Education
After studying at the philosophical school at Brno he attended the University of Olomouc.
After studying at the philosophical school at Brno he attended the University of Olomouc.
Then until 1854 he taught first the classical languages and then history at the gymnasium of Brünn. Foreign purposes of historical research he went in 1851 to Sweden, in 1852 to Rome, in 1870 to France, Belgium, and Holland, in 1874 to Russia, a country which he later repeatedly visited. Between the years 1853 and 1859 he established at Vienna the main historical library of the Teutonic Order.
In 1855 he became Privatdozent for historical research at the University of Vienna. In 1859 he was appointed historiographer of Moravia, and in 1865 was made a member of the Academy of Sciences of Vienna.