Education
In 1829 he went to China, where he studied the language and amassed a large library of valuable books and manuscripts.
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In 1829 he went to China, where he studied the language and amassed a large library of valuable books and manuscripts.
From 1821 to 1825 he was a teacher in Würzburg and Speyer. Then he learned Armenian in Venice at the San Lazzaro degli Armeni and visited Paris and London. These, about 12,000 in number, he presented to the royal library at Munich.
Returning to Germany in 1833 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 chairman Ten years later he settled in Berlin, where he remained till his death.
Neumann"s leisure time after his enforced retirement was occupied in historical studies, and besides his "Geschichte des englischen Reichs in Asien" (Leipzig, 1857, 2 volumes), he wrote a history of the United States of America, Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (Berlin, 1863-1866, 3 volumes). His other works include:
Versuch einer Geschichte der armenischen Literatur (Leipzig, 1836)
Die Völker des südlichen Russland (1846, and again 1855)
Geschichte des englisch-chinesischen Kriegs (1846, and again 1855)
He also issued some translations from Chinese and Armenian:
Vahram"s Chronicle of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia, during the time of the Crusades (1831).
Translation of Vahram of Edessa (fl c 1303-1330).
History of the pirates who infested the China Sea from 1807-1810 (1831). The journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London, 1871) contains a full list of his works.