KLINGSTADT, a painter, born at Riga, like Luther, one of those extraordinary persons, whose pieces were exquisitely finished; he died of whom few, if any, are observed to speak with in 1721. sufficient temper; all is either extravagant en

KLOCKER, David, a painter, liberally patro-comium or senseless invective. After his death, nised by the king of Sweden, died in 1698.

came out a "History of the Reformation within the realm of Scotland," &c., to which are subjoined all his other works.

KLOPSTOCK, Frederick Theophilus, a very celebrated German poet,born in 1724,died in 1803. His "Messiah," by which his name is chiefly KNOX, John, many years a 'bookseller of immortalized, was published at Halle, in 1751. eminence in London, who devoted the forHe was likewise author of three tragedies, tune he acquired in this business to the imcalled "The Death of Adam;" "Solomon ;' provement of his country, in the planning a and David." His funeral was conducted with herring fishery, and the settlement of new extraordinary pomp; being attended by the sen-towns on the north east of Scotland. He visitate of Hamburgh, the diplomatic body, the clered and explored that kingdom 16 times in 23 gy, inen of letters, and merchants, in a procesyears, beginning in 1764; and, in two volumes, sion of 76 coaches: at Altona, it was joined by gave a systematic view of Scotland in general; 50 more carriages to the village of Ottensen, he died in 1790. where he was buried with all the most honourable ceremonies that could be devised.

KNOX, Vicesimus, D. D., a learned divine and miscellaneous writer, born in 1752. At the KNAPTON, George, a portrait painter, and death of his father, he was elected, in his room, keeper of the king's pictures, died in 1778. master of Tunbridge school, where he presided KNELLER, Sir Godfrey, an eminent painter, 33 years; retiring from it in 1812, and being born at Lubec, about 1648. His great patron in himself succeeded by his son, the present masEngland was Charles II.; but after the death. ofter. The duties of a parish priest he dischargthat monarch, he was well received by kinged for nearly forty years, with a zeal and abiliJames and his queen, and constantly employed ty perhaps never surpassed; scarcely, during by them until the Revolution. It is very re-that long period, requiring any assistance in the markble of this painter that he had the honour performance of the church service. He died at to draw 10 crowned heads; 4 kings of England, his son's, in 1821. His principal works are, and three queens; the czar of Muscovy; Charles" Essays, Moral and Literary; "Liberal EduH., king of Spain, afterwards emperor, when he cation;" "Winter Evenings" "Personal Nowas in England; and the French king, Lewis bility;" "Christian Philosophy;" "Sermons ;"' XIV. ; besides several electors and princes. He Elegant Extracts;" "Elegant Epistles," was gentleman of the privy chamber to king" Domestic Divinity," &c. William, to queen Anne, and to George I.; and KNOX, Hugh, D. D., an eminent congregawas, in several reigns, a deputy-lieutenant of tional clergyman at the island of St. Croix, the county of Middlesex, and in the commission where he died after a long and useful life, at of the peace for that and other counties. He a very advanced age. died in 1723.

KNOX, Henry, a distinguished officer of the KNIGHT, Dr. Samuel, archdeacon of Berks, revolution, was commander of the artillery unand author of "Lives of Erasmus and Dean til the capture of Cornwallis, after which he Colet," died in 1746. was made a major general in the army. He was KNOLLES, Sir Robert, a very eminent gene-afterwards secretary at war, under Washingral, who rose by degrees from the rank of a pri-ton, and died in 1810.

vate, and with 30,000 men in the wars of Ed KNUPPER, Nicholas, a native of Leipsic, ward III., marched to the gates of Paris. Reeminent as a painter, died in 1660. turning home, laden with wealth and honours, KNUZEN, Matthias, a celebrated atheist, he founded Rochester bridge. born in Holstein, about 1650. He was the only

KNOLLES, Richard, author of " The Gene-person on record who openly taught atheism; ral History of the Turks, from the beginning of and he undertook long journeys on purpose to that Nation to the rising of the Ottoman faini-make proselytes. His followers, were called ly," &c., which has immortalized his name. He conscienciaries, because they asserted that there died in 1610, leaving behind him the character of was no other god, no other religion, no other udius, learned, and worthy man. lawful magistracy, than conscience.

LIS, Francis, an English statesman, stinguished for his zeal in the cause of reformnation. He was one of the commissioners at the trial of Mary, queen of Scots, and died in 1596.

