Karl Knortz (28 August 1841 Garbenheim, Rhenish Prussia – 27 July 1918 North Tarrytown, New York) was a German-American author.
He was educated at the gymnasiumofWetzlar, and the University of Heidelberg. He emigrated to the United States in 1863, where he engaged in teaching at Detroit 1864-1868, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1868–1871, and at Cincinnati 1871-1874. He then edited a German daily newspaper at Indianapolis. After 1882, he resided in New York City, where he devoted himself to literature. From 1892 to 1905, he was superintendent of German schools in Evansville, Indiana. In 1905, he moved to North Tarrytown, New York.
Knortz did much to make American literature known and appreciated in Germany.
Besides translations of American poetry (Evangeline, Hiawatha, and The Courtship of Miles StandishbyHenry Wadsworth Longfellow; Snow-BoundbyJohn Greenleaf Whittier; and Leaves of GrassbyWalt Whitman), he published:
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