Education
He studied theology and Oriental languages at the universities of Marburg (1820-1823), Tübingen (1823), and Freiburg (1824), and graduated as doctor of theology and philosophy at Freiburg in 1824.
Librarian university professor
He studied theology and Oriental languages at the universities of Marburg (1820-1823), Tübingen (1823), and Freiburg (1824), and graduated as doctor of theology and philosophy at Freiburg in 1824.
He continued the study of Arabic, Persian and Syriac for eighteen months at the University of Paris, under the Orientalists De Sacy and Etienne Marc Quatremère. In 1828 he became professor-extraordinary, and in 1830 professor-ordinary, of Oriental philology at the University of Freiburg. He was appointed chief librarian of the university library in 1850.
He composed anonymously the little work "Die Universitat Freiburg nach ihrem Ursprunge.." (Freiburg, 1844).