KNORR VON ROSENROT, Christian, a learned German, died in 1689.

KNOTT, Edward, an English jesuit, was professor in the English college at Rome; he died in 1655-6.

KNOWLER, William, an English divine and trauslator of Chrysostom's Comment, died io 1767.

KNUZEN, Martin, professor of philosophy at Koningsberg, died in 1751.

KNYGHTON, Henry, author of a chronicle of the English history, and of the deposition of Richard III.

KOEBEGER, Winceslaus, a native of Ant werp, and eminent as a painter, died in 1604.

KOEMPFER, Engelbert, an eminent German, botanical writer, and author of a "History of Japan," born in 1651, died in 1716.

KOENIG, Daniel, a Swiss, who translated into Latin, Arbuthnot's Tables of Ancient Coins, published in 1750.

KNOWLES, Thomas, an Englishman, an KOENIG, Samuel, professor of philosophy able divine, and an author, died in 1802. and natural law at Franeker, and librarian KNOWLTON, Thomas, an English bota-to the stadtholder, and the princess of Orange. nist, died in 1782.

KNOX, John, an eminent Scottish minister, a chief instrument and promoter of the reformation in that country, and a steady and undaunted patriot in the worst of times, born in 1505, and died in 1572. As to his character, he was,

He was author of several works; and died in 1757, with the character of being one of the best mathematicians of the age.

KOENIG, George Matthias, a learned German, born in 1616, died in 1699. He was well versed in the belles lettres, in divinity, and in

the oriental languages, and gave several public king to go against the Turks with the rest of
specimens of his learning; but is principally his army; assuring him that, as soon as he
known by a work entitled "Bibliotheca vetus had secured Eschref, he would fly to his assist-
et nova," 4to. This is a biographical diction-ance. Kouli Khan at last came up with the
ary, which has been very useful to other biogra-
phers.

KOERTON, Joanna, a native of Amsterdam, celebrated for ingenuity and taste in embroidery, drawing, and water colours; she died in 1715. KOETS, Roelof, a German painter. It is said his portraits amounted to 5000, and all of them superior. He died in 1725.

usurper, and prepared for an engagement which was very soon decisive. The Aghwans, sur rounded, were either cut to pieces or taken: Eschref was among the prisoners, and all his treasures fell into the hands of the victor. Kouli Khan ordered both his eyes to be put out, and some days after had him beheaded. He then hastened back to succour the sophi, whom KOLLOCK, Henry, D. D., an eminent pres- he supposed to be engaged with the Turks; but byterian clergyman, professor of theology in was surprised to find, when he came near IspaPrinceton college, New-Jersey, afterwards pashan, that he had concluded a peace with the tor of a church in Savannah, Georgia, died in Porte, disbanded his army, and sent him orders to do the same. These orders he received with 1819. indignation, exclaiming against the ignominious peace and his effeminate prince. Instead of disbanding his army, which now consisted of 70,000 men, he marched with it to Ispahan, seized the Schah Thamas, imprisoned him in a strong fortress, and in an assembly of the chief men of Persia got him deposed, and his son, an

KRANTZ, Albert, a famous historian and divine, professor of divinity, at Rostock, and author of several learned works, died in 1574. KRAUSE, Francis, a German, eminent as a KOULI KHAN, Thamas, alias NADIR SCHAH, born in 1687, in the province of Che-historical painter, died in 1754 SECTOR rasan, in Persia. He was the son of the governor of a Persian fortress; and engaging in the service of the Schah Thamas, whose throne Eschref, a usurper, possessed, and had lorded it over the Persians for five years with the utpost barbarity, the sophi gave him at length the command of his army. The new general entirely defeated Eschref, conducted Schah Thamas in triumph to Ispahan, and established Eshim upon the throne of his ancestors. chref, having got together his treasures and his women, fled toward Candahar with 10,000 men. Kouli Khan, at the head of 15,000 men, went in pursuit of him, and recommended it to the

KUHLMAN, Quirinus, a famous fanatic, born at Breslaw. He was at last burnt at Moscow, in 1689, for some seditious prophecies.

KUHNIUS, Jachim, a learned native of Pomerania, and principal of the college of Octingen; he acquired great celebrity by his publications, and died in 1697.

KUICK, John Van, a painter, of Dordt, accused of heresy, was cruelly burnt by the jesuits 271 in 1572

KUNCKET, John, an able chymist and ingenious philosopher, was born at Sieswic, and died in 1702.

