Julius von Mohl
Julius Mohl (* October 25, 1800 in Stuttgart, † January 4, 1876 ) was a German orientalist. He was the brother of Robert von Mohl, Moritz Mohl Hugo von Mohl.
Life
Mohl studied in Tübingen only theology, then in England and in Paris under Silvestre de Sacy and Jean -Pierre Abel - Rémusat oriental languages (notably Persian, Arabic and Chinese) and received in 1826 as an associate professor of Oriental literature at Tübingen, but spent the next years mostly in Paris, London and Oxford published with scholarly research, as the fruits of the processed fragment with Olshausen relatifs à la religion de Zoroastre (Paris 1829). Then he published two older Latin, resulting from learned Jesuit translations of Chinese Religion Books: Confucii Chi -king, sive liber carminum, ex latina P. Lacharme interpretatione (Stuttgart 1830) and Y -king, antiquissimus Sinarum liber, ex interpretatione P. Regis ( the. 1834-39, 2 volumes ), but turned away from now on exclusively to the study of the Persian to. Commissioned by the French Government with the publication and translation of the Shahname of Firdausi for the "Collection orientale ", he took his dismissal in 1834 in Tübingen and moved all over to Paris, where he was naturalized. That magnificent work appeared in six folio volumes (par. 1838-66 ), which must be added a seventh according to Mohl's death ( completed by Meynard, das. 1878) came. The French translation was published in 1876 particularly in seven Duodezbänden by his widow.
As secretary and later President of the Asiatic Society in Paris Mohl has developed a great activity. Particularly appreciated were his " annual reports "; also the Journal asiatique owes him many excellent essays. In 1844, he was appointed in place of Eugène Burnouf member of the Academy of Inscriptions, 1847 Professor of Persian at the Collège de France and 1852 for inspector of oriental pressure in the imperial printing. The excavations of Botta in Khorsabad were undertaken at his instigation, and according to his plan; in relationship he released: Lettres de Mr. Botta sur les découvertes à Khorsabad (1845 ). Ever Mohl was tireless in promoting scientific endeavors, and his salon was formed during the Second Empire, a rallying point for the scholars and literary celebrities.
Julius Mohl died on January 4, 1876 His reports to the Asiatic Society published after his death, collected under the title. Vingt -sept ans d' histoire des études orientales (edited by his widow, 1879-80, 2 vols ). See Simpson, Julius and Mary M., letters and recollections ( Lond. 1887).
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