KLAGENFURT, the capital of the province of Carinthia, Austria, in a fertile basin and on the right bank of the Glan. It is a well-planned town with broad, regular streets and large squares and as the centre of a rich agricultural and mining region is important both for its market and its manufactures. The lat ter include iron and machine foundries, and white lead factories. Communication with the Worther-see is maintained by the Lend canal, 21 m. long, railway and tramway. Much of the modern aspect of this old town is due to the rebuilding necessitated through destructive fires in 1535, 1636, 1723 and 1796, but it has preserved some of its early buildings, notably the 14th century Landhaus or house of assembly, which contains a museum of natural history and antiquities and an art gallery. There are, too, a number of churches, the oldest being the parish church of St. Aegidius (1709) with a fine tower 298 ft. in height. Amongst the most beautiful of its open spaces is the Botanical gardens. Dur ing the Middle Ages Klagenfurt became the property of the crown, but by a patent of Maximilian I. of April 24, 1518, it was
conceded to the Carinthian estates. Pop. KLAJ (Latinized CLAJUS), JOHANN (1616-1656), German poet, was born at Meissen, Saxony, studied at Wittenberg, and went to Nuremberg as a "candidate for holy orders." There, in conjunction with Georg Philipp Harsd5rffer, he founded in 1644 the literary society known as the Pegnitz order. In 1647 he received an appointment as master in the Sebaldus school in Nuremberg, and in 1650 became preacher at Kitzingen, where he died in 1656. Klaj's poems consist of mystery plays among which are Millen und Himmelfahrt Christi (Nuremberg, 1644), and Herodes, der Kindermorder (Nuremberg, 1645) ; and a poem, written jointly with Harsdorffer, Pegnesische Schiifergedicht (1644), which gives in allegorical form the story of his settlement in Nuremberg.
See J. Tittmann, Die Niirnberger Dichterschule (Gottingen, 1847).