KUBSK. C34 KUSKOQUIM. river Kur, and on the railway line from ]Ios- cow to Kharkov, 2S0 miles south-southwest of the former town (Jlap: Russia, E 4). It is built largely of wood. It has a cathedral and two monasteries. Its educational instiUilions com- prise two gymnasia, a seminary for teachers and for priests, and a school of i>;co<losy. Tanneries, candle, soap, and tohaeco factories, and a con- siderable trade in grain furnish occupation to the larger part of the inliabilauts of the town. Population, in 1897. 52,9U0. Kursk was founded in the ninth century, and was pillaijed bv the Tatars in 1240. KURTZ, kTTorts. .Joiiann Heinricii (1809-90). A Gorman llicologian, born at ilunljoie, in the governmental district of Aix-la-C'hapcUe. He stud- ied at the universities of Halle and Bonn. From 1850 to 1870 he was professor ordinarius ol' t'liurcli history at the University of Dorpat. His works include: l.chrhuch der heiUgcn (lcschiclitc{ 1843) ; Dir Christ lichc Religionslehre (1844) ; and Lehr- hurh drr Kirchcngcschichte (1849). KURZ, koorts. Heinrich (1805-73). A Ger- man critic and historian of literature, born in Paris, and educated at Lci]izig and Paris. Ho studied Chinese under Abel Kenuisat. and puli- lislied many articles on Chinese literature, such as Buchdruckerei und lUithliaiidcl in Vhinu, (1828), Vehcr die tieuere Poesie der Chinesen (1828), and Uvmoire sur I'ftat. politique et rcliflicux de la Chine, 2300 uns avant notre ire (1830). He became a member of the Asiatic Society, editor of the Journal Asiatiquc. and a collaborator on the Chinese dictionary which had been begun by Basilp. The revolution of July, 1830, called him back to (Jcrmany. and in Munich he became docent of Chinese and editor of the periodical Jiayerns Dcpiitiertcnttunincr. At Augsburg his management of Die Zeit brought about his imprisonment for two years, during which time he translated a Chinese epic under the title Das Blumenhlatt (183()). Upon his release from prison (1834). he went to Switzerland and became professor of German at Saint Gall, and later at Aarau. where he was librarian also, and devoted himself to the study of German literature. His most important work is the Ocschichte der denlschcn Littcratiir (7th ed. 1370), wdiich treats the theme in the pragmatic manner, and is valuable because of the abundant biographical material and the judicious Releeti(ms from the various authors. Among his other works, mention should be made of: Ilrindbuch der porti.ichen ational- litteratur (1840-43); Handhtich der dciitschen Prosa (1845-46); Die deutsche Littcratiir im Elsnss (1874): of his Deutsche liibliothek (1802-08), in which he edited the Esopus of Burkhard Waldis. the Siinplirianische Schriften by Grimmelshausen, Fisehart's Dichtungcn, and Wiekram's Ilollwaficnbiichlcin. and of the critical editions of Schiller (1807-08) and Goethe (1808- 70). KTTRZ, Hermann- (1813-73). A German poet, novelist, and translator. He was born at Reut- lingen. Wiirtteniberg. was educated in the the- ological spminnrv at JIaulbronn. and after- wards studied theology and iiliilosophy at the I'niversity of Tiibingen. From 1843 tii 1848 he edited an illustrated weekly at 7arlsiuhe: then, for a number of years, the Liberal Democratic organ Der Beohachter in Stuttgart, and in 1803 was made librarian of the University of Tiiliin- gen. He wrote two interesting novels, iichillers Heimutjuhre (2d ed. 1857), and Der tionncn- wirt (2d ed. 1802). Of his nuiny excellent translations, those of Ariosto's Orlando fiiriuso (1840, new ed. with Dorc's illustrations, 1881), and of Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde, with an original conclusion of his own (1844, 3d ed. 1877). are the most iniptutant. His literary and historical essays include Zu Hhah-cspcarcsLcbcn and .Schaffcn (isOS) and Aus den Tayen der Xchmach. (hsvhichtshilder aus der Mclacszeit (1871), and, with Paul Heyse, he edited Dcutscher Kovcllenschatz ( 1870-74) and Xorcllenschatz des Auslandes (1872-74), two ailmirabic collections of the best short stories in Gernum and foreign literature. — His daughter IsouiK (18.J3— ), born in Stuttgart and later resident in Florenic, is also a jwet and story- teller, autlinr of t'lorcntincr Xuvellen (1890)"; JIdlienischc Kr-iihlungcn (1895); I'oh dazumal ( 1900) ; 'ind Die Sladt des Lebcns. Schildcrungen aiis dir jluri nlinisihen llcnaissance (1902). KUSAN (kt-7u'siin) STOCK. A small linguis- tic group of tribes on the Coos River and Bay and UKJUth of the Coquille River, on the coast of Oregon. They call themselves Anasitch. Most of the survivors are located under Government care on the Siletz Agency. Various names have been given to them in the past: Ka-us or Kwo- Kwoos, by Hale; Ko-wes, bv Milhau; Cook- Koo-oosc. by Lewis and Clark: Ka-us. by Latham. While Gatschct mentions the follow- ing tribes or villages: Anasitch or Hau-nay- sitch, Melukitz. and Mulluk or Lower Coquille, Dorsey divides them into the following vil- lages: Jlulluks. mouth of the Coquille River;' Naeumi or Masumi, south of the Coquille River; Melukitz. north ;)f Coos Bay; and Anasitch, or Hannaysitch. south of Coos B.ay. From the little that is known of their language, it seems that syllables usually terminate in consonants, and that vowels, when used for the begin- ning of words, seem to be prefixes or jjarts of such. Their numeral system, is quinary. The chief interest in the Kusan ]K'oples is concerning their origin. They are wedged in between the Athapascan and Yakonan tribes and the Pacific Ocean, like many other fading stocks on this coast, and bear no known relationship with any other i)eople. Consult: Indian Affairs lie- port (Washington. 1800) ; Bancroft. Native Paces (New York, 1874) ; Ticclfth Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1890). KtrSI, knn's.'., or COOSY. A northern tribu- tary of the (Janges. India, rising in the Hima- layas of Xejial. and flowing at first south and then southeast through Nepal (Map: India, E 3). At the confluence of the Arun it turns southward, and. after entering Behar. joins the Ganges below Bhagalpur. Its length is 325 miles, but it is unfit for navigation on account of its rapid cnnrse and destructive floods. KUSKOQUIM, kus'k.VkwIm. A river in Alaska, the -eeonil in size in the Territory. It rises near Mount McKinley. in the south-central part, and flows southwest, emptying, after a course of more than 500 miles, into Bering Sea through the wide estuarv called Kuskoquim Bay. about 200 miles south of the mouths of the Yukon (Map: Alaska, C 3). The region through
