Biography

He was born in Sondershausen

Sondershausen

Sondershausen is a town in Thuringia, Germany, capital of the Kyffhäuserkreis district, situated about 50 km north of Erfurt. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Schernberg was incorporated by Sondershausen....

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 on March 28, 1829. He studied Oriental languages at Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 under Julius Fürst

Julius Fürst

Julius Fürst , was a Jewish German orientalist.Fürst was a distinguished scholar of Semitic languages and literature...

 and Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer

Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer

Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer was a German Orientalist.-Biography:He was born at Schandau, Saxony. From 1819 to 1824, he studied theology and Oriental languages at Leipzig, subsequently continuing his studies in Paris, where he continued his studies of the Arabic, Turkish and Persian languages...

. Later he taught for a time at an English school, and later was a correspondent in a business house at Lyon, France. He settled at Erfurt, Germany, where he founded a business academy. Aside from his teaching activity he pursued scientific studies. He died on October 15, 1887.

Publications

• Beiträge zur Vergleichenden Parömiologie
• Das Sprichwort in der Hebräisch-Aramäischen Literatur
• The Book of Merry Riddles
• Das Sprichwort der Neueren Sprachen
• Die Englische Parömiologie vor Shakespeare
• Das Parömiologische Sprachgut bei Shakespeare