Kabbala

 Prefecture Apostolic of Kafiristan and Kashmir

 Kafirs

 Johann Matthias Kager

 Kajetan Georg von Kaiser

 Kaiserchronik

 Prefecture Apostolic of Kaiserwilhelmsland

 Kalands Brethren

 Jan Stephanus van Kalcker

 Valerian Kalinka

 Kalispel Indians

 Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Bacs

 Vicariate Apostolic of Kamerun

 Diocese of Kandy

 Kansas

 Diocese of Kansas City

 Prefecture Apostolic of Southern Kan-su

 Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Kan-su

 Philosophy of Kant

 Karinthia

 Stanislaw Karnkowski

 Kaskaskia Indians

 Prefecture Apostolic of Upper Kassai

 Angelica Kauffmann

 Kaufmann

 Franz Philip Kaulen

 Wenzel Anton Kaunitz

 Edward Kavanagh

 Julia Kavanagh

 Joseph Kehrein

 Jacob Keller

 Lorenz Kellner

 Book of Kells

 School of Kells

 Ven. John Kemble

 John Kemp

 Vicariate Apostolic of Kenia

 James Kennedy

 Kenosis

 Kenraghty

 Francis Patrick and Peter Richard Kenrick

 St. Kentigern

 Kentucky

 Miles Gerald Keon

 Diocese of Kerkuk

 Francis Kernan

 Diocese of Kerry and Aghadoe

 Hermann von Kerssenbroch

 Joseph-Marie-Bruno-Constantin Kervyn de Lettenhove

 Matthias Kessels

 Wilhelm Emmanuel, Baron von Ketteler

 Erasmus Darwin Keyes

 Power of the Keys

 Kharput

 Vicariate Apostolic of Kiang-nan

 Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Kiang-si

 Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Kiang-si

 Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Kiang-si

 Kickapoo Indians

 Diocese of Kielce

 Sts. Kieran

 School of Kildare

 Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin

 St. Kilian

 Diocese of Killala

 Diocese of Killaloe

 Diocese of Kilmore

 Robert Kilwardby

 Benedictine Abbey of Kilwinning

 Vicariate Apostolic of Kimberley

 Vicariate of Kimberley in Orange

 Kingdom of God

 Kingisel

 First and Second Books of Kings

 Third and Fourth Books of Kings

 Archdiocese of Kingston

 Kinloss

 Eusebius Kino

 Kiowa Indians

 Athanasius Kircher

 Kirkwall

 Kisfaludy

 Kiss

 Julian Klaczko

 Heinrich Klee

 Melchior Klesl

 Josef Wilhelm Karl Kleutgen

 Klinkowström

 Onno Klopp

 Joseph Knabl

 Sebastian Kneipp

 Ven. William Knight

 Henry Knighton

 Knights of Columbus

 Knights of the Cross

 Ignatius Knoblecher

 Albert (Joseph) Knoll

 Knowledge

 Knowledge of Jesus Christ

 Knownothingism

 John Knox

 Franz Quirin von Kober

 Anthony Koberger

 Andreas Kobler

 Jan Kochanowski

 Vespasian Kochowski

 Ignaz Kögler

 Anthony Kohlmann

 Marian Wolfgang Koller

 Stanislaus Konarski

 Joseph König

 Diocese of Königgrätz

 Jacob Königshofen

 Anthony Konings

 Konrad

 Konrad of Lichtenau

 Konrad of Megenberg

 Konrad of Würzburg

 Ferdinand Konsag

 Koran

 Tadeusz Kosciuszko

 Stanislaus and John Kozmian

 Adam Krafft

 Krain

 John Krämer

 Ignatius Krasicki

 Sigismund Krasinski

 Franz Xaver Kraus

 Karl Kreil

 William Kreiten

 Kremsmünster

 Diocese of Krishnagar

 Martin Kromer

 Andrew Krzycki

 Johannes von Kuhn

 Kulturkampf

 Diocese of Kumbakonam

 Kutenai Indians

 Prefecture Apostolic of Kwango

 Prefecture Apostolic of Kwang-si

 Prefecture Apostolic of Kwang-tung

 Vicariate Apostolic of Kwei-chou

 Kyrie Eleison

Ignaz Kögler


(Called LAI in Chinese).

Along with Father Adam Schall (q.v.) the most important of the fifty German Jesuits who between 1650 and 1750 worked in the old Chinese missions. Born 11 May, 1680, at Landsberg in Bavaria; died at Peking, 30 March, 1746. He entered the Society of Jesus on 4 Oct., 1696, and taught mathematics and Hebrew from 1712 to 1714 in the University of Ingolstadt [cf. Mederer, "Annal. acad. Ingolstadt.", III, 130 sq. ; Romstöck, "Die Jesuitennullen Prantl's" (Eichstätt, 1898), 178-84], and went to China in 1715. On account of his extraordinary and wide learning he enjoyed great consideration at the imperial court, and held the office of president of the mathematical astronomical tribunal for thirty years. He was a mandarin of the second class, and was even from 1731 a member of the supreme court of equity (Li-pu), a position which had never before been held by a foreigner ("Welt-Bott", No. 676). In accepting these positions, however, he refused the stipends attached to them. Father August von Hallerstein, his co-operator and successor, considers him "one of the most cultivated minds that ever came into these countries" (ibid., No. 587). Kögler carried on a brisk scientific correspondence with a number of European scholars, such as Eusebius Amort and T. S. Bayer, the Orientalist, sending to the lastnamed many valuable contributions for his "Museum Sinicum" (St. Petersburg, 1730) (cf. "Miscellanea Berolinensia", 1737, pp. 185, 189 sqq.; Gottfr. von Murr, "Journal", VII, 240 sqq.; IX, 81 sq.; "Neues Journal", I, 147 sqq.; II, 303, sqq.). He was twice visitor of the mission, and provincial of the Chinese and Japanese province, and, during the persecution which began under Emperor Yung Cheng, he was the main support of the suffering mission, which, through his influence at court, he so cleverly and bravely protected, and which so deeply deplored his death.

Manuscript Letters in the Vienna State Archives, Geistl. Angelegenheiten No. 419 IV; Correspondence with Amort and numerous other letters, part in Munich State Library, MSS lat., t. I, p. 1 no. 1396-1407; part in Reichs-Archiv, Jesuitica in genere, NN. 278-81. Printed letters in We1t-Bott, nn. 157, 162, 190, 196, 198, 202, 228, 575, 578, 669; LIPOWSKY, Geschichte der Jesuiten in Bayern (Munich, 1816), App. nn. 3 and 4; VON LAIMBECKHOVEN, Reise-Beschreibung (Vienna, 1740), 47. The catalogue of Kögler's astronomical, mathematical, and historical writings is given in SOMMERVOGEL, Bibl. des crivains de 1a c. de J. For biographical information consult PLATZWEG, Lebensbilder der deutschen Jesuiten (Paderborn, 1882), 272; VON RICHTHOFEN, China, I (Berlin, 1877), 688; Welt-Bott passim; HUONDER Deutsche Jesuitenmission re des 17. u. 18. Jahrh. (Freiburg im Br., 1899), 189.

A. HUONDER