Ludovieo Marracci

Ludovieo Marracci, an Italian orientalist, in Lucca in 1612, died in Rome. Feb. 5. 1700 He devoted himself from his youth to the studyof languages, became a proficient in Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic, and was appointed professor of Arabic in the Sapienz and afterward in the Propaganda, at Rome. Pope Innocent XL chose him as his confessor, and would have advanced him to dignities had not Marracci tied. He edited the Koran in the original . with a Latin translation (Padua, 1698).

Ludwig Adolf Willielm Lutzow

Ludwig Adolf Willielm Lutzow, baron, a Prussian general, born May 18, 1782, died in Berlin, I)ec. 6, 1834. He was celebrated as the leader of a corps of soldiers, chiefly composed of young noblemen, organized in 1813 against the French. It was called after him Lutzow'-sches Freicorps, and more generally the black huntsmen (schwarze Jager). Korner was a member of this corps.

Ludwig Bledow

Ludwig Bledow, a German chess player, born July 27,1795, died Aug. 6, 1846. He was a teacher of mathematics, and founded the so-called Berlin chess school and the first German journal on chess, Berliner Schachzeitung. He published two small collections of outlines of games, and edited the work of the Syrian chess player Stamma. His extensive collection of works relating to chess was purchased by the royal library of Berlin.

Ludwig Friedrich Knapp

Ludwig Friedrich Knapp, a German chemist, born at Michelstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Feb. 22, 1814. He studied under Liebig, graduated at Giessen as a chemist, and at the mint in Paris as an assayer. He was professor at Giessen from 1841 till the close of 1853, and subsequently in the economical institution of Munich. In 1856 he became inspector of the royal porcelain works, and in 1863 he went to Brunswick to teach chemistry at the polytechnic school. He has published Lehrbuch der chemischen Technologie (2 vols., Brunswick, 1847; translated into English by Ronalds and Richardson, 3 vols., London, 1848-'51, and by W. R. Johnson, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1848-'9), and translated Percy's "Metallurgy" (1862). He has made some remarkable investigations relative to tanning.

Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty

Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty, a German poet, born at Mariensee, near Hanover, Dec. 21, 1748, died in Hanover, Sept. 1, 1776. He studied theology at Gottingen, became acquainted with Burger, Miller, and Count C. Stolberg, and was member of the society of poets which they had formed. He was preparing a collection of his poems when he died. They were afterward edited by his friends Stolberg and Voss in 1783, and again by Halm in 1869. He translated the philosophical works of the earl of Shaftesbury and other English works into German.

Ludwig Lange

Ludwig Lange, a German archaeologist, born in Hanover, May 4, 1825. He graduated at Gottingen in 1849, and became professor there in 1853, at Prague in 1855, at Giessen in 1859, and at Leipsic in 1871. His principal work is Handbuch der romischen Alterthumer (3 vols., Berlin, 1856-74). In 1874 he published at Leipsic Die Epheten und der Areopag vor Solon.