Firmianus, an eminent father of the Christian church. He is the most eloquent of all the ecclesiastical Latin authors, and wrote in such a pure, smooth, and natural style, and so much in the taste and manner of the Roman orator, that he is generally distinguished by the title of

KUNZE, John Christopher, D. D., a distinguished clergyman of the Lutheran church in Philadelphia, afterwards pastor of a Lutheran church in New-York, and professor of oriental" The Christian Cicero." languages in Columbia college; he died in 1807.) KUPIESKI,John, a painter, of Bohemia, born in 1667, was patronised by the emperor Charles III., and other princes.

KUSTER, Ludolf, a learned German critic, born in 1670. He published editions of Suidas, Aristophanes, and several works of a smaller kind, and died in 1716.

KUYP, Jacob, an eminent landscape painter, at Dordt, flourished about 1643.

KUYP, or CUYP, Albert, a very eminent landscape painter, was born at Dordt, in 1606. The time of his death is uncertain.

KYD, Thomas, an English dramatic writer in the reign of queen Elizabeth.

KYDERMINSTER, Richard, abbot and historian, of the Benedictine convent of Winchombe, died in 1531.

KYNESTON, John, an English divine, who gained great reputation by a Latin oration, which he pronounced; he died in 1783.

LACY, John, an actor and dramatic writer of some eminence, in the reign of Charles II. LACYDAS, a Greek philosopher, of Cyrene, who was tenderly attached to a favourite goose, died 212 B. C.

LADISLAUS I. succeeded to the Hungarian throne in 1077. He was an able politician, a brave general, and a pious man; he was canonized in 1198.

LADISLAUS III., king of Hungary, a licen tious monarch, who was assassinated in 1290. LADISLAUS IV., grand duke of Lithuania, and king of Poland, was made king of Hungary, in 1440. He was defeated and slain in battle with the Turks, in 1444.

LADISLAUS V., succeeded Ladislaus IV. It is said he was poisoned by the Hussites, whose sect he persecuted.

LADISLAUS VI., son of the king of Poland, raised to the throne of Hungary, in 1490, had a turbulent reign, and died in 1560.

LADISLAUS, or LAUNCELOT, the Liberal and Victorious, count of Provence, succeeded his father, as king of Naples, in 1386. His right to the throne was disputed, and he died in 1414, after a turbulent reign.

KYNWELMARSH, Francis, an Englishman, who wrote some poetry in the 16th century. KYRLE, John, the celebrated Man of Ross, as Pope calls him in his poem "On the Use of Riches." He possessed a small estate of 5002. a year at Ross, and literally became, as the poet LADISLAUS I., king of Poland, succeeded sings, a blessing to the whole community. He to the throne in 1081. He was fond of peace, died in 1724, at the age of 90.

L

LABADIE, John, a celebrated French enthusiast, born in 1610, died in 1674.

but brave in war; he died in 1102.

LADISLAUS II., king of Poland, succeeded his father, Bolislaus, in 1139; he made war against his brothers, and was at last banished from the throne, and died in 1159.

LABAT, John Baptist, a celebrated traveller LADISLAUS III., king of Poland, in 1296, and missionary, of the order of St. Dominic, oppressed his people so that they revolted, and born at Paris in 1663, died in 1738. His "Voy-placed Wenceslaus on the throne, after whose ages and Travels" into different kingdoms, are death Ladislaus was replaced on the throne, works of much amusement, and of good repu- and governed with justice and moderation. He tation. died in 1333.

LABBE, Philip, a jesuit, of Bourges, of great learning, memory, and indefatigable application; he died in 1667.

LABBE, Louisa, a poetess, called the fair rope-maker, because she married a rich ropemaker, of Lyons. Her works were published at Lyons, in 1555 and 1762; she died in 1566.

LABEO, Quintus Fabius, a Roman consul of literary talents.

LADISLAUS V., surnamed Jagellon, grand duke of Lithuania, obtained the crown of Poland in 1386, by marriage. His reign was mild but vigorous, and he died in 1434, highly respected.

LADISLAUS VI., king of Poland, son of Ladislaus V., was duke of Lithuania, and king of Hungary.

LADISLAUS, Sigismund, VII., king of Poland and Sweden, after the death of his father, LABEO, Antistius, a Roman lawyer who op-in 1632. He defeated the Turks in various batposed the government of Augustus.

