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NEUMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1793-1870)

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NEUMANN, KARL See also:FRIEDRICH (1793-1870) , See also:German orientalist, was See also:born, under the name of See also:Bamberger, at Reichsmannsdorf, near See also:Bamberg, on the 28th of See also:December 1793. He studied See also:philosophy and See also:philology at See also:Heidelberg, See also:Munich and See also:Gottingen, became a convert to Protestantism and took the name of Neumann. From 1822 to 1825 he was a teacher at See also:Spires; then he learned Armenian in See also:Venice and visited See also:Paris and See also:London. In 1829 he went to See also:China, where he studied the See also:language and amassed a large library of valuable books and See also:manuscripts. These, about 12,000 in number, he presented to the royal library at Munich. Returning to See also:Germany in 1831 Neumann was made See also:professor of Armenian and See also:Chinese in the university of Munich. He held this position until 1852, when, owing to his pronounced revolutionary opinions, he was removed from his See also:chair. Ten years later he settled in See also:Berlin, where he died on the 17th of See also:March 187o. Neumann's leisure See also:time after his enforced retirement was occupied in See also:historical studies, and besides his Geschichte See also:des englischen Reichs in Asien (See also:Leipzig, 1851), he wrote a See also:history of the See also:United States of See also:America, Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (Berlin, 1863-1866). His other See also:works include Versuch einer Geschichte der armenischen Literatur (Leipzig, 1836) ; See also:Die Volker des siidlichen Russland (1846, and again 1855); and Geschichte des englischchinesischen Kriegs (1846, and again 1855). He also issued some See also:translations from Chinese and Armenian: See also:Catechism of the Shamans (1831) ; Vahram's See also:Chronicle of the Armenian See also:Kingdom in See also:Cilicia (1831) and History of the Pirates in the China See also:Sea (1831). The See also:journal of the Royal See also:Asiatic Society (London, 1871) contains a full See also:list of his works.

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