Background
Julius von Mohl was born on October 25, 1800, at Stuttgart, Germany.
Julius von Mohl was born on October 25, 1800, at Stuttgart, Germany.
Mohl studied theology at Tübingen. In 1823, he went to Paris, at that time, under Silvestre De Sacy, the great European school of Eastern letters.
From 1826 to 1833 he was nominally professor at Tübingen, but had permission to continue his studies abroad, and he passed some years in London and in Oxford. In 1826 he was charged by the French government with the preparation of an edition of the Shah Nama (Litre des rois), the first volume of which appeared in 1838, while the seventh and last was left unfinished at his death, being completed by Barbier de Meynard. Discerning this to be his life's work, he resigned his chair at Tubingen in 1834, and settled permanently in Paris. In 1844 he was nominated to the academy of inscriptions, and in 1847 he became professor of Persian at the College de France. But his knowledge and interest extended to all departments of Oriental learning. He served for many years as secretary, and then as president of the Société Asiatique.
His annual reports on Oriental science, presented to the society from 1840 to 1867, and collected after his death in Paris, under the title Vingt-sept ans d'histoire des études orient ales (Paris, 1879), are an admirable history of the progress of Eastern learning during these years.
Concerning the discoveries at Nineveh he wrote Lettres de M. Botta sur les découfvertes a Khorsabad (1845). He also published anonymously, in conjunction with Justus Olshausen (1800-1882), Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroastre (Paris, 1829); Confucii Chi-king sive liber carminum, ex latina P. Lacharmi interpret atione (Stuttgart, 1830); and an edition of Y-King, Antiquissimus Sinarum liber, ex interpretatione P. Regis (Stuttgart, 1834–1839).
Julius von Mohl died on January 4, 1876.
In 1847, Julius von Mohl married Mary Elizabeth Clarke.
Mary Elizabeth Mohl (Clarke) was a British writer, who was known as a salon hostess in Paris.
Hugo von Mohl was a German botanist.
Robert von Mohl was a German jurist.
