Ludwig August von Frankl

Frankl was born on 3 February 1810, in Chrast, Bohemia. His brothers were David Bernhard Frankl (1820-1859), merchant and founder of the Commercial Academy in Prague, and Wilhelm Frankl (1821-1893), imperial and municipal councilor who established the Vienna trade schools and the Vienna Central Cemetery.[1]

He was a friend of Nikolaus Lenau. He also corresponded with Petar II Petrovic Njegos of Montenegro before he died in 1851.

Frankl's Gusle, Serbische Nationallieder was dedicated to Vuk Karadžić's daughter in 1852. His object was to present some of the songs in Vuk which had not yet been translated, and he took the greatest pains to reproduce in German the metrical effect of the Serbian original.[2]

Ludwig August von Frankl's grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

He died on 12 March 1894, in Vienna.

Ludwig August Frankl was married to Paula Wiener (born 1834), the daughter of Prague merchant and banker Hermann Wiener (died 1874) and his wife Therese von Lämel; their son was the neurologist Lothar von Frankl-Hochwart (1862-1914). A nephew of his was musicologist Paul Josef Frankl (1892-1976) who was professor at the Academy of Music in Vienna. He was a distant relative of Talmud scholar and rabbi Zecharias Frankel.[3]

• List of manuscripts At the Wiener Stadtbibliothek
• List of Works from Deutsche Dichterhandschriften des Poetischen Realismus at Brigham Young University
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and S. Mannheimer (1901–1906). "Ludwig August Frankl, Ritter von Hochwart". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Frankl, Ludwig August".

• Frankl-Hochwart, Ludwig August Ritter von at the aeiou Encyclopedia
• Digitized works by Ludwig August von Frankl at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York