sage, Brauch, und Literatur’ (1910); ‘Walt Whitman und seine Nachfolger’ (1910); ‘Reptilien und Amphibien in Sitte, Sage, und Literatur’ (1911); ‘Teufel, Hexe, und Blocksbergspuk’ (1913); ‘Die Vögel im Sage, Sitte, und Literatur’ (1913); ‘American Jews’ (1914); ‘American Superstitions of To-day’ (1913). He has very materially assisted in making American authors known in Germany through his translations into German poems of Longfellow, Whittier and Walt Whitman.