Koburg. See S.vxony.
Koch, Henry, a pioneer minister of the German Re- formed Church in Western Pennsylvania, was born in Northampton Co., Pa., in 1795 ; pursued his theological studies with Rev. Dr. Becker, of Baltimore, Md. ; was licensed and ordained in 1819, and settled in what is now Clarion Co., Pa. He died August 7, 1845. He laid the foundations of numerous congregations. Five charges have grown up on his field, which constitute the heart of what is now Clarion Classis. His memory is blessed.
Koch, John Henry, a German Methodist minis- ter, was born of Lutheran jiarentage in Wollmar, elec- torate of Ilessen, Germany, Feb. 14, 1807, and emigrated in 1834 to this countrj'. At New Orleans, La., he was attacked with yellow fever, and resolved on his sick-bed to serve God with his whole heart. He removed after- wards to Cincinnati, where brother Nuelson invited him to attend the meetings of German Methodists, and'there, under the preaching of father Schmucker and Dr. Wil- liam Nast, he was awakened and converted. He was licensed to preach in 1841, and in 1845 joined the Ken- tucky Conference. He was successively appointed to the following charges : West Union, Pomeroy, Captina, in Ohio ; Wheeling, W. Va. ; Portsmouth, Madison, New Albany, JMount Vernon, Ind. ; Louisville, Ky. ; Madison Street, La wrenceburgh,Batesville, Poland and Greencas- tle, La Fayette and Bradford. His health failing, he re- fired from the effective service, but re-entered tlie ac- tive ;vork three years later, and served two years at jNIadison and one year at Charlestown, Ind., where he died Oct. 1, 1871. " Brother Koch was an earnest Chris- tian and a faithful itinerant. Many were converted un- der his ministry, and great is his reward in heaven." — Minutes of Conferences, 1871, p. 227.
Kochano'wski, John, a Polish nobleman and dis- tinguished poet, who was born in 1532, and died in 1584, deserves our notice for his translation of the Psalms into Polish verse, which he performed in so masterly a man- ner that he was surnamed the " Pindar of Poland." See Bentkowski,/7/«to?7/ of Polish Literature (see Index).
Kochberg, Johannes, a German theologian and descendant of a noble family, flourished in the early part of the second half of the 14th centur}% He was in high position at the convent St. Michael, at Jena, about 1366. — A Ihjem. Histor. Lex. iii, 43.
Kocher, Johann Cheistoph, D.D., a German the- ologian, was born at Lobenstein April 23, 1699. He was successively rector of the gymnasium at Osnabriick, su- perintendent at Brunswick, and professor of theology at Jena, and died there Sept, 21, 1772. He published a continuation of Wolf's Cura. Philologica, under the title Analecta Philologica et Exegetica in Ctuatuor Evangelia (Altenburg, 1766, 4to). " It supplies," says Orme, " some of the desiderata of Wolfs work, and brings down the account of the sentiments of the modern writers on the Gospels to the period of its publication" {Bihlioth. Bib. p. 276). For a list of all his works, see During, Gclehrte Theol. Deutschlands, ii, 147 sq.
Kodashim. See Talmlt).
Koeberger,WENCESLAus, a noted Flemish painter and architect, was born in Antwerp about 1550 ; studied in his native city, and later at Rome ; and died either in 1610 or iii 1634. He selected chiefly reUgious sub-
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jects, and among his best paintings are " the ]\Iart}Tdom of Saint Sebastian," and "Christ taken from the Cross and supported by Angels." See Descamps, Vies des Pein- ins Miimamh, etc,
Kofller, John, a Roman Catholic missionary to Cochin China. Wc have no details of his life until af- ter he departed for that country in 1740. He remained there fourteen years, and, being made physician to the king, availed himself of this position to further his mis- sionary purposes. The persecution of the Christians in China led, however, to similar measures in Cochin Chi- na, and, with the exception of Koffler, whom the king prized highly on account of his medical knowledge, all the missionaries were arrested aud shipped to Macao Aug. 27, 1750. The same fate also overtook Koffler in 1755. Arriving at Macao, he was arrested, and sent with his colleagues to Portugal, where they were im- prisoned as having encroached upon the monopoly granted to the Portuguese government by the Holy See, and which it claimed gave that nation the exclusive right of evangelizing the East Indies. Koffler was finally released through the intervention of the empress INIaria Theresa in 1705, and was sent on a mission to Transylvania, where he labored until his death in 1780. Whik' in prison he wrote a memoir of his travels, which was published by Eckart, and reprinted by De Murr, under the title, Joannis Koffier historica Cochinchinw Descriptio in epitome redacia ah J. F. Echirt, edetife De Murr (1805, 8vo). See Migne, Biog. Chretienne et An- ftchrefienite ; De Monteron et Esteve, ^^ssion de la Co- chiiwhine et du Ton/an, 1858. — Hoefer, A'out; Bio(j, Gen, xxvii, 28. (.J. N. P.)
Kcgler, Ignaz, a Jesuit German missionary to Chi- na, \vas born at Landsberg, Bavaria, in 1G80, entered the order of Jesuits in 109(5, prepared for missionary work in 1715, and departed the year following for Chi- na, where he enjoyed the favor of the emperor in a re- markalih degree. Kogler was master of the sciences, and especially in astronomy displayed superior acquisi- tion. He died in Pekin in 1710. — Hoefer, Xouv. Biofjr. Generale, xxvii, 950.