[Karl Eduard]. German orientalist, born in Neumünster, Holstein, on the 20th of July 1845. After studying at Kiel and Leipsic, he became professor extraordinary in 1869 and ordinary professor in 1872 of Semitic languages at the University of Vienna; in 1876 was appointed professor of Semitic languages at the University of Berlin, and was elected to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1887. He founded and became director of the Seminary for living Oriental Languages. Among his writings are Inedita Syriaca (1870); Chronologie Orientalischer Völker von Albêrûnî (1878); Kurzes Verzeichniss Syrischer Handschriften (1885); Albêrûnî’s India (1887–88); Die Inschrift des Königs Panammu von Sam‘al (1893).