LABERIUS, an ancient Roman knight in the time of Julius Cæsar, who excelled in writing mimes, or little satirical productions for the stage.

LABOUREUR, John le, a Frenchman, who from a gentleman's servant rose to become almoner to the king. He wrote several works, and died in 1675.

LACARRY, Giles, a French jesuit, and professor of theology, wrote some useful works, and died in 1684.

LA COLONIE, John Martin de, served in the Austrian army, and rose to the rank of marshal; he died in 1759.

LACOMBE, James, a French historian, born in 1724.

LACOMBE DE PREZEL, Honore, brother of the preceding, author of several dictionaries. LACTANTIUS, Firmian, or Lucius Celius

tles, and died in 1648.

L'ADVOCAT, John Baptist l'Abbe, a learned French critic, grammarian, geographer, and historian, author of "Dictionnaire Geographique Portatif;" "Dictionnaire Historique Portatif;" and a "Hebrew Grammar." He died in 1765. L'ADVOCAT, Louis Francis, author of a treatise on morals, died at Paris, in 1735. LÆLIUS, Caius, a Roman consul and comic poet, died 126 B. C.

LAER, Peter, a Dutch painter, some of whose pieces are elegant, died in 1675.

LAET, John de, a native of Antwerp, and author of some useful works, died in 1640.

LEVINUS, Torrentinus, commonly called Vander Bekin, was a native of Ghent. He went as ambassador to Philip II., of Spain, founded the jesuit's college at Louvaine, and died in 1595.

LEVIUS, a Roman poet.

LAFITAU, Joseph Francis, a French jesuit and missionary to North America, died in 1755, leaving behind him a curious comparison be tween the manners of the ancients and those of the American savages.

served, that "an undevout astronomer is mad;" and the eccentricities of Lalande might justify the conclusion that Young would have drawn from the atheistical principles he openly professed. He went so far as to read public lecLAFITAU, Peter Francis, distinguished as a tures on those baneful and hope-blasting docpreacher, was the favourite of Clement IX.,trines, in the Lycee of Paris, a society formed and died in 1764. of pretended philosophers of the same descripLAGALLA, Julius Cæsar, a Neapolitan, phy-tion; he died in 1807. sician to the pope; he was a learned man, and died in 1623.

LALLI, John Baptist, an Italian poet, was employed by the pope in civil affairs, and died in 1637.

LAGERLOOF, Peter, professor of eloquence at Upsal, author of the ancient and modern his- LALLY, Thomas Arthur, count, a gallant tories of Northern Europe; he died in 1599. general in the service of France, though a naLAGNY, Thomas Fantet sieur de, a French-tive of Ireland; but being compelled to surrenman, member of the academy of sciences at der Pondicherry to the English, he incurred the Paris, and author of several works; he died in suspicion of treachery, and was executed in 1734. 1766.

LAGRANGE, Joseph Lewis, an eminent mathematician, of Turin, afterwards professor of the Norman and Polytechnic schools at Paris; he died in 1813.

LAGUNA, Andrew, a Spanish physician, and favourite of Charles V., died in 1560.

LAHARPE DES UTINS, N., a native of Vaux, distinguished himself in the Freneh army of Italy, under Buonaparte, and was killed in 1796.

LAHAYE, William Nicholas de, a French engraver of great merit, born in 1725.

LAIDLIE, Archibald, D. D., a native of Scotland, pastor of a church at Flushing, Zealand, and afterwards of a Dutch reformed church in the city of New-York, eminent as a theologian|| and preacher; he died in 1778.

LAINEZ, Alexander, a French poet, whose pieces possess great elegance, died in 1700.

LAINEZ, James, a Spaniard,the successor of Loyola, as general of the jesuits; he was at the council of Trent, and died in 1565.

LAMBALLE, Marie Therese Louise, of Savoy Carignan, princess of, wife of the duke of Bourbon Penthievre, ardently attached to the French queen, for which she was inhumanly murdered, in 1792, by the tyrants of the French revolution.

LAMBECIUS, Peter, a learned German, and rector of the university of Hamburgh. He renounced protestantism for popery, and died in 1680.

LAMBERT, John, a general in Cromwell's army, memorable for having opposed Oliver's acceptance of the crown, died about 1670.

LAMBERT, Anne Therese, marquise de, a most ingenious French lady, born at Paris, in 1647, died in 1733, having been the author of some very pleasing moral productions, which have been collected and printed in 2 volumes.

