KURZ

kurz, hermann (1813-1873), german poet and novelist, was born at reutlingen on the 30th of november 1813. having studied at the theological seminary at maulbronn and at the university of tubingen, he was for a time assistant pastor at ehningen. he then entered upon a literary career, and in 1863 was appointed university librarian at tubingen, where he died on the 10th of october 1873. kurz is less known to fame by his poems, _gedichte_ (1836) and _dichtungen_ (1839), than by his historical novels, _schillers heimatjahre_ (1843, 3rd ed., 1899) and _der sonnenwirt_ (1854, 2nd ed., 1862), and his excellent translations from english, italian and spanish. he also published a successful modern german version of gottfried von strassburg's _tristan und isolde_ (1844). his collected works were published in ten volumes (stuttgart, 1874), also in twelve volumes (leipzig, 1904). his daughter, isolde kurz, born on the 21st of december 1853 at stuttgart, takes a high place among contemporary lyric poets in germany with her _gedichte_ (stuttgart, 1888, 3rd ed. 1898) and _neue gedichte_ (1903). her short stories, _florentiner novellen_ (1890, 2nd ed. 1893), _phantasien und marchen_ (1890), _italienische erzahlungen_ (1895) and _von dazumal_ (1900) are distinguished by a fine sense of form and clear-cut style. kusan ("lake" or "inland bay"), a small group of north american indian tribes, formerly living on the coos river and the coast of oregon. they call themselves anasitch, and other names given them have been ka-us or