KORNER, ker'ner, CHRISTIA N GOTT•RIED (1750-1831). A German author and friend of Schiller, born at Leipzig. lle studied law at Gottingen and Leipzig, and in 1783 became chief councilor of the etmsistory at Dresden; was appointed to the office of judge in the Court of Appeals in 1790, and in 1811, after thirteen years as Referential- in the Privy Council, re turned to the appellate court. His home was a gathering-place for the literary men of the time. He corresponded with Cloethe, and was very in timate with Schiller, who lived with him much of the time between 1785 and 1787. During the Russian occupation of Leipzig he was Russian Government counselor, and then entered the Prus sian service (1815) at where he was State councilor and later Privy Councilor in time new Ministry of Education. His best-known work was the anonymous .-Icstlmctisrhe Ansirhten (180S): but of greater importance is Schillers /ricf weehsel mit Kiirnc• (ed. by Goedeke, Leipzig, 1874; by Geiger, Stuttgart, 1895-96). Ile also the first collected edition of SeidlIces works (1812-15), and Poctischer Neel!lass Theo dor korners (1815). His eolleeted works are edited by Stern (Leipzig, 1881). Consult Jonas, homer, biographische :1'R/01r/chic,/ tiber ihn and sein Haus (Berlin, 1882).
KoRNER, KARL TuEonon (1791.1813). A German poet, son of the preceding, born in Dres den, September 23, 1791. He studied at Frei burg, Leipzig, and Berlin. In 1810 he published
Known ("Buds"), a volume of immature poems that were received with favor. was ap pointed Court dramatist at Vienna in 1813. but he gave up this career to enlist in the War of Liberation in Liitzow's 'Free Corps.' There he served as lieutenant and adjutant, and there he wrote his war-songs, Lcicr and Schiccrt, in which his genius and German patriotism find a high expression. The songs were set to music by Karl Maria von Weber, and had much effect in main taining a German warlike spirit. One of the most stirring of them, "Das Selmerlied," was composed but a few hours before his death in battle at Liitzo•, August 26, 1813. Of KOrner's dozen or more comedies and librettos, Die Brant (1812) and Der griine Domino (1812) were very sueeessful. Zriny, an historical drama, is the most ambitious of his works. The best edi tions of Kilmer are by Streckfuss (1834), Wolf (1858), Kofahl (1895), Wildenow (1000), and Gensischen (1902). His Poetischcr Nachlass were edited by his father, and published at Leip zig in 1815. Other biographical and critical studies are by Bauer (Stuttgart, 1883), Kregen. berg (Dresden. 1892), Rogge (Wittenberg, 1891), laden (Dresden, 1896), Pesehel and Wildenow (Leipzig, 1898). Zipper (in Reelam, 1900). There is a biography by Pesehel (Dresden, 1901).