Education
Wolf studied philosophy and law at the University of Graz, and then literature at the University of Vienna.
Librarian linguist literary historian
Wolf studied philosophy and law at the University of Graz, and then literature at the University of Vienna.
He was an author of literary studies as well as a publisher of periodicals, including the Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur. In 1819, after graduation, he became a scrivener at the kaiserlichen Hofbibliothek, now the Austrian National Library, and was later promoted to research fellowship In 1847, Wolf was involved with the foundation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which he served as secretary.
He is buried in Vienna.