Peter van Bohlen

Peter von Bohlen (9 March 1796 – 6 February 1840) was a German Orientalist and Indologist. He was a professor at the University of Königsberg.

He spent the first 20 years of his life in strained circumstances. His talents and perseverance attracted attention, and he obtained admission to the Hamburg gymnasium. He afterward studied the Eastern languages at Halle and Bonn. He then obtained an appointment at Königsberg, first in 1825 as extraordinary, and afterward in 1830 as ordinary professor of oriental literature. Provided by Wikipedia