LAMBERT, Claude Francis, a French ecclesiastic, and an author, died in 1763.

LAMBERT, Daniel, remarkable for having greatly exceeded the ordinary dimensions of LAING, Malcom, a Scottish historian, born mankind, was born at Leicester, in 1770, and died in Orkney, in 1762. He published a "History of at Stamford, in 1809. He had exhibited himself Scotland," chiefly distinguished by its partiali-in Picadilly two or three years before his death; ty, and its hostility to the character of the unfortunate queen Mary. His last literary undertaking was an edition of Ossian's poems the authenticity of which, he demolished liminary dissertation. Mr. Laing ti LAIRE, Francis Xavier, a leari author, died at Sens, in 1800..

LAIRESSE, Gerard, an emin painter and engraver, born at Li The Hollanders esteem him the painter of their country, and comm their second Raphael; Hemskirk > He died in 1711.

not long before which event, on being weighed, he was found to be 52 stone 11 lbs. in weight (14 lbs. to the stone,) which is 10 stone 11 lbs. pre-more than the great Mr. Bright, of Essex, ever 1819. weighed. His coffin was 6 feet 4 inches long, French 4 feet 4 inches wide, and 2 feet 4 inches deep, and consisted of 112 superficial feet of elm Flemish timber. 14 1640.

LAMBERT, George, an English landscape istory painter, died in 1765.

call him LAMBERT, George Henry, an able matheeir first.matician, of Alsace, and an author, died in 1728.

LAIS, a courtezan, of such ren in antiquity, that, like Homer, several cities claimed the glory of her birth; but that honour is most generally given to Hyccara, a city of Sicily. Retiring to Thessaly, she fell a sacrifice to the envy and jealously excited by her beauty; for her rivals, seeing themselves eclipsed, became desperate, and, having conducted her into the temple of Venus, there stoned her to death, 340 B. C.

LAKE, Arthur, an English prelate, respected as an amiable man, died in 1626.

LALANDE, Michael Richard de, a celebrated French musician and composer, died in

1726.

LALANDE, Joseph Jerome Francis, a most celebrated astronomer of France, born in 1732. His principal works are, "Connoissance du Temps," "Tour in Italy," and a valuable Treatise of Astronomy." Dr. Young has ob

LAMBERT, of Schawemburg, a German Benedictine, published a dry chronicle, from Adam to A. D. 1077; he died in 1669.

LAMBIN, Denys, professor of belles-lettres, at Paris. He was esteemed as a critic and a scholar, and died in 1672.

LAMBRUN, Margaret, was a Scotch woman, and one of the retinue of Mary queen of Scots, as was also her husband, who dying of grief for the tragical end of that princess, his wife took up a resolution of revenging the death of both upon queen Elizabeth. For that purpose she put on a man's habit; and, assuming the name of Anthony Sparke, repaired to the court of the queen of England, always carrying with her a brace of pistols, one to kill Elizabeth, and the other to shoot herself, in order to avoid the hands of justice; but her design hap pened to miscarry by an accident which saved the queen's life. One day, as she was pushing 273

LANDA, Catherine, a learned lady, author of an elegant Latin letter to Peter Bembo, died in 1526.

LANDEN, John, born in Northamptonshire, in 1719, died in 1790, having written largely on mathematics, and advanced that science considerably by his studies and experiments.

LANDINI, Christopher, a learned Venetian of the 15th century.

through the crowd to come up to her majesty,style was agreeable, and imitative of Titian and who was then walking in her garden, she chan- Salvator Rosa. ced to drop one of the pistols. This being seen by the guards, she was seized, in order to be sent immediately to prison, but the queen not suspecting her to be one of her own sex, had a mind first to examine her. Accordingly, demanding her name, country, and quality, Margaret replied with an unmoved steadiness, "Madam, though I appear in this habit, I am a woman; my name is Margaret Lainbrun; I was several years in the service of queen Mary, my mistress, whom you have so unjustly put to death; and by her death you have also caused that of my husband, who died of grief to see so innocent a queen perish so niquitously. Now, as I had the greatest love and affection for both) those personages, I resolved, at the peril of my life, to revenge their death by killing you, who are the cause of both." The queen pardoned her, and granted her a safe couduct till she should be set upon the coast of France.

LAMI, Bernard, a philosopher of a noble family of Mons, he was a warm admirer of the principles of Descartes, and died in 1715.

