Hermann Brockhaus

He was the son of publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus and brother-in-law to composer Richard Wagner.

[2] He studied Oriental languages at the Universities of Leipzig, Göttingen and Bonn where he was a student of August Wilhelm von Schlegel,[1] the founder of German Indology.

In 1839 he was appointed associate professor of oriental languages at the University of Jena,[1] teaching Sanskrit and Hebrew beginning in the summer term of 1840.

[3] Together with his colleague Johann Gustav Stickel (who taught Semitic languages), Brockhaus established oriental philology at the School of Humanities at Jena.

He also published an edition of the Vendidâd Sâde, an edition of a philosophical drama by Krishna Mishra called Prabodhachandrodaya and was the author of the influential Über den Druck sanskritischer Werke mit lateinischen Buchstaben (Concerning Sanskrit Works Printed in Latin Letters).