FRANKL, LUDWIG AUGUST, RITTER VON HOCHWART (1810-1894), Austrian poet, was born at Chrast, Bohemia, on Feb. 3, 181o. In 1838 he became secretary of the Jewish com munity in Vienna. In the revolutionary year of 1848 his poem, Die Universitdt, had an enormous circulation. He wrote lyrics, epic and many excellent critical works on his contemporaries. He is perhaps best remembered for his services to Jewish educa tion. He established the first Jewish school in Jerusalem, and wrote an account of his eastern travels, Nacle Jerusalem (2 vols., 1858).
See his Brie f wechsel (1907), edit. Bruno Frankl ; his Erinnerungen (191o), edit. St. Hock.