LAMI, Dom. Francis, a French writer, who distinguished himself against Spinosa; he died in 1711.

LAMI, John, ecclesiastical professor at Florence, was a facetious and agreeable man, and died in 1774.

LANDO, Hortensio, an Italian physician, of the 16th century, who wrote several works. LANDO, Bassiano, a physician, of Padua,au-thor of some medical works, was assassinated in 1562.

LANDRI, bishop of Paris, and founder of the hospital called Hotel de Dieu, died about 660.

LANE, Jane, a female of extraordinary sagacity and spirit, who assisted in the escape and preservation of Charies II., after the battle of Worcester, and was amply rewarded at the restoration Charles (disguised in her father's livery) rode before her on horseback from Bentley Hall to Staffordshire, to Mr. Norton's near Bristol.

LANFRANC, John, an Italian painter; he excelled chiefly in fresco, and died 1647.

LANFRANC, a physician, of Milan; he restored surgery to a regular and respectable system and died in 1300.

LAMIA, a celebrated Grecian courtezan, some time mistress to Ptolemy I., king of Egypt. LANFRANC, archbishop of Canterbury LAMOIGNON, Christian Francis de, advo-in the reign of William I., died in 1089. He recate-general and president of the parliament, of built the cathedral of Canterbury, and has the Paris, died in 1677. character of a great statesman, as well as a learned prelate.

LANFRANCO, Giovanni, an eminent Italian painter, disciple of the Carracci, born in

LAMPE, Frederic Adolphus, rector of Bre men university, and an author, died in 1729. LAMPLUGH, Thomas, an Englishman, and archbishop of York. He crowned king Wil-1581, died in 1647. liam, after exhorting the people to adhere to James II., he died in 1691.

LAMPRIDIUS, Ælius, a Latin historian, who flourished under the emperors Dioclesian and Constantine, in the 4th century. We have of his writing the lives of four emperors, yiz. Commodus, Antoninus, Diadumenus, and Heliogabalus.

LAMPRIDIUS, Benedict, a Latin poet, of Cremona, died in 1540.

LANG, John Michael, professor of divinity at Altorf, died in 1731.

LANGALIERE, Philip de Gentils, marquis de, distinguished himself in the service of France during 20 years. He was afterwards in the service of the emperor, and king of Poland, and died in 1717.

LANGBAINE, Gerard, an English writer, who acquired literary celebrity by his edition of Longinus; he died in 1657.

LANA, Francis de, a jesuit, of Brescia, born LANGBAINE, Gerard, born in 1656, was auIn 1637. From his works, it appears that he thor of "An account of the English Dramatic had an idea of aerostation prior to Montgolfier.Poets," which has been of great use to later bioLANCASTER, James, a celebrated English graphers; he died in 1692. navigator, died in 1620.

LANCASTER, Nathaniel, D. D., an English divine and an author, died in 1775.

LANCELOT, Claude, a native of Paris, and tutor to the prince of Conti, was a Benedictine monk, and the author of several works; he died in 1659.

LANCELOTTI, John Paul, an Italian, employed by pope Paul IV., to compile the canon Jaw; he died in 1591.

LANCJEAN, Remi, the most eminent of Vandyck's pupils, died in 1671.

LANCISI, John Maria, an eminent Italian physician and anatomist, born at Rome, in 1654, died in 1720.

LANCRET, Nicholas, a famous French painter, born at Paris, in 1690, died in 1743. There are a great many prints after his paintings.

LANCRINCK, Prosper Henricus, an excellent landscape painter in the English school. born at Antwerp, in 1629, died in 1692. His

LANGDALE, Marmaduke, an Englishman of great courage, who espoused the royal cause in the rebellion; he died in 1681.

LANGDON, Samuel, D. D., minister of a church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and afterwards president of Harvard college; he died in 1797.

LANGDON, John, LL. D., an active and powerful advocate of the revolution, was a member of Congress in 1775, and afterwards a member of the convention which formed the federal constitution, a senator in Congress, and governor of the state of New-Hampshire; he died at Portsmouth, in 1819.

LANGE, Josephi, Greek professor at Friburg, in 1600; he turned catholic in the latter part of his life.

LANGE, Charles Nicholas, a Swiss naturalist, about 1720.

LANGE, Rodolphus, canon of Munster, distinguished himself as a poet; he died in 1519. LANGELANDE, Robert, author of "The Vi