Austrian orientalist, born in Nassereut, Tyrol, on the 3rd of September 1813. He studied at Innsbruck and Vienna, and in 1836 went to London to assist in Munster’s publication, The Military Sciences of the Mohammedan Nations. He went to India in 1843, and in 1845 received the appointment of president of Delhi College; remained in India until 1857, when he returned to Europe and was appointed professor of Oriental languages at Bern. He published several works, the most important of which are The Life and Teachings of Mohammed (1865) and Dictionary of Mussulman Scientific Terms (1854). He died in Heidelberg, Germany, on the 19th of December 1893.
