KOCHER, Emu, THEonoa (1841— ). A Swiss surgeon, horn at Bern. Ile was edu cated there, and after study at Berlin, Paris, and London, became professor of surgery in the uni versity of his native city, and director of the surgical clinic. His especial field was in opera tion on the thyroid gland, and he first described and studied cachcxia thar•oprira (1833). Ile wrote: Die an iseptische ll'undbehandlung (1881); Cliirurgische Opera tionshlire (20 ed. 1894); l'orlesungen fiber chiru•gisehe Infektionskrank hriten, with Tavel (1895) ; and. with Quervain, Encyklopliclie der Cltirurgie (1901 stn.).
KoCHLY, HERMANN (1815.76). A German philologist and educational reformer. Ile was born in Leipzig, was educated there, and in 1S37 became teacher at Saalfeld, and three years afterwards at Dresden. He early published Ueber das Princip des Gymnas,ialunter•ichts der (I-eget:wart (1845), and Gymnasialreform (1846). The scheme set forth in these pamphlets stressed the natural sciences, and, in Latin and Greek, urged emphasis on content rather than on grammar and style, and the gradual abolishment of *peaking and writing those languages. The
plan was adopted in Saxony almost immediately. In February, 1849, Kochly was elected to the Lower House of the Kingdom, but after taking part in the revolutionary struggle in May was forced to flee. He went to Brussels; in 1850 became professor at Zurich, and in 1864 at Heidelberg. The was a member of the German Reichstag from 1871 to 1873. His contributions to classical philology were mainly on Greek poetry and military authors: Quintus Snip-writs (1853) ; Hcsiodus (1870) ; Aratus. Manelhonis, rt Aliorum Astrologic(' (1851): Nonni Dionysiaca (1858) : De Iliadis Carminibus ( 1850 59) ; Iliadis Cartninu ATV/. (1861); De Diversis Hesiodew Thvogonia. Partibus (1860) ; Dc Odys sem Carminibus (1862-63); Gesehieh le des griechisehen liriegswesens (1852) ; Griechische Kri-•gssch•iftsteller (1853-55) ; EinleitunY Glisars Kommentu•ien .iiber den Gallisellen Krieg (1857) ; and Onosandri de Imperaturis Officio Libel- (181;9). Consult Hug, Hermann Kochly (Basel, 1878).