[or Adolf]. Austrian philologist, born in Spalato, Dalmatia, on the 15th of January 1834. In 1852 he began the study of medicine in the University of Vienna, but soon turned his attention to philology. In 1860 he became professor of the Romance languages and literature in the University of Vienna, and in 1868 assistant librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna. He published a History of the Romance Languages (1862); Memoir of Ancient French Poetry in the Library of St. Mark at Venice (1863); Studies of the Legends of Mary of the Middle Ages (1891); and treatises on kindred topics.
