MOHL, JULIUS VON (180o-1876), German Orientalist, brother of Hugo von Mohl (q.v.), was born at Stuttgart on Oct.
25, 180o. Having studied theology at Tubingen (1818-23), he abandoned the idea of entering the Lutheran ministry, and in 1823 went to Paris, at that time, under Silvestre De Sacy, the great European centre of Oriental studies. From 1826 to 1833 he was nominally professor at TUbingen, but continued his studies in London and in Oxford. In 1826 he was charged by the French government with the preparation of an edition of the Shah Nama (Livre des rois), which became his life-work. The first volume appeared in 1838; the seventh and last was left unfinished at his death, being completed by Barbier de Meynard. He resigned his chair at Tubingen in 1834, and settled 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. He served for many years as secretary, and then as president of the Societe Asiatique. His annual reports on Oriental science from 1840 to
1867, collected after his death under the title Vingt-sept ans d'histoire des etudes orientales (Paris, 1879), are an admirable history of the progress of Eastern learning during these years. He died in Paris on Jan. 3, 1876.
His wife Mary (1793-1883), daughter of Charles Clarke, had passed a great part of her early life in Paris, where she was very intimate with Madame Recamier. For nearly 4o years her house was one of the most popular intellectual centres in Paris. She died in Paris on May 14, 1883. Madame Mohl wrote Madame Recamier, with a Sketch of the History of Society in France (London, 1862).
See Kathleen O'Meara, Madame Mohl, her Salon and Friends (1885) ; and M. C. M. Simpson, Letters and Recollections of Julius and Mary Mohl (5887).