KOJSTBAD VON WUEZBURG. 586 KOPP. Bcnoit de Sainte-More and Chrestien de Troycs. The more noteworthy of his epics are: Der tSchwanritter (ed. by iloth, 1801, used by Wagner in the opera Lohenyrin) ; Die goldene Scliinicde (cd. by Cirimm. 18-40) ; Ucr Melt Lohn (ed. by Koth, 1843); and 40.000 verses on the Trojan War (Trojanerlrierj) , which even so was incom- plete. Consult Pctelenz, Lehcn ttiid liedeutung Konrads von M'iirzburg (1881) ; Joseph, Konrads von M'iirxburg Klage der Kunst (Strassburg, 1885). KOO-CHAH-BEE, koocha1)c. A food made by the Indians about Jlono Lake and otlicr alkaline lakes of the Western United States from the pup;r of certain Hies of the family Ephydrid;c. See Fly. KOO'DOO, or KUDU (African name). One of the larf^est and most numerous of African antelopes (Utrepsiceros kudu). The general form is not so light and elegant as that of many of the antelopes. The height is about four feet, and the length fully eight feet, exclusive of the tail, which is moderately long, and terminates in a tuft like that of aii ox. The male is furnished with great liorns, nearly four feet long and beau- tifully twisted in a wide spiral of two turns and a half, veiy thick at the base and there wrinkled and ringed. The female is smaller than the male, and hornless. The general color is grayish-brown, with a narrow white stripe along the middle of the back, and eight (U- ten similar stripes proceeding from it down the sides. The koodoo lives in small families of four or five, inliabiting chiefly the wooded parts of Africa from Abyssinia to Cape Colonv, though it is now KOODOO. ^^^^^^-^ exterminated in South Africa. It is easily domesticated, and it is one of the animals which probably man might with further ellorts, reduce to his service. Its flesh is highly esteemed. Con- sult, for full description, the authorities men- tioned under Axteloi-e; also Proceedingx of the Zooloqical Soeictg of London for 1800, and The /•'(>/(/' (London), "for September 1, 1804. KOOSSO, koos'sS (Abyssinian name), KOUS- SO, KOSSO, or CUSSO." A medicine used to ex- pel llic tapewnrni. It consists of the dried flowers and unripe fruit of Braycra anthelminticn. a tree which is a native of Abyssinia. The product reachc:, the market in the form of compressed, grcenish-vellow biniches, with a balsamic odor iind an acrid, repulsive taste. Koosso contains a resin (koossin or ta;niin), a volatile oil, and tannic acid. The resin is crj-stallizablc, white or light vellow. soluble very sparingly in water, though freely in alcohol. It is the active prin- ciple of the drug, which yields 3 per cent, of it. It is an efficient drug against the tapeworm. In ordinary- doses it causes nausea, some abdominal pain, and purging. The worm is usually dis- charged dead with the last passages. See An- TIIF.I.MIXTICS. KOOTENAY, koTJ'te-n.a. A tributary of the Columliia River, rising in the Rocky Mountains in Britisli Columbia (Map: British Columbia, F 5). It flows south, passing through the States of Montana and Idaho, and then, turning north, reenters British territory. It passes thnjugh Ivootenay Lake and joins the Columbia River after a course of about 400 miles through a wild and picturesque district. Owing to the tortuous- ness of its course and numerous rapids, its navi- gable nnportance is insignilicant ; steamers ply on Lake Koocenay between Kaslo and Lando. Rich deposits of iron and other minerals through the region give promise of future industrial develop- ment. KOOTENAY, or KOOTENAI. A North American tribe of tlic Kitnnahan Indian slock, t-ee KuTENAl. KO'PEK (Russ. kopgc'ika, koiH-lka, from ko-
- /«/", (H'liurch Slav, kiiiiuti. to cut, dig). A Rus-
sian money of account, the one-hundredth part of a ruble' (q.v.) and equivalent to about half a cent. KOPENICK, kc'pr-iiik. A town of Prussia. See Cui'ExiCK. KOPISCH, k<ypi.sh, August (1799-1853). A (Icrman painter and poet, born at Breslau. He was an art student at Prague (1815), Vienna, r.nd Dresden (lSlO-22) ; but an accident to his right hand deprived him of the power to paint,
- -.iid he turned his attention to poetry. A pro-
tracted sojourn in Italy, where he discovered the famous Blue Grotto of Capri, resulted in his translation of Dante's DiriHC Comfrfi/ (1837) and of other Italian selections, published the follow- ing year. His own flrdichlr. which are distin- guished by a delightful Inncor. were issued in 1830; AUerlei Geislcr. in 1848; Die Schlosser und Giirtcn zu Potsdam, in 1854: and his complete works in five volumes, in 1850. KOPITAR, kiVpf-tiir, B.vrtiiolom.ei'S, or Jekxej (1780-1844). A Slavic philologist. He was born in Carniola, and was educated at the German gjmnasium at Laibach, and also at Vienna, where he soon became a member of the stall of the Imperial library, and finally its curator. In 1814 he was sent to Paris with the commission to recover the Slavic manuscripts taken by the French in 1800, and afterwards traveled" in Germany, England, and Italy. His fame as a philologist rests on his works: Grani- matik der slau-ischen Sprachc ht Krnin, Kiirnten uiid Steiermark, the first scientific Slavic gram- mar' (1808); Olagolila Cloziiiniis (1830). in wliich. by adducing older forms, he attempts to prove the greater antiquity of the Glagolitic as compared with the Cyrillic aljihabet; Hcsjichii alo.ssngraphi Discipiihis Ixu.ssus (1839), an edi- tion of a Glagolitic text of the eleventh or twelfth centiry; and the Prolegomena Uistorica to the edition of the Texte d'u snerc (1843). A col- lected edition of his minor writings was under- taken by his pupil :Miklosieh (vol. i., 1857). Consult 'lagic. Brief iceeh.iel znnschen Dobroicskij mid Kopitnr (Berlin, 1885). KOPP, kop. GtORC, (1837—). A German car- dinal, born at Duderstadt and educated at Hildesheim. He entered the priesthood in 1802, and rose rapidly. In 1881 ho was appointed Bishop of Fuld'a, and actively inaugurated a policy of friendly relations between the Church and the State. So successfil was the programme that in 1880 and 1887. after his entrance into the Prussian House of Lords, 'peace measures' were passed abating the severity of the famous
