Background
He was the son of publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus and brother-in-law to composer Richard Wagner.
Orientalist university professor writer
He was the son of publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus and brother-in-law to composer Richard Wagner.
He was a leading authority on Sanskrit and Persian languages. Afterwards he spent several years in France and England. In 1839 he was appointed professor at the University of Jena, teaching Sanskrit and Persian beginning in the summer term of 1840.
In 1842 Brockhaus followed an appointment to Leipzig, where in 1848 he was appointed a full professor of ancient languages and literature at the university.
Saxonian Academy of Sciences.
