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MOHL, JULIUS VON (1800–1876)

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MOHL, See also:JULIUS VON (1800–1876) , See also:German Orientalist, See also:brother of See also:Hugo von Mohl (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 25th of See also:October 1800. Having studied See also:theology at See also:Tubingen (18181823), he abandoned the See also:idea of entering the Lutheran See also:ministry, and in 1823 went to See also:Paris, at that See also:time, under See also:Silvestre De Sacy, the See also:great See also:European school of Eastern letters. From 1826 to 1833 he was nominally See also:professor at Tubingen, but had permission to continue his studies abroad, and he passed some years in See also:London and in See also:Oxford. In 1826 he was charged by the See also:French See also:government with the preparation of an edition of the Shah Nama (Livre See also:des rois), the first See also:volume of which appeared in 1838, while the seventh and last was See also:left unfinished at his See also:death, being completed by See also:Barbier de Meynard. Discerning this to be his See also:life's See also:work, he resigned his See also:chair at Tubingen in 1834, and settled permanently in Paris. In 1844 he was nominated to the See also:academy of See also:inscriptions, and in 1847 he became professor of See also:Persian at the See also:College de See also:France. But his knowledge and See also:interest extended to all departments of See also:Oriental learning. He served for many years as secretary, and then as See also:president of the Societe Asiatique. His See also:annual reports on Oriental See also:science, presented to the society from 184o to 1867, and collected after his death in Paris on the 3rd of See also:January 1876, under the See also:title Vingt-See also:sept ans d'histoire des etudes orientales (Paris, 1879), are an admirable See also:history of the progress of Eastern learning during these years. Concerning the discoveries at See also:Nineveh he wrote Lettres de M. See also:Botta sur See also:les decouvertes a See also:Khorsabad (1845). He also published anonymously, in See also:conjunction with Justus See also:Olshausen (1800-1882), Fragments relatifs d la See also:religion de Zoroastre (Paris, 1829); Confucii Chi-See also:king sive See also:liber carminum, ex See also:latina P.

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interpretation (Stuttgart, 183o); and an edition of Y-King, Antiquissimus Sinarum liber, ex interpretatione P. Regis (Stuttgart, 1834–1839). His wife See also:Mary (1793–1883), daughter of See also:Charles See also:Clarke, had passed a great See also:part of her See also:early life in Paris, where she was very intimate with Madame See also:Recamier, before their See also:marriage in 1847, and for nearly See also:forty years her See also:house was one of the most popular intellectual centres in Paris. Madame Mohl's See also:friends included a large number of Englishmen and Englishwomen. She died in Paris on the 14th of May 1883. Madame Mohl wrote Madame Recamier, with a See also:Sketch of the History of Society in France (London, 1862). See Kathleen O'Meara, Madame See also:Mold, her See also:Salon and Friends (1885); and M. C. M. See also:Simpson, Letters and Recollections of Julius and Mary Mohl (1887). Mohl's See also:elder brother, See also:ROBERT VON MOHL (1799—1875), was a well-known jurist and statesman. From 1824 to 1845 he was professor of See also:political sciences at the university of Tubingen, losing his position because of some See also:frank criticisms which brought him under the displeasure of the authorities of See also:Wurttemberg.

In 1847 he was a member of the See also:

parliament of Wurttemberg, and in the same See also:year he was appointed professor of See also:law at See also:Heidelberg; in 1848 he was a member of the German parliament which met at See also:Frankfort, and for a few months he was See also:minister of See also:justice. His later public life was passed in the service of the See also:grand-See also:duke of See also:Baden, whom he represented as See also:ambassador in See also:Munich from 1867 to 1871. He died in See also:Berlin on the 5th of See also:November 1875. Among his numerous writings may be mentioned, See also:Die deutsche Polizeiwissenschaft nach den Grundsatzen des Rechtsstaats (Tubingen, 1832–1834, and again 1866); Geschichte and Literatur der Staatswissenschaften (See also:Erlangen, 1855–1858); Encyklopadie der Staatswissenschaften (Tubingen, 1859, again 1881); and Staatsrecht, Volkerrecht and Politik (Tubingen, 186o--1869). See Mohl's own Lebenserinnerungen (See also:Leipzig, 1901); and H. Schulze, Robert von Mohl, Ein Erinnerungsblatt (Heidelberg, 1886). Another brother, See also:MORITZ VON MOHL (1802–1888), entered See also:official life at an early See also:age and was a member of the Frankfort parliament, and later of the parliament of Wurttemberg and of the imperial Reichstag. He was a voluminous writer on economic and political questions.

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