Georg Friedrich Kolb, a German journalist and author, born at Spire, Sept. 14, 1808. He published a journal in Spire in 1830, which he edited for more than 20 years in the liberal interest, and was a member of the Frankfort parliament in 1848. As member of the Bavarian chamber he prepared a report on the so-called Greek loan, which required the ex-king Louis I. to replace from his private means the entire amount which had been paid to his son King Otho of Greece. To escape from persecutions, he remained in Zurich from 1853 to 1860. Subsequently he edited the Frankfurter Zeitung, and in 1863 he resumed his seat in the Bavarian chamber. He opposed the Franco-German war of 1870-'71, and advocated the right of suffrage for the people of Alsace-Lorraine. His principal works are: Handbuch der vergleichenden Statistik (1858; 6th ed., 1871); Grundriss der Statistik (1862; 4th ed., 1871); and Culturgeschichte der Menschheit (2 vols., 1869-'70; 2d ed., 1874).

K0LBE, Adolf Wilhelm Hermann, a German chemist, born near Gottingen, Sept. 27, 1818. He studied under Wohler, and became in 1842 assistant to Bunsen, whom he succeeded in 1851 as professor in the university of Marburg, after having been in the interval employed by Playfair in London, and edited Liebig and Wohler's Handworterbuch der Chemie. In 1865 he became professor at Leipsic. His principal works are: Das ausf'uhrliche Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie (vols. i. and ii., Brunswick, 1854 and 1863), Das chemische Laboratorium der Universitat Marburg (Marburg, 1865), and Die Entwichelung der Chemie in der neuesten Zeit (Munich, 1871 et seq.).