KONIG, Otto, German sculptor: h. Meis sen, 28 Jan. 1838. He studied art at the Dres den Academy and under Hahnel, and later re sided at Vienna, where he was appointed (1868) professor of the Arts and Crafts School of the Austrian Museum. His small groups are in spirations of graceful form and finish. Among his large works are the sepulchral monument of his wife and three children (1874), a "Mourn ing Victoria" for the monument of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico erected by the marine officers at Pola; a life-size marble group in the Imperial Museum of Art, Vienna; a mar ble crucifix in the mausoleum of Archduke Sigismund in Gmiind; a fountain group in bronze executed for Queen Olga in Stuttgart, and a bronze statue of Emperor Franz Joseph in Waidhofen.
kenig-grats, Austria, city in Bohemia, situated in a great fertile region at the confluence of the river Adler and the Elbe and connected with the surrounding country by three lines of railroads. It is the episcopal see of Bohemia and among its institu tions are an obergymnasium, oberrealschule, teachers' college, trade academy, industrial school of locksmi thing, theological-diocesan teachers' institute, boy's seminary, museum and deaf-mute institute. It has manufactures of
musical instruments, pianos and organs, roofing paper, soap, a brewery, a branch of the Austro Hungarian Bank and a savings bank. Its Gothic cathedral dates from the 14th century. The town was fortified till 1884. King Przemyol Ottokar I raised the status of the location to a town and it became the residence (1363) and a dower town of Queen Elizabeth with its name changed from Hradec (Gratz) to the present one. The city suffered during the Hassite War and the Thirty Year War. The name of this city is especially noted for the bloody battle, fought in its proximity (1866). which decided the Prusso-Austrian War, and which is more generally known to the French and English as the battle of Sadowa. In this engagement the losses of the victorious Prus sian army amounted to 360 officers and 8,812 men, dead and wounded, while the Austrian cas ualties amounted to 373 officers and 12,695 men dead, with 738 officers and 16,127 men wounded, not mentioning the Saxon casualties. Pop. 11,000.