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NEUMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1793-1870)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 426 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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