KEITH. 430 KELLER. Stuarts at the Court of Saint Germain. He was !ii)pointod .Surveyor-General of Customs in the Soulhcrn Colonies ot North America, and was Governor of Peniis_vlania (1717-2(1). His ad- ministration was popular and i)raiscwortli^'. In 1720 lie suec(^ded to the baronetcy of liis father, who had diid insolvent, and later (1728), becom- ing pecuniarily involved, left America to avoid liis creditors. His subsequent reputation is that of a man intriguing, treacherous, and vain. He wrote a lliatory of Viryiuia (17.3S), and was the author of a volume of miscellaneous papers that appeared just before his death, which took place on Xovember 18, 1749, while imprisoned for debt in the Old Bailey, London. His pamphlet On ilw Subject of Taxing the Colonies (17G7) is pre- sumed to have first suggested the subject to the British Government. KEKTJLE VON STRADONITZ, ka'koo-la' ffin stril'do-nits, Friedricii Auglst (1829-9G). A German chemi.st. born at Barmstadt. In 1856 he became privat-docent at Heidelberg, and in 1858 professor of chemistry at Ghent. Seven years later he entered the professorate of chem- istry at Bonn, where he worked till his death. His work was in organic chemistry: especially important are: his theory of the quadrivalency of carbon ; his hexagonal formula for the atom of iM'nzine; the hypotheses of the open and 'closed chains': and, in general, his extension of the doc- trine of types. Of his writings some of the more important are: Lehrbuch der orpanischen Chemie (1801-07) and Chrmir ilrr Ucnzoldcrivate und dcr aronialischen Siilif:fini.:rn (1807-80). KEKTJLE VON STRADONITZ, Eeinh.kd (1839 — ). A German archa>ologist. He was born at Darmstadt, and was educated at Erlan- gen, Gcittingen, and Berlin. In 187.3 he was ap- poinled ])rofessor at Bonn, and later at Berlin. His works include: Hebe, eine archuologische Abhandlttng (1867) : Die Balusttade dos Tcnipch der Athena ^'ikc (1809 and 1881) ; Die antiken Bildicfrke in Theseion (1809) : Die (Iruppe des Kiinstlers ilenetao.i in Villa hudorisi (1870); Veber die Entstehung der (liittcridcnlc der griechi- schcn Knnst (1877): Grierhisehe Thonfiguren aus Taniigra (1878) ; Veber den Kopf des I'raxi- telischcn Hermes (1881); Zur Dcutung und Zcitbe»timmu7ig des Laokoon (1883) : Die anti- ken Terrakotten (1880-84): and the biography Das Lrhcn Fricdrich Gottheb Welckcrs (1880). " KELAT, ke-lat'. A city of Baluchistan. See KlIELAT. KELER-BELA, ka'ler-bala (Albert vox KfiLER) (1820-82). An Austrian violinist and composer. He was born at Bartfeld in Hungary," and was a pupil of Sechter at Vienna, where he was at the same time a member of the orchestra of the Theater ander Wien. In 1854 he was ap- pointed leader of Gungl's celebrated band at Ber- lin, and the next year succeeded Lannerat Vienna. From 1856 to 1863 he was Kapellmeister of an infantry regiment in the Vienna garrison. He moved to Wiesbaden in 1807. where be was the conductor of the Knr Orchestra, which post he resigned because of ill health in 1873. He com- posed much popular dance music, violin solos, and orchestral music generally. His overtures and compositions for small orchestra are still popular in the United Slates and England. KELETI, k-gl'e-t?, GusT.w Friedrich (1834- 1902) . An Hungarian landscape painter and writer on art, born at Pressburg. He first studied law at Pesth and Vienna, and became a tutor in the family of Baron Eolviis, before taking up painting at the Munich -Vcademy, under Fischbach. Volt/., and Schleich. He developed an independent style in the spirit of romanticism. .Several ol bis landscapes are in the National Museum at Buda- pest. By his writings he contributed much to- ward the elcvati(m of art criticism in Hungary, and under his direction were established in 1S71 the Itoyal Hungarian School of Drawing, and in 1880 the School of Industrial Art, of which be became the superintendent. He was elected a member of the Htuigarian Academy in 1874. KELLE, kcd'le, JouAXX (1829—). A Ger- man pliilologist. born at Kegensburg, and edu- cated ai iluuich. In 1857 he was made profes- sor of the German language and literature in the University of Prague. His work on Otfrid in- cludes: Otfrids von Weissenburg ICvangelicnbiich (1850) ; Die Formen und hautlehre der Hprorhc Otfrids (1369); Cliristi hcben und Lehre, be- siinyen von Otfrid: Aus dem Althoehdcutselien iibersetzt (1870) ; and Glossnr ci/ Otfrids Evan- gelienhiieh (1879-81). His work on Notkcr is no less important ; in general it aims to prove that the writings bearing his name are not bj' a school or group of translators, but bj' Notker alone, and inchides: Verbnm und y'omen in Xotkers lioc- thiiis (1885) ; Die Sankt Galler deutsehen Hehrif- ten und Xotker Labeo (1888) ; and Untersuchun- gen zur Vcberlieferiing, Uehersctziing, Gramniatik der I'salnicn Xolkcrs (1889). Among his other works the following should lie mentioned: Die Jesuilengtjmnasien in Oesterreich (1873); Vei"- gleichcnde (Irammatik der ger'manischen S/wn- ehen, vol. i. ( 1863) ; Gesehichte der deutsehen Lit- teratnr von drr iiltesten Zeit bis zur Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts () Veber die Quelle von Ezzos Gesang von den }yundcrn Christ i (1893) ; and his l^peeulum Ecclesice (1858). KELLER, kel'ler, Adei.bert vox (1812-83). A (aTiiLiu pliilologist, born at Plcidelsheini, and educalcd at Tiibingen, where, after study at Paris, he became privat-docent and assistant li- brarian (1S35). After travels in Italy and re- search in Italian libraries, he was professor and librarian at Tiibingen until 1850, when he be- came president of the Litterarische Verein. In this office much of his work as editor of German works was done, while his work in Romance be- longs to the earlier period. He wrote: Li Romans des sept sages (1830): Allfrnn-osisehe Hagen (last ed. 1876) ; a complete edition of Cervantes (1838-42): Rownneero del Cid (1840): Zuei Fabliaux (1840) : Diokletians Leben (1841) : lA remans dou chevalier au lenn (1841): Gesta Romanorum (1842); with Rapp, a translation of Shakespeare (1843-40): Ramvart (1844): Altdeiitsehe Gedichte ( 1840) ; Mte gute Sehwanke (last ed. 1840) ; Lieder Hcinriehs von Wiirtiemr berg (1840): Lieder Guillems vnn linrgnnden (1849): Mei'iter Alturrts Werke (lS50i; Ita- lienischer ynvellensehafz (1851-52) : Fastnaehts- spiele aus dem fiinfzehnten Jnhrhundert (1853- 58): .4j/rcr.<! Dramen (1864-05): Das deutsehe Heldenbaeh (1867) : Hans f^aehs (1870-81) ; Tiin- gers Faeetia: (1875): Vhland als Dramatiker, mit Benutzung seines handsrlirifthehen Xaeh- lasses dnrgestellt (1877) : Dns Xihelungenlied naeh d-^r Piaristenhandsrhrift (1880); and Ter- zeiehnis nltdeutscher Handsehriften (edited by Sievcrs, 1890).
