Leopold Biwald

[1] At the age of sixteen Biwald joined the Jesuits.

He became teacher of rhetoric at a secondary school in Laibach and graduated as Dr. theol.

He became professor of logic and soon afterwards of physics at the University of Graz.

[4][5] He was a contemporary of Johann Baptiste Horvath, Andreas Jaszlinszky and Joseph Redlhamer.

His bust, made in 1807 by Johann Martin Fischer, is now displayed in the main reading room of the University Library of Graz.