Heinrich von Wlislocki

The son of an ethnically Polish Austro-Hungarian Imperial tax collector and a Transylvanian Saxon, he attended the venerable Johannes Honterus Gymnasium (school) in Kronstadt and then the recently founded University of Klausenburg (later Franz Joseph University) from 1875 to 1879.

In 1879 he earned his doctorate with a dissertation on Eddic poetry, Hapax Legomena im Atlamál, which was published in Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, a journal edited by his academic advisors, Hugo Meltzl and Sámuel Brassai.

He became a member of a clan and was married for a time to a Gypsy woman named Rosa Saric, from whom he was later divorced.

Charles Godfrey Leland in 1889 said Wlislocki was probably more "practically familiar" with Gypsy life and language than "any scholar who ever lived.

In his last years, from 1899 to his death in 1907, he suffered from mental illness and lived under the care of his then-wife, a teacher of Hungarian named Fanny Dörfler.